Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-02-23
Extra.

Corn husking is still one OF the Ill
dustries in the present tense.
J. F. McAninch and N. p. Christen-
sen were county seat visitors Monday.
W. G. Sturgeon re-shingled the main
part of his residence the first OF the
week.
Walter Green is moving onto the old
home place, two and half miles south
of town.
w. A. Hamler is enjoying good
visit from his father, whose home is in
Dakota.
Farmers report the cholera epidemic
as abating and the remaining swine as
doing we'll.
Assessor P. I. Whitfield is improving
his time, going the rounds asking all
kinds of questions.
County Clerk II. d. Woodward and
ex-clerk Frank Rice were on our streets
Tuesday of this week.
w. w. Sickels and wife rejoice over
their valentine" 1t proved to be a
nice eight pound baby girl.
Jno. Norris will farm the tenant
farm owned by l.. d. butcher, of Au-
dubon township, this coming year.
The seven year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Bartelts, living four miles
east of town, is very i'll with typhoid
fever.
G. w. Jenkins was granted permit
to run a saloon in our city at the coun-
Gil meeting Monday night, making two
for Extra.
Nick Martis, north of town, will have
a public sale tomorrow Friday.) We
did not learn that Nick intended to
leave the farm.
Ben MASKING, living on his farm east
of town, is suffering from stomach
trouble and the grip. Saturday he
was quite sick.
As Arthur Pine was coming to town
last Saturday very valuable horse be-
longing to him dropped dead, which is
quite loss to him.
Albert Croy has re-shingled his house
and will make other improvements out
side and in. 1t is very pleasant home
and will only be more so after these
changes.
Silas Crane and wife, who have been
living down on the Green homestead,
have moved over into Audubon town
ship on the farm known as the Albert
Smith farm.
Anton Spoo has opened his saloon.
This is our first saloon, he having COM
menced operation Monday morning
after complying with the requirements
of the mulct law.
Andrew Baber, Chas. Radcliff and
M. D. Thomas retqrned Monday from
Mt. Etna with three loads consisting of
the Robt Hamlin saw mill that Mr..
Hamlin moved from here last fall.
While Andrew Baber was riding one
horse and leading another last Friday
morning they became frightened and
in trying to control them was hurt
badly in the hip. He is abl$ to be
around, however,
Jno. Guidinger sold his business
place to Anton Spoo, consideration
$4,000. It was necessary for Mr..
Spoo to purchase said property in order
to get the required Fifty feet" so that
he might open his saloon.
Mrs. Basham is having the lumber
hauled onto her Audubon township
farm and will have an addition built to
her house. When done she will have a
comfortable place for her tenant.
Harve Huff will farm there this year.
VIM. Wonn, of Audubon, was in
town Monday and Tuesday attending
to legal matters. He was acting as
prosecuting attorney in the law suit be-
tween Frank Hensley and his tenant,
Jno. Twist We understand Mr.. Hen
sley won the suit.
Sam Minser, down in Audubon town
ship, had public sale yesterday, prices
being very satisfactory. Mr.. Minser is
an old resident of this county and it
will seem strange when Sam and his
good wife are not counted among Au-
dubon county's residents.
Will Anders returned home Friday
morning from Virginia where the 4th
Mo. has been in camp all winter. He
has his discharge papers and thinks he
will remain home some time. He is
looking we'll and is much heavier than
when he left one year ago.
Jno. Martin writes home from Colo,
to his parents in Audubon township
that Bessie Thomas is dangerously i'll
with rheumatism and of an almost fatal
termination of an accident to Nat
Thomas, who fell from load of hay,
injuring his spine. They will be re-
membered as son and daughter of Isaac
Thomas, who lived so many years on a
farm east of town.
Our public schools had special pro-
grams in honor of the father of our
country, Geo. Washington, yesterday
afternoon. An enjoyable time was had
by all, the rooms being favored by a
number of visitors. Patrons of our
schools improve such opportunities
whenever afforded and always feel well
repaid for the time spent. Perhaps
parents do not visit the school room
often enough. We have a splendid
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