Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-12-06
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She--I wonder why men lie so?
He-Because their wives are so
blamed Observation-Disclosures Tran
script.
If man isn't square it doesn't
take the public very long to get on
to his curves.
Ed F. johnson and Bert McLeran
went to Des Moines today to attend
the Shriner banquet.
The Sociology department of the
Columbian Club will meet next Mon
day, December 9Th, with Miss Jean
Culver.
Toay is the coolest so far this win
ter. the thermometers registering as
low as six to eight degrees below
zero early this morning.
Nels Nelson left yesterday for Om-
aha where he will work this winter.
He has ar'.' e I'd a position with the
M. L. smith wholesale house.
If every American reduced his con-
sumption of wheat flour one pound
week the saving would be sufficient
to supply the needs of all our allies.
If organized labor would do itself
a great beneficial favor, and service,
it will administer to the booze in
terests the jolt to which it is justly
entitled
Mrs. Sarah Zeigler of Coon Rapids
who visited her sister, Mrs. l.. Har-
desty in Extra, accompanied by the
latter came to Audubon this morning
to visit friends.
e. II. Jacobsen returned home this
morning from Chicago, where he
went to attend the International Live
Stock show and attend to other bus
iness matters.
If all classes of slackers and near
traitors can be successfully rouned
up and penned, the country will at
least know where they are, and what
they are not doing.
Miss Rosetta Whittier, who was
here for a visit with relatives at the
A. X. Heuss home in the country,
returned to her home at Tilden, Ne
braska this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matthias Jensen who
were recently married and visited
here with his brother, Geo. Jensen
and wife, left yesterday for the home
of her brother, John Kusel and fam
lily, near Gray.
Robert Magill, who has been at At
lantic with his wife who submitted
to q surgical operation last week, re-
turned home yesterday and reports
his wife as doing as nicely as could
be expected, and resting easily.
Billy Leet of Manning, young
millionaire recently divorced from
his wife, Anna Robertson Leet, at
Carroll is now in the aviation school
at Omaha. Billy no doubt will make
good if daredevil tactics will do the
stunt.
Andy Hansen was here from Car
roll yesterday to visit his mother,
Mrs. Mary Hansen, and on business.
Mrs. r. F. Childs was a business
passenger to Omaha yesterday, going
down on the afternoon Rock Island
train.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lou Moore went to
Omaha last evening where Mrs.
Moore will enter the Jenny Edmond
son hospital and submit to an oper-
alton for gall stone trouble. Her
friends are hopeful for speedy re-
covery.
On his return from Audubon to
Anita Monday morning. Fred Dennis
had one wheel and tire badly damag-
ed, the result Of another car running
into him. He had been here on a
visit with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. S. Dennis.
Geo. and Will Umland, who farm
the Will Leet place. went to Manning
today to attend a public sale and
purchase machinery for the former,
who has purchased LOG acres of farm
land near Manning, and will move
there next week.
M. T. Foley, Geo. A. Foley, w. j.
Campbell and ]. E. Kerwin of the
X. of C. lodge have been appointed
as solicitors to raise a second war
fund for the Knights of Columbus
and are busy this week doing their
part in the work.
Walter Machie, who has been here
for the past year and recently en-
ployed by j. w. Dawson, left last
evening for a visit with friends at
Manning, after which he will leave
for a visit over Christmas with his
parents at Powers, Mich.
The ]. w. Dawson public sale, held
at his home in Viola township on
Tuesday, December 4. proved very
successful. A large crowd of good
buyers was present despite the bad
weather, everything selling at top
prices. Advertising helped to con-
siderable degree.
Four brothers, Henry, Jake, Earl
and Fred Stevens, sons of Mr.. and
Mrs. ID. A. Stevens of Jefferson, Ia,
Monday of this week enlisted in the
aviation service of the U. S. army.
Mr. and Mrs. Stevens have every pos
sible reason to be proud of their
four stalwart and patriotic boys.
Mrs. w. F. Schultz and Mrs. M. H.
Shultz, mother and sister-in-law of
Mrs Bert Gregory, came from Deep
River Valley, Iowa last week for a
several days visit with Mrs. Gregory
and husband. They left for their
home Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs. Gregory
taking them as far as Atlantic by
auto.
Mrs. Joe Johnston, son Cameron
and grandson, Will Schrader, went to
Atlantic Sunday by auto and met the
formers daughter, Miss Margaret
Johnston, who had been on a ten
days visit at Valley Junction with
Mrs. Carl Fiscus and at Des Moines
with her uncle, Robert Byers and
family.
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