Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-31

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Doak q Lane shipped in a carload
Of feeders, Wednesday morning from
Grand Junction.
Ada Kuhn went down to Des
Moines last Friday to make quite an
extended visit with relatives.
Miss May Hoover returned Satur-
day from summers visit with rela-
tives and friends in and near Iowa
City.
Mrs. VIM. Ross and children went
down to Eldora the last of the week to
make visit OF several days with her
parents.
Grin Eddy is the happiest man in
the central part of the county, all on
account of the arrival of a son at his
home Sunday.
Theo. F. Myers is out at Council
Bluffs this week looking after matters
pertaining to the Ballard estate of
which he is administrator.
Mat Cost, of Omaha, is the gentle
man that is doing the baking at Rice's
bakery. He was recommended as one
OF the best bread bakers in the city.
Alta and Ola Harsh, of Jasper coun-
ty, arrived the first of the week and
will make their relatives, VIM. Arm
strong and family an extended visit.
Mrs. Hans Christensen is under the
care of an osteopath from Carroll who
comes to Audubon each Tuesday and
Friday to visit several patients he has
here.
Doll Kennedy will depart tomorrow
for Chicago to study the fall styles in
millinery. She will go from there to
Bethania, Illinois, to work in milli-
merry store.
Henry Doak, of Bloomsberg, Penn
sylvania, father of John and VIM.
Doak, arrived in Audubon the first of
the week and will make his sons an
extended visit.
Everything promises toward having
the best fair ever held in the county,
and everything possible is being done
to make it both interesting and in
structive to all.
Bogue Rhodes, who has been tend
ing bar at Ben Monks saloon for
some time has accepted situation
with VIM. Smith, at Carroll. He
went up Tuesday.
Henry Cooley returned Wednesday
morning from Manning where he had
been the past four or five days with
his father, George Cooley, who is very
low and not expected to live.
Tad Evans returned to the city this
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John NJ" in the races at Harlan last
week and took three different places in
three races, LIST, End and 3rd.
A. S. Darland and wife, of Scranton,
arrived in the city Friday and remain
ed over Sunday with Mrs. Darland's
uncle, G.. w. Ellis. Mr.. Darland is
principal Of the Scranton schools.
County Superintendent Spencer will
hold special examination in his
office Friday and Saturday for the ac-
commodation of all the school teachers
who failed in henormal examination.
G. w. Hoover, Chris Henriksen and
son, Theodore, went down to the state
fair Tuesday evening. They will re-
turn to Atlantic Thursday and take in
Ringing Brothers circus and come up
on the special.
Mr.. Kibby, who lives southwest of
town, is expecting visit in about a
week from his father who lives in Bos-
ton, Massachusetts,. He is seventy
five years of age. but will make the
entire trip alone.
Fry d Miller are doing lots of corn
Smelling in the city at present. They
have shelled several thousand bushels
for H. Grevsmuhl and w. Burnside
and are now Smelling out $4,000 to
$4,000 bushels for Hancock.
John I. Hensley, of the firm OF
Hensley Bros. & Brown OF Extra, was
up in this part of the county Tuesday
and bought 60 head of yearling calves
from J. w. Mcclure, q from Chas.
Priestley and 16 from Dan'l Holt.
l. P. Baker put down three wells
very close to each other for James
Brown. on the old Musson ranch.
Mr.. Brown has had a wind mill put
up and is now we'll supplied with
water. Kelly & Moody put up the
mill.
Chas. Jones was down at Exirs
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drive down sixteen head of Western
horses which he will try to dispose O.
at that place. He sold several to oul
people and they are having good sue
cess in breaking them.
! Frank Davis, while out canvassine
for the Wilson nursery, lost his coal
containing several letters and other
papers, somewhere between ViOls
Center and Audubon. He says thu
loss of the coat he doesn't mind bu
in one of the pockets was his smoking
tobacco.
! In e. Frick d Sons show window il
a large bird mounted, with a card at
tached as follows: Great Blue Heron
presented to us by F. S. Watts, wht
shot it six miles south of Audubon,
few days ago." He killed the birC
with his % callbre rifle. The mount
ing was done by j. f. Frazier.
In letter received by Warren Cole
from VIM. Beadle, who is in the Phil
lipines, says that while they were re
turning to their regiment on board tn
gunboat, Oceanic, and while he wa
laying on the deck asleep, the insur
gents attacked them on either side
killing one of their officers and tina
he himself received slight wounds
one on the arm one on the back.