Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-07-16
kirnballton- Elkhorn

White Knight cigar. Every puff
pleasure. sc cigar; the best in Elk
Horn. At the Barber shop.
Louis Frosig and wife left Sharon
the first of the week to keep house
for their son, Mikei, who was left
alone by the marriage Of his sister.
Jens Chris Jensen, the thresher at
Elkhorn, went to Atlantic the first of
the week for repairs for his engine so
as to beready to start to threshing next
week.
Geo. James had his barn re-modeled
the past week and now has it SO he
can put plenty Of hay into it so he
will have it more for his own con-
venience.
NJ. T. Gregersen began work Mon
day on the new barn for the parson-
age at Elk Horn. Mr.. Gregersen is
good architect and will put up first
class structure.
Harold Hansen and wife, of Elk
Horn, drove to the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Grumstrump in
North Sharon, Sunday and spent
pleasant day at home.
Knud Hansen, living east of Elk
horn, invited the people to his place
last Saturday evening and a dance
was held in his fine new barn and
continued nearly all the night.
Chris Moulgaard, who has been the
assistant at the Sharon creamery, was
at the Buck Valley creamery Mon
day, an applicant for the position as
buttermaker but we have not learned
of his success.
Harvest time and haying are both
here and some fields show where the
reaper and mower have been. Every
thing now points to one OF the big
gest crops in Sharon township that it
has ever known.
Land is beginning to sell again
around Elkhorn. Several small
farms have sold recently at up to 800.
S. G. Petersen for the bank sold one
of their farms last Saturday getting
$500 per acre.
Chris Lang, west of Sharon store,
gave birthday party Sunday, and
old and young of the whole commun-
inty who assembled there were given
a good time as that people always do
when they get together.
The Trustees of Sharon township
will meet the first Monday in August
in Sharon Center school house at / D.
m. for the purpose of hiring road
uperintendent.
7-16-3w JoRGEN MARcUsEN, Clerk.
There was a social gathering of
young people at the home of Lars
Hansen who lives two and one-half
miles west Of Elkhorn last Sunday
and those present speak in fiattering
terms of the genial host and his wife.
Twins came to the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Chris Andersen, living
northwest of Elkhorn last week and
the little fellows are thriving nicely.
The mother however is very poorly
and trained nurse is to wait on her.
Joe Elmquist, by Sharon, has re-
Gently had his house remodeled and
nicely fixed over and Saturday night
gave house warming to the young
people and Sunday to the old. He is
a jolly entertainer and gave all pres
ent fine time.
Last Sunday Tommy Olsen and
Chris Arenkiel decided to put their
horses to rig together and 60 rid
ing. The horses did not like COM
bination and ran away in the streets
of Elkhorn but luckily no one was
hurt or nothing broken.
Oscar Brown living several miles
south OF Elkhorn, so we understand,
got filled up with bad fire water last
week and whipped his parents and
scared his wife, so he got arrested and
fined. If he did these things fine is
too light sentence and he should be
given taste of something better.
In order to accommodate the people
Of Kimballton and vicinity 1 will be
at Faaborg Il Hansen's store, Kim
ballton, Iowa, every Saturday from 8
to 4 to negotiate loans or receive de-
posts for the Elkhorn bank.
S. G. Peterson,
Cashier Elkhorn Bank.