Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-04
KimbaIIton and Elkhorn.
kimballtOn, Iowa..

kimballtOn and ElkhOrn.
Mrs. Nicolai Marcusen has been
quite ill the past week.
II. G. Nelson of Omaha, is at Elk
horn visiting with friends.
Mrs. j. P. Visited received a visit
from her mother this week.
Hans Albertsen is assisting at
Esbeck Bros. big store this week.
Miss Annie Petersen is visiting
with Kimballton friends this week,
Two daughters of Lars S%orenson,
east of Elkhorn are quite sick this
week.
There was n big children's party at
the Esbeck home in Kimballton last
Sunday.
Hans Madsen of Kimball,on at
tended the Nissen sale near Audubon
Tuesday.
Hans Brodersen and wife of Shelby
county were Kimballton visitors last
Saturday.
Public sale at Mrs. Anne f. Bonne-
sens place near the Sharon creamery
next Monday Feb. s.
The ice house at the Sharon cream
cry is being filled with huge blocks
of GOODNESS this week.
Mrs. NJ. N. Esbeck is receiving a
visit from her mother, Mrs. A. C.
Nelson, of Oakfield township.
Morten Sent of Elkhorn, left At
lantic Tuesday bound for Kenosha,
Wisconsin, to visit with friends.
LosT.-Shepherd dog pup-black
with yellow feet. Finder please
notify q. l.. Hansen, Kimballton.
Jorgen Hartvigsen of north Sharon
sold a bunch of nice steers the other
day to John B. Doak at 1878 per
cWt.
Mis- Larsen is having his printing
office fixed up in ship shape and says
the first issue will materialize next
week.
P. L. Anderson was up from Lorah
and paid his brother at Kimballton
a visit. Miss Annie Sorenson accom-
| panied him on his return,
John Schouboe and wife will scon
bid adieu to their many friends in
Denmark and sail for America.
They are expected at their Sharon
home early in March.
Denmark" Rasmussen, who rep
resents the JOURNAL will be at the
Sharon creamery every Tuesday.
Remember we are glad to accept all
news items, subscriptions, etc.
There are weddings and rumors of
weddings, and we understand that
wedding bells will soon chime for
the happy unison of two of Elkhorn's
most prominent young people.
Chris Brodersen has accepted a
position as clerk at Marquesen's Kim.
ballton store. He will soon bid adieu
to agricultural pursuits and on the
first of March he will commence his
new duties.
AT the meeting of the Kimballton
literary last Tuesday evening the
negative side won the debate. The
speakers were Geo. Marcusen and
Anders Jensen, affirmative, and Chas.
White and Chris Brodersen, negative.
Ole Madsen of Elkhorn has traded
his farm here to Rev. Anker for 100
acres OF land in southern Texas. Mr..
Madsen will soon have a public sale
and with his family will move to
the Sunny South and join the big
Danish colony down there.
Soren Jensen has returned from
Minnesota and is now busy taking an
inventory OF the big mercantile stock
at Lorah. MI. Jensen will return to
Elkhorn Thursday. Jocum Jensen
and family leave for their new home
at Tyler, Minnesota, this week.
Rob't c. Fredericksen will have a
public sale ct the Nels Sorensen farm
2 miles east of Poplar, Tuesday Feb.
10th. Mr.. Fredericksen and family
will remove to southwestern Mis-
souri, about March LIST, where they
will make their future home.
A very interesting and entertain
ing literary is being conducted at
Schoolhouse No. s., Sharon township,
near Poplar. The question for debate
for the next meeting is: Resolved,
That the credit system is and has
been n detriment to this country.
Hans Albertsen, who has been for
years a trusted clerk in the employ
of Hans Marquesen at Kimbaliton
has severed his connection with said
firm. Hans was a favorite, a very
accommodating clerk, and will be much
missed by the many patrons of the
store.
John Bruhn, a brother of Otto and
Thomas, is here from Washington
visiting friends and relatives. Mr..
Bruhn is agent for a big company
that is engaged in locating a colony
on Vancouver Island, 800 miles north
west of Victoria, B. e. Mr.. Bruhn
gives a vivid description of the
sublime land on the far away Pacific
coast.