Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-05-26
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Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel R. Hoon Of
Jewell celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary when they were
surprised by 125 friends.
Patrolman Ralph Baldwin Of Iowa
City punctured with three revolver
shots an automobile recklessly driven
and captured its three occupants.
One horse and number of chick
ems were burned to death in fire
which destroyed the large barn be-
longing to Frank Parizak at Iowa
City.
More than 100 advertising men Of
Iowa attended the eleventh annual
meeting of the Associated Advertts-
ing Clubs of Iowa in Fort Dodge re-
Gently.
j. B. Hilliard, who is charged with
the murder Of William Wright near
Derby. entered a plea OF not guilty
before Justice ]. H. Hickman at
Charlton.
The Iowa City officials have in.
creased the valuation of property re-
turned by assessors from $758, 200 to
$685., 430, exclusive of the increase
made by assessors.
The. Union County Rubber com.
pany recently traded their $4,000
business location in Creston to Ed
Waters Of Atlantic for 150-acre
farm in Union County.
Two autoists, Miss Norma Sher.
burne and M. M. Bailey, and two
buggy riders, Luke and Will Alder
hasky, were injured when the car
struck the buggy on a road near Iowa
City.
Contracts for coal for the state in.
situations for the coming year which
have been awarded name figure 81
cheaper per ton than last year
Freight rates, however, are IS per
cent higher.
Wolves have killed over s4O0 worth
OF sheep near Creston since the first
OF the year. The farmers are max
ing big fight against them and SO
far have turned in forty pelts for the
county bounty.
Rev. Irving e. Wade, pastor Of the
Christian Church at Iowa City, re-
firing president of the Northeastern
Iowa District Association Of Churches,
has been named a member of the
board of directors of that organiza-
ton.
Thomas Palmer King, 26 years old,
veteran of the Eighty-eighth division,
was killed by horses kick recently
while working on his farm near Wa,
terloo. He was married last Thanks
giving eve to Miss Jessie May of Wa
terloo.
Loveland, owner of the canning
factory at Audubon, and driver of the
death car in which George Gleason
was killed, was sentenced by Judge
Rockafellow to the inebriate ward
of the hospital for the insane and to
surrender his auto.
While James Finnegan of Waukon
was refilling the tank Of his automo.
bile with gasoline, the handle Of the
lantern which he was holding became
unfastened and the lantern dropped
into the gasoline, igniting it. The
car was ablaze Immediately. All es-
capped injury with the exception OF
Mrs. Finnegan, who was severely
burned.
Benjamin Anderson, well to do far
mer living southeast of Cedar, COM
mitted suicide by hanging. When
Mrs. Anderson discovered that her
husband was missing from home, she
called in the neighbors and they in.
stituted search. The missing man
was found hanging from a rafter in
the haymow OF his barn. Coroner
Wilcox is investigating the farmers
death.
The Iowa moratorium act, passed
by the legislature twenty-four hours
after the United States declared war
on Germany and designed to exempt
from taxation property OF soldiers
and sailors was upheld by Judge
James Hume. The decision of the
court makes it certain that soldiers
WAL 6CS tACIk IdAcS exempted on
property up to $4,000 even though
it may not be homestead or bust
ness.
Care for the lives of others nearly
cost John H. Thon, of Montrose, lowe.
the l'fe of his 5-year-old son, Edward
Thor who works in a quarry near
Keoh.k, picked up stick Of dyna-
mite v hich had failed to explode. He
took il home. intending to destroy it,
His son took it OF the table. The
boy put it on rock in the yard and
struck it with hammer. His arms
and legs were badly lacerated by the
pieces of copper shell of the cap.
An order was signed recently by
Judge P. c. Winter restraining Grant
Collins and his attorneys from main
tanning carrying on or prosecuting
an action for $4,000 personal injur-
les now pending in the District court
of Wright county, Mimi, against the
Burlington railroad. Grant Collins