Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-21
Hamlin Department.

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with his Audubon friends Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A.. Thorp started
for their Oklahoma home last Sunday
morning.
Harry Percy is expecting welcome
caller next Saturday-pay car is COM
ing along.
The Counselman oat bin, at the
Station is full. Just 35,OS4 bushels
in that FAR pile.
Harry Percy and Will Mcclure
will be the clerks of election in Ham
lin township this year.
Joe Heath's corn crop is yielding
so we'll that he has had to build a
large new crib to contain it all.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Marshall, from
Nebraska, are here for good visit
with their relatives, the Rice families.
1t looks as natural as an old shoe to
see Hub Shoesmith behind the coun-
tiers of his store at the Station once
more.
Miss Minnie Mcclure is passing
this week at the Station with her
brother and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
MCGUIRE.
Clark Wilson, the village black
smith, says that he wishes that those
who owe him would call and liuui-
date few.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Schoonover visit
ed with their neighbor, Frank Will
cox, at the Extra Creamery, last
Tuesday afternoon.
They had one of those jolly social
parties, like they always do, over at
the Lon Bradley home, in Old Ham,
lin, last Saturday night.
That new bridge, just west of the
Station, has been opened for public
travel and people coming to town,
find it great convenience.
This being the busy season the
Methodist protracted meetings that
were started at Old Hamlin last week
have been postponed until later in
the winter.
Uncle Coonrod SAYS tits Miss Fisher
who teaches at No. 9, in Greeley, and
twas the Misses May and Webber
who pleased him with their black
board exercise.
Misses Maude Brown and Dollie
Anders, of Extra, visited the Blue
Grass Creamery and with friends at
the Station, for few minutes, last
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL. Struthers, from
Des Moines, and ALPS amateur thun-
der and lightning storm box were the
guests of her sister, Mrs. w. ID. Stan
ley, a few days the past week.
Harry Percy, and Rev. Wissler, of
Extra, and Sam Randles, of near Ross
compose the &c team" that will 90 to
Audubon this, Thursday, evening, to
receive the Royal Arch degree in
Masonry.
Uncle S. D. Coonrod will reach the
seventy ninth mile stone on his Jour-
new of life next Saturday. Few men
have enjoyed SO long life more than
Mr.. Coonrod or been more helpful to
his fellow-man.
j. 2. Moore has just finished the
best hog house i'll these diggings. 1t
is 16by50 feet in size, is double
decker and a very comfortable place
for the piggies to sniggle up together
in these cold frosty nights.
Will Mcclure says he has pesky
good notion to buy some oak plank
and, beginning at the north east cor
ner of his store, build walk from
there to the railroad track so that
when those muddy days of winter
come one will not have to swim to
get to the store.
Hamlin township has one Justice
of the Peace, to fill vacancy, and one
Trustee to elect this fall. Mr.. Henry
Young, for Justice; w. E. Kennels,
for Trustee, on the Republican ticket;
j. Nal Bryan, for Justice; and D..
flanagan, for Trustee, on the Demo-
cratic ticket. There they are; choose
We which best suits you.
On Wednesday, November Sd, Mr..
and Mrs. S. D. Coonrod will celebrate
their golden wedding at their cottage
| home, in Hamlin Station. These
good people have trudged along life's
thorny pathway, hand in hand, for
nearly fifth years, and that day they
propose to leave the latch string out
and invite all their friends to call
and see them.
The following communication was
received by MIR. Daniel Brandstatter
and he gave it to the Journal to be
published for the benefit of his farm
er friends:
Dies MONIES, Iowa, Sept. 8, '97.
Mr.. DANIEL BRANDsTATrER, Hamlin.
My Dear Sir:-Your name and
postoffice address was sent us from the
State Agricultural College, at Ames,
as one of the farmers who were grow
ing beets for sugar test. There will
be strong effort made to get a beet
sugar factory established at Des
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