Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-05-11
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
Little Eva tomorrow.

Little Eva tomorrow.
Col. Mertz was in town yesterday.
For oil and gas call Phone 400. If.
Buy your oil and gas of Petersen &
Krogh. Phone 400. tt.
w. G. Tramp spent Monday with
his folks in Audubon.
ID. Kroeger of Extra was up yester-
day to visit his daughter Mrs. John
Graham.
Wilson Burnside and wife arrived
home this morning from visit at
Grinnell.
Clarence Turner began work for
Jake Ruhs in the hardware store Mon
day morning.
The commencement address will be
given June 2, by Prof. Mcbride of the
State University.
Harry E. Sampson is doing special
work in the Office of Attorney General
Cosson at Des Moines.
"A marriage license has been taken
out by Chris Faaborg aged 30, and Miss
Dagmar Jensen aged %.
VIII Crone and wife returned to
Audubon Saturday with the intention
of making this place their home.
j. r. Christensen and family will
leave next week for his old home in Den
mark for a several months visit.
Mrs. James Law returned yester-
day from visit of three weeks with
her son at Summit up in South Dakota.
Lou Loss has purchased the hotel
in Menlo and became Landlord Loss
last week We wish Lou success in his
new venture.
Amos Fancher, Owen Davis and
Frank Miller have each purchased a
new Maxwell auto and will haye them
soon.
james Law traded his threshing
outfit in Dakota giving "a money con-
sideration also to J. B. j. Lohner for a
hotel in Maxwell
While Mr.. and Mrs. HI. j. Mantz
are away this week the Misses Fades,
Lighthall and McAllister are occupying
their home and making believe they are
keeping house.
champion Hill School Miss Minnie
Burr teacher closes to-day for the term.
A little party was held and at the close
pthe lessons the teacher gave her pu-
pria present each.
was FRS. w. w. Smith goes to Casey
tiful' to attend the meeting of the
man ems Foreign Missionary Society
q dane Atlantic district. She is on the
attgram to sing tomorrow night.
Mrs. d. B. Seely, who has been
acre with her sister, Mrs. II. j. Love-
land, during the winter, left Tuesday
for her home at Utica, New York. Mrs.
Loveland and the babies went with her
to Carroll.
Creighton University, Omaha, at
which Ray Green graduated last week
took fire Sunday night and suffered
damage to the amount of $4,000. The
fire is thought to have been caused by
lightning striking pole outside and
running in on feed wire.
In a letter from H. w. Hanna of
Lawton, Okla, he says: Il notice in
your last issue you speak of late SHOWS
serves me right, on the 9th day of May
four inches of snow Some corn was
up and grasshoppers plenty"
According to the record of the de-
partment at Washington the homestead
law was signed by Abraham Lincoln
May 20, 1862. and it took effect Jan. l.,
1868. The record also states that DR..
Daniel Freeman of Brownsville, Neb.,
made the first entry on the first morn
ing the law became effective.
The weather on Wednesday May
10, 1911, was of an extreme and aggra-
waiting character. 1t was hot, very hot
for so early In the season and the wind
blew fiercely all day so that anybody
weighing less than two hundred could
hardly walk the street. At six O'Clock
relief came in shower of rain and hail
some of the hailstones being as large
as hickory nuts,
Get varnish wise. My demonstra-
tor who will be at j. j. Ruhs on Friday
and Saturday, May 10 and 20, can tell
you why some varnish checks, chips,
powders and is stained by heat and
water, and why mine don't It's worth
knowing if you like fine furniture and
good floors. 1915 CHI-NAMEL.
We enjoyed pleasant visit from
Rev. J. Alber of Viola, Friday who
called at this office. Mr.. ALDER is
successor to Mr.. Wendell as pastor Of
the Evangelical church, coming here
from Story City. For three years prior
TO last year he had been in Alabama for
the benefit of his wife's health and
while there busted himself with truck
farming. The last year he was there he
sold Il, 900 canteloupes. But he likes It
much better in the north even II 1t Is
much colder.