Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-26

Miss Susie MussOn, who is attending
school at Cornell, is home for her va
cation after hard semester's work.
Deputy Auditor Ben Train departed
Monday for New Hampton to spend
Christmas time with relatives and
friends,
Misses Hulda and Anna Johnson,
who work here in town went down by
Extra to spend Christmas with their
parents.
Tom Davis sold part of his farm on
section one, Douglas township, to Jesse
Graves and received good round
price for the same.
Miss Gusta Cloughly, daughter of
Ute Friday to spend a week with her
aunt Mrs. j. j. Miller.
Doc Needles was quite elated, this
week, over the fine rocking chair his
children left him on the occasion of
his sixty-second birthday which took
place Monday.
George Kellogg, Deputy Treasurer,
with his wife and family went to
Woodbine. Monday, so as to spend the
Christmas time and eat turkey with
his folks at that place.
DIR. Pearl Roberts came home Tues
day to eat Christmas turkey with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs A. II. Roberts.
Ralph, wife and baby came last week,
so that they will all be together at
Christmas time.
County Recorder o. G. Donaldson
and family drove down to his farm, in
Audubon township, on Christmas day
to eat their Christmas dinner amidst
old-time friends and the farm associa-
tions they have seen for years.
| Doctor Childs recently invested his
spare change in an eighty-acre farm
up by Ross and the other day John
Liken, of Gray, took a notion to it and
so the doctor put good price on it and
was taken up, clearing neat figure by
the enterprise.
Chas. White, who has been in at
tendance at Drake University, is home
spending his vacation midst home in.
f1uences and home surroundings.
Charles is young man who is bound
to make his mark and will get to the
top if there is possibility of so doing.
/ have remodeled my house, on the
street south of Russell's store. and fix
ed it up for photograph gallery and
am now ready to make photographs of
all kinds and would be pleased to meet
all my old customers.
&C. HARPER.
Fred Simeson, who used to live out
west of town but who purchased a
place up by Ross and then sold it
e. Loot
up by Manning and will move to it in
farmer and citizen and in losing him
the country loses good man.
Judge Green has just closed the cele-
!, brated case that he has been presiding
over so long in court, tired and weary
with the trials it has brought and is
, taking a good holiday rest with his
, family. We understand the verdict
, was found for the plaintiff who was
J awarded $4OO,469.OO which we believe
ought to satisfy any man.
Fred Vermilya, of the Racket Store,
], enjoyed visit last Saturday to Mon
day from his father who was here to
see how he was nrOspering. His father
$ shall and as such, took a desperate who
E had defied all other officers, but he did
A only because he was quicker with his
e gun than the desperate.
The meeting place for the Union Ser
] vices to be held next month by w. A.
, Sunday has at last been settled and
t the First Methodist church chosen as
the meeting place. He has written
s that he hardly expects to get here be.
' fore January 18th, but it will soon be
! here and then saints and sinners alike
4 may expect to hear of themselves as
q they are not as they appear to be.
John Twist, one of the good farmers
, out southeast of town, had shed fall
+ in on his stock last Thursday night
killing a good heifer and a goat and
. crippling three cows so that the chanc
> es are against their recovery. The tor
was too heavy so that the supports
. gave way, letting the whole mass in
9 on them. 1t is wonder, however
= that more were not killed or hurt, con
a sidering the great number that were
: about the shed. Mr.. Twist considers
!. himself quite lucky.
e Prof. f. P. Hooker, Supt. of the pub
lie schools and the principal Miss Har
riet Bilharz and Misses Alta Grow and
ella Hurd were in attendance at the
State Teachers Association, in Des
: Moines this week. We presume there
. are others in the county who wen,
. but we did not learn their names. All
progressive teachers are there: no we
a should not say that because the wages
" are not enough for them to go howev
= er much inclined they may be to 90
= But they have good program and al
Z who hear it will be benefited.