Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-20

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Insure with the Continental Insur-
ance Company. Theo. Patty Agent, Xa
A lie is the DEVILS sign that he is
still doing business in that neighbor-
hood.
If you want the best Cook Stove or
Range, Stranger & Hansen have them
the Gem.
Fred Delahoyde' is building a neat
and substantial barn on his residence
lots, on North street.
Any one in need of monumental
work should call or write to s.. E.
Grant, Atlantic, Iowa.
The Congregational people will OBJ
serve children's day, June 49,. Program
will be published later.
Jake Bauer has purchased the Peters
meat market and will put in his best
efforts to please his patrons.
Mrs. L. N. Brown, Sr., of Atlantic,
is here this week visiting her friends
in Extra, Greeley and Audubon town
ships.
Mrs. Will Langdon, of Atlantic,
came home with her sister, Mrs. Henry |
Bush, Tuesday and will visit here for
a few days.
Elder J. c. McQuerry will preach
the Memorial Sermon at the M. E.
church on Sunday morning, May 3Oth,
at II o'clock.
The West Hamlin Creamery Com
pany will build a cold storage ware
house neal the Extra depot to better
r for its butter shipments.
There will be no service at the M.
u. church on next Sunday on account
of the pastor being Obliged to fill the
pulpit for ]. H. Elliott of Marine.
The Atlantic Telegraph announces
that Hon. Silas Wilson, Of Cass county,
Is a candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor Of Iowa.
Mrs. George Millimanr returned Tues
day from the Omaha hospital consid-
erably improved in health. The sur
gical operation was a decided success
The Extra Cemetery is being made
beautiful for Decoration Day. w. r,
Bolts and his son., Jap, have done q
large number of fine jobs of sodding in
the yard this spring.
Wilcox's Extra and Guthrie County
Line Creameries received over $4,000
pounds of milk last Monday. The in
d%ications are that this years business
will be a satisfactory hummer.
Frank Stranger has sold his soda
to q restaurant man at Lewis. |
Frank Ridgley took the fizzer to
Lewis, Tuesday, and while there will
sip the nectar that the gods sing about.
Douglas Hamlin and family arrived
from Harrison, Nebraska, Tuesday and
will remain several months. Mr..
Hamlin's time will be wholly consum-
ed in the settlement of the Natty
Hamlin estate.
w. w. Sickellss will 60 to Oskaloosa
to attend the Masonic School of In
structiQn, next Wednesday,. Or. John
Riley will represent Exodus Masonic
Lodge at the Grand Lodge which will
convene in the same city on June lst.
Fred Wahlert, Chas. jacobson, John
Harrison and Ralph Hawks we .
knighted ut the Maccabee Lodge We'd
nesday evening. A large number of
Knights were present and an address
by DIR. Riley was considerably extoled.
A gentleman of an investigative
mind turned up a bee hive to learn
what its occupants were doing. He
found out. He says they were making
chain lightning and had two tons on
hand which exploded before he could
get the hive down.
A social will be held at schoolhouse
No. g., Greeley township, Friday even
ing, May %. An entertainment will
be given after which ice cream will be
served at 10c a dish. Admission SC.
All are cordially invited to attend.
BY order of Committee.
The distance across the United
States is found to be 2,625.2 geograph-
zeal miles from the lighthouse six
miles north of Cape May, New Jersey,
to the lighthouse six miles south of
Punta Arenas, following the 39th par
allel of latitude as closely as possible.
The three boys who went into school
house No. 2, south of Extra, on last
Saturday and robbed the desks of
states, pencils, etc., had better return
them for your names are known, but
out of respect for your father and
mother We withhold the names. BOYS,
you had better return those articles
otherwise your names may be pub
lished. THE DiRECToR,
A Waverly man brought in nine
young wolves last Saturday for which
the County Auditor paid him $500
AS usual the old wolf escaped. This
reminds the Abba Union of a wolf
story it once heard. A party once
brought in six or seven young wolves
from the same neighborhood about a
year ago. A man was looking at them
and causually asked them if they got
the old one, too. The wolf hunter
looked disgusted and replied: "Say,
do you think I'm add fool?"
Hon. Rudolph Lehfeldt, of Denison,
Iowa, who has represented the sena-
torial district composed of Crawford,
Harrison and Monona counties in the
Iowa senate. has returned his salary