Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-01-27

Shoe repairing neatly done at Fl. P.
Buffon's home, in Oakfield. See him.
Mr.. Mullis, of Fontanelle, is here
on visit to his sister, Mrs. Lee
Hager.
Mrs. Rev. N. P. Gravengaard, who
has been quite i'll, is reported much
better.
John P. Hansen, of Armour, South
Dakota, is here OH visit to his BROTH
er, our Hans M. Hansen.
! Horace Bartlett is doing duty as
station agent at Underwood, near
Council Bluffs, this week.
i l. II. Jenkins got two Mandolins
this week for nothing and said he
came pesky near getting the third
one.
Mrs. Doctor Koob was visiting
with her brother, Albert Wagner.
at Anita. and her parents, in the VAL
ley, returning home Wednesday.
For the past week Mrs. M. Larsen,
of Marine, has been visiting at the j..
A. Slender home. Sunday Mr.. Lar
sen came over and they went home
| together.
Persons knowing themselves indebt-
ed to us will please call and settle your
account at once and save us calling on
you. We need our money and must
have it. Yours truly,
Bendixen Hardware Co., Brayton.
Doctor Koob tells us that since last
Friday Mr.. and Mrs. Hans NJ. Ham
sen have been the parents of the cutest
and sweetest little baby girls in the
world. No reason Hans sold imple-
ments SO recklessly last Tuesday.
At a meeting of the Oakfield Town
ship Creamery Directors, last Satur-
day, the following persons were hired
as milk haulers Jesse Anderson, Ms
Christensen, Peter Carlson, Mis- Lau
ritzen, Niels Reisgaard and VIM
Onken.
Mrs. James Pearson has been quite
i'll of late, aid so the other snowy
evening the Ladies' Aid Society ladies
went down and had a regular old
fashioned g sewingbee" for Mrs.
Pearson and her children, which was a
very commendable deed.
Chas. Tramp, the man who makes
good brick at Audubon, was visiting
with |. P. Hallock, at the big house,
in Oakfield, this week, and while here
made a successful dicker with Uncle
Ike for nine carloads of wood to be
used in his kilns next summer.
Tom McGovern shipped a carload
of hogs to Chicago, last Saturday,
and j. Q. Hansen, that successful feed
er, shipped one Ger of cattle from his
own yards. Mr.. Hansen went to
Chicago with the stock and got there
ljnst in time to be greeted by that
bowling blizzard that swept over the
city by the side Of Lake Michigan.
Peter jacobson is a firm believer in
the efficiency Of advertising. He says
the advertisement he had inthe Jour-
nal sold all the Red Polieti cattle he
had, bringing Chris christensen and
P. H. IDgerslev and another Chris
Christensen, from Kimballton, and
more than two score Of letters of in
quiry from ali sections of the State.
Editor Journal. We have been so
busy the past few days that we have
not had time to send you report of
the annual meeting Of our Creamery
Association, which was held Oh Sat-
urday, January 18th. The Oaktield
Center school house was choke-tull
and we had good meeting. The old
officers were all reelected. Nels r.
Hoegh, President; Eli Hansen, Vice.
President; Jesse Nymand, Secretary;
Chris Knudsen, as Treasurer. As
Director, Chris Hansen was elected
instead of Chris Christensen, for three
years. 1t was left to the Directors to
take in as many new members as they
saw fit, those whom they deemed
would benefit the company; and also
to hire milk haulers and buttermaker
for next year. The general business
of this company from December l, '96,
to December L, '97, was:
Milk Received 226 599fb
Butter Made ...... ). ................ 185 6551b
Money Received for Same. N. 80 ~ 81
Total Running Expenses. ....l.... 6OS I'd
This is, undoubtedly one of the
largest creameries in the State. We
paid zoe for butter fat for December,
'97. Have just finished filling our ice
house, about sixty tons.
Yours truly,
HI. HENRIcKsoN, Assistant Sec'y.
The undersigned will sell at Public
Auction, on the streets of Brayton, on
Thursday, February 3, 1898,
Commencing at o'clock p. NJ, the
following property: Two horses, 4
cows, 6 brood sows, 13 bushels of clo-
yer seed,
TERMs.-Sums of $500 and under,
cash; over that amount q credit Of II
months, without interest if paid when
due, otherwise s per cent from date;
s per cent off for cash.
O. P. WILLADSEN.
|. II. JENKINS, Auctioneer.
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