Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-12-12
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Dentist at Wayside Inn every Thurs
day. ID. L. Farrell, d. d. S., does first.
class work.
Ham Buckner went up to Manning
tuesday to attend to matters of person.
al business.
VIM. Thomas and wife, of Old Ham
lin, are visiting their relatives at the
Austin Linn home.
Mrs. Jacob Spears departed. on last
wednesday, for harrisburg to visit for
time with friends
James Foster, ST., and Milt Goodnow
went to Templeton, Monday, to attend
to some dental work.
Iheron Creveling will finish the car
penter work On the hall this week and
then all it will need is the paint.
George Gray departed, last Friday
evening, for Chicago where he has
business interests to attend to.
Mrs. Mccarthy, nee Rutherford
went to Warren county, Tuesday. to
visit her husband who is there now.
Mr.. Smith is going around this week
suffering with that affiiction which
came so near spelling the temper of
Job.
Rev. Bennett and wife, of the Meth
0ols1 church, at Manning, were down
last sunday visiting among the parish
oners.
p. G. Mertz has the largest line of
holiday goods ever displayed in the
county and is making prices that defy
competition.
Peter Petersen had a man busy last
tuesday boarding up his house prepar-
ing for the cold blasts of winter and
summers rain.
There was a lady in town, Monday.
from Perry selling books. She took
quite few orders and will deliver the
books in about nine weeks.
Clara Anderson, of Audubon. who
has been quite sick for some time. is nm
this week getting we'll and visiting
with her sister, Mrs. John Campbell.
G. E. Mertz has already waited upon
customers from Manning. Templefon
Ross and Audubon and thew ali de,
clare he could beat the price in their
town.
Mrs. Frank Mclaughlin, who has
been sick the past few weeks, is still
unable to do her home work with any
degree of comfort and they have been
on the lookout for girl to help them,
Peter Petersen shipped four cars of
fat cattle, Wednesday, to the eastern
markets. Peter is hustler and has
been doing some fine work and is
cleaning up some good money on his
deals.
Mr.. Milton Crow aeceived the sad
intelligence this week that his oldest
sister was lying at the point of death
at her home in Fayette, Iowa, and
thought he would go, Wednesday, to
see her.
Miss Nellie Walker, who has been
in the Chas. McLachlin home, was
forced, by felon on her finger to take
lay off and Mrs. McLachlin has had
hard time with her home duties and
a sick girl this week.
Next Friday the Mite Society of the
Methodist church will give fair and
general supper with ice cream, fish
ponds, oysters and the like of it in
various places all over town to which
all are cordially invited.
There was splendid big crowd out
/ j,
Thursday night, and though the enter
tanners showed that they were anna
tours most people that we talked to.
were fairly well satisfied.
We made mistake last week when
we said the Gray Christmas tree was.
to be held in the U. B. church. It is to
be in the Methodist church, as the,
school has always been in this church.
Let everyone turn out and make a
| good success of it.
The school board has decided there
viii be but one week for vacation
they began the term so late. Every
tnlhS Is now running smoothly as
the various rules are working and the
pupils have accustomed themselves to
a set made of action.
John Liken arrived home on Friday
from Sioux City and is now preparing
10 nave the nine thousand bushels of
corn he recently purchased of George
Crap shelled out so as to haul it out TO
his ranch to feed to his one hundred
and seventy-five head of cattle he now
has in his yards.
w. Shepherd, auditor for the Graen
Bay Lumber Comany in this district.
ana i. n. Potter, manager for that
company at Harlan, were here Tues
day invoicing the stock. Mr.. Shepherd
is on the go all the time now Invoicing
the goods in his territory and is most
genial and attable fellow.
Most all of the people are done husk-
ing their corn and are now either rest
ing or hauling off their produce. Roy
SWaney still has about twenty-five
acres yet in the field bnt his foreman
Hugh McGill, has been sick the past
two weeks so that accounts for their
being so far behind.
| Last Friday night as Bert Greenle
was going home from the dance
and after he had taken his company
home, the neck yoke broke letting the
tongue drop down when the team be.
gan torun. Bert stayed in for nearly
a quarter of mile when he thought it
time to take no more risks so jumped
OUT. Inc team did not go far until they
ran against q tree kilIi,r ono r>f tl,o,s