Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-02-08

hrs. +. u. feelnau was al ALldu-
tic visitor Monday.
Miss Ethel Clarke is visiting her
friend Miss Allie Cannon.
Bill Dew eese and wife visited rela-
tives in Brayton last week.
Tom McGovern was at Omaha on
business the first Of the week.
Grandpa Simpson is still very
poorly at the home of Mrs Cannon.
Aleck Reynoldsand wife have hired
to Will Thielen tor the coming year.
Mrs. c, l.. Bison and Charley boy
spent Tuesday with relatives at Ex-
ira.
j. P. Bendixen was transacting i'm
portant business at Audubon Tuesday
forenoon.
There was a big neighborhood
party at Sam McGaffin's last Thurs.
day night.
Douglas Hamlin is busy these days
putting up ice for those cool draughts
next summer.
G.. w. Chase is still very sick and
on Tuesday his condition was con-
sidered critical.
The Ladies' Aid Society will meet
next Tuesday forenoon at the home
of Mrs. l. FL. Jenkins.
r. P. Clark will have public sale
at his farm east Of Oakfield, on We'd
nesday, February 2Sth.
Mrs. Hans Petersen is able to sit
mp some now. The poor lady has
had long siege of sickness.
McGovern & Bison purchased
nice bunch of hogs of BRACE Sornson
OF Oaktield township, Monday.
The Oaktield Literary was largely
attended Monday and was very inter
esting throughout, especially the de-
bate.
Joe Bumgardner is buying COWS
for the benefit Of himself, and the
Troublesome Valley creamery the
coming season.
Rev. Bentley has been Oh the sick
list the past week, having suffered
from very severe cold. He is some
what improved this week.
The Rothschild people shipped out
of Brayton Tuesday five carloads of
cereals, consisting of wheat, corn
and oats. They we're billed to Day.
export.
L. d. Pearson has traded his farm
for property in Anita where they
will move in the spring. Mr.. Pear
son is one of the first settlers in Cass
county.
John r. Heiken, our prosperous
friend, of south Oakfeld township,
left Monday with M. A. Clark, for
Artesian, South Dakota, on a land
seeking expedition.
L. N. Krog was busy the first of
the week moving his stock, farm ma
chinery and household effects onto his
new farm better known as the Boose
place east of Oakfield.
Ned Woods and Ben Shirley are
putting down a deep we'll for j. G..
Hardman. They are going right on
down till they strike water if they
have to go clear to the Transvaal.
A boy baby was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. John w. Frederickson Tuesday
morning. Grandpapa Frederickson,
way out in California, will dance a
merry clog, when he learns the good
news.
Thomas Burns, of Nebraska, was
here last week visiting with his
brother, James. This week they
both went down to Creston to visit
with their brother Andrew for day
or two.
Charley Bison and wife will at
tend the entertainment and banquet
given by the Elks lodge, of Atlantic,
this evening. j. T.. Jenkins and
p. F. Howell, will also attend the
festivities.
Bonnie Clark accompanied his two
cousins, Ernie and Ethel Clark, back
to their home at Ashland, Nebraska,
Monday. He will visit couple of
weeks with relatives and friends in
that section.
Joe and Charley Barber, of Kirk
man, visited with relatives in and
around Oaktield from Saturday until
Tuesday. They were also looking for
land, but found nothing here that
suited them.
Manager Sornson, of the Green
Bay Lumber Company, last week sold
to N. B. Anderson, the Elkhorn con-
tractor, two large house bills which
he will put UP respectively for P. A /.
Petersen and Chris Rasmussen,
who both reside near Elkhorn.