Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-09
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Howard Shoesmith of North Branch
is very low with typhoid fever.
Leonard Whitney has been quite
sick the past week with neuralgia.
Mrs Uurd died Wednesday morning.
They will take her body to Albion,
Mich. for burial.
Claude Andrews left Monday noon
for an outing in the hills of Wyoming,
and to visit his brother.
N. P. Christensen and W. r. Cope
land are in Chicago this week sight
seeing and transacting business.
James Gearheart is much improved,
being able to ride out for short dis
lance Sunday morning for the first.
Chris Thompson, of Brayton, has
purchased the Underwood property in
that city and still says it is for rent
DIR. j. G. Newton is at Waterloo this
week representing the X. p. lodge. He
was accompanied by his wife. 1t will
be a pleasant trip.
The telephone men are in town again
this week putting in number of pri-
vate phones and one or two in the bust
ness part of town.
Uncle Fred Anderson still lives but
he is unconscious. His daughter who
lives in Manning came down Sunday
to help care for him.
Will Ridgley drove ont of town
Tuesday night with big loadlof furni-
ture for the new house. He made the
the purchase of ID. f. Stranger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ridgley, Mrs.
Will Donaldson and Mrs. G. A. Mar
lin drove to Audubon last Thursday to
attend the afternoon party at Judge
Green's.
Mrs. s. Harms sister and daughter,
of Pittsburg, Penn, are here paying
that good lady visit. 1t has been over
forty years since these sisters have
met. One can imagine what such a
meeting would be.
H. S. Wattles, Mr.. and Mack Thorn
as, and Mrs. E. Croy drove to Audi.
bon, Sunday to take Miss Maude
Campbell who is attending normal
Mrs. Croy called upon her old neighbor
and friend Mrs. A. L. Brainard.
w. f. Hensley, up in Greeley, has
raised his house and put a new founda-
tion under it, will raise the roof and
thus add another story and make other
improvements necessary before cola
weather. Joe Gearhart does the mason
work and Vic Anciaux the carpenter
work.
We are soon to have a photograph
gallery we understand. A gentleman
has bought the old gallery here and as
soon as it is vacated will have il fixed
up and commence business. Extra has
always been a good point and there is
no reason why good gallery will not
succeed.
A. F. Littlefeld of Audubon town
ship, brought in two loads of cattle of
his own feeding last Tuesday morning
and run into Chicago with them him
self. After he attends to business
matters there he expects to go on to
Boston to visit his brother and sister.
This will undoubtedly be pleasant
trip and no one is more entitled to it
than Mr.. Littlefeld.
S. A. Grant, marble dealer of Allan
tic, has spent most of this week here,
setting n stone in our cemetary for
Ralph Hawks babe, putting markers
on the graves of the Connrardy lot and
a stone on the Jim Lair lot. Then he
was over east at the Schwenneker Gem
etary, where he set stone at the grave
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has been coming to our cemetery for
years and his work is always of the
best.
Superintendent Sweeney, of the
Hooker telephone line left for Adair on
Tuesday of this week to see if he can
arrange to run their line from here to
that point. This would be of great
value as much business is transacted
from there here and oft times would
save time to the farmers along the
road and too, they could keep posted
as 10 the markets with very little trou-
BILE after once established.
Word from Chas. Andrews, son of
H. +. Andrews, who has been in Wy
oming since last fall, tells his friends
that not long since there was a cloud
burst over or near their sheep camp.
They lost one thousand dollars worth
of sheep, washed their grub wagon
away and they had to do without any
thing to eat for two days, until they
could get something into camp. They
are all right now but think that to
much prohibition all at one time.
A number of our citizens drove up to
Audubon Monday to attend the funeral
of G. b. Russell. A good many years
ago Mr.. Russell was in business in our
little city and had wide acquaintance
about here. Those who attended were
G. A. Marlin and wife, Ed Delahoyde
and wife, Frank Ridgley and wife,
Mrs l.. b. Raglan, Mrs. Geo. Henshaw,
Mrs. o. j. Houston, J. f. McAninch,
T.. ID. Powell, John Crane and II. S.
Wattles. Our citizens extend sympa-
thy to the family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Carpenter, of
Oakfield, mourn the loss of their eight
year old daughter, Ruth, who died last
Monday morning. The sad thing about
it is Mr.. Carpenter was in the west
at the time and was unable to reach
his home until Tuesday evening. Word
had been sent him of her illness, little
knowing that death was so near at
hand. At this writing we have been
unable to learn when the funeral will
occur The friends of the family ex-
tend their sympathy.
For information about North Dakota
lands enquire OF J. g. f. Wicker, Audu-