Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-12-28

her young friends.
Fred Heileman and wife picked
turkey bones with Mr.. and Mrs.
Benry Young on Christmas day.
George Smith and wife ate Christ
mas dinner with her parents, at the
John Connrardy home, in Extra.
Will Thomas was down at Oska-
loosa and passed Christmas with his
mother, under the homestead roof.
Rev. Chambers has adjourned the
revival meetings he was conducting
at the Methodist church, Old Hamlin.
George Smith has lately added a
good sized and handy addition to his
barnat his home, high-up-on. the-hill.
We are told that two Of our young
men INDUCED in too much +" hilarity"
one day this week, which we sorry to
learn.
Silas and Sam Hunter returned to
the Station one day this week from a
pleasant visit at their old home back
in Ohio.
Mrs. Will milford went up to
Gray and passed the glad Christmas
time with her parents and friends
up there.
Uncle Joel Crees and wife ate their
fat goose dinner with their daughter,
Mrs. Will Young, at the Station, on
Christmas day.
Luther McNutt was at Atlantic
this week consulting a surgeon rela-
tive to his little daughter who is
troubled by an abscess.
MoUFr. We're going to have three
weddings to write up, in this neigh
borhood, and that, too, before the
moon wakes and wancs.
Plat Harris and wife are down at
Dekaub, Iowa, this week visiting
with their friends and looking at /,
small farm near that place.
Mrs. Lon Shaw, of Marine, who has
been here ona visit to her sister, Mrs.
Alex Crees, departed for her home on
the train, last Tuesday noon.
Fred Bradshaw and wife, of Man
ming, have been passing this week at
the Dimick homes, down in the
southern part Of this township.
Peter Juhl and his sisters moved,
last Wednesday, to the Alfred Miller
farm, way down one mile north of
the Oaktield Township Creamery.
Louie Gregersen, from Omaha, has
been here the past few days paying
visit to his brother, Peter, who lives
down near the Hamlin Center school.
Mrs. Marshall Smith and daughter,
Mabel, came up from Extra on
Christmas day and passed the day
with their relatives, Wib Smith
and family.
The Board of directors Of the Blue
Grass Creamery will meet Oh We'd
nesday, January Sd, for the purpose
of having an annual settling up of the
b )oks of that concern.
William Dryden and wife, OF Au-
dubon, and Alex Crces and family
ate their Christmas dinner with Ed.
Dryden and wife, in the new house,
down below the Station
Ed. McAtlee and family. from near
Extra, and Willis McAtfee, and tami-
ly, from over east were all seated at
the dinner table in George Gerard s
Hamlin home, on Christmas day.
There was an old fashioned family
dinner party at the James McNutt
home, in Old Hamlin, on Christmas
day, twenty-five relatives and friends
gathered together OH that occasion.
Tuesday noon George Gill sen, his
sister, Mrs. L. II. Wallace, at Atlant.
ic, as belatcd Christmas present a
pal! containing five pounds of that
excellent Blue Grass Creamery butter
Grandpa .and Grandma Coonrod
were agreeably surprised, Monday
evening, by visit from their grand
son, Mr.. Vern Coonrod, OF Coleridge
Nebraska, who came to visit them
and the lends of his boyhood, for {
few days.
Those in attendance at the Metno.
dist and Presbyterian Christmas trees
over at Old Hamlin, last Saturday
night, say that both houses were wei
filled with happy hearts and tina
there were many beautiful aud costly
gifts received.
George Smith has purchased Uncle
Joel Crees' Smelling outfit and afte
grinding out a couple thousand bush
els Of corn for James Boyer he set the
machine at the Station and begal
Smelling out all the corn Counselmal
u Company have at the Station.
Hear We, all who are interested il
the Blue Grass Creamery! The annu
81 meeting Of the directors and pat
rons,at this institution will be helt
on the second Tuesday in January
the 9th day thereof, for the purpos
of elec,ing officers and transactin
other Important business.
James Boyer has sold his eighty
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