Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-10-27
Ross News.

Mrs. VIM. Hoffman spent Monday
in Audubon.
John Warner began digging his
potatoes last Monday.
Miss Clara Luse closes her school
at No. s, next Tuesday.
Harry Turner has large crop of
very fine potatoes this fall.
John Rutherford finished digging
sixty bushels Of potatoes, Monday.
Kirk Winchell is helping Matt
Frost to pick sixty acres of nice corn.
Single, our new blacksmith, is
talking of putting up a good shop at
Ross.
Everett Bates is going with Tom
Williamson's steam thresher this
week.
Leet Il Reid expect to shell out
what corn they have in Ross next
week.
Ben Carr is helping Amos Fan
cher to put up new barn on his
farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Turner visited
at the Harry Northrups home last
Sunday.
Mrs. Albert Fest visited at the
home of her father, Fred Baer, last
Sunday.
w. HI. Hoffman has forty five acres
of cornqto pick. He will commence
this week.
John Rutherford attended the Re-
publican rally, at Aimballton, Tues
day evening.
The fall term of school, at No. Z,
closes next Tuesday, Miss Emma
Reid, teacher
Harry Northup and Alex Quimby
made ten dollars apiece by trading
horses last Saturday.
j. f. Luse is Smelling out the bal
ance of his corn this week, which
makes plenty of cobs.
1t is rumored that Yves Jay and j.
S. Rice made several hundred dollars
last week 'on paper"
Mrs. Rob Hunter and two children,
Audubon, recently visited with Mrs.
Yves JAY, OF this place.
John Markley was in Ross, Tues
day, putting in some extra spouting
at the Right Place Elevator.
Sylvester Moore has cousin by
the name of Miller, from Minnesota,
visiting with him this week.
j. H. Markley is building a new
house for Nels Christensen, in Gamer
OH township, size S6by4S feet.
From sample left at the Farmers
Store it would seem that G. G. Cush-
ing has the champion corn this year.
Mrs. w. D. Lambert and child,
from Woodbury. county, are here
visiting her sister, Mrs. e. B. Rorah.
Frank Slater came over from Craw-
ford county, Saturday, and visited
over Sunday with old friends in Ross.
Fred Mandlekow and bride, of
Clinton. Iowa, are visiting at the
home of his sister, Mrs. VIM. Kraul
Mr.. and Mrs. John McGill came
back, Monday, from Crawford county
where they went to attend the funer-
al of a niece.
Miss Jane Rutherford goes to Hast :
ings, Nebraska, next Friday to visit
with relatives. She will probably
remain all winter.
The Farmers Store did IA big trade
last week. Not being able to work
on account of the bad weather every
body came to town.
e. D. Ochltree, who went to Colo
RADIO for his health, last June, is re-
ported much better and will stay
there until next spring.
Mrs. Henry Hunt, OF De Soto, who
has been visiting her daughters, Mrs.
Thos. Rutherford and Mrs. Chas.
Farnham, returned home, Tuesday.
Frank White bought an Avery
wagon Of F. L. Anderson, last Satur-
day, and VIM. Lehrenkraus Smith
wagon, at the same place, Monday.
Miss Belle Bridenstine's school, at
Larland, closed last Friday. She ex-
poets to leave for Omaha on Thursday
to spend few days at the Exposition.
Sammie and Nellie Luse and the
pony spent Sunday over at Ed.
Finch's. 1t is getting to be ques-
ton which the little girls like best,
Sammy or the pony.
Miss Emma Reid got snow bound
| while returning home from school