Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-02-17

H. B. Kennels made business trip
to Gray, first of the week.
The Blue Grass Creamery shipped
eight tubs of butter the first of the
week.
While Smelling corn for Hi. Wilson
the other day the workmen killed
seventy-two rats.
L. V. Hunter has been hired to haul
milk in the George Scott and William
MaNon neighborhood.
George Spencer is filling up his
empty feed yard with cattle. He
purchased a good bunch of Mr.. Emery
this week.
John Barger has rented the Adah
Beason farm, up the track by Rob- {
Sizer home, and will till the same
the coming season.
The drama will be played at the
school house, in Old Hamlin, as soon
as school closes, which will be in
about two weeks.
During the latter part of January
every 100 pounds of butter fat, at the
Blue Grass Creamery made 123fb of
butter which is pretty good.
Joe Bell was at Extra three days
this week visiting with his father Joe
Bell and family, and his grand par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dorr.
No farmer would think of feeding
his horses poorly during the spring
or fall blowing. Why not apply the
same horse sense to dairy cows?
Monroe White loaded a car with
his household goods and farming tools
and shidped them from the Station to
Menlo, Wednesday, where he will
farm the coming. year.
Chester ,Genung is not in the best
of health these days, being confined
to his bed most of the time. Tuesday
morning a brother and sister from
Illinois arrived to visit with him.
George Letter has rented the George
Campbell farm, over in the edge of
Melville township, and will move
over there and get acquainted with
the denizens of that neighborhood.
Uncle S. d. Coonrod is suffering Of
very bad cold. Last Saturday night
while helping in the singing at the
meetings, in Old Hamlin, his voice
failed him and the good father Just
had to quit.
Ex-Governor Hoard is not the first
man to advocate good dairying and
the proper care OF the COW, but he
has placed the whole matter in nut
she'll when he stated that we have to
deal with a mother when we handle a
COW, and with baby when we handle
calf.
This notice we saw at the Blue
Grass Creamery: (" Harlers, please
notify your patrons that after this
day anyone found guilty of sending
skinned milk to this factory will
have to pay the Creamery Company
the price of hauling and 15c per 100
pound for wear and tare of machinery
in separating the MILK
Miss Florence Rathbun, of Extra,
who has given such excellent satisfac-
ton as teacher at Hanlin Center,
will close that school next Friday
afternoon with an exhibition that
promises to be meritorious one. We
have not learned whether M ss Rath-
bun has been retained to teach the
spring term ofthat school or not.
The Evangelical people have raised
about $4,000 towards paying for
their parsonage, at the Station, and
last Monday the Trustees met and
staked off the ground on the east side
of the church where the building will
be erected. Contractor Coleman, of,
Audubon, was present and will, most
likely, secure the job Of erecting the
building.
Last Monday while Nora Spangler,
who stays with Uncle Coonrod and
wife, was sliding down hill, with
number of her companions, the sled
suddenly stopped and then there was
a promiscuously piled heap Of girls.
Miss Nora, being the front one suffer-
ed the worst, all the other girls being
piled on top OF her, and her face was
severely bruised and scratched.