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

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: ing great bargain in mems all wool
suits at 10 and 10 dollars.
L. ID. Phelps has been appointed re-
ceiver of the Hash stock at Extra and
will enter upon his duties soon.
Get our prices on lumber before buy
ing. We guarantee quality.
GREEN BAY LUMBER COMPANY.
You cannot toe.nail Yellow Pine di.
mension, but you can buy it for Sl5 per
1000 feet at Weighton's lumber yard.
Mr.. j. l.. Stotler has moved into his
new house, though it is yet incomplete.
1t is one of the best houses in Audi
bon.
Rev. Parsons is visiting an aunt in
Boston, and has the pleasure of chos.
ing 500 books from library or thous.
and volumes.
There is no such thing rs soft Yellow
Pine, except swamp pine. Good Yellow
Pine is hard, and will be sold cheap at
| clblloll . lliibci ydiu.
Martin Larsen has moved his har.
ness shop to the Barbee building on
Lower Broadway, where Geo. Ellis has
closed out the feed business.
Mrs. +. =, Rees and family will leave
tomorrow for Ogden, Boone county, to
visit her parents. Mr.. Rees thinks of
going to Colfax for his health.
Get the Mccormick binding twine-
the best. No trouble or delay from
breakage. The best il the cheapest.
G. w. HOOVER.
No word has been received from
Frank and Harry Fish and Ed Rice,
who are prospecting in Texas, though
it is presumed that they are all right.
DIR. Denote opened the relief fund
for the Pomeroy cyclone victims by
depositing So in the First National
Bank as soon as he read the papers of
Saturday morning.
VIM. Jingist, prosperous farmer
of Viola, marketed ten head of hogs
yesterday which brought HIM $l53.70.
He has more corn and more hogs and
will make more money.
John Hunter commenced work last
Monday as bridge contractor for Au.
dubon county, having bought Mr..
Owens entire outfit. Mr.. Owens Is un.
decided as to what he will do, but has
a yearning to get back to the farm.
Miss Jane Weighton has commenced
the house to be erected on the knoll
north of the North Western depot. 1t
will cost between three and four thous-
and dollars, of fine design, and the en-
tire interior will be finished In syca-
more. 1t will be an ornament to Au-
dubon.
Rev. Thomas VanScoy ID. d., brother
of our merchant John VanScoy of this
city, will preach In the M. T.. church
next Sunday morning. Rev. VanScoy
occupies q chair in the University of
Portland, Oregon. He is spoken of as
strong preacher and great educator
Everybody cordially invited to the ser
vices next Sunday morning.
The trial of Baxter, the postofflce
robber and diamond thief, which was
to have come off at Council Bluffs last
Monday, has been postponed by his re-
quest to July 8lst. The witnesses
which Baxter expected did not put in
an appearance. 1t is a noteworthy
fact that the epidemic of postoflice rob
berries has abated since Bakers incar-
ceration.
The Rock Island issued q new time
card last week which went into effect
on Sunday. The evening train leaves
Audubon at 5'45 ,. m, and makes close
connection with the flyer leaving At
lantic at 7:25 p. m, and arriving in
c ,""@", q. a. m. recurring the flyer
leaves Chicago at p. m, reaches At
lantic at 6;43, a. M, thus reaching Au-
dubon at S.45 a. m. A good arrange
ment.
AS soon as F.S. Watts heard of the
disaster at Pomeroy he telegraphed
there to learn il Mrs. Watts parents
or brother had been injured, but could
not hear for twenty four hours, when
word was received that the families
had sought safety in cave, though
their houses and all outbuildings were
swept away. They lived in the south
east part of town where the storm was
the worst, and escaped fortunately
with their lives. Mr.. Watts has infor.
nation in letter that the father of
the family remained in his house which
was almost totally demolished, and he
was uninjured. The letter also told of
a neighbor whose wife and two children
were killed, and he was taken to the
asylum, raying maniac.
Mr.. Button Z. Page, one of the brave
fremen who met death heroically at
the cold storage building on the Worlds
Fair ground on Monday, was a cousin
of Mrs. ]. NJ. McKarahan. The Inter
ocean makes the following brief but
honorable mention. Burton 4. Page,
captain of engine company No. 3,
Worlds Fair, was 80 years of age and
lived with his wife at No. 4432 Chap
lain avenue, He was appointed on the
force July |, 1888; resigned Sept 80,
1884; reappointed Noy. 3, 1886, and
made lieutenant of truck No. 10 in 1891.
He was transferred to the Worlds
Fair last May. He received honorable
mention for assisting in the rescue of
eight persons on Sept. "a, 1889, from a
burning building at No. 2507-9-ll Cot
tage Grove avenue, and also assisted
in rescuing eighteen persons from No.
24O3 Wentworth avenue June 30, 1888.