Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-13
NEWS OF THE COUNTY
GREELEY GREETING.


From my hut hear the nut, Fall
ing, calling.
Miss Vivian Deweese has resumed
her duties in the Little Valley school
Miss Vida Masterson is once more
welding the switch among the Dutch
at No. 7.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vic AnciauX spent a
pleasant Sabbath as guests in the
Clint Rucker home.
The pleasing news comes from Adam
county that George Giles was success
fully treated for cancer.
Nearly everybody went to the fan
Thursday, giving golden OppOrtun.
ity to some weary Willie to plumber
the vicinity.
Messers Harry Gilbert and Enos
Kness of Viola accompanied by their
wives spent the Sabbath with relatives
in east Greeley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Kness of Audu-
bon township accompanied by their
daughters, Ruth, Doris, and Pearl,
passed a pleasant Sabbath with his
folks in Greeley.
Well, we'll! What queer ideas will
invade the human brain. We read of
man who purpOsely drove a leaden
pellet through his brain. Another
snutfs his pickering candle with a
vial of carbOlic acid, and here is one
who went off and left himself hanging
in the barn. Well, we'll
Miss Minnie Blake who has been
afflicted for some time with appendi-
citiS went to the Iowa City hospital,
where she underwent a successful OPP
GRAFTON, Friday, August 81. She was
accompanied by her mother, who af-
ter the operation returned and has
since received the glad news that
Miss Minnie is on the highway to
health.
We read of girl in Fonda, Iowa.
who married Chicago gentleman by
the name of Dinger. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that her maiden name wGs not
Hum, happy conditions which would
have given the press the pleasure of
recording at least one bOna-fde Hum
Dinger Wedding.
When eating strawberries and cream
''in the shade of an old apple tree"
comedies with mans honeymoon:
he has reached the summit of earthly
bliss and should not expect ever again
to meet with such q happy cOmbina-
ton on this side of the river.
One of the delightful features of the
Audubon County fair was the excellent
music furnished by the Manning
band, in connection with which a very
| amusing incident occurred Thursday
| afternoon. The boys were quite busy
pouring classic symphonies and a
| soul stirring pOt-pourri or two in be-
tween the races. The vast crowd ap-
preciated the music but there we're no
indications of an encore until the
band set the sunny autumn air aquiV-
er with "ln the Shade of the Old APP
Pile Tree" Then q sweet, impressive
calm crept over the surging sea OF
humanity, The faces across the way
were turned toward the amphitheater
An old man with silver hair and bent
form paused, leaned on his staff anG
| listened. Evidently there were few il
that crowd who had not been in the
shade of some old apple tree, for when
| WIG Dohu ICosCu Pid yluS biC CICoIIuS
was persistent and unanimous. The
boys responded gracefully and again
swept the delighted throng into the
shade of the old apple tree.
o Time, reverse thy breath and waf
me back,
That may spend just one more sum
Iner day,
Dreaming the dreams of boyhoOd o eel
again
Beneath that old Ben Davis apple
tree.
A FRUITLESS CHASE.
What a bungle we make
AS We race cross the earth,
'Twixt the horrors of death
And the joys of our birth.
That small heap of bones
On the side of the hill,
Marks the end of u chase
For an old dollar bill.