Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-07
VIOLA CENTER.

The Vioii base ball club SCOPE d the
Dedham club high and dry last Satur-
day. Score 10 to 13.
From present indications most of
the old soldiers of Viola will attend
the reunion at Council Bluffs.
Though Charley Booton has moved
from Viola to Coon Rapids, or near
there, his faith in DIR. Jewell is so un-
bounded that he still comes way over
here after him in case of sickness.
The boys have it in for one Of the
members of the "police force" on the
tabernacle grounds-the one that wears
big tin star haggled out of the bot
tom of his mothers old coffee pot.
r.. I. Gilbert succeeded in getting
county supervisor s. +. Garmire to
come down from Lincoln to view the
will be driven along the old washed out
corner of the old Steggle place, and
bridged over.
We understand that by recent rul
ing of the postoflice department that
the habit of mailing letters on trains,
which knocks out the commission OF
the postmaster on the stamp, is done
away with and Uncle Sans customers
must hereafter mail letters at the
postoffce. Viola is always in luck, she
is not effected by the ruling.
An old lhail insurance agent has been
going around Viola insuring crops,
which we presume Is good thing, but
when the old gentleman palms off a
very distant acquaintance and his so.
cial embellishments to balance his bills
and quietly slips away, we think old
fellow, you will take cold cater
and corn dodger next time.
Services ut the tabernacle east of the
Center school house every afternoon
and at night. The Rev. Marshall has
been regaling his congregation with a
| TRADE against secret societies. His
| condemnation, yituperation and flood
| of anathamaS is so full of venom il
leads the ungodly to surmise that the
! gentleman must have been black
balled once upon time.
There has been sort of GOODNESS
| among some of the brethren toward
| brother Marshall of late, but the other
night enc of them got up i'm meeting
and said he was all right again. Said
he got that way at the corn plow that
day. Must of been in fall blowing well
narrowed, never could have been in
stock ground where the shovels catch
all the stocks and mop out the corn
for rods. "Not there, not there my
child"
The other morning as Oril Colbert
was doing his chores three wolves came
up to the stable. Drill called the Cog
and fierce conflict ensued. Two
wolves ran away but the third stood
his ground and fought the dog. The
fight lasted but a short time for the
dog was game and was fast getting the
better of the wolf which lascerated the
dog about the neck, while the dog was
crippling up the wolf. The wolf kept
working its way off and finally made
its escape.
A few days ago William Lauhery
and wife came out to visit at MIR.
Moreland's, the parents of Mrs. Laugh
cry. On their return trip the team be-
came so fractions that our knight OF
the shears couldn't hold them and had
to run them into the barbed wire fence.
Mrs. Annie lost no time in getting out
and proceeded toward town a-foot till
overtaken by farm wagon which af-
forded safe conveyance to town.
while William and his team shambled
along side ways and end ways till Coon
Rapids was reached.
Took notion to go to town the
other day. On the road bicyclist
tu
with his wheel Said /, want a race ?"
"Dont know, I'm pretty tired but if
you've got good team and want to
try their speed Ill go YOU" and he shot
past like flash and we began to apply
the whip; but it was like Mark Twain's
hound chasing the jack rabbit. After
our horses were lathered up from ears
to tail with white foam, in race of
three miles the bicyclisC like phan-
| tom, was turning the corner a mile
ahead.
Might as well chalk it down in your
hay NOW first as last, no difference how
much it may rain from now on there
will not be over half crop of hay. All
old straw piles will be in demand for
bedding next spring. If there should
| be any new ones they will be consumed
for roughness. The last great scarcity
of hay there was not a straw pile to be
seen in the spring between Brooklyn
and Council Bluffs as viewed from the
car windows of the e. II. l. Il T.. r.. r.,
and our hay crop the preceding sum-
mer was better than it promises to be
now.
About every so often the old delusion
about the Mississippi river flowing "up
hill" is revived. 1t is now going the
rounds in some papers. If young teach
ers and students budding into the phil
osophy of matter write the query col
umns of newspapers and ask if it is
really fact. that the Mississippi river
flows up hill, they are generally ans
wered that it does, from the fact that
the mouth of the river is some three
miles further from the center of the
earth than its source, and hence flows
sup hill" The fact is however, when
we come to apply common sense to the
proposition we find that it does no such
thing, but flows down hill like any
other sensible stream. IL the direc-
tions of sup" and "down" were terms
that related to and from the plane OF
ecliptic the river would alternately
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