Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-08-10
Greeley

We're up and gone with the rosy
dawn.
Hard, soft, nut and threshers coal
at Spencer & Sons bins. $40 If
Albert johnson came up from
Greenfield to help harvest here,
Mr.. Carmichael was pleasant call.
er in this vicinity Thursday of last
week.
Mike Ballman's thresher was
heard in the vicinity of n orth Branch
Monday.
Ralph Stanley and wife visited at
her maiden home in east Greeley,
Sunday July 80
S. III. Earhart is running a new
Hodges Queen binder bought of the
Hoover firm in Audubon.
Rev. Mr.. Conybeare and attorney
w. G. Elliott, of Audubon, spoke elo.
quently in behalf of prohibition at
the Presbyterian church in Old Ham
lin Sunday evening, July 80.
Recent credita BILE investigation
substantiates the theory that there is
something doing on the moon.
Strange activities have been observed.
Should it develop that there isreally a
man in the moon, 1t would be well on
moonlight nights to feel yourself be-
meath his scrutiny and take fewer
liberties.
1t is a rare pleasure to listen to 8
n enc tyn y1,<>s &c, L
the power to carry logical precision
unimpaired throughout lofty flights of
eloqnence. Such was our reward for
driving up to hear DR.. |. N. McCash,
who spoke in the Audubon park Sun
day evening. With formidable cud-
gel of irrefutable statistics he dealt
blow after blow upon the saloon SER
pents head and sent it reeling and
writhing back into the dark. Then
with matchless logic he unveiled the
the danger OF permitting this vile
viper to lie coiled up in the obscurity
of drug store.
A big crowd was never treated bet
ter by town than was the one that
gathered in the flag bedecked streets
of Audubon, Thursday, Aug. 8 nor
was town ever treated with more
respect and courtesy than was the
town of Audubon by that crowd. 1t
made itself pleasantly conspicuous ey
the absence of drunk men and gamb-
ling machines. The moral purity of
the atmosphere was preserved thru.
out, and at no time or place was it
from moral view dangerous to
breathe. The town has placed be-
yond question its ability to give the
people high grade and wholesome
entertainment.
A very pretty thot occurred to me
one evening and as it was quite
applicable to a case at hand, / clothed
it in the following words:
"Oh, what heart bleeding thrust,
this Good bye
Yet could we follow her flight to the
sky,
We should cease weeping and know
all is we'll
And see reunion beyond this fare
WELL"
The typesetter knocked the brains
out of it by emitting all of the Sec
ond line except the first word, which
she, he, or it-and am prone to say
"it"-substituted for the first word in
the third line, producing an addi-
tional deformity so repulsive as to
make the writer deplore its existence.
However. as the paper was hurridly
issued in the dazzling dawn of the
Log Rolling, the error is somewhat
excusable, and we presume that our
humble little thot persisted in the
overwhelming flood of pleasant an
ticipations that was doubtless surging
oil hn Hr;f h
words and letters here and there
in unintelligible heaps like driftwood
| on midsummer stream. We shall
ever, should the editor kindly suffer
this redundant correction to appear
in the columns of his valuable paper
1t is exceedingly difficult to sue
cessfully condemn the social dance
because, in itself, dancing is valu-
able gymnastic decidedly conducive
to health and grace of movements if
INDUCED in as judiciously as are the
other physical exercises. But when
we make of it a chief and besetting
pleasure in the mad pursuit of which
we spend the hours of sleep, it be-
comes vice that saps away the vi
tality and corrodes the morals. The
dance is horribly cosmopolitan in
that it permits the base and vicious
criminal to come in contact and
mingle with virtuous and respecta-
BILE element OF society without dis
turbing his conscience with a con-
seriousness of his inferiorlty and de.
formity of character. Who that has
frequented the dances to any extent
has not seen the virtuous daughters
of respectable families infolded by the
arms one morally degenerate floating
away thru the seductive mazes of the
waltz? Doubtless the authorities of
the reform school at Mitchellville had
these dangers in mind when they re-
Gently liberated some of the girls OF
their institution on conditions that
they be kept away from dances. I'm
Intentionally they struck the social
dance staggering blow such as is
given the saloon by the railroad COM
panies when under penalty of being
discharged they forbid their an.