Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-06-05

possessions out at Chadron, Nebraska,
at good healthy profit, and they
will stay and visit relatives a spell
while Reese looks around for another
/" fat take"
Last Saturday night the Odd Eel
lows of Brayton and vicinity nomi-
mated the following list OF officers to
be voted for next Saturday evening;
Ward Smith, Noble Grand.
Hans Nymand, Vice. Grand.
L, = N. p Bartlett Secretary,
w. r. Koob, Treasurer.
The lovers of good horses had a
matinee in Brayton, last Tuesday
forenoon. Matt Williams came up
from Atlantic, j. B. Rendleman and
e. d. Powell came down from Extra
with their high steppers, Frank Jen-
kins put in couple of his fast horses
and they all went sailing around that
fine track like thing cflife.
There was no general observation
of Memorial Day in Oakfield this year.
Miss Clara Ordway and her scholars
marched out to the Cemetery and the
graves of all old soldiers were appro-
priately and beautifully decorated.
Many who had friends buried there
visited the yard and scottered flowers
Ger the graves of their loved ones:
but that was all.
Billey Hall, over in The Valley,
met with quite serious loss, last
Monday. That morning when turned
out his two thoroughbred cows he
stood and contemplated them and
said that $4,000 would not tempt
him to part with these animals, but
before night they were both dead, of
clover bloat, and all he got was the
price Of their pelts.
The ball game this week was be-
tween Oakfield and Brayton mines and
was fast and furious. Brayton's boys
say the score was ten on each side but
the Oaktield boys say they won by the
score of eight to ten. So George Free
man put chip on his shoulder, Percy
Hallock knocked it off and the two
clubs are to have it out one week
from next Saturday afternoon on the
Brayton diamond.
Moses. Brinkerhoff, who had the
only real good case of smallpox in
Oakfield, is about rid of that trouble
some pest, for when we passed his
door, the first of the week, he was
seated at the organ thrilling few bars
from his fayorite opera. Sometime
next week he will irrigate and fumi-
gate and clean up aud once more be
allowed to mingle with fellow NOR
tails who will be glad to meet him.
The Danish Lutheran people out
about the Oak Hill church partook OF
the fruition of a long cherished wish,
last Sunday. That day new school
house was formally dedicated that
had been built by private subscrip-
ton and in which, as soon as the dis
trict schools are out, instruction Will
be impaired in the Danish language.
Here, too, their young feet will be
started in the path that leads to the
house not made with hands; eternal
in the heavens.
When Bud Heath's family was re-
leased from quarantine this week Bud,
just for joke, sneaked up and pasted
the sign on Calvin Dimick's house and
then hid in the bushes to watch de-
yelopments. Calvin came out, read
the big letters, rubbed his eyes, read
them over again slow and then started
in bee line for Brayton to see what
it all meant. Happening to pass where
Bud was hid that gentleman grabbed
him by the coat tail and exclaimed:
Hold on, Calvin, just did that for
fun" And down came the smallpox
sign.
That new engine belonging to n.
d. and Robert Hamlin arrived at
Brayton, Saturday night and all day
Monday Doug and Robert were busy
unloading it from flat car, adjusting
the different parts and getting up
steam so that by supper time Robert
was ready to try the new thing to see
how it would work and the way he
went flying around the streets of
Brayton was caution. 1t is a huge
piece of nicely adjusted mechanism,
weighing something like nine tons
and was made by the Russell Compa-
ny at Massillon, Ohio. Tuesday they
got up steam and away they went for
the Natty Hamlin woods to start the