Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-07-11

Mrs. Lawrence, OIL DeS MONIES, VS.
tied at the w. w. Smith home owe
Sunday.
Chas. Lennon fell off from a fence
last week and dislocated his ankle and
fractured one of his leg.
Bonnie Woodward, of Extra, has
been visiting friends out in the coun-
evening.
Charley and Belle Burnside and
their nephew, Wilson Wadsworth,
arrived Wednesday evening to spend
the summer at home.
Miss Louise Lawrence, from Des
Moines, is visiting with her friend,
Miss Mildred Smith, and the two
girls are having a splendid good time.
Last week as Gene johnson was
planning some screen doors he acct
dentally caught his fingers in the
planer, taking off the end of one aud
part of the other. He is getting
along nicely, however, and will not
suffer much Inconvenience.
Mrs. w. W. Smith gave one of her
pleasant parties for her daughter
Mildred last Saturday night in honor
of her friend, Miss Louise Lawrence.
Few women can so thoroughly enter
into the spirit of young people as
Mrs. Smith and her entertainments
are always a unionof happy thoughts
and merry good times.
Chas. Bell who has been visiting
friends here for ONE time returned
the first of the week to Burlington.
Charley was always a good musician
and the older he has grown the more
proficient he has become until music
seems a part of him. He is a strength
to any town for he is the leading spirit
of a band which marks more for a
town than any other thing.
Sylvester Moore one of the best
t%hreshing machine men in The county
has purchased Of Kelly q Moody Il
new Hawkeye weigher and feeder so
that he is able to do none but first
class work. Each year adds to all kinds
of machinery, new devices to save
labor and work for man. The old time
fail then the power followed and then
steam with all of it's present workings.
Mrs. Florence Switzer, daughter of
MIR. and Mrs. w. III. Kelly, returned
home from Kansas; where her hus-
band has a position as station agent,
Wednesday of last week and will re-
main for some time. She found the
climate of Kansas to be so warm and
oppressive that she could not endure
~ ord ~ 81 chat fLo 80.
weather here is cool to the side Of the
after all and in all things.
A. II. Roberts departed Tuesday for
Spirit Lake to attend a meeting of
the Grand Commandery, that is in
session at that place. He n o doubt will
get many new ideas, which he will
bring home with him and introduce to
the members of his chapter. These
great meetings of the leaders of any
lodge, men who devote their time to
the studying of methods of lettering
the lodge are always helpful to the
various delegates for each one can find
something to take home andaput il
the home lodge if he tries.
Prof. Hooker finds his telephon,
system increasing so that he is now
compelled to place in the manual in.
stead of the automatic switch. His
patrons and himself all hate to make
the change and it is not because tn,
automatic switch is not satisfactory
that the change is made for it is Civ
ing perfect satisfaction: but he find,
that he has come to his limit and NOR
too in the switch board so that he ha,
to get more room. He is compelled t,
have some n to tend to his toll lin,
: and he just as we'll have the manue
and be able to have any number O
phones he pleases. He is now arrang
!, ing to make the change and will oc
: cupy the front oom upstairs, whel
, he has completed the work. The in
creased demand for phones proves tina
: the system is a success for he has nov
ten applications for phones. The tol
, lines are in almost constant u.s.
keeping a steady connection with out
side lines. The Prof. is continually i'm
q proving the lines as experience teache
. him that things necessary, lie add
them to the system. Gray is wei
pleased and the in Extra is meet
e ing the approval of all classes. Tn
+ maintaining of the system shows
spirit in perfect harmony with tn
progression OF the age and the foster
ing of those things that will make AL
dubon county prominently the frs
S county in the state in the course @
time.
8 Our going 10 press last week on
day early SO as to give our help tn
advantage of the tired feeling whic
e usually follows the Fourth, kept Ii
. from mentioning many happening
y We should have mentioned tn
y change in the librarian of the Column
bian Club. Mrs. Laura Hurd fel
q that the cares of home and the wor
as librarian required too much of hel
II and resigned her position. She ha
e made a splendid librarian, Full G
y motherly sympathy and tact sh
u has filled the rooms with young folks
y largely boys, who would have spen
their time on the streets, and has Sc
in their minds, not stories of will
impossible adventure, but stories {
y manly unseltishnes and examples i,