Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-04-29
Asa Horton was at Atlantic Tues.
day on a business trip.

Asa Horton was ut Atlantic Tues.
day on a business trip.
Hugh Bowen and family moved to
the house vacated by the Slater fami.
ly, Tuesday afternoon.
Merchant Slender started his pro.
duce wagon last Monday. Fred
Frederickson is the pilot.
The Oadfield Township Creamery
shipped forty-five tubs of butter to
the Boston market, Tuesday.
Slender says his piggery done first
| rate this time. He has eleven squeak
and one dearest old mamma, that ever
you did see.
Charley Vail was absent from his
post at the Jenkins u Vail store, last
Tuesday. He at Audubon helping
his family to move.
Mrs. Sears came over from Anita
Monday to stay a short time with her
daughter, Mrs. Walter Faulkner, and
brought her grand daughter home.
On Easter Sunday Chester, the son
of j. A. Slender, while coming from
the Hardman stock farm to Oakfield
lost his coat. Will some kind gentle
man please return the coat to Brayton.
Jake Bauer, butcher at the Peter
Peters meat market at Extra, will be
at Brayton twice a week with a fine
assortment of choice meats. He guar
antees full weight, lowest prices and
satisfaction in every deal.
The other day Charley Bison and
1. ii. Jenkins concluded that they
would go hunt some jack snipe, over
on the Wild Moor. So they harnessed
up and started out and while Bison
was having royal sport Uncle Ike did
not seem to be having a bit of fun.
He'd catchsight of a snipe, take good
aim and click would go the hammer
of his gun, but there was no loud re-
port o any dead snipe, for some
cause. Finally Uncle Ike bethought
himself to take a peak into the gun to
see what the matter was and soon
Charlie heard him calculate: "Well,
Pllbegeewhillikenedg if l
didn't forget to put a cartridge in my
gun!" Then Charley laid down on
the ground and laughed and laughed
and laughed.
We were talking about old settlers
when j. T. jenkins told us that it
was a mistake about Uncle Natty
Hamlin being the first settler in Au-
dubon county. Hop upon the coun-
ter there and l will tell you just how
it was, said Uncle John. We hoped
and this is the way he told it to us
twas way long in the shank Of a
May day when my father, j. S. Jen-
kins, and our family, with everything
we possessed on top of Gods greer
earth were driving along on Quaker
Ridge, Northwestern Iowa, that we
fell in company with Natty Hamlin
then on his way to Audubon county,
MI. Hamlin had a wagon, breaking
pillow, a cooking outfit and was &C.
companied by his daughter, Mary,
now the wife of Isaac Thomas, who
resides in Colorado. We ~journeyed
along together until we came to the
point on the Troublesome Greek
sf1-aiso piaifStty Hamlin homestead
~. nut the stream was Sc
by recent rains that WI
--s.This was on the 6tf
:. III MaN l1s51, that we landed
J.aLre. My father was not content t.
remain idle SO the next day he felled
trees and made a bridge and then get,
ting down on his hands and knees h,
" cooned" it across the Troublesom,
and came on over to the piece of lane
on which I. P. Hallock's big hous'
now stands and there filed his frs,
claim, and we soon moved onto tn,
land where the town Of Oakfield now
stands. MI. Hamlin remained on tn,
t'other side of the Troublesome Cree
and the following September he wen
back to Mahaska county and brough
his wife and fumily out here. Ant
now, said Uncle John, you have the
true story of how Audubon count,
was first settled.