Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-21
VIOLA CENTER.

Water is even too scarce to soak out
fish at night for breakfast.
Ed Hendricks and family, of Dcs-
MoineS, are visiting with their parent,
ID. W. Hendricks and Mr.. JohnsOn's.
Saturday we had slow drizzle droz-
zle of rain which did lots of good.
Oats however, will never regain con.
SclOuSheSS.
NJ. p. Strahl, Phillip Bickelhaupt, G.
Ii. Earhart and III. S. Jones went to
Council Bluffs Monday to take in the
G. "A. II. encampment.
The average granger now IA days can
be seen going around despatched with
mud and clay and without this sign it
is evident he has enough water to do
| him.
Some deluded creature has been
sending us circulars and wants to doc
tor us for the dropsy. We admit that
our corpulency might indicate it,
but still we are sound and have no use
for the doctor.
One can see squirrel running over
hay land 40 rods away. There will be
precious little straw to take the place
of hay. The question then arises what
are you going to do about it? There
is one way out of the situation and
that is to top our corn as they used to
in old Virginia.
The Viola vigilance committee
organized years ago to aio bro
Their members in running down horse
thieves and to cooperate with the or
ganiZatiOn from Wisconsin to Western
Nebraska, has been notified by the gen
eral secretary that they can ''lay down
their arms and go home" as horse steal
ing is so Improbable and sales so hard
to make there is no longer any use to
maintain the order.
On Friday the 5th day of June, 1894
Phillip Bickelhaupt passed the 50tl
milestone Ofhis advent on this mundane
sphere, and unbeknown to him in adj
vance, about fifty of his friends moved
down upon him and presented him with
u fine rocking chair and other momen
toes us a token of their estimation
Ice cream was served and after many
congratulations were exchanged tlt
crowd quietly dispersed to their sew
eral homes.
We would be an unfaithful chronic
Ter of human events and violate oul
written contract with THE REPUBLI
CAN if we failed to mention the "irt
and toe" scrap between our village
blacksmith and Rachael McAffee the
other day. Bob says dispute arose
over some business matter between
him and the woman in the shop anC
she attacked him with a bar of iron
and belabored him over the head anG
arms. 1t is said that Bob ordered the
woman to get out of the shop and thai
pretty quick or that he would get some
one that would. For more specific in
formation bring your work to the best
blacksmith in four counties.
There is still a good deal of discus
sion at the Evangelical prayer meetings
over the virtues and faults of Brother
Marshall. His adherents defend him
with zeal that few men ever get, and
his adversaries criticise him with equa
antipathy. Our solution of the mat
ter is about like this: Marshall is
q good stub performer and is worthy
of his hire for he certainly showed al
he advertised, and was considerate
enough to not charge an aGmitance fee
but left it to their sole honor to pay
him what it was worth, which the peO
pie did and we think there should be
no complaint from those who have
been six months finding it out that
that is his trade and that money is the
first consideration and this alleged say
ing of souls the next.