Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-10-06
Oats 17ac, butter lie.

GRID corn.
VIM. Kees was hauling oats to the
Station, Oh Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. d. Thomas came
home on Wednesday.
John Butterton will farm his father
in-law's land next year.
E. 81. Carry was down to Brayton
Sunday visiting friends.
Mrs. George Smith has been quite
sick for the past few days.
Chas. Ault returned home from the
Omaha Fair, Saturday night.
Joel Crees has been under the
weather for the past few days.
P. L. Carter bought new farm
wagon in Extra the other day.
Sherm Peppers little fonr-y ear-old
girl is seriously i'll at this time.
Mrs. Fida Marks has been enjoying
visit from her sister for a few days.
Mrs. P. G.. Harris left Hamlin on
Tuesday for a few days at the big fair.
James Keightley and Chas. Lane
went over to West Bend last Thurs
day.
George Smiths tomatoes averaged
five hundred bushels to the acre this
year.
Joe Dumphey is back from Colora-
do Springs and is working for Ed.
Frick.
Grandpa Coonrod will have fresh
fish for sale, at the Station, on Friday
Of each week.
Mark and Sarah Butterton enter
tanned their young friends last We'd
nesday evening.
VIM. Keightly is home from West
Bend where he has been building a
house for his son.
Mrs. M. G.. Mcclure and Mrs.
Murphey were visiting at the Will
Mcclure home on Tuesday.
II Mrs. George Petersen had the mis-
fortune to lose her wedding ring last
Tuesday while in the garden.
The Misses Bonita and Patty Bryan
started for Omaha, Tuesday, to re.
main until Friday of this week.
Will Young will have charge OF
the depot at Hamlin during the
absence of Mr.. Percy at the Expo.
Charlie Marion is threshing clover.
His clover yield is about two bushels
to the acre and is worth $500 pei
bushel.
Peter Jessen lost his stacks ofgrail
by fire on Friday last, caused by q
spark from steam thresher Loss,
$4,000.
Mrs. George Petersen, while at the
dentists Office, in Audubon, Monday
was taken quite sick, but is better at
this time.
Daniel Brandstatter has lost sixty
head of hogs, of the swine plague,
averaging from one to three hundred
pounds each.
Mr.. Shoesmith, from North Branch,
was over at the Hamlin store on Tues
day. He will be in Hamlin for day
or two each week.
Abe Anderson is fencing the corn
field and letting the hogs gather the
corn. He has four hundred head of
swine on his farm.
George Dimick and wife are to be
congratulated on the arrival of u new
girl baby, which made it's appearance
on Monday evening.
Lou Spyrup went to Omaha to the
hospital last week. He has been i'll
for some time and it is hoped the
change will be beneficial to him.
Messrs. Harry Percy, Jim Boyer
and Chas. Ferguson, with their
wives, started for Omaha, Tuesday,
to visit the fair few days.
Mr.. Oaks, Of Atlantic, came up to
Hamlin Saturday to pay his taxes
and visit for day or two with his
friend, w. H. Warner. of Old Hamlin.
P. l.. Carter is hauling about
twenty three hundred bushels of oats
and four hundred and eighty-tiv bush
els of wheat to the Station for VIM.
Rucker.
Hans Fabricious is quite sick and is
at Elkhorn under the doctors care.
If he does not get better soon Mr.
Fabricious will go to Omaha for med
ical treatment.
James G. Moore bought two cows
of Frank Irwin the other day and Mr..
Coonrod says the way they took them
through the Station reminded him of
Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
d. G. Rice and wife, of Clinton,
Iowa, have been visiting with the
family of his son, H. G.. Rice, for a
couple of weeks. Tuesday they all
drove up to visit with Ed. Rice and
family, at Audubon.