Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07
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The old brick school house at Dab.
lonega, built fifty years ago, will be
replaced by a modern structure
Bonds have been voted.
L. D. Hochstosser disappeared sew
eral days ago, leaving behind wife
and four children. He was manager
of the Trans-Mississippi elevator at
Gray.
Eight-year-old Clarence Blocker Of
lowe City was blinded in one eye
and injured in the other when a
slingshot he was using broke and
discharged the load in his face.
Leonard Evans, former police
man was arrested by County Attor-
ney Cla,,de M. Miller for conducting
moonshine plant on the banks of
the Iowa River near the Iowa City
Country Club.
About 1000 people were in attend
ance at the Buena Vista county farm
bureau picnic held at Chautauqua
park, Storm Lake, when addresses
were given by Miss Neale S. Know
les, Governor Kendall and Senator
Kenyon.
Governor Nate Kendall's Fourth of
July Grafton at Newton was delivered
by wireless from Des Moines. This
is the first time this has been done
in Iowa. Harry Ogg, president Of
the Automatic Washer Co., who has
a wireless station, has arranged for
tho ueo oP ha ,,,o1xa-
this possible.
A delegation of Lowden citizens
called on Deputy United States Mar
shall NJ l.. Healy at Cedar Rapids,
and begged him to be present in that
town recently to prevent trouble when
the so-called pro-German celebration
was held. The invitation was ac-
cepted and it is understood both
factions buried the Ratchet.
Among the many reports of re-
markedly rapid growth of grain crops
in western Iowa this summer, w. l..
Powles of Mills county reports that
thirty-four days from the day he
planted his corn he laid it by. 1t
was then waist high. The entire
field, he says, is almost exactly of
one height and deep green color.
DR.. Bosch of Clarinda, who killed
e. D. Bell. an employee of the state
asylum for insane one year ago, by
cutting his throat, committed suicide
at the insane ward at Fort Madison
prison. Dr.. Bosch killed himself by
hurting himself down a stairway,
striking on his head. The body was
taken to Stuart, his old home, for
burial
The ]. K. Myers memorial fund
now totals $4,000. This fund Is be-
ing raised by the Iowa Bankers as
ISOLATION to care for the widow of
Marshall Meyers Of Stuart. The
marshall wa sslain by bank yeggs
last spring. Each county bankers
association in the state is to give
| $50 to fund. Fifty-six county associa-
tons have thus far contributed. Mrs
Myers is given $50 a month.
| Renting pastures for bees is some
thing new in the entrepreneur game,
but that is what Henry Field of
Shenandoah, famous seed man is do
ing. He has rented the Huban sweet
clover patches on his seed farm to
Jenkins, the "bee-man" of Hamburg
who will bring 100 colonies of bees
to the place. Huban clover is the
new plant which is now greeted as
the greatest honey plant in the world.
Mrs. Anna Ehlers, 80, of Reinbeck,
a., died recently from injuries re-
ceived when the car which she was
driving turned turtle, pinning her be-
meath it. The accident occurred
southwest of Waterloo Mrs. Ehlers
with five friends had been visiting in
Waterloo and was returning to Rein
beck, hurrying to keep ahead Of the
storm. The accident occurred when
she was turning sharp corner
Other occupants of the car were un-
injured.
Senators Cummins and Kenyon at
meeting agreed to make the fol-
lowing Iowa federal patronage recon-
mendations to the president: Marshal
of northern Iowa, Fred Davis of Sioux
City: collector Of customs, w. B.
Hanes of Des Moines; Prohibition en-
forcement officer, G. A. Brunson of
Algeria; Col. Guy Brewer of Des
Moines has already been settled on
for marshil Of southern Iowa. The
appointment for marshal of northern
Iowa is to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Marshal Moore
and will be for one year
The widow of Ray Emerson, who
killed his mother in Creston, and
later committed suicide. will receive
the murdered mothers estate, follow
ing decision by the state Supreme
Court. The court ruled that the
Iowa statute forbidding direct heir
or his family from participating in
the estate Of parent whom the heir
has killed, did not cover the case in
question. The estate was originally
willed to Emerson and his, mother,
share and share alike, and the son
was found guilty of numbering his
maternal parent with the alleged pur-
pose of getting the money, commit
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