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


Get out your sled and take slide. !
We slid.
There is a lively literary at the
North Branch schoolhouse every Fri
day night.
We very much regret the loss of
Mr.. Kindred as citizen of our pros
porous little township.
The Misses Anna Artist, Veda
Masterson and Essie Goochey are
home for the holiday vacation.
The Misses Phoebe and Minnie
Blake marketed fine bunch of tur-
keys at North Branch Saturday.
Miss Mccall, daughter of Mack
Mccall, of Audubon, visited the latter
part of the week at the Geo. Mccall
home.
S. A. Heath's sale takes place Dec
ember 81. Arthur Stoner will have
sale early in January; watch for the
date.
While Anciaux and johnson were
Smelling corn for Miles Kness scrap
of old iron was accidently run Into
the shelter and did such damage as ne
cessitated few days lay off.
Greeleyites are not at all conserva-
tive. Contrarily, their originality is
constantly Juggling to free itself from
the strings of threadbare custom, as
evidenced by that novel and excellent
entertainment given at the Greeley
Center church, Christmas eve.
| A telegram arrived here, December
2O, conveying the sad intelligence
that Mrs. o. j. Miller, former resi-
dent of this community, now residing
near Greenfield, Iowa, was so near
death door, that it was deemed pru-
dent to call her children to her bed
side. In answer to the summons,
those of her children residing here
fastened to the bedside of her, whom
gNEs US rkap% pe aS BE- an ideal mother. the
During early autumn, youthful
son of Mr.. Fog, who resides near
North Branch, in alighting from a
vehicle, sprained his ankle. At the
time, it was considered a trivial affair
and treated as an ordinary sprain, but
as the days went by, the injured men,
Der became swollen, much ipflamed
and so medical aid was summoned,
the skill of which proved futile in
staying the progress of what seemed
to be some subtle disease of the bone.
The loss of the limb was foreshadow-
ed and every possible effort was put
forth to avert the dire calamity. The
doctors were called to their final
counsel, and, after deliberation, de-
cided that immediate amputation was
the sole means of frustrating death.
Ways that seem hard to us are made
acceptable when when we can see
nanght but harder ones to take: So
last week the young man was accord :
ing removed to the Guthrie Center
Hospital, placed beyond the reach of
pain, and skilfully operated upon
by Drs. Shiddler and Fordyce. When
he woke and found that the once
strong limb that had so faithfully
borne him through the sports and ram
bles of childhood and youth. was gone
forever, he bore himself courageously.
and, at this writing is rapidly recov-
ering.
All through the Christmas hours sat alone
And unused upon the mysteries of the day;
For if All the worlds a stage" as Shakes.
peare says,
deem it wise, sometimes to note the play.
Some, purged by fasting, breathed low, sweet
prayer,
And found amidst turmoil a strange, sweet
calm N"No>
Christmas gift, Oh, Christ direct from Thee
In gratitude their souls breathed out a psalm
Others gloated and reveled DER a steaminp feast
sleep -
and went ' o1---~
Ere from this sensual stupor did they creep.
Oh, why is it that the pleasures of the sense
Which Wooed and won the zeal of early love
Stands like stubborn fend to bar the way
Which leads to that happy home above?