Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-03-12
Otto Born was attending to busi
ness in Audubon on Tuesday.

ness in Audubon on Tuesday.
julie Phillipsen has purchased the
Alfred Miller property on southeast
Edgerton street.
Prof. Hersom moved from the
Early home to the kreamer house
vacated by Agent Butler.
George Hunt has been quite sick
for d few days with the grip, but is
now recovering.
Tom Gill moved from Hamlin
township last Saturday to the old
J. S. Smith farm, three miles south
of town.
Troublesome Valley Creamery
Company under the control of j. G.
Heck, president; Mr.. Barrichsen,
vice president; j. c.. Hardman,
secretary and II. L. Bowen, treas
urer, with N. D. Hamlin, Sam Nc
Gaffin and w. Fl. Sheltz, directors
have crossed the "Rubicon' or in
other words have paid off every
cent of Indebtedness up to date and
they are feeling happy over the
event. This is good plant
presided over by men of experience
and capability and they have
steadily advanced though often
facing serious discouragements
which were met with such.
persistence as to be speedily
dispersed until now the refulgent
light of prosperity beams upon
them in all its glory.
During the year 1902, two men in
A l., TO-.
and, in season of three months
been killed playing football.
necks or broken backs. How many
permanently injured in various
know, says Ebert Hubbard, in the
March Cosmopolitan, that two
young men with whom | am
personally acquainted are now in
lunatic asylums as result of foot
ball, and their rawlings are the cries
and signals of this game. II you
still think that football is manly
sport, you might interview the par
ents of these young men.
Pasadena, Office of The Times
No. 26 South Raymond avenue
| Feb. pa person walking past
Eastlake Park, Los Angeles, yester-
day, would have wondered if there
is any body left in the state of Iowa.
There were some three thousand
natives of the Hawkeye state at the
annual picnic held yesterday by
the Pasadena Iowa Association
They assembled at 10 o'clock in the
morning, coming from far and
near. There were tall Iowans, short
Iowans, fat Iowans and lean
Iowans, Iowans with money and
without, bowlegged Iowans and
knock-kneed Iowans, with all sorts
of compilations and dispositions.
The first part of the day was de-
voted to swapping "reminiscences
telling stories of the height of corn
and the fierceness of cold snaps.
AT noon, lunch was served, every
body bringing something cold to
eat, which was washed down with
ninety gallons of free coffee. Then
President George A. Gates, the
speaker of the day. delivered an
address which was replete with
witticisms based upon comparisons
of California and "Iowy," -wah,
and "Iowee." President Gates
scored Los Angeles. He said it has
more than its share of drunkards
vice and general corruption, bu1
this is not the fault of the govern
nent, which is good. The com
missioners we're thanked for the
way they accommodated the picnic
visitors in the park.
The registration was 1900 as
against only 100 last year. AS
every person who registered was
supposed to pay ten cents for {
badge, not half of those presen
affixed their signatures to the book
Polk county proved to be the
banner one in point of representa-
ton, there being 100 registered from
that county. Marshall county was
second with 96 This was sur
prise, because Narshalltown has al
along been regarded as the prin
cipal feeder of this section. Owe
fifty Iowans were present who hao
lived fifty years in Iowa. M. G
Ogden, aged SO, who came to the
State in 1886, was the oldest Iowan
He was raised among the Mohawl
Indians, and later served in tn,
Civil War.
The following officers, all from
Pasadena, were chosen:
O. T. Nichols, president; Delos
Arnold, vice president; G. Fl. Par
sons, secretary; c. F. Hamlin
treasurer.