Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-07-26

Next week Chr. Hansen will sell
all his fly nets at actual cost.
Mrs. Peter Petersen, of Elk Horn,
is said to be very sick lady this
week.
Ed Wilson has gone over to Guth-
RE county to help with the hay and
grain harvest.
The Olsen Knitting Factory peo-
pie were having some grading done
about their grounds Tuesday.
Martin Esbeck, of Kimballton,
was out in the country, Tuesday,
with friend of his, travelling man.
John Hunter, the younger one of
the Extra liverymen, was over here
Tuesday, with travelling man and
his trunks.
The Elk Horn ball club and the
Pansy Blossoms are scheduled to play
q game in the Joe James pasture,
next Sunday afternoon.
Justenus johnson and wife, near
Kimballtos, will entertain a COM
pany of their friends next Sunday, in
their usual happy style.
The telephone linemen were busy
Tuesday, putting in new cross arms,
tightening the wire and putting the
system in first class repair.
Louie Petersen and Robert John
son, the telephone "shooters" were
down by Brayton, Monday, looking
over the line and making needed re-
pairs.
Fred Baxter, the Audubon tele-
phone lineman, was over this way
Saturday, calling on friends and
looking after the LATE Simpson tele-
phone interests.
Martin Mitten, the Kimballton
barber, was up to Audubon having
DR.. Carrie Brooks Woods finish up
some dental work which that lady
began some time ago.
The Petersen and Hansen merry
go-round which has been at Kim ball
ton for few days, pulled up stakes,
Tuesday and moved out to Jackson
willie where they will remain for a
few days.
Miss Anna Madsen, daughter of
Thor Madsen and wife, who has been
assisting at the Elk Horn central
office, will resign her position on
August first, for few weeks, during
haying and harvest.
Peter Miller, the harnesmaker, and
Bernet Rasmussen, the clerk at
George Faaborg's store In Kimball-
ton, joined the excursion at Audu-
bon, Tuesday, went up to Lake View
and say they had fine time.
A telephone message from over at
the Louie johnson home east of here,
Monday, said that one of the lady
members of that family had fallen
and broken one of her lower limbs
but we were unable to get further
particulars.
Those two new German Automatic
Knitting Machines were set up in the
Olsen knitting factory at Elk Horn,
this week and now they are rapidly
turning out large quantity Of the
latest and up-to-date goods, which
are we'll worth your time to inspect.
Mr.. H. j. Nielsen, who resides over
by the Advent church, has very
sore hand at present, caused by blood
poison setting in. His neighbore,
seeing the sorrowful shape he was in,
gathered at his place Wednesday,
with teams and machinery and soon
had Mr.. Nelson's hay crop safe in his
barn.
Merchant James, of Elk Horn, who
was chosen delegate to the Con-
gressionsl convention out at Council
Bluffs, on Tuesday; drove over to
Hamlin Station, Monday morning,
where he visited with friends until
noon when he took the train for
Omaha to look after business matters,
attended the convention the next day
then came home by way of Marine, on
Wednesday.
Last Saturday, when it was 60
fearfully hot, Chris Faaborg who
was working on the Soc farm for
Thomas Thompson; had pitched on
twenty-nine loads of hay in the field
and long about six O'clock in the
evening when he had essayed to pitch
just one more was overcome with
heat, tumbled down, and it took
four hours of good vigorous work to
get him to come out it. The man was
some better the first of the week but
will have to be careful of himself
during the rest of this harvest time.
Last Sunday, July %, 1906, Mr..
Drace Sorensen, that jolly and pros
porous farmer who lives over east
on the thumb hand side of the road
where you turn east to go to Extra;
was forty-one years old, and a few
days before that date Mr.. Sorensen
and his good wife decided that thew
would give their friends Jolly fine
treat that day, so three hundred in.
vitatiODS were sent ont askino their