Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-12-22
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George Smiths little girls are i'll
of Group.
Rev. Wilson visited Monday at
Rev. Corners.
Grandpa Coonrod is under the
weather these disagreeable days.
Justice Leek, in the North Branch
country is the daddy Of new boy
baby.
A. B. Mcconnell, over in eastern
Greeley township, is very ill of heart
trouble.
Andrew Smith is having tussel
with his old enemy, rheu matism,
these days.
Rufus Williams is conducting a
very successful term of school, at
North Branch.
The Creese sheiling outfit was busy
Saturday shelling out 600 bushels of
corn for A. j. Story.
a pair Of nice yaller" bob sleds
were unloaded at the Station, Tues
day morning, for j. G. Lafoy.
Will Mcclure and family will eat
their Christmas dinner with Father
and Mother Murphy, at Audubon.
A. G. Creese left Monday evening
for Cedar county for a good visit
with relatives and old schoolmates.
Miss Lizzie Wright has been quite
sick of heart trouble the past few
days. DR.. Gleason is in attendance.
E. H. Carey, of Brayton, and Geo.
Campbell and family will eat their
Christmas dinner at the Jap Skinner
home, near the Station.
The young folks had the merriest
kind Of dance at the George Jensen
home, a couple of miles west of the
Station, last Saturday night.
The other morning Ed. Dryden
went out 10 milk and great was his
surprise to find the best COW he had
heels up in the manger-dead.
w. D. Stanley was at Audubon,
first of the week, in the capacity Of
Chairman Of the Board of Supervi-
sors, canvassing the Saloon Petition.
Arthur Bartlett's "dickering" try
ing to sell his farm did no good, and
Ed. Winchell will remain on the
place, south of the Station, during
the coming year.
Merchant Shoesmith tells us that
North Branch Skim Station will con-
tinue to run all winter, and that in
the spring. time its facilities will be
largely increased.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Fullerton,
who live over in the edge of Guthrie
county, came over to Old Hamlin,
last Saturday, to visit with their
friends, returning home Monday.
0. P. Tyler returned home last
Friday from attending the Farmers
Congress, at Fort Worth, Texas, and
reports having had pleasant time
down in that land of orange blossoms
and big toads.
Next week, Wednesday evening,
the Brushy College people will dis
cuss this question at their literary
Resolved, That Free Trade would
be benefit to the people of the
United States.
Mrs. Daniel Brandstatter and fami-
ly and Miss Nellie Campbell, daught-
er of Robert Campbell, left on the
Tuesday noon train to join Messrs.
Robert Campbell and Daniel Brand
statter, in their new Texas home.
Twenty-Five of their young friends
gathered at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Smith, last Saturday night
TO give the Misses Brandstatter and
Minnie Campbell a good. bye party
before their departure to the sunny
south.
Will Mcclure and George Smith
snapped horses the other day. conse-
quently George is having all kinds of
fun breaking broncos. James Boyer
and Wills Hopkins helped drive them
Monday and to say they had fun is
putting it mildly.
The Epworth League, at Old Ham
lin, have engaged Miss Abrams for an
Evolutionary Entertainment on Tues
day evening, January Sd. She gave
splendid satisfaction, AT Extra, last
Saturday evening, and will, no doubt,
greatly please the audience at Hamlin.
Baker u Shoesmith shipped a car
OF prime hogs to Chicago, from the
Station, Monday evening. Mr.. Alex
Crees went as far as West Liberty, I
Iowa. with the stock where he will
visit with old time friends. it being
twenty years since he was in that
country.
Mr.. S. A. Heath, who came home
last week from Des Moines where he
was having his eyes doctored, we are
sorry to state, was obliged to return
to that city, last Saturday, to have
them attended to. inflammation nav
ing having set in. Let us all hope
that it is nothing serious and MIR.
Heath will soon he among us again,
with his eyesight fully restored.
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