Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-01-02
FARM LOANS,
5 Per Cent. Interest once a year,
10000 optional payments with
Davenport Sapings Bank.
CHARLES BAGLEY.

Miss Maud Doak and Beula Soar are |
spending the holidays visiting friends
in Omaha.
Miss Grace Love, of Wiota, is here
this week visiting with her friends in
the Lyman home.
Miss Kitty Cavanaugh, of Atlantic,
is visiting this week at the Lyman
home, in this city.
Mrs. Mike Kerwin, who lives out
west of town, has been on the sick list
the past week but is now mending.
Mr.. and Mrs W. H. Kelly departed
for Bayard, Tuesday, to visit with her
brother, who is preacher at that
place.
Miss lone Romans, daughter of ].
B. Romans, we'll known politician of
Dennison, spent part of last week at
the Cosson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Russell and son
George G. expect to go to Des Moines,
next Monday to transact business and
visit with relatives.
Get our prices on doors and windows
and water tanks and all kinds of mill
work before buying.
| If JAMES HART,
| A crowd gathered at the Loud Rip
pey home Tuesday night to watch
the old year die. But in pulling taffy
and games they did have royal good
time.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Beard, who have
| yicst n ~, 1N1s 10
with her sister, Mrs. j. F. Russell left
Wednesday for their home in Des
Moines.
Horace Troxel ordered two cars, on
Wednesday, in which to put his goods
to ship them to Oklahoma where he
goes to take charge of the farm he
purchased.
Court .convenes today with Judge
Green presiding. There are quite a
number of cases before the court this
term and it may last some time ere it
is finished.
Rev. r. G. F. Chambers, of Macedo.
MIA, renewed acquaintance in town,
Tuesday morning, after having taken
degree work in the Masonic lodge the
night before.
John Mason, one of the prosperous
farmers living north of town. left last
Tuesday for Monmouth, Illinois, to
visit for time with the friends of his
boyhood times.
Lewis Steel and George Cramer,
two of the best young men in south
Douglas township departed Wednes-
/ day for Winterset, where they will
visit for time with relatives
/ Miss Auda Kelly departed Tuesday
morning for Cedar Falls, where she
will enter the college and push for
ward her education so that she will be
prepared to take up higher work.
| Word has been sent to the lodge of
the Brotherhood OF American YOemen
of this place that Rev. Frank Evans
would be here tonight to talk to them
and would probably install their off,
; GERS.
have remodeled my house, on the
street south of Russell's store. and fix
ed it up for photograph gallery and
am now ready to make photographs of
all kinds and would be pleased to meet
all my old customers.
c. C. HARPER.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Chris
tian church have engaged the services
of John Surges who will be with them
| January 18th, and give an oriental
entertainment. They have sold tickets
to nearly every business man in town
and are expecting to give a good en-
tertainment.
Doug Thayer departed Wednesday
for Wisconsin and other points in the
north to get pointers in the lumber
business and Mrs Thayer will remain
until next Monday, when she will
leave for Chirago where she expects to
join him when Trey will go back south
to their home at Bond, Mississippi.
Miss Lois Stuart, daughter of Mrs
John Weighton, entertained her
friends Tuesday evening at their beau
tiful country home in honor of her
friend Miss Bentley of Valley Junction
Iowa. For those, who love to dance
there was music and for those who
had very pleasant evening.
A. j. Bailey, who used to live here
but who now lives at Fonda was down
the first of the week to sell his town
property He says that his town is
prospecting nicely and that they have
the prospects of the North Western
road going through their town, which
Will make three roads and quite a
place. Land is away up there beyond
what it is here. Land that has no inn
provements is selling for fifty dollars
per acre.
The wind bloweth where it listeth
and no one knows from whence it
comes and so the vagsaries of crowd
of people, when bent on an evening of
fun, come and go. The silent pail of
night had enwrapped the world, last
| Wednesday night, and the home of
Tom Cochran, living out southwest of
town, was quiet and nice and they
had settled down for an evenings rest
when there came g tapping at the par
lor door. But when they opened it in
walked no grim and stately rave, with
his sad croak of never more " but
happy, visaged light hearted crowd f