Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-08-09

49, w OAA"no3 S"SoIuoy3 1Of buOTl
visit.
Jens Hansen and wife, who live
lust south of Elk Horn, have gone to
Old Denmark for good visit.
Berthe Smith, the telephone opera
tor at Elk Horn, went down to Wal
nut, Sunday, for short visit.
G. w. Hansen, the Elk Horn fur
niture dealer, was at Chicago a part
of this week on a business tour.
Fred Clemmensen was over at
Jacksonville, Saturday night, help
ing to furnish music for dance.
Rasmus Nissen has purchased the
cream route of Axel Haesenfelt and
is already hauling to the Kimballton
Creamery.
Hotelkeeper Nels Christensen was
clerking in at the Petersen and john
son store, this week, while the pro-
prietors were away in Chicago.
The proprietors of the Olsen Knit
ting Factory, at Elk Horn, have dug
cellar under their building in which
to store the surplus stock Of goods.
Simon Petersen, the Elk Horn
barber, says he is going to throw dull
care to the dogs, some day pretty
soon, go out to Omaha or some other
city and take an outing for a few
days.
A large number of friends paid
their respects to Peter Erikson, and
his good wife, last Sunday, by gath
ering at their home in kimhallton
vicinity and passing the day in So
ciability.
A sweet little baby girl was born
to Mr.. and Mrs. George Faaborg, at
Kimballton, last week, and for day
or two our good friend was settling
up the smokes in honor of the little
Miss coming.
Anton Christensen, the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Chris Christensen, of Kim
ballton, a young man of pleasing ap-
pearance began clerking at the Hans
Madsen store, in that city, last Mon
day morning.
Chris Christensen, good and sub
stantial farmer near Kimballton, was
in town Tuesday and took one of
Esbeck Brothers. single buggies
home with him in which to make
short and hurried trips to town.
Mr.. M. Greperson. Thor Madsen.
and his daughter, Anna Madsen, re-
turned Tuesday from Living Springs
where they had been for ashort visit.
They were accompanied by Mr.. Greg
erson's daughter, Meta, who had
been visiting her sister down there
for about three weeks.
| Mr.. and Mrs. MAIDS Madsen's
little six year old lad climbed upon a
chicken house last Thursday, and
while reaching out to get particu-
larly fine limb of tree for a switch,
he lost his balance, fell to the ground
breaking his arm. The little sufferer
was tenderly cared for and is getting
along nicely.
"Thresher Chris says that oats ars
averaging forty bushels, good and
strong, to the acre, barley forty-fi
wheat eighteen to twenty-five bush.
els to the acre, and that there is nc
telling how many bushels of corn
there will be to the acre, out in these
parts; all the way from seventy. five
to one hundred and more.
T. G. Jensen, one of the workers al
the Cement works in Kimballton,
saw his thirty second birthday come
rolling around, Tuesday of this week
SO he knocked off work pretty early
that day and in the evening hi
friends gathered at his apartments il
Kimballton and the event was cele.
brated in royal style and a pleaean,
time was had.
The next time Somebody " spiet
upon Chris, the clerk, when he start,
out Sunday evening they want to b,
sure they know where he is going
before they "Speak right out in
meeting, cause he went to Hamlir
that day and was coming home
Chris says, too, that they had better
look out as it is poor rule thai
won't work both ways.
The Elk Horn and Wisconsin Ridg,
mines played base ball, one day Thu
week, in the Joe James pasture and
the score was something like slxtee1
to seventeen in favor of the Wiscon.
consin boys; despite the fact that
Walter James aud Henry johnson
knocked out three home runs for oul
side. Batteries were Nels Jorgensen
and Henry johnson, for Elk Horn
and Henry Mutum and Nels Nielsen
for Wisconsin Ridge.
"An adjuster for one of the bail in
snrance companies was in the vicinit,
the first of the week adjusting tn,
losses of the company from the Fourth
of July hsilstorm. He said that hi
company pays its Losses in full up t,
the amount of 5000 on an eighty
Here's the way he adjusted one los
on an eighty acre farm, the owner o
which claimed that he was damaged
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