Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-09-07
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Harry Percy and family attended
the county fair a day or two this
week.
The good wife of Miles Kness is
said to be very ill at her home. east
of the Station.
August Burr's brother, a mute, fell
from hay loft, one day this week
and sustained serious injuries.
Lyman Kelly, of Audubon, was
putting the last daub of cement in
Harry Percy's new cistern, first of
the week.
Mrs. Thomas Gill will go to Null
vane, Kansas, next Friday to pass
few weeks with her parents who re-
side in that city.
William Berry, a cousin of Will
Mcguire, was busy Monday, building
handy coal and oil house at the west
end of the store.
Next Sunday services at the Sta
ton will be as follows: Sunday
School at ten O'Clock in the morning. |
preaching one hour later.
On account of this being fair week
Grandpa Coonrod will not have any
fish this week, but will have some
little nicer than usual next week.
Until further notice | will paw
Eleven Gents per dozen for your fresh
eggs. Bring them to me at Hamlin
Station. If WILLIAM MCGUIRE.
Mr.. o. P. Tyler, who is superin-
teddent of Cattle at the county fair.
went to Audubon, Tuesday morning
to assume the duties Of that position.
Next Monday the Misses Grace
Stanley, Edith Harris and Lille
Crees will begin teachsng their fall
terms Of school, round about the
Station.
Postmaster Jim Elrod, with his
hammer and saw and plane, has been
repairing school house number two,
putting in new floor and making
other repairs.
The sister of Rev. Conner, and his
niece, Miss Beatrice Cornwall, who
have been passing week with him,
took the Tuesday noon train for their
home in Des Moines.
Frue Hayes, east of the Station, is
having the finishing touches put onto
his new house. The Monroe Brorhers,
those tasty painters and decorators,
from Extra, done the work.
George Scott and family made an
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week, and next Monday Mr.. Scott
goes TO Council Bluffs to serve as an
United States Grand Juryman.
Misses Belle and Rose Mcguire
will begin teaching their schools on
next Monday. The first named w i'll
teach up in Viola, and the other lad
will teach in Douglas township.
Till the setting Of thesun, Tuesday,
T. Il. Emery wore a 12by14 smile,
and those nearby heard him hum
merry tune the while-new big eight
pound boy baby born at his home on
that day.
John Egan has force of carpenters
busy constructing modern house on
his Greeley township farm. Mr.
Egan prospers as the days 60 by and
is deserving Of the best of earth's
good things.
w. D. Stanley was at Audubon, on
Tuesday morning, delivering nice
load of hogs, of which his fine farm
is we'll stocked. Mr.. Stanley has his
farm we'll stocked with cattle and
hogs and is fast becoming rich man.
The First South Dakota Regiment.
the command to which John McNutt's
boy, of Old Hamlin, belongs, reached
the shores OF America last Friday,
landing at San Francisco. He will
soon be speeding home as fast as steam
can carry him.
Theo. Gearhearl, from Nicola. ar
rived at the Station, Tuesday, to visit
his family who have been here with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Crees,
for week. Uncle Joel came down
in that fine new carriage and took
Theo. home with him.
That Friday is an unlucky day is
being demonstrated quite often of
late. We heard of case of this kind
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter X /.
Peterson, they who live on part of
the Arthur Bartlett farm, south of
the Station, which occurred on Fri
day Of last week, for unto them that
day pair of sweet baby girls were
born.
Our Village Blacksmith, Uncle
Clark Wilson, is thinking quite seri-
ously these days Of going to the re-
union of his old regiment, the Thirty
Third Iowa Infantry, which meets at
Pella on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, September 10, 20 and 81.
The SHOWS Of many winters have
turned Uncle Clark's hair white, and
we hope he may beable toattend this
meeting and grasp the hands of his