Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-07-31

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Mrs. j. w. Lorah started on the
return trip to her home at Fort Col
Inns, Colorado, Tuesday evening after
a pleasant visit at the John S. Lorah
home south of Brayton.
Mack Thomas and wife are here
from Carson this week having good
visit with the lady's sister, Mrs.
Charley Bison, and their many other
friends here and up at Extra.
Grandma Clark, who lives with her
son, Richard CLARK, over east of Oak
field, went down to Des Moines, last
Tuesday, to visit with another son,
Howard Clark, and family for few
days.
Banker Peter Christensen drove
down from Extra Tuesday afternoon
and brought Mrs. Frank Basham and
children down for visit With her
father, Mr.. George Cannon, at Oak
field.
Kees Hallock and wife departed on
Tuesday evening for Atlantic and
after day or two will start on their
western trip and may touch the Pa
cific shores in California before their
return.
Miss Essie Herrick, the sprightly
little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. d.
Herrick, at Extra, has been passing a
few days with her aunt, Mrs. w. B.
Temple, on the farm up north from
Oakfield.
John Norris was business visitor
in Audubon Tuesday forenoon. That
gentleman said if you hear of anyone
who has missed cattle to tell them
there are some stray ones at his place,
down on the Ballard estate.
A wee mite baby boy was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. n. Carmichael, last
Tuesday morning. The father being
seyenty-tive years of age his dancing
about with glee over the advent was
not very lively executed.
For few days past Percy Hallock
has been pacing restlessly about with
an abscess that had formed upon one
of the fingers of his left hand. How
ever it broke Tuesday forenoon and
then Percy got little rest.
A young gentleman by the name OF
Jorgensen and pretty little maiden
alighted from the train last week on
Wednesday, direct from Old Denmark
and proceeded to the home of some
friends over beyond Oaktield.
After witnessing the great Buffalo
Bill show Moses Brinkerhoff and
Richard Powers will start today fol
Bagley, Iowa, to lath some houses
John Peterman and Charley Millimar
of Extra are building up there.
We met Mr.. Isaac Shirley in town
Tuesday, who lives up where the
hickory nuts grow, and he told us
his wife was in poor health these fine
days, and her friends are becoming
alarmed at the good lady's condition.
A sister OF Mr.. Fred Peterson, OF
F.lkhorn, and her daughter, whose
| home is in Chicago, started on their
homeward way Tuesday noon. This
was the first time that that lady had
visited with her brother for eighteen
years.
One of A. T. Buford's horses went
stumbling around the yard, Monday
and accidently tipped over bee hive
and instantly he was covered with
those busy little insects and about. one
minute afterwards he was bee leaver
for sure.
All was activity among the Iowa
Telephone linemen in Brayton Tues
day. They have strung. two copper
wires and an iron one from Atlantic,
arriving at Brayton on Wednesday,
and proceeded along up the line to-
ward Templeton in the same manner.
That fine piece of oats belonging to
Uncle Isaac Hallock on the west side
OF the river at Oakfeld and which
promised so much was so badly dam
aged by the recent deluge that he was
obliged to set a mower and rake at
work among them Tuesday to save
the crop.
We sat down beside Uncle James
Essington and he told us of the hor-
rible condition of the roads from his
| place to West Extra. Said there are
holes in the road that you could bury
load of hay in and it would not be
seen, approaches to bridges all gone,
the road generally in bad condition
and he sincerely hopes the authorities
will shortly remedy these defects.
Tom McGovern came home from
Omaha Saturday with carload of
bronchos and turned them loose upon
the turnpike. One Of them, more
risky than the rest got to cavorting
around, jumping fences and bitches
and in attempting to make an extra
long leap he turned partial somer-
sault and just broke his fool neck
dead horse; crow bait.
Hans Nelson. a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
HI. g. Nelson, who live west of town,
was hitching up horse last Sunday
forenoon when the animal reared up,