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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Prepared to do carpet weaving in
best manner Call at residence south
of Christian church, Extra, Iowa.
iul25tf. L. ]. WHITNEY.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

A dispatch from the land drawing
down at FL Reno, in the Tuesday
papers, announced that Grant Smith
of this city was one of the success
full Iowans and that his number
was nine hundred and fifty-seven
which means that Grant got pref
ty good claim.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Japan is the largest consumer of rice
in the world, the average being 300
pounds a person a yc"". The Ameri-
cans use but four por:,t!:, per capita.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

1t has been estimated that from co.
600 to 100000 deer faed in the forests
of Scotland and that 1000 stays are
killed annually.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

CHEROKEE JIM, owned by A. G.
Lewis & Company, will make the
fall term Of 1901 at service fee OF
$4,000 instead of $1,000 which was
the fee up to July 4, 1901.
jG1St. N. E. LEWIS, Manager.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

David E. Davis, from Moberly,
Missouri, was here visiting with
his father, w. E. Davis, few days
the past week at that elegant farm
home out southeast Of this city.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

For SALE.-A farm OF One Humid
red and Twenty Acres, near Hamlin
Station. Write to
HENRY YOUNG, Hamlin Station.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Twenty -four nice great big easy
oak leather-seated chairs will soon
arrive to be placed in the Extra
Masonic Lodge and those old ones
will be piled away in the room with
the goat.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

ATTENTION, THREsHERsl-Have
received carload of lump coal
from the Christy Mines, Des Moines.
Will sell at lowest price.
DAVENPORT ELEVATOR Co.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

John Archer, from Gray, was in
town for few hours, Monday and
continued his journey on on. !,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

The Ernest Kindred and Charley
Wells foot race that was to have
taken place in Extra, last Saturday
afternoon, was declared off.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

A letter from John Crane, this
week, at Rockwell City, tells us to
send The Journal to him at that
city. With his first order for $4,000
he was feeling pretty good.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Special Shoe sale! Ten per cent
discount on all mems ladies boys
misses and children's shoes.
F. GAULT & Co.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

The Republican township officers
to be voted for in Greeley township
this fall are:
Sam Weaver, Trustee.
Claude Jaynes, Assessor-to fill
a vacancy
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

She that was Belle Leffingwell is
here visiting with her parents,
Uncle Joe Leffingwell and wife, at
West Town
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Lou Anciaux was in town, We'd
nesday, and purchased a lot of the
best furniture which he is going to
put into that new house just
finished.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

A party of friends assembled at
the home of Mrs. Will Woodward,
Wednesday afternson, and after an
old fashioned visit partook of cup
of tea, supplemented 10y bountiful
supply of yellow legged chicken.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Mrs. Theo. Jones, a niece of Mr..
w. E. Davis, arrived one day this
week and is visiting at the big farm
house, out on the hill southeast of
town.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Miss Mollie Delahoyde went up to
Audubon, last Saturday evening,
and passed the Sabbath with her
friend, Miss Beulah Soar, returning,
home Monday noon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Mrs. Doctor j. c. Newton. who
had been down at Moline, Illinois,
the past few days visiting with the
Henry Rohwer family. accompa-
MED by her niece, Miss Rose Bodey,
arrived in Extra on Tuesday morn
ing and were joyfully received by
the doctor and their many friends.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Miss Clara Powell is up from At
lantic visiting with her brother,
Ernest Powell and family and her
many other friends.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01
Hard and Soft Coal at G. Gates

Mr.. Frank Byrd, from Oakland, is
here on visit to his relatives at
the John d. Bush home.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Mrs. Thomas Bryant and daught-
er, Hazel, who have been visiting
their relatives at the A. b. Houston
home, have returned to their home
at Newton. east of Des Moines.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

H. L. Wissler made business
trip to Des Moines, last Monday, re-
turning home on iesday evening.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Miss Alice Leamon, who is Jour
neying. toward her home at Wappe-
10, Iowa, is here for short visit
with her brother, Bert Leatnon, and
family.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Just two more weeks until The
Journal voting contest closes. Be
sure your favorite gets your votes!
Don't wait thinking she Will win
out anyway. The last week tells!
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Miss Ina Anders is employed
at the I. 81. Errickson's bakery as
assistant clerk
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Hamler and
their children, Miss Lola and Master
Earl and Miss Maude Campbell
drove over to Guthrie Center, last
Sunday, and passed the day with
friends.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Noah Crane, living south of town,
was among the first to have field
corn in good roasting ears. We'd
nesday they served them for their
dinner meal
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

L. j. Olkaker, D. D. S. Office over
the Stuart bank. Extra, Iowa. Rooms
5 and 6.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Before placing yOess' orders
tor monumental aCOshc glae as
q call. Only the best grades of
foreign and domestic asaG7.5le
and granite used. Satisfuc-
tSOsa guaranteed isl material,
workmanship, and price.
>. r.. GRANT,
atlantic. IO1cN.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Banker N. P. Christensen packed
his grip and started, last Tuesday
noon, for Greenfield, Massachusetts,
where he goes to attend to some
business matters
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01

Mr.. Dennison. a relative of the
the Carmichael boys, who reside
south of town, arrived Wednesday
from southwest Kansas. He drove
through, being on the road twenty
one days, and says that Kansas is
pretty we'll burned out and that
Nebraska is not much better. Iowa
though, from the river here is show
ing up all right.
Frank Hunt was in town on last
Saturday and informed us that he
was in receipt of letter from his
sister-in-law, Miss Lottie Bennett.
who is at present in Colorado
Springs, and said that lady had de-
cided not to return to Extra this
fall but would go farther south, per
haps into New Mexico, to pass the
winter months. While Frank was
in Denver on his recent trip he ran
across Dave Clark and they went
camping out up in the mountains.
Frank said they found one noun
tain so high that the only way they
could see the top of it was to lie on
their backs and gaze straight up.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-11-15
PERILS OF BACTERIA.
Danger from Infection by Eating
Food That Has Been Exposed
to Contamination.

In busy and crowded Thoroughbred
the practice of exposing food for sale
is open to the greatest objection. The
air of such places presents terrible
meteorological history and the con-
tamination of food sold in open places
becomes an easy possibility. Street
dust is full of tubercle bacilli from the
detestable habit of splitting; it may
also contain the microbes of pus, ma
lignant oedema, tetanus' and septi-
caemia. 1t is true that the taint de-
posted on food exposed for sale may
be purged in the process of cooking
and micro-organisms may be de-
stroyed, although it has been pretty
strongly asserted that the cookery of
fish in particular has not been effec
tual in destroying the typhoid bacillus,
instances of typhoid fever having been
traced to contaminated yet cooked
fish, says London Lancet.
The avidity with which certain 'oods
would appear to absorb noxious edors
is well known. Milk is peculiarly ] able
to take up unpleasant odors, anG so,
also, is fish. The former is employed
when exposed in shallow trays to re-
duce the smell of paint in hctse.
Fish cannot be placed in the same :'ar-
eel as coffee or other pungent smell ing
article of food, as it so rapidly absorbs
the odoriferous principle.
Busy streets are seldom free firm
offensive effluvia, and it is reasonat lie
to conclude that these would easily
affect many articles of food exposed
to them. In our own knowledge quite
recently complaint was made that a
salmon tasted strongly of creosott.
The fishmonger might easily have been
charged with selling fish brushed owe"
with powerfully smelling antiseptie.
But it subsequently proved that TIE
Strand Gas usuaD was sup" and that
the stacks of black wooden bricks were
giving off a strong naphthalene odor
corresponding exactly with the taste
of the salmon bought in Strand shop
at the very moment when the bricks
were being dumped down on the pave
ments. The fish were probably not
injurious to health but possessed a
decidedly unpleasant taste.
Butchers meat might easily get
tainted in the same way. 1t has bern
recorded that meat exposed to a cur
rent of tobacco smoke has proved
powerfully toxic, and this again aT-
fords further illustration of the dap-
gers involved when food is indiscrir,-
inately left in contact with air -
doubtful purity. 1t is not desirable
that food offered for sale should be
exposed to the free influx of air from
the streets. If it must be presented
to view to attract customers it should
be exhibited behind a glass screen,
and adequate provision should be made
Tor ventilation with pure air.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-11-15

Tom-"And you say she 10 o great
BELIEF" Jack--,"you bet. Why, she
actually has four silk pillows stuffed
with hair from four different football
players. philadelphia Record.
Identical.-Mr. Pitt-'It is odd that
the lecturers motto and the highway
mans motto are the same" Mr.. Penn
-"What is their motor Mr.. Pitt
"Stand and deliver" - Pittsburg
ChroRicle-Telegraph.
Nothing Serious. - Tess ~ met
Miss lie Fevre in Paris. She said she
knew you" Jess-"0h, yes.
learned French under her; did she tell
you?" Tess-"No; she said you used
to take lessons from her."-Philadel-
phia Press.
"There they CO." said the fond
mamma, eXultantly, as her daughter
and the count strolled away down
the park. 1.-TWO souls with but
single thought" "Yes," said papa,
who wasn't so impressionable. ~
think you've just about hit their men,
tai caliber. Denver Times.
Mr.. Horatio Horakle (who on the
previous evening has given reading
of Eugene Aram" at the church
wardens' entertainment)-"And how
did you like the entertainment at the
parish hall last night, Mary?" Mary
-"Oh, lovely, sir! The dumb-bell
ringers was beautiful!"-Punch.
He Wanted to Know.-George-
Papa, how deep is the ocean?"
Papa-"Very deep, dear. They have
never been able to fathom some parts
of it." George (after moments
hesitation Papa, l would like to
have been there when they were dig
ging it out."-Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin.
Dumleigh-"There's nothing cranky
about Mr.. Synnex; he's a man of
sense, he isl" Markham-"Flatter
ing" Dumleigh-"Not a bit. Folks
have been saying that smoking ciga-
rettes weakened the intellect. l asked
Mr.. Synnex, and he told me to keep
right on; it couldn't possibly have
any effect on me-" - Boston Tran
I script.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-11-15
LOST ART REDISCOvERED.
Command for House-Building Ma
teriaI That Has Taken Fifteen
Years to Perfect.
Ast. Louis man is said 10 have dis

A ST. Louis man is said 10 have dis
covered one of the lost arts.
Following the idea of Edison's con-
crete poured houses" Prof. Brown
has invented a combination of sand,
cement and sulphur which he claims
possesses qualities far superior to Edi-
sons concrete and which can be pro-
duced at less cost than that material.
Prof. Brown claims for his new dis
covery that it is acid proof, non-con-
ductor of heat and cod, and that it
is indestructible, being imperyious to
all attacks of fire, temperature, eli
mate variations, time and decay, says
the New York Herald.
The compound can be mixed and
nodded upon the spot where it is to be
used, and when dried it becomes as
hard as granite and will take high
polish.
The inventor spent Is years in per-
fecting the process by which the new
compound is made, receiving his first
idea while experimenting with a ma
terial for campaign medallions in 1884
1t was only last spring that he brought
his invention TO the desired degree OF
perfection and took out his patents on
the substance and the process.
Besides being valuable for house con-
struction, the new material is available
for use in the construction of sewer
pipes, electric wire conduits and water
mains. In art and decorative work il
Is also expected TO be of use.
Scientific men who have examined
the new material say that it resembles
that discovered in some ancient ruins
in the old world that are more than O
thousand years Old.
In these ruins have been found large
ornamental blocks that could only have
been nodded on the place where the
building was reared, some Of them be
ing so large that they could not have
been admitted through the entrance.
Prof. Brown owns piece of materia
which he says is known to have beer
taken out of building erected 1,5Ot
years ago, and he declares II to be The
same as this new compound.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-11-15
DIET AND STRENGTH.
Wonderful Endurance and Capacity
for Physical Labor of Rice
Fed People.

The stevedores and 'longshoremen
who struck awhile ago and were sup.
planted by Japanese have raised an
interesting question of racial capac-
ity to do hard work. AS will be seen
in our waterfront columns, these
men claim that Japanese must fail
as stevedores because their food
does not give them staying power.
The oriental, they claim, relies on n
pail of rice and chunk of fish and
cannot, therefore stand as much
work as the white man, who eats
beef and potatoes and other staples
of Caucasian diet, says the Honolulu
Advertiser.
The argument is not one that will
impress plantation managers who
daily, monthly and yearly. see the
rice-fed Japanese coolie doing work
which the white man, in his selected
tasks. does not exceed in rough ag-
gregate of toll. Shall we say, does
not equal? No one needs to know
the orientals very long without get
ting over the idea that a meat diet
is essential to the conservation OF
human strength in manual labor and
the repair of waste. Chinese and
Japanese coolies work harder at
home than do American or European
field Jaborers. Chinese and Japan
ese soldiers endure the fatigue OF
marching and fighting better than do
American on European troops, fact
which has been attested in two wars.
in Jaran two rice-fed coolies, draw
ing a 'rickshaw loaded with a 200
pound tourist, have been. known to
trot 20 miles, only resting once on
the way. Tremendous burdens arc
carried on the backs of Asiatics hour
in aad hour out. Furthermore the
most enduring monuments Of human
energy on earth, the Egyptian pyra-
mids and obelisks, were built by
men who ate millet and rice. The
armies of Genghis Khan were fed on
rice and tea; the Moors made their
campaigns on dates. People whose
principal food comes from the sea
are among the hardest on earth.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-11-15
MISS ABBY ALDRICH.
Young John ID. Rockefeller's Bride to
he liz Well known in Educa-
tionaI Circles.

Miss Abby G. Aldrich's engagement
to John d. Rockefeller, Jr., is univer-
sally talked about, although Miss AL
drich has not wide circle of acquaint-
ances at the capital. Senator Aldrich
has been in the upper house of con-
gress for 20 years, but his family has
resided in Washington less than six
months during this entire period. Mrs.
Aldrich and her daughters have attend
ed several Inauguration ceremonies,
but they did not tarry after the festivi-
ties.
Miss Abby has the reputation of be-
ing bookish and of making profound
study of all the intricate questions
connected with higher education. Sew
eral eminent educators of Washington
assert that while Miss Aldrich's love
affair with Mr.. Rockefeller may date
only from July of this year, her inter-
est in his plans antedates this by sew
eral years. Some time ago there was
movement inaugurated to affiliate the
Columbian university with that Of Chi
cago.
Both institutions are under Baptist
patronage, and some of the trustees
believed that the connection would be
mutually beneficial. Miss Abby AL
drich heard Of this and visited Column
ban during one of her brief visits to
Wa asb;nuton Har nueetions showed n
deep knowledge of the problems at is
sue and convinced the authorities that
she would be strong champion of
their cause. These same professors ex-
press the belief that young Mr.. Rookie
feller has shown the same wisdom in
the selection of wife as marked his
business career. Miss Aldrich, they
say, is not only entirely fitted to take
her place with grace and dignity as the
wife of one of the richest men in the
world, but she is eminently capable of
assisting the large philanthropic
schemes in which the elder and the
younger Rockefeller are engaged.
Miss Lucy and Miss Abby Aldrich,
the only children of the Rhode Island
statesman, will inherit large fortunes,
but they are far from among the rich
est heiresses in the senatorial set.
There are several charming young
maidens whose papas can write checks
In the millions futtering around in
the gay set at the capital. Senator
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-11-15

PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

The least guarded of the monarchs
of Europe is the old king of Dem
mark. He is said to walk about the
streets absolutely unattended,
The first postmistress in Cuba Is
Miss Ysabel De Los-Rios. She is
about 30 years old, daughter of
Judge De Los-Rios, and receives, it is
said salary of $1,000.
Apparently the proverb about clos
ing the stable door after the horse
has been stolen is fully appreciated
by the mayor of Buenos Ayres, South
America. He has issued an order that
no city employe who handles public
money can attend the races.
Lieut.. Louis Hamilton, of the Four
teenth United States infantry, who
commanded the special guard of
honor at the Buffalo city hall and on
the train which took President Me-
Kinley's body to Washington, is a
great-grandson of Alexander Hamil-
ton.
John Il. Stewart is called the rich
est man in Kansas, his wealth being
estimated at nearly $2,000,000. He
owns 130 quarter sections in Sumner
county, where he lives, and his rent
ais are said to be $50,00O this year.
Mr. Stewart was an Office boy in
Wichita 20 years ago.
The following story is indicative of
Crispis self-confidence: On one occa-
sion he was asked in the chamber by
a colleague if he belonged to MAJ
zini's party. NO" replied Crispi.
''Then perhaps you belong to Carl
baldi's?" NO" "Then whose party
do you belong to?" "Crispi's."
Edward and William Mcdonald,
twin brothers, and so much alike that
they cannot be told apart, recently re-
moved from Atchison to Wichita,
Kan. The first Sunday they attesded
church their duplicate baldheads
looked so odd to a woman sitting be-
hind them that she laughed. The
brothers looked around at the un-
usual sound, and the sight of the two
faces, exactly alike, drove the woman
into Mysteries.
Ferguson Haines. of Biddeford, Me-
has two quaint and rare and valu-
able little books. One is about two
by four inches in dimensions, and the
paper cover is decorated with bright
colored flowers. Inside on the title
page is the following: "A pocket al
manac for the year 1776. Fitted for
the use of Pennsylvania and the
neighboring provinces, with several
useful additions, by Rr. Sounder
Phil, printed and folded by benjamin
Franklin and ID. Hall" The other book
is several times larger. Its date is
"Pennsylvania, 1746," and is also an
almanac.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-11-15
Boys Essay on water.

A very original essay on water is
quoted by contemporary. One or two
of the writer's ideas upon the subject
are strikingly.novel.
For instance, he divides all water in
to four subheadings-rain water, soda
water, holy water and brine.
"Water," he continues, SIS used for
a good many things. Sailors use
water to go to sea on. Water is g ood
thing to fire at boys with squirt gun
and to catch fishesin."
But the strangest of all uses for
water is this: Nobody" he says,
"could be saved from drowning If there
wasn't water to pull them out off,
Stray Stories.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-11-15

The high streets of London arc al
ways worth study; and if you would
know how a once rural street may
preserve its sleep amid circumam-
bient modernity just turn from OK
ford street into Marylebone High
street. Or you may stand ON Cam
berwell green and see roaring tides
of humanity go this way and that,
but by some miracle leave Denmark
hill to be a place of quiet breathing,
where the way-worn kerbs and wealth
er-stained oak palings wander up a
lovely hill, flanked with old houses
and silent lawns, whose cedars i'm
prison the night.-Academy.