Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-04-23

soft coal.
Finest line of Wall Paper at Brick
Drug Store.
Mrs. AL Sheets has been quite sick
for the last few days.
j. w. Gray, of Extra, was in Audu-
bon Wednesday morning.
j. F. Frazier visited over Sunday
with friends in Atlantic.
III. w. Hanna was attending to bust.
ness in Atlantic, Wednesday.
Jesse Miller. of the Bilharz force of
clerks spent Sunday in Extra.
Hon. Frank p. Bradley was in Audi.
bon Monday evening and Tuesday.
See our nice line of lace curtains,
scrim and window shades, l. w. Baker.
Miss Clara Anderson and Miss
Mamie Gillespie went to Extra We'd
Hesday.
Those wanting wagon and carriage
work done should call at Wolfe's ma
chine shop.
Mrs. F. III. Adams was quite sick
with grip last week but is now fully
recovered.
Will Huntsberger went to Marine
Tuesday. Will has a position in
general store at that place.
DR.. ii. ID. Miller returned Monday
evening from Des Moines where he
attended the meeting of the state
medical society.
Miss Kate Overholtzer returned to
Highland Park college, Des Moines,
after spending vacation week in Au-
dubon with her parents.
Sheriff Jones went to Council Bluffs
Wednesday IN charge of Mick Gleason
who is charged with breaking into a
freight car at that place
Mrs. A. L. Brooks and Mrs. w. ii.
Cowles are attending the meeting of
the ladies presbyterial missionary
society at:COuncil Bluffs.
Mrs. o. L. Overholtzer returned to
her home at Cumberland Tuesday,
after two weeks visit at the home of
her father, DR.. Chas. w. Denote.
G. II. Jones & Co. are selling Guilt
vators cheaper than any body also
Discs and HarrOws. They sell the best
goods for the least money anyway.
A change was made in the G. & N.
w. time card Sunday. The morning
train on the Audubon branch is not
effected by the change. The after
noon train now arrives at 4:35 and
leaves at $40.
J. E. Whelan, deputy clerk of the
supreme court and formerly county
clerk of Montgomery county, was in
Audubon Friday. Mr.. Whelan is in
terested in the candidacy of Smith
Mcpherson for the congressional NOM
nation.
Last week, Mr.. John Hildebrand, of
Walnut, was in Audubon looking for
his son Willie, who had run away from
home, and elected the services of
Sheriff Jones to help find the boy. A
letter was received by the sheriff We'd
nesday morning saying that the boy
had been found and was coming home.
J. +. Russell is not supertitious, but
he faces the duties of life with greater
confidence since receiving as a present,
from j. A. Nash, the left hind foot of
a gray rabbit, killed in grave yard, ut
the hour of midnight bya cross.eyed
woman. We have always understood
that a cross eyed, red-headed niger
was the proper person to kill the rab-
bit, but cross eyed woman in the
case is, no doubt, good.
At the NJ. L. church next Sunday
morning Rev. Dudley will speak from
the text, "And in hell, he lifted up his
eyes, being in torment" Luke 1923.
At 3 o'clock p. m. Mrs. Bailey, return
ed missionary, from India, will speak
for the woman's foreign missions OH
the subject, India, the Paradise for
Women" Mrs. Bailey will also have
charge of the evening service, the topic
being, "Christ, the Light of Asia"
The board of supervisors have de-
cided as to the application of the
county road tax for the improvement
of roads, in accordance with the state
law. Petitions will be circulated
among those to be benefited by the
improvement of the roads, for sub
scriptions of money and work. The
first work will probably be done on the
south telephone road, the Kimballton
road and the Bradleyville hill. 1t is
the intention to make the main lines
of travel good, throughout the county,
and one piece of poad will be per.
manently improved before work or
money is expended on other points.