Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-07-02

4 or two with his son at Cedar Falls
after the state convention at Waterloo
which he attended as delegate.
Order load of Buck Horn Nut
| Coal or load of Coax for your cook
light and make the very best summer
fuel. j. a. MUSSoN.
George Guernsey came up from
Extra, Saturday, and remained over
| Sunday among hisfriends in Audubon
| Since he left this office the first of jan
uary he has been busy in the postotiice
at Extra assisting Postmaster Powell.
w. Il. Smith, book-keeper for
John Ward, and G. r. Christensen,
clerk in the FirsuNational Bank, went
| up to Duncombe, Saturday, to see the
working of Ward Brothers big dredge
They returned Monday morning with
| some black mud on their tan colored
shoes.
Geo. w. Ellis returned Saturday
from SouiX City where he attended the
the Democratic State Convention. His
grandson, Leo Foster, came home with
him and his daughter, Mrs. Foster,
| and her other children will be down
this week for visit.
-Schoolmastnr Bell, of Extra, was
up to Audubon yesterday. A recent
letter from his son in Oklahoma says
he was fortunate in not being in the
| flooded district: that he has one humid
red and ten acres of good corn and
forty acres of promising cotton to
harvest this year.
Fred Reynolds came in over the
Northwestern, Saturday morning,
from Sac City, where he had been to
see his sister, Mrs. Grant Stonebrook.
He reports that in prospect for good
| crops Audubon county is away ahead
OF most other places seen In his trip
around by Des Moines, Waterloo and
Sac City. On the fiat lands the corn
crop is small and very unpromising.
L. A. butcher and wife, of Audu-
bon township, returned yesterday from
visit in Mower county, Minnesota.
They were near the destructive storm
that did much damage at Austin and
the floods that swept much property
away. Hail stones fell that were large
enough and hard enough to make
holes in tin roof.
You do not often get chance to
buy ribbons at discount See what
Frazier's selling. 269
The Audubon Hardware Company
are installing the Huber system of
keeping accounts in their store which
will be much more easily kept than
set of books. BY this method the Gus
toner will always have a duplicate OF
his account showing the items when
they were purchased and the total
amount.
The Register and Leader of Sun.
day said that Mr.. John A. Nash, OF
Audubon, was q guest in the home OF
John McVicar, on Ninth Street, over
Sunday and that Monday he would
leave for Boston where he would join
his wife and daughter, Miss Gretchen
Nash, and at the close of the National
Federation of Women's Clubs they
will make an extended trip through
the east.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Becker, who had
been up at Carroll to see his people,
were in Audubon few hours Satur
day and left on the noon train for
visit with her parents before return
ang to their home at Albion, Nebras-
ka. When Mrs. Baker was girl she
lived at Extra her name was Hattie
Stager, daughter of Shoemaker John
Stager and wife, who now reside at
Anita.
Here is sample of the way in
which a Grecian editor greases the
griddle when he writes marriage
notice: The bride is a beautiful maid
en-, ethereal as nymph, delicate as a
flower, modest as priestess, white as
the snow, adorned with a superiority
of gifts of mind, of character and
education, fair checked tender heart
ed, Astounding in grace and goodness.
Dan E. Kerwin went to Clarinda
Yesterday with an old gentleman by
the name of Jorgensen from out by
Kimballtown who had been before the
Commissioners several weeks ago. but
had been allowed to go provided he
would leave the county which he did,
but he didn't stay returning here on
Tuesday He seems to be little daffy
on the girls, which is a common dis
ease among old and young.
Call on Clifford Brooks for eye
glasses. Office with DR.. A. l.. Brooks,
Audubon, iowa.
On our return from dinner Tues
day we saw a group of men very much
interested in small grey abject on the
sidewalk. In form, color and move
ment it was much like an ordinary tur-
tie. Where it had come from no one
could tell. Some of them guessed it
was horned toad, which proved to
be the fact, and Ray Leonard had Sc
cured it from someone who brought 1t
from Oklahoma.
Some of our delegates to the state
convention, at Waterloo, didn't have
very pleasant time going. They
reached Marshalltowna at midnight and
got up at four to catch the train on the
Great Western; but that was several
hours late and then broke down on the
way so that they did not get to Water
lootill nearly noon. Fortunately Fred
Reynoldslhad gone the day before and
he was present to represent this coun-
ty at the. district Caucus. The only
way tothave good time at o state
convention is to go two days before.
John Weighton and John Ward
have returned from trip to New
Orleans and other points in Louisiana.
In conversation with the former he
said it was his first experience in that
southern country and he found it of
exceeding interest. From New Orleans
they went west to Lockport and La
Fourche, making much of the trip on
lakes and bayous. He expressed great
surprise at the fields of big corn in
that section. Unfortunately Mr.. Ward
took sick and was confined to the hotel
for several days.
On account of the rainy weather
great many have not yet bought their