Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-03-09
Chas. McLeran, ID. ID. S., over j. +.
McGuire's grocery store, Audubon,

Chas. McLeran, ID. d. S., over j. Z.
McGulre's grocery store, Audubon,
Iowa.
Messrs Titterton and Smouse, of
Coon Rapids, came over and spent
Saturday and Sunday with their old
friend, L. l.. Scott.
Henry Hale and Chris Haderer are
soon to commence the erection of a
new house on Theo. f. Morrow's farm
in Douglas township.
Doctor j. e. Clark returned from
Cedar Rapids, Tuesday, where he had
been making arrangements for house
preparatory to moving.
Miss Laura Dennis returned the last
of the week from Omaha where she
has been for sometime, staying with
her aunt, Mrs. Jennie Barnes.
Mrs. Arthur Baker has been SER
iously i'll for the past two weeks with
pleurisy, but is slowly recovering
under careful medical treatment.
Thos. Musson d Son will ship four
car loads of sheep to the Chicago mar
ket. Year by year we hear Of more
sheep being raised and fed with profit
able results.
Monday evening DR.. Eyer removed
a large abscess from the back of the
head Of Otto Bartlett, grandson of
VIM. Mehle. 1t was successful oper-
alton and the child is improving
nicely.
Will Tramp came up from Creston
last week to spend a few days with his
father. He will return soon in order
to be ready to help conduct their large
brick and tile business as soon as
spring opens.
Auditor Greenwaldt and Sheriff
Jones will go to Council Bluffs, Mon
day, to appear as witnesses in the fed
who robbed the Gray post-otfice, early
in the winter.
w. II. Low spent a couple of days in
town talking the merits of southern
Texas to his numerous friends. The
tide of immigration is southwark and
many northern people are seeking
homes in that sunny cline.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. M. Leet intend to
go to Chicago, Saturday evening, to
purchase furnishings for their elegant
new house. They will have a most
lovely home which they will enjoy
through ulle years 10 come.
The members of the town council
met, Monday evening, and transacted
the usual routine Of business, and
elected Frank Reinemund foreman of
hose number one, made vacant by the
removal of Theo. Creveling.
Hart & Eddy last year turned out
five hundred bee-hives, which was an
unusually large output; but owing to
the cold winter the bees have not done
we'll and they do not expect the de-
mand will be near as heavy this sea.
son.
VIM. Ault was reelected sub-di.
rector in district, No 8, Hamlin town.
6 ship. Will did not wait until all the
E good teacher We're hired, but at once
: secured Miss Lena Drury to teach the
: school. No one can doubt but what
: their school will be among the best il
!. the county.
A. f. Greenwaldt, County Auditor
went to Gray, Wednesday morning
to see Lou. Groteluschen, his former
business partner, who is suffering O
a serious attack Of rheumatism that is
almost unbearable.
II is secretly rumored and publicl,
whispered that there will be happy
wedding soon. The groom has come
many miles for his expected bride who
. through long years, has patientl,
waited for the return of her true lover
Who is it? You need not guess becaus
you would be wrong.
VIM. Layland went to Upton, Mon
day, where he expects to purchase
couple Of the best bred horses that cal
be found on the market. Will nov
has two good horses and will only bu,
those that are most demanded b
breeders. He will keep two of hi
horses at the barns in Extra afte
April first.
It The question Of settling who SHOULD
pay the costs in the Sawyer will case
has been continued to another term @
court. There are several hundred dol
lars in costs that some one will hav
to pay and the heirs do not seem dis
posed to pay them, thinking that tn
court will hold that they should b
paid by others.
Nate Carper has sold a half interes
i'll his patent neck yoke to Asmu
Boysen for cash consideration. Nat
is going to work in earnest to haV
them manufactured in large quaint
ties so that they will be able to fill til
many large orders that are alread
coming in. We are more than please
to see him reaping steady income.
VIM. Cunningham closed his fit
term of school last Friday at the Fai
view school house in Douglas tow
ship. The director and patrons Of IL
school have asked him to teach tt
school the coming spring to which |
has consented. Will possesses sch
lastic attainments and that sincerit
IT and nobility of purpose that makes q
work which comes before him an cas-
:. task.
The town council has adopted an G
. dinance providing for fourteen speci
police, whose duty it will be in case
fire to be present and preserve orde
care for goods carried from building
seeing that no one destroys or CARR
them away, and all such duties as Il
occasion may demand. The followil
persons have been appointed in co
nection with the provisions of the {
dinance:
A. f. Drake, Chief.
E. ID. Blackman, Assistant Chief.
n W. p EarpllSOn r w Monk