Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-12-31
GREELEY.

GREELEY.
A wild windy Christmas.
Myrtle Blake is slowly recovering.
Miss Lennie Hay came home to
spend Christmas.
Mrs. G. G. Graver visited in east
Greeley, Monday.
Fanny Anciaux contemplates re-
turning to Des Moines soon.
The several Christmas tree en- err
tainments were a complete success.
Charley Jayne shelled about 700
bushels of corn for Clint Rucker, We'd
nesday.
A mysterious sickness bore off
fine steer from James Eagen's herd,
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Freu Hays returned,
Wednesday from their protracted and
recreative visit in the east.
James Eagen and family spent SUM-
day at the home of his father-in-
law, Mr.. Synder, of Melville. aa
After starting for Chicago with his
hogs, S. Berry reconsidered the mar
kets, and Omaha won the porkers.
Summer had stolen back from the
south TO spend Christmas with us
and was just laying her gentle hand
upon the cold, dead hills, when old
Boreas discovered her presence in his
silent domain and in a furious rage
drove her from the land.
Rev. Chas. Harter delivered fare
we'll sermon to his Union Baptist
flock, Sunday evening, December 20,
after which he fingered a few days
to sow his late field of labor with his
well-wishes, the pleasant harvest of
which may lure him back some fnt-
ure summer. Mr.. Harter will be
remembered here as a Jealous antago-
mist of the evil # the land.
Twas on bowling Christmas night
ELL tell the tale in rhyme
Because we had a poesy,
And not proSy time.
The doors. were thrown wide open
AT the pleasant Rucker manse
And, mid swells of Siren music
And the mazes of the dance,
We. for just fleeing hour,
Threw dark Care from our trail;
Only family in the distance
Could we hear her baffled wall.
Mr.. j. o. Finch, an honest lad of
Greerley, and Miss Lille w. Weston,
a modest maid of Melville, were
quietly married at the home of the
bride Wednesday, December 23rd
They will begin their welded career
on the Patrick Nc Mahon farm in
Melville township.
The wedding bells are ringing
Der the snowle5s hills today
And another happy couple
Has embarked upon life'S sea.
To make them strong and brave,
That they may safely navigate.
The narrows of the grave.
Then DER smooth, love-locked waters
They glide calm and seren.
In vain we shade our eyes and scan
They've passed beyond our keen.
After family of bows and girls
have been successfully reared, and lead
by the duties ofmanhood and woman
hood into positions of honor and use
fulness, what holy pleasure it must
be to that aged father and mother
left in lone dotage by the old home-
stead hearth, to experience even an
ephemeral restoration of those broken
ties by Christmas family reunion
wherein the laughter and prattle of
grandchildren cause pleasant pause
in the rehearsal of the events of happy
days gone by. Among the many SUI
perannuatebed couples in our broad
land to thus spend Christmas were
Grandpa and Grandma Eagen in east
Greeley, at whose cozy cottage home
the scattered children gathered in re-
union and passed the merry Christ
mas hours.
DANGERS IN A TELEPHONE.
They fought upon the telephone,
The wire waxed red hot;
They gnawed at the transmitter,
And struck before they thought,
And iammed their fists against the wall.
The wire flashed red and green.
With anger they burst out" and died
Before the old machine.
MoRAL.-Renew your batteries before
you get wrathy.
Changed His Mind.
II thought it was a case of love at
first sight"
at was, but he concluded that second
sight was best" Brooklyn Life.
The Penalty.
"In your bachelors club what Is ths
penalty for marrying"
"Marriage."-Town Topics