Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-21
A district Convention Of Rebekah

and daughter, Miss Drusa Davis, tn
Misses, Emma johnson, Eva Searls
Nellie Wicker, Mrs. l.. A. McGinnis
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert McLeran, Mr.. ant
Mrs. A. M. Currier, Mr.. and Mrs. Ii
Tramp, Mrs. John Kennedy, Mr. ant
Mrs. Charles Zion, Miss Hazel Neff
Mrs. G. Dollahide, Mr.. and Mrs. a
Dollahide, Mrs. Frank Horning, Mrs
George Townsend, Mrs. Will Beason
Miss Minta Eddy.
| We enjoyed ride, Sunday morn
ing down to Old Hamlin, with DR.. Full
ton who called to see Mr.. Jas. T. Bel
who has been quite poorly for the las
ten weeks with dropsy and other com
plications incident to old age. Uncle
Jimmie has been a capable and useful
| citizen of that community for many
| years, has worked hard and accumal.
ated some valuable property. But he
appreciates that his labors are at an
end before very long at the fartherest
he will be called to his reward.
One day last week Hal ]. Mantz
was out at Elk Horn to attend bust
ness meeting of the Kimballton and
Elk Horn Construction Company. A
| few days ago this company was incor-
| pOrated and these are its first officers
George Henningsen, President;
Peter Lykke, Treasurer;
Olaf Hansen, Secretary;
I. G. Jensen, Manager;
Hal j. Mantz, Legal Advisor,
--Messrs. Fred Vermilyas Frank III.
Adams, Charles K. Talbot, III. w.
Wilson returned from Des Moines,
where they attended the State Sports
mems Association and ranked we'll up
among the best shooters; Mr.. Vermilya
tieing with a Capitol City man on
forty-seven out of fifty birds. MIR.
Wilson was elected Vice-President of
the Association, and the next meeting
will be held at Burlington.
Ed Prick went up to Lake Okoboii
last week and waited patiently until
the calendar said May Fifteen then
grasped his fishing tackle, expectoratd
upon the bait and gave it throw out
into the lake. His luck was Just fine
and he sent fine mess down here to
his wife and son-in-law, Doctor r. f.
Childs, Saturday.
Since moving to their new quar-
ters on Lower Broadway the mana
gers of The Electric Theater have been
fixing up just fine. The walls are COW
cred with pretty green paper, strong
board partitions have been built and
they will install three electric fans to
keep you cool while you laugh and
wonder how they can show such mar
velous pictures.
Friday forenoon the team of Nels
N. Nelson, the man who peddles milk
here in Audubon, broke loose from
their fastenings, went charging down
Broadway like mad, went around the
corner by the Green Bay Office with q
"whew" to it, upset the wagon and
spilled milk for rods. The wagon was
a total wreck but the team was not
hurt.
Ed Norton, a gentleman residing six
or seven miles east of town, hitched to
q sled las9 week on Thursday to haul
a barrel of water, the doubletrees were
broken, he was yanked over the barrel
and his left arm broken. With true
Scotch pluck he came all the way to
Audubon and had Doctor Rosenbladt
set the injured member.
George N. Weighton has had six
hundred feet of pipe laid connecting
his Scotch Castle on the North Hill
with the city water works system and
now has plenty of good pure water
both at the house and yards. Cement
sidewalks will also be built about the
residence.
Sam E. Harm, his wife and little
daughter, Fern Harm, were in town on
last Thursday evening, coming from
the north, for little while. BY char
tering an auto at the G.. A. Petty gar
age they we're enabled to reach home,
at Extra the same evening.
Il. d. Phelps drove to Templeton
this morning to accompany his three
daughters to Chicago on their way to
Vermont where they will spend the
summer with relatives. Mr.. Phelps
will follow later in the season to enjoy
q vacation with them.
The lady teachers of the public
Saturday to the Village of Elk Horn
where they picniced in the classic
shades of Elk Horn College. They re-
port q delightful drive, a good dinner
and altogether most pleasant time.
Mr.. George r. Spencer from down
The Valley by Old Hamlin, and his
daughter, Miss Emaline Spencer, were
in Audubon, Saturday, ard Mr.. Spen-
Ger continued the journey on up to Sac
City to call on his son, Charles Spen-
Ger, and family.
May is giving us many repeated
showers and vegetation is responding
to the touches of heat and moisture
with great rapidity. Saturday after
noon brought heavy shower OF rain
that had been frozen on the way and
made the ground white with hail, some
of the stones being as large as the end
of mans thumb.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. S. Watts per-
formed their annual stunt on Monday
of planting the flower beds in the park.
They were assisted by Mrs. John
Weighton, Mrs. John Ward and Mr..
and Mrs. G. S Watts of Chicago, who
were here on a visit with his brothers.
family.
Frank M. Rice has returned from
a six weeks trip to Wyoming where
he sold some horses and bought car
load of others. While at ShOshone he
saw the BRENNAN Brothers who are
busy putting in big dam to furnish
electricity for light and power.
Eugene G. Wilson drove up from
Extra, Saturday, bringing with him
his relative, Doctor Jackson, OF Coun-
Gil Bluffs, once a practicing physician
of Audubon. While in this city they
were guests of Doctor A. l.. Brooks.
Because of the rain last Saturday
some of the Guthrie Center High
School ball players did not go home
and that evening the Audubon young