Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-04-17

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Nelson w. Cowles, Optician at
Cowles' Jewelry Store.
AL Evans returned home from Oma.
ha Tuesday where he has been on
business.
Irve Jones and mother from Coon
Rapids were in town Monday attend
] ing to business matters
Laura Larsen, who clerks i'm at the
store of J. F. Russell ls'quite sick this
week and under the doctors care.
Mrs. d. j. freeman returned home,
last Saturday frona Illinois where she
has been for some time caring for rela-
tives who have been very sisk.
Henry Turner living up towards the
Bethel church had fine colt step on
pitchfork and will be of no account
for some time.
Miss Beulah Soar was down to Ext
ra, the first of the week, where she
was elected as teacher in the public
schools for the coming year.
Mrs. Frank Corner, of Gray, was
down Tuesday, visiting at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II. B.
Wilson, on north church street.
George McCuen, living up in Viola
, township, has number of full. blood
Short Horns that he will dispose of
this spring to parties wishing them.
Frank Booton and wife, who live in
the bedside of her father, Mr.. Aldrich,
who is lying very low at his home,
Newman, the restaurant man is soon
to move to the building on the north
side of main street, formerly occupied
by Martin Larsen as harness shor.
Get our prices on doors and windows
and water tanks and all kinds of mill
work before buying.
If JAMES HART.
i Frank Davis took his grips, Tues
day, and went up to South Dakota, to
see if he cannot introduce his hog
troughs among those fellows up there.
] can repair your bicycles and pu
them in first-class shape. Bring them
In and leave them w it'll me.
]. 6. WOLFE.
Mrs. John Reushling up towards
Bethel in Viola has been very poorly
all year with heart trouble but is now
much better and hopes to soon be all
right again.
The Misses Anna Dorr, Chrisse and
Mary Blntner, Anna Doffing and Sa-
die and Maggie Donahue drove up from
Extra, last Sunday, and spent the day
here visiting friends.
Lou Lee who recently sold his barb.
er shop departed Tuesday for South
Dakota to try his luck up there. He
thinks he may buy some land but will
see if the prospects suit him first.
Peter Sorensen who worked for some
time in the harness shop of Martin
Larsen departed Tuesday for Council
Bluffs to visit relativer. He expects
to find employment there for time
and remain this summer
The members of the Bethel church
up in Viola township have appointed
a committee to look after papering
and painting their church. This is a
most commendable move on the part
of the membership for the house OF
worship should be as neat a place as
any home.
Word comes back from Colorado
Tuesday, that Ezra Hunter who left
here but few weeks ago had passed
away. He has been afflicted a long
time and that climate was too much
for him. He was raised in this coun.
try and went several years ago with
his father to Missouri but there the
climate did not agree with him. He
returned here this last winter and
through the kindness of his many
friends he was sent to Colorado only
to succumb to that lighter air. We
could not learn the particulars of the
funeral services or where he is to be
buried.
Last Friday night several of the
4 young men gave party and supper to
their lady friends that was a success
i in every particular They assembled
& at the John McFarlane home, where
they were entertained for a time and
then they all repaired to the Talbot
restaurant, where sumptous banquet
was spread for them. The floral deco.
rations were beautiful, where carna.
4 lions and jessamines peeped out from
& amid green ferns and gave an air OF
spring to it all. Those present were
8 Messers George NcFarlane, Dan Ma.
thias, Will Baylor, Will McFarlane,
I George Viewer, Nelson Cowles, Will
Wilson, Will Cunningham and Wood
Soar. Misses Beulah Soar, Frances
Burns, Verge Wilson, Grace Lyman,
Mae Hoover, Lois Stuart, Lowene Van
Gorder, Mabel Reno and Emma Cul.
yer.