Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-04-14
HamliR Department..

w. H. Warner had quite severe
i'll spell this past week, but is much
better now.
While little tardy we arise to an
nounce that there is new boy baby
down at Classy Roots happy home.
Up to last Tuesday Harry Percy
Counselman had shipped out twenty
two carloads of the Counselman oats.
The Methodist soliciting committee
have succeeded in raising 100000
with which to build new church at
Old Hamlin.
This week j. II. Moore sold twenty
five awfully nice hogs to Mr.. Brown,
the owner of that big ranch, over in
Melville township.
Jim McNutt kindly allowed the
Methodist people, of Extra, to dig up
young maple trees on his farm to set
out on their church grounds.
Robert Sizer received a good sized
bunch Of small fruit trees from At
lantic, last Tuesday morning, to set
out on his fine farm, above the Sta
ton.
J. A. Kerr, Secretary of the Audu-
bon County Sunday School Associa-
ton, will speak at the school house,
in Old Hamlin, next Sunday afternoon
at O'Clock.
Will MCGUIRE has fenced in a little
farm on the south side Of his store,
has had it plowed up and will sow
grass seed and all kinds Of garden seed
on the same to use on his table.
Two of Henry Young's calves got
mired in Blue Grass, last Saturday
night and no one hearing their cries
they sank deeper and deeper until
water covered their heads and they
drowned.
Uncle Mace Gill, Harry Percy,
Henry Young and James Elrod went
to Extra last Sunday and marched
with their Masonic brethren to the
Congregational church and heard
Rev. III. L. Wissler deliver his Easter
Sermon.
Willis Hopkins got new horse on
last Monday and in the afternoon he
thought he would go out and pillow a
few rounds with his new horse. Wills
says heguesses that he had gone about
thirty rods when the animal fell
down in its tracks-dead!
That horse of Wib Smiths that
was so badly cut up when they ran
away with the disc harrow, a short
time ago, hobbled about until last
Saturday when Wib, to get the ami
NAL out of its misery, mauled it over
the head until its spirit had assembled
to horse heaven.
The Evangelical Conference in ses-
sion at Creston, the past week re-
turned Rev. Conner to Hamlin Sta
ton for another year, much to the
delight of his flock. That gentleman
will move his family from Audubon
to the new parsonage, at the Station
as soon as it is ready, probably the
latter part of the present week.
Supervisor w. d. Stanley has just
finished his task of numbering the
county bridges and finds that il
Leroy township there are forty: il
Melville, twenty; Greeley, twenty
seven; Hamlin, thirty 1.-TWO. Tha
bridge at the Blue Grass Creamery i
No. u, the one east is No. IS. ant
the one near the Stanley home is No
IL.
Following is the assessors repol
Of his findings in Hamlin township
Numbers Of polls under forty-fiv
years, 1913; over, AZ: one year. old colts
As, value, 1,l64; o-year-old colts
"A, value 1,452; three ear-old colts
So, value $2,096; horses, COZ, valu
S22,S66; mules, 40, value So, 1876; one
year-old heifers, 22S, value $500; two
year-old heifers, 1874, value 1926
cows, 757, value 1914, 44S; one-y ear oil
steers, 225, value S., 592; two-year- oil,
steers, 81, value 81, $50; three ear-o
steers, 46, value So, 132; bulls, 36, val
ne S1,2l2; swine. 2,771, value 81, %:
sheep, l42, value $56S.00; moneys an,
credits, actual value, 81 ,692; merchaD
disc, actual value, $50, O96; other taxa
BILE property, actual value 81, 600; tn
total value, S113,0S4: 145 men are liza
Bile to military duty; there 1T NAL
dogs and four female dogs.
II. X. GILL, Assessor