Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-10-23
= LOCAL AND PERSONAL !

you can I nave nerve ana 100
many nerves.
We buy old gold and silver. Bak-
er's jewelry store.
If you are doing we'll enough you
are not doing very well.
Miss Anna Petersen spent Monday
in Atlantic with friends.
Buy your wire corn cribs at the
Green Bay Lumber Co.
Love is said to be blind because
it can never see its finish.
Buy your diamonds now and save
money. j. F. Baker, the jeweler.
Love means sacrifice but lot of
people seem to think it means
money.
What is more piffling than the in
dignation of a crook over being
"wronged?'
One disadvantage of owning your
own home is that you can't rail at
the landlord.
Wanted to trade a diamond ring
for piano. Address box 397, Au-
dubon, Iowa.
1t is getting so that quart of old
liquor attracts more attention than
night-blooming cereus.
Mrs. H. r. Purdy and sons left the
last of the week for Oakland, Iowa,
to visit at the home of her parents.
A woman hopes she will meet her
husband in heaven, but il she'd adj
NIT it she'd say she has her doubts
about the reunion.
Mrs. j. r. Best and daughter vir-
| oil w IN with
friends in Des Moines, returned
home Tuesday morning.
Fred Martinsen of the Martinsen
garage was in Des Moines a couple
of days the fore part of the week
looking after business matters.
Mrs. S. r. Johnson and daughter
Helen went to Iowa City Tuesday
morning where Helen will be taken
to the hospital for treatment.
Miss Katherine Ford returned to
her home at Glenwood, Mo-, Tuesday
morning after spending a week at
the ]. H. Maharg and S. NJ. Luse
homes.
Who remembers when any young
man who had saved hundred dol
lars and had ten-dollar job knew
he was ready to marry and support
family?
Many man who once thought he
was hiding his light under bushel,
discovers, now that prohibition has
come, that he really was hiding it
under key.
One place where the homely girl
has it on her better looking sister is
that the homely girl doesn't stand
in much danger of being insulted by
horrid man.
/. ID. McCarville who spent Sun
day with his family, was called to
Spencer Tuesday morning to settle
death claim for the insurance COM
pany which he represents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Farquhar of
Winterset, arrived in the Friday for
a visit at the home of his brother,
Arthur Farquhar and family. They
remained until Tuesday morning
when they returned to their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Grow, Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Ellis and two children of
Walnut were in the city Sunday visit
ing with former friends, On ac-
count of the rain they were compell-
ed to leave their car and return to
Walnut by rail. 49,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Stanley
are the happy parents of a seven
pound daughter born to them on
Wednesday of last week. Mrs.
Stanley and the little one are getting
along fine and Charley is about the
proudest man in Audubon county.
Miss Lorena Hayes of Chicago,
spent several days in the city last
week guest at the home of her col
lege chum, Miss Clara Foley Monday
morning Miss Hayes went to Des
Moines where she will make an ex-
tended visit before returning to Chi
cago.
With eggs at SO cents dozen the
old hen ought to have a pretty good
opinion of herself Should the
strike mania get hold of her, the
housekeepers will have a mental coll
lapse, say nothing about the family
pocketbook. That is badly collaps-
ed already.
In Philadelphia they operated on
a boys head the other day to make
a better boy of him. That is not
where our mother used TO operate on
us with that good old carpet slipper
when II was necessary to make us
better boy, but, of course. times
have changed.
The Rock Island is notorious for
the lateness of its local passenger
trains. Don't blame the local agent
though: he can't help it, As a fell
low said yesterday the company
ought to take the train crews
watches away from them and give
them calendars.
DIR. A. l.. Brooks. who has been
taking several weeks treatment at
Kansas City, Mo-, arrived home Sun
day. The doctor is feeling a great
deal better than he has for some time
past. He looks the part. too, and
this week he has had a great deal Of
enjoyment meeting his many old
patrons. All are glad to know that
the doctor is so much better and that
he intends to continue his practice.
t. w. Stoop. who has been guest
at the Amos Fancher home the past
two weeks, left Tuesday morning for
his home at West Liberty. Mr..
Stoop had a fine visit here and said
he believed Audubon was about as
pretty little city as he had ever
been in. He is an old friend of
Harp Wilson, who formerly lived at
West Liberty and was much disap-
pointed that he and Mr.. Wilson did
not get to have an old time visit.
The republicans came within few
hundred votes of capturing another
congressional seat in the south. A
special election was held in the 7th
Alabama district to fill a vacancy
caused by the death of a member
from that normally democratic dis
trict. Democratic majorities were