Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-01-02

Funeral services tomorrow.
You will find the best stock of lumbe
at lowest possible prices at the Greer
Bay Lumber Co. Give them call
Satisfaction guaranteed.
The young people have especially en-
joyed the vacation holidays. Brilliant
and select parties have been entertained
by Grace Burnside and by Mr.. Edw. S
Van Gorder. both students at Grinnell
They will return to their duties with
pleasant memories of the vacation
while their guests will share equally
their pleasure IN remembering Their
hospitality.
On New Years Eve, while working
about his home on Leroy street Judge
A. l.. Sanborn fell down the cellar way
and dislocated his shoulder Joint. DIR
4. l.. Brooks was called to reduce the
fracture, but the little Doctor was com.
PEELED to summon such powerful men
as Dol Coleman and John Dawson to
assist him in the task. The genial
Judge is getting along as nicely as could
be hoped for.
Bro. Guernsey improved Christmas
to take holiday, wherefore the Extra
Journal did not appear last week,
There is no reason why the poor but
honest printer shouldn't take u holiday
the same as men in other business, but
ordinarily he doesn't. II is his inherent
ambition to keep pace with The Brook,
making an honest endeavor at least TO
give full value. Seed time lasts for
iifty-two weeks In the year, but the
harvest Is short and soon over.
The associated press dispatches vast.
ly overestimate the prevalence and
gravity Of Ia grippe, II we may accept
the local reports Of New York and Chi
cago papers. The disease is epidemic
in these cities, but frequently its vic.
tins pursue their accustomed avoca.
tons, at great discomfort to be sure,
Its chief danger is in the increased sus-
ccptibility of the patient to the more
dangerous diseases. Cases which have
proved fatal have been complicated
with other diseases.
Mr.. Way Record, of Extra, and of the
firm of Thomas Il Record, was called
to Ogden last Friday, to attend at the
bedside OF his mother who was injured
by the cars. ii. W. Hanna was on the
train when the accident occurred. 1t
was the limited express running within
the city limits of Ogden, and the lady
who was on the sidewalk stepped on
the track just ahead of the train, sus.
tanning injuries which will probably
prove fatal. She is the wife of Rev.
Record, a superanuated minister of the
Methodist church.
The epidemic ia grippe" had safe
voyage across the ocean and after lay
ing low the crowned heads of the old
world has opened to good business In
this country. Il IL prevalent In the
eastern cities and If reports may be
credited has appeared in some places
In Iowa IL is probable, however, that
Its advent has been anticipated. Severe
pains penetrating TO the bones appear
among the first symptoms, followed by
influenza. Quinine and cathartics con-
stitute the ordinary prescription of
for its treatment.
Capt. |. II. Shipley, the dauntless, is
rapidly recovering from the illness con
sequent upon his late unpleasantness,
and will be In attendance upon the
opening Of the Legislature, to the de-
,pair of democrats. The man who
could successfully combat two such
as were waged against him
In Guthrie county can endure almost
Capt. Shipley is of proper
texture and width. We suggest that
when the 23d general assembly is pho
the Captains features be re-
produced in colors, placed at the top of
the column and surrounded by reading
matter.
In the January Century, the next to
the last installment of The Life of
Lincoln" appears. This installment
graphic account of Lincoln's
last day and his assassination, also a
chapter on the fate of the assassins and
q description of the mourning pageant.
There is portrait of Andrew Johnson,
4 diagram of the box in Ford's Theater,
a fac simile of playful found in the
Presidents box, a picture of the funeral
car and of the monument at Springfield.
papers by other hands
are printed OH the pursuit and death Of
John Wilkes Booth. The latter papers
are by two Confederate officers who
met Booth and IIerold In their flight,
and by a Union officer who commanded
the cavalry that captured the fugitives.
The twenty-five employees of Messrs.
L. G. Snyder & Co. very neatly turned
the tables upon the local managers on
New Years Eve. While Mr.. Stormont
was sitting at his office desk Tuesday
evening in deep quandry over the
problems of the firms business the en-
ployes filed in and presented him with
an elegant pair OF gold bowed spectacles,
and Mr.. Mallory was taken equally I'M
awares and given pair of slippers.
1t is needless to state that these gentle
men highly appreciate the good will of
their fellow men and especially Of those
with whom they are so intimately asso-
ciated. When such friendly relations
exist between employers and employees
it is pretty good evidence that the bust
ness In which they may be engaged is
successfully and satisfactorily conduct
ed.
NEW YEARS NOTES.
The year 1889 has been kindly onp
to the town of Audubon, a year of ma
terial growth and general prosperity.