Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-12-02
NEWS

Prayer meeting on Tuesday nights
at the Melville Center church.
D. A. Weatherby and John Rush
are losing their hogs, by cholera.
Mrs. Fred Coleman's mother and sis
ter, of Des Moines, visited her last
week.
Silas Emery and wife are now keep
ing house in one of Thos. Laws
houses.
Mrs. Thos. Oliver entertained a
large company of her friends on last
Thursday.
A normal bible class has been Or
gained and meets in the church on
Wednesday evenings.
w. W. belong and several members
of his family have been sick with
some throat trouble but are now bet
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dalrymple and Mr..
and Mrs. Pete Henry were guests at
the j. Shingledecker home Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Win Browning, who is now
in Texas, writes that she is very
favorably impressed with the Lone
Star State.
Arthur Farquhar is teaching the
winter term of school in district No.
,, Melville. School began Monday,
November 80.
Mrs. Jas. Hunt entertained large
number of friends on Thanksgiving
day and treated them to one of those
excellent repasts for which she is
noted.
Roy E. Mccain and Ward Hoyt
were circulating remonstrance
against the Audubon petition. They
secured about half of the Melville
voters.
Owing to the inclemency of the
weather only a few were able to get
out to the oyster supper on Thanks
giving night However, $500 was
cleared.
The Republicans old bachelor COR
respondent mourns the fact that that
Atlantic girl is really married at last
and another matrimonial possibility
is lost to him forever.
Rev. Krell is raising money to send
to Rev. Tippet, a former pastor of
the II. E. church at this place, who
is sick in Colorado. We believe he is
meeting with very good success, and
it is certainly good cause to assist.
Corn picking is nearly a thing of
the past.
A few of our farmers who are
easily scared are marketing their
corn.
Some of our wisest farmers say that
the army worms are quite thick in
stalk fields.
The farmers from long distance
are hsiSii,ng, their 1897 produce to the
county seat. sssAsumz.s.,.
Harlan Finley is gettiEsaasso ,.. %
quite frequent visitor out this way.
Girls look out.
Miss Fleming has been retained at
her old school, No. 6, Larland. This
shows what a good teacher can do.
The services at Bethel as we'll as
the Sunday school is largely attended
each Sunday and our youngsters are
coming out with tlashy costumes.
Miss Hunt is attending the High
School at Audubon this winter.
Guess all the girls are in the same
notion-want to be schoolma'ams.
James Law contemplates going
north with view to purchasing a
couple of carloads Of feeding cattle.
He knows how to make his Ice corn
bring him 25c.
Mr.. Smith is out these days buy
ing young stock. He also purchased
several hundred bushels Of corn at
16c per bushel which he intends to
feed to hogs and cattle.
They tell us that the wedding bells
will ring at the home of some of our
fair maidens long before the spring
birds chirp for joy. Who can it be?
You all soon shall know.
George Campbell is making pre-
parations to retire from the farm.
He is hauling off his grain and had a
large sale Wednesday. The neigh
bors will all regret his departure.
ST Sampson, the cattle man of this
township, is feeding big bunch OF
cattle for the spring market. He
also has quite a lot of stock steer;
that he has running in the fields Of
his neighbors.
Quite number of our worthy far.
mers are losing hogs by the same in.
durable disease that has visited Au.
dubon county so often. Mr.. Farqu
har Jr., Mr.. Smith and a number o
Others are heavy losers.
MARRIED-On Dec. LIST, 1897, at tn,
residence of the BRIDES parents, MI
Rastus Lafoy to Miss Laura Sheets
Rev. Conner officiating. The brid
is one of Audubon county's most &C
complished young ladies. The groom
was born and raised in the neighbor
hood and is liked by all who know
him. About 40 relatives were in at
tendance and after the wedding Mr.
and Mrs. VIM. Sheets served bounti
full repast to which all did justice. TIL
young couple will 90 to housekeep