Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-01-06
The Sioux City FiTemen's and Pc.

the bill relating to police chiefs will
be to eliminate the office from poll
tical influences, and to make police
departments more efficient.
A. z. Scott, farmer living in the
southeast part of Cass county, has
just sold his 240 acre farm for S73,
900 more than he paid for the place
fourteen years ago. The purchasers
are John and Philip Karas, brothers
They bought the place for $500 an
acre. a total consideration of $4,000
In 1906 Mr.. Scott bought the farm
for an even $4,000 He realizes q
profit on his investment of $1,000 a
wear in addition to the crops.
1t has been announced that as gov
ernor, Mr. Kendall will name women
for important offices. This may al
Jude to membership on the board OF
control. board of parole. etc In
considering appointments that must
be made Governor-elect N. E. Ken
dali has determined to appoint wo.
men to some of the important places
There has been a demand from the
women, and some of the men, to have
the women represented on some OF
the state boards for a number OF
years and now that they have the full
suffrage Mr.. Kendall is confident that
such action will meet with the ap.
prevail of the majority of the voters,
both men and women.
Fred Tennigkeif, who was almost
killed by a mob in Audubon in De-
cember, 1917, having had a rope
placed about his neck and dragged
fer some distance along the street
has brought suit in federal court for
10000 damages against Sheriff w
| F. Wilson of Audubon county and his
official bondsmen. Fifty thousand
dollars is asked of Wilson and $4,000
each Of Charles Van Gordner and Ed
ward F. Johnson, the sheriff's bonds
men. Frank Wants, another bonds.
men, has since died. Tenigkeif's al
legged sympathies with Germany in the
war and his refusal to aid in the war
aroused much feeling against him
and he signed check for 81 900 pay
able to the Red Cross, while, as he
claims he was threatened.
The Butler county board of super
visors met recently with the county
auditor to receive and act upon bids
for approximately thirteen miles Of
thing, grading and graveling in the
county. The contract for the tiline
was let to f. H. Waugh of GAINESVILLE
to furnish 55,575 feet of six inch tile
and 6S5 feet of IL inch tile; P. E
Shugart of Nevada, Ia, received a
contract for the grading; Yegge, Nor
| gan & Johnson of Boone, Ia, receiv
ed contract for loading, hauling and
| spreading the gravel. The price SET
for cubic yard of gravel was 81
cents for the first mile hauled and
20 cents per cubic yard for the next
half mile. Contractors will start as
soon as possible on this work and
| it is expected that the work will BIZ
completed by the first Of October.
! w OnSh nave plONSu ouNCCSSlul III
Iowa industries. Factory Inspector
Mrs. Ellen Rourke reports. They are
continuing in the employment taker
up during the war and are a perm
anent factor now. More than $4,000
women are now employed in factories
| shops, stores, offices, and in the pro
! fessions. Out of total average EN-
ployment in factories in Iowa S39 pei
cent were males and 16.1 per cen
were females. Conditions for the
working women are not IDEAL" bu
they are uniformly good. What We
want most is a minimum wage Law
for women. Although the women d.
not seriously complain, they feel tina
as much as men. At present they
do not receive wages equal to Stht
men. / believe they should.
The state of Iowa is IA years old
On Dec. 20, 1916 President James X
Polk signed the bill which made
Iowa territory a state and admitted
her to the Union. The state then
had population Of 96,0SS as compar
ed to the present total of 100000
which the last census awarded. The
state capitol was then at Iowa City
where it remained for several years
| 1t was transferred to iDes Moines
in January, 1857. For 10 years prior
to the admission date immigrants
had been coming to Iowa in consider
able numbers. At that time there
was not single foot of railroad track
in the entire state. Now it is the
! proud boast that there is no place
| in Iowa which is more than nine miles
from a railroad right-of-way. Agri
culture, of course, was the chief in
dustry and many supported them
selves by hunting, trapping and fish
ing. AS late as the Civil War, fol
! lowing the enactment of the home
stead law, section of land could be
secured by homesteaders in north
western Iowa for $14. Now the aver
age quarter section in that region is
worth $4,000. There were no fac
tories in the state at that time. Now
the manufactured products turned out
in a year are in excess OF the half bill
lion dollars mark.
Matilda Trojan, fiancee of Frank
]. Dolezal of Tama, who died two
days before his bride-to-be arrived
from Czecho-Slovak, is now claiming
part Of the $4,000 insurance left by
him.
Charged with drunkenness, w. e
Kennedy. alderman on the City Coun
Gil, Ida Grove, has been removed
from office by Judge NJ. E. Hutchin
held at the instigation of Atty. Gen