Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-05-31

Attorney ]. NJ. Graham and Ed
Finch will go up to Summerset, South
Dakota, next week to look after some
business matters.
The Woodmen Drill Team wore
their new blue suits for the first time
on Memorial Day and made pretty
appearance as they went marching
away with the old soldiers out to the
cemetery.
The Prieb Semster poultry firm,
which had been conducting a bust
ness over near the Northwestern
depot, in Audubon, for some time,
shut up shop yesterday and has NOV
ed back to Atlantic.
The Dannebrogs Bazaar, given by the
Danish Society at their hall in Audi
bon, one night this week, was good
success. about sixty dollars being
cleared which will be used to start
library. Our Danish friends are max
ing many such improvements in our
city and are to be commented for their
enterprising spirit.
John Rutherford, his son Merrill and
next week, first stopping at Woon-
Rutherford's brother then journey on
up into Canada where Mr.. Ruhs owns
some land. They'll take fish lines and
hooks along and we'll bet they have a
bushel of fun before they come home
again.
Memorial Day was fittingly observed
in Audubon this year. At an early
hour in the forenoon the people began
coming to town and by eleven O'Clock
the streets were lined with people who
put in the next hour admiring the
artistic and beautiful decorations
about town, of which there were
many, but the most noticeable were at
the Fred Vermila, e. Bilharz and Son
dry good stores and A. H. Roberts
drug store. At Vermilya's the west
window was all war and relics of war;
we stood and gazed at the military coat
with brass buttons which Charles Van
Gorder wore when he was soldering
for Uncle Sam; all kinds of rifle balls
and canister they used; stack of
arms; hard tack the soldier boys nib
bled at; letters and pictures of the E..
j. Freeman family and many other
mementoes of the war of the rebellion.
MIR. Roberts window also had mill
tary afr about it and among other
things were number of letters writ
ten by his brother who went with
Sherman on his Atlanta campaign
and sent to Mr.. Roberts at New Lon
don. Iowa. Theu everybody hastily
ate dinner and repaired to the Presby.
terrain church where they listened to
very able and eloquent grafton de-
livered by Rev. Conybeare in his
usual earnest and impressive manner.
The procession was then formed and
marched out to Maple Grove Gene
terry where the usual ceremonies took
place and 80 ended the day in Audi
bon.
The class exercises of the Abdul bon
High School this year, held on Tues
day evening opened with senior
song followed by selected solo by
Clifford H. Brooks then followed a
monologue by Ray Green, then came
q German song by four pupils. The
class play, "My Cousin Tommy" in
two acts, was the finest thing ever Civ
en- in Audubon. Miss Mable McKara-
han, as Miss Bethia Alderny, mistress
ola select boarding school for girls,
did that part up brown and made a
capital hit; Martha Hubbold, person
ated Bonnie Holland, q recent arrival,
who was dressed in male attire; caught
the audience from the start and was
one Of the stars of the evening; Bess
Rippey, Fudge Tooley, her chum, was
equal to the occasion and those two
young ladies kept the spectators deeply
interested and in roar of laughter
all the time; Lucille Brooks, as Stella
May burn, formerly the most popular
young lady, played the part to perfec
ton and made very pleasing appear
ance upon the stage; John Don MADISON,
who played the part of Jonas Chorker,
the stammering and suffering gard
ner, and Lena Pound, who took the
part of Maggie Bings, the maid, in
love with the gardner; just bad an
awful time until they got their love
affair settled, then thew
lived happily ever afterwards; Marion
Jones, with his long tailed coat aud
tall silk hat, as Professor Timothy
Adde'S Miss Alderny's cousin went
stalking about the stage, the very per-
sonification of the part he took; Flora
Brown, as Nora Others Alice Eddy,
% Rita Garland; May Lavland as Mill,
Jones; Ruth Watson as Mollie Spoone1
were all proper fine pupils and helped
the fun along heap by their actions.
The audience room at the school house
was taxed to its utmost, many being
turned away, and there is an urgent
request that the play be repeated
which may be done.
Annual rleeting, Grand Lodge,