Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-04-07
OAKFIELD & BRA YTON|


Dick Powers went to Des Moines
last Thursday.
Frank Freeman was with his Extra
friends last Monday.
Mrs. John Doyle was very i'll the
first part of the week.
Shoe repairing neatly done at H. P.
Buttons home, in Oakfeld. See him.
Teams were up Tuesday and We'd
nesday and hauled Merchant Olsen's
goods down TO Lorah.
Mrs. Ella Stuart, Of Stuart, was
here this week on visit to her sister,
Mrs. Min Brown.
r Miss Amber Kelsey. of Extra, was
a visitor with Mrs. Walter Faulkner
at the Brayton bank.
McGovern Il Bison shipped prime
load of hogs to the indianapolis
packing house las Saturday.
B. F. Simpson Has just got home
with two car loads of cattle that he
purchased from parties up near Extra.
i Rev. Harry Ferguson came up to
Brayton and preached, Wednesday.
He will remain over next Sunday and
will hold meetings every night.
The Elkhorn Lumber Company is
receiving fourteen car loads Of lum Der
at Brayton. Tuesday, sixteen teams
were at Brayton hauling out building
material.
Mrs. Bison, Miss Ethel Bison and
Charley Boy We're up to Extra be-
tween trains, last Tuesday evening,
visiting with their relatives Mr.. and
Mrs. Mack Thomas. When Mrs. Bison
returned she was the possessor of all
elegant glass aquarium and four pref
ty gold firsh, gift from her sister,
Mrs. Thomas.
George Cotton and Ned Wood have
taken the contract to cut more than
one hundred cords of wood in the
4 timber that belongs to Mr.. Straight,
of Atlantic. The boys have construct
ed tent and will live sort of a
Gypsy life.
Fred Edmundson, our new section
boss, took hold of his new position
last Monday. Arthur Merrick and
Chris Peterson are working on the
Brayton section. John Doyle will,
. probably, be transferred to the Extra
section and work for Captain Dona-
hue.
The famous Ottumwa Male Quar-.
4 tette, accompanied by Miss Jessie
7 Kleinman, Reciter, will appear at the
M. e. church, in Extra, on April 10th
q Read the recommendations in Extra
column.
There was mistake made last weel
? in saying that Miss May jenkins wa!
t elected at number eight, Oakfel6
l township. There was no teacher Sc.
lected and Mr.. Nelson, the presen
p director, came up and offered Mis-
!, Ida Hockenberry the school.
We were unable to get copy o
the program for the Sunday Schoo
Entertainment at the Brayton Baptis
It church, on Easter night, but caro-
l from e. A. Heath tells us to assure
j. all that come they will witness very
: pleasing entertainment, consisting O
vocal and instrumental music, recita
:, tions, and floral exercise.
d Died, at the home of her son, H
II W. Rogers, on Wednesday, March 30
IS 1898, at $50 o'clocka. M, Mrs. Saral
II Hedges Rogers, one of the pioneer set
tiers Of Audubon county. She wa
Is born in Ohio county, Kentucky, OF
# July 3, 1918, being eighty four years
}. eight months and twenty seven day
d Of age at the time Of her death. He
" parents died when she was a small
: child and she, in care of an uncle
. emigrated westward and located il
=, ~ McClain county, Illinois, where sh
~ ~ married Thomas Rogers in 1886
= Soon after her marriage they movet
-, ;" to the Territory OF Iowa, locatin!
- first at Glassco, Jefferson county
thence to Cass county in 1852, and i
70 1856 they moved to Audubon wher
IS she has since resided. She was tn
:, mother Of five children-two, Winfield
II and Mary Jane. died when small
u Three children still live to mourn he
departure, namely: Mrs. Rachae
IN wife of James Hedges, OF Panama
he Iowa, Mrs. Darthula, wife of j. I
IN jenkins, of Brayton, and Horati
y Rogers, at whose home she had resid
re ed since the death of her husband
twelve years ago. Her children CAV
N her loving care during her declinin,
"a years. Grandma was kind and gen
~ tie mother and true Christia
l. woman, aud was a member OF tn
"a Baptist church for fifty years. St
al did not fear death. She said: 81 al
: ready to 60" Conscious to the las
>, she passed away surrounded by 10y
81 ing friends and relatives. Ten gran
~ = children and eight great-grand chic
~: ~ rem are among the mourners. TT
~ funeral service was conducted at I'll
:, home of her son, FL. w. Rogers, Q
~ Friday, April LIST, at 10 O'Clock a. m
i by Rev. Nels Sornson, of Braytol
The discourse was based on Luke %
IN 2s. Interment was in the Oaktiel
as Cemetery.
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