Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-06
8. Wilkins is in Chicago on

bee supplies.
Mr.. John Oliver of Melville town
ship is reported seriously ill.
VIM. B. Davis and his men COM
menced planting corn Tuesday.
johnson & Nelson shipped five car.
loads of hogs to Chicago Monday.
Loud Rippey is back from Texas
and talks strongly of moving there.
Johnny Musson and wife have gone
to Salem, South Dakota to visit a
week.
Gene johnson has just had a 10 x
~ foot addition added to his resi-
dence.
John Sherman is having the house
on his Melville township farm nicely
painted.
Miss Addie Cross of Des Moines, is
here visiting friends until after Deco
ration day.
John Egan of North Greeley town
ship is the father of a new girl baby,
born Tuesday.
By Phelps left Wednesday evening
to attend to money matters at Daven-
port and Chicago.
The prosperity of the Sharon
creamery forces the company to buy
fifty more milk cans.
Jake Overholtzer left Tuesday
ing to attend to business matters at
Norfolk and York, Nebraska.
Mrs. James Bell of Hamlin town.
ship is suffering of stomach trouble
and her condition is precarions.
Before placing your orders for nice
wall paper see Roberts beautiful
spring styles at low, very low prices.
Aug. Oelke has Just put up 700
rods of wire fencing for John G.. Bon
well, the big stock farmer of Viola
township.
Pleasant Fred w. Smith, who
clerks at Cloughly's pill foundry, is
at Sioux City visiting friends for a
few days.
Masonic meetings.: Blue lodge,
Saturday evening, May 10; Amity
chapter, May 10; Godfrey Comman-
derry May IL.
Mrs. Ben Cecil of South Oakfield
township, has been visiting at the
home of her father, Charley Stocking,
| q few days this week.
BLACK LEG.-Any stock raiser
wishing his cattle vaccinated to pre-
vent black leg apply for particulars
and terms to Geo. N. Weighton, Au-
. dubon, Iowa.
Mrs. E. M. Preston and children. OF
Morrison, Illinois, will arrive here
about May 18th to pass the summer
. with her father, j. Burdick and her
! slater M re- .Ias Rusuan
Merrill, the four-year-old sol Of
DR.. and Mrs. j. E. Clark, is down
:. with d%iphtheria. The family is under
quarantine regulations and, we learn,
the case is not dangerous.
Frank Allen, Drowned by the
southern sun and toned up by tn.
gulf climate of Texas, rolled into Au-
dubon Saturday last with a jolly
" halo, boys" to his many admiring
friends.
The Audubon Mandolin club will
.. give a straw berry social at the South
Side Saturday evening Of this week.
And while you crush the luscious Der.
! ries the mandolin will hum with de.
!. lightful tune.
Thursday Frank Leet boarded thu
train to look after business at Brad.
ford, Aurora and Chicago. When hi
z returns he will be accompanied by
his mother who will stop at Colfax
2 Springs several weeks.
Ex-supervisor Philip Bicklehaupt,
Of Viola township, was in Audubon
Wednesday. He reports that he haI
twenty acres of corn planted. Mr.
Bicklehaupt has a pleasant "no, sir
for all who ask him to sign bonds.
Charley Tunnman of Melville
. township, we are sorry to learn, i
suffering of a very sore foot which
.. some pronounce cancer, and, it j
feared, that in order to save his life
z it will be necessary to amputate tn,
= foot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Miller's eigh'
teen months old boy Of east Melvill,
. township is in a very critical condi
: ton on account of drinking a small
3 quantity of concentrated lye. DR.
Eyer is prescribing for the little fel.
low and feels confident that he will
recover.
Mr.. Nelson of Wichita, Kansas, i
here and has succeeded in trading
D fine body of land in Tweed county
: Kansas, to John and Will Doak fol
= their meat market business and al
their Audubon county real estate
: Doak Bros. will give possession o
: meat shop next fall.
Chas. Colee, Of Nelson vicinity, wa
in Audubon Wednesday exhibiting
: very sore thumb. He struck til,
wrong nail. Charley informed u
!. that he would represent the PER-.
Nursery at the annual meeting of tn,
American Nursery Mems Association
at indianapolis next month. Bein,
. close to his old home, St. Paul, Indi
ana, he will step in and see the folks
The following are tile new officer
OF the Epworth League and will b
installed at the anniversary meeting
Sunday, May 10th:
A.. II. Roberts, President.
Q Ella Van Scoy, Vice. President.
= Louisa Overholtzer, Second Vice.
j. A., Kerr, Third Vice.
Mrs. Belle B. Smith, Fourth Vice
Q Arthur Krell, Secretary.
Frank Switzer, Treasurer.
3 G.. M. Thomas, the horse thief VIII
. is confined in the county Jail 70
Z stealing q horse from Fred Tessmar