Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-11-04
frankie Wood is i'll of typhoii

fever.
Miss Mary Cotton was ill part of
the past week.
Mrs. George Cotton closed the fall
term of school in the j. L. Anderson
district last Friday.
Miss Lille Dawes, of Atlantic,
was here this week, guest of her
friend, Mrs. Min Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Wilson, OF Anita,
were guests of their relatives, Mr..
and Mrs. Bird Benson, this week.
Mrs. Chas. Vail and Mr.. and Mrs.
Fl. w. Hanna, of Audubon, were
down this way this week picnicing
and gathering nuts.
Misses Ethyl and Este Simpson
entertained few intimate friends at
Stillside," their home, Halloween.
The affair was Pumpkin Party and
was much enjoyed.
Gilbert Nelson was the proprietor
of a dashing runaway, at Brayton,
last Saturday. The team just tore up
Ned for time and it cost sixty-nine
cents to have the damage repaired.
Mr.. Boiling and family, of Extra,
have moved into their Oakfield prop
erty, where" Spoony" Freeman lived,
and Spooney" has moved over to
Brayton into the upstairs rooms of
the 1. P. Hallock house.
Miss Dossy Barry and Miss Mary
and Will Bintner visited their Extra
friends last week and attended the
Forty Hour Devotion, at the Catholic
church. While there Miss Barry was
the guest of Miss Anna Braun.
Mrs. Hugh Bowen was at Des
Moines this week where she went to
attend the wedding Of Miss Nellie
Simpson, her niece, who visited her
recently, and who was united in mar
riage to Mr.. r. L. Aldrich, of that
city.
While gathering corn last Saturday
Peter Nelson stopped down to pick
up an ear of corn from under the
wagon when the team started sudden
ly, run the wagon wheel over his
arm, breaking it in two places. Pluck
lily Mr.. Nelson climbed into the wag-
on, on the Hayde Jenkins farm, anu
drove to Brayton where Doctor Koob
dressed his wound.
John Frederickson was engaged in
breaking a cIlt, the other day, and
was showing them how it was done
out west and had revolver in his
hand and to make the colt chuck
he was shooting off the revolver.
Giving the revolver an extra swing
he discharged it and the next instant
was bowling with pain-the ball
went into his foot at the instep and
came out between his toes. Doctor
Koob dressed the wound and says
it will be weeks before John can per-
ambulate the thoroughfares success
fully.
AT last Oakfield has genuine, all
wool romance. Some time ago Miss
Iona Harter while seated in her home
brooding DER the solitude of single
life, and catching up paper she saw
the advertisement of matrimonial
bureau, and selling a pen she wrote
'isasS'., told them her address and said
sheS marry
Out in til, raska a
poor lone bache. ing o'er
the solitude of sing. a seeing
a paper he caught it up q IN his eye
fell on the advertisement of matri-
monial bureau, and selling pen he
wrote and told them his address and
said he wanted to marry.
Now the fates and this matrimonial
bureau so arranged matters that this
poor lone bachelors letter was sent tc
Miss Iona and they began cores
pondence which resulted in the poor
lone bachelor coming to see Miss
Iona this week, and after careful
survey Of each other they agreed tt
get married and this Mr.. Waid has
gone to Nebraska to prepare the cot.
tage for his bride, that is to be, and
he will return ere the moon wake:
and wanes.