Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-07-28

Mrs. Frank Ridgley is visiting with
her relatives, at Lewis, for few days.
Any one in need of monumental
work should call or write to S. E.
Grant, Atlantic, Iowa.
Lars Jensen is about to sell his forty
acre farm and is making preparations
to visit Old Denmark, the land of his
birth.
Restaurant Man Ammons now re-
Bakery, at Audubon, three days each
week.
| Tune Thomas repaired his engine
and began work with his threshing
outfit, at the Mat Thielen farm, last
Wednesday morning.
Miss Mable Ford and Leon Hellyer
were visiting relatives and friends in
and near Extra, last week, returning
to Atlantic on the Sunday train.
Robert loft came home and stayed
over Sunday. He is cooking for d. w.
Powers graders, who are now working
at the new cemetery in Audubon.
The regular meeting of Exodus
Lodge, No. $40, A. F. and A. NJ,
occurs on Saturday evening, July 80,
1898. A large attendance is antici-
pated.
Al. Fredericks reports the chintz
bugs to be very much alive this season
but they came too late to iniure the
small grain, however they are getting
in their work on corn.
John Crane, agent for the Perry
| Nurseries, is now at home and prepar-
ed to take your order for anything YOU
may want in his line. All stock war
ranted and replaced free.
George McClain ventured downtown
last Saturday afternoon for the first
time since his late sickness George
and four of his children all had the
measles at the same time.
Mr.. Charles E. Smith will preach at
the Church of Christ, in Extra, next
Lords day morning, July 3lst, at IL
O'Clock a. NJ, also in the evening at s
p. m. All are cordially invited to at
tend.
The editor of the Evans City, Penn
sylvania, Globe, writes, cone Minute
Cough Cure is rightly named. 1t
cured my children after all other
remedies failed. I" 1t cures coughs,
colds and all throat and lung troubles.
Word comes from Cowley county,
Kansas, that A. S. Burwell, brother Of
Asel Burwell, who lived at Old Louis
vile, last summer, was bitten on the
cheek by rattle snake, last Sunday,
and is in very precarious condition.
When Al. Voorhees, goes to Council
Bluffs, the first of August, to represent
the Extra X. P. Lodge in the State
Grand Lodge, Mort Marietta, Sam
Brown and Theo. Patty are planning
to go along.
On the 21st of August the Supreme
Lodge of the knights of Pythias of
United States will meet at Indianapo-
lis, Indiana, upon which occasion
Norton Marietta, Deputy Grand
Chancellor Commander of the State of
Iowa, will be in attendance.
"A family parry, composed OF the
Cook and Rabson families, formed
themselves into picnic party and
hied themselves away bright and early
on Sunday for an outing at the lake,
near Lewis, which they enjoyed huge
ly, returning by the light of the moon.
Miss Berdie Gano returned home on
Tuesday evening from Des Moines
where she has been for some time re-
ceiving medical treatment, and is
much improved in health. Miss Ber-
die will not return to Des Moines but
will be treated by a physician at At
lantic.
Monday evening while Olas Jensen,
Walkers wide-awake clerk, and George
Guernsey We're riding along a country
road on top of the "huXtern wagon,
the king-bolt broke, singing the boys
in the weeds. They We're not injured,
and came marching into town as the
sun went down and the next day Will
Woodward took his blacksmith shop
and went out and repaired the damage.
At the Trans Mississippi Exposition
in Omaha August I'd viii be Flower
Day and brilliant floral cavalcade
WIZ W SSSAA eAAesc LAY
will be on August 4th at which time
will occur the opening of the Indian
Congress and forty tribes will be pres
ent and hold powwow" and war
dance. Reduced rates will be given on
all railroads for these occasions, and
admission to the grounds has been cut
to 25c for Sunday, July 3lst.
Mr.. David WEIGH, brother of Miss
Louie WEIGH, once an Extra boy, is
now an Orderly Sergeant in the army
for Uncle Sam and is stationed at Old
Falls Church, Virginia. He sent his
sister souvenir medal that was pur-
chased by him and Miss Louie was at
Extra, Monday, and brought the med
al along. 1t is in the form of Maltese
Cross, has the Lords Prayer engraved
on one side, is of exquisite workman
ship, and Miss Louie prizes it very
highly.
Dry and hot weather prevailed gen
orally during the past week. The mid
summer drouth is still unbroken, al
| though it's severity has been somewhat