Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-03-15
Greeley
Life-A Pickering little light
Out in the windy night.

Mrs:S. s. Berry has been somewhat
indisposed for few days.
Mrs. Will Eagan spent few days
pleasantly with her mother in Extra.
1t is a wonder to me that every body
is not hauling corn to Extra. The
Journal quotes it at sixty two cents.
Albert johnson, of Greenfield, was
here visiting his brother and sister,
Ira Johnson, and Mrs. Will Egan.
Henry Leighty and Mr.. Kreamer,
of Melville, were pleasant callers at
the s. S. Berry home Sunday.
The patient suffering of Grandpa
Egan is something remarkable. 1t
is hoped that his health will return
with the birds and the flowers.
In spite of the fact of tongue in
the spire and a tongue in the pulpit
the U. b. revival succumbed to advers
circumstances, Thursday night and
glided into the past.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Jayne are
visiting among her relatives in north
Greeley. They will soon be at home
on the John Reynolds farm recently
vacated by VIM. Bell.
When town with less than one
thousand souls can, on the same night,
push three dances to a success, there
must be some fearful infection afloat
in its moral atmosphere. There was
handclapping in hell that night, but
heaven was silent and sad. A town
was sinking.
KIDNAPER K1DN appED
When comes the final trail, Pat,
You'll see the Cudahy kid
Standing beside the Judgment seat
And holding up the lid.
Twill be silent place, Pat,
OF stern relentless law.
You'll find no friendly jury there
From wicked Omaha.
The boy will greet you with smile
But, Pat,::up thru hole
Mid sulphurous fumes hand will
reach
And kidnap your poor soul.
Phil Burkhart came down from
Melville, Thursday, and plucked one of
Greeley's fairest flowers.
Rev. Mr.. Hughes, of Wiota, drove
up and legalized the theft, then slip
ped out the back way and went home.
Phil placed his smiling captive
tenderly in carriage and liked
off to Melville. Jim and Mary-that's
Jannie's pa and ma-stood around
dazed like till the thing was all over
with, and now they are wondering
what happened. Minnie is awful
lonesome now, too No one seemed
to object to the act-well, yes, 1 guess
Albert did try to get there in time to
stop the doings, but his "blasted"
mules were too slow. He kept slug
ging it to them, but it was no use. He
came in all over mud and sweat
twenty four hours behind time. Say,
now is your time to buy those mules.
boys. He seems determined to sell
them.
We understand that Mr.. Burkhardt
will transplant his stolen rose from
Rose Valley to his fathers farm in
Melville, where his happiness will
imbibe stability as he watches it de-
velop into beauty more rugged, as
it gracefully sways to and fro, beneath
the shifting breath of circumstances
in the windy fields of wedlock.-
Greeley turns to hide tear, as
Jamie" passes out,
But, take her Phil, and here's
good cheer,
She's yours without doubt.
You're hitched together to a cart
The cart of matrimony-
Now be "hoss" and pull your
part;
Confound q kicking pony.
Pete's Neutralizing Puzzle.
George D. Perkins,-G. d. p
How regrettable that that middle
letter is not an "Ow-G. o. PIT
would be the happiest coincidence
imaginable. All opposition would
take flight before the significant
thing and melt away. But, while it
is to be regretted that this middle
letter is not an O, it is to be deplored
that it is a D.-G. ID. P.-Gee! that
combination looks uncanny. But
then, if Jack Dolliver is not afraid of
it, hadn't ought to be so shy. But
then, it is different with me. l got
fooled one time on very similar COM
hination. [ saw G. P. z. in the sky.
Thinks l, That means to Go Preach
Christ. "Gosh! that's plain" says l.
Accordingly, called the people to-
gether down in Push Point school
house one winter night and went af-
ter them. 1 gave them Goggoned
good lambasting the first night.
The next night there was nobody
there but me. The Bible had been
removed from the desk, and in its
place, found tin pail and milk
stool while on the opposite wall was
printed in great big capitals SEQ
Pail the Cows" Gossip says L,
that's palmer yet" Accordingly,
went home. called the cows to-
gether and went at it. The next
night they We're all back again and
things went all right. | was happy.
had found my calling. / was fol-
lowing the "hand writing on the
wall" On the other side, we have
A. B. Cummins-A. b. C-That does
not help the case one bit. The signiti-
canoe of A. B. O., is as questionable
as is that of G.. d. p swatted fel.
low one in the COB once and told him
he was G. d. Pumpkin head be-
cause he said that l did not know
A. B. G. So it would seem that g. D.
Perkins ia ak and A r Cumm i >, 6