Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-12-21
r. M. Pollock attended to business
at Extra Tuesday forenoon.

Spooney Freeman was business
visitor at Audubon Monday.
Fred Blume, of Audubon, was
transacting legal business at Brayton
Tuesday.
w. +. Edmundson layed up several
days last week with rheumatism of
muscles of the back.
T. j. Essington and Owen Ide both
marketed big punches of hogs at Bray
ton the first of the week.
N. p. Hoegh, of Oaktield township,
was at Audubon the first of the week
to attend to court matters.
80 Plymouth Rock roosters for sale
at the Oakwood farm.
j. G. HARDMAN
Asa Burwell has engaged in the
broom making business and on We'd
nesday shipped a consignment to
Lewis.
John o. Cotton Is expected home
spend Christmas with his family at
Oaktield.
P. f. Howell has sale bills out an
nouncing that he will have public
auction at his farm on Thursday, De-
cember 2Sth.
Mrs. Minnie Barber, of Kirkman,
and her little daughter are here for a
good visit with her relatives, the
j. S. Harter family.
Frank Duncan, of Atlantic, the
blind piano tuner, was at Brayton the
first of the week doing some work for
some of our musical people.
Jacob Petersen, who lives in Oak
field township, near Elkhorn, was in
Brayton Monday with "a head of
hogs which he sold to McGovern &
Bison.
Miss Emma Nelson, of Oakfield
township, will 60 up to the John Co.
zine home, in Cameron township, the
last OF the week to spend Christmas
with her friends.
The furniture in the bank has been
re-arranged and our bankers now
have much more convenient and
commodious sphere in which to
transact business.
Lars Esbeck, of Oakfiela township,
delivered 80 head of fine hogs to Nc
Govern II Bison at Brayton Monday
for which he received the snug little
sum Of something like $3.50.
Mr.. Anthony Hallew, of Keytsville
Missouri, is here for couple of
weeks representing Mr.. n Tate and
helping to close out the j. A. Slender
stock of general merchandise.
Mrs. j. A. johnson, while using a
butcher knife, cut her finger quite
severely, severing an artery which re-
CURED medical assistance to stop
bleeding. The injury is healing nicely
however.
The dancers Of the community will
have ample opportunity to enjoy
themselves-masquerade ball at Oak
field Saturday night and fine dance
at Stender's hall at Brayton on Mon
day night.
McGovern & Bison have been doing
tremendous hog business the past
week. They have shipped on an aver
age of a carload per day and on Tues
day shipped two cars from Brayton
and one from Lorah
z. Il. Howell has been shipping out
considerable of his timber recently.
The first of the week he shipped a
carload Of stove wood to Atlantic and
n cn a narlpol of r.,
load Of the same stuff to Adair.
Steve ODonnell, our friend from
down on the Cass county line, started
Monday evening for Gold Greek, M on
tana, to visit with his brother.in-law
i. l.. Kelly and family, and to look
after business interests in that section,
Our old friend John Mountz re-
turned Saturday from his recent visit
in Michigan. John has now settled
down in his old home where he will
busy himself this winter making will
low chairs, trapping and buying all
kinds OF skins and furs.
j. H. McKitrick, of heytsville,
Missouri, was here the first of the
week and purchased $1,000 worth of
the j. A. Slender stock which he
shipped to Missouri Tuesday evening
MI. McKitrick is an extensive dry
goods merchant of Keytsville
Mrs. Hans Petersen, wife of Hans
Petersen who formerly worked for
Ben Simpson, slipped and fell last
Saturday morning severely inuring
her hip and otherwise bruising her
Being we'll advanced in years the in
jury is very serious, but at last report
she was improving slowly.
Notice is hereby given that the pa
irons and officers of the Oakfield
Township Creamery Company will
hold their regular annual meeting at
the Center schoolhouse on Friday.
December 29th, for the purpose of
electing officers for the ensuing year
and for the transaction of such other
business as may come before the