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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
6
Kimballton construction firm changes name to The Kim ballton Construction Company. Builders finish feed house and start large lumber sheds with cement foundations. Local tradespersons move, stockyards get water, and railroad officials plan new station at Smiths while expanding siding and stockyard work.
Manager Jones reports two trains daily to Kimballton and return with a forthcoming schedule. The new time card will aid locals and merchants and allow north country residents to make a Atlantic day trip. Wrecking outfit for railroad has arrived carrying essentials for accident response.
Last Friday directors extended an invitation to the Branscollared manager of the C.R. 1. & PL to ride the new road. They arrived in their private car, toured two towns, and praised the heavy live stock shipments since the road opened. Nine stock cars recently moved along the line as spring approaches.
Busy local notices cover residents like Thomas Jorgensen and Sigmund Anker teaching spring terms near Rorbeck, with John Petersen traveling to Omaha on business. Families move to farms south of town as the Elk Horn area builds up with a new Bee Hive coat of paint, a residential foundation, and lumber office project. Local industry expands with cement blocks and Olsen Knitting Company, while citizens depart and pupils migrate to teach in the country. Elder resident Nels Bolesen dies at eighty after sudden heart trouble, leaving a widow and grown children.
Time table shows arrivals and departures for Kimballton and Atlantic with a 4 00 p m departure. A church wedding near here unites Miss Emma Esheck and Mr Hl Petersen with a reception at the bride’s home. Elk Horn Concert Company plans a grand concert around April 17 to fund raise for a noble cause. Dr Shoop’s Croup Remedy advertised with N Hansen as the distributor.
Seymour banker Leroy Ware pleaded guilty in district court to fraudulent entries at the defunct Farmers and Drovers' State Bank of Seymour and received a five year sentence. Twenty-one indictments remain and will stand. Ware's defense argued the bank's policy ruined the institution, noting dividends paid to officers while deposits dwindled and suggesting he acted under pressure from other directors.
The speaker assigns blame to directors for insufficient aid and likely inadequate compensation and advice, attributing the issue to a greedy and parsimonious policy that limits support. The remarks focus on governance failures and their impact on outcomes.
A 24 year old cook, Lee Grubb, shot his wife on a street, then fired at their two year old, and killed himself. The infant survived. The couple, once living apart due to quarrels and jealousy, were en route to the theater with a friend when the fatal dispute occurred outside a drug store. Grubb, a native of Oskaloosa, was married four years to Miss Townend of Rose Hill.
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