Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-02-23
GREELEY
We shoveled thru to YOU !.

Lee and Mary Hays spent Sunday
III the Oscar Miller home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lou Anciaux were
guests in the Will Eagen home,
Sunday.
| Miss Eftie Anciaux, who teaches
at No. Melville passed the Sab.
bath at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Goodwill,
Mrs. Mollie Hukill and Miss Anna
Eagen, of Melville, spent Sunday
with Grandma and Grandpa Eag-
en-.
It is rumored that Irving Wilson
and Henry McElroy will be united
in the holy bonds of wedlock early
in the spring
| Mr. and Mrs. James Blake were
summoned to the bedside of their
daughter, Mrs. Jake Burkhardt. in
| Melville. AT this writing Mrs. Burk-
hart Is in an alarming condition.
Her many friends in Greeley are
anxiously watching and watt @
for more cheerful news.
PR. Chas. Garnett, one of Gree
ley best young men, fought his
way into Guthrie County thru one
OF the widest storms of the season
and led Miss Jessie Girard, daugh-
ter of George Girard, formerly a
very popular Hamlinite, to the holy
altar of wedlock. This is a happy
union. The bride and groom are
facing cloudless future. Success
and JOY be theirs.
Say boys come here. I've found
something rich. 1t is in the GRAY
news. Sit down while 1 read them
to you-Oh! don't put any coal in
stove. Close the draft, blow out
the light, and raise the windows.
We need plenty of air, but neither
light nor fire while reading GRAY.
You see, some time ago something
got wrong with Gray, l thot | un.
derstood his case and suggested
that they feed him a little hay.
They did so, and Gray expresses his
thanks in the following lines:
Oh Greeley! say,
Your brother Gray
Accepts the hay
Itmay stop the bray.
You have heard of people. making
donkies of themselves. Well that's
just what Gray has done in the
| are CONSPICUOUS and he does not
seem to make any effort to hide
them. | knew what he was braying
for, but it seems that the case is
now too far advanced. He is in
doubt about the efficiency of the
prescription. l further suggested
L tho fhaxy 7, III
ton of hay and steam his head
with boiled oats. You see, he is
stranded on rock of "prosaic
calm" from which he has a delir-
ious desire to be swept by igor
geous, lurid tiff into the delecta-
BILE realms of disagreement.
This friend of mine now brays for brine
| In manner quite deliriouS
Let's call halt and give him salt
His case is growing serious
Dear brother Gray. the bugs are beat
That we descend again to meet
\ Upon that low and sordid plain
Where even victory yields no gain
Here by this dark and muddy pool
/ Ofprinter's ink we stand-"keep COOL!
4 Great heavens above! hear what he said
! Go pack in ice his simple head.
| Today it's thirty six below,
5et does he zap keep cool, by jo!
/ Bring here pen and let us write
Ere ruthless Time sweeps him from
This epitaph upon a stone:
"a Gray Ass Sleeps Here Alone"
The Rucker-Anciaux wedding
furnished us one of the greatestex
hibitions of cheerful persistence in
times of provoking reverses this
did Clint yainly endeavor to break
fhrIJ III "a oh III, ~
drifts that separated him from his
Intended. One pleasant morning
of last week he was seen vending
his way westward over the snow
He was in a vehicle that look some
like sleigh. He floundered abou
here and there. Part of the time
he was up side down, but he did no
seem to mind it. Every time he
that good old hymn, Both shall
be tried by storm and the flood,
| and he kept going on and on TOWARD
this bright cynosure beyond tn,
snowy hills. AT last after a long
and stormy voyage over this sea OF
whiteness he just as calm ano
placid as he would have been hac
he been waited thither by the bal
| liz ~ WlduS VI SQillueT, dIIlNeu a
the Vic AnciauX home with one Of
the fair daughters of which h,
was united in holy marriage Sun
day evening February 10. On the
following day he took his bride to
a coy little home which he had il
readiness on the Stuart land.
There on the sunny shore of lite's
sea they stood hand in hand anC
looked out over the friendly waters
before them and listened, eprap
tured, to the music of the nipples
playing about their feet upon the
sand. After we have considered
everything in connection with this
event, we cannot but conclude tina
the girl who ties herself to such {
man has indeed hitched her wager
to star and it is rank folly to pre-
dict anything other than a rosy patti
to success. Mr.. Rucker is indus
trious, proof against discourage
ment and knows nothing about the
BILE. He is absolutely
ignorant of the presence of trouble
in this world. 1t cannot get neal
enough to him to make itsel.
known. His bride was born anc
GREW tO a charupiro wptnaphoof