Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14
Hanlin Department.

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Postmaster James Elrod was at
Audubon last Tuesday.
Will Sheets baby, that has been so
ill, is improving nicely.
Additional Hamlin news will be
found on another page of this paper.
Willis Grace shipped car of hay
from the Station on last Wednesday.
George Dimick has built large
new crib in which to store his crop
of corn.
Erastus Lafoy will begin keeping
bachelors hall, on the Ed. Rice farm,
next week.
A merry crowd gathered and sur
prised Arthur Warner last Wednes-
day evening.
Mrs. M. Schoonover, mother of Ed.
has gone to Elliott to visit with her
old time friends.
Sheets " Terry finished their
threshing season this week and they
booked over SS00.00.
Jacob Keck and wife, of Cedar
county, Nebraska, are visiting with
Ed. Lafoy and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schoonover were at
Audubon, Tuesday, visiting friends
and doing some shopping.
Daniel Brandstatter is busy just
now hauling $50 bushels of wheat to
Harry Percy at the Station.
The Methodist people will begin a
series of revival meetings at the school
house, in Old Hamlin, this evening.
Mr.. Bird Thorp and family will
start OH the return trip to their home
in Oklahoma next Monday morning
Hub Shoesmith will return to the
Station next week and Mr.. Luke
Baker will go back to North Branch
Ed. Schoonover was up to Audi.
dubon the other day and purchased
one of John McFarlane's best farm
wagons.
Mr.. Morris Brown, man wht
weighs 440 pounds, and lives at Grin
nell, is here visiting his friend, Johl
McKibben.
j. j. and Johnny Dimick hav,
erected long row of sheds to protec
their herd Of cattle from the howlin.
blasts of winter.
Albert Well, who is now travelin,
for Deer, Wells Il Company, at Coun
Gil Bluffs, was visitor at the Static
last Tuesday evening.
Enos Struthers, who has been i
the far west for some time, arrive
one day this week TO visit his wifi
who mas been very ill.
John McKibben, Harry Spence
and James Boyer from down thi
way are doing duty at Audubon thi
week as Petit Jurymen.
Miss Jessie and her brother Ber
McNutt, who live east of Loral
were up this way, Tuesday, visiting
with their relatives and friends.
The pastures have fallen off so tina
! the Blue Grass Creamery will onl
run four days in the Mondays
Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturday
Lutte McNutt, who has been in I'll
Black Hills for few years past, al
rived last Monday to visit with HI
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James McNut
aud ~ how Ia WOO n rl frsonl,
Mrs. Albert Pratten is just recoy
ering from severe i'll spell. Albel
has been tortured for few days pas
with felon, and was at Extra las
Monday and had Doctor Newton lane
it, and now Albert experiences som
relief
Sitting on Will McGuire's sho,
case is curiously formed potato
, after mother natures plan and beal
, this play card: "My name is Maggi
Murphy, / weigh two pounds AN
nine ounces, and was raised on til
, farm of f. b. Holnes.'
, The subscriptian papers circulate
for the purpose of buying team fc
!, Hans P. Petersen, whose team ws
killed last summer by lightning, hay
. been collected and a team was pul
; chased, one horse from Rob't Muller
i ger and another from Will Kopesk,
This year Daniel Brandstatter COZ
cluded that he would experimer
with sugar beets. He planted tw
r patches and tended them ditferentl
e and then selected two ordinary bee
$ and sent them to the State Agricultl
raj College, at Ames, to be teste
! He has received a reply stating th'
. one beet averaged 1541 per cent. al
+ the other averaged l6 per cent. M
J, Brandstatter has loi of intormatio
: for farmers which will soon be prin
9 ed in the Journal.
! Don't Forget That Drill Wells.