Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-02-24
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1 Baby Mable Ide was quite i'll part
of the past week.
Shoe repairing neatly done at H. P.
Buffor's home, in Oakfeld. See him.
Seneca Howard is building an adj
dition to his farm house, down in the
woods.
Jens Hansen, the little painter, will
move his family to Elkhorn the latter
part of the week.
Clos Hansen was down from Kim
ballton, Tuesday, visiting his BROTH
ers, Jens and Erik.
Miss Este Simpson went to Allan
tic, Monday, to attend a musical, in
which she was to take part.
The Oakfeld Township and the
Elkhorn Creameries shipped out 4 )
500 pounds of butter this week.
Charley and May and Pearl Jen-
kins will move to the Jens Hansen
house, in Brayton, the first of next
week.
Mrs. w. H. Bripkerhoff was so bad
ly afflicted this week with an aching
tooth that she, had Doctor Koob put
cold steel around the outside of the
said tooth and yank 'em out.
Moses Brinkerhoff and Ernest Cot
ton were at Audubon one day this
week and wrote answers to a set of
questions handed them by County
Superintendent Robert Spencer.
j. F. Bergh has thirty -one head Of
very fine steers that he has nearly
ready for market and his neighbor,
Clarence Noon, also has good bunch
of fat cattle that he will either ship
or sell to some Of the buyers.
w. H. Pearson was shooting a frac-
tious horse, Tuesday afternoon when
the animal gave an extra lunge and
catching Hanks best left hand just
right and tore all the flesh off of that
hand " from stem to gudgeon."
! Albert Bintner went to Chicago,
last Sunday, with the Hallock-Simp-
4
go to La Fayette, Indiana, to pass a
few days with his sister, Bessie, who
is attending a Catholic school in that
city.
On Sunday, March 9th, there will
be roll call at the Baptist church,
in Brayton, and they are preparing to
have regular jubilee time that day.
Rev. Harry Ferguson and a number
of ministers from abroad will be pres
ent and the day will close with love
feast and one grand sweet song.
] Monday the following Braytor
i Woodmenites went to Extra to help
gather in few green saplins: Doctor
Koob, Horace Bartlett, Sidney Nc
CURE, Frank and Willis Jenkins
Kirk Merrick, j. A. Slender, Lou.
Miller, George Hoegh, Chris Jessen,
Erik and Jens Hansen, Nels Nelsel
, and John Hansen.
When the special train pulled out
from the Brayton depot these
persons were on board, bound for
Chicago, some on pleasure bent and
Others to attend to business: .Messrs
I. P. Hallock, B. F. Simpson, Hon.
Tom Kelley, Charley Bison, j. P.
Bendixen, Tom McGovern, Albert
Bintner, and Tom Wilhelm, the drug
gist, at Audubon.
In leaving the farm Of Mr.. and Mrs.
b. f. Simpson, where we have lived
t SO long and where we have been treat
ed with such marked acts of kindness
J by each and every member of that
!. family, we wish to thank them from
! the bottom of our hearts. May God,
in His infinite mercy, deal gently
! with them, will ever be our prayer
a where'er our footsteps may wander
HANS PETERSON AND FAMILY.
We were just a little previous il
our item in last weeks paper in regard
9 to Anna Coleman's marriage to d. M
!, Mcdonald. However, it is all right
as James Coleman and Mr.. Mcdonald
were at Audubon Tuesday morning
' and secured a marriage license and oil
$ Wednesday Anna was married to thu
: man Of her choice, and we presume
9 by this time they are in their Nebras
ka home, at Pierce, as happy as two
;, CLANS in high water.
The Troublesome Valley Creamer,
e Association has hired j. p. Nelson
g the man who worked for Frank Will
cox at his Guthrie County Lin
+ Creamery, as their buttermaker TO
; the first year. President John Bergl
y and Secretary Nick Bintner, were a
II Extra last Monday perfecting plan
e for the creamery and informed us tina
they would buy their machiner.
: about the first Of March and as 500
o as the engine arrives til Id hav
: it placed in position al. tn
II creamery building would inn. late
e iy begin to rise above it. The boar
! Of directors met this week and let tn
t milk hauling contracts and prett
! soon we expect to see things just
e whizzin'" about the Troublesom
d Valley Creamery.