Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-17
HamIin Department.

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S. D. Coonrod is feeling like sick
man.
Marsh McNutt lost good horse
last week.
Will Mcclure shipped carload OF
hogs Wednesday.
VIM. Worley was visitor at At
lantic last Sunday.
Miss Rose Tyler finishes teaching
at No. 2 next Friday.
Lyman Kelley will plaster Percy's
new house next week.
Joel Crees marketed nineteen big
fat hogs, at Audubon, Tuesday.
Sheriff Jones and wife visited the
Blue Grass Creamery, Monday.
Will Mcclure caught twenty-four
rats in one trap, Monday night.
\ Harm Rice was in the woods, south
of Extra, Monday hunting gooseber-
ries.
Tuesday morning Will Young be-
came the father of an extra fine girl
baby.
Theo. Emery, the milk hauler, had
a good horse die last week while on
duty.
| Harry Percy sold ten head of pork
ers to MCGUIRE, Tuesday, and pock-
eted $500.
VIM. Stanley has piped the water
from his never failing spring to his
milk cooler.
There will be dance at the home
of Jake and Art Warner, Friday night
of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Smith passed
last Sunday at Grandpa Poage's home,
south of Extra.
Evangelical ChildreRs Day at the
Sheets Grove, in Melville township,
Sunday, June 27.
The Blue Grass Creamery shipped
1920 pounds of butter to Boston
Tuesday morning.
O. P. Tyler left for Texas on the
Tuesday excursion train. He may
buy land this time.
School at No. 5 closed Monday.
The teacher, Miss Jessemine Andrews,
is very satisfactory instructor.
Mrs. Tom Wallace, of Atlantic, has
been visiting her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mace Gill, the past few days.
Hamlin people appreciate the Jour-
nal. One lady got out of bed at 1880
at night to read its news columns.
Baker & Shoeslnith shipped over
19, 700 pounds of hogs, Tuesday, from
their own feed Yards at North Branch.
Mr.. schoonoyer's little girl has a
pet daeNing that follows her' every
where, being very amusing to lockers
on.
The Presbyterian Children's Day
exercises were we'll attended last Sum
day and was pleasure to young and
old.
Jim Elrod is now installed as post
master at Hamlin. You will find
him very accommodating, ready to
lick your stamps.
Chas Radcliff and George Smith
will commence shelling Mrs. Stuart's
old corn, ut Hamlin Station, the lat
ter part of the week.
The stock department of the county
poor farm is prosperous old
hogs and 160 pigs. Also carload of
fat steers soon to be shipped.
Alex Crees is slightly improved
from his severe attack of typhoid
fever. The Extra knights Of Pythias
sent George Murphy to perform Mr..
Crees's tardy farm work.
Mrs. Hazlett, of Denver, Colorado,
who is lecturing in this county on
Woman's Suffrage, was a guest of Mr..
and Mrs. j, q. Moore over Sunday.
She is niece of Mr.. Moore.
Friday June Goth, an all-day Holi-
ness meeting will be held at the
Evangelical church, in Hamlin Sta
tion. The meeting will be addressed
by Rev. Humphrey, ofExira.
Children's Day exercises, at the
Frank White grove, last Sunday
afternoon was attended by over five
hundred people. The program was
carried out to the delight OF old and
young.
Chris Hahn's cows, of north Leroy
township, produced 592 pounds of
milk for tho Blue Grass Creamery,
Monday morning. Mr.. Hahn expects
to commence milking eight more
COWS next week. He is the best pat
ron of the Blue Grass Creamery. Mr..
Jim Boyer is the next best customer,
his last Mondays milk weighed 453
pounds.
Mr.. James Elrod, Hamlin's new
postmaster, has taken steps to have
the Hamlin postofflce made money
order Office, which will be great
convenience to the patrons of said
office. In order to have this new ad-
dition to the Hamlin office it becomes
necessary for Mr.. Elrod to give Uncle
Sam a 81, 100000 bond.
On account of the very hot wealth.
er only 11,CO0 pounds of milk was
delivered at the Blue Grass Creamery
Monday. Much of the milk was sour
when it reached the creamery. In
order to save their milk a number of
patrons brought their milk to the
creamery Sunday and placed it in the
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