Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03

Professor Brinkerhoff was too ill
to teach at the Academy, Tuesday,
and Ernest Cotton was instructing
the young idea how to shoot.
Mr.. Nels Sornson and Mr.. S. b.
Clark attended the Baptist Conven-
ton, at Atlantic, this week as dele
gates from the Brayton church.
Have you got your thinlble? The
Ladies' Aid Society will meet with
Mrs. %Stoneking, next Tuesday fore
noon to sow carpet rags. Be ready.
There will be a festival given at the
Dennis Weatherby school house,
where Miss Roxy Huyck teaches, on
Thursday evening, June 1G. You are
promised a jolly time if you will only
attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Esbeck became
the proud and happy parents of a
bright eyed baby girl, last Tuesday,
and John is proudest man in Oakfield
township. You can't near touch him
with a ten foot pole.
Oakfeld has organized an Athletic
Club and has a membership of thirty
five, Frank Greer is Secretary and
Treasurer. They have boxing gloves
and propose to send for a set of dumb
bells, eat raw beef and grow strong
and robust.
Mrs. P. F.. Howell and daughter,
Maude, were unceremoniusly dumped
by the roadside while going home
from the festival, last Saturday night,
by their team becoming frightened
and running away. Happily the
ladies escaped without injury.
Missionary j. l.. Anderson and wife
arrived in Brayton, Tuesday evening,
and that night occupied the pulpit of
the Baptist church. They went out
to the Danish Baptist church, We'd
nesday, where they will remain and
conduct services until next Monday.
A large crowd had assembled at the
Cemetery, last Monday, to decorate
the graves of our soldier dead, but a
rain storm coming up the people were
forced to flee to their homes. The
Grafton Professor Brinkerhof was to
deliver and the exercises prepared
for the occasion will be given at the
Baptist church, in Brayton, next Sun
day morning, beginning at IL O'Clock.
The festival, last Saturday night,
that the ladies helped the band boys
give was a decided success, $12.75
being left after the expenses were all
paid. There vas a number of cakes
and some ice cream left which the
ladies intended selling the next day,
SO the ladies left them in the Poulsen
building until the next morning.
That night some fiend incarnate broke
into the building and lugged off most
of the cakes and cream and crawled
up into the ice house where he gorged
himself to his hearts content.
Program for Children's Day at the
Baptist church, in Brayton, on Sum
day, June IS. Exercises to begin
promptly at 8 O'Clock in the evening
Voluntary, Organ------Anna Slender
Invocation .-----Mr. Nels sornson
s Recitation, cbildren,s Day Greet choir
Christina Thompson
zephyr Smith
---Arlie and Eva Pearson
...ostic Exercise ----Infant Glass
Song, Little Golden Sunbeam
---Class Number Three
Recitation Vivian Bartlett
Recitation, Don't Stay After Ten,
----Ruby Chamberlain
Song, Sweeter Than the Flowers,
Infant Glass
recitation Bessie Ide
Recitation Mildred Bartlett
Song--------Im limo and Edna Bison
Exercise Banner Glass
instrumental Music Ruby Pearson
Recitation Pearl Hardman
Recltatlon --------------Gussi Brown
Song.-------Edna and Ruby Pearson
Exercise, Missionary----
Glass Number Two
Instrumental Music, Zither-.---
y. BISON
Duette- Elsie Slender, Gussie Brown
Collection.
Choir
Benediction.