Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-04-28
OAKFIELD & BRAYTON

Henry Fries was slightly under the
weather this week.
Sid Mcclure was seen headed to-
ward Anita last Sunday.
John Doyl moved his family up to
Extra last Monday morning.
} Erik Hansen and wife were with
Elkhorn relatives last Sunday.
George McGuire's boy was very i'll
the first of the week but the little
fellow is much better now.
Banker Walter Faulkner and Mr..
Lumpkins, Of Des Moines, have been
working life insurance this week.
We are patriotic people in Brayton
got flag on wire stretched from
the big store of jenkins IL Vail clear
across the street.
Peter Reisgaard, of Extra, is now
settled in the new house just finished
at Stillside Farm, and is doing the
work for B. F. Simpson.
Miss Mary, the pretty daughter of
Mr.. George Jessen, was at Extra last
Monday where she visited with her
friends and did some shopping.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sci Heath came over
from Anita, Wednesday, to visit their
mothers and the Frank Lambert
family, at the Mrs. Mark Heath
home.
Hon. Tom Kelley came home from
Sioux City, last Saturday, with two
carloads Of calves, and then he per-
formed a miracle-turned 'em to
grass.
We are told that the sum total of
pension money received by Mrs. Enix
Stoneking will be $4,000. Mrs.
Stoneking sent off the voucher last
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. James Bergh, President of the
Troublesome Valley Creamery Asso-
citation, was in Extra last Wednes-
day and whiled away few pleasant
moments at the Journal Office.
John T. Jenkins returned from
Creighton, Knox county, Nebraska,
last Sunday morning where he traded
his hotel property, in Brayton, for a
fine 160-acre farm, near that place.
Mrs. Stoneklng and family return.
ed Monday from visit with her
mother. Mrs. G.. N. Jones, and sis.
ter near Cumberland. While down
there Mrs. Stoneking purchased g
valuable family COW.
At the called meeting of the Wood.
men Lodge last Tuesday evening, il
was decided to still continue to rent
the j. A. Slender Hall. The mex
regular meeting of this lodge will be
held next Tuesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. II. Sears cam
: over from Anita, Tuesday, to see thei
daughter, Mrs. Walter Faulkner, ant
to bring Little Miss Averil Faulk
ner home, who has been over ther
the past few weeks visiting.
A nasty old horse whaled ava
and hit Nit Horton laundering oil
l kick on the arm, last Sunday after
noon. Nit Immediately sought GU
Doctor Koob who examined the arr
and reported no bones broken, but 70
, a week or ten days Nit will 90 abou
: with his best right arm in sling.
Ethel Simpson is spending til
week in Atlantic.
e He who hesitates is lost;
:. Crab "a
Do not stop to count the cost,
: u.s., Grab a gun!
Cuba S children died for feed,
q tits time for Spain to bleed;
Grab gun!
Do not fear to dare and die;
;, DO not pause to question why,
Hear the cry of souls dismayed
Asking justice long delayed;
!. God is with us, who's afraid,
> Grab gun!
Bid adieu to those you love.
Y Grab gun!
: Bid your throbbing breast be still,
Let your hands obey your will.
Keep your nerve and shoot to kill,
" Grab gun!
: Children strave on Cuban soil
t shackled are the hands Of toll,
<, For the ones who cry for bread
n For the thousands stark and dead
Let the sea with blood run red
Grab gun!
NEBRASKA STATE JOUNAL
= Following is the Assessors repo
for Oaktield township:
Number Of polls, 1853.
i Cost Of new buildings, S5,O40.O0.
!, There are forty-two yearling colt
: Fifty-two two-year-old colts.
e Fifty-siX three year. old colts.
!, Six hundred and thirteen horses.
e Two stations.
}, FOrty-one mules.
p Four hundred and ninety-one yea
is ling heifers.
Two hundred and titty-six tw
&c year-old heifers.
70 Twelve hundred and fifty five COW
q Three hundred and forty -four yea
70 ling steers.
4 Five hundred and thirty-two tw
n year-old steers.
Seventy-one bulls.
Three thousand two hundred al