Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-03-11

III the CITY between trans last Thurs
day afternoon.
Miss Neal Walkup is at home
again having closed her school term
at Gray last Friday.
Chas. Talbot of Carroll visited
his brother w, w. Talbot, here
portion of last week.
Mrs. w. M. Graham will go to
West Side this afternoon to remain
a week with relatives.
Miss Mile Gault of Extra town.
ship is visiting with the family of
Charles Van Gorder.
Lee Funk and wife have returned
from their visit with the formers
parents at Montezuma.
Mrs. Matte Stearns is disposing
of her household goods, and will
soon remove to Illinois.
Mrs. ]. ID. Holmes and Miss L.
Terrill are in Des Moines selecting
goods for their spring stock.
viii d. Forbes was confined to
the house for several days the first
of the week with hard cold.
Mrs. f. Bell of Bevington, Iowa,
is visiting in the city with the family
OF her brother, w. T. Cason.
Miss Lizzie Shay, of Iowa City, is
in the city.
Miss Elsie McLeran went to
Omaha Saturday evening. She will
remain several weeks with her sister.
Ii. M. Talbot returned last Friday
from Des Moines where he has been
during the winter plying his trade.
Miss Fannie Brainard is suffering
from the fever that is SO prevalent in
this community. She is convalescent.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Stanfeld of
Cameron township, made this Office
a very pleasant call Saturday after
noon.
Rev. ]. A. Bartlett will start to-
morrow morning for Appanoose
county, where he will remain over
Sabbath.
Will Somcrs arrived yesterday
from Dakota and will remain several
weeks visiting his brothers in Doug
las township.
Albert Wells formerly of this
place, now of Council Bluffs, was
in town the first of the week settling
up business matters.
Chas. Yates OF Irwin was in Au-
dubon the first of the week paying
rather marked respects to a friend.
He returned yesterday. '
w. II. Jones of the firm of Jones
& McKarhan has been on the sick
list for several days and put in his
first appearance at the store yester-
day.
Miss Elite Seeley from Stuart has
entered the employ of Chas. Stuart
& Son, as assistant book keeper to
X. II. Genung. The lady is an ex-
perienced accountant.
7. II. Turner closed his school
term in the Bacusville district last
Friday, and departed for Merimac,
Iowa, on Monday, where he will
remain month visiting the scenes
of his former home.
Fred Cerka, of Marshall, Iowa,
arrived in town last evening over the
North western on visit to his
uncles whom, he learned on arrival
here, live in the vicinity Of Gray.
He returned to that place this morn
ing.
Morgan Spencer OF Lincoln town
ship and the champion checker play
er of the west, spent Tuesday and
Wednesday in the city. He has
just disposed of his valuable list of
checker books to professional Of
New York City.
Martin Madison who has been
engaged for the past two months on
b. F. Howald's clerical force, depart
ed Tuesday for Harlan. From
there he will go in company with
a brother to Florida where they will
engage in stone masonry.
]. X. Smith and family formerly
of Shelby county, removed last week
to their farm in Melville township,
which they recently purchased Of !.
II. Small, the latter having leased
farm in the same neighborhood.
We acknowledge a pleasant call
from Mr.. Smith last Saturday.
Luther McNutt has removed
from Hamlin to Bear Grove where
he will engage in mining. AT a
depth of twenty-five feet an eigh-
teen inch vein of coal was recently
discovered which increases in dimen-
sions as the miners proceed with
their work. Present prospects indi-
cate that the vein will prove paying
one.
Evan Davis was overtaken at
Omaha by telegram announcing
the illness of his son, who is i'll with
a fever. Mr.. Davis arrived home
Tuesday afternoon. His journey
west will be made so soon as his
sons health will permit. He is
anxious to take advantage of the
low rates now given by the roads
running to the Pacific coast. The
rate from Omaha is now $40, and
on Saturday return tickets were
sold at $Is.