Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-04-22
Oakfiled and Brayton.

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John Curry and family Sundayed
at Papa Isaac Hallock's home.
Walter Faulkner and wife Sunday
ed with their Anita relatives.
Mrs. Emery's girl is very i'll of
lung fever, SO DR.. Koob tells Us.
1.-the boys" say there were some
"movers" in Brayton Saturday.
The Easter Entertainment was a
grand, great big glorious success!
Oh, my ! but that was a noisy crowd
that was down from Extra Sunday
evening.
Miss Ethyl Simpson passed last
Sunday with her sister, Miss Este,
at Atlantic.
Mrs. Sam Scharf has gone to Mis-
souri, to visit her mother who it is
reported is i'll.
Wilbur Cadwallader passed a few
hours this week at Brayton, the home
of his boyhood days.
Mrs. Jones reports a fine healthy
boy baby at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Tom Hardwick.
j. H. johnson, of Atlantic, wa
looking after business in Brayton a
few days the past week.
Mrs. Mack and Mrs. Otto Thomas,
of Extra, were visitors at the Charley
Bison home last Tuesday.
Mrs. Minnie Croy-Anderson, of
Extra, wal the guest of Mrs. Charley
Bison a part of the past week.
Jake Bauer, the Extra butcher,
was perambulating the streets of.
Brayton last Tuesday afternoon.
The Ladies' Aid Society held one
of those pleasant meetings at the home
of Mrs. Owen Ide, last Wednesday.
Plymouth Rock Eggs at SOC per
setting. j. C. HARDMAN,
Brayton, Iowa.
j. A. Slender shipped eleven cases
of eggs "Wednesday and reports the
trade In hen fruit lively this spring.
Jens Hansen, our little painter, is
busy decorating q room at Bill THE
lens home, a little way east of town.
Mr.. Nels Sornson, manager of the
Green Bay Lumber Yard, is having
an addition built to his Braytonhome.
Jens Hansen, who lives a few miles
{, northwestern town, became the proud
father ola new boy baby Thursday.
Hon. John T. jenkins was so ill
after his trip to Chicago that he could
not get out of bed for. three o l. four
days.
Dan Zentmyer and wife and Mrs.
John Kelley drove up from Atlantic
last Tuesday and attended the funeral
of Mrs. Sidney Mcclure.
Charley Milliman and Charley Jen-
kins Joined the excursion party last
Tuesday and started for Bort Arthur,
Texas, to view that country.
j.. P. Bendixep nily attend
ar Sc, . the Cong re-
ira, and they
much.
Geurs. son of IIaGle
Thos. MCCLURE, o1n
was here Tuesday to attehR the fune-
raj of his brother Sidney wife.
Frank Jenkins chased around Chi
go so hard that he made himself
X, so Simmons and Frank had TO
stpone their trip until next week.
drs. Lily Reynolds has been visit
her Atlantic friends a part of the
week. Wednesday she came up
3rayton and is visiting with hel
y friends.
IS. Wash Bartlett has returned
her visit with relatives at Leon
and is visiting her old time
ors and looking after her large
landeo interests. .
The last heard from the boys,
George and Moses, they were nea,
Joplin, Missouri, at which point
Moses was intending to take the train
for Port Arthur, Texas.
Mrs. Burt Poage and children left
last Tuesday for Cheyenne county,
Nebraska, where they will join Burt
and they will all go to Wyoming to
make their future home.
Willis jenkins stepped on a couple
of murderous rusty old nails, Monday
night and he says that they ran into
his foot good and plenty. Now when
Willis walks he don't, he limps.
Monday last the Elkhorn Creamery
shipped forty tubs Of butter to Bos.
ton and the same day the Oakfield
Township Creamery shipped twenty
five tubs to Boston and twenty-three
tubs to Cleveland, Ohio.
On Wednesday and Thursday OF
next week, April 2S and 29, occurs
the annual business meeting of the
Brayton Baptist church society. Rev.
Harry Ferguson will be present on
those days and will organize a Blue
Ribbon Club in Brayton.
!, Last Sunday vas George Hansen's
fftieth birthday and n large number
of his friends were there during the
day to do honor to the event. His
good wife, to make the occasion more
joyous presented him with a pair OF
twin babies-a boy and a girl, the
girl weighing eve pounds and the
boy five pounds. AS a fitting close of
the day the Oak Hill band went over
in the evening and serenaded the