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finas ZIRC TT the Modern Brotherhood of America. has been completely exonerated and vindicated in respect to the charge made by a member of the order that he officially published a false statement to the effect that $27,405.47 had been expended on field work in August, 1913, when it was alleged $2,405.47 only had been so expended. George Stroeber, aged 100, passed away at his home in Muscatine Sunday. Mr. Stroeber's life links the century between the Napoleanic wars and the present European conflicts. He was a native of Germany, having been born in 1814, which year wit4 war. nessed the opening of the Prussian Residents of Strahan, Ia., are excited over the failure of the Citizens bank of that town and the disappearance of Ephraim H. Ralston, president. The bank was a private institution and was supposed to have deposits amounting to $15,000. When the found. vault was opened only $20 was A jury in Mills county awarded Ella Johnson, administratrix of the estate of her husband, George W. Johnson, a judgment for $19,028 against Page and Fremont counties. Mr. Johnson was killed when a threshing machine he was operating crashed through a bridge on the boundary line of the two counties. Bert Hoil. a blacksmith at Greene for many years. was killed when he was run over by an automobile driven by William Meyne. The accidene was unavoidable, Hoil dodging in front of the slowly moving Meyne car to escape another car. C. A. Inman, a Knoxville barber, was shot through the right thigh with his own shotgun while on a hunting expedition. He was riding a bicycle on a public road with the gun lying across the handle bars, when it slipped and caught the trigger. Many people from nearby towns are looking forward to the "Billy" Sunday revival meetings in Des Moines and are planning to arrange parties to go to the capital city to hear the there. famous evangelist during his campaign Captain W. A. Duckworth, custodian of the state house, has received word that a nine-foot vein of coal has been uo Feet 210 JO depth 8 18 discovered his farm in Wapello county. There is only one coal vein in Iowa which is larger than the newly discovered vein. Big pay checks were the rule for the engineers on the Iowa division of the Milwaukee the past month. Several drew the highest they ever earned at railroading, the average running from $190 to $200. They are paid at the rate of $5.30 per 100 miles. Charged with taking a $50 diamond ring from a jeweler at Ottumwa and substituting a 10 cent circlet bought in a local 10 cent store, Jose Servantes. a Mexican, who feigned knowledge of the English no language, was bound over to the grand jury. Rev. Martin Hegland, pastor of the Zion United Lutheran church of Forest City, has accepted a call to the presidency of Waldorf college, Forest City, and the pastorate of the First Lutheran church of that city. He will assume the office January 1. E. E. Johnson, who resides near Homer, is planning to make an investigation of an old Indian mound located on his farm. A short time ago Mr. Johnson's son plowed up an Indian pipe, for which he received an offer from ciety. the Iowa State Historical SOWhile setting up a corn elevator on a farm near Belmond Charles A. Johnson was caught in the machine and so badly injured that he died. He was of the firm of Johnson and city. Johnson, hardware dealers of this Tom Concord was sentenced to the state penitentiary for life by Judge William S. Ayres at Des Moines. He was convicted of having held up and robbed Sol Neuderman at East Sixth street and Grand avenue in the night time while armed with a revolver. A record breaking yield of potatoes has just been harvested by Will Johnston, a farmer near Humboldt His tubers turned out by actual measurement four hundred and fifty bushels to the acre. The third pair of twin calves for this season were born on the John Ryder farm recently near Waterville Mr. Ryder is somewhat of a potato grower too. From one acre of ground he harvested this fall 225 bushels of potatoes. I. Augustine, a farmer living near Haverhill, has an unusual piece of livestock in his cattle yard in the shape of a 300 pound buck, which strayed into the yard after it had been hunters. chased out of the timber by Emerson Merril, an aged citizen of Waukon who has been on the retired list for several years, and who has finally sought in located vain to find relatives, has
