Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-17
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Donaldson and wife. last Sunday.
Pearl Jenkins has been engaged to
teach the Brayton school this fall.
w. w. Houston and wife spent Sun
day with his parents, A. b. Houston
and wife.
Walter Delahoyde and Floyd Repass
started Monday evening for Wyoming
to find work.
Mrs. Emma Russell has been visiting
at the home of her sister, Mrs. John
Crane, for few days.
dad" Bowman now ownes the feed
store he has been conducting for Otto
Withauer. We wish Mr.. Bowman
success.
w. w. Sickels and wife are reioic-
ing over the arrival of their new boy
that came to claim home with them
last Sunday.
j. 7. Carmichael, Messner OFT and
Frank Henshall came down from Au-
dubon Saturday evening to attend the
band concert and social.
Gus Earl and John McCoch, of
Anita, were in our city the first of the
week and called upon their friends,
Rev. Voton and Ed Richardson.
The Misses Aanna Steder, Anna
Thompson and Sophia Sorensen were
admitted to the Baptist church at
Brayton, last Sunday evening.
Last Saturday evening when the
special stock train pulled out from our
station they had nine cars from here
and at Brayton they got three more.
Mrs. w. +. Brinkerhoff and children
came up from Atlantic this week to
remain and keep house for her father,
John Crane, while her mother is away
for the summer.
Foley Herrick was n very sick man
Saturday night and Sunday, caused
from cramps. He is better, however,
and fells satisfied if he don't have to
suffer any more.
Mrs. VIII Donaldson was an Audu-
bon visitor Wednesday and on her re-
turn was accompanied by her little
daughter, Mary, who has been spend
ing a week with relatives there.
Mrs. n. p Christensen drove down
to Oakfield last Thursday and visited
at the home of her cousin, Mrs. Arthur
Merrick, who has been quite ILL., Mrs.
Merrick IS slowly improving we are
glad to state.
Uncle Jim Gearheart is in a critical
1t was thought at first that
the stoke was only slight one, but he
is now almost helpless and very fighLy
at times. His many friends he may
soon recover.
G. l.. Bison has just completed a
400 Darrell cistern on his farm to better
accommodate the watering of stock.
Chas. belives in having things right
and handy and now we wonder what
he will do next.
Next Saturday the weather permitting
the Congregational Sunday school have
for a picnic in the Milliman
grove south of town, and, a general
invitation is extended to other schools
and to every one to come.
w. n. Henshaw, of Atlantic, was
visiting his son George in this city last
Tuesday. George is suffering from
blood poison in his left hand, which
makes it rather bad at this time of the
year when he is so awful busy.
Notwithstanding the hard wind and
the band social was well attended and
the boys succeeded in selling all the
good things they had prepared and
could have sold as much more if they
had time to prepare it.
Last Saturday our woods rang with
merry laughter and all on account of
the jolly crowd of young people of the
Audubon high school that drove down
to picnic in the loveliest spot on earth
We understand it was the botany class
of 1900, numbering sixteen in all
Last Tuesday was chosen for the day
of general cleaning up of our Gene
terry before Decoration Day, but owing
to the rain nothing could be done and
some day in the near future will be
set aside to do what seems necessary
Our cemetery never looked nicer at
this time of wear than it does at the
present time.
Last Sunday while roaming through
the timber and looking for flowers,
Grandpa Wattles and Chas. Bison run
across Jno. MOuntz down by the Bal
lard bridge, and while they stood talk
ing, what did they spy but large
water snake. Grandpa struck him
with a stick and then John and Chas.
finished killing him and then they
measured him and found that he was
five feet long John said he believed
it was the same snake he had seen at
different times for two years, but was
never able to get at him before.
Last Saturday our high school nine
was to play the Anita nine on the dia-
mOnd at West town. Well, they did
for the first five or SIX innings then the
Anita's played our boys and played
them hard, resulting in six to twenty
in favor of Anita. When the challenge
was made, it was our school nine
against their school nine, but it was
the general feeling that the Anitas was
pretty old school boys, and If course
it made it hard for our nine. But our
boys are not discourage and hope to
make a record before the season is
over that will do them credit.