Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-12-24

friends.
Geo. Townsend and wife left today
for Waterloo to spend few days WIS.,
iting relatives.
Miss lima CARRIER of Gray is down
this week visiting with her sister,
Mrs. Chat Dustin.
1 have toys for boys, sleds, tops,
swords, horns, everything you want.
A. H. ROBERTS.
Bert Keith and wife gave dinner
party for her father Doc Needles We'd
nesday and most of the relatives were
at home.
Marriage licenses for the week end
ing Wednesday,: Peter Hamapn and
Ollie Helsabeck, j. O. Finch and Lille
/ NJ. Weston.
Frank Adams. Frank Reinhart and
Rob Talbot went up to Gray Wednes-
day to take in the shooting match
held there on that date.
Sheriff Anderson received an anon
ymous letter the first of the week from
Nebraska urging him to employ de-
tectives in the Robson case.
Carl Bailey, the efficient clerk in the
Nels Hansen drug store, will go to his
home at Redfeld to spend his holidays
with parents and former companions.
For the best furniture see w. A.
Smutney and pay one profit. No
profit instead of three. South Park.
| Cliff
The little daughter of Mrs. Hite,
who has been sick with scarlet fever is
now nicely improving and the attend
ing physician thinks she will soon be
we'll again.
DR.. n. P. Lauritzen and wife are the
parents of a baby born to them last
Thursday. The doctor is walking on
air yet but the mother and babe are
doing nicely.
Smutney, Undertaking department;
latest and best; special attention
given; terms to suit all. Day 'phone
100; night, 100. 1l-5
W. A. SMUTNEY.
John Horning and Matt Rippey,
who attend the Coe College at Cedar
Rapids, are home this week for the
holidays and are making most of their
time visiting and resting from their
| labors.
There will be meeting of the Au-
dubon County Agricultural Associa-
| ton at the court house the first Mon
day in January. All are requested to
| be present and those desiring any
change in premiums are also requested
| to be present.
Miss Zelona Hays entertained her
friends Wednesday evening with
music, gaines and eatables. This
combination makes the most pleasant
evening possible and this combined
with the good cheer and happiness of
Miss Lelona and her sisters made the
Miss Jennie Donaldson, who attends
college at Drake University, is home
this week and entertained her friends
Monday night with finch party.
After the young folks had enjoyed
themselves for a time refreshments
were served after which the guests
departed thanking her for an evening
happily and we'll spent.
The Newton Record and Courier
edited and published by G. A. Marlin,
former editor of the Journal, came to
our desk this week showing sixteen
page, all home print paper, carrying
| siXty.slx columns of advertising and
brim full of news. Cal is making q
success of the Record as he did of the
Journal while editing it.
All the churches will hold their
programs by the SundayschoolsCh Christ
mas eve and the little folks will be
made happy by their gifts. The les
sons thrown out by the occasion are
many and varied. The children learn
the lesson of sharing with others and
yet it is pity that they learn it but
once a year. Good deeds and good
gifts should be taught for all the times
of the year and on every opportunity
that comes up.
The P. E. o. society entertained
their gentlemen friends Tuesday even.
ing at the pleasant home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gill Jones. The ladies had pre-
pared program as ludicrous as it was
original and proved to be very enter
tanning to all the guests Cards were
given as mementos with original
thoughts and ideas expressed thereon
showing the ladies capable of con-
ceiving many things yet unknown.
The guests were all we'll pleased with
the reception.
DR.. Pearl Roberts and wife, of Char.
ter Oak, and DIR. Ralph Roberts and
wife and daughter Thelma, of Oma-
ha, are spending the holidays at the
parental home OF Mr.. and Mrs. A. II.
Roberts and at the same time visiting
their many friends Pearl has a good
dental practice at Charter Oak and is
succeeding as any boy will who sticks
to their work closely. Ralph is still
an instructor and demonstration in the
Omaha Dental College but has an
office in the Bee building where he
works part of the time.
One of the most attractive toys
shown in any window was the steam
engine running swing in the win