Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-07-23
Benefit Ice Cream Social.


an ice cream social on the lawn of Il.
j, Freeman, on the evening of Tuesday,
July %, proceeds for the benefit of
veterans whose crops were damaged by
the hail storm of July LIST. The ladies'
will spare no pains to make the &C.
casion an enjoyable one. The object is
worthy and should draw large attend
ance as all can help where help is need.
ed in this way. Everybody invited.
Everybody come. You come.
Wintermute Bros Colossal aggrega-
ton of living wonders and circus will
exhibit in Audubon August Bird. See
advertisement.
Corn in Audubon county is ten days
behind the average condition at this
season and needs dry, warm weather.
One who drives much in the country
says the best corn Is In Sharon town
ship, u very nice compliment to tho
industry of the Danish people.
In Fred Faulkes' broadside against
prohibition in Iowa, he states that
there are twenty eight government
liquor licenses in Audubon county,
fourteen in Audubon and fourteen out
side. 1t is probable that that number
was issued during the reign of the Or
iginal package, but they are not doing
business under these licenses now. At
present there are but two places In tho
county where liquor is legally sold, and
both are outside of Audubon.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. U. Funk returned
from the Council Bluffs Chautauqua
last Friday, and have only words Of
praise for the association. They were
among the class of fourteen gradu-
ates, which was shown the highest
honor aud distinction. The graduating
exercises are very impressive, adorned
with music and banks of flowers. Mr..
and Mrs. Funk are justly proud of the
diplomas they received, and will now
read to secure seals of Chautauqua
branch societies. The day on which
ex-senator ingalls, delivered his lecture,
The Problem of Our Second Century,
there were over 5000 people on the
ground. Ingalls, regards the rights Of
labor and capital as the absorbing
problem. Mr.. Funk informs us that
many were disappointed in Ingalls, ora
tory but his thought and argument
were such as to maintain his reputa-
ton.
Last Saturday evening we paid %
very pleasant though short visit to the
home OF +. N. Taggart, proprietor Of
the Iowa Summit Nurseries, inst over
the line, in Guthrie county. The place
is admirably named, for so far as tho
eye can reach there is nothing higher
in the state. Mr.. Taggart has 800 acres
Of as pretty land as one could wish to
see. Lying upon plateau, there Is
just enough undulation to make per-
feet and natural drainage. Here he
started to subduc natures waywardness
twelve years ago on 100, and has added
as much more. The old house is now
used us tool house, while the family
occupies the commodious and comfort
able one built u few years ago. The
twenty acres exclusively devoted
to the nursery is perfectly plated in
trees, shrubs, vines and flowers, and
represents years of toll which only the
experienced can appreciate. Other
than this, there are numerous orchards
in thrifty and profitable condition.
Water is furnished for all from well
27O feet deep, carried to the nursery by
hose and through pipes to tanks for
stock. Diversified farming is no where
more happily represented than on Mr..
Taggart's place. All crops flourish in
his fields, and in his hundreds of head
of stock there are horses, cattle, hogs
and sheep, to say nothing of his num-
erous swarms of Industrious and pros
porous Italian bees. With so many in
terests his general prosperity has been
assured Mr.. Taggart and his good
wife have striven hard and intelligently
in earning the success they have at
tanned, and are now ensconced in ideal
surroundings.