Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-24

VICES ana worship with us.
The schools at Brayton and Oak
field will close Friday for the fall
term and after short vacation the
winter term will begin with the same
corps of instructors.
VIM. Thielen sold forty head of
cattle Tuesday to the hustling stock
buyers, McGovern & Bison. This
was an extra fine bunch of cattle as
Will only keeps the best.
Marion Jenkins has his barn COM
pleted as the outside work is complet-
ed and in short time he will have
the work on the inside finished and
then will have neat and modern
barn.
Sci Heath, barber of Anita. and
wife and daughter, drove over Tues
day and spent the day visiting with
his brother merchant, G. A. Heath,
and family and numerous other
friends in Brayton.
While visiting at Harlan, last week
y. Y. Hartman saw an extra fine Po-
land China boar and asked his breeder
to set price on him, which he did.
j. Q. says, " I'll take him for have
got to have good ones.''
Mrs. John Chapman and her two
daughters, Of Audubon, came down
Saturday night and visited at the
VIM. Buckley home until the follow
ing Monday when she again returned
to her home after a pleasant visit.
The epidemic of whooping cough
is going the rounds in Brayton and
almost every child is troubled with
that barking cough and parents COM
plain OF being kept awake nights by
the lncessant and never ceasing cough.
There will be social given at the
Kelly school house, Friday night. It
will be box social, the girls fur
nishing the boxes and the bows are
supposed to buy them. The proceeds
will go towards purchasing a new
organ.
Chris Hoegh, while at work Satur-
day accidentally dropped some plas-
ter in his eye and was obliged to come
to Bray ton and have DIR. Koob dress
the wounded member and Chris is
now getting along nicely, save from
the pain he suffers.
Joe Cady, who has run the farm
for ). i. Jenkins for the past three
years, left for Chicago Saturday
night 10 visit his brother and sister
there. Joe expects to engage in some
other line of business. His many
friends here regret his departure as
he was liked by many people in
Brayton.
j. r. Bergh, prosperous and WE'LL
to-do stock raiser living near Brayton,
shipped some Of his fine cattle to
Chicago Saturday evening. Johnny
went along with them to see that
they got through all right and visited
short time In the big city. He re-
turned home Tuesday and reports a
good sale. of his stock.
Misses Hazard, Delahoyde, Conn.
rardy, Critic, Houston and Messers.
Fred Cotton and Will johnson, of
Extra, took moon light drive Mon
day evening and drove down from
Extra and visited with their friend,
Miss Lucille Connrardy, at the j. T.
Jenkins home in Brayton. They
passed a pleasant evening playing
games on the lawn until late hour
when they bid Miss Lucille good bye
and started home bound after a very
pleasant evening.
I Howard Parrott's parents received
word from the teachers at Oakfield
Monday that if they wanted to see
their boy alive to come at once as
they did not think he would live but
a short time. His parents proceeded
in haste to the Academy, where they
fonnd him in a sinking condition,
brought on by heart trouble They
carried him tenderly to his home in
Brayton, when in short time he
was considerably better and ON Tues
day he was able to be about some.
Howard is not very strong child
and he has had trouble similar to
this several times this summer and
violent exercise tends to bring it on.
AS we stepped off the train Tues
day noon when we got into Brayton
we thought that some one had passed
to the great beyond and the friends
had come to meet the body and
carry it to its last resting place iudg-
ing by the many solemn and tear
stained faces that met our gaze. On
inquiry we found that John Johnson
and wife were taking their leave for
far away California in hopes OF bene-
fitting his wife's much impaired
health. Their numerous friends had
come to bid Mr.. and Mrs. johnson
the last good bye and farewell before
they left for that country from
whenceshe may never return as her
health has been growing steadily
worse and she has been going down
in health till she is a mere ghost of
her former self when in the DAVIS of