Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-09-16
Ross Department.
Miss Pet Sweeney is very i'll.

NOSS DSPus IsuSuNs
Miss Pet Sweeney is very i'll.
Jake Ruhs has the Missouri fever.
Rob't. Rutherford will attend the
Omaha fair.
j. P. Brotherton left for Chicago
Tuesday morning.
Dave Hart and Jim Jay drove to
Templeton Wednesday.
Work will commence on Luse's
new elevator next week.
Wells Ferguson's baby was quite
sick the first of the week.
ohm Rutherford's barley yielded
thirty bushels to the acre.
Very low prices OH Glidden barb
wire at the Farmers Store.
Sam Jordan had horse badly cut
by barbwire Saturday night.
A child of Henry Hall, of Viola
township, died of pleurisy Sunday.
Miss Mary Laughlin left for her
home at Carroll last Saturday night.
Will Jordan returned Sunday of
last week from Minnesota. He will
soon go south.
Albert Fancher is building a new
house on his farm in Sec. 15, Cam
eron township.
Wells Ferguson and Freeman Guin
and families will take trip to the
lakes next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Bates return this
week from their visit with relatives
at Clinton, Iowa.
Clem McCuen, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Wagner and Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Rice
attended the state fair.
Henry Turner and Levi Kopp made
an exchange of horses recently which
resulted in mutual gain.
Miss Anna Vance left Tuesday for
Des Moines. From there she goes to
her home at Monroe, Iowa.
Cameron township is cholera
stricken community and the hog pop
ulation is rapidly decreasing.
Morey Hart ceased to clerk at the
Farmers Store last week. Jeston
Quimby is now installed in his place.
VIM. McCaw, Cameron township,
purchaseda {" Windmotor" wind mill
of Geo. Hoover, at Audubon, Friday.
Fern Anderson sold wagon to
Morris Gibson, a buggy to Amos
Possehn and plow to Geo. Ross
Monday.
Miss Alice Eddy returned Satur-
day evening from Dow City where
she has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
Jas. Shearman.
Last Saturday night supper was
given at Viola Center, proceeds to
apply on salary of V. G.. Methodist
minister. Receipts were $40.
Mrs. Blanch Mormon, of near Coon
Rapids, is very i'll and her recovery
is unlocked for. She is the daughter
of Tommy Winters, of Viola town.
ship.
Cy Sampson has just finished
good well for Rob't Henderson at bis
residence and is now digging another
well for Mr.. Henderson at Ross Sta
tion.
Ross Markets: Corn 1S to 21c, oats
IA to 16c, wheat 75c, barley IS to 23c,
timothy 90c. Store Markets: Eggs
12c, butter 10c, chickens 4A@53c, No.
corn lSc.
j. F. Luse sells Grand Junction
Pressed Brick at t..S $50
lie at 1880
No waste, as the above DON'T BREAK
in handling.
Word comes from Arkansas that
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Story, former
lv of south Lincoln township, became
the happy parents of baby girl Sep
tember 10th.
While Will Ballou was hammering
q tire onto wagon wheel one day
recently he missed the wheel and
struck his foot, seriously injuring
that member.
Albert Schraeder and Ferdinand
Rooske, of Poweshiek county, arrived
Friday OF last week to visit their rel
atives, the Schraeder, Neitzel and
Cirke families. Cameron township.
Nels Olsen and three daughters left
last Friday for Sioux City to visit
week with his brother. While there
Mr.. Olsen will purchase bunch of
cattle to feed on his Viola stock farm.
Wednesday G. H. Sampson, of vi
ola, received carload of cattle from
Chicago. The stock was shipped
by mistake to Rolfe, Iowa and was
consequently on the road seven days
causing Cy considerable worry.
T. H. Turner last week had very
sick child and grave fears were enter
tanned as to its recovery, but through
the skiltul treatment of DR.. Childs,
OF Audubon, the little one was spared
to them and is improving nicely.
| Geo. Gillespie is laid up at his
home in Viola township. About
week ago his horse fell with him,
partially fracturing one of the bones
of his left leg and Friday of last week
the bone was broken completely max
ing his case serious one.
III We'd upsday of this weeE at An6u