Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-31
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August Gorick is to be the ice king
at the creamery this year. Jens Schou-
Doe has seen to this for several years
but has too many other things to look
after now so August will build the
dam and attend to it in full.
N. Gregerson has purchased ten
acres of ground south of Elkhorn of
George James, paying 1925 per acre
for the same. He Immediately began
leveling off the ground and will erect
a house this fall for future use.
Jorgen Miller, the hustling farmer
just west of the Sharon store, was up
around Fiscus the first of the week
looking at farms with view of buy
ing. Jorgen is good fellow and this
community would hate to lose him.
Jens Soc telephoned into Elkhorn,
last week, to postmaster A. Bergreen
to mail ticket to Johnny Nelson,
who has been here all summer but is
quite sickly and will now go back to
the fatherland to live among his rela-
tives.
Andrew Christensen has taken up
the mail route as he who has been
carrying it resigned. Andrew began
his services last Friday and is good
painstaking young man, who will look
after the service in perfectly credit
able manner.
While John Peterson and his wife
were in Chicago, he purchased fine
gasoline lamp, having 300 candle
power capacity, but which has prov
en- to have the power of a steam en-
CINE in whistling yet it does give a
good light.
The board Of control at the Sharon
creamery decided last week to build
an addition to the house at the cream
cry, which will surely be conven-
fence to the buttermaker. Hans Smith
has been given the contract to do the
carpenter work.
John Christensen, one of the sub
stantial farmers living southeast of
Elkhorn, is just having fine new
house completed and will be able to
move into il this fall. He is steadily
improving his place and will soon
have one of the incest homes in the
country.
| Hans Madsen proposes to give some
one the day before Christmas fine
SIS manicuring set which will be on
| ov Of No OF
Each person who buys SIS 90 worth of
dry goods, hats, caps or shoes, except
ing the special shoe sale, gets ticket
that may draw the prize.
Next Sunday Rev. Wig proposes to
have special service in honor of the
reformation inanguerated by that fear
less priest Martin Luther who inaug-
uerated those colossal reforms that
startled the thinking world and gave
us a purer and better church of which
all professionalism is branch.
Mr.. Dull, who has been teaching
school in the Elkhorn public school
helped out by his able assistant CLOSED
the school last Friday with an enter
tainment and program to which 8
great many of the patrons were in at.
tendance. He has now gone out ives
of Jacksonville and is working on {
farm.
: Peter Nissen, living out on tn
ridge, purchased his fathers eight.
. acre farm not long ago and has nov
put up himself a fine large barn, sub
scribed tor The journal and is read.
r to call his place home. He had an op
Q portunity to sell last week at BIZ
= Figure but refused as he wants it for
: home.
o The people about Elkhorn hav
went together and performed thei
8 usual task of hauling coal to the col
r lege and as result there is now sew
# enty tons of it in readiness tor win
0 ter's use. This is quite commendin
a to the people as it draws them close
together and makes them MOI
. united band.
n Wednesday night was one of rev
e elry and mirth at the George jaime
It home just south of Elkhorn. Th
d doors of this home are quite ofte
thrown open to the young people,