Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-08-27
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| JOG d. a. MUSSON.
Miss Mildred Kreamer, a niece of
Mr.. Rem Phelps, who visited with
them here returned home TO Atlantic,
Monday.
Mrs. Thomas Si2er and Miss Alice
Sizer, of Miles, Iowa, are visiting at
the home of Mrs Sizer's brother, Mr..
e. A. Bates.
| Clarence Alice and wife, of Guth-
RE Center, are here looking for 10.
cation with the expectation of coming
there to live.
The Ladies Aid Society Of the
| Presbyterian church in Audubon will
meet on Thursday September 3, 1908,
with Mrs. William Thompson.
| John Kerwin of the Audubon
Hardware Company went out over the
Northwestern, returning by way Of the
Rock Island to visit frinds in the
western part of the state.
| The friends of Mrs. William Ko-
| peska, out west of town, are glad to
learn that she is home from the hos
pital down at Clarinda and much inn
proved by the treatment.
If you buy Riverside, Buck Horn
or Saylor Coal you have bought the
best coal on the market in Audubon!
| can prove this by the analysis or any
other old way. j. A. MUSSoN.
| --Nels Olson, of Ross, has gone up
to South Dakota this week to complete
the sale of his farm of five hundred
sixty acres located in Brown county
for which ne is TO receivet the neat sum
of 81 10000.
Mrs. Daniel Lynch and her two
| grand-sons, Fred and Bonnie Austin,
returned to their Sioux City home on
| Friday after visiting here for seven
weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Joe
Alice, and other friends.
&C. II. Reynolds drove to Guthrie
| Center, Monday, and would go from
there to Des Moines. On his return he
expects to bring Mrs. Reynolds home
| and we are pleased to note that she is
recovering rapidly from recent sur
gical operation.
The advance agent of Gollmar
Brothers circus was here Saturday
making arrangements for an exhibit
ton on September Seven, but he re-
ceived notice to cancel all contracts,
the management having decided not TO
include Audubon this year.
Chairman Farquhar, ofthe County
Central Committee, accompanied by
g. w. Marlin went to Des Moines, on
Tuesday to attend the Republican con-
ference, to see the leaders of the fac
tions smoke the pipe of peace. They
probably carried their hatchets as well
as their pipes.
In attempting to turn large plate
glass in the front window of the How
aid Block in order to make it ready
for occupancy by the Frazier store
strap broke and dropped the glass
breaking it so badly as to make it
worthless. A new one will cost about
hundred dollars.
That bird in the cage down at the
Reynolds livery barn is said to be
magpie brought from the Black Hills,
in South Dakota. They are very
common bird in England where boys
will climb to the steeples of churches
to secure them. 1t is claimed that by
splitting their tongues they learn to
talk like parrot.
On Saturday evening, September
5, Eb Scowenhoven, the yankee farmer
will appear at the Opera House in Au-
dubon in the play entitled "The Funny
Fellows of New York" The bills say
that if man had rheumatism, govt
and neuralgia, he would have to laugh
at this character. The admission is
25, IS and so cents.
Charles Van Gorder and family
have returned from vacation of five
| weeks up at Lake Okoboji Il. S. Van
Gorder drove up Friday with his auto
| distance of one hundred forty miles
and brought them home Sunday even
| ing somewhat late because of an en-
counter of a strip of mud fifteen miles
wide and of uncertain depth, by the
way.
e. j. Freeman of Audubon and his
drum corps were in the city yesterday
afternoon on their way to Griswold to
play at the reunion. They were re-
inforced here by Messrs. Fl. M. Brown
II. S. McGeehon, j. w. Murphy and
| Byron Bear. Some good martial
music was furnished by the corps at
the depot while waiting for the train.
Atlantic News.
| B. G. Booten and wife and VIM.
Wager and wife returned home Mon
| day night from their summers visit
| at Spirit Lake, Iowa, with relatives,
and Washington Springs. South Da-
kota, where they have been visiting
| Bert Booten and family for week.
They report Bert and family doing
we'll and enjoying that country. They
| also visited Will Booten and famil y
at Sioux City.-Coon Rapids Citizen.
John G. Jensen, of Douglas, drop
ped into this sanctum the other day to
even up with the editor on subscrip-
ton and have little visit. We said
that when we get to paying for the
county papers again we will always do
it in the summer time, because but few
are then paying and a dollar looks
about as big as full harvest moon
to the editor. Mr.. Jensen is one Of the
prosperous farmers of Douglas, rails
ing corn and hogs and cattle and milk
ing eighteen cows.
The big fire they had up at Carroll
| last Thursday, was witnessed by Mr..
Thos. Davis, who was there to attend
alarm was sounded while Hon. Claude
| r. Porter, the Democratic candidate
| for senator, was speaking about three
O'Clock. 1t caught in feed yard and
the flames spread SO rapidly that six
teen horses and some cattle were either
burned to death or so badly injured
that they were shot to death to put
them out of their misery.
Those of our readers who enjoy a
| first-class race ought by all means to