Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-10-21
happenings

Soren Christensen of nesr Harlan
bought 40 acres of land of Lars Peter
sen recently for $3.50 an acre.
Jos. Noble. Sr. who lives near Har-
Ian found sweet potato in his patch
which weighed four pounds.
Both Charles Graves and John
White who live near Harlan, pur-
chased several hundred sheep recently
j. A. Lang, who bought l6o-acre
farm near Grinnell, last year at $l65
an acre has recently sold it at $40 an
acre.
Less than year ago w. W: Guam
bought farm near Roland, paying
$125 an acre. Recently he refused $l65
for it.
After Oct. 1, New York will have
the distinction of having the only
Spanish daily paper in the United
States.
The battleship Connecticut has
been engaged in target practice and
hit the bulls-eye sixteen times in six
teen shots, beating the worlds record
Ben Robinson sold his farm near
Lewis some time ago for Sl41.5O an
acre. He recently purchased farm
of 240 acres near Griswold at 5000 an
acre.
George Scott and son Frank of Lake
City have spent the summer camping
on Coon River. Recently they dis
posed of fifteen hundred dollars worth
of pearls as result.
Isaac Brock of Waco, Texas died
recently, said to be 121 years old. Ac-
cerding to his family Bible, he was
born in Buncombe county. North
Carolina, March ], 1883.
F. P. Petersen of Shelby county has
been experimenting with northern
grown seed corn and finds that the
corn from Minnesota does not mature
as early as from home grown seed.
Fischer and Ryan took in $500 in
prizes on their car of Black Angus
steers at the Interstate Fair at Sioux
City. They expect to take the steers
to the Chicago show in December.
Fifty wild horses were captured in
the Modoc national forest recently.
About half the number proved to be
branded stock which had grown wild,
the others having never known the
ownership of man.
25l divorces were granted in Chica-
go in one day, Sept. 90. Five judges
spent the entire day listening to the
tales of dissatisfied husbands and
wives. DEGREES were granted in two
thirds of the cases.
Commander Peary believes that
Greenland and the Attic regions will
become summer resort in time and
DR.. Goodsell, physician of tho Peary
expedition asserts that the dry air
and constant sunshine of the long day
OF summer is fine cure for tuberculo-
sic.
A Holst,in COW has broken the
worlds record for butter. she was
tested by the Cornell station and
showed yield in seven days of 2s.44
pounds of butter fat. This is equiva-
lent to 1855 pounds of commercial
butter at 80 per cent fat, She is six
years old
The Governor of Minnesota (since
the death of Governor Johnson) was
born in Sweden 3s years ago. His
name was Olson but upon his mar
riage he asked the court to permit him
to take the name of his wife which
petition was granted and he is known
as Adolph O. Eberhart.
Seventy-two high school pupils of
Iowa City were suspended for an in
definite period and their parents noti-
fed of the suspension last week, for
cutting out the school sessions to at.
tend nickel theaters. The boys re-
fused to go to the schoolroom after
the noon recess and when told to do
80 ran down the street whooping hi
lariousiy. They visited a photograph
gallery for a group picture, went to
two nickel theaters and vaudeville.
AT four O'CLOCK when they returned to
the scnoolhouse they found it locked.
On Savii, one of the Samoan islands
is volcano four years old which sur
passes in the magnitude of it's opera.
tions anything in the known world
Since its beginning there has been q
constant and increasing flow of lava,
which now comes from a rent in the
mountain side in a stream eight miles
wide, the volume being estimated al
100000 tons per minute. Sixty square
miles of land have been submerged
by molten lava, hills 600 feet high
have been covered and valleys as deer
are filled full to the brim, The glare
of the red hot stream by night, to.
gether with the clouds of steam which
RISE as it pllnges into the ocean &c