Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-12-29

Arthur Hawk was with his Audu-
bon friends, Tuesday morning.
McGovern & Bison shipped car
of hogs to South Omaha, Tuesday.
Word comes that Mr.. and Mrs. L..
ID. Pearson, below the line, are quite
sick.
George Cotton's foot is we'll enough
to allow him to resume his chopping
in the timber
w. d. Pratt and John McGrain
have recently lost number of hogs
from hog cholera.
Banker II. w. Pollock and wife
passed their Christmas with relatives
and friends, at Manning.
Mrs. Sam Schartf returned Friday
evening from an extended visit with
her parents in MISSOURI.
The family of George Cannon spent
Xmas with their daughter, Mrs.
Frank Basham at Extra.
Rev. Beck delivered a Christmas
sermon at the Highland church
which was much enjoyed.
Henry kleuver was up to his new
farm, east of Audubon, Monday, with
a four-horse load of posts.
Christmas day twenty five friends
gathered at the Will Lewis home and
passed very pleasant day.
j. T. Wroe built his house, or barn
on a sandy foundation: % 1t fell, !"
and great was the fall thereof.
Ellis Cannon runs the double daily
mail or /" female" line between his
home and district number one
Evangelists Richards and Hansen.
OF Council Bluffs are holding revival
meetings at the Minser school house.
Sam Crane and family were down
farm Greeley, Tuesday, visiting at
the home ofRoad.Boss Fred Edmund
son.
The Grafton given by Tom Krit-
tenbrink a the Binlner school house
is said to have been quite entertain
ing.
Miss Mary Gault, of Extra. passed
few pleasant DAYS this week, at
Brayton, with her friend, Miss May
Powers.
J.. G. Hartman, that raiser of fine
stock, at lakewood Farm, shipped
a car Of sheep to South Omaha, last
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Jennie Crane went to Atlantic
on the Tuesday noon train to visit for
short time with her friends. the
Mrs. Netf family.
Mr.. P. S. Kell editor of Spirit of
The West, came up from Des Moines
and visited at the B. F. Simpson home
Friday of last week.
School was closed several days last
week by the sickness of the teacher,
Mrs. Winder. James Jenkins will
teach during her Illness
Mesdames Ebert Lewis and Chas.
McVey prepared home Christmas
tree for their little ones, and all had
the merriest kind of time.
Mrs Peter Howell is seriously i'll.
with cancer Her many friends SYM
pathize with her in her Fiction and
hope she may soon be better
Mrs. Maude Everett arrived NJ on
dav evening to pass three or four
months with her sister, Mrs. p. f.
Howell, down in the big woods.
Douglas Hamlin is hobbling about
with very sore foot. He was break
ing colt and the animal planted one
hoof square down on MS best toe.
New officers of the Brayton Odd
Fellows Lodge will he installed bv
District Deputy Horace Bartlett, the
evening of Saturday, January 9TH.
The Misses Belle and their brother
arrived, Tuesday morning, from Oma.
ha, for good visit with the family
OF William Wieges, west Of Brayton.
Since his return from the Omaha
Hospital Mr.. Henry Fries has not
improved very rapidly in health, and
is reported in a very weak condition.
Arthur Vail is down this week on
a visit to his father, at the big store
Of jenkins e. Vail, at Brayton, and |
his relatives, the Cotton families, at
Oaktield.
Mrs. l. P. Hallock is again quite i'll
aud her children MI and Mrs. John
Curry, and their girl Mary, who came
up to pass Christmas, will remain a
few days.
Peter Axelsen, of north Oaktield
township, was in Brayton, last Tues
day, and sold forty head of very
smooth hogs to Hensley Brothers &
Brown, of Extra.
The spelling school for next Thurs
day evening has been postponed, on
account of Christmas festivities, ii II |
Friday evening, December 3Oth.
Everybody invited to attend.
The masquerade, at the Oakfield
Hall, Christmas Eve was good big !
success, fifty three numbers being out.