Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-29

New Home Sewing Machines al
George ii. Henshaw's.
Chas. ncCord, Extra, agent Farm.
ers Insurance Co., Cedar Rapids.
For SALE.-Three horses. Cheap
JOHN A. HICKS.
Tom Littlefeld, of Audubon town
ship, is now in Phoenix, Arizona.
Lemon, Cream and Chocolate Pie
made to order at The Home Bakery
All sc packages garden seeds are
sold two packages for SC at E. D
Cotton's.
New Departure cultivators, Mo
line and Sterling discs and Union
Junior seeders, at S. d. May & Com
pany's.
Henry Houston is here from Des
Moines to visit week with his par
ents, Judge and Mrs. A. B. Houston
and family, and attend to some bu
siness matters.
While returning home, the other
night from town, William Ludwig
was violently thrown to the ground
and quite severely injured ABOUT
the head and shoulders.
| ]. A. Hicks has new gasoline
engine in his blacksmith shop
which not only propels the ma
chinery there, but runs the lathes
in the wagon shop as we'll.
Charley Prohaska was here the
latter part of the week and laid a
long string of sidewalk in front of
his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Prohas-
ka's lots, in kickapoo Park.
Miss Clara Powell is at Atlantic
caring for her mother, who has been
very i'll for several days. Miss Sarah
Johnson is in charge of her room
in the city schools, during her alb
sence.
V. B. Hellyer has decided not to
teach school this spring but to take
short vacation, and in the mean
time he will canvass this country
in the interest of S. E. Grant marble
works, at Atlantic.
We were shown side-board made
out of poplar wood, the handiwork
of John Peterman and Ernest Voss
that they made for Mrs. Guernsey
which for elegance beats anything
we have seen for long time.
Next week the Misses Roxy and
will go down to Oakfield township
to teach school. Two of the ladies
are OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, but thisis
Miss Hattie's first term of school.
In Audubon township a joint
stock company was lately formed
and invested in three-yeor-old,
nineteen hundred and ten pound
Percheron horse, which will be
kept at the ]. A. Wheeler barn. There
are twenty-one stockholders in the
deal, everyone of whom are resron-
sible men.
Bert and Robert Hamlin are busy
hauling lumber from their mill,
down in the big woodson the Natty
Hamlin estate, and piling it on the
lot, south of the William Sickels
home, where Grandma Hamlin's
house burned up, some time ago.
Contractor Charley Milliman has
the contract to do the work and
soon now new house will be erect
ed near where the old one stood.
Rev. E. H. Votaw. of Anita, has
accepted the pastorate of the Extra
Congregational church, and will
preach his first sermon next Sunday
morning, We are glad to welcome
this good man and his family with.
i'll our gates and trust that their
stay among us may be of long du-
ration and that his efforts may be
abundantly prospered while minis
tering to his chosen people.
Truly nisfortunes never come
singly. In conversation with Elder
Charles Smith, a former Extra boy
but who is now located at Bethany,
| West Virginia, who is with us for a
week, we learn that his father, Mr.
j. S. Smith, who recently left this
community and moved to Corning
Iowa, had just successfully passed
through an operation for appendi-
citis, that he stood the ordeal brave.
ly and is now on the high road to
recovery.
The Passion Play of moving pic
lures, reproduction of the Passion
Play Exhibition Company, by
means of the Magniscope, on the
Oberammergau Passion Play, as
produced every ten years by the
peasants of Obera1nmergau, in Ba.
varia, with but few Interruptions
since 1888, representing the princi-
pal events in Christ's life during
the week which ended with His cru
cifixion, burial and resurrection will
be given at Saint Boniface church,
in Extra, Iowa, on Sunday evening
April Sth, at half past seven O'clock
Admission, l25c; reserved seats, soc;
children, l5c; reserved seats on sale
at Nick Dotfing and Companys
drug store.
Base ball has blossomed out in
Extra and already" The Extra Reu
bens" are a full fledged organiza
ton. They are negotiating for
grounds in the Hensley pasture
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