Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-23
GREELEY.
STORM BELATEp GREELEY

WHAT'S the RIP! Got the grip.
Will Egan was somewhat indisposed
for few days.
Mrs. James Egan had her turn with
the grip this week.
Mrs. James Blake is a victim of
la grippe this week.
Everyone stayed at home Sunday
| and entertained the grip.
VIM. Rucker purchased good
| work horse at the McNutt sale.
The baby in the James Egan family
is recovering from a sick spell.
Miles Kness captured the Dutch
Girl at the McNutt sale Wednesday,.
Nothing but sickness to report?
Pardon me. | will change immediate
ly. ..
Georgiana Picking was helping in
the Oscar Miller family during their
convalescence.
Frank Duvall's straw stack took n
slide Friday night and smothered
three fine steers.
Some Greeleyites were seen on the
streets of Audubon Saturday. Hou
cannot snow Greeley under.
A pleasing rumOr that Bud Ward
has decided to remain n Greeleyite
for a year or two yet, is afloat.
The McNutt boys sale attracted a
goodly number from Greeley in spite
of the surly sky and snow drifts.
George Picking has bought a resi-.
dence in the suburbs Of Old Hamlin
where he will reside in the future.
Ever and anon the sun cOnquers the
storm, tears rift in the clouds and
gives us sunny day to haul coal.
Thanks.
1t seems to be a good idea to filter
sale crowd through a storm. The
finished product is not SO cOntamin-
ated with lunch friends.
Oscar Miller, George Egan, Asa
Johnson, Billy Thomas, and q. knesS
made a dash TO Hamlin for coal Fri
day. They went through, over, under
and around the drifts.
If you've got the grip you'll show it,
And for miles around they'll know it,
Hear you grooming, crying, shrieking.
Hear your dry joints grinding, creak-
ing,
See the doctors make dash
Through the snow to get your cash,
And to sooth you while you try
The impossible-to die.
Hear you pray in vain for ease
Out of order if you please.
Why the like was never heard
Ask for ease? La Grippe, absurd.
ZThe most amazing observation of
the week is the aspect of Old Hamlin,
in whose silent streets three new. fami-
lies are locating. She has wakened
from her Rip Van Wrinkle sleep and
is gazing pensively at her tattered
dream of busting county seat, and
the vacant corner lot once occupied
by a thrifty pioneer store, on the
sunny south front of which the early
settlers used to congregate and blend
their respective schemes into one
glowing altrusive plan that left no
one with an ungratitied desire. The
fluttering of wings and the cooling of
pigeons attracted her attention.
Turning her sleepy eyes in the direc-
ton of the sound, she saw the crumb-
ling ruins of the hotel over the way.
Time is fast picking me to pieces, "
she sighed. Just then her eyes caught
something moving on the distant
horizon. 1t was billow of smoke
rising from among the spires of Au-
bon
"What's that?" she cried and sprang
to her feet
And shaded her eyes with her hand.
"a wide awake, flourishing county seat
While here in my rags ! stand?".
''I'll smother my wild ambition down
To quiet village only
A sad faced, little, dying town
Whose people are sweetly lonely.
Gray and Greeley's in melee.
Mrs, Will Eagan is on this week S
sick roll.
George Wilson was looking after a
stray horse in these parts.
II. r. Eagen made several profit
| able investments at the Pete Petersen
| sale, prominent among which was one
| of those trim little Dutch Girls.
Robert Clark invested in a good