Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-22


every Wednesday gathering news for
the Journal. Watch for us, wait for
us and give us the news.
G. S. McLeran, D. d. S., office over
McGuire's grocery, Audubon.
DIR. Lass spent Sunday in town with
his relatives and many former friends.
Mrs. Edwin Bilharz returned from
her visit at Indianola Wednesday
evening.
IA John Minor who has been over from
Harlan the past few days returned
home Wednesday,.
Will and Bert McLeran are having
Will Fry shell 5000 bushels of corn to-
day and tomorrow.
j. G. Johnson, southwest of town in
tends to build large and substantial
barn on his farm the coming spring.
Mrs. Robert Kelly, south of town is
sick with diptheria, but it is in light
form and little or no fear is appre
hended.
Attorney j. M. Graham came down
town Wednesday for the first time
this week being at home sick with
the grippe.
Mrs. John Jacobs who lives in the
north part of the town has been very
sick but we are glad to note that she is
steadily improving.
A special train on the Rock Island
Friday evening brought up six car
loads of cattle for Jim Browns ranch
out in Melville township.
j. w. B. Cole and e. Baxter went to
Council Bluffs Monday to act as Fed
eral Grand Jurors in the Federal court
which convened there at that time.
Get our prices on doors and windows
and water tanks and all kinds of mill
work before buying.
If JAMES HART.
George Preston has on exhibition in
his show case a collection of old and
odd coins and various denominations
of paper money that is not now in USE
The Florence and New Crown sew
ing machines are the best on the mar
ket. Call and see them.
w. H. O'CONNELL.
Ben CASTOR has completed a good
chicken house at his place in Prospect
Park and has a fine drove of pure bred
Plymouth Rock from which he hopes
to make handsome profit.
For SALE:-We have few good
single and double driving horses for
sale. These animals are standard bred,
of good action and speed
DOAK & LANE.
have well improved 200-acre farm
near Hamlin, for sale One, fourth to
be cash; the balance on time, with in
terest at 5 per cent.
j. II. MOSIER.
Henry M. Gray departed Monday
for Minneapolis and st. Paul, Mime
sofa, where he goes to look after bust
ness interests in those places. He eX-
poets the work to occupy him for
about two weeks.
Frank Talbot intends to move his
stand the " Midway" to the basement
under the First National Bank about
the first of April. He expects to putin
a couple of billiard tables and continue
his stand business as heretofore.
Notice is hereby given that no orders
will be filled for those holding tickets
calling for one-half dozen photographs
and one life size portrait for $l.9S,
after April 1st, 1900
j. f. FRAZIER, Photographer.
Cloud Harvey was an over Sunday
visitor with Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Cow
les. Mr.. Harvey was called from his
home in Vermont to look after some
business in this state and dropped in
to talk over other days with his old
| time associates.
Monday night Willie, George and
Charley Alt and Joe, John and George
Wulf took their girls and passed
pleasant evening with their nelghbor,
Jim Nelson. The next day Jim and
his family left for Montana where they
intend to make their futurelhome
Uncle James Davis has been very
low the past few days and there is but
little hope for his recovery. Every
thing is beng done to alleviate his
suffering and to restore his health that
can possibly be done, but SO far moth
ing seems to check the disease that is
slowly wearing away his life.
Ed. Bilharz returned from Chicago
Sunday where he has been purchas-
ing the spring stock of goods for their
store. New goods are constantly ar
irving and large corps of clerks are
kept busy marking and placing them
on the shelves for display Ed. thinks
Ie seCuIeu some rare bargains ana is
confident he can give as good satisfac-
ton as any one.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Nash gave u
dinner party Monday evening to few
of their friends in honor of Mrs. John
MacVicar and Mrs. Archie Mac
Wicker, of Des Moines. The fol-
lowing persons were in attendance:
Messrs and Mesdames John Ward,
~: Hill, l.. D. Phelps, Ed. S. Van
Gorder, J. Il. Carmichael, Miss Ella
Stearns. DR.. A. l.. Brooks, Ed. F.
Dickinson and Edwin Bilharz. This
will be followed by a series of enter
tainments so that pleasant time may
be expected in the social circles.
Nomination papers for three tickets
have been filed with the city clerk,
D. L. Freeman, calling for place on
the ballot at the coming city election.
However the nomination papers for
John Coleman for mayor have been
decided to be not properly made out
and as there has been objections filed
by one of the petitioners it has been
6n6i1n6 tn ortx, L., :ol.