Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-01-28
EXIR A ITEMS.

Mrs. w. II. Seavey died Sunday
morning of heart disease.
They have another girl at James
Willox's and boy at Julius Her
risks, both arriving sunday night.
Court business in Extra will have
to be suspended for time, as both
of our attorneys are at Audubon
frowning at Judge Loot borrow.
Why couldn't we come up to the
standard of our ighboring towns by
having an ordinance requiring prop
erty owners to clear their sidewalks
of snow aud ice? There is no just
reason why we should not have our
walks in Il condition to be travelled
without mortal danger to the passer-
by. Several person, have already
taken severe tumbtes on the walks
in consequence OF ice and snow.
There is no more reason why Il
snow DRIFT should he allowed to
blockade sidewalk than an accum-
mutation of dccaycd vegetation or
waste matter. 1t is time somebody
should attend to business. Whose
business is it?
AS the time Tor city election app
proaches we begin to look about for
suitable candidates to fill the vacan-
cies occurring. For mayor, !. E.
loft has received favorable mention
by the TourRGl. Let us echo the
strain. We consider Mr.. loft one
of a very few in our town who is
available and competent to fill this
executive, judicial and legislative Of
flee with partially for none and JUS
tice for all. As a Justice of the
Peace Mr.. loft has shown himself
to be a most worthy, reliable and
competent officer, and he is suffi
ciently acquainted with the status of
city affairs to qualify him for the
Mayoralty. Let us have peoples
convention and nominate oc Toft
for Mayor and then put him through
with a whirl. We are not a voter,
but we bespeak for Joe Toft the
hearty support of every voter who
has an interest in seeing our Mayors
office filled by a man whose chief
traits of character are intelligence,
integrity and inpartiallty.
Our popular telegraph operator,
L. q. Bryant, is one of the most
happy men at present of whose resi-
dence Extra may well be proud.
Last Friday morning Tom came in
to our store wearing a smile about Il
yard wide and actually beaming with
Joy. We remarked that he had com e
in the door edgewise, and thought
we could observe ii swaying motion
in the floor as he came in the store.
He presented an unusually swelled
appearance; his clothes seemingly
clinging to him like the peal on an
apple or the cover on ball. How
ever we considered these last appear
ances as optical illusions until he
proclaimed the cause. He advanced
to the stove and with one gloved
hard extended to the fire and giving
his larboard ear a wiring with the
other, he cast Il triumphant glance on
the few customers and loafers who
CHANGED TO be trading or loirering
about the premises, and exclaimed :
swell, we've got boy at our house"
That get led it, we were correct.
During the hahdshaaing and con-
gratulat.ons which followed he lost a
few buttons. We then escorted him
to the scales in the back room, but
just as we had adjusted the last
weight and was about to poise the
beam at . ton there was crash, ap-
other shower Of buttons and our
scales hare the appearance of having
been afflicted with spinal menngiitis.
Tom took a box of our best cigars