Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-03-24
OAKFIELD e. BRAYTON

Mrs. Sam Green has been quite i'll
the past few days.
Grandma Rogers, mother Of Race,
has been very i'll this week.
Plymouth Rock Eggs for sale at SOC
! per setting. &c. HARDMAN, Brayton.
| Shoe repairing neatly done at H. P.
Buffon's home, in Oakfield. See him.
George Chase and George Mcclure
are having all kinds Of fun these days
trading horses.
Henry Schwennecker has hired out
to Nicholas Bintner to work OH the
farm the coming summer.
Bison & McGovern shipped a car
load OF good hogs to indianapolis,
Indiana, Tuesday evening.
Moses Brinkerhoff will teach the
young idea at school number seven,
Oakfield township, this spring.
Nick Bintner was up at Extra last
Saturday having a grist ground at
the mill and visiting with his friends.
The Oakfield Creamery shipped out
fifty three tubs of butter and the Elk
horn shipped thirty two tubs, Mon
day.
The jenkins Company, who ship
all their stock to indianapolis, Indi-
ana, send out fine car load Tuesday
evening.
Dan Zentmyer took one look at
that mill, down in Missouri, and then
murmured: Well, as for me no, [
thank you, I'll not take any of it in
mine.
Surveyor H. S. Wattles was out at
the Danish Baptist church, last Mon
day, marking off an acre of ground
where those people propose to erect
parsonage for their pastor.
We visited the farm of j. G. Hard
man, that fine stock raiser, Tuesday,
and from close observation we are
fully convinced that it pays to raise
| fine strains of stock or none.
Uncle Jane McGovern and his son,
j. f., were up from Cass county the
first Of the week visiting their rela-
tives, Tom McGovern, and the in
mates of the Hon. Tom Kelley home.
Mrs. Christopher Smith started for
New Sharon, Iowa, on the Tuesday
noon train, for visit with relatives.
At Atlantic she was Joined by her
daughter, Mrs. George FRASER, of
Griswold, who accompanied her.
| Fate took another twist at the for
tune wheel and once more Sidney Nc
Gnire is about to again become mer-
chant in our midst. r. C. Olsen has
decided to move his stock of goods to
Lorah and Sidney was at Atlantic,
Tuesday, negotiating with Mrs. Lily
Reynolds for the purchase of the store
building where Mr.. Olsen is where
he proposes to put in new stock of
goods.
Last Thursday Nicholas Bintnel
went out to do some spring blowing
on the south eighty Of the John S
Harter land that comprises part OF
his farm, and was going through
where a patch of hazel brush stood,
when the point of his pillow struck a
stone and up came an Indian axe, ii
the finest kind of state of repair. II
is OF blueish cast and shows ingenu-
ity in its manufacture. Nick ha.
found several relics at this particular
spot on his farm and if he was to dig
down doubtless, would find where
some of Old Chief Pyamosa's tribe
had sat down, yielded up the ghost
and his spirit had scooted to happ,
hunting grounds.
At the school meeting held at tn,
Academy, in Oaktield, last Monday
nothing Of considerable importance
was transacted except settling the
squabble" in district No. 2, and the
hiring OF teachers for Extra town
ship. In No. 2 Clos Martis' election
was contested: the Board of Dire ctor
promptly declared the election illega
and appointed Mr.. Peter Thielen tc
fill the vacancy. The following teach.
ers were assigned to the several dis.
tricts in this townships:
No. l. Miss Florence Rathbun
No. 9. Miss Beth Henry.
No. B. Miss Blanche Noon.
No. 4. Ernest Cotton.
No. 5. Professor Brinkerhotl.
Mrs. Nettie Bruner.
Mrs. G.. A. Heath.
No. 8. Miss Lena Hardenbrook
No., Z. Arthur Hawk.
No. 8. Miss May Jenkins.
No. 8. Miss Clara Ordway.
Professor Brinkerhof is President O
the School Board and John Noon i
Secretary. AL schools in Extra town.
ship, are scheduled to commence mex
(, Monday, March 2Sth.