Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-04
Iowa News
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Winn Beyers, farmer of Sanborn,
died instantly when a falling hay
stacker struck him on the head break
ing his neck.
Salaries Of teachers In the Nevada
schools are the same as were paid
last year. Contracts for the entire
stan have been signed.
Albert Snider OF Wilton was kicked
by horse while helping to unhitch
team during a storm. He died Of
the injuries the next morning.
Five middle western states will be
represented at the third district con-
vention OF the Young Peoples Luther
league at Mason City August IS to
81.
Senator Kenyon filed in the SEN
ate recently petitions signed BY 2.2lS
members Of the Farmers union of
Iowa protesting against high freight
rates and demanding that they be
lowered without delay.
Farmers OF Wright county are
busy with their threshing. The yield
is light, running from twenty-five to
thirty bushels to the acre, and from
twenty to twenty-six pounds to the
bushel by weight.
Northwestern Iowa is suffering
from the worst epidemic of hog chol-
era in its history, according to G. p.
Stetter, veterinarian. In the past
ten days more than 300 hogs have
died and several thousand Others
are known to be infected.
Theopolus A. Frey. 40 years old.
former resident of Davenport, was
recently sentenced to term of one
to five years at Sing Sing by Judge
McIntire of New York. Frey sold
between 100000 and 100000 worth
of stock in the Hanover Oil company,
fraudulent concern.
Caught between the engine and
the separator of threshing outfit
on the Phalen farm near Lake Mills,
Howard Hanson, was fatally injured.
He died while being taken cross
country in an automobile to- hos
pital in Albert Lea, death coming
when the cal, was near Twin Lakes.
Through the provision OF the will
of Mrs. J. F. Hackenworth. Ottumwa
will soon have public library facili-
ties second to none in lowe. The
.Ottumwa Library association will re-
ceive $4,000 year from this estate.
1t is quite probable that the old Hack
worth home will be used as branch
library.
Mrs. Alva Baker, wife of farmer
living two miles east Of Battle Creek,
died from injuries received when the
auto in which she and her husband
were riding. was struck at railway
crossing by another car driven by the
son of l. N. Aududell, a neighboring
farmer. Other passengers in both
cars were not hurt.
Jim Jones escaped from Jail at
Storm Lake by knocking over Ward
en- Thomas Lebron and Trusty Bert
Cronnoble. It was a desperate at
tack and was successful as Jones
made Immediately for the country and
was lost in the tall cornfields. He
was arrested June 20 for shooting
at the Henry Mackey farm.
A knowledge OF chemistry gained
while serving aboard submarine
has enabled c. r. Larson, young
man of Adair, to perfect solution
which is is said doubles the life Of
a storage, battery. Carson says he
has given his discovery thorough
test and found II complete success.
He is manufacturing It for the mar
ket
Eighteen rifles for the use OF the
vigilance committee organized by the
State Bankers Association to pre-
vent bank robberies have been re-
ceived by Sheriff Meekins Of Web
ster city and will be distributed as
soon as ammunition arrives. The vi
gilance committee, OF which there
are about forty members In Hamilton
county, will be sworn in as special
deputies.
Burglars broke into L. F. Kessler's
garage at Scion recently and stole
nearly $500 worth OF tires, tools, cleo
/ trical fixtures, etc. A limited amount
of money was taken from the till.
The thieves forced an entrance thru
a window. Strangers Of suspicious
type have been lurking about the
town during the week, and two
of them were seen near the garage
the night before the robbery.
Anton Schmidt is In Jail at Elka-
der charged with killing Albert Rapp.
The men engaged in an alteration
at a party recently and Schmidt Is
said to have tapped Rapp on the head
with poker. Rapp felt no Ill ef-
fects from the blow at the time. Two
days later he became sick and 1t
was discovered that infection had set
in the scalp wound and caused by
the poker. He died and Schmidt was
then arrested.
Claiming that III cases OF catsup
in the hands Of a Davenport mer-
chant are unfit for food. authority to
destroy the bottles in each case is
asked in libel suit filed in the Unit
ed States district court by e. G..
Moon, United States attorney for that
district.
The wool growers OF os cola coun-
ty loaded their car with the 1921
wool crop recently, and the same
has been shipped to the warehouse
for sale. The total crop for that
county was 24,S25 pounds. or this
amount 9,475 pounds were put in the
car at 0cheyedan.
H. Boelts, a wealthy retired farmer.
living at Wooden, revealed to Sheriff
Robb and Assistant County Attorney
Vernon Seeburger Of Polk County that
he had been swindled out Of $1,000 by
three clever con men, two OF whom