Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-04-05

Our public school concert will be
given at the Presby terrain church,
Friday evening, April 18th. Every
body invited.
Mr.. d. B. Beers, landlord OF the
hotel, of Brayton, was in our city,
Monday on business with the board
of supervisors.
Mrs. E. E. Deems bought very
pretty lot of furniture for her new
home at Templeton. They all look
up Smutney when in need of furni-
ture.
Marriage licenses were issued to
Charles ii. Jones to wed Ethel III.
PARROT; John G.. Thomson to Dagmar
Henningsen and Walter Jensen to
Cecilia N[adsen
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Higgins, of
Hamlin township, are the happy
parents of fine little girl baby which
came to their home to comfort and
cheer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Searles returned
home Tuesday from Rochester where
Yrs. Searles has been in the hospital.
We are pleased to report that the
lady has recovered from her affection
and is again restored to health.
Mr.. A. j. Story, who has been
looking over the west with a view to
buying home out there, came back
fully satisfied that the west is no
place for him. Mr.. Story will pro-
baby buy farm in Audubon county.
e. n. Taggart is packing his nur-
sery stock from Shenandoah this
week, going there Wednesday last
for that purpose. The advantage of
buying stock of Mr.. Taggart is that
he always fills in the dead stock free.
Mr.. John Lewis, of Manning, of
the firm of Lewis & Reinholdt. has
been quite sick with La Grippe and
other complications. Mr.. Lewis is a
tireess worker and his being
forced into quietude at this season Of
the year, is pretty hard to bear, but
directions say, 'take it john" so
he don t need Missouri experience
Monitor.
The OverholtZer block, composed
of the stores of Mr.. B. H. Pommer,
Messrs. Rasmussen u Jensen. MIR. f.
Tharnish and the photographer was
sold last week, Mr.. Ed Finch being
the purchaser, the price being $4,000.
Mr.. Finch has taken q fine business
block and no doubt a good paying in
vestment or Ed would not have pur.
chased it. "Finch knows snap
when he sees it,
To The EDITOR OF THE AUDUBON
COUNTY JOURNAL:
| The undersigned hereby announces
himself as candidate for the office
of County Supervisor, subject to the
decision Of the Republican primaries
of Audubon county. Believing thai
some change should be made, more
especially in regard to our county
bridges, l have advocated for the last
twenty years that We should have
made start to build steel bridges
| understand that Audubon county
is the only county within the borders
Of this state that does not have ,
steel bridge and ! believe that tn
time has now arrived when it can b.
postponed no longer and we mus
build some permanent bridges on GU
larger streams. The public interest
demand such Improvements. | hav
investigated this matter to some ex
tent and find that it will cost abou
SIS per foot for steel spans from fit.
to seventy feet in length with tubu
lar piers; twenty to thirty-si
, foot spans with steel joists and stee
foundations, SIS per foot. 1hes
bridges are estimated to carry twent.
tons. A steel span across "a STREAM
, with wooden approaches costs abou
| a
, bridge, if it is true, as | understan
, it is, that we are paying $5.05 pc
. foot for wooden bridges An al
steel bridge will last as long as fv
!, or six wooden bridges. Creek bank
: do not wash out where they ar
spanned by steel bridges as they d
; where piles are driven in the channe
of the stream to catch debris, ice am
trash as it floats down. History tell
us that the per cent of wash-outs all
break downs with steel bridges con
pared with wooden bridges is abou
, one to twenty There are numbe
!, of steel bridges on the Nishna Botn
i in Montgomery county that wei
built over forty years ago.
Believing this to be good bushes
. proposition for the tax payers of thi
county submit 1t to the people {
Audubon County believing that W
> ought to make beginning in tn
matter by building steel bridges o
' our larger streams as the public int
q ests may demand.
II the foregoing meets with the al
q probation of the people, would col
slider myself pledged thereto an
work for the same to the best of m
e ability.
Il Respectfully Submitted,
THOMAS LAW