Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-05-16

Voo, WHlGn Is d very price
for this land.
Henry Pollock is back from his trip
to Des Moines. Henry stopped on
his return trip and spent two or
three weeks in Manning with friends
and relatives.
Miss Maude Campbell, the very
accommodating clerk at the w. A..
Hamler drug store, in Extra, spent
Sunday with her relatives, f. B.
Heath and family. She returned
Monday morning.
The people of Brayton who have
wheels have rare sport in the evening
by taking their wheels out to the
race track and riding. The race track
is nice and level and they have some
very exciting races.
r. B. Heath received a new peanut
warmer, Friday. Ifyou want a sack
of hot peanuts drop a nickel IN the
slot, pull out the slide and out comes
your sack of peanuts, warm and as
fresh as from q roaster.
Jens Hansen, the cattle king west
of Brayton, shipped 16O head of cattle
to Chicago Saturday. Chas. Anker
representative OF the Iowa Live Stock
Commission Co. was in Brayton and
contracted this stock of Jens.
One of Marion Jenkins's valuable
yearling colts, which was running
in the pasture ran in the barbwire
fence and severely lacerreated itself.
Marion is very unfortunate indeed to
have such an accident happen to this
animal.
Chas. Milliman, the contractor from
Extra, was down Thursday figuring
with Chas. Bison on his residence he
proposes erecting on his lots in the
T. j. McGovern addition to Brayton.
Chas. is good carpenter and will do
a good job should he secure the con-
tract.
The Highland base ball club has
been organized for this season with
the following players: Fred Turner,
Walter Sisler, Frank Masters, Lloyd
Smith, Francis Turner, John White,
Zeb. Taylor, Walter Turner, Law
renee Turner, Captain; Secretary and
Treasurer, B. III. Plantz.
The Royal Neighbors, the lady
branch of the M. w. A. lodge, will
give a social and entertainment to the
this lodge on next Friday night at
their hall in Bray1on. Ice cream and
cake will be served. The gentlemen
are assured ola good time for the
ladies never do things by halves.
Mr.. Lee McAninch, the genial gro
Gerry clerk at Extra, and Willie Wiss-
Ter, book-keeper at the Stuart Bank,
were down to Brayton and took in
the Sunday ball game. Lee pitched.
for %Spooney's side, but even his great
skill in pitching failed to win the
game. Spooney lost the game by one
core.
Ellis Cannon's baby met with a
painful accident the past week. AS
they were washing and not noticing
the little one, it playtully put its lit
tie fingers between the cogs on the
end of the wringer and bruised it's
fingers quite badly, but not seriously.
The little II will be all right in a
few days.
Chas. Bell, brother of Henry Bell,
from Illinois, arrived in Oakfield the
past week. Chas. will remain this
summer to try and regain his health.
He has long been in the city and city
life does not seem to have agreed with
him, but probably a summer in the
, country will much benefit his health
and he can then go back to his city
work.
On last Sunday the Troublesome
Valley boys organized a base ball
club so as to be able to meet on the
diamond with the other teams in the
surrounding country. The boys elect
ed officers, but we were unable to
learn the names of the boys. The
boys have some very good players,
and after a little practice will have as
good a team as any Of the country
clubs.
AS Percy Freeman was driving a
team hitched to a drag with which he
was leveliug the race track and the
team became frightened at some tile
which had been placed at the lower
end Of the race track to drain it and
became u~nmanageable and ran away.
They did not stop until they reached
the bridge, south of Brayton. Neither
OF the horses were hurt and Percy
escaped without injury.
Dick Clark, the progressive farm
er living east of Oaktield, has decid-
ed to try an experiment in the way
of planting two acres of sugar beets
for feed for his cattle. Dick is one
OF the first farmers to try the cult
walton OF this plant in this vicinity.
In cases where the sugar beet has been
fed to stock it has proven of great
nutritive value and stock fed on them
will do as we'll as when fed on grain.
Jens p. Juhl was doing some road
work on the road west of Brayton,
Tuesday. Jens has a large engine and