Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-05-12
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NEWS VI BRIEFS J / ]! |:

from burns IL hours after her cloth
ing caught fire as she was playing
near bonfire.
| $500 and costs for having liquor in
his possession several weeks ago,
when arraigned in United States Dis
trict court
Ferdinand Furst, 70, of Adair died
suddenly of angina pectoris recently
Mr.. Furst moved to Adair in 1879.
He has been very prominent bank
Ell of the community.
While Fred and George Marolt Of
Wilton Junction were fishing near
Moscow in Cedar River they killed
blowing viper measuring 21a feet, the
largest found in this locality.
The trial Of Vidol Burkish and
George Marsh, principals in the COT
fee house shooting in which Pete
Georgivich was killed. opened at Ma
son City recently. The two men are
being tried together.
Anna Cordts of Boone, and Russell
Lamson of Waterloo, have been elect
ed editor and business manager re-
spectively of the 1928 Old Gold. stu
| Teachers College,
While playing in the streets, Irene,
4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lemuel Norris, of Muscatine, was
fatally crushed beneath an automo-
bile owned and driven by Frank John
ston of West Liberty.
Creditors of the Selway Steel Post
& Fence Company has filed a petition
company in the United States Dis
trict Court. The petition asks that
the officers of the company, Robert
R. Selway and H. H. Budke be held
personally liable for the debts.
Caught in the act of stealing box
of silk socks from a display window
in Hotel Fort Des Moines, Pat Mer-
GER q years old, Council Bluffs,
was arrested by Officers recently. Po-
lice stated that Mercer is an old Of
fender and known drug addict.
The body of Roy Watson Hubbard,
16, of Keokuk, was found suspended
from rafter in an abandoned barn,
twenty-four hoIrs after he had hang
ed himself The lad is believed to
have taken his own life because of
fear of punishment for some deed.
Announcement has been made OF
the consolidation of the east and west
Iowa divisions of the Northwestern
, railroad, with F. F. McCauley as SUI
Boone. East Iowa division headquar-
tiers, dispat.hing force and account
! ing departn ent are moved from Belle
Plaine.
State Tre asurer W. j. Burbank has
announced the appointment of G. C.
/. Mccoy az superintendent Of the CT
garet tax department in the state
treasurer's office to take office June
. /. He has had some work under the
state treasurer as a collector under
the collateral inheritance law
The FIVE banks of Council Bluffs
1 fled notice in District court that suit
y would be instituted in an effort to
i prevent the state from collecting tax
es upon government bonds held by
the banks. The suit is brought to
test the law passed by the thirty
eighth general assembly.
The state printing board is com
pleting specifications for the printing
q of a supplement to the compiled code,
, as provided by law passed by the
legislature. Bids for the work will
be opened May IS. 1t is estimated
4 that there will be 600 pages in the
: volume and the contract will be let
: for 500 copies to be distributed among
: the legislators, state libraries, etc.
Iowa will have no session of the
Legislature until 1923. The subject
j of special session was one of the
r most hotly' disputed questions of the
a past Assembly and that body finally
: adjourned without giving Governor
Kendall any hint or idea whether a
special session should be calleds. or
s when. Governor Kendall announced
j. from the State House that he would
= not call a special session to revise
y the CODE
e Land owners in Humboldt county
have visions of an oil boom. Sam.
pies of heavy oil found on the sur.
!, face of the Des Moines river and on
t several springs have been set away
l. to be analysed. The oil was first no
t ticed on spring near the Pete John.
e son farm. Many are of the belief
that it is crude oil and if this proves
true this portion of the state may
$ look for genuine oil boom such as
J. has in the past years characterized
Il Texas and Oklahoma.
John NJ. Jameson, former state
binder, filed notice that he would ap
peal to the legislature for reimburse
I ment of loss he suffered in binding
u the last geological survey report. The
amount paid was $SS5.71. The actual
cost of the work. he said, was $1,000
= The state binder office was abolished
in 1918. The binder, however. was
l. required by law to complete all pend