Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14

Henry Grevsmuhl shipped three car
loads OF corn to Peoria, Wednesday.
Mack Mccall is the owner of anoth-
er dead horse.
Albert Christensen, ofSharon town
! ship. is having large stock barn
built.
Baker Il Kelley have received car
load of Sleepey Eye flour from Min
nesota.
Last Saturday Stonebrook s. Nc
Call sold thirty-nine sacks of flour.
That's prosperity.
Reinemund & Sons haye placed a
monster Hess heater in Russells big
store. 1t weighs over 1900 pounds.
Miss Mary Justensen finished her
visit here last week with her parents
and friends and returned to her duties
at Omaha.
Louis Brastad, of Kirksville, Mis-
souri,, sold his residence property in
Audubon to County Auditor Lohner
for 100000.
Chas. Wilkins bought carload of
baled hay Of Willis Grace, of Greeley
township, which he shipped from
Hamlin Station to Chicago.
Corn husking has commenced and
the new crop is coming 10 market.
We think the general average in these
parts will be about thirty bushels 10
the acre. The quality is very good.
Oscar Walker has sold the old
Walker House to IL. D. Walker, the
original owner. We have not learned
what Mr.. Walkers intentions are re-
garding fitting the building for occu-
pancy.
| John Mcclure and Henry Kossen-
haschen, of Melville township were
in southern Iowa last week and each
returned with wagon load of nice
winter apples, paying SOC for hand
picked.
Peter Bertlesen has retired from
Chris Henriksen's grocery store and,
we understand, will move to his Ne
braska farm next spring. Charley
Ping is now working for Mr.. Hen
riksen.
Mrs. DR.. Motto and her children
and Oscar Overhollzerand family left
Thursday for their new home at
Pomona, California. Last week V.
q. Weeks and family left for the
same place.
About the first of next month
Chas. Van Gorder will go to Pres
colt, Arkansas, to look after the rent
from his cotton lands. He will also
look after the safety of $4,000 in bonds
against an Arkansas county.
Dan Fullerton is still busy with
his threshing outfit. just now he is
turning over forty acres of clover for
Joe Moon and next week will COM
mence on seventy-tive acres belonging
to the Foley boys in Viola township.
Arthur Walker and Miss Mamie
Wilson were united in marriage on
October Sth. The bride is daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Wilson and the
groom is the son of MIR. and Mrs.
Oscar Walker. We congratulate the
happy couple.
Sam Terry's new tlreshing outfit
has been running just fifty days and
during the time has threshed out
$4,000 bushels of oats besides large
quantity of wheat and barley. Mr..
Terry states that he will have trac-
tion engine for next years business.
| The swine department on John
McGuire's Melville farm was cleaned
out by hog cholera last year, but re.
CARELESS OF the horrible fact Mr.. Nc
CURE has another start in hogs, hav-
ing about 100. While at the State
fair he purchased some fine stock
hogs.
Drum, Flato s. Co., of Chicago,
through there agent, Chas. Beason,
shipped into Audubon over the Rock
Island last Monday 40S head of heavy
feeding cattle from Miles City, Mon
tana. The stock is now on the Geo
N. Weighton farm and are selling at
$500 per cwt.
Frank Brockway has just returned
from Montana but in very weakly
condition. just recovering from
mountain fever which held him in its
deathly grip for over three months.
AS soon as he is sufficiently recovered
! by Iowa's bracing climate he will ac-
cept position with Carroll hotel.
Thursday evening of this week the
outbound train on the G. N. w. road
encountered an open switch about SO
yards west of the depot, running the
engine and three cars onto the ties.
Fortunately the train had attained no
great speed, no serious damage re-
sulting other than few hours delay.
Shoemaker" Justesen has the
contract to furnish forty tons of coal
for the Sharon township school hous-
es. He has also sold the winters sup
| ply of coal for six school houses in
Douglas township. Regardless of the
fact that considerable corn was used
for fuel last winter Mr.. Justesen sold
146 carloads of coal.
| VIM. Kelley has purchased half
interest in the /. w. Baker stock of
general merchandise and now the firm