Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-04-03
Miss Belle Lancelot is here this week
paying visit to Alta Grow.

Miss Belle Lancelot is here this week
paying visit to Alta Crow.
John McFarlane is changing his
floors and putting in the best hard
wood possible and so is B. S. Phelps.
Buy your shoes at shoe store and
save repair charges. Rasmussen &
Jensen's is the place.
Marriage licenses for the past week;
Jacob Bald and Emma Meyer.
Andrew Hansen and Theodore Chris
| Jensen.
Miss Nora Oelke began her term of
school in No. Hamlin township last
Monday and the patrons may feel sure
of good spring term.
Ben Nellis, of the firm of l.. d. Mel
lis d Company at Extra, was up We'd
nesday transacting business with our
people in selling pianos.
DIR. Gleason returned Monday from
Oklahoma where he has been the past
two weeks with his sister and he is
now ready for his practice again.
Chas. Hoover, of Iowa City, has
been here this week visiting at the
home of his uncle, George Hoover and
returned to his home Wednesday
evening.
Miss Jessie Norton and Miss Louie
WEIGH, of the Extra public schools,
and Miss Minnie Powers, of Brayton,
spent Wednesday visiting the different
departments of the Audubon schools,
hoping to get some new ideas to mt
into their work.
Word comes back that Jim Hunter
lost his fine colt, "Vasco ;, at Des
Moines, while enroute to Oklahoma.
We did not learn what killed it, but it
is a considerable loss as it was a very
we'll bred colt.
Ed Finch returned home, Tuesday
evening, from trip up in Green coun.
ty, where he had been to see some good
feeders He purchased a good bunch
OF black cattle and shipped them to
Omaha and also quite fine bunch of
black calves that he is bringing home,
to hold for future sales. He left a bid
on another bunch of shippers, that he
expects to get. He reports land sales
there as plentiful as Illinois men are
coming in there to take up the land as
fast as they sell back at home.
Owing to the unusual activity in the
sale of real estate for some time past it
may be interesting to MANY to
know that the county records show
that the value of the real estate sold
and the deeds filed for record exceeds
81, 5l6,O 100000 from February 1, to April
l, and we have reason to know that
there are quite number of deals that
should have been closed up March |
that still remain unsettled and not
ready to be filed with the County Re.
corder The records also show, SO we
are informed, that the farms sold
were not morgaged for one-halt their
value, there being less than $3.50 ZOO. 90
in mortgages given on all sales record
ed. Audubon county is smaller than
the average counties of the state by
four townships but, regardless of her
size, the values is exceeded by only a
few of the larger counties The aver
age price is far beyond that of former
years but everyone is confident that
values will continue to increase and
the most conservative and best Judges
say that the average increase on farms
in Audubon county for the present
year of 1902 will exceed ten dollars an
acre. There is no better county in
Iowa than Audubon and no place
where the farmers are more thrifty and
independent and while some come and
go, and always will, yet the majority
OF the farms are occupied by people
who appreciate the worth of their
homes and no small consideration will
induce them to leave for parts un-
known,