Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-08-03

grain in shock.
How are you on the saloon petit
ton? is the query now.
Peter Nelson shipped four loads of
hogs to market the past week.
w. d. Stanley sent car of fat
steers to Chicago last Saturday.
Miss Ethel Owen was the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Heileman Satur-
day.
Hans Christensen was out in the
country Monday starting binders to
work.
Miss Vera Lewis of Walnut is
visiting her cousins at the Tom Gill
home.
Robert Clark aud sister, Miss Lulu,
were visiting and shopping in Extra
Friday.
Alex MCGUIRE has disposed Of his
threshing machine outfit to Lawrence
Esbeck.
Jens Estergaard and several Others
held picnic in the grove adjacent
Hamlin Sunday.
The merchants are now taking it
easy while the farmer is busy with
his rich harvest.
j. W. Hood reports his little boy
as having passed the danger point and
now recovering Dicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Valdemar Jensen, of
Extra, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Olsen Sunday.
The crowd from Hamlin and vicini-
ty will all 60 to Audubon Thurs
day is the sentiment now.
Miss Moreno McDaniels, of Ezra,
has been visiting friends over east of
Old Hamlin the past week.
Tue Elkhorn and Kimballton lum-
Der Co. received one car of lumber
and two of coal this week.
Rev. Johansen will hold services
Sunday at the Hamlin Church in the
afternoon at the usual hour.
N. b. Crane claims to have harvest
ed the banner hay crop for its acre.
age-35 large loads off of ten acres.
Several bus and carriage loads of
people from Audubon picniced in the
Gill and Fredericksen groves Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oluf Olesen and
children attended birthday celebra-
ton out at George Harvigsen's Sun
day.
Several teams were here from Kim
ballton Monday hauling out mer-
chandlse for the merchants of that
town.
Fred Heileman reports almost a
butter tub famine last week on &C
count of the car of tubs not coming
to time.
John Negley, mail clerk on the n.
P. Railway from Omaha to Cheyenne
is visiting his father and sister, resid-
ing north of town.
George Scott was delivering car
of shelled corn Tuesday to Pete
Nelson who was having it loaded from
the wagons to the car.
Mrs. Mary A. Clark started Mon
day for Staples, Mimi. on an indeter-
inmate visit to daughter, Mrs.
w. G. Genung and family.
Chris Petersen of Elkhorn and Miss
Christensen were visiting at the
johnson and Christensen homes in
this town part of last week.
George B. Gill was out at Harlan
last week looking after his mare
"Alice CLIP which has been in
training there for some time.
Some one held a big Fourth of
July celebration all to himself Satur-
day night, the booming explosives
being heard for long distance.
The Blue Grass Creamery had a
forty ton car of coal on track Monday
which Mr.. Spencer of Audubon and
Charley Wells were unloading in the
sweltering heat.
II. S. Wattles, County Surveyor,
was in town Monday and was met by
County Supervisor, r. d. Searles who
took him out into the country to do
some surveying for the road graders.
Corn never looked so we'll nor
promised better yield is the con-
census of opinion of the upland farm
ers in this vicinity. The corn along
the streams has good color now but
is not SO far advanced in growth on
account of the overflow of the streams
sometime ago.
Hamlin markets-Cattle, butcher
stuff, "a (9 %, tops, 5; hogs, 81
wheat, 90 ca nc; corn, 42c; oats, pc
barley, SOC; potatoes, 35c; CIR. butter,
zoe; dairy butter, l5c: eggs, lie
chicks, C; hens, l04: ducks, Sc; geese
&c; turkeys, lie.
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