Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-02-17
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Lou Miller shipped two carloads of
wheat to Davenport, Monday.
j. T. jenkins was business visitor
at Atlantic over Monday night.
Shoe repairing neatly done at H. P.
Buffon's home, in Oakfield. See him.
Owen Ide shipped one car of hogs
last Saturday and another one We'd
nesday.
Frank Harris, of Five Mile Grove,
was Sunday visitor with "Deacon"
and the " Parson."
Horace Bartlett is at Durant, down
below West Liberty, were he is act
ing as station agent.
Aunt Harriet and Uncle George
Cannon were over visiting with their
Brayton friends last week.
Uncle Thos. Mcclure and Mer-
chant Charlie Sykes are each sporting
new gold watch, of Elgin make.
If you wish to buy some nice
Young Hens call Oh 8 Smiths who
have more than they wish to keep.
James Horton is busy constructing
a residence for himself and family on
the eighty-acre farm he purchased of
his father.
The Oakfield Creamery shipped out
sixty-two tubs and the. Elkhorn ship
ped twenty tubs to the Boston aud
-
Say, Mr.! Don't forget that john
son g. Thompson still sell Furniture
and Harness. See them when in
need of any of these goods.
Mrs. G.. L. Bison, her daughter,
Ethel, and Charley boy were over
Monday night visitors with their rel
atives. Mr.. and Mrs. j. Nj. Thomas,
at Extra.
Dave Carpenter has written from
Nora, Nuckolls county, Nebraska, for
Mrs. Carpenter and the children to
come out there to live and they will
start in about two weeks.
Mr.. E. E. Powell, the Red Oak
horse buyer. was at Brayton, Tuesday,
and purchased eigh head of very fine
horses. He will be in Brayton again
about the middle of March to buy
horses.
Misses Eva Walkerand Halle Rem
dleman, of Extra, are passing jolly
week at the old homestead, on the
Troublesome, visiting with Miss Eva's
brother and sister, Schuyler and Mrs
James Barhan.
Greer e. Sykes wish those owing
them on account to call and settle by
the first of March as the books mus
closed before Frank goes south. Ii
this connection they wish to announces
that they are selling everything a
Merchant j. A. Slender, his wifi
and two daughters, Misses Annie an6
Elsie, We're at Massena, Cass county
Wednesday, where they went to wit
liefp s the JehhTriape sfelMdsr, stt6SnafEss
Julia Larsen, a charming young lad,
of that locality.
Listen to this piggy tale: Sore
Sorensen, of near Extra, sold Owe
Ide ten head of hogs, this week, tina
weighed 4,700 pounds. This sam
man also sold owen I" theonethatgot
rootedaway" of this herd and h
weighed 765 pounds. Mr. Sornso
said he had to come to Brayton tw
times to get that shoat here. There
Tuesday evening the Brayton Wood
men took these candidates by the han
and led them them through laby
rinth OF swamps up onto the soil
foundation Of Modern Woodmenshil
Frank and Willis Jenkins, Waite
Faulkner, Sidney Mcguire, G. A
Heath, Dick Powers, Chris Jesse
and George Hoegh. The lodge VIZ
assisted by their Extra brethren an
the affair ended with a jolly fir
spread.
Last Friday Mr.. S. G.. Nelson w;
seventy years old and in the afternoo
about two hundred of the good man
friends assembled at his home I
shake his hand and make merry I'll
while. Among this number wei
Merchant r.. G. Olsen and Chris La
sen who had borrowed Dell Heath
cutter, just to have one more sleig
ride. They were having such goo
time that they did not notice tt
lengthening shadows until the su
was nearly down. Then they hastel
ed toward Brayton to be in time Il
Mr.. Olesen to take the down trail
They had got part way here whe
the cutter began to crack and prett
soon there was a mighty crash an
Chris and the store keeper were sill
ting in the middle Of the road o
pieces Of the sleigh. Mr.. Olsen W;
SO anxious to 60 home that he strip
ped the harness off the steed, mount
ed him and fastened toward tow
He had got close to the depot whe
he saw Conductor. Bunday wave H.
hand, Rocky Eastman gave a farewe
foot OF the whistle>and the train dis
appeared around the Bartlett bend
and Olsen was left.
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