Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-06-23
OAKFIELD 6 BRAYTON

.. K. Ballard has gone 10 Colorado
on pleasure trip.
f. l.. Freeman drove to Extra
Tuesday on business.
j. G. Hartman has bought brand
new hay stacker Of BendiXen.
Geo. Jones, OF Oakfeld township,
has new top buggy bought OF
johnson Il Thompson.
Mesdames Delahoyde and Charles
Milliman Sundayed at the Brinker-
! hotf home in Oaktield.
McGovern & Bison shipped a car
load Of hogs from this point Tuesday
and the same day the Jenkins Com
pany shipped load.
There will be a meeting of the
Extra township school board at the
school house in Oaktied next Satur-
day at one o'clock in the aft ernoon.
Mrs. John 0. Cotton and child will
arrive from Baltimore, Maryland, on
June 2Sth to visit for several weeks
with relatives and friends in this part
Of the county.
Fred Merrick, of Lake Geneva,
Wisconsin, is here visiting his
brothers, Art and Kirk and many
friends. Fred says Iowa is great
state but Wisconsin beats us.
l. P. Hallock is the proud posses
sor of pair of young fawns. They
made their first appearance Monday
evening Of last week and are about
the cutest little pets you ever saw.
Ingvard Birk is one of the happiest
men in Oaktield township and Grand
pa johnson smiles a broad smile.
Early Friday morning Mr.. and Mrs.
Birk became the parents of a bright
baby boy.
On account Of the bad weather the
social at No. s Smoky Hill will be
given over again on Friday evening
June "a. There will be speaking, dia-
logues and music. Ice cream and cake
will be served.
j. O.. Wade and wife-she who was
Iona Harter, is here from Omaha
visiting at the Harter home south of
Oakfield. Mr.. Wade is a contractor
and has this spring been working on
the Exposition crumbs.
Nels P. Hoegh and Rev. N. P.
Gravengaard are at Omaha this week
attending the conference of the DAN
ish Lutheran church of which Rev.
GraveDgaard is secretary. While
there they will take in the big fair.
Miss Dossie Barry leaves this week
for Michigan and will spend several
weeks visiting relatives and friends at
La Pierre, Imley City, Leroy, Port
Huron and Lansing. Her father,
Agent L. w. Barry, will accompany
her as far as Chicago, whittier he goes
on business trip.
Last Saturday evening the Ode
| Fellows elected the following officers
| j. l.. Anderson, Noble Grand.
| E. A. Jones, Vice Grand.
| d. w. Powers, Secretary.
| w. r. Koob. Treasurer.
installation first Saturday evening
in July.
There was big shipment of butte
left Brayton for Boston last Monday
| $40 pounds were shipped in all. o
this the Oaktield Township creamer,
contributed $500 pounds, the Troub
lesome Valley 2s40 pounds, and tn
Elkhorn $500 pounds. The good
were all consigned to Farnsworth &
Benjamime.
Harry, the 14-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Hans Nymand, west O
Brayton, met with a very painful
accident early Friday morning
While driving some stock home from
the pasture one Of the horses turne,
and kicked the boy on the han'
splitting two Of mis- fingers and in
fiicting a very severe injury on tn
back Of the hand. DR.. Koob wa
called and dressed the wound am
Harry is now convalescing.
Ward Smith has gone to the wal
He left Monday of last week for Ores
ton where he will join company q
recruits that is to 60 to fill up tn
Fifty-tirst Iowa, now at Frisco an
bound for the Philippines. If Ward,
passes muster and gets through al
right he will see considerable coun
t try.
| LATEE-Ward Smith passed tn
examination without flaw and t
| gether with $50 other recruits wa
Immediately sent to join the Fifty
} first Iowa, at San Francisco. He
now laying at Camp Merritt, RICH
5 under the big guns of the Preside
awaiting transportation to Manila.
, The patriotic, liberty loving pee
! pie Of Oak Hill have decided to cele
brate the Fourth of July at Oak Hi
, in proper style this year and the fol
lowing is the program:
10:3G-Address Of Welcome. Rev. n
p. Gravengaard.
Reading of the Declaration {
Independence by Julius Nelson
1l:0O-Address by Rev. p. Jensen
t Hutchinson, Minnesota.
t 12:00-Dinner. All are requisite
: To brino their hackatc