Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-22
GREELEY.

We merrily ride on the Christmas
tide.
Dick Hartzell made a breezy trip tt
Viola Tuesday.
Jim Eagan spent few days in the
| jury box this week..
James Eagan is having it up anG
down with the rheumatism.
Henry Sunberg purchased fine Pc
! land boar from Miles KnesS.
| VIM. Rucker sledded two loads o.
fine porkers to Hamlin Saturday.
Encle Martin KnesS was seen on the
streets of the county seat last Thurs
day.
Merry may your Christmas be.
| And if you are sad,
| May it toss you up so high,
That you'll come down glad.
p. L. Carter, of Melville, was bus
mess caller in Greeley the last of the
week.
John Hensley and Mat Thielen went
galloping through Greeley Tuesday,
rustling any old thing, if you please,
in the stock line.
Across DEFENDERS snowy hills
The blasts are hOwling-"Gee.'
How we do poke the old Round Oak
When winters on spree,
Wednesdays train took Mrs. John
Eagen whirling away to the sunny
south to spend the holidays with her
aged mother in Winchester. Kansas.
Frank Nelson, of Brayton, son of
our popular grain and live stock mer-
chant in Hamlin was canvassing Gree
ley this week with some very commend
able books.
A Christmas ladder will be the
unique attraction at the Union Bap-
fist church Saturday evening Dec. n.
Charley GoOchey and Edgar HOyt
have solicited ample cash to guaran-
tee the Juveniles a bounteOus treat.
F. L. Hays is raising club. Per-
hapS it would be good idea to let
him hit you with it too: for by SO do
ing you can secure the Wallace farmer
considerably below regular rates.
Mr.. Smith the Baker medicine man
was in our neck of the woods this
! week. We believe that systematic and
judicious bathing and properly
proper diet properly eaten would ex.
terminate four tifths of the doctors
| (quacks) and all the nostrum peddlers
[ did not mean to be offensive tC
either one, for they do come as a
| supply to a demand created by our
own folly.
An ardent advocate of sanctiica
ton was bOmbarding very skeptica
crowd on street corner one day with
| his fanatical tenets, and boosted O
| his own achievements along that line
A very humorous looking bystandel
spoke up and said: Say. stranger
do you love your enemies?' "E-yes'
came the reply. 1t had come, you see
Come along with me-" said the
stranger, II want you, / am collect
ing freaks for museum, and if wha
you say is true, | may label you as &
curious representative of posteritN
so distant as to be INVISIBLE The
| Joke was success. A hOarse deafen
ing laugh burst from the crowd, anC
the sanctitied gentleman made for {
street car that happened to be show
| up vi Vic wi lCl III VbCINllllS wa
| business made his haste necessary
He turned about and said something
about pearls and swine as he mount
ed the car.
Phoolish lines on 1.-The Phool."
He is the gayest man on earth.
You never see him sad.
He'll walk and talk and joke with
Death.
He's Obstinately glad.
For fun he'll face the cannon's mouth
And toss a burning coal
| Without a twitch or quivering nerve
Right at the primed touch hole.
He and the children often chase
A startling naked fact
J Into a crowd of bogus friends,
Then laugh at friendship racked.
And in the old time thrashing crew
Before wind Stackers came
Twas on the thrashing pile he Tough
His way red eyed to fame.
One day care met him on the road
And drew murderOus knife.
He laughed the thing into joke
She turned and fled for life.
Despair besieged his sunny heart
| " lUll uef grim DdnI Vi trouDicS.
He etfervesced with jollity.
She smothered in the bubbles.
He says beyond this life there's nit.
But when death pulls his gun,
That you can just depend on it
He's going to spoil your fun.
He says that after death we rot,
Just like a COW or horse,
And laughs to hear men talk about
A disembodied force.
When came that message grim anC