Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-01-24
EXIRA.G GOES CLEAR
"OVER THE TOP"
Red Cross Sale Last Saturday in
Extra Eclipses Amy Held So
Far i'm This Part of the
State

The Red Cross Sale held in Extra
last Saturday went over the top in
great shape and the total receipts
so far eclipsed previous sales that
the others were hardy noticeable. A
great crowd was present to buy the
numerous articles that had been do
mated by the people OF the six town
ships in the south part of the county.
The Brayton band was present to
furnish muse and inspire the crowd
with patriotic music. 1t had also
been planned to have the band from
Kimballton, but owing to the sick
ness of one of their leading puayers
they were not able to attend.
A similar sale was held in Audi
bon five days before and we thought
that we had done handsomely, and
We did, but not to the extent that
our friends and neighbors to the
south did. D. r. Jones, the auction
eer from Casey, was present and
made another of his patriotic talks
which electrified the people present.
Extra must have profited by Au-
ubon's experience for the errors that
were made here were conspicuous by
their absence in Extra The grain
and hog buyers were appealed to
and they were on hand to see that
nothing offered for sale in their line
went below the market price. Con-
siderable stuff sold here went be-
low market value and the Extra COM
mittee were wise to see to it that
such mistake was not repeated at
their sale.
4 lno ;,,sx Co. - l..
sale was the rooster, known in this
part of the state as Jack Pershing."
The rooster was on sale in Audubon
and brought handsome figure The
Extra men determined from that
time on that they would snow us un-
der so badly that Audubon would
hardly know that sh, mad been in
the race. They were so determined
and persistent that we were convinc-
ed they would go over the amount
raised here, but no one looked for
such tremendous land slide. When
the sale was over it was found that
the rooster had brought $7,250.S5,
while the total amount of the sale
was $4,000.
After 4:30 Saturday afternoon J.
M Dimick, Percy Hallock and l.. E.
Simpson and DR.. Oldaker went out
to make final round up and in their
soliciting secured $500 in Extra
township to put in the rooster fund.
There was considerable rivalry be-
tween the various townships as to
who could secure the largest sum-
This good natured rivalry of course
made people open their purse strings
and brought out hundreds of dollars.
Everyone realized that the money
was going to a good cause and de-
sired to be as liberal in their dona-
tions as their financial condition
would permit. The amount secured
in Extra and added to the other
sums raised in various localities in
the county gives the Audubon county
chapter a handsome sum, and it is
thought that the amount will be
more than necessary to meet all de-
mands made on the society for the
entire year
The serving of the lunch was un-
der the management OF Mrs. DR.. Old
aker, Mrs. John Dimick and Mrs.
Gault as the executive committee,
with Mrs. Oldaker as tho chairman.
Many from Audubon were present
at the sale and practically all of
them say that Extra had many more
donations than we did. We doff our
hats to the people of the south end,
and hope that they may have the
pleasure of defeating us again in
some such good cause