Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-05-05
Miss Anna Emery is quite ill.

The Academy and the 5 Smiths
are displaying flags at Oakfield.
Supervisor Nels P. Hoegh now
rides about in new farm wagon.
All kinds of good bargains at Sid
ney McGuire's store in Brayton.
Doc" Pattison is slowly improv-
ing from his late attack Of illness.
Banker Walter Faulkner make a
busidess trip to Atlantic, Tuesday.
Mrs. Henry Blackwell was up at
Extra last Monday doing some trad
ing.
Matt Duvall was up from Atlantic
last Monday trying to buy fat cattle
Of our feeders.
Charley Sykes is tearing down the
old house he bought and is building
a new addition.
McGovern & Bison shipped out a
car of hogs Tuesday night that aver
aged 512 pounds each.
Horace Bartlett visited a few days
this week with his brother, Eb., and
family at Council Bluffs.
Uncle Mike Scharff tells us that he
has another batch Of motherless chick
ems due to hatch, this week.
Kenneth Laing, of Persia, Iowa,
was here last week on visit to his
aunt, Mrs. j. G. Hartman.
Grandma Davis, at the Dick Clark
home, who is over ninety years old,
has been slightly i'll this week.
The little girls of Oakfeld fitting
ly observed the custom of hanging
May baskets, last Monday night.
John Kelley is having well drilled
on his farm, west Of Brayton. Some
Atlantic parties are doing the work.
James McGovern, of Cass county,
visited his relatives at the Hon. Tom
Kelley home, in Brayton, last Sun
day.
Mrs. Squire Aldrich and her son,
Frank, were up from Atlantic this
relatives at the Mrs. Mark Heath
home.
Misses limo and Edna Bison were
up to Extra Saturday evening and
Grandpa Wattles came home with
them.
Hon. Tom. Kelley brought fifty
head of his cattle to Brayton, Tues
day, and turned them into his feed
yards.
Messrs. Owen Ide, j. c. Hardman
and Charley Bison have purchased
dip tank in which they will souse
their sheep.
VIM. Thielen, that successful stock
raiser up in the woods, sold a car
load Of fat porkers to McGovern &
Bison, this week.
Nile Carley was in Brayton, Tues
day exhibiting box containing four
flying squirrels that he captured at
Mount Etna, Iowa.
The machinery is all here for the
Troublesome Valley Creamery and
they expect to start the wheels to
going 'round next Tuesday.
The Oakield Township Creamery
now make about six hundred pounds
Of butter daily, and receive $4,000
pounds Of milk every morning.
Professor Brinkerhoff was too i'll to
teach school, Tuesday, and his two
daughters, Mrs. Nettie Bruner and
Blossom, instructed at the Academy.
Miss Maggie Donahue, of Extra,
teacher at the Horton school, gave
her scholars a jolly picnic in MI.
Kragelande's beautiful grove, last
Friday.
William Bintner was with his Au-
dubon friends last Friday and while
there purchased wagon load of
white pine which he has set out
around his farm home.
Chris Knudsen brought in nine
very nice hogs, this week, and sold
them to McGovern g. Bison, and on
Saturday Boy Herrick sold five head
Of sleek ones to the same firm.
The Ladies' Aid Society will meet
with Mrs. Dave Carpenter next Tues
day afternoon. The first meeting in
May, you remember, they were to
begin meeting in the afternoon.
Sorn Sornson, over in the tall tim
Der, was busy weighing cattle he has
been feeding for Tom X elley and Tom
McGovern, Tuesday. Mr.. Sornson
will feed the cattle this summer.
Mrs. Grovesnor, from Des Moines,
visited the Cotton families this week
and Mrs. Owen Ide and Ernie Cotton
accompanied her to Audubon on a
visit to her mother, Mrs. Charley
Vail.
The Arbor Day exercises were of a
very pleasing nature, over one humid
red children being in line; and already
we are planning for Decoration Day.
1t is announced that Hon. Tom Kel-
ley will deliver the Grafton that day.
Charley Bison has built woven
wire fence around that half acre of
orchard that he recently purchased
off nf tho north an1 of tho Ron Ton