Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-06-05
friend, Maude Campbell, the clerk at
the Will Hamler drug store.

friend, Maude Campbell, the clerk at
the Will Hamler drug store.
John B. Connrardy is at Dubuque
this week as representative of Exodus
Masonic Lodge No. 342 of this city in
the Grand Lodge of the State.
Mrs. Frank Poyier, of Chicago, is
here on visit to her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. r. Bruner at the Park Hotel
and her other relatives about town.
A farewell reception was given to
Professor j. s. Conger, at the Rev. W.
w. Hartsaugh home one night this
week, by the professors host of admir-
ing friends.
John Dicus, of Griswold, paid his
annual visit here on Decoration Day,
placed flowers on the graves of his
loved ones and visited his relatives at
the JudgeJ. P. Lair and George Huyck
homes.
Prof. j. l.. Conger departed for
home, near Silver City, Iowa, on Sun
day. Prof. Conger is slated to teach
in the summer school at Harlan and in
the county normal at Audubon later in
the year.
Mrs. G. 7. Waits, the wife of the
manager of the Extra Green Bay
lumber yard, her mother Mrs. Rodman,
and Mary Lee and the baby, have gone
to their old home in Missouri to visit
with relatives and friends for few days
A letter from A. l.. Campbell, at
Des Moines, a former resident of Aud
ubon, informs us that he had sold his
property in Des Moines and that him
self and wife had moved out to Idaho
Falls to live where Claude Campbell
lives.
Saturday Mr.. Forbes, father of
Mrs John N. Martes, died at the Sam
Brown home south of town and was
buried Sunday according to the rites
of the Catholic church. He was only
sick very short time. Appendicitis
was the trouble.
Immediately after the marriage of
j. G. Wheelock and Miss Alice Har-
rison which was related in these col
umns last week, he received a call to
take charge of the creamery at Ham
burg. la. He answered it in person
the next day.
Louise Welch started Monday for
Douglas, Wyoming from which point
she will go by carriage to Guthrie, in
that state, and will pass the summer
roughing it upon rancho with her
friend Mrs. Lyman Cooper. This fall
she expects to teach school out there.
There is to be quite an exodus OF
tourists to Colorado within the next
few days. Mrs. j. b. Connrardy, her
son Jack and daughter Byrd, Mrs. E.
Croy and daughter Verna, Mrs. Gus
Gait, Nettie Sickels, and Mrs. Grant
Smith are among those who have sig,
nified their intentions of going Some
of them will go this week and others
will not go until about the twentieth
of the month.
Never before did we see such deco
ration of the graves by the relatives of
the dead as on Decoration Day. Rev.
II. l.. Wissler delivered fine Grafton
at the M. E. church and procession
headed by the band moved slowly out
to the cemetery where speeches were
delivered by G. W. Marlin, Hon. H. F.
Andrews and several others and then
the flower girls under the command of
Comrade j. p. Lair visited each of the
twenty-five soldiers graves in the
Catholic and Protestant cemeteries and
deposited bouquet in honor of the
dead hero.
The commencement exercises here
this year were the best they ever were
before. The grammar room held its
exercises on Wednesday evening and
every one of the thirteen pupils who
passed up into the high school covered
himself with glory. Thursday evening
the high school class gave its program,
and Of the graduates Gretchen Della
hoyde, Martha Bruner, Zelpha Gault,
Flossie McAnnich, Katherine Connrar-
dy, Lillian Dyre, and Otto Barn-it
would be exceedingly difficult to say
who did excel, so good and well rem
dered were the themes. Both the vo-
cal and instrumental music come in
for good share of the praise. We
wish to make special mention of the
orchestra under the able leadership of
Mrs. W. A. Hamler, which rendered
some very fine music.