Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-12-20
Extra.

Sidewalks are being repaired this
nice weather.
Lawrence Hunt is home from Omaha
to spend the holidays.
Ed Hensley went to Iowa Falls
Wednesday to visit relatives.
Will Varney goes to Wellman Sun
day to spend Christmas and visit
friends.
Bert PARROT and family moved this
week into the Jno. Palm property on
North street.
Moses Brinkerhoff has secured
school for his sister, Blossom, who is
now in Colorado.
Flossy McAninch and Mary Gault
spent Sunday at the home of W. B.
Temple and wife.
r. L. Hamlin and Andrew Baber
were in Des Moines purchasing fixtures
for a new saw mill.
A nice girl baby is reported at the
home of Oscar Wheeler and wife of
Audubon township.
The new. wagon shop of Peterman &
Voss, west of park, is up, enclosed, and
will soon be completed.
w. N. Henshaw and wife, of Allan
tic, visited their son George and
family here last Tuesday.
Robt. l.. Hamlin moved into his own
home Tuesday, that has been occupied
by Bert Parrot for the past two years.
E. B. Voss is building house on the
Peirie farm in Audubon township.
The main part is 16x24 and an l. 14x16
feet
John Palm has purchased the Theo.
Braun homestead at $63. 90 per acre
and took possession the first of the
week.
G. c. Hawks has recently had two
monuments put into the Bowen
cemetery where he has two children
blurred.
A party is reported at the home Of
George Plantz the last of last week
that was given in honor of Monte
Kline, their nephew.
Mrs. D. w. Powers, of Brayton, was
very i'll last Friday night and DIR. New
lon, of our city was telephoned for.
She is improving at this writing.
VIM. Fulton was called to Atlantic
Monday to assist James Jones in
putting up wind mill towers. William
is an expert in that line of business.
Invitations are out asking a few
friends to come to the home of Martin
Kness and wife, up in Greeley and help
celebrate their golden wedding on Dec
ember Oath.
Little James, son of J. B. Rendle-
man and wife, fell last Saturday and
sprained his arm very badly. 1t was
very near to break but he is getting
along nicely.
DR.. Ellis, of Newkirk, o. t., is here
visiting L. Early, of this place. He
Just came from Harrison county where
he attend the funeral of his mother,
who died of cancer.
Ormas Thomas who has been spend
ing the winter here, was happily sur
prised last Friday evening by his wife
and little son arriving to help him
make merry on Xmas"
While John Bennett was raising a
steel tower for Mr.. Carver, up in
Greeley township last Monday, the
rope broke and let the tower fall to the
ground with such force as to make the
tower total loss.
At school house No. 3, Audubon
township, the citizens gave an oyster
supper for the purpose of raising funds
to purchase singing books for their
Sunday school. A splendid time is
Receipts $500.
A gay party was given by James
Channon, of Greeley township last
Saturday evening. The occasion was
in honor of their daughter, Nora, hav-
ing reached her sixteenth mile stone.
A splendid time is reported.
Frank Crane, living in West-town,
is twenty-five years old today and few
of his friends will drop in this evening
and help him celebrate the event. A
nice rocker for him to rest in has been
purchased and will be presented to
him.
Supervisor N. P. Hoegh sold the
timbers in the old bridge at West Extra
for the sum of seventy dollars. He
also had row of piling driven along
the bank of the river at the bridge
west of the depot to keep the road
from washing away.
Extra is to have a free mail delivery
running north into Hamlin township,
school house No. 6; then east through
Greeley, passing center school house
and goes one mile into Guthrie county,
then south two miles and returns west
to the Riley school house, then follows
the ridge road from there into town.
This makes is very convenient for the
farmer and affords them the pleasure
of daily paper. We have not learned
as yet who has charge of this route.
Fiscus.