Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-10-28
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Rev. Thompson, an Egyptian has
been conducting revival meetings at
Wapello.
An eighty acre farm near Bayard
belonging to William Murrin sold for
$135 per acre.
Martin Smith has sold his farm
near Coon Rapids to Thomas Moylan
for $l4s an acre
Last week the local butchers of Jew
ell paid farmer $9l.50 for two hogs.
The weight of the two was l,250 lbs.
Last spring Fred Trimble bought q
farm of eighty-one acres near Newton
for $3.50 an acre and has sold it for
$3.50 an acre.
A. P. Besser sold his farm of 81
acres near Mitchelville for $ls5 an
acre. Mr.. Besser bought the farm two
years ago 1Or SlOUs an acre.
A blind horse belonging to Ben
Haeussler of Monticello accidentally
overturned bee hive and was stung
to death with the inmates.
]. o. Discoll bought farm of 24O
acres near Sac city in 1880, for SO an
acre. He recently sold it for $3.50 an
acre, rise in 20 years of $33, $40.
A tract of twenty acres of land ad-
joining the city limits of Red Oak re-
Gently sold for $500 an acre, although
the Improvements were only ordinary.
From Toxic comes the announce
faent of the engagement of Lieut..
Rouvier, son of Rear Admiral Rouvier
of the French navy to the daughter of
Vice Admiral Ito of Japan.
Twenty-four hundred and fifty gal
Ions. of beer were poured into the
streets of Columbus, Kan, by. the
sheriff. The beer was seized in cold
storage and no one laid claim to it.
Emanuel Collins of Tabor, Ia, re.
Gently bought 200 acre farm in the
vicinity of Blair Neb., and sold it
again through his agent in less than
week, clearing $l400 by the transac-
ton.
Weapons found lately in Pennsylva-
sNio ro yoronnnrood NV a To
be relics of the stone age, made by the
mysterious people who were here be-
fore the Indians. The relics are sup-
posed to be more than 1000 years old.
For one day, Oct. 7th, the people of
North Dakota ate food made from du-
rum wheat only. 1t was done in
compliance with proclamation by
their governor, for the purpose of es-
tablishing duran wheat as bread
grain.
The first white child born in Cal
gary, Alberta was endowed by the To-
cal authorities with twenty five foot
lot of land. Having reached the age
oftwenty five years the pioneer baby
recently sold it for eighteen thousand
dollars,
Miss Hartman, daughter of the
late e. III. Hartman, railroad mag
nate. has bought large ferry boat and
turned it into floating hospital fol
consumptive children. If the expert
ment is a success she intends to fit uI
many such hospitals.
A ball about the size of cannon
ball but made of rock was unearthed
at WoOdhine, several feet below the
surface, by the clay diggers at thu
brick yard. A string OF beads and hui
man bones have also been found. /
is supposed that the brick yard is thu
site of an old Indian grave yard.
At the Philadelphia opera house 81
young women were recently engaged
as ushers who we're six feet tall OF
over. There were so applicants bu
20 lost out because they were not tn,
required six feet in height. Two o
those engaged were six feet four in
ches. Iall girls were required "st
they wouldn't get lost in the crowds.
L. o. Rush of Palisade, COL, hal
an orchard of peaches, consisting O
nine acres which was on the market
This year he has sold ST, 800 worth O.
peaches from it and has concluded
that he doesn't wish to. sell. Huns
berger of the same neighborhood solo
fifty-two boxes of Albertas, at one dol
lar box from single tree. Exirs
had her share of peaches from Pail
SADIE.
E. s. Cony beare, son of the Rev
Samuel Conybeare, pastor of the
Central Park church of Cedar Rapids
was married at West Liberty Sept. p
his father officiating assisted by the
brides father, Rev. George Furniss
The young couple left Oct. ! for Bang