Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-06-26

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The festival up at the Owen F. Ide
home, last Friday evening, was at.
tended by a large number of people
and proved one of the most pleasant
affairs of the season. Besides being 8
social success a neat little sum was
realized to add to the church fund.
May Cotton will close her school in
the Eli Hansen district next Friday
and Immediately thereafter that lady
and her mother will start for a visit
with their relatives, the George Cot.
ton family, out in Montana, and other
points of interest in the great south
west.
Miss Lucille Connrardy, from Extra,
who teaches the Brayton school, came
down Monday moo to say goodbye
to her scholars and friends and in the
evening Joined an excursion party and
started for Denver where her mother
is and where she will visit for two or
three months.
They are preparing to build a fire
new brick Catholic church up at
Extra and the other day Rev. Father
Failenschmid and Mr.. William Bint-
ner, as a soliciting committee, came
down to Brayton and our citizens do
mated them thirty-five dollars to aid
in its construction.
Frank Cannon, who has Just return
ed from the Klondike country, is at
Oakfield visiting with his uncle, Mr..
George Cannon and family, his rela-
tives at the Uncle ST. Clark home and
his friends all over this country, for
he grew up over in The Valley, on
Troublesome Greek.
Fly nets? All kinds. Double team
from S2.75up. Single nets, soc and up.
Come in and look over my line of sin
gle nddouble harness. Single harness
for $500 and up. Remember that har-
vest is coming and bring in your can
vass and have it fixed.
WILLIAM BUCKLEY, Brayton.
The next meeting of the Ladies'
Aid Society OF the Brayton Baptist
church will be held at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Job Chamberlain, over
at Oaktield, on Tuesday July LIST. AS
this is the annual meeting time and
as there is much business to be done it
is earnestly requested that all men,
bers be present OH that day.
Pastor C. M. Wilcox and family
were released from quarantine last
Sunday. He expects to preach next
Sunday morning and evening and
will be glad to meet his congregation
again. Mrs. Wilcox also hopes TO be
present to fill the superintendent
office in Sunday School and will be
very glad to meet the school again
after SO long al absence.
Horace Bartlett has the ground
staked out, is hauling out the materi.
al for one of those big red stock barns
that will be fifty-two by seventy-twc
feet in size, to be built upon his large
farm a little way southwest of Bray.
ton. Builder Mckay, of Atlantic, has
the contract for its construction and
will be patterned much after the Hon
John Jenkins barn, in Brayton.
Girls must be mighty scarce out ii
the vicinity of Harlan or else there is
an awful pretty piece of calico with q
sweet maiden wrapped up inside to
attract an old bach on the shady side
of thirty all the way to Brayton every
once in a while, and that, too, in the
face of a brewing rain storm. Anyway
Mr.. Nels Sorensen told us that JIM
was over again last Sunday aud he be.
gins to wonder what it all means.
Last Saturday night some wander.
ing tourists or some other mean,
sneaking dogs in human form climb.
ed into the south window of Franl
Freeman's billiard hall, beautifully
helped themselves to oranges, cigars
and pop then sat down and ate and
drank their fill. Next they visited
Frank Heath's establishment bu1
could not bulge a door or window 81
crossed the street to Franklin, Davi:
Il Company hardware store where
they pilfered two razors and a revolv.
er. Chris Thompson, the gentlemanly
clerk at the hardware store says he
WISHES 'Aey WouIu clLueF u incl
fingers with the razors or the revolv.
err would go off and shoot a hole ii
them, the mean things.
Hon. John T. jenkins decided tina,
that large new barn must be dedicat.
ed with some kind of a ceremonp, bul
not with a dance, so he sent out invi.
%tations to his friends to ensemble there
on last Friday and assist him in dedi.
eating it. When they arrived they
were all most agreeably surprised
to find the building tastily decorated
and a sumptuous lunch spread fol
them. There was a goodly sprinkling
OF the old settlers among those assem-.
bled and after the lunch was eater
they sat about in groups and talked