Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-08-24
Greeley
Read page "a in the Fair Book.

Hard, soft, nut and threshers coal
at Spencer q Sons bins. $40 If
T. R. Egan and wife were guests in
the Nelson Christensen home Sunday.
In regard to threshing machines,
east Greeley is in painful state of
congestion.
Thomas Adair's wife is making an
extended visit with friends and con-
nections in Extra.
Miles Kness and wife spent Sunday
at the George Kness home in
Audubon township.
Clint Rucker and wife of east
Greeley, Sundayed in west Greeley, at
the Vic Anciaux home.
Mr.. Leighty, of near Audubon, is
helping to put the finishing touches
to the S. S. Berry residence.
Mrs. T. R. Egan and Bert Egan were
delivering gigantic loads of oats to
the Hamlin elevator the fore part OF
the week.
Messrs Stemm and Buchannon.
rustling solicitors from the north part
of the county, appeared in our COM
munity, Wednesday.
Circumstances, please don't jerk us
Back from going to the circus
Let us mingle with the others
Thronging tothe Ringing Brothers,. y
In justice to it's writer we will say
that the beautiful obituary poem
which appeared in the Greeley items
last week did not come from our pen.
Hard, Soft, Nut and Threshers Coal
always on hand at the Elk Horn and
Kimballtou bins in Hamlin.
tt OLUF HANSEN, Manager.
A courteous reception and pleasing
liberality with high grade Havanas
rescued Clyde East and his bride from
the horrors of charivari, Friday
night.
1t seems that the Union Baptist
people are becoming addicted to ice
cream and cake. Possibly, in this way
they are cultivating wholesome
sociability.
A number of north Greeleyites
supplied themselves with an old can
full of angle worms. Sunday and put
of for the wooded streams in the hazy
ar-away. We presume they will
spend next week in smoking their
tinny catch.
1t is to be regretted that square
deal with an upright firm should be
| alluded to with such damaging dis.
respect as characterized that item in
the Hamlin news which referred to
that car load of st Louis Exposition
lumber.
Thursday Night.
An east-bound gale left in it's trail
Beheaded stacks of grain,
Then came cloud, fierce, brawline
| loud,
With spiteful gusts of rain.
A merry ice cream sociable,
Newborn upon the grass
Perished beneath the sputtering sky
We felt its spirit pass.
went early one Sabbath morning
to church resolved to enjoy the ser.
vices. For awhile l sat alone among
the pews and was soothed by the 81.
lence of the temple. This sweet still.
ness was soon rudely broken by the
rustliDg of silk as three ladies came
gracefully sweeping down the aisle
In thot, 1 had wandered away and
was walking with Christ at sunset by
the gates of Capernaum, but the gaudy
and plumed head gear of the ladies
just then entering attracted my at.
tention and called me back to the
fluttering realms of tickle fashion.
l soon found myself completely hem.
med in by these fleeting blooms OF
fashion. How earthly! How earthly!
I scrutinized some faces about me and
detected extreme anxiety in regard to
personal appearance. How earthly
How earthly! Two gentlemen by my
side were in whispered conversation
about sensational bank failure. An.
other was inspecting the stubs of q
check book. How earthly! How
earthly! Then the preacher rose, and
began his sermon. 1t was written
and when he began to stumble along
the lines and founder about the pages
in mechanical way, many in his
audience sank into doze. Now and
then, when the monotony of the SER
mon was broken by little bubble OF
spontaneity, they would lanquidly
open their eyes for moment. Again
l said to myself, "How earthly! How
earShlyw | turned my face to the
open window and gazed out far away
upon the calm, haZy hill, where swal.
iowswere skimming here and there a.
bove the waving corn and the fields
whitening with harvest. / solil.
oquized almost aloud, "How divine
How divineW then became obi.
vious to what was going on in the
church until the benediction.
The house of God earthly grown
turned sadly away
And let the distant summer hills
That morning preach to me.
To Clyde and His Bride.
Here's health to Clyde and his blush