Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-09-15
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Lightning struck tree near Bur-
lington recently and Perry Shannon,
SO, was killed and his companion,
Henry Walsh was critically injured.
Despondent over i'll health, Mrs.
Jack Wilson, so, wife of retired
harness maker, of Baskerville, ended
her life by hanging, while her hus.
band slept.
After long illness, Fred g. Henig-
haum, 81, Scott county state senator
from 1915 to 1919, died recently. He
was vice-president of the Iowa Furni-
ture and Carpet Company of Daven-
port.
Suit for $500 in assigned unpaid
school district warrants was brought
recently in District court by C. v.
Neal against the Consolidated Inde-
pendent School district of Johnston,
Polk county.
Over 10000 people were at the
farm bureau-farmers uiion picnic at
Clarinda fair grounds Sept. 10. Last
year $500 autos carried 1850 people
to it. e. H. Cunningham and Milo
Reno spoke.
Waterloo's city council may raise
the poll tax to SIS for the year 1922.
according to city officials. Under the
new Iowa Law, which became effec-
tive July A, cities are given the right
to levy up to this amount. The poll
tax has been $3.50.
The farmers union picnic near Lau-
rens, held at. the Mccormick farm
Sept. 10. Col s. w. Brookhart, ]. A.
Hansen and o. F. Dornblasser, bet.
ter known to all as "Uncle Dorn," the
| father of the Farmers Educational
| will talk
| Irene Weeds, II, Bloomfield, is bo
ing held to the grand jury on $500
bond on charges of using the mails
60 extort money. Miss Weeds, it was
said, attempted to blackmail Tom A.
Goodson, former county attorney of
Davis county. Her father and bro
Their furnished bond for the girl, who
is still attending school.
Correspondents of the Herald-Patri-
OF held the second annual reunion at
Charlton recently. The program
opened with an exhibition run Of the
| new press. Dinner was served at
LakesideeGolf Club followed by in
formal talks by staff members. Ths
correspondents attended matinee
at Lincoln theater in the afternoon
Bank officials announced recently
| fr,rfh lat .>f %ho
Charlton National bank and the LII.
cas- County National bank which will
be put in effect soma time this month.
The combined resources Of the two
banks are more than 81 100000 The
offices of the enlarged institution will
be at the Lucas County National
bank
4 Edward Chocholka shot and seri-
ously wounded Miss Bertha Shank of
4 Cedar Rapids and then turned the re.
volver on himself inflicting two
wounds from which he died in few
minutes. The tragedy was enacted
at Prairie Creek. 1t was decided by
the couple to end it all due to the
parents of the girl Directing to her
marriage to the young man.
Three As calibre army automatic
pistols. property Of the Company E,
l, N. G. were stolen from the armory
at Webster City by thieves who gain.
ed entrance to the building by fore.
ing their way through plaster board
connecting with an adjacent stair
way. The robbers opened trunks con-
tanning government property, but it
was believed nothing else had been
taken.
Frank Frederick, was seriously in
jured when a Milwaukee passenger
struck his truck at crossing a mile
west of Britt. He was carried along
on the cow catcher fifty feet. An
arm and leg were broken and in
ternal injuries which may cause his
death are feared. The truck was con
verified into scrap iron and the engine
was so badly damaged that another
: one had to be taken from Mason City
to take it's place.
A story has gone the rounds that
the largest yield Of Iowa wheat was
forty-siX bushels on the Woods ranch
near Hamburg. There is well yer
: flied report of yield near White
| Cloud of fifty-one and one-fourtf
bushels per acre from. twelve acre
field, machine measure. The same
4 wheat weighed out near fifty-three
: bushels at the elevator where sold
5 The wheat was grown by the Murra,
4 brothers of that neighborhood.
1 The internal revenue department
of Iowa collected nearly $4,000, 90,
in federal personal income taxes 70
s the year 1919, according to figure
t made public by the collectors offic
!. at Dubuque. Personal income tax re
:, turns filed in Iowa in 1919 by 1913
+ 796 persons showed a total net in
come of 1927, 163.054 on which ta
OF So, S07 ,7O7 was paid, which wa
!, 1.25 per cent Of the, total personal il
]. come paid in the entire country TIL
. number of the returns filed was 2.5
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