Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-06-07
Kirnbal1ton-E lkhorn

When the news came that Gov.
Cummins was going to be in Kim
ballton Tuesday at the celebration, it
was doubted by some. Nevertheless,
bills were soon out announcing it
and it seemed to be gong to-be
fact. The bills announced that he
! would be there at two o'clock in the
afternoon so people prepared to get
to town after dinner ind hear the adj
dress. Hopever, the Governor found
it necessary to change his time.
Gov. LaFollette, of Wisconsin, was
intending to fill date for him at
Monroe, Iowa, but at the last mo-
ment found it impossible aud sent
Gov. Cummins word. This made it
imperative that the address be given
in time that he might get to Marine
and catch the east bound train SO as
to make the address at Monroe in
the evening. For this reason the
time was changed to eleven o'clock
and because of this change of hour
large numbers, who supposed the
speech would be made in the after
noon, missed hearing the Governor,
AS it was however, the crowd was
large enough to fill the park. All
Kimballton was in gala attire with
flags floating and bunting displayed,
The entrance to the park was beau
tifully decorated and from the grand
stand floated the colors of both the
United States and the Fatherland.
Judge Green introduced the Govern
or, who, by the way, shows the strain
OF an active campaign with two
speeches day and not enough rest.
The address was splendid and was
mainly along general lines. 1t dealt
with but little politics until near the
termination, when the Standard Oil
investigation and beef packers trust
were taken mp. Then the Governor
drifted to the statement that he fav-
ored the importation of Canadian
products into the United States. In
as strong terms as he dared use, he
denied the truth Of such statement
and denounced the author of it. He
intimated that were the ladies not
present he would like 10 apply
stronger terms to the slanderers cir
culating such reports OF him. With
a few we'll chosen remarks he con.
cluded and was given three rousing
cheers by his audience. A noticeable
feature of the meeting was the album
dance of candidates for office. Near
ly all were present as well as num-
Der of people from Audubon and
some from Extra. The balance of
the day was given over to the usual
amusements and prize shooting
The church ladies served dinner as
we'll as ice cream aud cake, in the
park and cleared a nice little sum.
The list of prize winners at Kimball-
ton we did not get as we lett too
early. Truly it was d. big day and
Kimballton will not soon forget
June 9Th, 1906. Neither will we.
Elk Horns cele bration June 5th
was big "doins''. There was some
thing going on every minute. And
they were good entertaining some
things too. In the morning the
prize shooting began and there was
little else to take the attention. At
ter dinner however the teams began
entering there from Git seemed like)
the whole world and in little while
the streets looked like Broadway,
New York City. Then things start
ed with hop. After the beople had
been entertained for some two or
three hours, Old Sol began beating
down in white hot ferceness and it
got so warm that il almost turned a
PERSONS breath into flame. Here is
where the Elk Horn people came to
the rescue and with ice cold drinks
and creams, they succeeded in keep
ing the larger part of their guests
quite comfortable not too hot, not
too cold but siist right. Then af-
ter while there came the pleasant
whistle of that merry go-round be-
longing to Hansen and Petersen. O
what happy sound is the merry-go-
round organ to childish heart-and
you know we old folks are nothing
but children 'sgrowed up''.
Well when the organ began to play
why there was enough right there to
interest a big part of the crowd for
long time.
Then when that got old there were
more people on the street, old friends
bobbed up from every corner, some
one you wanted to talk to and then
there was more ice cream, more pop
and more lemonade, more pains and
oh plenty ofeverything. Many peo-
pie were out from Audubon, Braytop
aud Extra and no matter who you
looked for you were sure to find him
there.
In the evening new feature was
added-the pavilion bowery. The
Kjar boys had their platform on the
grounds and with their orchestra fur
nishing the music gave a splendid
dance. Between the dance, the mer-
ry-go-round and the up town anus
ments there was plenty of entertain
ment for all and no one skipped ei-