Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-05-03
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James FentOn was at Audubon On
Tuesday with wagon load OF good
fat hogs.
o. P. Tyler and Hamp Jones were
passengers to Audubon last Tuesday
morning.
The Blue Grass Creamery started
up, last Monday, TO run every day in
the week.
Grandma Banning will have neat
picket fence constructed about her
house, in the Station.
Simon Christensen has lately pur-
chased the lot laying just west of his
residence, in Hamln.
Mrs George Gerard has been hav-
ing quite an i'll spell the last few days
but is much better now.
They had the jolliest kind of par
ty down at j. G. Hansen's happy
home, last Sunday night.
Two families of horse traders were
camped on the green sward, near the
Station, all day last Sunday.
George Smith put in little time
the latter part of the week building
himself an octagon summer house.
We heard of one young man in this
community that got lett, last Sunday
night, which causes someone 10 grin.
Henry McElroy has just finished
delivering five thousand bushels of
corn to Harry Percy, at the Station.
Merchant H. O. Shoesmith tells us
that they have a new blacksmith at
North Branch, who arrived last Tues
day evening.
Robert Parham began doing an ar
tistic job Of painting the new Metho-
dist church, at Old Hamlin, on last
Tuesday morning.
James Wilson, way down by school
house number nine, is hauling his
wheat up to Audubon and disposing
of it to the buyers there.
Mary Gill will leave this evening
for Beatrice, Nebraska, where she
goes to visit with her aunt and other
relatives for few weeks.
Last Monday young man arrived
at the Peter Gregorson home and will
pass some time here visiting with
that gentleman and family.
Mrs. W1b Smith and Miss Katie
Billings went down to Extra on the
Tuesday noon train and passed few
hours with their relatives and friends.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Thomas
Murphey came down from Audubon
and will pass the rest of the week at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Will
Mcclure.
A son of Major E. A. Consigny,
from the Avoca FIGURING Mills, was
at the Station, Tuesday forenoon,
advertising and talking flour to our
merchants.
George Smith finishes the Kees
Hallock job Of breaking, today, and
next Monday he will 90 down to the
August Agaard farm and break anoth-
er piece Of land.
Mrs George Smith visited with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Conn
rardy, down at Extra, last Friday,
the first time she has been down there
for several months
George Gill is satisfied with the
progress his "piggery has made
this spring. By standing in the yard
and counting noses he finds that he
has sixty-seven squealers.
Harry Bradley, son OF Lon Brad
ley, at Old Hamlin, has loaded his
goods and family into wagon and
journeyed out to Nebraska City where
they will establish home.
The crop outlook about the Station
is particularly promising. The small
grain is making very rapid growth
and this week will see the end OF
blowing for corn and the beginning
of planting.
They have finished the storm cave
at school house number two, in Ham.
lin township, and now when cyclone
comes along the teacher, Miss Nellie
Wicker, and the children have" A safe
place Toronto
Tuesday morning Will Clark went
down to Extra with three teams and
brought his father, Uncle G. W.
Clark's,, household goods up to the
Station and now they are nicely set
tied in the property lie purchased o
Harry Percy.
Reverend Raglan, the Presbyterian
divine at Old Hamlin, has resigned
his pastorate at that place; preached
his farewell sermon last Sunday even
ming; will sell some of his household
goods and then move over into tn
southern part of Pottawattamie coun
ty and take charge of a church.
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