Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-04-18
FARM LOANS,
IL, 500 Optional Payments
At s Per Cent
CHARLES RAGLEY

Jake Ruhs made a flying trip to Elk
ira Tuesday.
o. G. Donaldson has sold the store
he recently purchased at Defiance.
Frank Slough and Eugene Mertz
came down from Gray Monday.
Mrs. LATE Simpson and little daugh-
ter went down to Extra Tuesday for q
short visit.
Mrs. s. A. McHargue and daughter
returned the latter part of this week
from Menlo.
Henry Sunberg sold to Frank Mix
Jason last Saturday one Of his fine
gray horses for $3.50.
George Horning was visiting his pa
rents and other relatives and friends
in this city Sunday.
DR.. Fulton reports that Benjamin
Cecil, who has been sick with appendi-
citis, is slowly improving.
Hon. A. II. Edwards and Henry
Maharg left Tuesday for Albuquerque,
Texas, to look at that county.
Judge Green returned home Satur-
day evening from Atlantic, where he
had been holding court, to visit his
family over Sunday.
Miss Ethel Simpson of Stillside
farm, southeast of Brayton, was the
guest of her brother, LATE Simpson
and wife, over Sunday.
DR.. J. M. Fulton and wife, and their
daughter Esther, spent Sunday in At
lantic with the Dr's. parents. They
returned home Monday evening.
Evangelist Carney was unable to re-
turn to school Monday, not being well
and having very sore eye. He went
Tuesday to his home at Lake City.
The Rock Island Railroad Company
brought up a load of hard bricks Mon-
day evening to extend brick plat
form around the depot for w. w.
Smith.
The Epworth League of the NJ. E.
church will hold cottage prayer
meeting with Grandma Brown, Mrs.
Judge Green's mother, at her home
this evening.
Mrs. Eta Horton and her sister in
law, Myrtle Horton, came up from
near Brayton Monday to visit their
brotherV. E Horton at the City Hotel
short time.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society met at the home Of Mrs. John
Ward Tuesday afternoon. Supper was
served, and very profitable time wal
ensoye1 by all.
Mrs. Kate Sheets came up from
Guthrie county to visit her relatives
few days Mrs. Sheets says that sh
does not like Guthrie, so she expects
to move to Atlantic.
Little Ethel and Frances Frazier re
turned home from Stuart Tuesday
where they had been visiting thel
grandpa and other relatives. Thei
auntie accompanied them home.
Messrs. S. S. Wilson and Georg
Weighton were down at Lewis tn
latter part of last week, where MI
Wilson purchased a fine importe
German coach stallion from Pete
Hopley and Son. He is beautifu
black horse, known as Ambulant, NJ
1856, sired by Realist, and foaled Ma
25, 1904. The horse was brought her
Tuesday.
While in the recorders Office Wee
nesday we examined Book l.' ]
was labeled "OrigInal Entries of Al
dubon County, made in the Ian,
Office ut Council Bluffs, Iowa" Thi
book is 30 valuable that to save wes
and tear in handling it's contents hav
been copied into another volume. Th
old record book dates back to Apri
1882 In "Book g." deed record bool
we find where John Jenkins sold I. T
Hallock $50 acres for 5000, or just pric
enough IN 1907 to buy two acres.
]. M. Mather's brother, Waite
sprung surprise on him Sunday a
ternoon by coming down from Clil
ton, where he lives, on short visl
Walter is an engineer on the Nortl
western. He did not stay long, as /
was obliged to return to Carroll MOI
day to be ready for his run from tn.
city to Cedar Rapids. He said tt
regular weight for freight train
1,45O tons and anywhere from thirt.
five to forty stock cars. Just abol
two months back they broke the re
ord by running in eight hundre
stock cars. Last Sunday and one otl
er Sunday ninety-five cars we
brought in.
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