Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-01-27
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Bert Eaton's new residence prop
erty In west Audubon is about com
pleted and he expects soon to move
his family there.
Mrs. G.. W. Preston, who speni
several days visiting relatives and
friends In Omaha, returned home
yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Abbie McFadden has rented
the residence property south of the
]. r. Best residence and will move
| her family to town the first of the
month.
Arthur Farquhar went to Carroll
yesterday to spend the day with w
r. Smith, who is his agent in that
county for the Register Life of Dav'
export.
Every business man in towr
should be in attendance at the ban
quet that is to be given by the Com
mercial Club at the Masonic hall next
Tuesday evening at seven O'Clock.
John and Matt Butterton are going
oihave a public sale oftheir stock and
! implements and have decided to hold
| il on Friday February 18th. They
will have their bills out in few days
on which will be listed the articles
they propose to sell.
Plumbers are busily engaged al
over town connecting the residence
and business houses with the sewer
The severe cold weather has made
digging "a hard proposition and tins
makes work slow.
Chas. Stocking is moving his house
hold goods into his residence proper
ty near the North Western depot. Mr.
and Mrs. Blaine Swart and her moth
er, Mrs. Carroll, who have been oc'
cupying the property have vacated
special meeting of Veritas Lodge
A. f. & A. NJ. will be held in the hal
on Friday evening of this week. The
third degree will be conferred and il
good number of the brethren be il
attendance.
| Eighteen members of the Masonic
fraternity of Audubon attended the
district meeting of the Masonic Crane
Lodge at Atlantic last week anC
most OF them remained for the de
gree work and the banquet which
was given in the hall Thursday eve
ming.
Mrs C. L. Dean. of Canon City
Colo. was called here Saturday b,
the death OF her father. II. J. Cooley
! Before her marriage she lived IL
Audubon but the past year she has
been living at Canon City where he
husband is pastor of the Christian
church.
/ S. r. Nelson, of Atlantic, the gen
tleman who purchased the Ford gar
age from John Martinsen, was in thu
city the fore part of the week taking
an invoice of the stock and making
the preliminary arrangements TO
the transfer of property which is t
take place on the first of February
Audubon has experienced all kind
of weather the past week. Monday /
was warm enough to go about il
shirt sleeves and Tuesday morning
there was scarcely enough clothin
in town for the men who wanted {
keep warm in case he was compelle,
To make drive.
All of the doctors in Audubon hav
been working overtime the past tw
weeks. There is an eXtraordinar
amount of sickness at this time. No
many people are seriously i'll, but
great many have the grippe whic
| compells them 10 take To their bed
for ut least week.
] Several members of the schoC
board went to Extra yesterday morn
ing to take look at the magniiicen
i new building the town erected las
| year Now that Audubon is to hav
| new building that town erected las
| look at other buildings to see where
in we can make some Improvement
| Miss Mildred Buck who is takin
| music at Northwestern University
Evanston, ILL.,. is compelled to give u
her work on account of nervous trou
BILE and at the close of the preser
semester will return to Audubon. A
ter a years rest she expects to retur
to the university to complete he
course 1t is to be regretted that he
health will not permit her to finisl
this year.
Grandma Caldwell who has bee
confined to her bed since the da
before Christmas is improving an
this week was able to walk from on
room to another. She is past.85 veal
OF age, and of course she does not r.
cover as rapidly from a sick spell a
she did in her younger days. II wi
be pleasing news TO all who kno
her to hear that she is having tn
best of care at the home of her so
l Alex Caldwell and wife.