Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-11-25

very appropriate gifts at Cowles'.
Lawyer Mosier was busy with legal
business, at Atlantic, Wednesday.
Tom Wilhelm boarded the Sunday
train for Omaha on a business trip.
Ed. Van Gorder went to Des Moines
to pass Thanksgiving with friends.
Joseph Cam will take party of
land-seekers to Texas December 18th.
See Cowles' exhibit of watches for
Christmas stockings. You never saw
anything better or cheaper.
Chris Nelson was at Manning Tues
day looking after his auctioneer bust
ness.
Presbyterian Fair afternoon and
evening of December 2. Everybody
invited.
Last week George and Mike Foley
sold seventy head Of fine hogs to Ded-
ham buyers.
Tom Sornson, of Sharon, leaves
next week for winters visit at his
old home in Denmark.
Ex-County Auditor, j. E. Mcclure,
is passing a few weeks at his old
home in Lincoln county, Illinois.
One night last week burglars broke
into the Viola Center store and car
ried offa lot ofcandy, gum and cigars.
John Reuschling is having mighty
hard luck. During the past two
weeks he lost forty-eight hogs by
cholera.
Mr.. Fletcher Brown, President of
Simpson College, at Indianola, will
occupy the M. E. pulpit next Sunday
morning and evening.
Ed. Haynes, the operator at the
Rock Island depot, is the father of a
new girl baby. This will force Ed. to
tick his instrument little faster.
Tuesday Joe Cam sold two pigs to
Goats Il Dixon that tipped the beam
at 925 pounds and Joe walked off with
$500 jingling in his Texas trousers.
Charley Van Gorder has been very
i'll since reaching Arkansas, but later
advise says he is recovering and is
now enjoying himself with his gun.
Congress conyenes December 9Th,
consequently H. S. Herbert leaves on
Saturday to resume his duties as doc
ument clerk, position that pays 3d.
900 per annum.
Bert Freeman and his boys are do
ing the wire work for Professor f. P.
Rockers telephone exchange. Consid-
able of the line will be ready for use
the latter part of this week.
MARRIAGE LICENsEs.-Mr. James G.
Strahl and Mary Winters. j. o. Wade
and Illona M. Harter. Herman Ul-
lerick and Nancy Christene Kitelsen.
John Tally and Jennie Burnes.
Dresden China in all the late, nov
ell, art shapes now on exhibition at
OConnell's jewelry store. Prices rea-
sonable. While the stock is unbroken
is the time to select a holiday gift.
Mrs. Walter Scott and Miss Iva
Creveling have formed co-partner-
ship and are now engaged in the mil
linery business at Ames and we
understand they are doing an excel
lent business.
They tell us that the saloon petition
is signed by sixty per cent. of the vo-
tiers of Leroy township, and that if
Audubon has saloons the other town
ships must hustle up the necessary
sixty-five per cent.
Jake Layland returned last Satur-
day from Independence, Missouri,
where he went to look at the country
with a view to moving there. He
came home determined to continue an
Audubon county farmer.
Miss Emma Hill, the trimmer in
RusselPs millinery department, left
Monday evening for Clinton, intend
ing to stop at Carroll day to visit
her brother who is an engineer on the
North Western Railway.
John Jensen has sold his forty acres
in section "a, Sharon township, to
Peter Larsen at $4,000 per acre. Last
Friday Mr.. Larsen moved house
onto the land and himself and family
are now comfortably at home.
VIM. Layland, of Audubon town.
ship. was here Wednesday and sold
the 1000 bushels of 1896 corn which
he had stored in johnson & Nelson's
cribs. He got 154c and has engaged
John Flynn to shell the same.
The hunters of Audubon have de-
cided to have rabbit hunt as soon as
the first snow falls. There are to be
teen on a side and the side that shows
the least game at the close of the hunt
must banquet the whole crowd at
Talbott's restaurant.
We understand that w. S. More
land is SO well pleased with Texas
that he is about to trade off his Viola
township farm for couple of coun.
ties Of Texas land, and that himself
and family will move to the Lone
Star State.
At the Brown ranch, in Melville
township, corn is being bought of the
neighbOring farmers at sixteen cents