Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-21

oeoiSe oteIlilll IL llOC Improving In
health.
The JOURNAL and Toledo Blade for
only $1.25 cash.
John Coleman is building a large
barn for Sol Leighty.
Mr.. j. S. Barger, the monument
maker, continues very ill.
Rev. Cousins will occupy the Pres
byterian pulpit next Sunday.
Hart & Eddy are making some new
desks for the Columbian library.
Mrs. John A. Nash entertained her
lady friends Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Phillips are
back from their Mahaska county visit.
F. M. Zion and family moved onto
their farm, south of town, last Friday.
This week Frank Taylor sold 1850
bushels of'95 corn at 1S4c per bushel.
Fred Searls, who farms it south
west of town, is building an addition
to his house.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. AIRY will entertain
a company of friends Friday evening
of this week.
Hart & Eddy have received a big
stock of seasoned hardwood lumber
from Chicago.
John Mechanical, of Salina, Kansas,
Il
visiting old friends.
DR.. Brooks and Lawyer Mosier
leave Saturday for hunting outing
at the northern lakes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Handles now en-
joy the comforts of a new surry they
bought of McFarlane.
Hart & Eddy have completed an
extra big water tank for John Bon
wells Viola stock farm.
Mrs. B. Q. Brookfeld, of north
Lincoln township,was a guest of Mrs.
E. Bilharz, Wednesday.
Hamp Jones was creased and pulled
through the second rank at the X. P.
Castle Hall Tuesday evening.
Peter Ohm is arranging to buy a
corn shelter and will make it buzz
with his new Rumley steam traction
engine.
Stonebrook Il Mccall have received
the first installment of their holiday
chinaware. 1t is an extensive array of
beauty.
Mr.. j. j.. Naylor, of Melville, has
purchased, OF Frank Armstrong, the
lumber to build barn, 40 by Ga feet
in size.
Jay Shingledecker and Joe McFad-
den are each building mammoth corn
cribs. They purchased the lumber of
Frank Armstrong.
When you are at Audubon stop at
the TwINING HOUSE. Big square
meal 15c, day board SOC, board by
the week only $3.50.
Sam Wilson, Wednesday, shipped
his steam threslling outfit back to
Newton, having had profitable sea-
sons work in this locality.
Austin Flemming, of Peoria, Illi-
nois, is here visiting friends and look
ing after farm lands and farm mort
cages he owns in this county.
j. Shingledecker, of Melville town.
ship struck it rich. His twenty-nine
acres of clover yielded him eighty
bushels of excellent clover seed.
During the threshing season Just
closed Fred Sunburg's threshing bust
ness figured up to $4,000. Most of
the time he used horse power.
KLONDIKE PROFITS without
KLONDIKE discomforts. See
GEO. E. KELLOGG
Audubon.
So far this fall McFarlane has sold
three carloads of wagons. He has Or
dered another carload of Moline wag-
on and lot of Charter Oak wagons.
G.. II. Stemm, Tuesday, sold two
carloads of baled hay to Eugene Tai
bott at $500 per ton, and recently he
sold 900 bushels of this years corn at
2lc per bushel.
Mrs. j. A. Humiston is suffering of
a serious attack of scarlet fever. The
house is under strict quarantine regu-
latioEs. The lady's parents, of Cedar
Rapids are at her bedside.
That big Hess Heater will make j.
F. Russell's store comfortable when
the frosty days come. 1t is monster
stove, weighs 1920 pounds and cost
$4,000, being bought of John Refine
mund & Son.
Fred Butterton and wife have re-
turned from good visit with their
daughter in Mahaska. That is great
potato county and Fred reports pota-
toes yielding only from ten to thirty
bushels per acre.
NJ. w. Jensen, late of Sioux City,
is now doing tailor work at Lidd's
shop. He is an extra fine workman
and speaks both English and Danish.
He will be pleased to have his friends
call and see him at the Lidd store.
John Gray was in Audubon Wed.
nesday and bought fire and burg
lar proof safe of Chas. Van Gorder
which he shipped to Marine TO be used
in Mr.. Gray'S new hank which will