Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-07-15
Hamlin Department.

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O. P. Tyler was swapping yarns
with his Audubon friends, Tuesday.
George Scott, John Moore and Will
Clark marketed hogs at the Station
this week.
Grandma Schoonover will soon go
to South Dakota to visit with her
daughter for few weeks.
vint Rose and his merry band were
sleeking things up about the Station
last Tuesday in fine shape.
Mcclure shipped the heaviese load
of piggies, Wednesday noon, that was
ever pulled out of the Station.
The boxes to pack the Blue Grass
Creamery butter, for shipment to
England will arrive next week.
Will Mcclure shipped twenty-five
cases of eggs this week. Six hundred
dozens is pretty good record for one
week!
Ed. and Willdisposed of their crop
of creamery hogs TO Will Mcclure,
this week, at the fancy price of three
cents per pound.
Alex Crees has donned his work
ing suit and is doing farm work and
consequently George Murphy has re-
turned to his Extra home.
Rev. Conner, of the Evangelical
church at the Station, baptized Hub
White and Freeman Sheets in the
creek, at the Frank White Grove, last
Sunday.
The thing has all been laid among
the Counselman cribs and now you
can wander down that way without
being afraid of miring down or being
obliged to swim.
/ Mrs. j. E. Banning is still at the
bedside of her mother, near Atlantic.
We did not learn in what condition
the lady's health was when we were
at the Station, Tuesday.
Harry Counselman Percy bought
1000 bushels of 15c corn of Arthur
Bartlett, on his farm south of the
Station and Harry is putting in his
time between meals hauling the same
to the elevator.
At the Fairview school house next
1 Sunday the Sabbath School will be in
charge of Mrs. Clark Gray and will
meet at o'clock in the afternoon. AT
3 O'clock there will be preaching by
Rev. NJ. j. Conner.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Maxon, from
over in Greeley, were callers at the
creamery last Monday evening and rs
a mark of their good will brought
Mr.. and Mrs. Schoonover the finest
"gob" of honey you ever saw.
John Wiles was here from last week
Thursday until Monday working in
4 the creamery while Mr.. and Mrs. Ed.
Schoonover were visiting relatives at
Elliott. Monday John left for Wau-
kee, near Des Moines, to begin work
in creamery.
! The barley harvest has commenced
about the Station in dead earnest.
We noticed machines at work in the
!. Frank Ballou, Henry Young and Alex
i Crees fields and from the number of
shocks we judge that the yield must
he pretty good.
1 Hub Shoesmith has changed the
modes operandi of things this week
and is minding the store over at
North Branch and visiting with his
family while his partner, Mr.. Luke
Baker, is at the Station helping Jim
Elrod wait on customers.
Some naughty boys were running
horses the other Sabbath and as Rev.
Cahtll, of Audubon. was approaching
Old Hamlin they, ran full tilt into
the Rev. gentleman's buggy, upsetting
and breaking it and throwing him
out, straining his back severely.
At the Old Hamlin literary, last
Saturday night, they elected these
officers:
Joe Bell, President.
Charlie Wells, Vice President.
James Fenton, Secretary.
The meetings will be held every
Saturday evening.
Charley Talbot, 1.-The Audubon
bakery man, was down looking over
the creamery last Monday. Charley
is using about one hundred and
twenty pounds of our creamery butter
a week and George Preston, the Au.
dubon grocer, is using about seventy.
five pounds week.
Next Sunday Evangelical services
at the Staiion will be as follows: Al
1000 O'Clock A. NJ, Sabbath School
conducted by Ed. Schoonover. Al
1900 preaching by the pastors. Sub,
ject g Sire" Immediately following
the ordinance Of baptism will b,
administered. A hearty welcome il
extended to all.
Will Mcclure bought those very
very fat hogs of Supervisor w. d
Stanley this week and l tell you they
pulled down on the scales right hard
There were twenty-one head in tn
bunch and they averaged just tire
hundred and eighty-six pounde each
Then there was that king hog tina
we were telling you about, we'll, h
was in this bunch and he weighe,
just an even six hundred pounds.
The Republicans of Hamlin town
ship met at the Center school hous
last Monday night and nominate'
Wilbur Kennels for Trustee, an
t Henry Young for Justice of the Peace
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