Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-21
Geo. Brown has gone to Walnut to

freeman Sheets, OF Melville, has
gone to Brooklyn to visit.
Harry Watts entertained crowd
of his boy friends Saturday.
Miss Agnes Clark, of Omaha, is a
guest of Mrs. Harry Arnold.
John Hite is visiting his parents
and old friends In Henry county.
Miss Francis Taggart is recovering
from severe attack of typhoid fever.
Corn 1s@143c, wheat &c, oats 14Ac,
potatoes 40c, butter lac, hogs s3.4O.
Charley Norris is back from Wy
oming where he has been the past
summer.
Supervisor Rickett is doing good
work on the roads in Dist. No. 8,
Melville.
Mrs. A. D. Struthers, of Des
Moines, will be a guest of Mrs. S.
AIRY Saturday.
On account of the shortage OF pas
ture all the creameries are now run
ming every other day.
Wiley Belongs orchard, northeast
of town, will yield over 200 bushels
of excellent winter apples.
Wilson Burnsides shipped three
carloads of corn to Chicago Wednes-
day and two cars Thursday.
Mrs. Harp Wilson is back from a
two-weeks' visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Rollins, at Des Moines.
| j. E. North, of Onalaska, Wiscon-
sin, was here few hours Sunday
visiting his sister, Mrs. S. D. Thayer.
Miss Bonnie Bryan, of Hamlin is
addressing Democratic meetings in
Carroll county. She is drawing large
crowds.
Greg Wolfe has had the gasoline
engine in his machine shop, polished
and painted and now it looks and acts
like new.
Banker Leet was at Gray on busi-
ness Wednesday. Heis having new
house built on. one of his Carroll
county farms.
Frank Leet will leave the fore part
of next month for Chicago, Aurora
and Bradford, Illinois, to look after
business matters.
KLONDIKE PROFITS without
KLONDIKE discomforts. See
GEO. e. KELLOGG,
Audubon.
D. w. Somerlot and wife and Adam
Fiscus and wife, all of Douglas town.
ship, left Sunday, overland, for a
visit with relatives in Marshall
county.
j Frank DuVall, of North Greeley
township, and Wort Duvall, of near
Ross, were called to West Chester,
Iowa, by the dangerous illness of a
relative.
i Jake Layland and family and
Horace Troxel and family leave next
month for Independence, Missouri,
where they will settle if they like
that country.
J.JP. Heiberg, who has been haul
ing milk for the West Hamlin cream
cry left Tuesday for Washingto
State to visit brother, and where
he will probably locate.
The board of supervisors refused to
pay 1924 bill for house rent for poor
person, but allowed SIP of the amount,
The county was sued in this term OF
court and plaintiff got Judgment for
tho full amount.
| In the matter of Matte Steward vs.
| d. B. Anderson the plaintiffs motion
for new trial having been granted,
the defendant has appealed to the Su-
preme Court to set aside the ruling
of the lower court in gra nting a re-
hearing of the case.
| About January 1st Tom Fredericks
and family will move to Butler coun-
ty, Missouri, 70 miles south of Kansas
City, where they have but six or eight
weeks of winter and all kinds of fruit,
and where their children can receive
the benefits of high school education.
Tom has accepted position down
there in a mercantile house. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fredericks have seen some hard
ships and may not be through the
wilderness yet but its hoped that they
will meet with success in their new
home.
The 4OS head of heavy feeding
cattle shipped into Audubon last
week from Miles City, Montana,
wet,e, Wednesday,, turned over to
Pete Howell and Chas. Jenkins, of
Brayton to finish. The cattle were
weighed, less three per cent shrink,
and will be fed about six months by
Messrs. Howell and Jenkins, and ac-
cording to the contract are to receive
&c per pound for all the beef they put
on the cattle. The cattle now aver
age HOO pounds each.
Robbers entered John A. Nash's
residence Monday night, by forcing
up front window and carried off
Mr.. Nash's pants in which was Sc
and knife. His vest was near by in
which was $50 but the thieves over
looked it. Mr.. Nash heard a noise
but thinking it was Grandpa Russell,
who resides with him, gave it no at
tention. The same night someone
entered j. G. F. Wicker's kitchen
and partook ola square meal. And
also an effort was made to enter Harry
WoOdward's house. This sudden