Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-08-10
News from the diff.
erent Townships Of
the County. - -
GREELEY.

The Carriers, of Melville, Sundayed
with relatives in east Greeley.
Mr.. Carmichael was a pleasant call
er at the John Egan home Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Stanley, of
Old Hamlin, spent July 30 in Greeley.
Bill McNary, of Coon Rapids,
went dashing through North Greeley,
Sunday evening, with a big trunk in
his carriage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miles Kness spent a
pleasant Sunday at the Marshall
McNutt home.
Chel Adair drove over with his old
Mccormick to help his brother Chef
dispose of his harvest.
The Edwards road gang is remov-
ing the. terrors from the big hill ad-
lacent to the premises of grandpa
Egan.
Col. Nate Carper, of Audubon, ac-
companied by his son and Mr.. Mugg,
delivered some horses at the Nate
Turner ranch.
1t is my opinion that the devil
would rather silence Tom Lawson than
a score of preachers. That he can
keep his audience awake is not the
only reason either.
Some of our citizens disturbed the
sacred quiet of the sabbath day with
the clatter of their reapers. Others
were seen shocking grain.
All that was left of a certain Hun
garian after a big explosion in an
eastern coal mine, went begging
through our town Tuesday.
A change in circumstances compell-
ed Mr.. Earhart to buy a new binder.
He wired for a new Hodges Queen, of
the u. w. Hoover firm in Audubon.
Mr.. w. c. Elliott and Rev. S
Conybeare, of Audubon, appeared at
the Presbyterian church in Old Ham
lin, Sunday evening, July 30, in a
decidedly aggressive attitude against
the saloon proposition.
You will search the history of Au-
dubon county in vain for an enter
tainment more wholesome than the
WOOdmen's Log Rolling that took
B'"SS ~ AAuNuboi AuSuS %. lie
scarcity of drunk men and the absence
of gambling devices is notorious.
The excellent program was carried
out to a scratch and with a delightful
enthusiasm. From a moral point of
view the atmosphere was pure. At no
time or place was it dangerous or
detrimental to inhale it. Scintillat-
ing fountains of free lemonade de-
lighted the thirsty. In . fact every
thing was as free as salvation.
Never before has it been our pleas
ure to listen to such a happy combi-
natlon OF eloquence and logic as was
delivered by DR.. |. N. McCash to the
large and orderly crowd that congre-
gated in the Audubon park Sunday
evening. With charming east he car
rled his banner of logical precision to
the sparkling heights of e~loquence
from which he would swOop grace
fully down with a cudgel of irrefut-
able statistics and beat the saloon
monster into contemplate helpless
ness. a righteous fire is being kin
died that seems nOt likely to stop with
the rout OF the saloon men. The
names are creeping slowly toward the
indecent end of the drug store.
ENVIRONMENT.
We are victims of our own environ
ment. AS much so as is the hill of
corn overwhich we so carefully watch,
shielding 1t from the influence of nOX-
ious weeds and other destructiy We
agents until its tender life is condi-
toned m bhnn a n1D.o H. -
some frail little morning glory plants
oy my window. | am anxious to have
them grow and bloom into beauty and
breathe their sweetness about nv
home. If | have absolute control over
their environment, my desires are like
~ to be realized; for then | can keep
them IN such surroundings as are con
ductlve to their present development.
L am a farmer because my environ
ment moulded me into one. You are a
teacher because your surroundings
made you one. John is a minister be-
cause circumstances directed his at
tentlon ithat way and facilitated his
success. And here is Malmda. She
was once the giddiest girl in the COM
munlty. She thought of nothing but
folly, bussing bees and balls. She was
braZen. Her folks moved into a new
neighborhood very different from
their old one. The people were care
full to keep the young men and women
in an atmosphere morally pure and
elevating. A sweet, refining Christian
influence predOminated. She, being
young and very susceptible to the new
forces in her. environs, was soon re-
modelled into a modest, mannerly
maiden and became an earnest worker
In the church and a serious thinker on
the uplifting themes that came before
the Christian Endeavor societies. A
change in surroundings means a modi-
hcatlon in character. The little vii.
lage of u was established in a
temperance community. 1t grew and
developed into a beautiful town in a
pure atmosphere of local prohibition.
A vile rum shop had never been per-
mltted to eXhale it's subtle venom in.
10 It's circulation and poison the moral
atmosphere of its sunny streets. II
was a well known fact among the PEG.
pie OF n hal their good citizen
Mr.. D was a reformed drunkard
who had come to their little hamlet
some eighteen years ago thathe might
be better situated to battle with his
vehement appetite for strongdrink and
MS inclination to gamble. He had
succeeded In c~onquering these internal
enemies to his welfare and was happy
IN the love OF his family, the Oldest
son OF which, Arthur, had recently
graduated from the village school anC
was contemplating a course incollege,
one quiet autumn day there landed
in the village of N three stranu
ers, who put up at the Duston House
and began a determined and a system,
attic night against prohibition. After