Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-04-24
MONEY To LO.4N!
sUith the German, Savings
Bnsak: ut 5 per cent interest.
optional payments.
WASH. PHELPS d PHELPS
audubon. E0aca

Mrs. William Humphrey returned
home Monday, from over at Harlan
with j. T. MINORS and others.
A lively runaway took place the 9TH
er morning with one of Morrisey &
Rush's teams but they were stopped
ere any damage was done.
Miss Jennie Donaldson writes back
from Des Moines that she is we'll
pleased with the work there and is get
ting along very nicely with her work.
can repair your bicycles and pu
them in frst-class shape. Bring them
in and leave them w it'll me.
JIG. WOLFE.
George Ellis and wife are making
preparations to go to Colorado where
their son recently went to try that eli
mate and see if his health viii not i'm
prove.
Lee Hudler has fixedup his west Au-
dubon home a great deal this spring.
He has added to, papered and painted
and added new furniture and now has
a very pleasant home.
/ Will Dryden departed, Tuesday, for
the north part of the state to look for
horses for his firm. He says that hors.
es have steadily advanced and are be.
coming very valuableas are all other
/ lines the farmer raises.
Tom Single, one of the j. G. Lund
Minnesota land hustlers, passed
through town, Tuesday night, to go on
to Anita where he is located finding
4 men to invest money in that country
of the north where hundreds of Sec
tions are sold every week.
1 The wind, of Tuesday, blew down
all the big sheds On the place where
Chauncey Gardner lives and caught
one of his big hogs which was more
loss than all the sheds The hog weigh
ed about four hundred pounds which
means in these days nearly twenty
! eight dollars, cash.
Hon. Asmus Boysen and Frank
Leet departed, Tuesday, for Sioux City
4 to look after their landed interest in
that locality. They have a great many
acres of land in Dickinson, Nebraska,
and they are DESTROYS of seeing how
the crops are coming along there.
4 Supervisor j. ngledeckerlfound
himself in big sand storm, Tuesday,
when he got away out in south west
i Hamlin township inspecting bridges
n He, with the other supervisors, each
look we'll after his locality, and this
was one OF his examination days.
Mrs. Daisy Johnson Phelps came up
home, Monday, from Atlantic to visit
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. G,
johnson, for few days. They have
not gone to housekeeping yet hut ex.
pect to build a home on Walnut street
as soon as tne.y can get Workmen TO
4 put it up for them.
Jim McNutt, who went to Oklahoma
from down at Old Hamlin over year
ago, and purchased quarter section
has sold it at raise of 100000 on the
i whole. He sold it to a lady and has
hired out to run the place until after
threshing time. He expects to pur-
chase more land as the future of that
country is established.
l We understand that Charley Van
Gorder has been offered, by wire. a
raise of three dollars per acre on a
greater part of his Canadian possess
ions. This raise has come in the past
six months that he has held the land.
A great immigration is flowing into
that country this spring and prices
will yet go higher and the land be inn
proved by actual settlers.
Last Thursday every pupil in Byron
Phelps room at school received this
invitation: Byron Forbes Phelps. At
Home, April IL, 1902 from $3.50 to $50
o'clock, afternoon This sent a muir
muir of excitement and pleasant
thoughts through the room and the
whispering groups at intermission
times showed the excitement and
pleasure they felt. They all went in
a body from the school and whom they
got to the house, about seventy five in
all, Little Byron proved himself mas
ter of the situation and gave pleasure
and attention to each invited guest.
Mrs. Phelps had provided an ample
lunch and, with her assistants, looked
we'll after the children. 1t was sight
that those who witnessed will never
forget and "a pleasure, too, that few of
the children will ever forget but always
treasure up in memory's storehouse as
one of the biggest events in their lives.
Last Monday and Tuesday were two
of the worst days ever known to this
country, since the spring of 1880. Old
settlers say they had about month of
such days as Tuesday without any
letting up. Dirt was blown off of the
grain and it looked as if there would
t be no crop but in the long run the
J crop in general was the biggest ever
known in the county. The wind this
year began Sunday to blow from the
South and was decidedly hot wind.
Monday it increased some and the air
I. was pretty well filled with dirt and
dust. Monday night was still worse,
bit by Tuesday noon it was perfect
gale. Corn cribs and sheds began to
feel the effects of the continued force
and sway. By three or four o'clock
they were going down all over the
county. Windmills also began to &c
down before it, SO that much damage
/, was done to them. Fire was carried in
several instances so that several barns
were burned. Greeley township we
believe is the heaviest loser as we
heard rumors of three losses but can
not locate them yet. The farmers all
! stopped work and sought the shelter
of the house or tried to save their
i barns and sheds. Travellers found it