Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-02-08
Gray News.

Joe Denny will till the Stuart farm
vacated by Lew Barger.
There was merry social gathering
at Mr.. Mundts' Sunday.
A colt, the property of q. B.
Shelley, broke its leg Saturday.
Mrs. Kittell visited with Mrs.
Elmer Ellis, of Audubon, Saturday.
George S. Gray and wife visited
over Sunday with friends in Audu-
bon.
Chat Dustin and wife will occupy
the rooms over George Gray's grain
office.
Ed. Lancelot, who has been atflict-
ed with asthma for several days, is
better.
w. H. Lancelot has been engaged
to teach in the review school again
this summer.
The creamery ice house was filled
last week, the last block Of ice being
put in Saturday.
George Dykes sold to Theron Grew
cling last week thirty turkeys for
which he received S2835.
M. M. Corner and family will live
in the Fritz Draner house now occu--
pied by Frank Rodgers after March
LIST.
l.. Beckman shelIed and marketed
900 bushels of corn last week, receiv-
ing therefor the neat little sum of
$4,000.
Lon Gray, who has been sick for
several weeks of pneumonia, is on our
streets again, being very much i'm
proved.
Mrs. Charles McLachlen was quite
sick several days last week but has al
most regained her usual health at this
writing.
Adam Seibert's little boy Thad had
an attack of Group Thursday night,
but under DIR. Beers care is improv-
ing nicely.
Lew Barger has decided to relocate
in Audubon county. He will farm
the place owned by Mrs. Steere the
coming year.
Roy Swaney has So head of CATTLE
and a carload of hogs on full feed
which he expects to ship about the
| first of March.
John O'Leary received the sad in
telligence Friday of his fathers deaf h.
He went to Woodbine Saturday to
attend the funeral
Mr.. and Mrs. Rutherford, of Buena
| Vista county, visited at the home of
their daughter, Mrs. Lon Gray, for a
week, returning home Thursday.
A number of our young people at
tended the literary at the Foster
school house Friday night. Some ar
rived in time for the benediction.
Rev. Krell will give lecture and
stereopticon entertainment on the
Philippines at Gray on next Wednes-
day evening in the M. E. Church.
Howard Kittell superintendent the
Sunday School Sunday, in the absence
of both superintendent and assistant.
In an emergency, Howard is always
| there.
Ollie Shelley has been very sick for
week or more of pneumonia. DR..
Williams, of Manning, is the attend
ing physician. AT this writing she
is no better.
Emerson Shelley went to his school,
nine miles distant, on his bicycle
Monday morning and returned in the
same way Friday evening, in spite of
| the bitter cold weather.
Chat Dustin, who has been in the
| country visiting with his mother,
Mrs. John Cameron, during his en-
forced idleness, on account of his
baoken wrist, returned Saturday.
The protracted meetings at the
Sands schoolhouse still continue with
prospects of much good being accom-
plished, six having been converted
and the church has been greatly bene-
fitted.
A letter received by the relatives of
Wilton Swaney states that heis so far
recovered from his recent electric
shock as to be able to begin light du-
ties for his employers this week but
physical exertion is still prohibited.
A law suit before Henry Thomas,
in which one of our merchants tried
to collect the price of coupon book
which had been sold to one of our
citizens, created a ripple of excite
ment last week. The verdict was in
favor of the defendant.
The pocket book containing S2O.75
which Frank Flynn lost last week,
at last accounts had not been found.
The boys have been watching the
grain which ran through the elevator,
pretty closely, as he thinks he may
have dropped it in the grain which
he wos marketing,
Louis Beckman, who it will be re-
membered had such remarkable