Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-09-24
HERE AND THERE

o. W. Eddy is preparing to put a
cement floor in his big new stock
barn.
One hundred and three tickets
We're sold at the Hamlin dance Sat
urday night. A merry time follow
ed.
Mrs. Grant Kness visited in Ross
Sunday with her mother, Mrs. John
McNutt, who is sorely afflicted with
,sc:atic rheumatism.
4 Frank Duvall was on the Hamlin
market with a splendid bunch of he
Wy hogs Satu: day
CODY Petty's big four gasoline
tlhresher is on the O. w. Eddy farm
waiting an opportunity to hull al
field of clover.
Miss Kathryn Eagen is staying
at the home OF her uncle, James
Eagen, in Greeley and attending the
Rose Valley school.
Dr. Brooks was called to the
Harry Paige home Wednesday of
last week and found Mr.. Paige very
i'll. The doctor who was i'm his big
roadster car, encountered terrific
rain s,orm cn his way home.
After a brief rest at the old farm
home, MIR. and Mrs. John Eagen,
accompanied by their daughter, Bonn
meta, and their SON, Harry, returned
to Omaha to reside Indefinitely.
The Gid Haml.n Meth odist flock
is pleased over the return of Rev.
Mr. Grinyer as their pastor.
A business change in Hamlin
makes Fred Andersen owner of the
cement works and Gets Lauritz Dam
free as a prospsc.or in the business
world. Mr.. Dam has made success
of the cement business, and Mr.. An
dersen is the able foreman at the
lumber yards.
On Thursday of last week little
Dolliver Stanley was taken to Coun-
, Gil Bluffs by his mother, Mrs. Ralph
! Stanley, and his grandma other, Mrs.
Mary May, and paced i'm the school
for deaf mutess where hits educa-
ton will receive careful attention
Dolliver is bright little boy
u
suburbs of Audubon Monday and
| went flying south at thirty five
mile clip, Glossy pursued ty that
] black rain cloud All of sudden
one of the frent tres came off and
; picked UP a fifty nile clip and out
distanced the car for a few rods.
The man stopped and, crestfallen,
| picked up his runaway tire, locked
the black cloud in the face, went
arippling off on the rim.
While Chris Eager was hitching
horse to a light racing sulky Sun
day out on the Geo. Spencer farm
east of ELamlin the horse became
frightened and ran away. A child
that vas st ing en- the Zig when tn
horse dashed away fell off in Tx
road uninjured. The frightened an
imal ran wildly westward into Ham
lin where it was topped with par
of the wrecked rig still cling.ng t.
it.
It was 3 o'clock P. NJ. Monda,
time set for the blood, money an,
cheese race between Tenn Sweezy'
and Simon Foleys horses to tax,
place on the Audubon fair grount
track. A large crowd had gathered
The jockeys were in the saddles liz
{ boring up their mounts. Everybod
was pressing eagerly to the from
when, 10, wild and woolly ssorn
cloud dashed over from the nortl
west and scattered the crowd lik
sln auto scatters a flock of chickens
The horses dashed Off Foley won
by the length of his horse. Everybot
got wet.
Just now in Europe an appalling
storm is raging ON life's uncertain
sea. Where are the peaceful happ,
fields of few weeks ago? Acros:
them are sweeping to and fro III.
red waves of ba tie. Sturdy young
men who went gail. whistling ou
in the April dawning to sow yonde
fields of waving grain are gone
They We're sowing the seed upol
their graves. In the blood stained
wheat they are lying now will
their white faces upturned to thei
native Sky. In the cottage home
mothers and sweethearts are weep
ing. What hideous monster leape,
out of the darkness to desuo
this beautiful home quiet. There i