Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-23
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A. Wells went to Omaha on business
Tuesday.
Geo. Wells was caller in Audubon
Tuesday.
Chas. Wells went to Brayton Fri
day on business. .t
Mrs. ]. Justesen visited friends in
Audubon Wednesday.
Geo. Wells was caller in Extra
Friday between trains.
Someone did some stealing here on
Sunday as several articles are now
missing.
The ice cream social at the Old Ham
lin school house Tuesday evening was
well attended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Al Quinby and baby,
of Ross, visited at the J. Justesen
home Sunday.
Miss Floy Gafiin visited at the Rev.
Conner home in Audubon Wednesday
and Thursday.
J. f. Petersen, thinking the corn
crop looks favorable, is having corn
crib built. on his place.
Rev. j. Wirth went to Atlantic Mon
day where he went to attend the funer-
al of Rev. Brookmiller.
H. j. Petersen is building large
corn crib and hog house which will be
an improvement to his farm.
Mrs. Chas Wells and children re-
turned Sunday from long visit with
friends in Brayton and Extra.
Mrs. August Petersen and three
children, of Council Bluffs, are here
visiting at the Andrew Mickklsen
home.
Miss Elsie Fenton left for Hayden,
Montana, Monday where she will join
her folks. She left over the North
Western.
Miss Loritta Gill, who lives with
her parents south of Extra, is the
assistant cook at the M. c. Gill home
| during haying.
Lew Sperup, who went to Colorado
for his health few months ago, re-
turned home Wednesday and says
Iowa is good enough for him.
Hamlin markets on Tuesday were
butter Is, eggs IL, chicks 10, hens 8,
| ducks s, turkeys I, hogs So, wheat So,
corn 35t to 81, oats 241, barley u.
The second quarterly meeting of the
Hamlin Mission of the Evangelical
church will be held on July 81 and
August l and 2. Everybody invited
to attend. All the services will be in
the church at Hamlin. j. WnRTH.
The foot race between Chas Wells,
of Hamlin, and Lew Loss, of Audu-
bon, the distance 100 yards, was run
| Saturday at the fair grounds and was
won by the former by about seven
feet. Hamlin is small but powerful.
There was farewell party at the J.
S. Warner home Saturday night in
honor of Miss Elsie Fenton, who went
to Montana. A large number of her
| friends were there and enjoyed them
selves to late hour. Ice cream and
cake was served.
While George Gill was separating
some hogs at his farm east of town
/ Tuesday he was attacked by one OF
them and knocked down and an ugly
/ cash torn across his leg and abdomen.
DIR. Fulton gave surgical attention.
Mr.. Gill will not be able to work for a
few days.
The ball game Sunday was we'll at
tended but the Hamlin boys showed
bad playing from start to finish, which
the score of to II in favor of Indian
Creek shows. The boys thought this
would be the last game of the season
and the team was somewhat crippled.
Shryer has bad leg, one is going to
be married and two others has taken
the foot racing fever.
Between three and four hundred
people Witnessed the 80 yard foot race
here Sunday between Geo. Wells, of
this place and Frank Drake, of Audu-
bon. Drake said he did not want any
farmer start but professional start
| pistol start, he got it. He was not
/ accustom to the noise made by pistols
| for he was so scared that he ran only
q few feet and stopped. Wells ran on
through and the judges gave him the
race.
Mrs. Winchell and Miss Ida Patty
| of Extra, had very bad accident Fri
| day on the bridge by the creamery.
| They were almost across the bridge
when a piece of paper blew in front of
the horses and heightened them. They
| backed up against the banister and
| upset the buggy throwing the ladies
out and bruising them up considerable
but they were worse scared over their
narrow escape. The buggy was
wreck and the ladies borrowed a bug
gy at the creamery and resumed their
tourney.