Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-05-24
John A johnson Withdraws

John A johnson Withdraws
/ l wish to announce that have
Withdrawn from contest for nom:
nation as Sheriff.
Respectfully,
JOHN A. JOHNSON.
We have plenty of money to loan or
real estate at five per cent-optional
payments.
LEFT, BoYsEN & BEAsoN.
Mr.. O'Neal, an agent for the Hawk
eye Fire Insurance Company, of Des
Moines, is canvassing the city for bus
mess.
A Charles James, of st. Louis, Mis-
souri,, has made his appearance claim
ing to have discovered in the man.
drake root prompt and certain cure
TOR the liquor and tobacco habit.
A big vegetable trust will be formed
IN Chicago in June with the intention
OF cutting out thousands of local mar
keters and absorbing all opposition.
Elsewhere in this issue will be seen
the announcement of John A. John
son withdrawing his name from the
primaries for the nomination of
sheriff.
We knew father in a neighboring
town that used to talk to his boys
like he did to vicious animals and
tnat used strap on them at random.
He said he was "curbing their dis
positlons." In after years. everyone
OF those lads went to the bad. In age
they had no more respect for their
father than they had for Satan. By
all means. q father should gain the
love and admiration of his boys.
rlemorial Day.
Forty-one years have come and gone
since the last hostile gun was fred in
the great Civil War. A new genera.
ton has come upon the stage of life
since then: new generation who
knew nothing of the hardships. the
sufferings, the sacrifices of that fearful
struggle; generation who knew
nothing of the heart rendings that
parted husband and wife, mother and
son, brother and sister, in that terrible
contest between the North and the
South.
| A majority of those who partici-
pated in that struggle have crossed
the bar, have answered to taps. 1t
now becomes our loving duty to pay
tribute to their memory, by decor
ating their graves with flowers.
ask all patriotic citizens to assist
in this beautiful ceremony, on Wed
nesday, May 3Oth. Welcome all
auxiliary organizations, invite the
school children and secure speakers
who will teach lessons of patriotism
that will inspire the younger genera
ton with a love of country and loyal
ty to the flag.
The Commander in Chief orders
| that President Lincoln's address at
Gettysburg be read at all Memorial
Day services. Post Commanders will
see that this is complied with.
The COMMANDMENTS Chief suggests
that in cemeteries where Con fed crate
soldiers are buried, we should not pass
them by, but that we should drop a
flower upon their graves, not in honor
OF their cause but for the reason that
they were brave men and gallant
soldiers.
New Mexican Relics.
Mr.. Mack Thomas, of Carson, re-
turned from New Mexico a few days
ago, where he had been on location
hunting tour and reports that he will
soon leave Iowa to take up his abode
in that ancient land where the Aztecs
used to have full sway. The Aztecs,
if you remember, was tribe of In.
dams found on the great Mexican
plateau at the time Of the Spanish
conquest A. d. 1919. The mounds
built by these Aborigines can still be
found in New Mexico, as we'll as some
of their homes and places of abode. 1t
is one mile west of the city of Aztec
that an old ruin stands that is in a
reasonable state OF preservation con-
sidering that it was built about four
hundred years ago. AS souvenir of
his investment or exploration, Mr..
Thomas has brought home from the
innermost recesses or underground
rooms of this old house, a piece of
wood found therein, that plainly
shows the indentures made by the
blunt instrument or tool that cut it
off. Evidences of the stone age are
there in abundance
He also secured an earthen bowl. q
pitcher, four cups, a ladle, piece of
bone in shape of gouge and an awl
made of bone. These relics were pro-
badly buried hundreds of wears ago
but they are souvenirs of q pre- historic
age just the same. A part of this piece
of wood may be seen at Mr.. Charles
Bisoms' in Brayton.
Mrs. Thomas calls them a "mush
and milk set'' but Mack qualities to
the fact that there was neither mush
nor milk in theru when he unearthed
them.