Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-03-28

friends and transacting business at
last Saturday forenoon.
When Will Doffing was away on
1is vacation, this week, he visited :
With his sister, Miss Anna Dofhng,
at Dixon, Illinois, and reports that
ady we'll and progressing nicely
with her studies.
Because the roads were so bad
It took Henry johnson, of Audubon,
from an early hour Monday morn
ing until three o'clock in the after
noon to bid her goodbye and drive
from far-down Audubon township
to Extra.
John S. Harrison's work has doub-
led upon him 50 fast that he has
has been compelled to send to Oma-
ha for an expert paper hanger to
assist him during the spring trade,
so that his patrons may be sure of
neat and prompt work.
Harold Hansen, of the firm of II.
Hansen & Company, painters, com
mitted suicide about eleven o'clock
evening, dying almost in
stantly. The deed was perpetrated
with revolver on the porch of Jas.
kjar, his business partner, at the
corner of Sixth and Laurel streets.
= Atlantic Messenger.
Misses Della Lockwood and Mabel
Frantz and Mr.. Jas. Simeton, who
have been assisting Frank Andrews
in putting out his book, finished
their work, Saturday, and Monday
the two ladies left for their respec-
tive homes, but Mr.. Simeton re-
NAMED until this morning when he
left for his home at Atlantic.
At the city election, held last Mon
day, there we're two tickets in the
field one being composed of D. E.
Stranger and Doctor J. G. Newton
and the other one of Mr.. Hans P.
Hansen Messrs. Newton and Shrau-
ger were elected by a vote of one
hundred and sixteen and one humid
red and twenty votes, respectively,
while Mr.. Hansen received but forty
one votes for Councilman.
Word comes back from Wilbur L.
Walkee, at Cloud Chief, Oklahoma
that the scent of peach and plum
blossoms comes floating to them
making them glad that they are
there. He also gives as sample OF
native Oklahoma hardwood a small
poX patient and desperate being
shot eleven times and still able to
eat three meals day. Let everyone
who would live go down there.
Elder L. H. Humphreys, pastor
of the Christian church, in this city
and whose unexplained absence
caused some disappointment anG
surprise, on last Lords day, was
detained at home by the dangerous
illness of Mrs. Humphreys and, al
though notice of his forced alb
sence was mailed on Saturday a
Atlantic it failed to 1naterialize a
the Extra postoffice before Monday
morning.
Last week. at the Masonic ban
quet, when Messrs. w. w. Sickels
and Will Jones were presented witt
those lambskins, or white leather
aprons, properly inscribed, a little
frog hoped up in their threats
they shed some weep, and wher
Senior Warden H. L. Wissler hac
finished his presentation speech
the reply they made was delivered
IN sort of hoarse whisper, thei
voices having grown quite husky.
Miss Maude Wells, the expert an,
tasty trimmer arrived last Monda,
evening since which time that lad
and Mrs. L. B. Ragan have bee,
busy unpacking and arranging tn
prettiest creations in the milliner
world and getting ready for thei
Grand Spring Millinery Opening
which event will accur on mex
Tuesday, April I'd, upon WEIGH oe
casion they extend cordial invite
ton to every lady IN the land t
come and view all the pretty thing
and select for themselves perfec
love of bonnet.
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