Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-11-25
EVENTS THAT CAST
SHADOWS BEFORE
Nocturnal Vision of Republican
Reader--Peculiar Instance of
Seeing just What is
Expected

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Expected
"I'll wager" said a visitor last
evening in talk with an Audubon
Republican representative, that no
one more carefully reads the old
home paper than l do myself Per-
haps it was this weekly reading of
the coming new improvements and
of the much else which bespeaks
progress, that caused me to dream,
or it might have been an over indul-
gence in the pudding of the evening
meal, but, be that as it may, l slept
and dreamed. My nocturnal NOV
ing picture ran like this:
II made a trip back to my old Aud
ubon, entering the city by the way
of an entirely new route of railway,
one by the way, not even built
on paper, much less on terra firma.
My sleep disturber ignored for me
the use of the well known Northwest
ern or that great awakener of 1873,
the Rock Island. My especially built
road came upon the view of the old
town at the top of Spencer hill At
this point the train stopped that the
passenger might alight and view the
wonders of the growing valley city
from this well known height. Many
were the remarks of the stranger
passenger, each bit more enthus-
iastic than that of the other. / was
filled with a most pardonable pride
and was even more glad than ever to
say: This was my old home town
many years ago." All again on
board, the train proceeded north
down a grade, then turning west, en-
tering magnificent new union sta
ton in Hudlerville.
Emerging from my luxurious car
was astounded by the high walls of
the electric light plant and whizzing
factories. These walls existed as far
as the eye could reach. At the head
of beautiful Broadway to the east
was new and magnificent court
house, an honor and credit to Aud
ubon county and over to the south
little grand new high school build
ing. 1t was the most wonderful, the
most progressive busiest scene ! had
beheld in all my half century of ex-
| istance. / asked a uniformed man
where l could find taxicab in which
| might reach the old and more fam
| iliar end of town. He directed me
to stand" or extension tables, up
on which were placed wicker chairs.
Mounting to one of these I was soon
whirring eastward over Second Ave-
nue. on an asphalt pavement of ex-
ceptional smoothness. / cannot de-
scribe the feeling of exhiliration and
of pride / experienced on this ride.
1t was then / awakened. 1t was time
to do so. :
at will be recalled by bible stu
dents that the prophesies of the old
en- days were the results of dreams.
In these times they dreamed, prophe-
sied-then acted, accomplishment
was the natural result. Since loaves
and fishes was the common diet of
that age there was little that would
cause a doubling Thomas to rise up
and say: His dream came from an
overloaded stomach
while my twentieth century sur
roundings, and the natural evolution
of ages, can scarcely cause me to be
classed with the truly good who were
the dreamers of those days, / none
the less feel that in this instance
can deduct the unnecessary railroad
of my dream, the extension table
taXicab and. perhaps, the great Union
Station and yet expect that the
prophesy of my new court house,
high school building and paving Wis
ion may be fulfilled. Since my act
ual arrival ON the scene l am con-
WINGED that the start toward great
improvement and achievement has
handsomely recommended. Within
| a few years time at most one may
reasonably expect to find these great
Improvements which my night picture
showed me.
"Audubon's geographical location,
its Typographical advantages, its rail-
way facilities and it's encouraging,
plugging citizenship are bound to be
la combination for the coming of even
greater improvements and progress.
even the casual observer, who
may not have Audubon's interests at
heart, is bound to admit her great
possibilities for the future. He can
easily forsee her rapid and contin-
ued progress.