Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-27

####** Extra De
Johnny Minser is selling binders for
John Peters.
School entertainment at No. 8, Gree
ley Friday evening of this week.
Don't miss any of those bargains in
shoes ut Frank Gault & Co.'s.
Buy a pair of Mems $500 Shoes for
$3.50 at F. Gault & Co.'s.
There is no point in Iowa that is
more than fifteen miles from a line of
railroad.
Stranger & Hansen have decided,to
close out a lot of Bed Room Suits at
cost. Do not lose this opportunity.
The losses caused by the floods in
Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi
are estimated at over $l4, 900. 90.
Mrs. DR.. Lass and little daughter, of
Rodney, Iowa, are here having q good
visit with her sister, Mrs. VIM. Fulton.
1t is said that Cedar Rapids is hav-
ing u building boom and that five
hundred buildings will be erected there
this year.
The Danish and Norwegian Baptist
State Convention is in session at At
lantic this week. Several delegates
from this county are in attendance.
F. D. Barney, of North Branch,
wants to be representative of, Guthrie
county. He is mighty good timber
and very popular with those who
know him.
Douglas Hamlin is having the Ham
lin house in the southeast part of town
repaired as a residence for himself and
family while here settling up the Nat
ty Hamlin estate.
Tuesday, Albert and Will T. Bint-
ner, two of those pushing sons of Capt.
VIM. Bintner, sold 20 head of yearlings
and two-year old steers to w. H. Co
Walt, of east Greeley, for 81, 10000.
Louis Napolean, the dapple gray
Percheron Stallion, will be found dur
ing TX SOo5OL ~ ClC 14IChS 1DuIl
Extra, in charge of +" Dad" Seibert.
WIN. LAYLAND, Owner.
The Peter Peters meat market has
been scrubbed, thoroughly renovated
and made to shine like a new dollar.
You will find Jake Bauer there, as of
old, ever ready to attend your wants.
Vernie Harris and wife, of Fonda,
Iowa, are visiting with his aunt, Mrs.
John Crane. Mrs. Harris will remain
in Extra for some time to receive med
ical treatment under DR.. Rendlemen.
New subscribers to the Journal this
week:
Mark Butterton, Audubon.
Peter Johnson, Ross.
Hansen & Co., Atlantic.
Alb't G.. Henick, Anita.
John O'Leary, Bridgwater, Iowa.
The entertainment at Rose Valley
school at Greeley, last Saturday even
ing was numerously attended and all
pronounce the program renditipns ex-
ira fine. Receipts of the evening for
the school library amounted to over
$500.
A small steamboat that was launch
ed on Chrystal Lake, near Lewis, last
Sunday for a trial trip began to sink
with q heavy load of passengers and it
was with difficulty that the pilot
reached the shore inltime to save all
on board.
Mr.. Richardson, representing the
Audubon Marble Works erected two
fine monuments in the Extra ceme-
terry Tuesday last, a beautiful stone
with golden decorations over the grave
of Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Deet's little
girl, and a very pretty monument at
the place where MI. and Mrs. Frank
DuVall's baby is sleeping.
Frank Sherman, of Anita, who was
found guilty of assault and attempt to
commit rape on Minnie Blood, of
Anita, a girl aged fourteen years, was
given a sentence of eight years at hard
labor at Fort Madison. At one time
Frank Sherman was a prominent
worker in the Christian church and
there first met his victim. He has q
fine family, awife and two little girls.
A careless newspaper man noting
the signs of spring, among other evil
dences, noted the bicycle riders and
noted that Miss Jones looked cute on
her wheel in her short skirts. In some
way an oh" had wandered into the
ok" box and the typo gota an H instead
of a X and the proof reader was blind.
The poor innocent editor lost fifteen
subscribers in less than twenty min
utes after the paper was issued. The
women said it was real meal And it
was.
j. B. Connrardy has sold his resi-
dence in Extra and the postoffice build.
ing and fixtures to Ernest Powell for
$1,000, possession to be given July LIST
next. Mr.. C%onnrardy has sent his res.
ignation as postmaster of Extra to
Washington and Mr.. Powell will be
.appointed to the position in time to
assume the duties on July LIST. We
understand that Mr.. Connrardy has
purchased the Terrell Poage SO-acre
farm just south of Extra at $4,000 pei
acre and will move onto the same by
July LIST. MI. Poage will buy an acre
of land near Extra and build n home
for himself and wife.