Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-10

Will Hoag, a commission man from
Chicago, visited with /. p. Hallock and
,B. Z. Simpson a few days last week.
Needing more room for his stock
Marion Jenkins is building barn
thirty foot square on his lots in Bray
ton.
Miss Took Wilson is here from
Des Moines to assist Mesdames G. X.
Hallock and Charlie Sykes with their
sewing.
j. Anderson went to South Omaha,
the first of the week, with car load of
fat sheep and brought home two car
loads which he will feed.
Station Agent Horace Bartlett has
been too i'll to work this week and on
Tuesday Walter Drew, of Audubon,
came down to assist him.
Charlie Scharff departed the first of
the week for the State Agricultural
College, at Ames, where he will be
taught how to make cheese that is good.
The Brayton and West Hamlin bali
clubs had friendly contest at Brayton
one day this week and the former club
won by the score oftwenty-seven to five.
George Powers, who is employed in
the Iowa State Bank, at Des Moines,
visited with his parents, ID. W. Powers
and wife, at Oakfield for few days the
past week.
James Sorensen, from Kirkman, was
a guest of Nels Sorensen, at Brayton,
last Sunday and the young man seemed
to take great interest in domestic affairs
while here.
Calvin Dimick had strong symptoms
of selling his hotel business at Brayton
to Ellis Cannon and then purchasing
the David Beers farm, when we We're
in town last Tuesday.
Charlie Cotton has rented his farm
to Henry Bell, will have public sale
the latter part of next month and then
go out to Montana where his brother,
George Cotton, is located.
Bernie Noon and bride, of Butte,
Montana, passed few hours last Sun
day at his old home, the John Noon
homestead, one mile south of Oaktield
where Bird Benson resides.
Mrs. John Kelley and Irene Button
started to drive to Extra, last Satur-
day, but had not proceeded only part
way when the team became frightened
and ran away, wrecKing the buggy but
happily injuring no one.
The Harvest Home Entertainment at
the church, in Brayton, last Sunday
evening, was the finest affair of its kind
ever held in this community. Every
number on the program was listened to
with marked attention and those who
took part acquitted themselves with
credit.
Mrs. n. p. Jensen, west of town, is
enjoying visit from her sister. Mrs.
Mattisen, of Illinois, who she had not
seen for twenty-seven years. Sunday
Carl Jensen, of Irwin, and John Jen-
sen, of near Harlan, other relatives and
their families came down so they had
quite little family reunion.
ID. w. Powers and his men are max
ing new road from the Horace Bart
lett farm, one mile west of Brayton,
straight south to intersect the old At
lantic road, west from the Ballard rail
way crossing. This will cause the
school house where Ruby Pearson
teaches to be moved one mile and half
farther northeast.
The Musson Brothers have the poles
set into Brayton for their new tele-
phone line and began stringing the
wires from Atlantic this way last Mon
day morning which means that by the
latter part of the week the Professor
Hooker line and the Musson Brothers
line will be connected in the Fred
Franklin drug store; at Brayton, thus
giving us an outlet both to the north
and south.
Last Sunday forenoon Hans Nymand
who lives just west of Brayton had one
horse hitched to a wide-tired farm
wagon and wishing to move it to anoth-
er part of his farm yard he lifted one
side of the tongue and started but only
went a few steps when the horse took
fright and began to run, throwing Mr..
Nymand to the ground, one of those
massive iron wheels running over him
breaking one rib and injuring him in
ternally. Doctor Koob cared for the
injured man and reports him as resting
comfortably.