Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-01-06
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Henry Bruner was on our streets
last week.
w. III. Lancelot refunded from his
Des Moines trip Friday last.
Mr.. Chas. Ramsay, of Dedham, was
in our city one day last week.
Clara and Emerson Shelley returned
from their Christmas vacation.
Miss Julia Wilson, of Audubon, is
visiting friends in this vicinity.
Mr.. Rasmussen and Howard Kittell
were business visitors at Manning last
Friday.
MI. and Mrs. F. G. Hepp were Wis
itiDg friends and relatives in Kirk
man last week.
j. L. Hayden left Friday for Free
mont, Nebraska, TO visit with rela-
tives a few days.
August Greenwaldt and wife re-
turned from their Christmas visit at
Cherokee last week.
Miss Ella Forsbeck and Fannie
Welty are the new scholars at the
high school this week.
Miss Edna Greenlee, of Tenn
pleton was visiting with her friend
Mary Clark, Of this city.
l desire those indebted to me to
call and settle Immediately.
&. EUGENE MERTZ.
The Ladies Aid Society meets Sat
urday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
L.. A. Beers. All are cordially invited.
The Literary at Lincoln Center has
been stopped on account of the re-
vivals which are tb be opened there
soon.
We wish we had that great fore
sight reader Reminder, of Ohio, to
tell us when that license would be
void.
Miss May McIlvane, of Audubon,
is teaching at No. 3, Cameron, in the
place of Maude Doak who is quaran-
tined at Audubon.
ERRATA.-The item to the effect
that Rev. Hayden closed his meetings
in Botna Monday, was wrong. They
were closed Thursday.
The Woodmen Ball given at this
place Friday evewas a grand success.
About fifteen couples took supper and
many more enjoyed the hop.
The little l6-months-old daughter
of Chas. McLachlin has been very
sick of tonsilitis the past week. Fol-
lowing measles so closely makes i. ex-
ceedingly unpleasant.
The following officers were elected
for the Sunday school:
Grant Lancelot. Super.
Mr.. Hester, Asst. Supt.
Jay Lancelot, Secretary.
Elmer Audas, Treasurer.
Pearl Audas, Organist.
Next week class teachers will be
elected.
The Endeavor Society having taken
charge of the Christmas exercises the
committee was called on to report.
After all expenses were paid balance
Of S4.24 was left to be disposed of.
One half of it was given to the Meth
odist church as payment for fuel and
lights, the remainder was voted to the
committee on decoration.
The meeting last Sunday evening
was very successful one. The topic
was good one, the lesson beginning
with the command: g Pray thee" 1t
was very well discussed, the leader
being Miss Belle Lancelot. New
Endeavor officers having been elected
the old ones were called upon to re-
port. All reports seemed to show the
interest in both sets of officers of the
society, some reports seemed almost
taultless.
The following preamble and reso-
luton were adopted last Sunday even
ing by the Endeavor Society of Gray /:
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased God in his
all wise providence to remove from
our midst, by death, our beloved
friend and sister, Mrs. j. L. Hayden,
after much suffering, borne with the
patience and Christian resignation of
one whose trust is in God; therefore
be it
Resolved, That in her death we
lose a valued and active member of
our society, and that we all as mem
bers of the Christian Endeavor Socie-
ty hereby express to Rev. Hayden
our earnest and most sincere sympa-
thy in his great atiliction, knowing
that he will receive consolation from
God in this time OF trouble,
Resolved, That a copy Of these res
olutions be suitably prepared and
sent to Rev. Hayden, that the same be
spread on the records and that copy
be sent to the Extra Journal.
Mrs. 6. p. WILEY, comm;+toe
w. H. LANcELoT, oo'ii'i'tee'
Report OF the primary department
Of the Gray High School for term
ending Dec. "a, 1897. Number en-
rolled SO. Pupils neither absent nor
tardy:
Roy Packard Carl Polzine
Anna Antrim Roscoe Dewitt
MOllie Polzin Viola Mitchell
Ormsby Beers
Pupils excued on account of sick
ness:
Yetta Packard Freddice Coomes
Dolly Audas Bea Lancelot
Marion Wiley Victor Nedrow
Margaret Wiley Annie Dewitt