Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-11-27
Oakfield and Brayton

urday evening and quite number o
people from Brayton attended and al
present report jolly good time.
Mrs. w. r. Koob and children re.
turned the last OF the week from 6
visit with the doctors parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. Koob, and her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Wagner, over neal
Anita.
Harold Henningsen, residing neal
Brayton, is suffering from an attack
of measles. On Monday he was
slightly improved and everything
looked favorable for his speedy re-
covery.
Misses Ruby and Edna Pearson
will begin teaching again next Mon
day. Miss Ruby will teach at No. I,
Oakfield township and Miss Edna has
been engaged to teach at No. 9, Ex-
ira township.
Clarence Noon we'll to do farm
er near Brayton was in town Monday
and sold 500 bushels of wheat to
Frank Jenkins at the Rothchid ele-
vator. Clarence brought in the first
load Monday.
I'll. S. Wattles and his little grand
daughter Miss limo Bison, departed
for Carson Friday to visit few days
with the j. M. Thomas family. They
returned home Tuesday evening after
very pleasant visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mis- Christensen, re-
siding out on the B. f. Simpson farm
southeast of Brayton, were made hap
Ply last Friday over the arrival of a
big baby boy that came to remain
with them for time.
Mrs. III. F. Andrews was an over
Sunday visitor in Oakfield at the l.
P. Hallock home. She took the noon
train for Atlantic Monday and after
transacting business there she will re-
turn to her home at Extra.
Horace Bartlett has nearly finished
his new house and will soon have it
ready for occupancy. 1t is a very
neat, commodious and modern farm
residence and adds much to the value
OF this already we'll improved farm.
Ernie Cotton, who is taking a civil
engineering course at Ames, came
home Saturday and visited over Sun
day with his relatives and many
friends, returning to his studies again
Monday evening after a pleasant but
short stay.
The Iowa telephone gang was in
Brayton Sunday. They are now en-
gagged in stringing the wires on the
new poles they put in this summer.
There are eighteen of them in all and
it does not take them long to string
considerable wire.
The Pearson orchestra will give a
dance tonight at the Bendixen hall
in Brayton. A large crowd is ex-
pected and some special music has
been secured for this occasion, so that
all who attend may feel assured of
having good music.
Chris Rasmussen of the land firm
Of Rattenborg and Rasmussen of At
lantic was attending to business in
Brayton Monday aud visiting with
his sister Mrs. Jacob Blom who has
been i'll for some time but is at pres
ent slightly improved.
Everything is now moved up from
the hardware store to the harness
shop building. This makes a very
pleasant place for both these lines of
business. Fred Franklin and his
clerks are always busy selling good
ly amount of goods in both stores.
Three new bridges have been lately
put in over on Troublesome that were
wrecked during the high waters of
the past summer but have been used
ever since. They were comparatively
unfit for travel but it has been hard
to get the lumber over there to build
them.
Chas. Bison has taken up fifty head
of steers that he had running on grass
and put them in his feed yards near
Brayton. He expects to have them
ready for the July market. Charley
says he is buying lots of corn now,
being in a good place to secure large
amount Of this cereal.
Walter Hoegh and Harry Nymand,
two of Audubon county's best boys,
will depart for Nyster, Nebraska,
next Saturday to enter the hi gh
school at tina, place. The boys real
ize that the greater amount of educa-
ton we possess the easier it is to get
along, and are availing themselves of
this opportunity.
Miss Florence McAninch will
teach the lower room at the Oakfeld
school, Prof. Enenbeck the high
room and Miss Mae Jenkins will in