Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-28
HamIin Department.

tiamlin Department.
Mrs. Albert Pratten is reported
very i'll of quinsy.
Perry PARROT, of Extra, was
guest of o. P. Tyler, last Tuesday.
They had jolly dancing party out
at George LETTERS last week Thursday
evening.
Will Mcclure says if you've got
hog faint yours tits his, it strayed off
the first of the week.
Our friend j. j. Dimick is taking
some exaulted degrees in Masonry at
the lodge in Audubon.
George Gill attended the masquer-
ade ball, given by the young ladies OF
Extra, last Monday evening.
Harry Percy bought car of 1897
corn of Hi Wilson, Tuesday, and the
corn was delivered on Wednesday.
Joel and Walk Crees have steamed
up and are Smelling out $500 bushels
of corn for Jake and Art Warner.
At the Blue Grass Creamery meet
ing last week it was decided to pay
fourteen cents for September butter
fat.
Freeman Sheets hove in sight last
Monday nj ght from Victor, Iowa,
where he has been for several months
past.
Sam Weaver has had new wind
mill erected to assist him in drawing
water out of that deep we'll for his
stock.
This week Harry Perch has shipped
two cars of wheat, one of barley, one
oats and one of corn to the eastern
market.
Rev. Nichols, the new Methodist
minister, at Extra, will preach at the
school house, in Old Hamlin, next
Sunday afternoon.
There will be meeting at Old
Hamlin, this evening, in the school
house, for the purpose of organizing
an Epworth League.
They have organized literary So
ciety at Brushy College to meet on
Wednesday evenings. We did not
learn who the officers were.
Harry Percy informs US that the
Counselman Company will crib no
corn at the Station this winter, but
will line one of the cribs and fill it
with oats.
Someone at our elbow wants us to
ask those boys what was s'matter
with them as they went sailing
through Old Hamlin the other night
about II O'Clock.
Uncle Coonrod was visiting with
his Extra friends on Tuesday. He
tells us that in the last few weeks he
has visited more than one hundred
families and fifteen schools.
A representative of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society will speak
at the school house, in Old Hamlin,
on Monday evening, November Sth,
at 1880 P. NJ. Everybody is invited to
attend.
Monday the train broke in two
down in Tyler's pasture and then the
engineer started out to run to Audu-
bon without the coach but when he
got to the crossing at the Station he
took pity on the poor passengers and
went back and got them.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. d. Coonrod wish
to again remind their friends that on
Wednesday, November Sd, is their
golden wedding day, that the latch
string will be out at their cottage a,
the Station and that all their friends
are cordially invited to call and see
them on that day.
On account of Miss Brown, tn,
teacher of the school, at Old Hamlin
having been exposed to scarlet feve
the school in that quiet little hamle
was hastily closed last Friday. How
ever when the winter term begin
Miss Brown will be found in charg,
with firm grip upon the birch.
Alex, John and Charley Crees, Arl
Root, George Gill and Robert Camp
. bell have just returned from the vi
cinity of Corning where they wen
for apples. They boys all declare tina
our friend Robert was the gayest Q
the gay and say they saw an old mai