Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-06-23


j. p. Lair was attending to business
at Audubon one day this week.
Rufus Rowland has finished paint
ing Mrs. Mary Mays house, up in
Greeley.
Uncle Jake Andrews has surrounded
his garden patch with a neat woven
wire fence.
Restaurant Man Ammons now re-
ceives fresh bread from the Frank Rice
Bakery, at Audubon, three days each |
week.
Frank Heath says his piggery is
doing fairly well this spring. He has
fifty little squeaks and only seven old
nanny pigs.
Mrs. Grant Stonebrook, of Audubon,
passed the past week pleasantly with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Reyn-
olds, of Greeley.
Marshal John Minser and James
Beard did a very good job of cutting
the dead limbs out of the tops Of the
trees in the Park.
w. S. Black, near the Extra depot,
has thirty-tive acres of as fine corn as
we have seen this year. 1t is already
more than waist high.
Tom Gwin, of south Audubon town
ship, was at Gray last Friday where
he went to attend the funeral of his
brother, Freeman's wife.
Wyman Harvey tells us that his
sister, Mrs. Christ Jensen, now resides
band is employed in a tailor shop.
Mrs. Delahoyde, mother of Ed and
Miss Mollie, and her little daughter
will shortly arrive in Extra from Pres
colt, Arkansaw, to pass several
months.
Just as George Kness was ready to
start for home his wife was taken i'll
of malarial fever. Just as soon as she
is well enough they will start back to
Gods country"
The hay crop about Extra is unusu-
ally heavy this year. Uncle Bry Milli-
man and Mr.. Oscar Hunt have fields
OF tame hay that will easily yield
three tons to the acre.
Our German friend August Burr, of
Greeley, has had a monster cistern
dug and wind mill and water works
erected that carries water to his stock
One-fOurth of a mile away.
On Friday, Jnne 10th, new baby
girl arrived at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Donnelly, at Des Moines.
Grandma ID. w. Miller was there to
welcome the little stranger.
John Johnson, who was a former
neighbor of Mr.. Daniel Artist, up in
Greeley, has abandoned his farm near
Little Rock, Arkansaw, and has gone
to his old home in York State.
Uncle j. j. Dimick was in town on
last Saturday for the first time since
the accident. He complained of being
very sore about the shoulders, other-
wise he said he felt pretty good.
The daughter of Mr.. Seth Hartzell,
of Greeley, who has been attending
school in Ohio the past eight years,
arrived home last Friday, much to the
delight of her father and brothers.
A photograph at the Exchange Bank
shows VIM. Charters and his little
girl standing in the orchard, in the
foreground, and Mrs. Charters stand
ing on the porch Of their California
home.
Master Carlton Clark, son of our
Dave is here from Trinidad, Colorado,
and is rusticating upon his fathers
big farm. In a week or so his mother
will arrive from the west to Join her
husband and son.
Mrs. Anna Fitch has finished her
visit here with relatives, the Dimick
families, and started last Wednesday
for her home at Monroe, Wisconsin,.
She stopped at Marriage, Iowa, and
visited day or two with En-. Holden
and family.
Today Miss Verna Croy and Miss
Grace Green leave to view the Trans
Mississippi Exposition, at Omaha.
From there Miss Croy will go to Grip
pie Creek, Colorado, to visit with her
sister, Mrs. Minnie Anderson, and
VhlSs olCSil VIII ~ W lAoS tAIISclSS,
California, to pass the summer with
her brother, Henry Green, and family.
An eight-year-old son of Nels p.
Christesen, of Greeley, who hauls milk
to the Blue Grass Creamery, at Ham
lin Station, while crossing the bridge
at Mrs. Leroy Hensley's home, last
Tuesday morning, was thrown from
the wagon and had his arm broken.
A physician was called and the young
mans injured member was tenderly
cared for.
: On Wednesday, June 18th, Mr.. Will
Barney, of north Greeley, hied him,
self away to the border line between
Audubon county where he was united
in marriage to Miss Anna Harmon. In
} the evening Will and his newly made
bride repaired to the home Of his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. f. ID. Barney, OF
Greeley, where they joined the Other
wedding party and all passed jolly
evening. Again we take off our hats
to the welded folks and wish them al