Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-24
Hamlin Department.

Eggs &c, buttsr &c, hogs $500.
Mrs. Will Mcguire drove to Audu-
bon, Tuesday morning.
MCGUIRE shipped two carloads of
prime hogs Wednesday.
Less Downing became the proud
father of a new boy baby last Monday
morning.
Julius Briggs shelled 1000 bushels
of corn for George Smith, the past
few days.
Mrs. George Smith was at Audu-
bon Tuesday morning consulting her
physician.
Joe Gearheart, of Extra, will plaster
George Smiths house the latter part
of this week.
Twelve hundred pounds of butter
was shipped from the Creamery last
Tuesday morning.
George Kyhne became the happy
daddy ola cute baby boy the latter
part of last week.
Robert Hamlin, of Extra, was at
the Station Tuesday attending to bu-
siness and visiting friends.
Surveyor Wattles was setting the
stakes that will straighten the road
from the Station west, Monday.
Ed. Dryden was OH the Audubon
market, Monday, with eighteen head
of extra fine hogs that he raised.
Baker & Shoesmith shipped car
load of hogs, of their own feeding,
from the Station to Chicago Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Manahan, from
north of Audubon, were Sunday Wis
itors with their relatives, Tom Gill
and family.
Misses Kit and Birdie Connmrdy,
OF Extra, are passing this week with
their sister, Mrs. George Smith, at
the Station.
Rummelheart, brought his well
machinery down from Audubon last
Tuesday and dug Henry Young a
nice long we'll.
G. w. Preston was the first Audu-
bon merchant to use our Creamery
butter this year. He was sent sixty
pound tub last Monday.
Austin Guernsey, of Extra, took
another good "swig" at the cream
vat, in the Blue Grass Creamery,
while out bike riding Tuesday.
Mr.. English, who has been visiting
his relatives at the Jim Boyer home,
will go to South Dakota to visit his
relatives the latter part of this week.
They tried to squeeze the life out
of the literary, at Old Hamlin, last
Saturday night but did not succeed,
and that body will elect new officers
next Saturday night. 3.s
Mrs. Cloughly, who has been Wis
iting her brother, /" Hub'' Shoesmith,
at the Station, and her parents, at
North Branch, will depart for her
home, at Clarinda, next Friday.
Supervisor w. d. Stanley and Sur.
veyor II. S. Wattles were setting the
grade stakes to omark the county grade
work that is to be done in Hamlin
township, the first of the week.
w. D. Stanley and j. z. Moore
took pity on hard working Ed. and
Will, at the Creamery and presented
them with dishes of luscious straw
berries, of their own raising, this
week.
The COW case was settled in Justice
Carr's court, at Audubon, Monday.
The men involved were " Doc" and
Abe Andersonsand Mum. Stuart. The
Anderson boys came out the little
end of the horn.
Word has been received from the
powers that be, at Washington, say
ing Hamlin should soon be a money
order office. The bond will be for
warded this week and then the sup
plies will arrive,
There will be no morning service
either at the Station or Old Hamlin,
next Sunday, but all will join with
the Evangelical people in celebrating
Children's Day at the Sheets Grove,
in south Melville township.
1t has been decreed that there will
be no rest at the Creamery Independ-
ence Day this year. Therefore Ed.
and Will have TO labor on July Sd.
They and the haulers will hustle on
that day and only have to work a
little while in the afternoon and then
HE themselves aWay to the celebration