Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-09-02
Ross Department.

John Wagners baby was very i'll
last Wednesday.
Jake Ruhs recently baled carload
of rye straw for Tom Kennedy.
Ross Markets: Corn zoe, oats l5c,
hogs $500, butter l0c, eggs lie.
Mike Foley left Tuesday for Ne.
braska to look after his big farm.
Mrs. Chris Bauer left "Wednesday
of this week for visit at Defiance.
Northup Bros. sold Is head of fine
bulls to Cy Sampson last Saturday.
Miss Anna French left last Satur-
day for Cedar Falls to attend school.
An Anita, liveryman purchased j.
F. Luse's team of ponies last Monday.
Chas. Heuss shelled 525 bushels Of
corn Monday and sold to Luse &
Reid.
Jake Ruhs will bale 80 tons of hay
for Mike Foley and % for Nels Olsen
soon.
Ray Cushion will attend normal
school at Denison commencing next
week.
Daniel Hollis valuable pet dog,
Fido, died September /, aged IA
years.
Fred Tessman just finished build
ing large double corn crib and
granary.
Pete Henry contemplates trip to
Missouri next month for visit and
to look for land.
f. L. Anderson sold Goodenough
plows to John Koch and VIM. Nc.
Donald last Monday,
Mrs, w. NJ. Northup left last
Tuesday for two weeks with rela-
tives in johnson county.
Peter Andersen, the Kimballton
photographer, is visiting his cousin,
Nels Christensen, at the ranch.
Miss Mary Duff, of Audubon,
visited Saturday with her friend
Miss Emma Spear, at the Holt home.
Frank Rice has sold his lease on the
Billy Lyman place to Fred Tessman.
We understand that Frank will move
south.
The Northwestern R'y Co. had an
addition built to their stock yards at
this place Monday and Tuesday of
this week.
Mrs. H. N. Christensen returned
last Saturday from Fremont, Nebras-
ka, where she has been having q good
time visiting relatives.
Mrs. Dick Lacy, of Cameron town.
ship has been very i'll the past few
days and very near death. at last
reports she was improving.
John Courtney expects TO go to
southern Missouri and Arkansas next
month with view to purchasing
land and 1cating in that country.
There will be an ice cream sociable
at the Sands school house, in Gamer
on township, on Saturday evening.
Sept ber 4th. All are cord safly In
lvit
SAa, nee Ollie Peacock, of
! Crs~1ord county, is visiting her old
friends and acquaintances in north
Melville township, where she former.
ly resided.
Ralph Miller, Ralph Carper, Elmer
johnson, John Olsen, Clarence Ham
mock and Oscar Roberts left last
Monday by team for few days out
ing at the Lakes.
e. @. Cushion finished a 150-barrel
cistern for L. N. French last Monday.
Uncle Cushion is past the "three
score and ten" mark in years, but is
still very active man.
P. f. Anderson and two daughters,
of Anita, were visiting over Sunday
with his son +. L., at this place.
While here he purchased of Fern one
of those $40 steel ranges.
Jas. Lee, the carpenter, put in
floors, etc., for Geo. Wright this
week. Jim also tried his hand at
mason work-building flues-and the
work was creditably done.
Mrs. Dan'l Holt and Mrs. Rob't
Henderson returned Tuesday from q
good visit with old Vermont friends
and relatives at Perry, Green Moun-
tain, Marshalltown and Grand juno
ton, Iowa.
Next Monday evening at the Cy
Sampson home in Viola township the
ladies OF the Bethel church will give
necktie party-church benetit-and
they guarantee good time. Every
body invited.
VIM. Weiderstein recently present.
ed his children with an S0-acre farm
each as follows:-John Doll, Sec. so,
Cameron; Mrs. Wells Ferguson, the
Peter Goss so in north Leroy and
Mrs. John Koenig, an eighty also in
Leroy.
| AT the Democratic caucus last Sat-
urday night, at Cameron Center, the
following township ticket was nomi-
mated: VIM. Krauel, Trustee; VIM.
Roberts and Amos Fancher, justices
of the Peace; Chas. Purdey and Isaac
Stuart, Constables.
| Nels Christensen is feeding l40 head
of fine cattle on his big ranch In
Cameron township, there being about
1000 head altogether on the tarm
This tall he win seed down the north.
west quarter of Sec. sl, making about
1000 acres of rich pasture land.
Thursday of last week Nels 0lsel
was forty-seven years old and abon
sixty of his friends gathered at hi
home, in Viola township, and pro
. ceeded to show him good time unit