Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1912-01-11


tice of trying to make our own selves
happy in the midst of suffering and
distress? What is your ambition to-
night? Will the changed conditions
necessary to its realization rob any
body of legitimate pleasure? If SO,
and knowledge of this fact makes
you pause, consider and modify your
desires so as not to infringe on any
brothers rights, you are a very high
type of humanity. You are excellent
material for higher standard of civ
ilization. What we need in this world
right now is better team work against
the enemies to the general happiness.
We are well fed and comfortable to-
night but somewhere somebody is
freezing and dying. can see the snow
drifting over a cold dead face and two
stiff hands clutching a tattered old
garment. Oh, God, the suffering that
preceded the fall! There is plenty in
this world to make every one comfort
able. The trouble lies in the defective
and imperfect machinery if distribu-
ton. AS We recline in our easy chair
tonight there comes freside dream
in which We see the machinery of dis
tribution perfected and SO controlled
by sympathetic connections that a
feeling of want in any part of the So
cial body will initiate flow to the
region of want such produce as will
Suppress the pains of want.
Oh, the daring of this dream
In which l will close my eyes and
The grass grown grave of Misery
And every human face abeam.
H.
With happiness and sweet content!
We have the power. 1t lies with us
To join our hands and make it thus.
Among us why was Jesus sent?
most subtle evils in existence.
While Harrison Stanley, accompan-
led by his sister Pearl and Miss Mabel
McNutt, was fighting his way home
through the binding squail of Monday
evening, his swell body sleigh cap
sized and plunged the three occupants
into snow drift near the Grant Kness
home. The ladies took refuge the
night in the Kness home. No one was
hurt.
There are mail boxes on my route
In which ] have never found an un-
stamped letter, and you bet they look
good to me. On the other hand, there
are some boxes that never yield a
piece of mail stamped Ali ready TO
dispatch. 1t makes me shudder to see
their signals displayed.
An intolerable degree of indecency
has crept into the social dances at Des
Moines, causing the mayor to propose
police supervision. Another PROPOSE
ton is to place inspectors at the en-
trance to Gull out the bad characters.
They are graphing with one of the
Mrs. Chas. Higgins, of Hamlin, re-
ceived midnight message January 8,
calling her to the bedside of her moth
err whom she found to be quite i'll at
the old home east of Audubon. AT
this date she Grandma Owen is
somewhat better
Mr. and Mrs. George Gerard, of
Guthrie Center, were snow bound over
New Years at the Chas. Garrett home.
Mr. and Mrs. George Davis, of near
Hamlin, entertained sled load of rel
atives New Years day.
Dick Owen and Harrison Stanley
caught the early train over the Rock
Island Wednesday morning. Their
destination was Omaha, where they
transacted business highly favored
with pleasure.
Miss Martha Johnson, of near Gree
ley, has been near deaths door for
some time with typhoid-preumonia,
but at this date she is some better and
there are hopes for her recovery.
Mrs. Lou Moore and daughter Le-
ona, of Atlantic, were entertained In
the Marshall McNutt home the latter
part of the week.
Fred Andersen, of Elk Horn, has be-
come permanent Hamlinite in the
capacity of foreman of the E. & X.
Lumber Co.
Charles Stanley has gone to Des
Moines to. enter Highland Park col
lege and fit himself for business
career.
Miles Gardner has secured w. M.
Burns as his chef helper on his
Greeley ranch for next season.
The four new bob sleds which Nels
Mortensen had shipped IN were eager
ly snatched up at $25 piece.
Yes, it is true,
Life is just one thing after another,
And sometimes two.
For Sale.
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