Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-09-02
Bird Benson will stay on the James
Essington farm another wear.

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Frank Slender has returned home
to attend school at the Academy.
Professor Brinkerhoff was visiting
among his Audubon friends Wednes-
day.
Walter Faulkner was transacting
business in Atlantic Wednesday of
last week.
j. L. Anderson purchased nep top
buggy of johnson & Thompson, at
Brayton, this week.
Nels j. Boose, Jr., will clerk for j.
A. Slender when Fred Fredericton
moves to Minnesota.
Asa and Nit Horton visited with
their brother, Sam, and family, over
near Anita, last Friday.
Annie Onken, that faithful employee
at Hotel de jenkins, has gone home
to visit her people fora week.
Sid MCGUIRE was nominated for
Justice of the Peace at the Democrat
ic convention, in Extra, Saturday.
Mrs. Nettie Bruner will join a par
ty of Extra ladies and go to the lake,
near Lewis, next Sunday for an outing.
| Bernie Noon has pulled up stakes
at Lead City, South Dakota, and is
now located at Butte City, Montana.
| Miss Blanche Noon began teaching
the VIM. Bintner school last Monday
and Tuesday she went to the Atlantic
fair.
John Cozine was down from Cam
eron township, Monday night, visit
ing old friends and politicking" a
little bit.
Miss Florence Wagner brought her
sister, Mrs. Doctor Koob, home last
Monday from a pleasant visit over in
the Valley.
| The shelters expect to get through
at the Counselman cribs this week
and then they will tackle Lou Miller's
! pile of corn.
i Bird Emmery got in the way of
the business end of a humble bee last
Tuesday, and you just ought to have
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Erik Hansen says that its no such
thing-that COW and pig didn't die.
He told me to tell you that he want
ed to buy your beef hides.
Bill Thielen was at Brayton last
Monday and sold to Ide s. McGovern
thirty five of the prettiest hogs you
ever clapped your optics upon.
John Noon, Sidney MCGUIRE and
Erwin Jones were delegates from this
section who attended the Democratic
county convention last Wednesday.
Ide & McGoyern shipped nice
load Of hog Tuesday noon. Last week
J they shipped five car loads of hogs.
tell you Owen and Tom are hustlers.
} The Oakfiesd Township Creamery
got over the traces this week and
/ shipped one hundred tubs of butter.
The Elkhorn shipped forty six tubs.
Charlie, Peter, Willie, Erwin and
Miss Nettie Slender and Julia Larsen,
, of Cass county, were guests at the j.
a. Slender home the front part of the
week.
T. w. Barry is going to Saint Paul
land the lakes Of "A innesota, next week
and Horsce Bartlett is going to be
our station agent for a couple of
weeks.
4 By honest and fair dealings Frank
Greer has built up SO good trade at
his Racket Store, in Oakfield, that he
found it necessary to build an addi-
ton to the same.
Icacckle-iate that here's story
that's hard to beat. The McGuires',
at Oakfield shipped twenty -four cases
of eggs last Saturday and up to Tues
day noon they had taken in twenty
cases more.
E. NJ. Mackay, of Des Moines, was
, in Brayton Monday night exhibiting
| his fire extinguisher which worked
like charm. He sold outfits to Jen-
, kins & Vail, The Bendixen Hardware
! Company and to j. A. Slender.
Jake Civilians and Sidney Nc
CURE had a law suit last Monday
over the possession of some furniture,
and Squire Powers decided in favor
of Sidney. II. F. Andrews and Link
Statzell, of Extra, were attorneys.
, After Frank Pfiefer finished thresh-
ing for S. E. Hockenberry, Monday,
he started to cross the bridge near Mr..
L. j. Essington's, and the engine and
separator both went down into the
creek, Mr.. Ptiefer had his foot badly
mashed.
, These are the gentlemen who rep
; resented Oakfeld township at the
! Democratic county convention, at
Audubon, Wednesday; Eric Albert
son, Andrew Juhl, Eli Hansen, Joe
Doner, James Coleman, Nit Parrott
and John Lorah, Jr.
7. w. Barry received letter from
his brother, who is carpenter and is
at gold regions of Alaska, and he says
that he makes $500 day building
shanties for the people. He says the
suffering for the want of food and
fuel npthepe will be simply horrible
and he thinks anyone would be big
/" fuel" to leave any mans country
to go there.