Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-05-04
Sanford Davis is in town again.

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today.
Buy your shoes and rubbers Of J. w.
Coquillette.
Jas. M. Workman is clerking for Carl
Christensen.
For SALE.--A good leather top bug.
gy. Call at this office.
f. p. Rees will move into the Evan
Davis residence Saturday.
The Misses Frost returned from
Sioux City OF Extra to-day.
ii. w. Van Gorder left for Oskaloosa
this morning, where he goes to receive
medical treatment.
Edwin Delahoyde was up from Extra
this morning and got $500 of the First
National Banks new money.
Rev. Good will preach at the. Clifford
school house, next Sunday at p M,
and organize Sunday school.
DIR. Brooks will go to the Worlds
Fair June Z, and from there to Mlwau-
kee to attend the medical ASSOCIATION.
The new Rock Island time card will
go into effect next Sunday, but will
make no change in the Audubon
branch.
Mrs. G. NJ. Green and daughter, Grace,
from south of Extra, have been guests
of Chas. Van Gorder and family for
several days.
q. Ii. Russell will return from Wis.
consin this week, his father having
much improved. Mrs. Russell will re-
main indefinitely.
Reece Dickey returned from Chicago
last evening, healthy and happy. Reece
had the exquisite pleasure of looking
upon the features Of Grover Cleveland.
Miss Lettie Jump returned Saturday
from Delta, Colo, where she has been
teaching for year, and where she has
been re employed. She is much pleased
with the west.
Chauncey Gardner, who has 270 acres
Of small grain, says that 1t has heen in
jured but little by the cold storms and
frosts. lie also will plant $40 acres of
corn, the blowing for which he finishes
to-day.
W. ii. Neif returned last night from
Chicago, where he attended the open
ing ceremonies of the Worlds Fair.
lie describes the crowd In attendance
as simply a mass, and says that many
OF the exhibits are still incomplete.
Mayor Whitney, of Atlantic, reads
the riot act to the city council, show.
Ing the fact that during the past year
the city's expenses have been 1855 per
day, while the receipts were but $3.50
per day, net daily loss of $3.50.
Henry Strong has leased the Collins
hotel In Atlantic and will take posses
Ion himself or by proxy May 18th. 1t
Is his purpose to run both that and the
Park In Audubon, though he has a good
for the sale of his lease of
the hotel here. Mr.. Strong is first.
class hotel man, and as landlord al
ways gives satisfaction.
The paper sent to the convention Of
stock men at Salt Lake by Thos. +.
Musson treated on the cooperation of
stock raisers in the matter Of slaugh-
tering and selling their own beef, to
get relief from the extortions of the
Big Four. The paper excited much
favorable comment, but resulted In no
definite action for the present.
Rev. Il. Dickinson will represent the
Council Bluffs Presbytery in the Gen
eral Assembly to be held at Washing
ton, ID. g., the latter part of May, which
will necesstate his absence from the
pulpit the last two Sabbaths of that
month. The honor of being chosen as
q delegate is one which Rev. Dickinson
well deserves as one Of the most talen-
bed and digniiled members of the Pres
bytery.
Mr.. AID. Hepburn, the popular re.
corder of Polk county, died at his home
In Des Moines yesterday, Of pneumo-
mia, aged sixty.four years. He was
such popular official that last year he
was made the nominee Of the republi-
can party and endorsed by the demo
Gratis. Since his death there Is a pop
ular movement to have his wife APP
pointed to the position. Mr.. Hepburn
was an uncle Of j. A. Nash, Esq, being
a brother of his mother.
Chas. Van Gorder and +. s. Watts
are busy these days making money, and
for the time being have considerable
advantage over the rest of mankind.
They have just received SIP in ma
tional bank notes from the treasury
department, which bear upon their face
the promise to pay" of the First Ma
tional Bank of Audubon" the date of
charter, March 20, 1893, and the charter
number, 1891 on face and back. The
notes came four on one sheet, and are
separated here after signing by the
president and cashier. The signature
of President Chas. Van Gorder is plain
and can be read by anyone, but the
autograph of Cashier f. S. Watts is
more Of work Of intricate art, for
which the operator evidently oiled up
the joints to get free forearm move
ment, and the scroll may be interpret
cd for a monogram of the +. o. TO.
club, or the visions of bad dream; at
any rate a series of hireoglyphics that
can not be counterfeited this side of
China. But in truth Mr.. Watts auto
graph is one of the most graceful that
ever graced bank note, very difficult
to counterfeit and hard to decipher by
one not familiar with it, These notes
are finely printed, the bank title being
well displayed and the name "AupU-
BON" duly prominent, but the marks of