Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-02-07
CLEVER INVENTION.
Patent Applied For. A Very Useful
Little Instrument, Probably the
Best of All Stretchers.

woven wire with great evenness. 1t
IS in the hands of Thomas Owing, the
FEDERATED patent attorney of Des
MONIES, who thinks MI. Eddy has
clear field for his Improvement. Usu.
ally the Old kinds fail somewhere, but
THIS little gem seems to fill the long
felt want. May success attend thee,
A. A.
II. j. Mantz went to Hamlin, Tues
day, on business.
Hi. Mendenhall and Bert Stocking
went to Des Moines, Monday, on bus
mess
The lady aiaccabees gave a ten cent
social at Hub Whites home, Tuesday
evening.
Ira Baird came up from Extra,
Monday evening, to visit his large
circle of friends here.
Mrs. Doyle and baby, of Omaha,
are expected to be here at the home of
her parents, A. NJ. Hayes, the latter
part of the week.
T. 81. Frew, Auditor, and w. Cham
bers, Route Agent for the United
States Express Company, We're here
auditing, Monday.
Morrissey and Ruhs and Butterton
have been busy the last few days
storing away carload of implements
which they lately received.
The water crane at the Rock Island
depot, was frozen up for three days
Plumbers, however, came up Tuesday
and fixed it. 1t is now in fine shape.
Il is announced that Mrs. George
Viewer will give linen shower for
Miss Mollie Delahoyde, and Mrs. Dr.
Lauritzen will give a hosiery shower
for her.
Among the many homeseekers
going south were the following: w.
ID. Neff, Q. +. Siemsen, James Pound
and several others whose names we
did not learn.
The w. F. NJ. S. of the M. E..
church will give big dinner on Feb
ruary the 18th. A program will be
rendered at $3.50 pm. and at 6 o'clock
supper will be served.
A farm house, between Bear Grove
and Casey, burned to the ground du-
ring the high wind that prevailed Sat-
urday night. 1t was terrible night
for such calamity TO happen.
]. F. Frazier will open a millinery
parlor in connection with his other
business. He purchased the stock of
the Nelson sisters and proposes to
keep an up-to. date establishment.
Eighty per cent of the range cattle
in North Dakota and Montana have
perished in the late cold snap. For
forty days the mercury was below re-
70, then cane blizzard and it did the
rest.
Mr.. story's two cars of emigrants
and stock left for Elgin, Oregon. in
charge of his two sons. Mrs. Storey,
we understand, will leave later on
with the balance of the family, Ore
gan being their future home.
Marriage licenses were issued this
week to James Kruger and Mary
Rose, Merrill [. May and Oren Colee,
All Miller and Stella Fapcher, Charley
+. Eakman and Alma Victoris Alice,
Andrew Peterson and Emma Olsen.
Mrs. James Kirk, of Chicago, ar
rived in the city Monday evening to
visit her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
VanGorder. Mrs. Kirk will stay for
awhile on account of the scarlet fever
in Chicago, and also to attend the
Delahoyde -Leake wedding.
Wesley Moreland returned home,
Saturday, from Rochester, Minnesota,
where he went with his wife, she hav.
ing to submit to an operation. She
was quite low for awhile, but is now
improving very rapidly, which her
many friends are glad to learn.
The Journal has the large t list of
Guthrie county farms for sale of any
man or firm, and by the way they are
meeting with satisfactory sales. The
lands in that county raise just as good
crops as lands anywhere else, and are
much cheaper. Read the list in this
paper.
William Haymann and Laura Eek
holdt, of South Lincoln township,
were united in the bonds that bind by
Rev. Edward b Cousins The young
people are of good parentage and any
locality will be the better for their set.
thing therein. We extend our best
wishes in behalf Of their prosperity.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Pres
byterian church, out of the effulgence
of their hearts, and as slight token
of esteem for her devotion to church
and Sabbath school work, presented
Mrs. OFT with lovely dress pattern.
Mr.. and Mrs. OFT expect to leave Au
dubon soon to take up their residence
in Oklahoma.
Mr.. Wilson Burnside has pur-
chasd half interest in the A. j..
Leake and Company's grain and
coal business mere. This change is
very congenial to the people of Au-
dubon as it was evident that Mr..
Burnside intended to go into bust
ness again, and we were some What
skeptical about his remaining with
US,