Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-04-21
OAKFIELD e. BRAYTON

Mcclure pays the highest price for
Produce and Poultry.
Jens Hansen has quit work on the
B. F. Simpson farm and has moved
back to Brayton.
The butter factories this week sent
out sixty-eight hundred pounds of
butter to the eastern market the past
week.
Jens Hansen, the little painter,
was down from Elkhorn last Sunday.
He contemplates building residence
in that hamlet.
Big Tom McGovern joined the
Brayton Woodman Lodge Tuesday
night. Tell you what he was big
load for the goat.
John Doyl went to Extra last Mon
day to work for Captain Henry DON
ahue. He will move his family up
there little later on.
That New England Supper last
Tuesday evening was a decided big
success and Melted the Ladies' Aid
Society neat little sum.
Min Browns family have moved
back to Atlantic. We are sorry to
see them go as they have many warm
friends in this neck o. the woods.
Albert Miller has about finished a
handy addition to his already COM
Portable farm home, which convinces
us that our friend Albert is prosper
ing.
Mrs. Lima Delahoyde drove down
from Extra last Saturday night and
took her mother, Mrs. w. H. Brink
erhoff, up to hear "The Ottumwas :"
sing.
" Chicago Petersen" that thrifty
Danish farmer, marketed thirty head
OF very fine hogs, in Brayton, Mon
day, selling them to jenkins q Com
pany.
On Arbor Day, Friday, April 30,
the Oakfeld and Brayton schools
will unite in observing the event,
with exercises in the Brayton
church.
Now when Miss Ida Hockenberry's
school is out on Friday night she
rides home in that elegant new road
cart she bought of johnson e Thomp-
son this week.
The person who wrote that letter
| to Mr. White and failed to put either
Town or State and dropped it in the
Brayton postoffice had better go there
and address it.
A bakers dozen of our people went
up to Extra last Saturday night tc
hear "The Ottumwas'' sing and all
expressed themselves as delighted
with the entertainment.
That fellow with an adhesive touch
was at the dance in the Troublesome
urday night, and he got Sam Pear.
sons pocket containing $500.
| j. T. Essington was at Brayton OF
Tuesday getting the material will
which to put in new frame to hi
set of farm scales. One day this weel
Uncle James was visiting his friend
and transacting business at Audubon
Miss Jessie Kleinman, the lady elo
cutionist that was with "The Ottum
was" came down with Mr.. l. P. Hal
lock, after the show Saturday night
and Uncle Ike and his family tool
special delight in showing her arount
over the big farm on Sunday morn
ing.
| H. P. Hansen, who lives on tn,
Andrew Eebeck place, west of Bray
ton, besides being number one farm
er is considerable of a swine raiser
Tuesday he was in Brayton deliver
ing thirty five head of as fine hogs;
the Jenkins Company as you eve
saw.
When they got in front of Professo
Brinkerhoff home, at Oaktield, tn
Other day with those two hundred
head of western cattle that Mr.. P. E
Howell had been feeding, they be-
came frightened and executed a reg
ular roundup" and war dance. Fo
a few minutes all that could be seel
was whirling of horns and the mix
ing Of men and animals, like the rusl
OF mighty river. Fortunately nj
one was hurt.
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