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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Miss Ellowene Dimick closed a
very successful term of school last
Friday at the Riley sch0olhouse.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Mrs. Horace PARROT and children
visited Saturday night and Sunday
with her sister, Mrs. Marion Phelps,
southeast of town.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

John Mertes Sr. is visiting this
week with his son, Barney and wife
OF Adair, and making some i'm
provements on his farm.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Mr.. Ross, the linotype operator
on the Adair News, made us d
pleasant call Monday afternoon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23


Come in and hear Senator Kenyon
next Monday at 800 p. m.
Clyde Dimick spent Saturday
night and Sunday in Atlantic with
friends.
Miss Leola Sweeney visited part
of last week with her friend, Cen
evieve Wright.
Senator Kenyon will speak in Ex-
ira next Monday afternoon at 800
p. M, May 9th.
Mr.. annd Mrs. Jesse Nissen visit
ed Sunday with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Miller.
Miss Ethel Bison, Of Brayton, Wis
tied a few days last week with her
friend, Ellowene Dimick.
MIR. Madsen was transacting BUSH
ness at the Court House in Au-
dubon one day last week.
U. S. Senator Kenyon will speak
on the political issues of the day
next Monday at 800 p. m. Come
and hear him.
Mrs. Horace Parrot and children
visited Saturday night and Sunday
with her sister, Mrs. Marion Phelps,
southeast of town.
John Mertes Sr. is visiting this
week with his son, Barney and wife
of Adair, and making some i'm
provements on his farm.
John Dimick shipped two carloads
OF cattle Saturday evening to Chica-
go. He went along to take care of
them, returning home Wednesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Hancock came UP
from Lewis last Thursday to visit
with their daughter, Mrs. William
Eckles and to attend the Play at
the K. P. Hail.
Mr. and Mrs Milk Mertes, Mr.
and Mrs. John Mertes Sr., Miss Mar
garet Mertes and Mr. Joe Navratil
were visiting last Thursday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Amiel Waltz
west of Hamlin.
Miss Amber Kelsey received tel
ephone message from relatives in
Adair, stating that her uncle, Mr.
Henry Kelsey was dead. She left
Sunday noon for that plAce to at
tend the funeral.
Byron Jones came up from At
lantic Thursday evening to visit rel
atives at the Eckles home and to
attend the play given at the X. P
Hall Thursday evening by the pu-
pills of the High School.
Theo Patty purchased the Master.
son run-about auto. He is now pre-
pared to go wet or dry. Jane and
Bawley are going out when the au
to cannot go. This puts our insur-
ance agents on an even footing Fly
ing machine will be next.
The Misses Hattie Wright Alice
Hay, Ruth Beers and Ora Hicks
went out in the country Friday af-
tennoon to visit Bertha Young
school 1T being the last day. After
an excellent program was given, ice
cream and cake were served. There
were twenty-six visitors.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

limo Croy visited the first of the
week with her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Parrot. and
Grandma Croy.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23
Toledo, O.

Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price rs cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Little Alice Hensley is visiting
in Atlantic with her aunt, Mrs. Fred
Wilkins.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

The deep we'll at Audubon
is down about 730 feet. The pros
poets for water is gradually improv-
ing although not near enough in
sight.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

John Dimick shipped two carloads
OF cattle Saturday evening to Chica-
go. He went along to take care of
them, returning home Wednesday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Come in and hear Senator Kenyon
next Monday at 800 p. m.
Clyde Dimick spent Saturday
night and Sunday in Atlantic with
friends.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

The Misses Genevieve Wright,
Lola and Leah Brinkerhoff, and
Frank Dimick went up to Audubon
Sunday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Miss Edna Wells visited relatives
in town Saturday night and Sunday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Mrs. Christensen lies very i'll at
her home. A daughter from Au-
dubon is down helping to care for
her.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Theo Patty purchased the Master
son run-about auto. He is now pre-
pared to go wet or dry. Jane and
Bawley are going out when the au-
to cannot go. This puts our insur-
ance agents on an even footing. Fly
ing machine will be next.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

U. S. Senator Kenyon will speak
on the political issues of the day
next Monday at 800 p. m. Come
and hear him
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Ernest Voss was transacting bus
mess in Atlantic last Tuesday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Miss Leola Sweeney visited part
of last week with her friend, Cen
evieve Wright.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

The Misses Hattie Wright Alice
Hay, Ruth Beers and Ora Hicks
went out in the country Friday af-
ternoon to visit Bertha Young's
school 1T being the last day. After
an excellent program was given, ice
cream and cake were served. There
were twenty-six visitors.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23
Order Your Ice Cream From US

For at home" luncheons for dinners, for banquets
you will be we'll pleased. We handle nothing but
Extra Ice Cream, the that's pure and simply de-
lcious. None nicer purer safer to eat Made from
the purest creom containing greater percentage of
butter fat than is really required by state laws Sold
by the dish pint, quart gallon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

1t is very desirable to have our
Cemetery looking in a neat manner
for Decoration Day. There is con
siderable work to be done and
should be attended to at once.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Miss Laura johnson was visiting
last Thursday and Friday at the "A.
w. Harvey home.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23
Please Bear This In Mind

That during the coming hot days you will find host
OF hot day comforts at store. If you like any
mix them for you. In addition to Ice Creams Ices
and liquid refreshments don't forget Bath Room
Soaps and other summer Needfuls Our Prescription
DEPARTMENTS very complete.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Mertes Of
Adair visited last Saturday nigh
and Sunday with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Elwood.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

The pupils of the first, second,
and third rooms gave an excellent
program Wednesday afternoon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Miss Verna Croy is having a high
fence put around her premises on
the south and east side.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

The Ladies Aid Society of the M.
E. Church met with Mrs. Jaynes
Wednesday afternoon. A DELICATE
lunch was served.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Jens P. Wilson is building an ad- i
dition to his town residence. inc
Miss Mercedes Milliman was on
the sick list the first of the week. in
Clyde Dimick win cast his first
vote at the Primary Election in in
June. WI
Mr.. and Mrs. Roberts. of West
Extra, were up town shopping Sat- las
urday. w
Peter Knutsen, on the old Wolf
farm west of town, is building a fel
large barn. tn
The bridge builders of Audubon
are building new bridge south Ac
east of town. an
Ramona Simpson is visiting with
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
B Connrardy. b..
-- w
DIR. Weighton was down from Au In
dubon two days of last week on pro
dessional business.
Mr.. Soren Madsen is buiLsing ne
new kitchen onto his house in the in
north part of town. sill
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Rummel-
hart visited Sundayea the home of of
A. F. Littlefield ad wife. to
Mrs. Bradley spent Saturday and =,
Sunday in Atlantic with her broth
er, J. H. Bell and wife
Miss Eva Schrader, OF Audubon, -
visited part of last week with her \,
friend, Miss Mabel Griffin =.
Miss Lizzie Wilson is assisting
Mrs. Tom Mardesen with her house X,
hold duties for few weeks -.
Our neighboring city of Elk Horn pl
will have an old fashioned Fourth tn
of July Celebration this year
Are you reading the Audubon Len
County Farmer? If not, send a lin
dollar and get little spice et
]. B. j. Lohner sold the Sernson ~
OOyS, WcoI vi COWll, iI4tS4ddl 81
h. p. fully equipped, automobile. nt
Mr.. Ross. the linotype operator =
on the Adair News, made us d "
pleasant call Monday afternoon ~
is
Miss Ellowene Dimick closed a he
very successful term of school last ca
Friday at the Riley schoolhouse. st
Nick Thielen, Ed Cotton and Fol te
ly Littlefield are the owners of new
automobiles purchased last week
A number of young people OF Au- vi
dubon attended the Club dance at nj
the X. P. Hall last Friday might. d.
Mrs. Susie Wissler. widow lady, "a
has been elected Mayor of Dayton, W
Wyoming on the independent ticket -
Extras Celebration will be on the a.,
Chautauqua order coupled with B.
some Of the richest talent on earth
Mrs. Fredericksen and children
visited part of last week with
relatives and friends in Elk Horn
-- pl
LIMO Croy visited the first of the ne
week with her grandparents, Mr.. mr.
and Mrs. Charles Parrott and
Grandma Croy. 49,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Senator Kenyon will speak in Ex-
ira next Monday afternoon at 800
p. M, May 9th.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Mr.. annd Mrs. Jesse Nissen visit
ed Sunday with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Miller.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

]. Z. Riley, Jeweler.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

MIR. Madsen was transacting bust
ness at the Court House in Au-
dubon one day last week.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Miss Ethel Bison, Of Brayton, Wis
tied few days last week with her
friend, Ellowene Dimick.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Cut this Coupon out. It's worth cents
at our fountain on Wednesday, June 10,
when presented with five soda checks
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-05-23

Mrs. Bradley and Mrs. Bell went
to Hamlin Thursday to visit a few
days with relatives.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15
Sent Happy New Year" to the World

A MILLION miles of telegraph and "A cable wires throughout the world were thrown open to the tick of a sidereal clock in the Naval observa- tory on the heights overlooking Wash ington at the moment 1911 changed to 1912 and Uncle Sam through them called his Happy New Year. to all the world. Every city and hamlet in the nation, the ships at sea, travellers to foreign lands were informed at the moment that the nation officially an- nounced the arrival of Times new span Yet the plain-faced old time- piece merely swung it's pendulum as might any such on an obscure mantel and knew not the import of the mes sage it sent. s14 cs
 The tick of this clock heard as New Years eve came to an end is the mes sage of them all that extends furthest of all those sent since the world be- gan. It is flashed out from the Naval, observatory at Washington each year. As the seasons pass the, extent of its reach Is increased and that of this New Years night was, greater, than any of its predecessors. ItsWas licked oft to Nome, to Rio Janeiros to Shang- hai, to Cape of Good Hope, to London. It informed the lonely operator at
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15

EXPERTS in the construction bureau E of the United States navy point out the fallacy of the statement published broadcast that Germany will hold sec ond place among the naval powers, supplanting the United States, when the ships now being built by both na- tions are completed. After reviewing the difference in tonnage, which is not largely in favor of Germany. a compe- tent naval expert says:
 Taking the present and the future into consideration, the present su- periority of the United States, as sec ond in the world, continues because our superiority consists in the fact that of all ships of the same displace-
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15
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Nation Is to Fight the Loan Sharks

The many unsuccessful attempts to legislate the usurious money lender out of existence have shown one thing very clearly, that law that comes between the interruptions man who has money to lend and the man who wants to borrow cannot be enforced until an agency is established to sat isfy his need at a lower cost. Recog- nizing this fact, philanthropic men in nearly twenty cities, content with a reasonable return upon their invest ment, have organized remedial socie- ties to make loans at the lowest rates of interest practicable to deserving people upon security of personal prop erty pledged or mortgaged.
 In many cities efforts are now being made by citizens backed by chambers of commerce and boards of trade to organize similar societies. Those in operation have proved themselves a practical and measurably successful means of accomplishing what drastic legislation and popular clamor has been powerless to do. The loan shark has not been entirely eliminated from the cities in which these societies op- crate, but his exactions have been re- duced appreciably.
 Briefly stated, the programme of the remedial loan movement includes the organization in all cities of competi- tive loan societies of social nature in the pawnbroking and chattel loan fields; the establishment of co-opera- tive associations for savings and loans among employees. supplemented by the investment of honest capital on 8 reasonable money-making basis. In all states legislation will be sought chiefly to facilitate this competition.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15
Uncle sam's Navy Holds Second Place

menr we have moro guns available for fighting on the broadside. The F1ori- da. which is of about 22,000 tons. can bring to bear on the broadside ten 12- inch guns. The German dreadnoughts of the same displacement can only bring eight guns to bear.
 Now this represents the fighting value of the two navies and is actual ly 20 per cent in guns ahead of Ger many as against Germany's ten per cent of tonnage, which really means nothing as a factor in fighting.
 Germany has not yet awakened to the fact that Great Britain began to follow us in broadside arrangements about three years ago. The kaiser's empire is stil behind in the main ele- ment on which navies can be com pared as to efficiency. Another thing is that nearly all the German ships. which on paper are monsters, carry only 11inch guns.
 ''They have only recently started to build 12inch guns and we are build, ing 14-inch rifles.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15
Erom a Waahtub to RIoh.s-


 A short cut from comparative pov erty to affluence has been taken by Magdalena Steinhausen, who, by hold ing ticket No. 1O774 in the Prussiar State Lottery, has won one-quartei million dollars. She is a peasant gir who slaved over the washtub and toiled in the fields of Silesia when her parents were alive in order to augment the slender income of her laborer father and washerwoman mother. Since their death she has continued at manual labor to keep body and soul together, earning at the most $3 a week.
 To an interviewer with whom she discussed her stroke of luck she de- clared the mere thought of possess ing so much money made her giddy. She did not fully realize its meaning or how she'd spend 1t. Her first thought is to buy neat little cottage. keep pigs and fowls, drink tea all day long and gossip to her hearts desire with her female neighbors. She said that already she has been inundated with offers of marriage, petitions for help, touting circulars and a gigantic pile of promiscuous communications.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15
PraIse for French Girl caddIes.


 The girl caddies at Dinard are very amusing (writes James Douglas in London Opinion). They are also good caddies. Their strength is extraord- mary. Some of these sturdy little Ere ton maids can do three rounds a day without sign of fatigue Their names are like one of Rossetti's poems Rosalie, Cesarine, Julie, Emmeline, and so forth. And their wit is full of salt. They are not clad in rags, like so many of the child caddies in Eng land, but are comfortably garbed and neatly shod. One little girl told me that she earned 15 or 20 francs week, and that it all went toward her dot. The French boys are not quite so clever as the girls They are not so quick of eye and brain. What struck me most about these French young sters was their physical strength. Our English lads and lassies are not so well fed. Nor are they so well edu- cated. The French girl of fourteen or fifteen is a little woman of the world. She Is more than equal of an English girl of seventeen or eighteen in shrewdness and mother-wit.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15
BEST FUN IN THE WORLD
What Charles 5atteII Loomis Thought About Making the Shedding
 Easier" For Others.

Several years ago Charles Batch Loomis, whose death recently brought sorrow to the thousands who had grown to know him through his lit. erary work, wrote delightful little article on Lending" from which, be cause we believe that, like most good things, it will bear repeating, we herewith present an extract:
 Isn't it queer how the most of us will cling to our money? Maybe we are bachelors, and have next to no call on our funds, and there is not day passes that we could not give a young chap a start in business, or make the sledding easier for a few days, but we never think of doing a thing. We listen to a call for $1O, and hand out the threadbare plea of the need of papering the basement or putting a carpet in the attic, and then in sheer ennul we go to the opera and have a supper afterward, inviting rich friend, and we blow in $10- perhaps the very $10 that the poor devil wanted, although we have SC many $10 it would be hard to tell which was which without marking them.
 Of course, a man has a right to dc what he will with his money, and per haps if any one of us was rich he would enjoy getting s1O's worth oi Caruso's voice far better than he would enjoy helping a deserving man out of hole to the extent of s1O, but just looking at it abstractedly, it would seem that the best fun man could have would be looking around for people who needed help, and help ing them.
 Imagine being a millionaire and go ing around among the studios or the conservatories and finding out this feI low with talent and that girl with g voice, and helping them to art educa tions, not asking that they return the money, but pledging them to pass the favor along when they themselves had succeeded.
 An endless chain of that sort, chi I'd like to come back here 500 years after it was started just for the pur pose of noting how much better the world was by virtue of these benefac tions passed along.
 That's one good thing about human nature. If a man does a kindly thing the fellow benefited never rests until he can go and do something for some one else.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15

WASHINGTON loan shark in
 VI his arrogant disregard of human rights continues in most cities to ex- act unreasonable tribute from the wretched men caught in his net. Lead ing newspapers throughout the coun- try have constantly denounced the business of making small loans upon the security of pledge or mortgage of personal property or assignment of wages. Drastic laws have been in voked in many states against it. So- cieties have been organized to protect victims from unjust practices, but the press accounts are soon forgotten by all save the unfortunate clients of the money lenders, and the campaign to remedy the conditions surrounding the business has been marked by years of fruitless struggle.
 Laws are constantly and uniformly evaded, ignored and defied. The gov ernment officials and legislators have repeatedly announced their firm in tention to drive the loan shark out of existence. Grand juries have time and again returned indictments against these gentry, accompanying their presentments with statements of extortion and oppression almost unbe- lievable in this enlightened age, but still this blot on our civilization re- mains and appears to careful observ- CTS even to increase in size.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15
Old Panama Landmarks Are No More

MANY villages on the Isthmus of kv4 Panama intimately associated with the history of the stirring buc- cancer days are soon to disappear forever beneath the surface of the vast artificial lake which is now slow ly filling up between Gatun and Mata- chin.
 These places were known to Euro pean civilization many years before Jamestown was settled or Massachu- setts Bay was an English colony. Now they are little more than jungle ham lets, and nothing of value will dis appear when the rising waters of Lake Gatun blot them out of existence.
 The Canal Record gives a list and short historical sketches of some of the vanishing villages. Heading the list is the old town of Gatun, which Is already practically covered by eighty feet of rock, earth and water, and other places destined to disappear are Ahorca Lagarto, Barbacoas. Caimito, Matachina, Bailamonos, Santa Cruz, Cruz de Juan Galgo and Cruces.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15

wayside station in Arizona that the New Year had arrived at Washington. It carried the message to the farming town in Iowa and to waiting thou sands in Boston.
 This message awakened a spark of enthusiasm in the breasts of those banished to the lonely Island of Guam to learn that it was New Year back homeeo The men of the fleet and the ocean craft far out at sea pick up it's message and rejoice.
 All these wires and cables and cur rents of the air respond automatically to the ticking of this plain old clock atathe observatory, which clock is the official standard time regulator of half the world. e There is none of the re- laying and delay in the ordinary trans mission of messages for these con tracts are automatic and the message is instantaneous.
The Holbrook news., 1912-03-15
suItan,s MatrimoniaI Record.

The Sultan of Zanzibar, whose ab- dication is announced, has enjoyed the unusual experience of marrying the same wife twice. Some years ago he divorced the Sultana, a daughter of the Imaum of Nuscat, who, being a royal princess, was his only legal wife. His ministers were much per turbed at this, as the marriage had been arranged for state reasons, and the Sultana had done nothing to jus tify her husbands action.
 After some pressure the Sultan con sented to remarry her. There were difficulties in the way, however, as, according to Mohammedan law, no remarriage was possible until the ex- Sultana had married someone else. Eventually she was married to the Sultan's brother-in-law, who imme- diately divorced her, and she was then reunited to Seyyid Ali. Two divorces and two weddings within si1 weeks constitute a record hard to beat.