Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-05-10
. Hanlin :

Noah Crane was at Extra, Monday
forenoon, calling on his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Crane, and looking
after business affairs.
Mrs. Theodore G earheart, of Nicola,
is here for few days visiting at the
home of her father, Uncle Joel Crees,
who owns good farm, down at
Hamlin Center.
Wills Hopkins and wife have had
neat monument erected in the Extra
cemetery to mark the spot where
their beloved dead lie sleeping their
last dreamless sleep.
Frank Hopley, wife and little
daughter, Thelma, were down to
Extra last Sunday calling upon her
parents, George r. Spencer and wife,
and other friends about town.
Quite a number of the young
people about Hamlin Station went
down TO the dance given by Peter
Larsen in his new barn on his fine
farm few miles southwest of here
last Saturday night.
Uncle Joel Crees and his daughter,
Mrs. Tom White, went down to
Extra, Sunday, with Mr.. Crees' other
daughter, Mrs. Charles Spencer, who
came up from her Extra home on
Saturday to visit them.
For the first time in its history,
Buttermaker Heileman reports that
the Blue Grass Creamery reached
the century mark as to the number
of tubs of butter made the past week.
They made an even hun lred tubs in
that time and sent them to the east
ern market.
The Marine and Elk Horn Tele-
phone Company received a large
consignment Of wire at Hamlin
Station the past week, which indi-
Gated that the company is going to
build new lines aud add moro phones
TO their system in the country south
west of the Station.
A trade was made the past week
by which D. E. Stranger and John
E. Mcguire, of Extra, became owners
of the store building in Hamlin Sta
tion now occupied by P. j. Juhl.
The building formerly belonged to
Will Mcclure, who is now mer-
chant out at Nicola.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Searles enjoyed
visit on Tuesday of this week from
their former neig hbor, Mrs. D. A.
Ross, of Cedar Rapids. The lady is
visiting her son, Mr.. Joe n. Ross,
and his newly made bride, up at
Audubon, and took occasion to give
Mr.. Searles and wife friendly call.
The good people about Hamlin
! Station have contributed something
over fifty dollars toward helping
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Clausen along
their earthly way and in purchasing
furniture aud wearing apparel to re-
place that which was destroyed when
their house was struck by lightning
a few days ago.
Managers of the Blue Grass
Creamery purchased new cream vat
for that institution, last week,
which will hold five hundred gallons.
1t arrived the first of this week much
to the delight of Mr.. Heileman and
his helper, Fred Brown, who have
been badly cramped for room for
the cream the past few days.
The Hunter Iron Works will send
man up to Hamlin Station to put
in the steel cnlvert that is ready to
be put in place over at Old Hamlin,
which the trustees purchased here a
short time ago. This is but one of
the many culverts that the Hunter
Iron Works will send up into Audi
bon county-Atlantic Telegraph.
They have built a plank walk
from the Peter Juhl store across the
street to Emil Tvenstrup's billiard
hall and are going to have hole dug
under the railway, just above the
wagon crossing to let the water out
into Blue Grass Creek so when it
rains and you come to Hamlin you
can get about town without having
to wade in mud up to your shoetope.
I We have plenty of money to loan on
real estate at five per cent-optional
payments.
| LEET, BoYsEN & BEAsoN.
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