Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-17

Mrs. Chas. McLachlin, of Gray, was
down Wednesday, visiting at the VIM.
Cowles' home and doing some shop
ping.
r: y. Taggart, proprietor of the
Audubon Nursery, left for Ida Grove
Monday morning to look after bust
ness interests.
j. HI. Kate left for Belle Plaine,
Tuesday morning to look over the
business prospects of that place with
view to Locating.
}. ID. Hersman moved into his prop
erty on Tracy street, Wednesday, and
the Christian minister moved into the
house vacated by him on Leroy street.
Chas. Carr, the gentleman at the
head of Riddlesberger & Fay's poultry
and eggs business at this place, was in
Omaha the first of the week on bust
ness.
j. ii. Mosier went to Omaha We'd
nesday evening to purchase two or
three carloads of feeders which he will
have fed on his Douglas township
farm.
Miss Nellie Conway, of Des Moines,
returned to visit some time with her
many friends. She went out to Geo.
Foley's where she will make her
headquarters.
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.
Ed. Bilharz has purchased seventy
feet Oft the south side of B. S. Phelps,
residence property. Consideration
was ten dollars front foot or 500. 90.
He will build a fine house either this
fall or in the spring.
The gentleman that has had the
bunch of horses at the North Western
yards, had the misfortune to loose one
of his best animals by it getting it's
neck broke. The animal had been
roped and threw himself. Geo. Gray
had bargained for it and was to be de-
livered at Chas. Benton's livery barn.
John H. Mosier is storing his goods
for the present in the Preston build
ing, awaiting the vacation of a suita-
BILE residence in which to live. He in
tended to build this fall but finds it
impossible and has decided to wait till
spring when he will put up fine
residence in keeping with the many
other fine residences of the town.
The Methodist Sunday School have
been invited to spend next Thursday
in the Miiliman woods, with the EX-
ira Sunday school. Arrangements are
being made for about one hundred
and fifty who will attend. Every one
will take their lunch baskets with
them, we'll filled with picnic eatables
and help fill the big long tables that
will be spread under the spreading
bows of the giant of the forest. There
will be swings, hammocks, games and
all sorts of amusements suitable for
the occasion. The older people are
anticipating royal good time and a
bountiful feast as well as the children.
By the reports in the state papers
the 5lst Iowa Volunteers will sail for
home from the Philippines about the
first of September. They will return,
If no changes are made, on the trans
port sheridan. They are yet on the
fighting lines. Their return will be
watched and waited for by anxious
latHeis, Hlotners, prOtnefS, sisters and
| friends. Audubon and Audubon
county is well represented in this regi-
ment and many are they who are
looking forward to when they start
their journey homeward, where ex-
tensive preparations are being made
to receive the gallant boys who in
listed several months ago. They will
be brought back in a body from San
Francisco, their transportation being
paid by the state from the latter place.