Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-03-04
James Lee is still a very sick man.

Phil Earhart of Viola. was in Au-
dubon last Monday.
The farmers report their piggeries
as very thrifty this spring.
Frank Gilbert of Guthrie county,
was in Audubon Wednesday.
Jacob LaFoy ST., will move on to
the Ed. Rice farm in Greeley.
w. w. De Long is much pleased
with Pierce county, Nebraska.
Miss Stella Mccain visited friends
in Audubon a few days this week.
Mrs. Fritchie, mother of Mrs.
Chauy Gardner, is reported very i'll.
$50 worth of new books were added
to the Columbian library this week.
Carpenter Breasted is making a
handy book case for Lawyer Gray's
office.
Miss Flora Farquhar will teach the
summer term of school at Melville
Center.
w. II. Fry will SOW 100 acres of
spring wheat for Thos. Musson on
Sec. 81.
A. Rudy Jr., purchased a new
road wagon of John McFarlane We'd
nesday.
Thos. Musson has his men husking
corn on section 81, Melville township,
this week.
Geo. Davis who has been a six
weeks sufferer with grip was in Au-
dubon Tuesday.
Charles Philips of Nelson moved to
Audubon this week. He occupies
the house vacated by w. P. Sutton.
Mr.. Pingree of Guthrie county,
has fifteen hundred head of cattle and
is fattening 700 head with soft corn.
F. l.. Taylor is having % tons of
clover and timothy hay baled for
shipment which he will sell to
Marion johnson.
Ed. Beason is so i'll that he is alb
sent from the county recorders office.
A. F. Drake is assisting Recorder
Esbeck for a few days.
The city council met Wednesday
night and appointed Nate Carper
city marshal. His first official duty
was to shoot two dogs.
Miss Regina Ayers of Gray is pass
ing this week with Audubon friends
and her sister Mrs. Win Browning of
east Melville township.
Mr.. Hobart, who IA years ago lived
in Cameron township, was visiting
over Sunday with John Davis. He
now resides at Defiance.
S. II. Emery has hired to Ed,
Prick for the coming season to run
his Melville farm, Mr.. Prick buying
all the corn at market price the first
of March.
Mr.. Nj. Osborne of Jasper county,
Iowa, is posing a couple of weeks al
his uncle's home, VIM. Spencer, oul
jolly fat friend in north west Hamlil
township.
Chas. johnson, of East Melville
township, shelled corn for John Gil.
bert Thursday of this week. Johr
has five thousand bushels of old corn
besides four thousand bushels of this
year crop.
Wednesday Frank Leet and Thos
Musson made a land trade, Mr.. Lee
becoming the owner of Sec. 21, Mel.
vile township at S35 per acre and
Mr.. Musson becoming the owner O.
go acres of choice land near Stuart,
Iowa.
James Brown of Chicago, who
purchased the Musson ranch in Mel.
vile township is building a tel
thousand bushel crib. w. H. Low il
also building a five thousand bushel
crib on the Wilkins farm. Henry
Hale is doing the work.
We blushingly clip this from tina,
excellent newspaper, the Manning
Monitor, Of last week: "The Audu-
bon department in the Extra Jour.
nal contains many more and better
gotten up news items than do the
Audubon papers themselves.
MIR. and Mrs. E. Bilharz have
finished their visit in Southern Cali.
fornia and are now wandering toward
home. They come east by the South.
ern Pacific and will visit a few DAYS
at New Orleans and Chicago and ex.
pect to arrive in Audubon March 20,
Jerry Bartlett, who has been tilling
John Gray's Melville farm the past
several years, has rented a farm near
Menlo, Iowa, and himself and family
left with a carload of household
goods, etc. for that point Wednesday.
Guy Mccain and Fred Bartlett
went across the country with a lot OF
cattle and a wagon load of hogs.
George Barlow and his mother left
Tuesday evening over the North Yves
tern for Wyoming to spend the rest
of their days with Mr.. Barlow, for.
merly of this county. He has &C.
cumulated quite a horse and cattle
ranch since leaving this county.
George shipped a carload of household
effects, and numerous were the neigh.
bors and friends that were at the
train to bid them farewell.
Alex Ferguson and Addie Single
decker were made husband and wife
Wednesday evening, Rev. Dudley
performing the ceremony. Mr.. Fer