Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-06-30

following is the program:
Music Cornet Band
Song---.-----------.- ---------------GleeC Club
Inyocation ciaa ci;;h
Reading Declaration .------.:I Irene jenkins
Gia avs c hnn
Song....,-------Esta and Ina Edmumdson
Recitation Ruby Chamberlain
Instrumental Music
oo rationP Prof. W. II. Brinle gho
Remarks.----.--------.----Hon Hon. T. l. Kelley
Basket Dinner Eyerybodv
Various entertaining amusements.
Fireworks in evening.
Come everybody and help make glor-
iouS celebration.
At the special meeting of the Extra
township school board on last Satur-
day the following teachers were cleo
ted:
No. l, Ida Hockenberry, fall and
winter terms.
No. 2, Beth Henry, fall term; An
thony Cihak, winter term.
No. 3, Blanch Noon, fall and win
ter terms.
No. 4, Ernest Cotton, fall and win
ter terms.
No. 5, Francina Heath, fall and
winter terms of Brayton school.
No. 5, Clara Ordway, fall and win
ter terms, primary department.
No. 5, w. H. Brinkerhoff, fall and
winter terms, high school.
No. Z, Arthur Hawk, fall and win
ter terms.
No. s, Josephine Lanier, fall and
winter terms.
No. 8, Annie Slender, fall term.
The board refused to allow the
damages assessed on the Hallock
school road.
The following interesting letter from
Ward Smith to Prof Brinkerhoff was
received last week:
CAMP MERRITT, CAL, June l9.
DEAR FRIEND:-I have seen SO
many different things that I don't
know what to write about, so | will
copy from my diary:
June 13-I left on the nine o'clock
train for Atlantic, everybody wishing
me good luck and the Brayton band
turning out TO see me off. On board
the train I found four Audubon boys
who were going to enlist. We stayed
over night at the Occidental hotel.
June 1--we took the morning train
for Red Oak, where we heard we coulC
enlist for the Philippines and 60 day
sooner. We found the recruiting of
flee in the opera house, and got my
name down for examination second or
the list of our crowd, which now filled
a cara lot of Atlantic and GriswolC
boys going at the same time. The ex
animation was very strict one of thu
Audubon boys being rejected. W.
were sworn in at eleven o'clock, afte
which we were taken to the Park no
tel and given dinner at Uncle SAM
expense There were fifty-four of US
We took the G. B. & q. for Denver a
two o'clock, the ladies loading the ca
with baskets of provisions that LASTED
us nearly through. The car was |
chair car and the boys cut up so we die
not get to sleep much. / got acquain
} ted with Day, Scott, Clayton and Hoff
man, of Atlantic. They are good fel
; lows. The w. r. G. took us to TIN
Park hotel for supper, the best hote
. in Denver; they also made arrange
ments with the street car lines to furn
ish us free transportation when WI
wanted to see the town. Left Denve
at 6:45, having changed cars. The U
p. Ry. furnished us with the sleepe
J Pioneer" the same which Abraham
, Lincoln rode to Washington in ant
the one which afterwards carried tn
remains to their last resting place
Reached Cheyenne at 1890.
June 16-Woke up OH top of noun
tains in Wyoming. Took coffee a
Green River at $3.50; coffee at Ogdel
at 1:55.
June 1--we took breakfast at Wads
worth which was furnished by tn
Ladies of the Red Cross. Here GU
f first rations of hardtack and canne'
beet were issued The bareback j
about the size of oyster crackers an
put up in paper cartoons. They are al
! o. K Took coffee at Lovelock, passe
over the Sierra Nevadas and thrOug
Sacramento; was ferried over Sacra
lnento river in our car to Oaklan
: where the Red Cross ladies gave us
good supper.
June 1S-Took steamer across tn
e bay five miles to San Francisco wher
T we took breakfast furnished by tn
" Red Cross, after which we took stree
car and rode out to Camp Merritt fiv
: miles. We had good view of tn
Z city. When we marched into cam
the Iowa boys cheered us and we wen
: down to the Red Cross tent whel
IS there are lots of books and where W
come to write, and waited until tn
Colonel returned, when he reviewe
us and sent us to our respective con
u panies found one boy from Audi
q bon county by the name of Petty i
U our company We will probably pf