Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-08-02
Hanlin

Say somebody loan 'em a dire
quick-bravo boys?
All kinds of coal for sale at the
Elk Horn and KimballtOn Lumber
yards in Hamlin. A fine lot of
thresher coal.
Merchant P. j. Juel and his clerks
were busy Monday forenoon unload
ing car load of salt and storing it
away in the Peter Nielsen elevator.
A big black smoke floating off
northwest, Monday morning an
nounced that the threshing machine
had began its work about the sta
tion.
We are told that Hamp Jones, who
resides over east of the station, will
be candidate before the Democratic
county convention next Saturday
for Representative.
James Bradley, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Lou Bradley over at Old Ham,
lin, who is now fireman on rail-
way out in Nebraska, arrived here
Sunday to pass couple of days with
his relatives and friends.
Chris o. Jensen, the stock buyer
at Fix Horn, was in the station,
Monday, with large shipment of
fat hogs which he had purchased out
in the country near his home, and
which he shipped to market that
night.
o. p. Tyler, who owns fine large
farm, just south of the station but
now resides out at Council Bluffs ar
rived here Tuesday and passed the
rest of the week looking after mat
tiers on the farm, going to Audubon,
Monday morning.
On account of conflicting with
other dates made before the time of
holding, the County Sunday School
Convention has been changed to Mon.
day and Tuesday, August 81 and 80,
1906, a program of which will be
found in the Journal.
Banker S. C. Petersen, of Elk
Horn, and Chris o. Jensen were on
the Hamlin market, Monday morn
ing, with their herds of hogs which
they sold to Mr.. Peter Nielsen, the
buyer. And then so many other
farmers came with hogs that morn
that Mr.. Nielsen shipped out four car
loads of fat hogs from Hamlin station
that night.
At the Democratic township coz
vention held at the Center school
house last Saturday night, the fol-
lowing delegates were selected to at
tend the county convention in Audi
bon on August 4th, to represent
Hamlin township: T. j. Coglan,
chairman; Noah Crane, Ole Olesen,
Joo Conrad, Dan Branstatter, j. r..
Reed and Ed Dryden.
Down at the Center school house
last Saturday night, the following
Democratic township ticket was
placed in nominations:
NJ. E. Mardesen, clerk;
Dan Branstatter, assessor;
N. E. Crane aud Ole Olesen, justice
of the peace;
Nels Rattenborg and Elmer Davis,
constables;
Peter Madsep, Ed Dryden and
George Gill, trustees.
The people from over at Old Ham
lin, report that the social given by
the Christian Endeavor Society of
the Presbyterian church last Satur-
day night, was success, the receipts
being seventeen dollars, and when
you come to think that each person
there Gully represented ten cents,
there must have been large pumber
in attendance. The young people
over that way are ever noted for
their pleasant socials aud people go
long ways to attend one of them.
While playing ball up in Greeley
township, Sunday, Ray Dryden, son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Dryden, who
live just south of Hamlin station,
met with painful aud perhaps SER
ious accident. A ball struck him in
the eye, completely closing that OPP
tic and causing him much pain until
he could be conveyed by his friends
to Doctor John Riley's Office, in Ext
ra, where cooling lotions were ap-
piled and the wound dressed. 1t is
very unfortunate accident particu-
larly 80 at this time of the year and
"chunks' many friends hope that
nothing serious will result from ii
but that he will again see as we'll az
he ever did.