Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-07-01
Hamlin Department.

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last Monday.
Baker & Shoesmith shipped six
cases of eggs Tuesday noon.
Alex Ferguson is out and around
but does not feel very stout.
Tuesday the creamery shipped l.
260 pounds of butter to Boston.
Abe Anderson has taken thirteen
year-old boy to raise up in the way
he should go.
J.E. Mcclure and his torce of men
are cutting down the hills near the
I" Doc" Phipps place.
Mr.. Nelson Percy, of Dexter, is
here to pass few days with his
brother, Harry, and family.
John Doak was down Tuesday and
drove home some butchers stock that
he purchased of w. D. Stanley.
Word comes from Nicola that Mr..
and Mrs. Theo. Gearhearfs children
are very ill of whooping cough.
The blood poison in j. E. Banning's
little girls system is being scattered.
Sores are breaking: out all over her.
The Holiness Meeting at the Evan
gelical church, in Hamlin, last Friday
was largely attended and very profit
able meeting.
The Old Hamlin literary did, not
elect officers last Saturday night but
will meet Saturday evening, July 10
for that purpose.
Miss Clara Sizer and Mrs. Edwin
Schoonover drove up to the w. B.
Davis home, near Audubon, last Tues
day and passed the day.
There will be an all-day meeting,
at Sheets Grove, held by the Evan
gelical church people, next Saturday
to which you are all invited.
Mcclure has put force pump at
the rear of his store and attached a
long string of hose. Will says that
IN case of blaze he's whole fire
company all by himself.
Tyler came home from his Texas
trip Saturday and reports an enjoy
able trip. Mr.. Tyler is loud in his
praise of that country and says it is
sure to be the garden spot of the
world.
o. P. Tyler received letter, last
Monday, from his niece, Miss Emma
Dormer, stating that she had arrived
at her home near London, safely. She
sailed from New York in the steamer
Majestic.
The Methodist meetings at Old
Hamlin, next Sunday, will be held
at the same hours Us heretofore. This
society is becoming very strong at
that point, there being upwards Of
sixty members at this time. g
Uncle s. d. Coonrod was out on
the streets Of Hamlin, Tuesday. He
wished us to inform his friends at
Old Hamlin that he would be at his
post of duty in the Sunday School
and at the class meetings, next Sun
day.
Mrs. Will Mcclure drove up to
Audubon Wednesday and passed the
day with friends. Returning she
brought her friend, Miss Lizzie Schri-
Der home with her and that lady will
pass few days with her at the Sta
tion.
They had their faces all fixed up
to witness wedding at the Presby-
terian church, in Old Hamlin, last
Sunday, but as no bride and groom
appeared they were obliged to let
the smile on their faces gradually
grow dim.
Mr.. Fred Spencer, the North
Westerly Railway road master, has
purchased the Len Wright eighty
acres and an adjoining eighty acres
belonging to Frank Bradley. His
brother George bought the eighty he
owned, a short way east of the Sta
ton.
Supervisor w. D. Stanley has a
very fine bunch of fat hogs on his
well stocked farm that he is holding
for higher market. There are four
teen in this bunch and they average
$50 pounds each, all except the king
hog of this bunch and he's an elephant
weighs $50 pounds.
An old nanny coon and three
cubs were summing themselves the
other day in the w. D. Stanley
woods when Mr.. Stanley spied them,
blazed away and killed the nanny
and one cub. The other two cubs he
is raising as pets for his children. The
old coon was pretty large, weighing
about twenty five pounds.
The Evangelical Children's Day
exercises at the Sheets Grove, last
Sunday were attended by over three
hundred persons and were thorough
ly enjoyed by all. Andrew Smith
took four-horse load of the Brushy
College school up there. The Station,
Fair View and Champion Hill Sab
bath Schools were ably represented
at this meeting.
James East, of Old Hamlin, was at
the Station, Tuesday, and informed
us that his cherry crop was big sue
cess, that he gathered two and one
half bushels of fruit off of one tree.
He also infored up all other kinds OF
fruit OH his place was yielding i'm
mensly this season and that he would
Lave more than three wagon boxes
full of black berries.