Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-09-16

See Bilharz' new ad on first page of
this paper.
The JOURNAL and Toledo Blade for
only $l.25 cash.
w. II. Aldrich is having struggle
with typhoid fever.
Good horses sold in Audubon this
week as high as S95.
All the chimneys Oh the court
house and Jail are being rebuilt.
John A. Nash has been appointed
permanent administrators of the Saw
yer estate.
Two of A. ]. Shupe's children
southwest of town, are down with
typhoid fever.
Greg Wolfe went to Des Moines 10
look over the machinery department
of the State Fair.
Mr.. [. M. Darland, OF Douglas
township will visit with relatives i'll
Mills county next week.
Mrs. Henry Gray and children are
passing month with Dallas and
Guthrie county friends.
James Stock and family of Mingo,
Iowa, are here visiting his sister,
Mrs. Chas. Evans and family.
Miss Emma Hill, of Clinton, Iowa,
is again in charge of the millinery
department of j. F. RusselPs big
store.
j. A. Overholtzer had horse so
injured i'll a runaway last Friday that
it was necessary to shoot the poor
animal.
I. w. Baker enjoyed his visit to
Des Moines this week. During his
absence Joe Garnett clerked at the
big store.
| Charley Bagley's sister, who has
been u guest at his home the past
week, returned to her home at Attain
tic Monday.
Miss Winnie White, of Hamlin,
will commence teaching the Cham
pion Hill school in Melville town.
ship next Monday.
Good 100 acre farm in Audubon
township to trade for good residence
4 in Audubon. Good bargain.
VIM. LAYLAND.
Miss Mary Nelson, of Menlo, re.
turned to her home Wednesday after
; good visit with her sister, Mrs
Fred Siemsen, of Douglas township
Mrs. j. A. Nash and Miss Gretchen
are back from their summer outing
Miss Bea and Miss Myrtle Stotts ar,
with Des Moines relatives for visit
=: When you are at Audubon stop a
the Tw1NING HOUSE. Big squar,
|, meal 15c, day board SOC, board by
the week only $3.50. Drop in ant
; see us.
Work has commenced on the cit,
water works reservoir. Mr.. Love
land is experimenting the construc
ton and has employed five local car
] penters.
A. j. Cooley was awarded the con
tract to furnish the county with 81
!, tons of coal to be used at the poo
farm and court house. Price $2.8
!. per ton. e.
Mr.. Mott, the new proprietor Q
t the Republican, arrived with hi
t family from Upton Wednesday ant
4 are now comfortably settled at til
: Overholtzer place. 1910
Miss Myrtle Tufts completes
I weeks pleasant visiting with he
8 friend, Mics Ora Evans next Monda,
e and on the same day returns to he
a home at Mingo, Iowa.
Sol Leity's wheat averaged iftee
o bushels to, the acre, and on tn
It strength of that prosperity he vii
d soon have a new and handy bar
d erected on his farm east of town.
Abe Anderson returned last wee
If from southern Minnesota, where h
g was looking after the rent grain Of
J. his half section of land. The whea
}. in that locality averaged bushels t
the acre.
e There will be no services at tn
a Fair View school house next Sunda
: afternoon on account of the pastor
It beingseDgaged in Tabernacle meet
ing in the William Walker grove, ST
}, miles southeast of Extra.
10 Aug. Oelke's sheep sale at the Roc
l. Island stock yards last Saturday wa
II we'll attended. The so head brough
y $3.50. The lowest price per head wa
$S.45 and the highest $4.O5. Owe
b Idle, of Brayton, was the heavies
d purchaser.
If Miss Hilda Jensen, who has bee
}, visiting her Blister, Mrs. Jens G. An
t derson, of Sharon township, LEI
Wednesday for Des Moines, where sll
is will be permanently employed. Sh
l. instructed class in Danish at Bray
e ton the past two months.
!. James Law, of Melville, shippe
two carloads Of cattle Monday to Chi
cago. Returning he will stop a
J. Davenport and buy carload of lum
1t Der to be used in building on his fin
y farm. On the same Rock Island trai
! Abe Anderson shipped two carload
u Of cattle and one of hogs.
W.J. Kennedy and wife and thei
q daughter, Miss Nellie attended tn
g Stale Fair this week and also visite
9 relatives in Des Moines. Next wee
: Mr.. Kennedy will 60 to the Nebrask
r State Fair at Omaha with the inten
j. ton of purchasing draft stallion
he finds the right kind OF stock.
On a Rock Island special train w
: II. Low rolled into Audubon Frida
night at twelve O'clock with 40
:. head of extra fine feeding steers, six
y teen carloads. He sold "a head t
Ed. johnson. of Sharon township an,