Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-10-27
Dan Thomas and wife went to the
fair, Monday.

j. c. Boyer drove down to Extra
on business last Tuesday.
Mrs. Murphy was down at the Sta.
ton, Wednesday afternoon.
Will Young dug forty bushels of
winter potatoes last Monday.
o. P. Tyler is taking his fifth trip
to the Exposition this week.
Mrs. Conner visited with the Jap
Skinner family, Wednesday.
Calvin Dimick's baby was quite
sick the fore part of the week.
Mrs. Jens Hansen's mother has
been quite ill, but is better now.
The Graham boys are husking corn
for Thomas Law, in Melville.
For the past week trade at the
Hamlin stores has been very brisk.
Little Eva Smith has been under
the weather for the past few days.
Miss Cora Cook was visiting at
Mrs. Ed. Dryden's last Wednesday.
Miss Cora Layland visited at the
hcme of M. MCGUIRE, over Sunday.
Clark Wilson is putting new cogs
in the power of the threshing machine.
Mrs. Banning and Mrs. John Cook
are visiting at Wib Smiths this week.
VIM. Rucker has just finished a
new buggy house on his farm, near
Hamlin.
Fresh fish for sale by Grandpa
Coonrod every Friday at the Hamlin
postofflce.
Tom Crees bought new wagon
last Saturday, and we hear he is quite
proud of it.
j. G. Weber has sold his farm of
forty acres for consideration of
$4,000 per acre.
Charley Crees and wife are back to
spend the winter with Grandpa and
Grandma Crees.
Jake Banning is over at Stuart
spending week with brother-in-
law aU lnaI plaCe.
Ed. Dryden started Tuesday even
ing for Iowa City to visit with his
mother for a week.
George Gill is having a new we'll
made on his place, Bruner and Ref
are doing the work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Percy enter
tanned a pleasant family party at din
ner, Sunday evening.
Mrs. Tom Gill returned Monday,
from ten days visit with old time
friends and neighbors, at Brayton.
Tom Crees and wife go to Marion
county next week to visit couple of
weeks with her sister, Mrs. Kirkpat-
rick.
Rev. Conner, who is in Ringgold
county building corn crib on his
farm, is expected back the last of the
week.
Miss Hannah Christensen expects
to go to Elkhorn soon to visit with
the family OF Chris Christensen for
while.
George Smith is the Champion
gardner Of Hamlin. He has one beet
on exhibition that must weigh nearly
eight pounds.
Mrs. George Smith was seen driv-
ing rapidly home from George CLIPS
in new fashioned buggy, Wednes-
day afternoon.
Milt Harris, from Warren county,
who has been here visiting his sister,
Mrs. Keightley, left for West Bend,
"Wednesday evening.
Joe Bell raised one hundred and
twenty five bushels of potatoes on
less than an acre of ground, near Old
Hamlin, this season.
James Keightlev, who has been
visiting his brother, George, at West
Bend for the past two weeks, return
ed home last Monday.
A merry party of young people
gathered at the residence Of VIM.
Christ ensen, last Sunday evening, and
a SOott tliiC IL ICpOItcu.
Rob't Campbell has bought 800
acres of land in Texas, forty miles
from Galveston, and will move there
as soon as the crops are out Of the
way.
Vic Anciaux commenced corn pick
ing last Monday. He thinks it will
take him about month as he has one
hundred acres to gather, and expects
to average about one hundred bushels
per day.
1t has always been considered bad
luck 10 lose wedding ring SO Mrs.
George Petersen was greatly pleased
to find hers, which had been lost for
some weeks, under cabbage head in
the garden, the other day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Crees, with their