Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-03
HamliR Department..


Henry Wells little boy, who has
been so i'll, is slowly recovering.
Mrs. Albert Pratted has been quite
i'll the past few days. but is better.
Joe Heath has moved from Melville
township down to his farm in Hamlin
township.
Morgan Terry moved, Tuesday, to
one of John Nash's farms, two miles
west of Audubon.
The Blue Grass Creamery people
had business meeting at the Station
Tuesday forenoon.
One of Andrew Smith horses was
badly cut up by getting tangled up
in barbwire fence.
Mr.. Huff has moved from Mrs
Rathbun's farm, near Extra, TO the
Sid Goodwin farm, east OF the Station
They say that Henry Wells is go
NC to run for director of school No.
8. Friend Henry would make good
one.
On account Of the death of Mrs. j.
L. Bell the drama, at Old Hamlin,
will, probably, not be put on the
boards.
Dan Fullerton started for his new
home, Tuesday, thirty miles away, in
the north western part Of Guthrie
county.
Joel Crees husked out that big crib
of pop corn and will soon ship it to
an eastern marked. He has more than
car load.
Jake Layland was down i'll Audu-
bon township the first of the week
helping to move his brother, Will, up
to these diggings.
We have line from Uncle Coonrod
which says he is still confined to his
room but he was gaining little in
strength every day.
Will Conway came down from
Viola township, first of the week, and
now occupies his 80-acre farm mile
or two northwest of the Station.
Miss Bird Wilson, daughter of our
village blacksmith, Clark Wilson, has
joined her sister at Audubon where
she will be employed this SUMNER,
Platt Harris has built his hogs a
hen coop and it is 14x24 feet in size.
The first night Plat put them in
their new house they all gave one big
old grunt Of satisfaction.
Church service at the Station next
Sabbath will be as follows: Sunday
School at ten o'clock, in the forenoon;
No preaching services; Children's
Meeting at $50 in the evening.
Willis Hopkins came home the last
part of the week from Boone, Iowa,
where he was visiting with his par
ents. He was accompanied by neph-
ew who will try sniff Of the breeze
that blows DER our prairies.
The debate, at Brushy College, on
last Wednesday evening was rous-
ing one. The question was: Resolved,
That the government should own all
the railways in the United States.
The affirmative side won the debate,
two to one.
j. j. and John Dimick were at the
Station, Tuesday getting some cattle
that WILDER Kennels was keeping for
them. Mr.. Dimick informed us that
he had yard full of cattle that
would soon be ready to ship to the
eastern market.
The Methodist revival meetings, at
Old Hamlin, closed last Monday even
ing and resulted in twenty lone access
sions to the church, seventeen of
whom were heads of families. A
movement is now in foot to build a
church at that place. 2
February weather, at the Station
as observed by S. D. Coonrod :; Four
teen days OF north wind: eleven days
Of south wind; nineteen cloudy days:
the I'd was the coolest day, ~ degrees
above ia the morning and freezing at
noon: warmest day was the 14th, 80
above in the morning and 40 at noon.
Next Tuesday, March Sth, will be
Grandma Coonrod's seventy fifth
birthday and on that occasion she
will be visited by her many friends
with tokens Of love and good will. 1t
must be gratifying to one who has
passed so far down the western slope
OF life to look back over a life so well
spent and so full Of deeds of love and
mercy.
Yes, sound the loud tocsin DER land
and DER sea, Jehovah has triumphed,
now just look at me! Pm the father OF
the sweetest little girl baby that ever
gladdened mothers heart or pleased
fathers eye, sang Will Mcclure,
last Tuesday afternoon. The Journal
doffs its hat to Dainty Little Miss
Mcclure and hopes that her days OF
earth may be many and full of SUI
shine and happiness.