Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-05-09
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James Crees has ceased to work fol
Jake Warner upon the farm.
Will Mcclure has the grading done
where will stand the kitchen addi-
ton to his farm home.
The farm house of Mr.. w. D. Stan
ley, southeast of the Station a mile
or so has been beautitied by the addi-
ton of a new coat of paint.
Mr.. and Mrs. Soren Peterson, who
are neighbors of the Dlmick family,
down in the south part of the town
ship, are the parents of a wee mite
baby girl.
The best horse that Rev. William
Graham has has been afflicted with
some ailment, for the past few days,
to such an extent that Mr.. Graham
has been unable to use him.
James Roberts came up from his
home, at Lorah, last Saturday, and
passed last Sunday and the next day
or so with his friends, the McNutt
families, over at Old Hamlin.
Rev. William Graham and wife and
children went up to Audubon, last
Friday, and passed the day very pleas
antly with Rev. and Mrs. Hinkhouse,
at the Presbyterian parsonage in that
city.
Mrs. j. q. Moore returned from a
visit at the home of her father, down
at Burlington, who has been quite i'll,
the middle part Of last week, and left
him enjoying comparatively good
health.
Mr.. Cad Conyer and wife, from
Valley Junction, arrived last Tuesday
evening to visit for a few days with
their relatives at the Tom Gill home,
just north of the Station, the two
ladies being sisters.
Rev. Wirth, the Evangelical mir
lister at the Station, informs us that
hereafter he will hold services down
at Brushy College once every two
weeks and that he will next preach
there on Sunday, May 10th.
Tom Gill informed us that one day
last week the best COW he had grew
tired of life and just laid down and
died, and the only cause he could at
trlbute 1T to was that which caused
the death Of the little pig-the want
of breath.
Ralph Stanley had read SO much
and heard so much about the beauties
and glories of the Oklahoma country
SO he packed his grip one day this
week and went down there to see
if those beauties would flee, as the
mirage, upon his approach.
The officers of the Blue Grass
Creamery had received word that the
new churn had been shipped from
Chicago, the first Of the week, and
no doubt it will arrive in a day or so
and then Fred and Tom will have a
hne time placing it in position.
Evidently those lads who come to
paint the new Counselman elevator,
at the Station, concluded that the
wide range of green fields and pas
dures was about all of that color that
we inhabitants could stand, SO they
painted the elevator a sort of a dull
red color.
Those who attended the party Civ
EN- by the Misses Burr at their home,
east Of the Station, last Friday even
ing, express themselves as having had
a most delightful time. These ladies
are capital entertainers and always
cause anyone who visits their home
to feel perfectly at home.
You know that large quagmire
that has always been up the road
near the Robert Sizer home; we'll now
they have dug a long ditch between
the Mrs. Agnes Stotts place and the
Sizer farm to drain that pool and
now let us hope that that road will
now become dry enough SO that we
may be able to touch bottom once in
a while.
The Young Peoples Association of
the Evangelical church, at the Sta
ton, are arranging to hold one of
their socials al the p~ostoffice building
on next Friday evening. There will
be q literary program, plenty of ice
cream and cake and all who may come
are assured of al evening of are en-
joyment.
One of the most enjoyable dancing
parties of the season was held at the
William Owen home, north OF the
Station, last Wednesday evening. The
assemblage vas composed of the fair
est maidens in the country ard their
escorts, and they tripped the light
fantastic toe until near the dawniug
of another day.