Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-06-29
Greeley

Mrs. Hukill and son Hermon
were guests at the Eagen home
Sunday.
A ruptured blood vessel is giving
Mrs. VIM. Thomas some trouble
with one of her eyes.
T. r. Eagen is now lying in an
Omaha hospital slowly convalesc.
ing from an operation.
Chris Jensen, of near Nelson, was
at Greeley Sunday on their way to
and from Old Hamlin.
The longed! for shower came
Tuesday morn and we smiled to
see it falling on the corn.
A number of Greeleyites were
participants in that notorious Mel
son hop, Saturday night.
John Mcclure and d. E. Stranger
enterprising business men of Extra
were seen in Greeley, Monday.
Miss Mable McNutt, of Old Ham
lin, was a guest at the home OF her
uncle, Marsh McNutt, Friday.
VIM. Thomas and family spent a
pleasant day in the Miles kness
home in east Greeley Thursday.
Mrs. Robert Garrett, of Danish
Hamlin. past pleasant Wednes-
day at the home of her son in law
James White.
Miss Nina Hays has been retained
to teach the same school which
she closed in an atmosphere of
success, Friday, June %.
Art Anciaux shelled, and deliver
ed to the Hamlin elevator in the
neighborhood of 500 bushels of
corn Thursday and Friday.
Mesdames Talbot and Miller, the
former of Audubon, and the latter
of Nebraska, spent part of last week
with their brother, John Shoesmith.
Close to round dozen of VIM,
Fuckers neighbors helped him haul
the lumber for his new barn Satur-
day. Vic Anciaux will be the car.
penter.
Sabbath Reflections.
| The life of a christian is life of
peace. His pathway is strewn with
roses. His tears are tears of joy
These were the words that cap
tured my attention and riveted it to
an enthusiastic squirt at the closing
on sermon.
l wondered whether the speaker
was referring to the struggles of a
christian in this world or to their
rewards. His words pictured a
veritable antithesis.to the earthly
career of Jesus, who wendell his
way Borrowing thru storm and
wrath along pathway bristling
with thorns.
His tears are tears of agony and
pain. We are born in sin and are
weaklings. To follow Jesus in.
wolves us in fearful battle with
besetting pleasures.
We often succumb to temptation,
and fall. Darkness gathers about
us then, aud we feel our feet upon
the thorns of regret and remorse.
A little while ago Jesus stood be-
side us. We held his hand Now he
is gone and to find him we must cry
out. 1t is little prayer bursting
spontaneously from contrite
heart, but these are the kind that
reach heaven and bring a divine
hand to the rescue.
A silent longing of the heart will
quickly reach heaven, while cloth
ing of words often drags it into the
dust to die unheard.
If we kindle fire of pure, sweet
desire
Upon the hearth of the heart,
From the windows above, all
radiant with love,
Peers face where the curtains
part
PIONEERING AND WONDERING BACK
Oh! that could strangle by the throat
Ihese fleetlng, sensual joys immediate
That L might know those pleasures more
Il remote
When curfew tolls the closing of this
Il state.
When fa on my grave the summer rains are
And DER the breeze.kissed uplands far
away,
On balny air is heard the plovers calling
Deem me not sleeping meath a mound
of clay.
On wings of love my spirit will be borne
And hover DER where happy childhood
made
Footprints along sweet fields of waving
And cross the pasture field and clover
mead.
Upon this earth 1 meier again shall know
That happiness pure, sweet, without al
With which my throbbing heart did over
flow
When was but a barefoot farmer boy
} I've never since so close to heaven seemed
AS when among the pumpkin vines ant
maize
4 toiled, sun-tanned country lad, ane
dreamed
Ofwhat might be the gift of future days
l wander back paled by the city air
Sad invalid, to die among the flowers
And ask grave beside the sweet scene
. where
$ They breathed their fragrance on M,
o youthful hours.
Books and Their Making.
!; "At present the American people ar
: divided into two classes" said tn
e head of we'll known publishing hous
e in New York, chose who forget t
|, read and those who read to forget. /
] book was formerly thing put aside +
! be read, but now it is thing read t
I be put aside. l am not sure which
the better both for us bookmakers an,
I the public, but it is certainly fac
e that bookmaking is now q manufac