Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-09-02
OakfieId and Rraxton.


~ mrs. Arthur Merrick has been quite
~ the past week or ten days.
charlie and Frank Jenkins visited
the Atlantic fair last Tuesday.
Mrs. W. A. Brown was shopping at
Aslantlc last week "Wednesday.
s Mrs. W: NJ. Faulkner passed last
sunday with relatives at Anita.
Mrs. B. F. Simpson visited with
oh'aha relatives and friends this week.
The Ladies' Aid Society will meet
with Mrs. 2. F. Howell next Tuesday.
8. E. Hockenberry has some of the
hnest wheat threshed in these diggins.
Miss Clara Ordway is industriously
G1eacnlng the Joe Doner school, below
Ernie Cotton and Theo Ordway
spilced teams Tuesday and went to
the Atlantic fair.
The girls are all casting ewes at
= llis and that new top buggy he re-
Gently purchased. 90
Miss Este and LATE Simpson will
attend the Drake University, at Des
Moines, this fall.
John Curry and wife visited two
day with their relatives at the 1. P.
Hallock home this week.
There will be no preaching at the
Oak Hill church next Sunday on ac-
count OF the PASTORS absence.
Charlie Bison purchased Mike
Scharff's flock of, one hundred and
seventy five sheep this week.
Miss Cena Beck is down from Au-
dubon assisting Mrs. Bison while she
is recovering from her late illness.
All the scholars who attended the
/. Academy and went to the Normal
were successful in getting certificates.
Mrs. Henry Kleuver has been enjoy
ing avisit from her parents, MIR. and
Mrs. Bosch, who live near Griswold.
The members of the Grundtvig Luz
theran church held a two days session
at the home of Nels P. Hoegh this
week. :
William Bintner, Jr., Ira Bowen
and Willis Cannon started Monday
for an outing ofstwo weeks at Spirit
Lake.
Mart Parrot has gone to the South
ern part of the State to look for a
piece of land upon which to build a
home.
John Plantz school, in the Nat
tie Hamlin district began Monday
with Mr.. Earl Pruett, of Atlantic, as
teacher.
Mr.. Burt Moore and sister and Miss
Myrtle Cramlet, of Anita, were visit
ing in this vicinity Saturday and
Sunday.
Mesdames Dave Carpefiteran and Chas.
Cotton passed last Sunday with Win
Browning's people, up in Melville
ownship.
Mfs.I0olan, who was sew for
Mrs. Howell, was called to b me
at Ayoca, last Sunday, hiinS =
of her son. M
Miss Rachel Kinney was from
Atlantic the first of the week visiting
with her relatives, the Cotton fami-
lies, at Oakfield.
j. T. Ellis tarried with his brother
in-law, w. H. Pearson, Monday night.
He was returning from land hunting
expedition in Minnesota.
We were treated to generous hunk
of Carp that came out of the l. P.
Hallock fish pond and unhesitatingly
pronounce them super-tine.
Misses Leila and Ruby, daughters
of Mayor Hanna, of Audubon, were
guests of the Misses limo, Edna, Ethel
and Charley Boy Bison, Tuesday.
Rev. Hiccock has been called by the
Brayton Baptist church. He will
preach his first sermon on Sunday,
September 18th, and then every two
weeks.
VIM. Cart is thinking quite serious
iysof abandoning farm life and going
back to- Stuart where he will resume
his old position as brakeman on the
Rock Island Railway.
Director j. L.. Anderson is having
school house No. g, Extra township,
thoroughly repaired and school will
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Dlxy Cotton in charge.
Substantial repairs are being made
on. the I. v. ID. Lewis school house
and school will begin there the last
Monday in September with Miss Beth
Henry, of Extra, as teacher.
Ward Smith started Monday for
a tour. via his bicycle, in the eastern
mart Of the State. Before returning
hewill visit with his grand father's
people, in Washington county.
Hayde Jenkins is very i'll at Calves
ton. Texas. He is being tenderly
cared for by Hank Low and we are
told that Hayde must soon submit to
the tortures ola surgeons lance.
while Mrs. Charlie Milliman was
canning, fruit last Saturday one of the
class lars bursted, scattering the hot
nreparation nearly the entire length
Of her arm and scalding it fearfully.
Mrs. Squire Aldrich and daughter,
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