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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27
STARTED BY The KITTY.
Tho Beginning of One Of Chicago. Be

The Beginning of One of Chicago's Beat
Known Churches.
There probably have been many
churches in the world founded by
odd and pc. uliar methods, such rs
by a bullfght in Mexico, but Chica.
go car probably boast the only case
in which a church was founded
from the kitty of a poker game.
A little over half q century ago a
church vas thus founded near the
heart of the city, and the descendant
congregation today occupies one Of
the most magnificent stone churches
on the South Side. There are still
living in Chicago several old set
tiers who were living at the time
this remarkable project had its in
ception, but there are not many Of
them bold enough to tell the story.
In the latter part of the thirties
and early forties there were no citi-
zens of Chicago noted for their
riches. At this time there were few
churches in Chicago. Indeed there
were scarcely over half a dozen in
the whole town, which did not num-
Der over 5000 inhabitants. For a
number of broad and liberal gentle.
men from the east there was no
church of the denomination with
which they had affiliated at their
old homes. The pioneers often re.
GREETED the fact that there was no
church of their favorite creed, but
they were all comparatively poor
men and didn't feel able to build a
church Immediately. Each one felt
that he would be glad to contribute
a small amount for the erection of
a building, but thought he could
offer only SO small a sum that =.
would seem almost ridiculous.
One night, during the progress Of
q little poker game in thSs7rasfSuss
one Of the stores, a bright thought
entered the mind of one of the play
ers.
I'll tell you what we'll do" sale
one of the players. Lets start a
building fund by having a .rakeo Off
from the table every night we play,
and when we accumulate enough
we'll start building our church."
That's just the thing" agreed
every other player at the table.
will have a kitty for the
church."
So it was straightway agreed that
Is per cent of all the winnings
should be put down the hole in the
middle of the table and left to accu-
mulate in the box during each even
ing for a church building fund. The
scheme was a great success. When
the game was yer the first even-
ing, there was a little over IS in the
kitty" This was distracted after
the play was over and given into
the keeping Of one of the old p!o.
neers, who was appointed treasurer
for the building fund.
The scheme worked 80 well that
1t was continued night after night
at these social poker games in the
back end of the store until after the
expiration of a number of months
several hundred dollars had been
raised by the industrious kitty"
With this as a nucleus the enthusi.
astio churchmen began raising the
entire amount which 1t would re-
quire to build such a church as they
desired. In a little over a year the
sum was raised and the church in
due course of time erected. 1t was
a frame structure and was built on
q spot which is in the heart of the
city today, not much over a stones
throw from the city hall. As years
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27
4ck1en's Arn.ca salve.

TIE BEST SALvE in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chapned-
Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin
Eruptions, and positively cures. Piles
or no pay required. 1t is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction or money
refunded. Price 25c per box. For
sale by G. w. Houston, Extra; or q.
L. Bison, at Brayton.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27


j. M. Peterson attended the Ad-
vent meeting at Nevada, Iowa, this
week.
Charlie and Frank jenkins were
business visitors in Audubon last
Wednesday.
Rev. Father Zaiser was down in
the John Noon neighborhood, Tues
day afternoon.
johnson Il Thompson handle the
celebrated Ohio Cultivator, the best
corn pillow OH earth.
Powers and a force of men began
grading those big hills in the vicinity
of Uncle John Noon's home, Monday.
Charley Bison and family drove to
Extra Tuesday afternoon and visited
with relative and friends n few hours.
Henry Lillienthall and wife, down
in the John Heiken neighborhood,
buried their infant babe one day this
week.
They had a grand great big time at
the party at Peter Johnson's, over in
the vicinity of Highland, last Satur-
day. George johnson said he did,
anyhow.
MY, what a chance to get yeller
legged chickens! The Three Smiths
have three hundred little chickens
and still have fifty hens industriously
setting on a lot of eggs.
Hear ye, hear ye! Race Rogers has
resigned as road supervisor and j. T.
Essington has been appointed in his
stead. Now look out for Uncle Jim
will surely be after you.
The Ladies' Aid Society are to
meet with Mrs. Stoneking in the FORE
noon of Tuesday, June sth, to SOW
carpet rags. Hunt up your thimble
and scissors and be ready.
Erik Hansen soured on his proposed
trip to Denmark and has decided to
remain in Iowa. He was afraid if he
went to the old country he'd be
"Grafted into the army"
A letter from George Cotton says
that he has dropped anchor at Gam,
Polk county, Arkansaw, a town in
the southwestern part of that State,
where he proposes to buy land and
build him a home.
Letters uncalled for at Brayton:
Miss Dora Martin, Ruby Gaffney, Ada
Chenoworth, A. Faut, Chas. Baher,
Jess Jordan, John Sensen, Chas Man
ard, P. L. Petersen, M. Petersen.
MARION E. JENKINS, Postmaster.
S. P. Daugaard's fortieth birthday
arrived on the scene last week We'd
nesday and a jolly crowd of his
friends and neighbors gathered to do
honor to the event which they did in
royal style. The day will long be
remembered by Mr.. Daugaard.
Farmers remember that j. P. BEN
dixen still handles the celebrated
Deering Harvesters, Mowers and the
best kind of Irvine, and that he will
be out to see you 500 He guaran-
tees that the quality will be right
and that the prices will be right.
Rev. Gravengaard will speak to a
good sized crowd of his people at
Brayton this evening, it being Assem-
sion Day it is also one of their .feasts.
There will be no services at tfs Oak
Hill ""ch next SUM ffasoSSa
~e' Sunday services will be
a9~H..r
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27
Oakfield and Brayton.

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Mrs. Nick Poulsen is reported i'll.
Peter, son of a. C. Nelson, is very
i'll of bowel trouble.
Elmer Young has gone to Council
Bluffs to seek employment.
Mrs. Nettie Bruner will attend the
review school, ut Audubon.
Claus Hansen was down from KIM
b%allton, Tuesday, visiting friends.
Will Bintner had pressing business
in the vicinity of Admir- last Sunday.
L. d. Pearson, Jr., is hauling milk
for the F. F. Wilcox Extra creamery.
1. P. Hallock and his son, Percy,
were business visitors at Atlantic
last Tuesday.
Blacksmith Pearson and family
Sundayed with Frank McNally and
wife, at Lorah.
Frank jenkins came down from
/. Irwin last Wednesday and will stay
till after Decoration.
Frank Aldrich is up from Atlantic
visiting with his grand parents. Uncle
Mark Heath and wife.
And now Dame Gossip has it that
Mrs. Hardesty and Bill Parrott will
soon be united In marriage.
John Fredericton visited his fami-
ly three or four days the past week
and then returned to Montana.
q Min Brown and wife drove down
to Atlantic, Tuesday and brought up
the rest of their household goods.
Miss Hattie jenkins, of Extra, was
visiting with her cousin, Miss Irene,
at Hotel de jenkins, last Sunday.
Marion Jenkins now drives a span
of high-steppers that he bought of B.
Ef.sSimpson, the fine stock raiser.
John Heiken sold a bunch of twenty
head of fat cattle to Atlantic buyers,
receiving $40 per hundred weight.
Agent Barry and wife passed last
Sunday with their old neighbors and
friends at Minden, near Council Bluffs.
This week the Oakfield Creamery
shipped 1900 pounds of butter and
the Elkhorn Crermery 5000 pounds.
As soon as school is out Misses Nav
jenkins and Anna Slender will 20 to
Audubon to attend the summer review
school.
Dave Carpenter went ia Council
suits last sug&ay to assist inns Han
sen in painting MFs.sDr. Bal!ard's
residence.
Asmus Hansen is hauling out the
lumber to build a barn and corn crib
combined, the structure to be 32x40
feen in size.
Reese Hallock and Will Pearson
were the proprietors of a real neat
runaway, while breaking colts last
Sunday afternoon.
Last Wednesday Mr.. Sam Minser,
Sam NcGafin and Bill Thielen met
and appraised the personal property
of the late Natty Hamlin.
Chris, son of j. NJ. Peterson, left
on the Tuesday noon train for Battle
Creek, Michigan, where he goes to
attend the Advent College.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27
sWkRMlNe ~ BEES.
How Brat and Cymbal Are Used to Arrest
STheir Eager Flight.

HL
How BraS and Cymbal Are Used to Arrest
STheir Eager Flight.
When ! waSa child living on a
southern plantation long before the
war, there was among the negroes
a little, old African named Mingo.
Among other duties he took care of
the bees. Just under a long trellis
OF honeysuckle and multiflora roses
stood a long bench, and upon this
were the hives. Trellis, bench and
hives were all Mingo's handiwork.
Occasionally he would bring from
the swamp a section of a hollow
gum log and-make of it a hive. He
called all of his hives "beegums."
In the early spring, before the
time for swarming, Mingo always
provided several new hives for prob
able swarms. Then came the time
for pleasurable waiting for him and
the children, white and black, with
all of whom he was in firm friend
ship.
Some bright day there would come
from the yard a quick and loud tat
too, Mingo beating an old brass ket-
tie that he kept for the purpose. It
was a signal to the children that the
bees were swarming. Books were
dashed aside, and there was a wild
scramble for tin pans, shovels, wait
ers, pokers, tongs, anything in the
world that would make a noise.
The brown cloud of bees lowered
overhead. Mingo kept close watch,
and at each detour it made toward
the wood he called to his willing CO.
horts: "Louderl Dey's maxim for
de woods"
Close at his heels we followed,
beating with all our might. At last
the cloud grew denser and smaller
about the limb of a sweet locust
tree, with which the yard was thick.
The queen had settled, and soon a
thick brown mass of quivering bees
hung in a long pendant from the
limb.
At wave of Mingo's hand the
noise ceased, and we all stood breath.
less, watching till the last bee had
settled into place. How we pitied
the inside bees and wondered how
they breathed.
Then came the supreme moment
with Mingo. Having captured the
bees, he had to imprison them. He
worked like a magician at his mean
tations. Telling us to be silent and
watch the bees, for sometimes they
swarmed again after settling, he
went to the little spring branch out
side the yard and gathered willow
.twigs, then into the garden and
brought back handfuls of mint.
Selecting a new hive, he rubbed it
thoroughly inside with the mint.
Then, with the top removed, he
placed it on a table Immediately be.
low the clustered bees. Taking in
hand a small soft brush, he climbed
the tree, While his assistants pru-
IDENTIFY withdrew to.a safe distance.
II the limb were small and low,
he-out of and bending over,
shook the bees from it into the open
hive. # it we're large, he shook it
till the bees we're dislodged, brush
ing off with his broom any that con-
tinued to cling. The bees never
stung him, to our unbounded amaze
ment and admiration.
Having twined the willow twigs
about the hive to- keep away the
bugs, worms and other foragers, he
left it standing upon the table until
the little colony was we'll established
in Its new home. Then he removed
it to a place beside the old hives on
the bench under the honeysuckles
and the multifora roses.-Philadel-
.phia Times.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27

Maud-Everybody was telling me
how homely I was looking, but
Charley told me he never saw me-
when l looked better. I'd give more
for Charley's opinion than for ev.
erybody else's.
Bertha-Yes. But in this case his
opinion seemed to be the same as
everybody lse's.-Boston Trans
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27
The Scenic Route To Califoru,a,

If you are going to the Christian Endeayor
meeting to be held in San Francisco in July,
1897, take the best limo to Colorado: special
trains through over DE GREAT ocir-1IsssSAass "
This is the Popular TRANSIT continental Line to
the Coast and gives special inducements for ell
Colorado tourists travel. Pamphlet giving full
information as to scenety and route for that
trip, or an outing in the Rockies sent free On
application. JOHN SEBASTIAN, General Pas
senger Agent, Chicago, Illinois.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27
Great Rock Island Playing Card.

Send Twelve Cents in stamps to Mr.. JON
SEBASTIAN, General PASSENGER Agent of tn,
Great Pock Island Railway, at Chicago, TO-
the sleekest pack of cards ever handled, .
receipt Of such remittance for one or
packs they will be sent to you postpaid.
orders containing Sixty cents in stamps
postal note for same amount, will secure
dacks by express, charges paid.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27
The Cheerful Idiot.

Il was in the frontrow at the
theater the other evening, " said the
cheerful idiot, land the bass violin.
lists instrument got fast in the door
when he tried to come out"
did he swear2' asked the shoe
clerk boarder.
mo. He only said 'fddlesticks,' >"
said the cheerful diot.-Indian.
apolis Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27

Karl's Glover Root Tea is a pleasant
laxative. Regulates the bowels, puri-
aes the blood. Clears the complexion.
Easy to make and pleasant to take. Is cenrs.
Sold by Q. w, Houston.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27
For Cash ~ EGGS!
Sugar at Cost!

Hand picked Navy beans per lbs OF
Best bulk Rolled Oats--- OF
Battle Axe Tobacco--- 10
Old Style Smoking Tobacco 20
White Fish, 10 ID for--- Is
Arm and Hammer, per package OF
Parlor Matches-12 boxes--.- O8
Lion or xxx Coffee, a package Is
Best Rolled Oats, two ib package O5
Lily Gloss Starch O5
Corn Starch. O5
Good Vinegar, per gallon 10
Country Sorghum.o-- Is
Our Best Sugar Syrup--- IA
Atlantic Canned Corn, per can O8
White Russian Soap, 9 bars for 25
Double LII" Muslin, per yard O5
Best White Salt, per barrel. / 90
Glidden Barbed-wire, per 100 tb-- 2 20
Shoes, Dry Goods, Groceries, Queens
ware, Hardware and Patent Medicine.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27
mustacno ~.
like Billy Millinl.
ed knot hole in an elm uv..

Miss Rachel Kinney is slowly re-
covering from her recent illness and
was able to sit up a short time yester-
day.-Monday Atlantic Telegraph.
1de & McGovern shipped three car
loads of stock from the busy coal
town during the past week. They
shipped fancy load Tuesday noon.
"A merry band of young folks went
ont to the sociable, last Friday, given
at the school where Ida Hockenberry
t.aclses and report the proceeds 81. so.
Nels Sornson, manager of the Green
~ Lumber Yard, has sold Rasmus
lnsen a nice bill with which to
lid an addition to his store build
zig at Elkhorn.
"A lady cousin and her daughter ar
rived Tuesday morning to visit with
I s.. N. Harter and family for a
days. They hail from California
are going to; their home in Ohio.
gu SEQ anything of a stray hog
ming about $50 pounds it belongs
D.. Pearson, Jr. just please
looisand start in the direction of
EPearsOn's home, on the b. F..
son farm.
sc Hallock is SO pleased that he
the livelong day since that
pound baby boy arrived at his
: home, last Monday. Grandpa
Grandma l. p. Hallock are also
v elated over the advent of the
tranger.s
sMcGovern bought these good
of hogs from these farmers
,k: Peter Madsen, ten; Sorn
thirty; Peter Wolfe, twenty;
,nison, twelve; Fred Larsen,
,. P. Kilgore, six; Thomas
Jensen, fifteen, and Chas. Kay,
tnlrty head.
Mrs. d. w. Miller, assisted by
several young people of Extra,
Green school house last Sabbath.
Mrs. Walter B. Temple is Superin-
tendent, Mrs Boy Herrick Assistant,
Miss Lilly Early Secretary and Miss
West Treasurer. The school starts
out with a good attendance, and the
hour of meeting is 3 o'clock in the
afternoon.
The band boys have made ample
arrangements 10 accommodate all and
they guarantee agoed time to all who
attend the festival atTthe Poulsen
building, in Brayton, next Saturday
afternoon and evening. They will be
ably assisted by the ladies of Oakfeld
and Brayton and you a get your
"wberries and cream anytime from
flock in the afternoon until way
he shank of the evening.
res a new wrinkle on tho old
cows horn. Those lightning rod
dispensers worked a new kink and
there's w~hesAstfey got 'em. They
80 to.s.rod" your house aud put
suits for $1,000, you sigu-
ito pay them sixty-fiv e
OF for the braces which
POINTS. Well, they finisl
II they come to IT,,
are made out Of
ey will cost yop
90. Look out 70
ouch the high
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27

The stray plating industry of
England gives employment to about
10000 Women and /. 900 to 8. 600 men
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27

VIII miss it If you let
this opportunity pass you by.
My Grocery Department is full
and complete and contains all
kinds of Staple and Fancy
Goods. Prices on many of-these
articles are lower than other
merchants ask for them and if
you will visit my store you will
be convinced that they are.
ASA HORTON, Brayton, la.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27
SMITHS, il 0aktield.
Going at @st!

HAVING decided to at
- once close out my
entire Stock of Notions,
Dry Goods, Work Shirts
and everything in that
line | will offer unheard
of bargains in all kinds
of these goods until they
are all closed out. You
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27

Audubon County journal for ct heIt Aar OF
for $I.oo befalt I forskud.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13
MEN SCARCE AT THE BALL.
Mrs. Bradley Martins Function was
at a Disadvantage.
IFrom the Chicago Tribune.1


A strange feature about the Bradley
Martin ball was the presence of many
men not known to society. The story
runs that Mrs. Bradley Martin was in
despair about lack of men, and invita-
lions to the male sex were to be had for
the asking. In fact, they were peddled
about the clubs for several days before
the function, and the club lists and So
cial register were drawn on most nber-
ally.
There were also stories that certain
matrOnS were given carte blanche to
invite any men they chose There were
had not been invited, if they had dom
ned fancy dress, could have entered the
ball room.
The general verdict today at the clmbs
was that the affair was a magnificent
pageant, but stupid. It was conspicu-
Gus for the beauty of its women, but
many of the well known society leaders
We're absent. In fact at one time it
looked as if the quadrilles would have
to be abandoned. and as it was, they
were limited to three.
The absence of Mrs. John Jacob Astor
who, at late hour was taken i'll and
unable to be present, was one of the re-
gretable incidents of the evening.
Two incidents of the bali excited very
much comment in the ball ROOM One
was disappearance of Mrs. Frederick
Gebhardt as Marie Antoinette, accom-
panied by real live lap dog, which she
carried in her pocket. The other was
tildb u MISS DiIce III the uIeSS OF the
Spanish Infanta of gold brocade. with
crinoline so large that she was unable
to sit down.
Mrs. Bradley Martin today expressed
herself as entirely satisfied.
Not the least successful or imposing
feature of the ball was that furnished
by the police. who were as numerous
and important as though it had been a
real instead of a mimic court function.
They kept the street and sidewalks
clear and made would be watchers
move on or get back in lordlv style. A
deputy chief of police was in actual
command of the police forces at the
Waldorf, which included besides one
men and Sc detectives; total 279.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13
WHAT CLEVELAND SAID.
His Instructions to Commissioner of
Pensions Murphy.

-I0uI 1uBSB9Id V--eI. -q71 'uo4SuIQSeM
dent out of the usual routine took place
in the pension bureau today when dele
cation from G. A. r. posts IS and Al, OF
Allegheny City and Pittsburg, Pa, for
mally presented resolutions of thanks to
Commissioner of Pensions Murphy for
his humane administration of the bureau
The presentation speech was made by
Representative W. A Stone of Philadel-
phia, who paid a warm tribute to Com
missioner Murphy and declared that for
the first time in the history of the bu-
reau all soldiers are satisfied with its ad-
miniStration.
Commissioner Murphy in responding
expressed his appreciation of the endorse
ment of men opposed to him politically
and belonging to a soldiers organization
He quoted the Instructions given him by
President Cleveland. which he said never
had been published, as follows:
Mr. Murphy: 1 think you know my
idea of the pension bureau and the pen
sion system. They are these: In claims
coming up for the action of the bureau
where you find the case of worthy SOL
der who served his country faithfully in
her hour of danger, you Will be lenient
with him and give him the benefit of a
reasonable doubt. In settling the claims
of the widows and the orphans you will
act in the same manner but waste no
sympathy on the unworthy"
Mr.. Murphy said that whether his term
of office as commissioner be three weeks,
three months or three years, that
would always be his policy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13
M'CULLAGH'S ESTATE.
The Globe-Democrat Editor was
Worth Nearly a Million.

St. Louis, Feb. 1S.--The Inventory of the
estate of the late Joseph B. McCulla 9Th,
editor of the G1obe-Democrat was filed
with the clerk of the probate court today
by Public Administrator Richardson. The
personal property is returned at $S76, 127. 46.
The real estate is not valued. 1t consists
of two lots in the city of st. Louis, one at
IeavenwOrth Kan, and one in Golden
City, Ark, and 295 acres of land in Jas
per county, Missouri
The personal property is divided as fol-
lows:
Notes and interests s12. SS014; stocks
$S26; s12; 90; bonds and coupons, IS, 100. 90;
cash, $50, 331-3 30; goods and chattelS 1898. 90.
OF the cash item it appears that SIG. 693. 10
was on deposit in the National Bank of
Commerce; $l,50S in the EDITORS pockets,
$3.50 due as salary. $500 of dividends from
his stock in the Globe-Democrat and the
remainder, checks representing rent, etc.
to the amount of $1T9.S9.
His stocks consist largely of shares in
the Eureka and Excelsior Gold Mining
companies. This stock alone amounts to
$3.50 $40 on the face value of the stock He
also owned 1000 in the Pat Murphy Min
ing company and $1,000 in the Edison IL
Illuminating company of St. Louis. In the
Globe-Democrat he owned $50, 900 stock