Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-12-18

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office where they can meet their pat
| rOnS.
L. S. Bridenstine held public sale
Tuesday at his farm near Gray. A
reasonable sized crowd was in attend
ance and everything sold fairly we'll
considering the bad weather and al.
most impossible condition of some of
our roads.
Union revival meeting will be held
in Gray after the holidays by pastor
A. Bennett of the NJ. e. church and
Rev. Hicks of the U. B. church. A
good meeting is looked for and all
have hopes of the accomplishment of
much good.
A. d. Flrebaugh, who purchased the
Allie Quimby Smelling outfit, informs
us that he is very busy these days
Smelling out corn for the farmers. He
says he has 10000 bushels OF corn con-
tracted to shell as soon as he can get
around to it.
The ladies of the M. E. church will
hold church fair at the Woodman hall
Saturday afternoon and evening De-
cember Goth. An elaborate supper
has been prepared for this occasion.
Let everyone come out, get good
supper, have good time and help the
ladies in their church work.
The Arian Entertainment Co., COM
posed of Miss Ida A. Bradshaw
pianist, and Miss Orpha g. Marker
as reader gave an entertainment at
the Woodmen hall Monday evening.
Not very large crowd were in attend
ance but those who were present re-
port very high grade entertainment
and well worth the price of admission.
Jess Markley and Fred Bundles
will go into the mysteries of the dark
forest of WoOdmanism at their hall in
Gray tonight. The boys are associat-
ing themselves with q strong order
and after they have taken the obliga-
tions of this lodge they will feel like
different men and will always know
then in the case of sickness or trouble
they will have loyal friends ready to
lend hand.
Last Thursday evening the Canter-
burg Bell No. sos d. of r. lodge met
in regular session and the usual bust
ness proceeded with the election of
officers. The following were elected
for the ensuing year and will be in
stalled In their offices sometime in
January:
Mrs. L. A. Beers. Noble Grand.
Mollie Barger, Vice Grand.
Mrs. F. e. Hepp, Secretary.
Mrs. Maggie Wilson, Treasurer.
The odd fellows elected officers for
the ensuing year at their meeting last
Saturday night. The following are
the officers chosen:
K. G. Lancelot. Noble Grand.
H. B. Shelly, Vice Grand.
w. G. Lancelot, Secretary.
T. B. Creveling, Treasurer.
The installation will take place
some remote date in January. The
Odd Fellows have strong lodge here
and are in good financial condition
and are constantly adding new mem.
bers to their already large member
ship.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Swaney of near
Manning came down last week to visit
for time at the home of their daugh
ter Mrs. Will, Barger. Mr.. Swaney re-
NAMED here and Mrs. Swaney was
called out to near Kimballton to at
tend to the wants of her daughter
Grace who was engaged in teaching
school in that community but was so
ill as to be unable to attend her duties.
Mrs. Swaney has been absent ever
since until Tuesday when she was
called back to Gray on account of the
sudden death of her husband. Mr..
Swaney was in the best of health on
Monday previous to his death on this
night and he was feeling better than
he had for some time. He was in at
tendance ut the entertainment at the
hall in town Monday evening and
when he retired he was feeling good
and showed no traces of illness and
suffered no pain. In the morning
Mr. and Mrs. Will Barger arose as
usual and when breakfast was ready
called him but hearing no response
opened the door and found his life
less body, the head touching the floor,
while the lower part of the body was
still on the bed. When he was found
his eyes were closed showing that he
suffered considerable pain. The fun
eral was expected to be held Wednes-
day or today at the home place as
would be determined after Mrs. Swan
ey's return home. An obituary will
be given next week as we were un-
able to obtain the particulars at the
present time
Saved at Graves Brink.
II know l would have long ago been
in my grave" writes Mrs. S. n. New
som, of Decatur, Ala, "if it had not
been for Electric Bitters. For three
years suffered untold agony in the
worst forms of indigestion, Waterbrash
and Stomach Dyspepsia. But this ex-
cellent medicine did me a world of
good. Since using it can eat heartily
and have gained IS pounds" For in