Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-23

and also attending the old soldiers re-
union at Anita.
Clarence Noon expects to have
public sale the last Of September and
sell his personal property. We un-
derstand he will then go to Montana,
where he expects to make his future
home.
Mrs. j. P. Norton and Mrs. Jno
Curry and daughter, Mary, of At
lantic, visited at the l. P. Hallock
home last week They returned home
Sunday with Mr.. Curry, who drove
up after them.
The new liveryman at Audubon
was down Saturday and purchased a
fine driving horse Of Pollock Bros.
The boys only have two teams left
and expect to disposes of them before
many days roll by.
Mrs. B. F. Simpson and daughter,
Miss Ethel, departed Monday evening
for Colorado Springs, Col, where
they go to remain for time in the
hopes that the moutain air will be
beneficial to Mrs. Simpsons health.
Zephyr Smith and some other girls
were down in Hallock's pasture play
mig around water tank one day last
week, when Zephyr lost her balance
and fell in, receiving a first class
ducklng in about three feet of water.
Jens Anderson, of Cedar Falls,
Iowa, formerly resident of Oaktield
township, is visiting with his old
friend, Nels P. Hoegh, and other
friends and neighbors of former days,
and also looking after his land in
that vicinity.
Tuesday was little Muriel Koob's
seventh birthday and number of her
little friends were invited in to assist
her in celebrating the event The
little ones spent most enjoyable
afternoon, as Miss Muriel made an
ideal little hostess.
Miss Van Slyck, who has been Wis
iting with her cousin, Mrs. H. WI
Pollock, returned to her home in
Aberdeen, S. D., this week. Mr..
and Mrs. Pollosk's little son accom-
panied her as far as Manning, where
he will visit for short time.
Jessie Nymand and wife entertain
ed the Pearson Orchestra and few
friends last Sunday at their pleasant
home. OF course all present had
most enjoyable time. In fact there
are no better entertainers in this
neighborhood than Jessie and his good
wife, and all who are fortunate in
being guests at their home cannot
help but have good time.
A. M. Duval has purchased quart
er section Of the old Ballard estate,
from Mrs. Kate Pattee, daughter OF
Boil Ballard, and which adjoins the
quarter he recently bought from her
brother. He now has a half section
of this very excellent land. Today
S. L. Ballard was in town and leased
his old farm for next year from it's
new owDer.-Friday's Atlantic Tele-
graph.
The Anita ball tossers did not come
over last Thursday as was expected,
but they did come over Monday, and
we will guarantee they wished they
were back in the hay field before the
game was half over. They were not
in the hunt at any stage Of the game.
Space will not permit us in going in
to details Of the awful annihilation.
In fact we don't want to rub it in too
hard as they were pretty nice lot OF
boys, but will let the following score
tell its woeful tale:
Bray ton.....4 3 / 4 6 1 4 3-29
Anita........0 0 O. 0 10 / l. I
Batteries-Braytop, Pollock and
hoob; Anita, johnson and Callison.
Umpire, G. L. Bison.
! Fire last Friday afternoon destroy
ed two stacks Of hay containing about
seventy or eighty tons, for c. T..
Bison, on his farm south OF Brayton.
How the fire started is a mystery and
will probably always remain so. His
foreman lad just returned from Au-
dubon and had been out to the stable
to attend to the stock and then went
in the house to eat dinner. He had
not been in the house ten minutes
} Wien his wife happened to look out
and discovered that one of the stacks
was mass Of flames. Help from
town and the surrounding neighbor-
hood soon arrived and by hard work
the wind mill and buildings, which
were within few feet of the burning
stacks, were saved. He had no in
surance.
i We do not know how much money
he had invested in his cattle, but he
has taken a handsome sum out of
them, has Peter Jacobsen who lives IN
the edge Of Audubon county, near
Brayton, and whose herd of Red Polls
were mentioned in this paper some
: months ago. Mr.. Jacobsen has not
been in the best Of health for some
time and SO last spring determined to
sell his farm, which was an easy task,
and to let his cattle go. He had nine
teen head of the Red Polls. and MANY