Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-04-08
HamIin Department.

Hdmlln Department. /,
Ed. Schonoover is pretty near sick
his week of a bad cold. !,
$. George Smith has a slight at
. the grip this week.
MISC innie and Rose Mcguire
Ire sune,ess- very bad colds.
go with his two
carloads ofs chicago Sunday.
Neis Petersen w. to Brayton
the first of the week friends.
Grandma Coonrod is SUI. Of
acute rheumatism in II of he.
Marion johnson will bale a car 10.
of hay at the o. P. Tyler farm next
The Methodist people hold prayer
meeting at Old Hamlin every Thurs
day evening.
Miss Mary Brown, of Audubon,
began teaching the Old Hamlin school
last Monday.
Section Man Vint Rose and his men
were at the Station Tuesday repairing
the side track.
There will be a meeting at Old
Hamlin next Sunday to organize q
Young Peoples Glass.
Mrs. wib Smith went to Extra last
Tuesday to visit with her mother,
Mrs. j. E. Banning and family.
Uncle Mace Gill has been SO ill this
week that he was unable to navigate
and consequently had to stay indoors.
Mrs. E. A. johnson, of Coon Rap
ids, has been visiting with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Wilher Walker, this week.
Shoesmith was in the egg business
the past week. He shipped twenty
two cases Friday and ten cases Tues
day, of this week.
The literary at Old Hamlin will
meet next Saturday night. A good
program has been arranged and you
r invited to be present.
The Evangelical Conference, at Sto-
ry City, sent Rev. M. J. Conner to
the Hamlin charge, and sent Rev. e..
w. Plummer to Red Oak.
Those who attended the dance at
George Smiths, last Friday night,
are emphatic in pronouncing it the
most enjoyable occasion of the year.
Wilbur Walker has constructed an
incubator after his own heart and
now he proposes to go into the chick
en- raising business with both feet and
one arm.
Ed. Schoonover and Will Thomas
say that if you will bring your milk
to the station sweet they will heat it
by steam and keep it SO for forty
eight hours.
To all new subscribers or those who
pay n year in advance we will send
the Journal one year and the Iowa
Homestead from now until January
l, 1898, for just $1.0o.
Harry Percy and family wilLseen
go 70 Cedar county, Iowa, for a good
long visit. While he is away Tom
Crees and wife will be at the Station
and attend to Harry's stock.
The people of Old Hamlin are beau
tifying their homes this week by set
ting out evergreens. Charley Miller,
Lon Bradley and C. C. Rice have beer
setting outsevergreens this week.
The Young Peoples Glass at the
Station will NEST at school house No,
2, next Sunday morning at 10 O'Clock
and the Glass at Old Hamlin will
meet at the school house there at the
same time.
Harm Rice and Uncle S. d. Coon.
rod were among those who attended
Alfred Bartlett's funeral, at Extra,
Wednesday, and while there whiled
away a few pleasant moments at
Journal den.
Weatherman s. d. Coonrod
that touring March there were twenty.
five cloudy days. Fourteen days Of
north wind. Twelve days of south
wind. The coolest day was the 2Sth
The warmest day was the 9th.
Will Mcclure wishes to III,
form all those who are indebt.
ed to him on account that they
must came and settle their account OF
or before April 1st, next, as it il
necessary that he have some money
The Hamlin township Trustees me-
Monday and swore Harry Percy into
Office. They made a levy of four mill
1.-TWO mills to be paid in money anG
two in labor. They also made a levy
Of one-half off mill for a board O
health fund.
Blacksmith Clark Wilson has com,
to the surface and announces that h,
is a candidate for the Hamlin post,
office. He has a good following O
his fellow-townsmen and has a strong
endorsement from his army comrade
Congressman John F. Lacy, of the
Sixth Iowa District,