Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-08-01
steaming back Tuesday declaring he
had ridden up every hill and made
some good time in his travels.

her mother and sister at this place.
They are getting along quite nicely in
their new home and Tom is kept busy
on the new electric light plant.
Mrs. A. Linn and family were down
to Hamlin this last week visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clark. She re-
turned Monday but Charley stayed
down there to help his grand father to
get rid of the cookie burrs on his place.
Mrs. Milton Goodnough and his moth
er We're visiting the first of the week
down at Hamlin at the j. r. Lewis
place. While they were away Milt
and daughter Mable patched it by
taking their meals at the Wayside
Inn.
Revs. Bertch and Huffman will hold
an all day meeting next Sunday at
'Botna church where they hold bap-
tismal exercises by imersion. Every
one is invited to 90 with well filled
baskets to stay all day and enjoy the
services.
The Misses Rose and Julia Nc CURE
of near Audubon, came up Tuesday for
9 visit of few days with their brother
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. J. f Mcclure.
This is the first visit Of the young
ladies and they find many things of
interest to them.
Lou Babcock was the first man to
sell and deliver his wheat and this
fine wheat on the market at the Trans
Mississippi Elevator, managed by Jim
Foster, and received 80 cents per
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Mr.. Wicker has began the erection
of the school house and hopes soon to
have it ready to turn over to the school
board. He was disappointed however
in part of the lumber which was not
properly sized and he had to take it to
Fred Hepps shop and size it.
Charlie Beers returned home Mon
day from MADISON where he has been
for the last two months visiting rel
atives. Charley reports good time
visiting and that he spent part of his
time in good and lucrative employ
ment so he returned home with his
Golfers we'll filled.
Lou Babcock expects soon to go to
Missouri to see what his chances are
for getting fine lot of good feeding
cattle cheap. He expects to get them
at right prices and is one of the men
in the county who is not frightened
into thinking that the corn crop this
year is failure.
Rumors fit softly about on the air
of wedding bells Ginning in the town,
ere the shades of fall come nipping ali
growing things. Yet this willy dame
who so often stirs up contentious and
sits rioting tongues in firm belief and
the elimination of all these things
may be so that our item be thus
premature and i'll timed.
One of Ham Buckners boys had an
accident last Sunday that might have
! terminated very seriously, but ended
/ in only Earring him up good deal.
He was riding their fast horse and the
horse suddenly took a notion that it
did not care to 90 any farther and sud.
denly stopped dead still while the boy
all unaware of such intentions went
right on. He however retained his
hold on the rein and which stopped to
some extent the force of his fall but rs
it was he lit very hard on his back and
needed the doctor to pull him together.
Carl Dude, farmer living south of
Gray, sustained broken rib and some
severe bruises yesterday morning at
the Milwaukee crossing near Louie
Jens place. He was coming to Man
ming in buggy with some wheat in
sacks and the horses became frighten.
ed at u passing train. The neck yoke
came down and in the mixup Mr..
Dude was thrown from the buggy and
injured as above. He was brought into
town and DR.. Mosier rendered the
necessary surgical aid. The injuries
are not of serious nature though
quite painful.
Prof. F. P. Hooker and his helper
Walter Haynes, We're up from Audi
bon Tuesday looking after the tel
ephones of the system, and putting
them in repair. Mr.. Hooker contem-
plates putting in an automatic switch
board as soon as he can get to it, so
that each one can call up whoever they
please. Mr. Hooker is fast getting his
lines in good shape. 1t take some
time to adjust the different phones and
get them to working regularly as when
they are first put in, the use is new
and people not knowing just how to
use them, keep them out of repair so
much as does also the children using
them a great deal.
Gray came very near being the scene
of a tragedy last week when Ell Pack
ards little boy years old was almost
run down by the work train. The
little fellow was down in the yards
and heard the train coming in from
the south, and thinking it was the re-
gular, started to run up the track
ahead of it. The train was thunder
ing a.ong at least thirty miles per hour
and could not have stopped after see
ing the little fellow any more than it
could have flown. Jim Foster began
yelling at the boy however and he
just got off the track as the train
swept by. 1t was a narrow escape,
but Jim says that he and the en-
glneer and fireman were far worse
scared than the child