Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-04-22
Hamlin Department.

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George Smiths baby is very i'll.
Leroy Phelps was visiting hi
grandmother, Saturday.
Mrs. Lon Bradley, at Old Hamlin
is just recovering from severe illness
Albert Pratten, they do say, had
terrible attack of night horse re-
Gently.
Art McNut was visiting will
Uncle Henry Wells several hours
Sunday.
Erastus Lafoy has fine buggy
team now. Eratus is all right with
the girls.
The news float up from Audubon
township that Sidney Goodwin is the
father of twin baby boys.
D. E. Shrauger of Extra, has been
appointed administrator of the estate
of the late Alfred E. Bartlett.
Mrs. Lingaard is keeping house for
Mr.. Downing while her husband is at
Ross working for John Wagner.
Ed. Schoonover went to Atlantic
Tuesday to meet friend whom he
had not seen for many long day.
Geo. Smith is breaking out twenty
acres of land for Robert Sizer, little
way up the track from the Station.
We wonder how the fight between
those. two ladies resulted. The
butcher knife is a dangerous weapon.
Wonder who that nice young man
is that comes to Champion Hill Sab
bath school. Myrtle seems to be
stuck on him.
John E. Mcclure is at his fathers
home and will remain there until he
has thoroughly recovered from his
late attack ofillness.
The Young Peoples Glass will meet
with Mrs: j. q. Moore next Sunday
afternoon, at 500 o'clock, and that
lady will conduct the services.
The school at Hamlin center COM
menced last Monday with Miss Jessie
Andrews as teacher. The school
started out with twenty scholars.
o. P. Tyler packed his grip last
Tuesday and went to Galveston,
Texas, with that excursion party and
will pass the next two weeks sight
seeing in that sunny cline.
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At the North Branch and Hamlin
stores of Baker & Shoesmith you can
find the latest in Dry Goods and Fam
cy Articles and they are offered at
exceeding low prices. Visit them!
One day last week while Orpha
Terry was bringing up the horses, he
ran weed into his eye making bad
wound. DIR. Eyer dressed the eye
and the young man is now better.
Baker 8 Shoesmith have just re-
ceived at their Hamlin and North
Branch stores the finest line of Queens
ware and Glassware you ever saw.
Prices in keeping with the times.
Arthur Bartlett returned to his
home at Chadron, Nebraska, Tuesday.
Before he went he hired Tom Crees
and wife to move into the house on
the farm and attend to orchard and
grove.
The Old Hamlin class of Young
People will meet at the school house
there at ten o'clock in the morning
and will be presided over by Uncle
S. d. Coonrod and Miss Winnie
White.
w. H. Covalt and VIM. Masterson
went to South Omaha this week and
returned with IS head of feeding
cattle to place on their Greeley farms.
Mr.. Covalt bought SO head and Mr..
MastersOn 25 head.
This week Will Mcclure bought
good punches of hogs as follows:
From Rasmus Broacher 8, Hans Fa-
bricious 9, NJ. M. Mcclure 26, Will
bur Sheets 15. He shipped carload
to Chicago last Thursday.
Mr.. Joseph Gregory arrived in
Hamlin Tuesday morning from Gree
ley, Colorado, to visit his brother in
law, Cal Wilson, but not finding
him here he journeyed on up to Au-
dubon where Cal now lives.
Miss Mary Bartlett in a few days
will go to Boone, Iowa, to visit her
aunt, Mrs. G. I. Miller. From there
she will go to Nebraska to pass a
short time with her mother and from
there she will goto California.
Arthur Bartlett and the heirs have
bought the interest Mrs. Bartlett had
in the farm southeast of the Station,
and we understand that lady will
soon go to eastern Iowa and engage in
the dress making business with her
relatives.
The question for discussion at the
Old Hamlin literary next Saturday
night is: Resolved, That the world
is at its height. Joe Bell will con-
tend that it is and George Gill will
keep on saying that it has not yet
reached its height.
Harry Percy, with fishpole and
line and scan of woms for bait'' is
sitting on the banks of the classic
Cedar river, in Eastern Iowa, waiting
for a bite and Mr.. A. H. Schmidt, Of
Winterset, Iowa, is minding the Sta
,tion while Harry is away.
John Nash's Jersey cows are doing
fine. There are six Inc Jersey calves
on the place that have just seen the