Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-09-16

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were State Fair visitors Tuesday.
Joe Smith and Ben Clark attended
campmeeting at Lewis last Sunday.
Elmer Green, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sam Green, is very ill oftyphoid fever.
Jens Hansen soon goes to Council
Bluffs to decorate Mrs. Billiards.
residence.
John Mcconnell was so i'll this
week that Doctor Riley, of Extra,
was called.
Lawyer Theo. F. Myers, of Audu-
bon, was a guest of P. F. Howell on
Monday evening.
Jake Civilians is preparing to
move to Des Moines where he will
work in the coal mines.
Frank Greer and -Theo Ordway
flung dull care to the dogs and visit
ed the State fair this week.
Charlie Doner and family will move
to John Lorah's house and Ben Shirley
will occupy the MCGUIRE cottage.
1. P. Hallock has enlarged his deer
park and now they have the free use
of the whole yard north of the house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Rattenborg, of
Oakfield township, are the proud
parents of a sweet girl baby, born
last week.
Mrs. Nettie Bruner was too ill to
teach part of the past week and her
sister, Blossom Brinkerhoff, taught in
her stead.
Mrs. I. H. Jenkins, S. B. Clark and
Del Heath were among those who at
tended the Baptist meeting, at Attain
tic, last Sunday.
Jens q. Hansen, the big stock
feeder of Oakfield township, is now
feeding nice bunch of cattle for the
| December market.
The Three Smiths have added to
the beauty of interior of their store,
at Oakfeld, by placing new show
cases upon their counters.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. c. Hawk came
home from their western trip last
Saturday and were much pleased
with the country round about York.
Charlie Jenkins work team became
frightened and ran away the other
day and before they were stopped one
of the horses was terribly cut in a
barb wire fence.
Charlie Milliman and family bid
their Oakfield relatives and friends
goodbye, last Tuesday, and moved
back to Extra where they will occupy
the Will brinkerhoff new cottage.
Owen Ide and Ernie Cotton rode
up to Audubon one night this week
and brought home fine flock of sheep.
They purchased thirty-eight head Of
B. II. Oelke; eighteen of Jake NASH
ing and fifteen head of VIM. Clark.
These together with the eighty head
that Owen had makes him nice
sized flock.
Last Sunday Misses Mary Cotton,
Blossom Brinkerhoff, Gussie Brown,
audc Heual, Este Simpson, Chris
| tiene Thompson, Anna and Elsie
Slender, Irene Jenkins, Roscoe Essing.
ton, Frank Devine and Willis Jenkins
all drove to Atlantic in lumber
wagon last Sunday and attended the
Baptist meeting.
Last Sunday while Peter Miller, of
Oakfield township, and his sister,
Miss Amalie, were driving to the
Hoegh celebration, they escaped what
might have been very serious run
away. They were going down hill
when the neck yoke broke and the
horses proceeded to disengage them
selves from the buggy but not in
jured. Mr.. Miller finally got the
horses stopped and everything re-
paired.
Andrew Jensen, of Atlantic, who
has relatives in Oakfield township,
ended his own life last Wednesday
morning. Dependency brought on
by financial reverses is said to have
caused the desperate act. He was IS
years old and leaves wife and two
small children to mourn his untimely
death. He carried life insurance
amounting to $4,000, which will
come as God send to the bereaved
family.
Last Sunday, Sept. 18th, 1897, was
the both birthday of Supervisor Nels
T. Hoegh and in honor of the event
his friends gathered at his pleasant
home in Oakfield township in large
numbers. Many of the guests ar
rived early and partook of the splen-
did midday repast. By 2 O'Clock
nearly 300 people had assembled on
the shady lawn and then came the
event of the day. The guests were
quietly called together in group
and then Mr.. Hoegh was presented
with an elegant gold watch and
chain. The watch bore this inscrip-
ton neatly engraved in Danish,
which translated in English reads:
Presented by friends to Nels P.
Hoegh, on his 50th birthday, 1897. !"
Rev. Gravengaard made the presenta-
ton speech. The gift came as total
surprise to Mr.. Hoegh and he re-
sponded with thanks. The rest of
the afternoon was snpnt in COMO