Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-08-16

Wednesday evening.
Chas. Weiland was business visit
or to Atlantic Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer, parents of
Mrs. Fred Serels, left Wednesday for
their home.
Buy pair OF shoes of Rasmussen &
Jensen and get your picture enlarged
at half price.
Miss Orpha Baxter returned home
Monday, so as to be present at the
County Institute.
Mrs. Wolfe and daughter, of Stuart,
We're guests at the home of j. G. Wolfe
and family Monday night.
Friday last girl of unusual beauty,
so its parents think, came to the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Burkhart.
A picture enlarged for one dollar
with every pair of shoes bought of
Rasmussen & Jensen, Audubon.
Miss Lizzie Hollister returned home
Saturday from Carroll, where she has
been visiting for couple of weeks.
Alfonso Swartz is back in j. F. Rus
sells store after weeks vacation,
feeling that he can again put the
windows in first class shape.
Miss NJ. A. Bellingshafer, from Des
Moines went with the Misses McIlvain
to Denver and then returned with
them and will visit fora time here.
can repair your bicycles and put
them in tirst-class shape. Bring them
in and leave them with me.
j. G. WOLFE.
Get our prices on doors and windows
and water tanks and all kinds of mill
work before buying.
If JAMES HART.
j. Kyelgaard, who has been clerking
in Rasmussen & Jensen's shoe store,
has resigned his position aid gone to
De Soto to work in the store of E. d.
Blackman
Guy Mccain now rides new Cres-
cent wheel, purchased of Fred Yer
milya. He thinks this kind of a horse
will take less feed than the broncho
and is far safer.
G.. c. Harper returned home from
Kansas Wednesday, looking some
what improved in health, though not
entirely well. His friends will be
glad to welcome him home.
p. 1. Drury is slowly sinking al
though everything is being done for
him that can be. The members of the
1. O. o. F. are doing all they can to
make things comfortable for him.
FOR RENT desire to rent my
f,r To II
Good ten-room house, barn, outbuild-
ings and an abundance of fruit.
BARNEY CUNNINGHAM
During the storm of Tuesday night
Mahlon Boyd had one stack of grain in
his yard struck by lightning and
burned leaving the others intact. 1t
| is presumed the others We're too wet to
burn.
Miss Ada Kuhn has been entertain
ing her friends, Misses Mary Smith
and Alta Henshaw, from Des Moines.
Mr.. Eugene Given, of that city, Joined
the party Sunday, going back home
Monday morning.
d. L. Reid came in from Lincoln,
Nebraska, and visited couple of days
with Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ. Leet. From
here he left for the south part of the
State to look for suitable farm where
he can make his future home.
The new Christian church is now in
process of erection, and those who
have made pledges are requested to
! kindly pay the same to the Corn Ex-
change Bank, or hand it to the pastor.
j. H. McSPARRAN.
Mrs. VIM. Boyse, of st. Louis, sister
of p. |. Drury, left the last of the week
for Hancock to pay visit to other
relatives before returning home. 1t is
her first visit to Iowa and she was sur
prised to see the wonderful push, ener-
gy and general resources of our
country.
Miss Daisy Johnson and her sister
entertained a number of friends at the
pleasant home of her father, on North
| Washington Street, Tuesday evening,
in honor of their birthdays. The
young folks had a royal good time in
wit and laughter and went away wish
ing each many returns Of such days.
Their father presented each with an
elegant gold watch.
! The [. 0. 0. F.'s will hold their last
HtSSoAhS III eASi1 p1cScHt udll ueXU
Monday night and will begin the next
day to move to the new hall over Mrs.
Stuart's brick on the corner. All the
apparatus and paraphernalia are pro-
vided for in a neat room and the hall
is hard to beat for lighting and venteI-
ating Accommodations, while their re-
ceptiOn room is model of its kind
On Wednesday of this week the
largest land deal ever consumated in
Audubon county was closed between
George Gray, Of Gray, Iowa, and John
f. Liken, of Geneseo, Ill. 1t involved
1927 acres of land in Audubon county,
valued at $50, 421.OO and 2649 acres in
Texas, valued at $26, 10000. BY this
deal the fine ranch owned by George
Gray in this county passed to Mr..
Liken, and one of Mr.. Liken's ranch
es IN Texas passed to Mr.. Gray. In
addition to this land there is several
thousand dollars worth of personal
property involved, and by the consul
nation of the deal the suit brought by
Mr.. Gray against Mr.. Liken in the q.
s. Circuit Court at Council Bluffs for
Sl24, 100000 is compromised and will be
dismissed at the next term. This deal