Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-04-27
GREELEY

Life-Hurry, furry, weep and bury.
II An ominous silence reigns. Will
some one please un-reign it?
y Get on the list with Robert Twist.
4 He looms in view with carriage new.
| Grandpa Snyder, of Melville. spent
Saturday and Sunday with his daugh-
ter, James Eagen.
/ Mr.. Yates, mason OF North Branch
is employed at present on the Brown
Ranch in Melville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clint Rucker, of east
Greeley, passed a pleasant Easter Sun
day in the Vic Anciaux home.
Messers Everett Bates and Doc
Stearns and families, of Leroy Town
ship were guests in the VIM. Rucker
home.
Mr. and Mrs. George Leffler, of Mel
vile, were Sunday visitors at the
home of their daughter Mrs. Sam
White.
The Picking family of Old Hamlin
passed thru Greeley last Sunday en-
route to the George Wilson home at
Nelson.
Veterinarian Geo. Weighton of
Audubon was summoned to the James
Blake farm and saved the life of val
liable horse.
i In thru the open window creeps
A perfume from the trees.
1t brings my weary lon esome soul
A snowy bed of ease.
Il We are pleased to be able to report
the convalescence of Peter Schwab,
who has been long and patient suf-
fer with complication of ailments.
il If on Easter Sunday, rain
Comes adripping down from heaven
Heathens say it is a sign
II Thus twill be for the next seven.
| Oh!Jack Frost struck my Bleeding
il Heart,
Aid now my heart is bleeding
AS, signing, stand by and watch
Its tender life receding.
1 Donald Preston and Miss Vida
Masterson drove down from Audubon
and passed pleasant Easter in the
latter's Greeley home, and participant
ed in the services at the U. B. Church.
The company thrashing machine
proposition ls cropping out in the
vicinity of North Branch. This in
tellectual center is becoming quite
famous as the birth place of progress
sive schemes.
AS Rube Shoesmith has been disa-
bled by a surgical operation in the
throng of spring Work, his farm is
soon to be the scene of blowing bee.
This will be pleasing exhibition of
practical Christianity.
Last Wednesday morning Thomas
Adair loaded eight swine in each of
four wagons, and nine in another ac
cording to a careful count. When he
arrived at the Extra stock yards and
unloaded, presto! only forty swine
could be mustered. The mystery is
! deepening and fast becoming hope
, lese.
Is North Branch moribund vii
age: Well. guess not. Five new
residences are distinctly visible on its
many strange hieroglyphics carved on
the goods boxes on the sunny south
porch are plainly traceable the out
lines Of an interurban railway. Con.
diteons seem so delightfully."- unstable
that, possibly the scream of a distant
locomotive or the approach of stran-
ger with theodolite would precipi-
tate an ungovernable boom.
Last Saturday while Charley Goo.
chey and Mr.. Adair were hauling ma
nure from the latter's big barn their
spirited team took advantage of 8
: golden opportunity and made sue.
cessful leap for liberty. After freeing
itself from the barn, to which slight
damages were done, it went madly
plunging down the road A tele.
phone post which it struck by the
way was left in splinters. 1t then
dashed off in the direction of the s.
Berry farm, near by which its wild
!, flight was terminated by collision
with Frew Hays family carriage
which was on its way home from Eek.
ira. At this juncture tragic results
|. lowered frightfully near the occupants
of the carriage. When the maddened
brutes were untangled and once more
under control, inspection revealed
nothing moae serious than slight
ly damaged vehicle. From a view.
point of what might have been we
must say fortunate
The Rhymer.