Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-05-03

Take your rubber boots to Hans
Miller at the Station, and have them
half soled. m
The warm winds have made the
grass grow 80 vigorously about here
that the butter begins to get as yell
low as Saffron bag.
Frank Hopley and little daughter,
Thelma Hopley, were calling on
their relatives at the George r..
Spencer home, in Extra, last
Saturday.
Maggie Stanley, who clerks at the
j. F. Russell store up in Audubon,
passed last Sunday at the home OF
her parents, w. d. Stanley, over in
Old Hamlin.
The great Rock Island Railway
has placed a fine force pump in the
stock yards at Hamlin Station for
the benefit of the shippers and the
public generally.
The Blue Grass Creamery is
looking up bit these days; it now
has two hundred and twenty patrons
and that institution is turning out
large quantities of first class butter.
Grandma Phipps. who keeps house
for her son, j. w. Phipps, over east
of the Station, passed a few DAYS last
week at the home OF her daughter,
Mrs. Marshall Smith, down in Extra.
Bring your buggy tops to Hans
Miller and have them repaired. m 3
Ed Dryden and Andrew Clemen-
sen sold their punches of fat cattle to
Peter Nelson, the Hamlin stock
buyer, last Saturday and that gen.
tleman shipped them to Chicago
that evening.
Rev. j. r. Jensen. the new Danish
Lutheran minister, who came from
Wisconsin and settled in Extra. will
hold services at the church at Hamlin
next Sunday morning at the hour OF
half past ten o'clock.
A carload of telephone poles was
set out at the Station, Tuesday
morning, for the Marine and Elk
Horn Telephone Company, which
will be used in building new lines
out southwest of here.
The steel culvert that Hamlin
township purchased of the Hunter
Iron Works down at Atlantic, ar
rived yesterday and will soon be put
in place over in the road, just south
of the place where the hotel used to
stand at Old Hamlin.
Amount of business transacted at
Hamlin Station during April, 1906:
Butter Forwarded. $4,000 lbs
Stock and Grain shipped. =. "a cars
Lumber and Posts received. II cars
Ticket sales S34 GO
e. E. PIGG,
Agent.
Merchant j. 2. Juhl at the Station
has been circulating among the char
itably inclined people about the
Station and quite sum has been
raised tor Peter Clausen and family
whose house was destroyed by fire
and if you feel inclined Mr.. Juhl will
be pleased to receive your contri-
button.
A large number of friends gathered
at the pleasant grove on the Nels
Peterson farm, just across the river
from the John Dimick home, last
Sunday and passed a very pleasant
afternoon. That is a favorite spot
for our Danish friends to gather and
they always have good times when
down there.
Robert H. Garnet received his
commission as postmaster at Hamlin
on Monday of this week, at once
took possession of the office and
began dishing out the mail. The re-
firing postmaster, Thomas Bruhn,
will now give his attention to the
grain and stock business, being en-
ployed by Peter Nelson, who buys
stock or grain here.
The plans tor remodeling Brnshy
College are about completed and
work will begin in two or three
weeks. The seats are to be turned
around SO that the pupils will face
the north and not the east as they
now do; the black board will be
placed in the north end of the room
and nickel ceiling will be tried in
the place OF lath and plaster for a
ceiling. Superintendent Farquhar
has sent out word to all the directors
to have their school close the first
part of June this year, on account of
the normal institute being held SO
much aarliar this uaar