Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-05-01
Extra.

County Superintendent Arthur Far
quhar was down on visit to Professor
J. l.. Conger last Monday.
Miss Amber Kelsey has had her resi-
dence remodeled which mi axes it more
convenient for her dressmaking parlors.
There is to be game of base ball on
the diamond at West Extra, next Sat.
urday between mines from Audubon
aud Extra.
Last Friday Fred Delahoyded and
his daughter Kathleen drove across the
country to Guthrie Center and return
ed late in the evening.
Happiness now reigns in the home of
| Albert Cehak and wife, three miles
southeast of town, new ten pound boy
born to them last Friday.
A baby was born to Arthur Hawk
and wife south of town, this week. Re-
ports say that the mother is not getting
alsng as nicely as was hoped.
Our good friends T. Fl. Ericsson and
wife have installed new soda fountain
in their already well equipped bakery.
We hail the fountains advent with
Joy.
l.. d. Nellis of the firm of Nellis &
Co., was over in Pottawattamie county
building a barn this week, having re-
ceived word that his stable had burned
a few nights ago.
Miss Ora Poag has returned from an
extended stay with friends out in
Wyoming aud is again at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Clarence Scott, three
miles south of town.
One of W. F. Hocamp's boys over in
Audubon township received stunning
kick from horse the other day that
knocked loose some OF his teeth and
otherwise bruised his face.
Grove Rathbun has sent cards to
friends here telling them he will
| graduate from the Omaha Medical
School pretty soon and asking them to
be present upon that august event.
Mel Masterson, that successful rails
er of hogs, residing near the Bowman
Chapel in extreme north Greeley town
ship was on the Extra market this week
with good lot of extra fine porkers.
Frank Basham became the father of
new boy baby this week and as this
is the first boy in the family as soon as
Frank had welcomed the little strang-
er his face lit up with happy smile.
Jim Givin, who went from over in
Audubon township up into Canada to
see that country was not very we'll
| pleased with the prospects and is now
taking look at the land in North
Dakota.
Gene Wilson's boy got pitched out
of cart and rolled about in the dirt
the other morning by being mixed up
in runaway while coming to school,
but aside from few scratches he es-
capped unhurt.
Thomas Railsback, of Audubon
township, suffered the loss of his large
barn the other day, caused by the wind
tanning and old straw stack that was
set on fire into blaze and then scat
tering the fire over to the stable.
The inmates of the John d. Bush
been enjoSllsstc city visit this Week from from
their relative Van Crane, Jr. The
young man is on his way from Arkansas
to his home at jackson, Minnesota.
Fred Delahoyde was a business
visitor at the county seat Saturday
afternoon. After the business was at
tended to, he passed that night with
his relatives the Charles Van Gorder
family and his sister Mrs. Thomas
Walker.
| From Dexter comes the news that
Chet Hauck and wife are the parents of
a girl baby born on April %. The
mother formerly was Miss Blanch
Hardenbrook and grew up here in
Extra. She was George Hardenbrooks
daughter.
The Mystic Shriners held one Of
their meetings at Atlantic last Friday
and the following Extra ''Shriners"
went down to look on. Messrs. H. l..
Wissler, J. f. McAninch, N. p. Christ
ensen, j. ]. Dimick, DIR. John Riley,
and ID. E. Stranger.
The winds of Friday broke off many
dead limbs off the trees in the park and
about town but the modest prank we
heard of its doing was to tumble the
top off Alfred Green's chimney on his
shoe store and go tumbling it down in
the night upon Mrs Ferguson's home.
Messner OFT, of Audubon, was in
Extra Friday and when we questioned
him closely he admitted that he was as
Dixey Dunbar used to say: "Going to
pick up little things that don't belong
to me- Messner is going to help set
the type on Hon. III. f. Andrews new
book of the family tree he is about to
commence.
Again on last Monday our quiet little
town was thrown into state of excite
ment by man riding into town, like
mad, and announcing that Mrs. George
Plantz, who resided with her husband
about one mile northwest of the Extra
depot, had committed suicide by shoot
ing herself through the head with a
revolver. 1t appears that Mr.. and
Mrs. Plantz were at home on that day
at their pleasant home and Mrs. Plantz
not having felt very well for few days
said to her husband that she believed
she would go in and lie down upon the
bed and rest herself for little while
and Mr.. Plantz says that he thought
that she had gone into the next room,
but in less than five minutes he heard
terrible crash in the chamber over
head and for lust a moment did not