Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-15
farm and their many old time neigh
bors about Oakfeld and Brayton.

Charlie Scharff came home from the
Ames Agricultural College Monday
where he had been investigating the
manner of making cheese, calculating
to use the milk they have on the farm
over in the Valley up into cheese.
They brought in and shipped out
seven thousand pounds of butter from
Brayton last Tuesday evening as the
joint product of the Troublesome VAL
ley, the Oaktield township and Clay
township, Shelby county, Creameries.
Will Freeburn who has been assist
ing Station Agent Horace Bartlett, in
the depot, took his departure last
Tuesday noon for Durant, station
on this side of Davenport little ways,
where he will run an office for a time.
The Misses limo and Edna Bison
are down in the vicinity of Atlantic
this week, visiting at the farm home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Bopp-the lady is a
sister of Thomas Nc Govern, the
partner of Mr.. Bison in the stock
business.
| Tom Nc Govern of the firm of Nc
Govern u Bison was up to the Peter
Wolfe home just west of Extra last
Monday and purchased car load of
fat cattle OF that gentleman which
they shipped from Brayton that same
evening.
Tuesday afternoon John Koob was
busy putting in high and dry cross
| ing at the w. H. Pearson blacksmith
shop in Brayton. We understand
that many new sidewalks and much
repairing of the old ones Will be done
in our city at once.
The Brayton Royal Neighbors will
give one of their pleasant socials in
the j. P Bendixen Hall next Satur-
day night. All you who have attend
ed these gatherings in the past know
what good time you will have if
| you attend this one.
Percy Hallock and LATE Simpson
returned from their trip to Buffalo
last Friday, looking tired but pleased.
While away the boys visited the
great Niagara Falls and padded in
the water as it fell, and say that that
sight alone was worth all the trip
cost them.
Mrs. Bry Milliman and Mrs. Chas.
Milliman, from Extra, drove down
to Brayton Thursday afternoon and
passed the time visiting at the Franz
Heath home and among their rela-
tives at the Aunt Lucy Heath home
Oakfield and at the G.. A. Heath
home in Brayton.
William Thielen that raiser and
shipper of much stock. who resides on
his farm over in the Valley east OF
Oakfield, brought in seventeen head
OF hogs and disposed of them to Nc
Govern Il Bison Tuesday morning
that tipped the beam at three hundred
and fifty pounds each.
Out at the farm home of William
Bintner little ways east of Oakfield
for the first few days of this week hi:
son Lawrence, was very sick man
He had touch of typhoid fever, OF
which his system became inoculated
while he was in Kansas year ACC
and it seems it never left his system
| Ten men are busy at work upon L
P. Hallock's "big barn. this week
| To give you an idea of its magnitude
we will tell you that it covers one
fourth of an acre of ground and it will
take one hundred and twenty Eight
thousand shingles TO cover the roof
This is we believe the largest barn in
this part of the state.
| FL. P. Nelson's son, living west OF
Brayton, was thrown from horse
last Saturday, and in alighting struck
upon his wrist in such a manner as 10
sprain it pretty badly and slightly
bend it out of shape. He was brought
to town and the injured member re.
paired and it will be necessary for the
lad to lay by for few days.
Mrs. Lille Bartlett Reynolds writ
es to her brother Horace Bartlett, that
herself and mother and daughter ar
1900 1'o'Siy ae tHCll
Terrill, Mexico, and found their son
and brother, Eb Bartlett and wife
we'll and enjoying life. Eb is general
road master OF railway company
down there and is taking life easy.
Salesman Gibbs from Omaha who
sells carpets to the j. NJ. Thomas firm
at Extra, came toeBrayton last Satur.
day morning and went up to the
elegant new home of Charles Bison
and displayed his samples, and Mr..
and Mrs. Bison put in a few hours
deciding and selecting carpets, rugs
} portiers and all the curtains and such
like things that go to furnish a house
} completely.
Relatives and friends at Oakfield
have been informed by a letter that
on Thursday, August %, 1901, Miss
Lollie Mercedes Brinkerhotf will bs
united in marriage to Mr.. George T.
Baker at the home Of her aunt, Mrs