Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-08
Extra News And Notes

JOnn hnOA anu Wll6 leu Souy
for Nebraska to visit her brother AL
Beard.
Frank Odell and wife we're here last
Monday visiting relatives at Clarence
Masching's home.
The sisters Maggie and Lena Kom-
mes are now at Beulah, Wyoming,
and they like it fine.
Charles Bartlett's new house is in
course of construction, l.. A. Peter
man being the builder.
John Bishop came from Montana to
spend the Fourth with his parents j..
H. Bishop and wife at Extra.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Clure and Mr..
and Mrs. Myers we're made Eastern
Stars of the first magnitude last Fri
day night.
The many friends of Mrs. L. E. Born
will be sorry to learn that she may be
totally blind as the operation out at
Omaha only seemed to help the sight
for a time.
Miss Sevilla Armstrong, of Melville
township, Julia Kelleher, of Adair;
Emma Knudsen, of Elk Horn: Ena
Littlefield and Alice Hay, of Extra;
finished their six weeks course at Mrs
Connrardy's parlors this last week.
Congressman Charles B. Lands in
his masterpiece An Optimist's Mes
sage" will be q feature attraction at
the Audubon Chautauqua. Everyone
ambitious to show their appreciation
of a man who has worked hard in their
interest should hear Lands at Chau-
tauqua time.
The Treble Cleft met with Mrs. Otto
Witthauer and her daughter, Bessie,
Wednesday. Miss Trola Born was a
guest and Laurel Hawk and Clara
Whitfield were new members voted in.
AS usual a delicious lunch was served
and the club adjourned to meet again
in four weeks. .
The Fourth passed off fine despite
the rain. The Atlantic Greys played
ball here and there were races. The
floats in the morning parade were all
very artistic; E. ID, Cotton taking first
prize and j. e. Walker second prize.
The churches all did we'll and stands
were all sold out early in the evening.
A telegram to Mr.. and Mrs. William
Fulton and Mr.. and Mrs. Boy Her.
rick from Mr.. Charles Fulton, Out at
Hoquim, Washington State, says:
"We have a new baby boy at our
happy home; born July 2, 1909" This
crowns these good people grandparents
for the first time but they seem to wear
their honors with becoming dignity.
1t rained so hard Monday that the
Audubon Martial Band could not go
out to Luccock's Grove so e. j.. Free
man, A. F. Drake, Robert Ping and
the Shelley Brothers came down to
Extra. Hon. H. F. Andrews dragged
out a large flag with a long pole and
led them about town while they dis
coursed soul stirring music, much to
the delight of the vast assemblage.
Last Wednesday while blowing corn
ia his father's field, on the James f.
Wilcox old place q couple of miles
westfrom the Extra depot j. ii. Mertes
spied a stone Indian axe and the end
of a hunting knife. The axe is very
line specimen, one of the best we have
ever seen, but the knife blade was con-
siderably rusted and worn. That big
old hill seems to be alive with relics
as more than a bushel basket full have
been found upon it. Mr.. Mertes is
Justly proud of his find.
Mr.. Thomas w. Pippen departed
this life at his home in Extra, Iowa,
the afternoon of Tuesday, June 20,
1909, after a brief illness. He was born
vt Galesburg, Illinois, February q,
1887, and when twelve years of age he
'noyed with his parents Gut to Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. In the year 1868 he was
united in marriage to Anna Deuel. and
10 this union two children were born,
dr. W.. o. Pippen, of Extra, Iowa, and
Mrs. Charles Bandow, out at Omaha,
Nebraska, and these are all OF the
family left, the mother having died
lbout twenty-seven years ago. He was,
4 kindly husband and a considerable
parent. In the absence of Rev, w. E.
Harvey, the pastor, the funeral was
ueld from the Methodist church, We'd
lesday afternoon, conducted by Rev.
V. l., Holly of the Congregational
church and his remains werelaid away
reside those of his wife in the Extra
cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Wolf, two of
ur best and most respected citizens,
celebrated their golden wedding at the
tome down in KickapooP Park at Extra,
Iowa, on Friday, July 2, 1909, and a
multitude of relatives and friends were
resent during the day. In the morn
;lg they vent to the church and took
"pon themselves the marriage VOWS as
icy did half a century ago then went
,nme where they were ready to receive
leir guests who soon began to arrive
AID kept up a steady stream all day
and far into the night, and they found
,Ienty of good things to eat and some
ling to wash it down with. Besides
my other golden gifts this worthy
e ,uple were presented by admiring
lends with a clock that cost forty
We dollars which was set upon the
.' tntlepiece beside the old one which
II d recorded the first fifty years imme-
fiately began clicking of another half
+ injury for our good friends w%hereupon
20 old clock threw up its hands, took
headlong plunge to the floor below
Il d mashed its face all out of shape.
The Extra Concert Band went down
I'D played a few pieces; the 'quartette
ing several selections, and altogether
II vas a very gala day.
GRANDMA BURNS oBsEQUIES
Margaret Jane Poyntz was born near
williamsburg, in Grant county, Ken
cky, October 4, 1921, and departed
| IS life at Extra, Iowa, July s., 1909.
Miss Poyntz and Mr.. David Burns
".re married in 1910 and to them were
u ,rn twelve children; one boy and one
strl died in infancy and two girls died
- about mid life. The children who