Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
Hamlin Department,

Hamlin Department..
Will Thomas " bachedit" with Lu.
Bryan last Sunday.
The Creamery shipped forty-two
tubs of butter Tuesday.
Jane Blake sold Harry Percy car
load Of oats this week,-1, 1867 bushels.
| Major E. A. Consigny, of Avoca,
was at the Station talking flour to
our merchants.
Monday was a big day at the Cream
cry, that day they took in $4,000
pounds of milk.
| Chris Peterson ceased to BIZ milk
hauler Tuesday, his route being taken
up by. Dan Branstatter.
Frank Tyler came home from the
Audubon school, last Friday, and is
once more farmer lad.
Harry Percy has A. R. Turner, Bill
Keightley and James Elrod busy at
work remodeling his house.
Joe Bell is trying to ride bicycle.
My, you ought to see him make those
girations through the atmosphere.
Supervisor w. D. Stanley went up
to Audubon, Tuesday morning, to
view that wrecked bridge out north
of the fair grounds.
They are holding daily prayer
meetings in the sick room of Mrs.
Bell. That lady does not recover her
health very ranid1y
The Blue Grass Creamery now has
1O7 patrons, j. A. Overholtz and H.
Nickleson being the last to add their
names on the big book.
At the Station: Sunday School at
I $3.50 o'clock in the forenoon; preach.
Z ing at 1880; Little Glass at $50 i'll
the evening; Prayer Meeting at 1880.
Mr.. r. Emery lost one of his best
horses while on his way to the Cream
cry, last Tuesday. When he got to
the Sheets place the animal fell down
in the road and Immediately expired.
Charlie Gill while prowling around
in the John Dimick timber, Sunday,
clapped his optics on fat coon. Char
ley hit him swat that killed him
q and then he dragged him home and
sknuhim."
al Alex Crees was attacked by typhoid
n fever last week Wednesday and for a
q few days was mighty sick man. He
& is some better now but in will be
\ three months before he is well once
more and able for work.
y At the knights Templar parade, in
& Atlantic, Ascension Day while the
y management was casting about for a
n suitable person to carry the banner
q their eye fell on our Henry Young
q and he was chosen color bearer.
q Elder Charley Smithsshipped his
Y library, from the Station to Pine Flat
Y Pennsylvania, where he has accepted
q call from a Christian church. Char
8 ley has host of friends in this county
4 who wish him we'll wherever duty
q calls.
n Chas. Zimm, the great butter com
q mission man was at the Creamery thi.
81 week and made our Ed. and Will
4 blush like school girl when he tolc
81 them that in the market the BLU
81 Grass Creamery butter sold in prefer
"a ence to the famous Elgin butter.
" Friday of next week will be tn
: last day of school, for the spring term
:, at Brushy College. The director ant
;, scholars would be glad to retain thei
!, teacher, Miss Bessie Bowman, but a
:, Miss Bessie has been elected to posi-
= tion in the Extra City Schools, tina
would be impossible.
ir The Old Hamlin Methodist Clas
'r No. 2 meets at 1000 o'clock in tn
forenoon, S. D. Coonrod and Winni
;s White leaders. Sunday School at
20 O'clock in the afternoon, F.. A. White
er Superintendent. Prayer Meeting a
7:30 O'clock in the evening. Glass Nc
es l meets at O'clock, e. Miller, leader
N Weather Observer S. D. Coonro
es says there were eighteen clear days
TX the month of May; thirteen cloud
days; thirteen days the wind BILE
ey from the south; twelve days in BILE
from the north; there was but OF
:. inch of rain fell. During 1896 eigf
"a and seven-eighths inches Of rain fe
o? during the month OF May.
The Board of Directors and IN
'to jority of the members of the BIZ
ce Grass Creamery Company met la
,es Tuesday for the purpose of holdil
their annual election when it was d
ey cided that all the old officers shou
"A hold over with the exception
ks Director, Dan Branstatter, and &c
Spencer was elected in his stead.
ICE ICE was also decided to buy a small sep
ees rator of from 800 to 1000 poun
ma capacity per hour. The machine
lev to cost $4,000.
iof The Sunday School Convention,
,co the Station, last Sunday aftern,,
W was the grandest affair of the ki
that ever took place in Hamlin tow
ship. We hear the papers read
10 Miss Winnie White and Ed. Schoc
'a.s over, and the music furnished by I
peg Misses Bryan very highly spoken
kih M, as was also the productions of seve
lies others, the authors names we tai
eeo to remember. The spacious chul
Hey building was crowded and many W
TOT unable to gain admittance.