Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-05-10
Charles Donaldson returned from
Anita, last week, where he had been

Charles Donaldson returned from
Anita, last week, where he had been
visiting.
Wilson Burnside and d. e. Mott
were in North Dakota last week look
ing over their real estate interests.
! Harry Travis, formerly an Audu-
bon county citizen, but now of Lin
den, Dallas county, transacted bust
ness here last week.
Mrs. John Anderson and daughter
will live with her brother who is
station agent at Wasatch, Utah. The
lady left for that state last week.
The pension office announces that
the last survivor of theswar has just
died. At that rate the Spanish War
pension roll will be cleared i'm A. d.
1000 sure.
DIR. S. X. Leake, of Burlington, is
in the city and will Office with DR..
r. L. Harris. DR.. Leake comes
highly recommended as a gentleman
and fine workman in dental work.
Grandma Kellogg, of Woodbine,
the respected mother of Mr.. George
Kellogg, who is making the run for
Treasurer in Audubon county, came
| down last week to visit her son and
family.
Mrs. Creveling read paper on
"Our Work in Our New Possessions
before the Women's Foreign Mission
airy Society of the Atlantic District of
the NJ. E. Church, which convened
at Atlantic last week.
It's all right to preach that a man
should love his neighbor as himself
it sounds so good and platonic. But
it's not always possible. Take for in
stance the man who has planted the
fine garden and his neighbor has
chickens which he persists in per-
hitting to run at large. How can the
man with the garden love that neigh
Dor as himself? 1t simply can't be
done, gentlemen, as long as those
chickens are not shut up.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte in
a speech last week said, "the tendency
is to keep poor men, aud as rule the
better element of American citizen
ship, out OF the government service.
None but rich men can afford to hold
any of the higher offices in the public
service these days at the present rate
of pay.n That settles it for us for we
had thought some of applying for a
very high Office soon.-that of Order
ly Master of Ceremonies in the CALLER
les or Knight of the Garter at the
White House.
Our old friend, Peter Hobart, who
went to Canada with the intention of
renouncing his allegiance to the U. S.
and hurrah for King Edward, that he
might enter tract for a homestead,
could not find the right piece. He
went six hundred miles the other side
of Winnipeg and found that in order
to get a choice selection he would
have to go forty or fifty miles from a
railroad and that was too cold prop.
osition for Peter. We welcome you
back Mr.. Hobart and admire your
Judgment. Let the younger men go
through this hardship if it has to be
done.
! We are pl eased to see so many of
our citizens taking pride in their
homes. The word "home" next to
that of smother' is the greatest ever
uttered by human tongue. What a
refuge home is when darkness gathers!
How glad one is to get glimpse OF
home when time and space have sep
arated him from it if even but for q
brief period! There seems to be q
good natured rivalry here n Audubon
in an effort to make "our home" look
little heater and thus be the more
inviting to the occupants than all
others. Such rivalry is certainly par.
donable.
A Spraying Calendar.
The horticultural Department OF
the Iowa State College at the EXper.
iment Station has Just issued an up
to-date Spraying Calen dar, which is
of the utmost importance to the Hor.
ticuIturists and fruit growers of the
State. This calendar is prepared in
Bulletin form and deals rather more
exhaustively than usual with the gen
eral treatment to be followed in spray.
ing apples, plums, grapes, cherries
small fruit and vegetables.
| Several pages are devoted to the
different spraying mixtures, and care
full directions are given as to their
preparation.
n short introduction Prof. S. A
Beach calls attention to the absolute
necessity of every fruit grower in
loWd spraying Ills OICudIu GIccS.
1t is evident from the keen demand
for former Spraying Calendars of this
Station that the farmers and horticul.
turists of Iowa are awaking to this ne
cessity.
The above Bulletin may be obtained
by any resident of the state, without
charge, by applying to Q. F. Curtiss,
Director of the Experiment Station,
| Ames. Iowa.