Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-01-13
EXTRA

liner Minnesota, and was on the way
from Seattle to Liverpool by way of
Cape Horn loaded with twenty thou
sand tons of food for England. When
they were out twenty-one hundred
miles from Seattle, west of Mexico,
their engines gave out and there they
drifted helplessly for two weeks when
two tugs and a wrecking ship came,
to their rescue, and towed them in to
San Francisco, Cal, where the ship
was left for repairs, which will take
several months, and the food will be
shipped across the continent to New
York by freight. Mr.. Moon has been
employed on this ship for several
years and has made six trips to China
on it.
Tinker Frost who has been here the
past three weeks at the mercy of
the cold bleak north winds in dirty
filthy condition, without money or
friends, was taken to Audubon last
Friday by the authorities and given
a renovating and new clothing pur-
chased for him and a ticket bought
| for him to the home of his sisters,
who live in Broken Bow, Nebr., and
few extra dollars given him at the
expense of the County with the un-
derstanding that he was not to re-
turn here again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Viggo Rasmussen
lost their little nine months old girl
with brain fever last Wednesday
morning after a two weeks hard
struggle for relief. Funeral services
were held at the Christian church
in this city Friday afternoon at $3.50,
Rev. Linkletter having charge of the
services, and the little form laid to
rest in the Extra cemetery.
Mr.. A. w. Bradley who makes his
home in Omaha with his daughter,
Mrs. Harry Crosser, was in Extra
Monday looking after the renting of
his residence, where Ace Green lived.
They have moved to Manning last
Wednesday where they will live on h
farm this year. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Leffingwell will move in the house
vacated by Greens.
Dave Workman who has been a
citizen of Extra for the past forty
years, left Monday for Brooklyn, Ia,
to work at his trade, that of a shoe
maker, in a large shoe store there.
Mr.. Workman is first class workman
and he, no doubt, will prove valu-
able help to his new location, and we
wish him success and property.
Mrs. Fred Rasmussen died Sunday
evening at the home of her son Carl
A. Rasmussen. Funeral services
were held Wednesday p. m. at 100
lo'clock from the Danish Lutheran
Church conducted by Rev. Rasmus-
sen.
The Masons and Eastern Stars held
a joint installation at the Masonic
Hall Wednesday evening, and the
Masons served the banquet. A very
pleasant evening was spent in a social
way after the installation work was
finished.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Holger Petersen VINO
have made their home here the past
year have decided to try farming
life, and moved to farm near Kim
ballton Monday. Mr.. Petersen worked
at the carpenter trade since coming
Ito Extra.
| Joe Narartil was very sick man
again last week but seems to be i'm
proving again. He has had a long
siege of sickness, it being almost a
year since he took sick.
Marguerite Snyder who works at the
Corey home over north of Marne
came over last week and visited rela-
tives south of town. She returned to
Marine Saturday.
Miss Katheryn Brown one Of the
Extra High School teachers who was
sick and not able to return in time to
teach last Monday, came last Thurs
day.
Miss Leila Kline was on the sick
list last week but is on the mend O.
gain and resumed her work at her
school at the Center in Audubon
township.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Christensen
were up the first of the week looking
for a house to live in. Mr.. Christensen
is proprietor of the Ford garage here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Petersen
celebrated their seventeenth wedding
anniversary Tuesday by entertaining
their relatives and many friends.
Mr.. Chas. Malstrom returned
home Friday evening from Hamlin
where he has been working on the
new residence of Elmer Davis.
Peter Bartram of Glenwood, Ia,
who has been here spending the holt
days with friends and relatives, left
Monday morning for his home.
Miss Mary Creighton of Omaha,
Neb., is here taking care of her aunt,
Mrs. Noon, who has been very poorly
for the past two weeks.
The tailor shop in Extra is a thing
of the past, as usual. II seems that a
tailor shop cannot prove success here
for some reason.
Along with the grippe comes the
Pink-eye, number of people around
here have been having serious timc
with that ailment.
Alvin Holmes is Smelling 5000
bushels of corn at the Rothschild
elevator which is being shipped to
market
The X. p. Lodge installed their
new officers Tuesday evening and en-
joyed a banquet and smoker after
ward.
Mrs. Mike Larsen who has been
sick with an attack of stomach trouble
is improving but not able to be up yet.
Chas. Spangler, one of the firm of
the Walnut Milling Co., at Walnut,
was in Extra Monday on business.
Amherst Anderson returned here
last Friday after spending the holt
days with his parents in South Da-
kota.
Grace Getty, the little daughter OF
Rev. Jesse Getty was quite sick with
tonsilitis the past week.
II. p. Petersens are holding cut
price sale on their winter stock OF
goods the next two weeks.
Miss Genevieve Wright has been