Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-07-13

+. S. Watts has had his house re
painted,
Coal fdr $3.50 per ton at the Stuar
Grain Company's.
Rev. Hague returned to his home al
Harvey, ILL.,, Tuesday.
Chas. Van Gorder left Monday nigh
to join his family at Okoboji.
Culver, Stotler & Kelly have put {
new fire proof safe in their mill.
d. T. Howald is on the road in tn,
interest of the Wolf Grain Meter.
Some very nice improvements hav,
been made on the Catholic parsonage.
| Gents, you can buy good all WOO
pants at the Eagle Clothing House fol
| $500.
Sheriff Armstrong returned John
Bailey from Sioux City to the Reform
School last Saturday.
Mrs. Boninger, of Grinnell, has been
visiting for several days with her
father, w. w. Case.
The galvanized, all steel Aermoter
windmill, both fitting and fixed towers
at Marshall Il Sharps.
Theo. Christensen has closed his cigar
factory. The trade is said to be de.
pressed in all parts of the state.
Audubon's public streets were never
in better condition than at present.
Commissioner Norris has done good
work.
At the Presbyterian church next
Sabbath morning, midsummer service.
Subject: Voices from the Burdened
| Fields.
Buy your posts now Of the Green Bay
Lumber Company and be ready for
spring. They have all kinds and low
est prices.
|. w. Baker and family will leave
next Monday for the Worlds Fair.
The family will remain month visit
ing relatives in Illinois.
Yellow Pine will warp and split, but
if you want to experiment you can
save money by buying it at Weighton's
yard, near the Rock Island depot.
George, the four year old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Chester Hibbs, died Saturday
night after short illness, of meningi-
It's. The funeral was held on Monday.
Mr.. w. G. Madden, an old time Polk
county friend of b. +. Kennedy, So
jOurned with him the other day, and
they had most enjoyable time recall
ing memories of by-gone days.
Attention is called to the display ad
vertisement of John W. Coquillette,
who is going to return to Huron, 5. d.,
Sept. |, and in the meantime is offering
big inducements to purchasers.
Prof. w. II. Brinkerhoff was up from
Oakfeld yesterday. We could not
learn that he was pulling wires for the
nomination for representative, or that
he was entering any protests against
the use of his name.
Mr.. Wilson Burnside and family ar
rived home Tuesday evening after ten
days sight seeing at the worlds fair.
They were compelled to witness the
horrible holocaust of Monday by which
twenty tiremen lost their lives.
A small boy stumped his father, a
prominent educator, by the query,
"what is lightning for" 1t was bed
time and the father not caring to go
into a scientific discourse, replied that
he couldn't say. After a considerable
lapse of time which it was presumed
had closed the lads lids in slumber, he
spoke up from his little bed in an ad-
Joining room and said: "Papa, know
what the lightning's for; it's so God
can see when the ground is wet enough.
johnnie johnson, who spent couple
of years in Wyoming, tells some won
derful stories of the dexterity of cow,
boy riders. Cowboy Martin won q
prize for starting on tame pony, lasoo
ing a second wild pony, saddling and
riding him, and from that position
lasssoing third which was also sad,
died andridden, and all three feats per.
formed within the space of four and
one-half minutes. Another pony
which had bafiled all efforts to control
Martin conquered, and from his back
picked up ten silver dollars laid in the
streets. Then he removed the bride
and taking baby under each arm took
in the sights of the town. John saw
these things.
The Gray and Ross base ball team
came down yesterday and played Au.
dubons seventeenth nine, and the score
was AZ to 40 in favor of the visitors
The game was great sorrow to every
Audubonite from the beginning, and
the spectators quietly left the grounds
humming that plaintive and expressive
ditty "there are moments when one
wants to be alone" w. II. Green um
pired the game and was compelled t.
stay to the finish, a display of heroism
quite unparalleled. 1t would be un
kind to give prominence to the mer
who tried to occupy the points. 1t is
common charity to say that they die
the best they could under the circum
stances. There is some excuse Offered
in the fact that tall grass surrounded
the diamond affording a good hiding
place for the ball, which of course was
hindrance. While this may be re-
garded as an extenuating circumstance
the record of AZ to 40 is what ELECTED
the jeers of the guys. The boys ought
to do some practicing in sequstered
nook far removed from the haunts OF
men,