Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-07-01
Hamlin Department.

| cases OF eggs TUESDAY noon.
Alex Ferguson is out and around
but does not feel very stout.
Tuesday the creamery shipped L.
260 pounds of butter to Boston.
Abe Anderson has taken a thirteen
year-old boy to raise up in the way
he should go.
j. E. Mcclure and his force of men
are cutting down the hills near the
"Doc" Phipps place.
Mr.. Nelson Percy, of Dexter, is
here to pass few days with his
brother, Harry, and family.
John Doak was down Tuesday and
drove home some butchers stock that
he purchased of w. D. Stanley.
Word comes from Nicola that Mr..
and Mrs. Theo. Gearheart's children
are very i'll of whooping cough.
The blood poison in ]. E. Banning's
little girls system is being scattered.
Sores are breaking out all over her.
The Holiness Meeting at the Evan
gelical church, in Hamlin, last Friday
was largely attended and a very profit
able meeting.
The Old Hamlin literary dds not
elect officers last Saturday night but
will meet Saturday evening, July 10
for that purpose.
Mis- ara Sizer and Mrs. Edwin
:. .er drove up to the w. b.
/ Davis home, near Audubon, last Tues
day and passed the day.
There will be an all-day meeting,
at Sheets Grove, held by the Evan
gelical church people, next Saturday
to which you are all invited.
MCGUIRE has put force pump at
the rear of his store and attached a
long string of hose. Will says that
III case of blaze he's whole fire
company all by himself.
| Tyler came home from his Texas
trip Saturday and reports an enjoy
able trip. Mr.. Tyler is loud in his
praise of that country and says it is
sure to be the garden spot of the
world.
Il o. P. Tyler received letter, last
Monday, from his niece, Miss Emma
Dormer, stating that she had arrived
at her home near London, safely. She
sailed from New York in the steamer
Majestic.
The Methodist meetings at Old
Hamlin, next Sunday, will be held
at the same hours as heretofore. This
society is becoming very strong at
that point, there being upwards of
sixty members at this time.
Uncle s. d. Coonrod was out on
the streets of Hamlin, Tuesday. He
wished us to inform his friends at
Old Hamlin that he would be at his
post of duty in the Sunday School
and at the class meetings, next Sun
day.
/! Mrs. Will Mcclure drove up to
Audubon Wednesday and passed the
day with friends. Returning she
brought her friend, Miss Lizzie Schri-
Der home with her and that lady will
pass few days with her at the Sta
ton.
They had their faces all fixed up
to witness wedding at the Presby-
terian church, in Old Hamlin, last
Sunday, but as no bride and groom
appeared they were obliged to lei
the smile ON their faces gradually
grow dim.
Mr.. Fred Spencer, the North.
Westerly Railway road master, hal
purchased the Len Wright eight,
acres and an adjoining eighty acres
belonging to Frank Bradley. Hi
brother George bought the eighty h,
owned, a short way east of the Sta
ton.
Supervisor w. d. Stanley has ,
very fine bunch of fat hogs on hi
we'll stocked farm that he is holding
for higher market. There are four
teen in this bunch and they averag
$50 pounds each, all except the kin!
hog of this bunch and he's an elephan
weighs $50 pounds.
All Olu IIldiuHly CoOu anu tulC
cubs were summing themselves tn
other day in the w. d. Stanle,
woods when Mr.. Stanley spied them
blazed away and killed the MANN,
and one cub. The other two cubs h
is raising as pets for his children. Tn
old coon was pretty large, weighin
about twenty five pounds.
The Evangelical Children's Da
exercises at the Sheets Grove, las
Sunday were attended by over thre
hundred persons and were thorough
ly enjoyed by all. Andrew Smi,
took a four horse load of the Brush
College school up there. The Station
Fair View and Champion Hill Sal
bath Schools were ably represente
at this meeting.
James East, of Old Hamlin, was {
the Station, Tuesday, and informe
us that his cherry crop was a big SUI
i. cess, that he gathered two and ont
5 half bushels of fruit off of one tire
: He also infored up all other kinds
fruit on his place was yielding in
: mensly this season and that he woul
. have more than three wagon box
. full of black berries.
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