Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-06-24
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LOCAL NEWS NOTES

Lid.
Will Smith, the cigar maker, and
his wife vent to Glenwood Tuesday on
a business trip.
e. Il Pennington was down from
Bayard Monday calling on his brother
in-law Frank Herndon.
Mrs. Jesse Humiston went away
last week to visit at the home of her
people in Cedar Rapids.
-B. e. Lorenz, the plumber, went
up to Manning Friday to do some
work for Postmaster Laier.
-Grandpa A. Kevan went to Wal
nut Tuesday to pass a week with his
children and his children's children.
Mrs. Charles Waits arrived from
Lake City Monday evening for a good
visit with her friend, Mrs. Chester
Marlin.
F. l.. Anderson of Ross lost a hub
a from his automobile. The finder
will please return to him or leave at
this office.
-Maude Boehme and Anna Kness
wect down to Atlantic Monday night
to see their relative, George Kness, at
the hospital.
Charles Curd returned on Tuesday
morning from Aztec, New Mexico, and
says he is lot pa%rticularlyi in love with
that country.
Grace ard Ruth Johnson, child.
rem of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Johnson,
went up to Ross Tuesday to visit with
relatives at the John Johnson home.
j. S. Johnson, the ~jeweler, has
moved into his new housein the north.
east part of town. He has a fine pro-
perty in a slightly place. The house
cost about So, 000.
Mrs. w. II. Green enjoyed a visit
this week from her brother Mr.. Brown
whose home is at Saint Peters, Mime
sofa. Tuesday hat gentleman jour
neyed to Des Moines.
Doctor Charles Burnside arrived
at home Monday evening from his Wis
IL to the American Medical Associa-
ton at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and
other points in the east.
Charles Watts arrived on Monday
evening from the Chicago University
and will pass the glad vacation time
here with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. IF.
s. Watts, and other friends.
Rem Phelps was Ia town over last
Sunday to see his wife who Is i'll at
the home of her father, L. G. Johnson
Mr.. Phelps is now employed by the
Standard Oil Company at Atlantic.
H. B. Wilson and wife reached
home Monday evening from an extend
ed visit about Williamsburg, their old
home, in the eastern part of the state
aid their many friends were glad to
welcome them.
Notwithstanding the Inconvenience
it has caused In getting back and forth
to the postoflice it has looked good to
see from fifty to a hundred men at
work making improvements on the cor
ner the past week.
Elmer Bailey has bought the house
10 which @. w. Marlin lives north OF
Presbyterian church, just where Mr..
Marlin will find a place TO live is a
serious question, There are no vacant
houses in Audubon.
When the brick walk west of the
First National Bank Building was
being taken upJ. w. b Cole remark
ed that he and old Mr.. Fales had laid
it in the fall of 1885 and that it was
the first brick walk in town.
james f. Russell and family came
down from Fort Dodge on Saturday
to visit his sister, Mrs. John A. Nash.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell returned Mon
day evening, but the children remained
to enjoy life OF the Nash farm.
The Audubon County Agricultural
Society met on Saturday and made
the purchase of five acres adjoining
the fair grounds on the west OF Harry
Arnold at 5000 an acre. This was done
to get more ION for the charging in
terests of the county fair
This office is indebted to j. w. B..
Cole for a beautiful boquet OF roses
with which he decorated our table on
Monday morning. We have coveted a
rose garden for many years and still
hope that some time and somewhere
we NAV have one Of our own.
The family OF Supervisor Geo. NJ.
Ross OF Cameron have been entertain
ing the past week his brother, r. c..
Ross, of Grinneil, Ia, and his sister.
Mrs. Work. OF Indiana, Penn, togeth.
err with her daughter, Mrs. Thompson,
and her granddaughter, Miss Marian
Thompson. They left for their homes
on Monday.
Il. p. Hansen, his wife, daughter
Gusta and son Edward Hansen came
home from Snohomish, Washington
State, last week Thursday where they
passed several months with his son,
Peter Hansen, formerly of Extra. They
expressed themselves as glad to be at
home again but they could be no more
pleased than their friends we're to see
them
Miss Marian Jennings reached her
tenth birthday Tuesday Of this week
and her mother, Mrs. L. b. Jennings,
prepared a jolly fine spread, laid the
cloth on the lawn and they had a real
old fashioned down east picnic. A
kodak fiend was present and took a
shot at the party. The little Miss re-
ceived several pretty gifts from her
friends, in remembrance of the day,
j. C. Fisher is much interested at
this time over a tilt between Monroe,
Michigan, and New Rumley, Ohio, as
both claim to be the birthplace OF
General George A. Custer. Mr.. Fisher
is strongly in favor of the Ohio claim
because he WIS born there himself and
knewsthe Custer family. Then Harri-
son county, Ohio, has been the home
of great men such as Bishop Simpson,
JohnA Bingham, and Edwin M. Stan
ton. When Custer was a boy he wrote