Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-09-05

Mrs. L. ]. Hill gave dinner party
Monday in honor of Mrs. B. G. Brook.
field of Gray.
James Pound and children returned
home Monday from Michigan accom-
panied by his niece.
Mrs. p. Bilharz entertained at six
o'clock dinner Wednesday IN honor of
Miss Nellie Bi]harz Ct Chicago.
John Kennedy departed Tuesday for
oklahoma where he will Join his
brother Mike in some business venture
there.
Sam Cramer has shown his energy
ana push by putting up corn crib on
his place recently purchased north of
town.
Mrs. Triplet and brother Charles
Harris came up from Atlantic Tues
day to visit their parents Mr.. r. T..
Harris and family.
Mrs. HI. E. Jump who has been re-
siding in Idaho is back visiting old
time friends and is accompanied by a
little grand son.
John Nc Mahon returned Thursday
TO the school at Davenport that he at
tended last year and will again re-
sumo his studies.
Ed BilharZ returned home from
Chicago Tuesday morning and soon
the stock of goods will begin to arrive
to fill up their big store.
Get our prices on doors and windows
and water tanks and all kinds of mill
work before buying.
If JAMES HART.
J. T.. McFadden of Douglas town
ship has sold his fine farm out there
and will go to Oklahoma to settle on a
claim he got during the great drawing
there.
| Walter Haynes has resigned his DO
sition with the Hooker Telephone Co.
and gone to Geneva, Illinois to accept
a more lucrative position in the same
line.
Mr. James Reed Cora Hale his sister
in-law and Licta Jenkins are now in
Colorado enjoying a visit with re-
latives and friends, having departed
for their last Tuesday.
Miss Myrtle Brown trimmer in the
millinery department of j. F. Russell's
store departs the last of the week for
Chicago to get the winter styles and
to buy fall and winter stock.
Miss Bessie McNutt of Tingley is
here now visiting her grandmother
Mrs. Elizabeth Rice and other friends.
She will go to South Dakota soon to
reside with her father who lives there.
Tom Murphy living out southwest
4 of town in North Sharon twp. sold
his eighty acre farm last week to Mike
Mcclure Jr. This is one of the best
farms in that community and is we'll
worth the S52 per acre he received for
it.
f. Z. Farquhar near Winterset with
his family drove in Tuesday evening
for weeks visit with relatives here.
Fred was raised in Melville township
and has always been prominent fac
tor in that community until his de.
parture last spring and all his old time
neighbors are glad to again meet him
and his estimable family.
. Wednesday evening about five
o'colck Grant Brown and Bessie Pear
son of Dedham went to the M. e. par
sonage and had Rev. r. w. Matheney
make them husband and wife. Thus
have they begun life's transcendant
duty accepting all the responibilitieI
of home and broader fellowship tina
it brings, knowing not of the mysti,
future or the peculiar warp and WOO
that touches to life its darkness t,
screen from mortality what it holds
I Their friends join in wishing then
a long and prosperous life.
Asbury Matheney son of Rev. r. w
Matheney depaated Monday for In
dianola to resume his studies in tina
college. He has applied himself to hare
work this summer in order to lay "
the money to put him through tn
amount Of school his father felt h
could not give him and is to be com
mended in the pluck with which hi
stuck to the hard work having neve
been used toit. There are always tw
classes of pupils in school-those VIII
2 have their way paid and those VIII