Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-05-31


Fred Bonnet and Frank Smith
were at Atlantic on pleasure trip,
last Saturday.
John Koob and wife were up at
Extra, last Saturday, doing some
shopping and visiting friends.
The Misses Clara Ordway and Louie
Clausen were up at Extra, Saturday
afternoon, calling on their friends.
John Mountz, the trapper, has been
i'll the past few days, at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Frank Gingery.
Willis jenkins was up from Allan
tic, this week and passed three or
or four days with his cousin, Marion
Jenkins.
Road Supervisor Kees Hallock has
done good job of grading on the
Wild Moor, between Oakfield and
Brayton.
The Teachers and scholars of the
Highland Sunday School are prepar-
ing for Children's Day, which will
be observed on June 10th.
In the dispatches of last Saturday
we noticed that our good Uncle Sam
had increased Mr.. Hugh P. Buffon's
pension to $1,000 per month.
Mr.. j. P. Bendixen, the Brayton
hardware dealer, was visiting with
friends and transacting business in
Extra, last Saturday afternoon.
Farmers! Blacksmith w. H. Pear
son, at Bray ton, can furnish you with
any kind of repair for any kind of
machine of any date. See him!
Little Miss Beryl Brinkerhotf, from
Extra, passed most of the past week
with her cousin, Miss Frankie Belle
Crane, at the Henry Burton home
stead, north of Oaktield.
Stock shipping was lively at Bray
ton part of this week. Saturday
McGovern and Bison shipped three
car loads, one on Monday and four
loads more on the Tuesday train.
Nels Thompson, who has been at
Omaha for month or so, returned
to his home, at Brayton, last Satur-
day, fully convinced that this is a
great big cold world-away from
home.
Miss Amelia Jensen, who is en-
ployed out at Council Bluffs, was at
home over Sunday visiting with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. N. P. Jensen,
north of Brayton. This caused some
one else to smile, too.
Mrs. George Cotton, who has been
passing several months with her son,
Ed, at Washington, D. c., is visiting
with her sister, Mrs. j. a. Kinnie, at
Des Moines, at present and is expect
ed to arrive at Brayton, next Friday.
There will be an ice cream sociable
at the home Of Mr.. S. Daugaard, in
Oakfeld township, on Saturday even
ing, June 9th. Proceeds to be used
to purchase flag for the Oak Hill
school. Everybody invited.
Roxy HUYCK. Teacher.
Owen Ide shipped the two carloads
of cattle that he and Uncle Oliver
Smith had been feeding in their
yards, on that special train which
left Brayton, last Sunday morning
Owen went along to see the sights
about Chicago.
Mrs. Owen Ide and daughter, Mis-
Bessie, aud son, Charley, and Bird
Benson and wife were with thell
Extra friends, last Saturday, at TIT
Uncle Oliver Smith home. and Will,
up there attended the Sunday Schoo
picnic, in the Uncle Bry Milllmal
woods, that afternoon.
Last Tuesday morning Mr.. John 7
jenkins sold twenty-six head of ia
cattle, that averaged / APO pounds, t.
Mr.. Leo Rothschild, of the Soutl
Omaha stock yards, receiving S5.2
per hundred for them. Uncle JOIN
never feeds bunch of cattle that h
does not make it count. The cattl
were shipped to Omaha that evening
The angel of death has entere,
another home and where, only few
days ago, peace and JOY am
happiness reigned, dark gloom hang
like pail over the household. Fo
two or three weeks past Mrs. Clarenc
Noon had been very Ill, but upo
Ascension Day, Thursday May y
1900, she told her husband that sh
felt much better than she had for sew
eral days, told him to get ready an
go up to Extra and attend church
and remarked that she felt so we
she might go herself. At about seve
o'clock that morning Mr.. Noon wen
out to the stable to hitch his team t
the carriage and had not been gon
more than two or three minutes whe
an inmate of the house came out an
announced to Clarence that his wi
was dead. Mrs. Noon was Miss KAT
Griffin when girl and lived two an
one-half miles north of Anita fc
many years, but Of late years she an
her mother have resided near the Ca
county line. She was about twenty
eight years of age at the time Of ht
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