Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-08-05

VIM. Walker pays til, highest mar
ket price for poultry.
George Willcutt now resides at Cedar
Rapids and is plastering at $3.50 per
day.
F. Gault & Company slip another
carload of poultry to Chicago next
Tuesday.
Frank Tharnish visited his Atlantic
relatives and friends and attended the
Firemen's Tournament this week.
Ted and Leslie Bruner are at Char
iton, Worth county, Missouri, getting
out walnut logs for an English syndi-
cate.
N. #. Hellyer, of Guthrie Center,
who is the Prohibition nominee for
Judge of the Supreme Court, is BROTH
erof Van Hellyer, of Extra.
VIM. Delahoyde, who is canvassing
for the Audubon nursery, at Sloan,
Iowa, reports taking orders for $500. q
in eighteen days. Bills hustler.
Ioffer for sale my household goods at
low prices. Goods are as good as new.
See me at Mrs. Jno. Harrison's resi-
dence. GEORGIA BAsHAM.
Geo. Henshaw sold three more Nc
Cormick machines this week, making
the total for the season 46-Geo. Nc
Claim, ]. G. Hardman and w. c. |
Wigers.
Aunt Eliza, wife of Uncle John
Bruner, accompanied Uncle Poage and
wife on their trip to Danville, Illinois.
A letter announces the safe arrival of
the party at their destination.
Chas. McLaren, the Omaha Dentist,
is at the Park Hotel, Extra, Mondays
and Tuesdays. He is up-to-date in
plate, bridge and crown work and is
very successful in satisfying his
patrons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Beach, nee Jes.
sic Shaw, formerly of Extra, are the
parents of a big boy baby. And they
say Grandad f. A. Shaw feels four
times larger than three hundred
pounds.
VIII. WdlheI Is having the DaSe-
ment of his brick block finished for
business purposes. The front part will
be occupied by Sol Peterman's barber
room will be the home of Chas. Neff's
billiard hall.
Arthur Carmichael, on the Mat
Thielen farm southeast of town, was
kicked on the head Thursday by a
horse. The temporal boue was crush
ed. Conclusion of and pressure on
the brain placed the young man in a
comatose state and he will not rally
until surgical operation is performed.
DIR. Lauritzen has charge of the case
and will operate Friday.
Mr.. Mike Christensen, an extensive
stockman of Western Nebraska, whose
home is at Chadron, was In Extra
couple of days this week and purchas-
ed of w. N. Henshaw, of Atlantic, his
2OO-acre farm, known as the old George
Stotts place, at $500 per acre, possess
sion to be given October LIST. Mr..
Christensen will stock the farm with
cattle, bringing $50 head from Nebras-
ka. The farm is one and one-fourth
miles northeast of Extra.
Washington, August 5.-The latest
official estimate of the population of
the Unitod States is a, OO6,O68. This
is made today by the actuary of the
Treasury, an officer whose duty it is,
at fixed intervals, to report on the, per
capita circulation of the money in the,
! United States. He estimates that the
present holdings of money are SO. So
f0r;gyery ..ian, woman and child iffSl
the United States. His estimate of the
population is made by use of the CEN
sus reports of the present decade, Ger
tain fixed rules for increase by birth
and immigration and provision for
death and other losses are made and
the resulting estimate is accepted as
official.
The Crop Report.
The week was unseasonably warm
with much less than normal rainfall,
except in few favored localities. !
The greatest excess of temperature was
registered on the last two days of the
week, causing some apprehension of
damage to crops by hot winds but a
change of wind direction and lower
on the night of August
LIST relieved anxiety on that score.
1Ae week was laVOraDle LOT WORK III
the harvest fields and satisfactory pro-
gress has been made. The harvest of
oats and spring wheat is completed,
except late seeded fields in the north
ern districts. A good deal of stacking
has been done, and threshers are at
work in all sections, with varying re-
suits as to yield.
The harvest season as whole has
been much more favorable than last
year, and the bulk of hay and grain
has been secured in excellent condi-
ton,
Corn has made fairly good progress
during the week and substantial gains
during July. Reports received from
the larger number of crop correspond
ents of this bureau show the average
condition of corn on August LIST to be
sos per cent against rs per cent
July LIST.
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