Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-07-28
Iowa News
SiD Items Of Interest
S9S- Summarized for
~N\ Busy Readers.
Busy Readers.
Shenandoah will celebrate its fit
tieth anniversary in October.

FSF'ASeo' VI BiOScly SlOrt at tudl
place, died Of heart failure in the
water at Spirit Lake.
7 Howard Luck OF Belmond died in
the hospital at Waverly as the result
OF Injuries sustained when the car in
which he was riding upset.
Harry Burton, former resident OF
fHazelton, Iowa, was killed instantly
when the car he was driving went
over an embankment recently.
Delegates to the convention of Gid.
deems at Sioux City were entertain.
ed with war dance, staged by fifty
lWinnebago Indians in Grand View
park.
Ben Stoebe, near Boone, is facing
death as the result of internal in.
5uries sustained when he fell from a
binder. He is fighting for his life in
a Fort Dodge hospital.
George Povonder of Scion is re-
covering from serious burns about
the face and head which resulted
when he struck a match to look into
the gas tank on his automobile.
/ The hootch supply at Spirit Lake
and okoboji is threatened by a cam.
paign against booze runners in Osce-
ola, Dickinson and Emmett counties,
now being coducted by federal Off
GERS.
Does the warden of the state peni-
Tertiary pay his bills? The Henry
,Quellmalz Lumber and Manufactur.
ing company, of Keokuk, claims that
ne doesn't and is suing him for $21,.
600 for lumber used in the chair In
,dustry in the state institution.
Following seven years of grieving
for his dead wife that completely UNI
edermined his health, Edward f. Lam
bert of near Glenwood, died at his
home. He was SO years old. His
wife was killed in 1914 in tornado
which swept that part of the state.
Claude Abel. 16 years old, died
from injuries received when he fell
under a Burlington train at Corning
recently. Both feet were cut off. He
and a number of companions had
been catching free rides on the trains
to get to the swimming pool at Corn
ing.
I William A. Scott, merchant OF Des
Moines filed petition in bankruptcy
in Federal Court, giving his liabili-
ties at $4099.6S and assets $500. Clair
l.. Smith, farmer living near New
burg, Jasper county, fled a petition
in bankruptcy listing his liabilities at
$4,000. No assets.
Walter Dunlap, SO years old,
wealthy young farmer committed sui
eide at the home OF his father near
Alburnett. When he failed to come
home for dinner his father searched
for him and found his lifeless body
hanging to rafter In an outbuilding.
Dependency was given as the cause
of the act
The 15-month-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. J. Jakich played on the rail
road tracks near their home in Sioux
City. A freight train came along
and before the engineer could halt
the train, the locomotive and eight
cars had passed over the child which
was found to be uninjured except for
few bruises where it had been hit
by hanging rods under the cars.
George Craig of Truro, father of
'ex-Representative Walter F. Craig of
Winterset was struck by the east
bound freight on the c. B. & @.
crossing one mile east of st. Charles
recently. He was thrown about If
ty feet to one side of the right-of-way
and seriously injured and his Ford
car was completely demolished. He
was taken to the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. James Young.
The Fifth Iowa District has a new
congressman. Cyranus Cole, editor
of the Cedar Rapids Republican and
long prominent in G.. o. p circles in
the state, was elected over John NJ.
Hughes, Democrat, general counsel
Cor the Milwaukee railroad. The
vote was comparatively close. 1t was
a special election, called by Governor
Kendall, to choose a successor to
James w. Good, who resigned to en-
ter the practice of law In Chicago.
Harry H. Cate Of Anita, was re-
elected president of the Iowa branch,
National League OF Postmasters, at
the convention at Des Moines. Miss
Laura Smith of Montour, was reflect
ed vice president, and A. s. Lynd OF
harrisburg, secretary. The three Of
ticers and j. L. Lee Of BOWS were
named Iowa representatives to the
national meeting at Washington in
October. The Iowa branch member
ship has grown from 76 to 400 in
three years.
Four year-old Averille Riser was
fatally injured at Sioux City when
she was struck by an automobile
while returning from an errand for
her mother. DR.. NJ. A. Helfgott was
the driver of the death car.
Mail stolen at Arion, Iowa, June 10,
was found in a suitcase brought to
Council Bluffs recently from Nicola,
near where 1t was found by two boys.
II was concealed under bridge. In
cluded in the mail are insurance pa
pers and letters containing checks
and drafts. Two masked men held
up the depot master at Arion and
escaped with the mail sacks.
Iowa farmers are paying taxes as
high as Sc an acre on farm land
which is actually losing them money,
according to ]. G. Mitchell, attorney
ror the Iowa Farm Bureau federation.
The federation is still confident that
the executive council will remedy
this situation and give the farmers a
just valuation. according to Mr.. Nit
chell. He said that in many cases