Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-10-26

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town and will pay some attention
to fruit raising and gardening.
George Leffingwell is busy this
week building him a roomy brick
cave, at his home in West Town.
George says that the cave is to serve
the double purpose of place to
store vegetables and a place to flee
to when one of those Kansas twist
ers comes sailing past.
Uncle Fred Anderson made a
trade one day this week in which
he disposed of forty-acre tract OF
land, that adjoins the Leoard EARLY
Dentist John Bishop, to that gentle
man. John is getting to be the pos
SCISSOR of many acres of Iowa soil.
With a wide brush Joe Wheeler is
spreading red paint all over the
sides and ends of that new barn he
has just completed on his farm over
in Audubon township. The struct
ure is forty-eight by sixty-four feet
in size and from the ground to the
peak of the roof it is thirty-two feet.
Word from Missouri Valley is to
the effect that the cancer upon the
side of John Cranes face has been
removed but he will be unable to
| come to Extra next Saturday to AT
tend to the delivery ofthe Edm,.,t-
son nursery stock. However, some
one will be here to attend to it for
him and the trees will be delivered.
From letters received here by
relatives we learn that Laurence
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known to all our citizens, has lately
underwent a surgical operation, at
| Omaha, for the removal of a tumor
and was giving him considerable
renee will come to the home of his
father to recuperate his broken
health.
William Thielen, that successful
feeder and farmer. south of town,
has been adding to his herd of cat
tie in his yards until he now has
upwards of one hundred head that
he is preparing for market. Then
he has ABOUT two hundred head of
hogs that are getting fat and when
Mr.. Thielen goes to Chicago with
them long towards spring he will
have nearly train load of stock
all of his own.
William Thielen and family have
been enjoying visit, the past few
days, from Mrs. Thielen's father,
Mr.. Herbert Frost, of Black Hawk
county, Iowa, and her cousin, John
Frost, of the same locality. While
here these people visited with their
other relatives, the John and Mat
Frost families. Our friend William
tells us that while his visitors were
here one day lhey went out to "do :"
the Omaha show, and that they
"done it up" in proper shape, too.
The latch string happened to be
out at the Marshall Smith home, in
West Town, the other evening when
in marched score or more of Miss
Mabeps friends, and then it was she
rem embered that that was her thir-
teenth birthday. They quietly took
possession of the premises and pro-
ceeded to make the evening pass
most pleasantly until the old hall
clock warned them that it was time
to depart when one of their number
stepped up to Miss Mabel and in a
neat little speech presented her
with beautiful gold ring, as a
token of their love for her. The lit
tie lady was SO dumfounded by this
that she stood Speechless until the
last footsteps had died away in the
distance.
Since the ladies of Extra have
taken hold of the matter of improv
ing the Cemetery they have done
much work and the latest move is
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tial building out there as a place Of
refuge in case of storm and also
to serve as a storehouse for tools
and funeral appliances. The house
is to be twelve by fourteen feet in
size and built in the latest style OF
architecture. We are told that the
officers of the old association have
resigned and that from now on the
Cemetery will be looked after by
the officers of the new association
which is composed of some of the
most active and go-a-head people ir
the community, and now the place
where sleeps our dead will receive
the attention it deserves.
A very painful accident befel
Ernest Voss, last Saturday after
noon, and one that will cause hin
to lay by for few days. Mr.. Will
liam Bintner has a we'll two hund
red and sixty-five feet deep upor
his farm, south of town. Something
got the matter with the force pump
: and Ernest and Charley May wer,
sent down to adjust matters. They
had got the piping windlased uI
and were taking the inside tubing
out Ernest holding to the tubing
with one hand and would occasion
ally give a gentle shake to looser
it SO it would come out the easier
He was in the act of giving one O
! these gentle shakes when the rop,
holding the piping broke and tn
pipe began running down insid
the outside one and before Ernes
could yank his hand away he wa
caught, one of his long fingers be
ing chopped off at the end, two
more were badly bruised and tn
{ bones in his hand and wrist wer,
! broken. Ernest was hastily brough
to town and had Doctor Newlol
/ dress his wound and now he il
! lettering about town for shor
spell.