Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-07-18
Mrs. Van Scoy has been quite sick
Of late but is now improving.


ents of twin. babies at their home.
Mrs. Lois G. Stuart and Mrs. Har-
ry Arnold expect to go to the lakes
next week for few weeks recreation.
Misses May Hoover and Ida Reyn-
olds went down to Extra to attend
the May-Hunt wedding that took
place last Wednesday.
Ed. Frick had a narrow escape from
a runaway, last week, while driving
his sorrels out to the ranch, but he is
an expert horseman and easily stop
ped them.
Grace and Stuart Beattie. of Stuart,
are over this week visiting at the
home of Mrs. Lois Stuart and enjoy
ing the pleasures she sets before them
in her elegant home
Hans Rattenborg, out west of Ham
lin Station few miles, had the mis-
fortune this week to have wagon
run over his leg so as to give it
severe strain, bat he is doing nicely
under the care of a doctor.
j. A. Nash departed last Saturday
for Lake Okoboii for his summers
outing. Mrs, Nash and daughter are
already there in their cottage and
now John will have nothing to do
but keep cool and get good ruddy
complexion.
Miss Ella Conway is taking her
weeks vacation from her work in j
F. Russell's store and is ENJOYING a
good rest. The restraint of the store
is trying in warm weather and to do
nothing but lie around and feel no
responsibility is rest.
Fletcher Brown, of Indianola, will
preach at the M. E. church, next Sun
day. Mr.. Brown is the chosen repre-.
sentative of the church to forward
the cause OF the Freedman's Aid Soci-
ETY.. He is doing good work and is a
good speaker so he will give good
talk Sunday.
Ben Harris, of Fort Collins, Colo
RADIO, was in town Wednesday, visit
ing with his relatives at the r. l..
Harris home. He came back to attend
the funeral services of a nephew, at
Atlantic, who committed suicide last
week, as may be seen in another COL
umn of this paper.
Mrs. Chas. McLachlin and Miss
Bessie Varnum, of Gray, were down
last Wednesday visiting at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Cowles. Miss
Varnum is from Vermont. the old
time home of the McLachlin and
Cowles families and has many things
TO tell OF the beauties and changes of
the country.
Andrew Jepsen, who has been SO
long in the tailor shop of G. w.
Hansen. the merchant tailor over
Russelfs store, has accepted posi-
ton in the store of Nelson 81 Christ
Jensen to do the retitting and making
over. He is man of years of expert
ence, having tailored IN the old coun-
try before he put The briny deep on
the east of him, and will prove val
liable assistant to the bows.
Nineteen tickets were sold over the
Rock Island from here, last Tuesday,
to parties going to Oklahoma to put
their names in the list TO draw a
quarter section if possible. Mr.. Smith
also sold to Extra parties enough so
that the office took in over $500 90 in
one day. There will be another ex-
cursioD, next week on Tuesday,
when all can get the same rates as
before, SSH for the round trip.
Joe Ellwood had quite serious
time with his gasoline stove and as a
result wears his hand all bandaged
up. There seemed to be too much
generation, at least the whole
stove seemed to be a sheet of
flame and had all the appearance of a
promise of exploding, when Joe
grabbed hold of it and in spite of the
burning, carried it out Of doors. His
hand however was burned in rather
bad shape.
Last week Dave Randolph, of
Douglas township, drove into town
and exhibited one of the finest suck
ling Clydesdale colts ever seen in the
county. 1t was beauty, large, we'll
built, compact and having all the
points of a perfect specimen. He had
refused two hundred and fifty dollars
for him and expected five hundred
dollars for it next spring. He took it
home and in a few days came back and
said the colt had broken one OF its fore
legs and was ruined. 1t IS streak of
bad luck TO gel as fine specimen of
horse flesh ruined.
G. w. B. Cole has one of the finest
bee apiary in the whole country He
has SO far taken away over eight hun.
dred pounds of the finest kind of honey
and has yet over a hundred pounds to
take and this from less than twenty
five stands of bees. He has had splen-
did luck with them and finds them a
very profitable industry. His brother
has taken about seven hundred and
fifty pounds from his bees. Many PEG.
pie IN the country might have All
abundance of honey if they had the
patience to go ahead and get bees and