Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-10

Chas. Bagley was called to Atlantic
Wednesday noon by telegram an
nouncing the serious illness of his
mother.
George Preston has very proud
appearance about him these days. A
little girl baby came to gladden. his
home last Tuesday.
f. L. Anderson, nominee for sheriff
on the republican ticket, together
with his family, drove through the
city Wednesday enroute to Audubon
township to visit with his parents and
friends.
Ringing Bros mammoth bill car,
NO. l, was transferred onto the Rock
Island Wednesday evening enroute to
Atlantic to bill that city for their cir
Gus which will pitch tents there on
Thursday, August 81.
Mrs S. Miller, of Ute, sister of
VIM. Cloughly, arrived Tuesday and
will make him visit of two or three
weeks. Mr.. Miller is large stock
raiser and went into Chicago this
week with a train load of cattle.
The band will give an open air con-
cert at the reception held at VIM.
Cloughly's beautiful home tonight in
honor of the newly welded couple,
MI. and Mrs. Hammer. They will
play some of their finest selections.
Martin Larsen, the harness dealer,
Il. K. Rasmussen, the blacksmith on
Market Street, and Nels Hansen. drug
clerk at It. f. Wilheim's drug store,
went out to the fair at Omaha, Tues.
day morning. They expect to stay
but few days.
Among the various amusements
that have been going on in the city
this week, has been one given by a
medicine man, with company of ten
men who give open air concerts be-
tween Hadaah talks. Hadaah is the
name of the medicine they are intro
ducing.
Frank Evans and wife came down
from Denison Tuesday to attend the
wedding of his sister. Frank is now
foreman ola gang of carpenters who
are putting up lumber sheds for the
Green Bay Lumber Co. They have
eleven large sheas to build up in that
section of the country.
Four steam threshing outfits pulled
out of Audubon Wednesday. This
means, if they each get in sixty davs
work and can shell out 1000 bushels
per day, that some 10000 bushels of
grain has been raised in Audubon
county. And this is not half the out
hts and the story is not half told.
Jas. Kilgor, the gentleman who has
been doing the repairing as well as
clerking in E. ID. Blackman's large
shoe store for several years, resigned
the first Of the.week, and left, Tuesday
morning for Council Bluffs where he
Will look for another job. Mr.. Black
man has not employed anyone yet,
but has several competent men in
view.
w. j. Kennedy will go down to the
state fair the last week in August to
look at the fine bred horses that will
be exhibited there with view to par
chasing if he finds one that will equal
the one he lost; if not, he will 90 to
Des Moines to look at some of that
states horses. He says he intends to
get one, if possible, that will come up
to the one he lost a few weeks ago.
r. M. Carpenter, together with his
son, Maurice, will leave in a few days
for Gilmore, Iowa, where they will
put in newspaper plant, one that is
up-to-date in eAery respect. Mr. Car
penter will not give all his attention
to the paper business, as he intends to
teach school at Ledyard, and will turn
that mostly, if not entirely, over to
his son, who is a graduate from the
Audubon High Schools, and is, with
out doubt, capable to take full charge.
Stas Ceronek and Grover Ander.
son had few words Wednesday
which ended in fistic combat. They
We're taken before the mayor who let
them off this time with instructions
that if they were brought up before
them again he would have to find
way to send them to the reform school.
They are not the only ones that will
get this sentence if they don't change
their actions, for there are number
of young boys that should be looked
after by their parents and more strin-
gent rules put in force by them.
The Epworth League have out an
nouncement cards for lawn sociable
to be given at Farguson's next Mon
day evening. The card is verse
which we reproduce. On one side it
reads as follows: