Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-06-23
Kimballton 4 Elkhorn.

Charley Wright is working for
Jasper Jensen.
Mrs. Hans Marquesen will 90 to
Atlantic to visit friends over Sunday.
Rasmus Hansen is having fine
new barn erected on his farm near
Elkhorn.
There is to be a rousing big picnic
al Gassnick's grove west of kimball-
ton on next Sunday.
Geo. James, of Elkhorn, was a
very sick man all of last week but is
now much improved.
Chas. Lynch, one Of Extras promi-
nent young attorneys, was at Elk
horn and Kimballton Tuesday.
Rev. Anker, of Elkhorn, returned
this week from his trip to Denmark.
He reports very pleasant visit.
On account of inclement weather
the school entertainment at kimball-
ton was postponed until June 9th.
Peter Lykke has been almost a
sick man for the past three weeks
but is feeling considerably better at
present.
There was rousing big dance at
| Elkhorn last Saturday evening at the
home of Andrew johnson. Forty
five couples were present.
The young child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Nels Nelson, who live on the Ridge,
still remains very sick and there are
grave fears for its recovery.
Miss Carrie Christensen arrived
last Saturday from Southern Texas
to visit several weeks at the home OF
her parents west of Kimballton.
Saturday evening there is to be
warm time at Kimbaliton. Nels
Christensen will conduct a platform
dance and the merry-go-round will
be there too.
The little 1S-months- old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Hans Petersen, south of
Kimballton, died last week OF dropsy.
The little one had suffered for
many weeks.
Nels Jensen, the prosperous Elk
horn furniture dealer, has completed
the addition to his store and is now
very busy building barn for his pet
driving horse.
Jens Larsen, our prosperous friend
who lives two miles northeast of
kimballton, is having a large new
barn erected on his farm. Andrew
Jensen is the architect.
The merry-go-round is at Kimball-
ton this week and we are told they
pick up good many nickels. John
Miller, John Coleman and Charley
Baker are in charge of the swing.
Nels B. Anderson has the contract
for building fine new residence for
Geo. n. Christensen, of Oakfeld
township. He will commence work
Oh the structure Thursday Of this
week.
Miss Christina Boose, who has
been at the Sanitarium at Lincoln,
Nebraska, the past month receiving
medical treatment, is now much i'm
proved in health and will return 70
her home in Oaktield township.
Peter Kilgor who has been work
ing on the Exposition grounds at
Omaha this spring has returned and
is now visiting at his home in Sharon
township. He will work for N. B.
Anderson Of Kimballton the rest of
the summer.
The Danish Separator Creamery
Company has purchased of the
Creamery Package Supply Co., of
Chicago, through their agent, Mr..
Peck, a new Alpha separator. which
will be placed in their factory at
Kimballton, next week.
Mrs. Marie Nelson, died at the
home of her son, north Of kimball-
!, ton, on Sunday evening, aged 20.
She was the mother Of Nels Ming
and Mrs. George Rosenbeck, and had
been ailing for several months. The
funeral took place on Tuesday from
. the Bethania church with interment
. at the same cemetery.
Nels B. Christensen, the big far
mer and feeder, Of north Oaktield
township, is now at the Nebraska
Sanitarium, near College View, a
suburb of Lincoln, Nebraska. Mr..
Christensen has, in the last twenty
: years, worked very hard-too hard
, in fact and he is now trying to re-
5 cuperate his broken health.
Miss Dora Larsen, the daughter
; of MI. and Mrs. Morten Larsen, OF
Sharon township, will graduate from
; the State Normal School at Cedar
Falls, on Thursday of this week
She has the merited honor Of grad
uating as valedictorian Of her class
| She will return to her home here
next week and will be very heartily
welcomed by her many friends.
F.. The Botna Valley Creamery Asso.
citation met last Friday at the West
I Hamlin Creamery. There was a
good meeting and much interest was
+, manifest. The Troublesome VALLEY
Creamery was taken in and is now a
part Of the association. The different