Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-01-31
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Be sure and visit the Womans EX-
change when at the Mid-Winter Fair.
Chas. Fulton, of Extra, is spending
this week with his grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. d. Bailey.
Remember the Mid-Winter Fair and
Festival at the M. E. church parlors,
Wednesday, February ID.
Joe Doner, of Brayton, was in town,
Wednesday, attending to business
matters at the county capital
Peter f. Howell, of Avoca, was in
town, Wednesday, attending to bust
ness and passing the day pleasantly
with former friends.
Miss Mary Larsen, niece of Peter
Nelson, areived from Michigan the
last of the week and will keep house
for him the coming year.
can repair your bicycles and put
them in first-class shape. Bring them
in and leave them with me.
]. G. WOLFE.
Martin Esbeck came IN from Kim
his friends and spent sometime look
ing after matter of interest in the i'm
plement business.
The hog market doomed up to $500
day or two and quite number of the
farmers took advantage of the good
round price and disposed of what they
had that was marketable.
Henry Kossenhaschen has sold his
fine Melville township farm to Robt.
Fry for $500 an acre and will join the
Mosier & Mcclure crowd of excursion
lists for Oklahoma next Tuesday.
Hon. Asmus Boysen, John Mcclure
and n. c. Bronson went to Brayton,
Tuesday, looking after large business
deal, " ich, owing to circumstances,
they were not able to consumate.
VIM. Cochran and Chas. Layland
went down to Lewis, Monday, the
former to look after his big farm that
he will move to soon and the latter to
try to purchase a fine draft animal.
George Donnison, of Newton, came
in the first of the week and will re-
main long enough to bug carload yf
horses. A few years ago he was one
of the best known horse buyers that
frequented the county.
Frank Reinemund writes back to f.
ii. Adams, manager os the Gree Bay
Lumber Company that he is well
pleased with his patronage and that
the advertising he has been going, the
same being written by Mr.. Adams, has
brought his business into prominence
and become the attraction of the peo-
pie. Frank has become firm belieber
in adveL Using and thinks he can still
increase and hold his trade by keeping
up the same.
whereby the ownership of the Brayton
Bank was transferred so that Chas.
Van Gorder is president, John Nc
Daniels, vice-president, and Edwin
Delahoyde, cashier, all sharing an
equal interest in the stock. This is an
important transaction giving the
parties interested the control of three
banks all situated in the county. The
bank for the time being will be man
aged by Robert Pollock. Mr.. Van
Gorder is the pioneer banker of the
county and the other parties interested
are well known in the financial circles
of the county. No one will ever doubt
the financial reliability and in the
years to come the business will grow
and increase in proportion to the
growth and development of the county.
The Mothers Meeting was held
Wednesday afternoon in the high
school building where very profitable
meeting was held. We did not get
the program, but know that from for
mer meetings this one would be up to
the standard. The meetings are of great
practical benefit to both teacher and
parent. They bring them together
where they can talk over sensibly and
nationally those veXed questions that
come up to bother the teacher. 1t
makes them more acquainted and the
teacher becomes better acquainted
with the pupil because they become
more acquainted with their home life.
The patron understands more of the
life of the teacher, their peculiar and
ever differing ideas, their aims, their
purposes, their ideals and can help the
pupil to conform to that which is the
most progressive by conforming to it
themselves. These meetings have be-
come popular all over the country and
the leading educators verywhere are
advocating them, knowing they are
not a short lived fad, but living,
breathing, pulsng reality that help
each one to grow stronger
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