Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-07-27
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The Blue Grass Creamery received
car of coal Tuesday morning.
They are going to have a jolly party
up at Hub Whites next Saturday
night.
This time the Blue Grass Creamery
paid their patrons sixteen cents for
butter fat.
Uncle James Bells sister, Mrs.
Dippe, and his niece, Eva Bell, are
visiting him.
Rev. o. t. Nichols will preach at
Old Hamlin next Sunday afternoon
at three o'clock.
Mrs. Wiggington, at Old Hamlin,
is reported on the sick list We hope
there is nothing serious.
Mrs. M. Mcclure and daughter,
Minnie, were visiting with Will and
wife, at the store, Tuesday.
When her aunt goes home Mrs.
Effiie Gleason proposes to go with her
for permanent abiding place.
Charley Pattison, of Extra, was
chatting with his Hamlin friends for
few moments, Tuesday morning.
Anthony Davis began his wheat
and oat harvest, last Tuesday and the
prospects for big yield were good.
There will be Sunday School at the
Station next Sabbath at ten O'Clock,
and preaching when the clock strikes
eleven.
Mayor Will Mcclure hitched up
and drove to Extra, Tuesday, where
he visited for short time with his
friends.
Grandpa Coonrod has been about
the neighborhood this week speaking
words of hope and cheer to many a
faintiug heart.
Mrs. Maylon Boyd and two girls
started for Altoona, Iowa, on the Tues
day noon train, to visit her mother
who is very i'll.
The other day when George Smith
went out to round up his horses he
found one of his best ones keeled over
an ditch-dead.
The United States Marshal visited
-Nels Petersen, down in Hig hland
Grove, Monday, and gave him free
ride out to Council Bluffs.
The last part Of this week Harry
Percy and wife will be visited by an
uncle and aunt from Bennington,
ln ~; l., :,
parents, down at Dexter
Harry Percy is obeying orders and
shipping out every blessed oat tina,
Counselman & Company have at the
Station, thirty car loads, in the neigh.
borhood of thirty thousand bushels
George Smith started up his ma.
chine, Tuesday, and threshed out s
field Of barley for George Girard
That's the first occurrence Of thai
kind we have heard about this year
At the Democratic township caucu,
this week, after due deliberation, i,
was decided to let the Republican,
have the Justices and Constables anC
they only nominated Peter Madsen al
Trustee.
Little Miss Ethel Smith is quite
i'll of typhoid fever, but under Doctor
Child's watchful care she is slowl,
improving. Her grandmother. Mrs
John Connrardy was up from Extra
Tuesday evening, to visit her.
With broad trimmed hat and fish
ing rod in hand Grandpa Coonroi
was seated on the placid banks of thu
Blue Grass, Tuesday afternoon, try.
ing to induce some Of the tinny tribe
to jump from their cool retreat to thu
bottom Of his hot frying pan.
Cory Wilson was over at the Will
liam Morley home, near the Lone
Star church, Saturday, and says thai
Mr.. Morley is as lonesome as Adam
Selkirk must have been. His wife was
taken violently insane couple O.
weeks ago, necessitating her remova
to Clarinda.
Last Saturday relatives here receiv.
ed news Of the death OF Mr. Andrew
Lounne at Rawlins, Wyoming, {
brother of Mrs. P. K. Peterson, who
lives on part Of the Arthur Bartlett
farm they purchased, one mile soutl
Of the Station, and also brother O
Peter Lounne, Of Sharon township
The deceased was employed in til,
round house and was killed. on Fri
day, by being crushed beneath a NOV
ing locomotive. His remains wer
embalmed and prepared for burial by
Undertaken H. Rasmussen, of tina
city, friend of the dead man, ant
they arrived in Extra, Monday morn
ing, accompanied by q. Christofferson
Funeral services were held at the Dan
ish Lutheran church, a few mile
northwest of that city and the bod,
was laid to rest in the cemetery neal
by. He was abount thirty years ole
and man of many noble qualities