Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-06-12
= LOCAL AND PERSONAL 4

] Mrs. Jens Petersen went to Allan
tic Friday, making her regular week.
ly visit.
| John Wagner was business pas
senger to Atlantic Saturday morning
to spend the day and enjoy visit
with friends.
Mrs. A. j. Leake and children of
Extra visited in Audubon the latter
part of the week with her mother,
Mrs. L. v. Delahoyde.
John Butterton went to Des
Moines Saturday afternoon to visit
over Sunday with his wife who has
! been there the past two weeks.
A man bought Manhattan Island
for $24, history tells us. The point
to the story is that the man had $2i.
That one bunch alone should be
enough to sell all the war savings
stamps in the country.
Misses Ethel and Helen Bamsey of
Lake Park, Ia, who enjoyed a sever
al days visit here with their cousins,
Ray, Frank and Cleve Bamsey and
families, left Saturday for visit at
Omaha, after which they return to
their home.
| Mrs. Emma Andersen, who is en-
ployed at the j. Mandelbaum store
in Des Moines, returned to her work
there Saturday morning after visit
here with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. E. Jordan. Her sister, Miss Lo-
villa Jordan accompanied her to Des
Moines and will attend the Des
Moines college during the summer
school period.
Manning, Templeton, Dedham,
Harlan, Carroll, Griswold, Brayton,
Elkhorn, Extra, Guthrie Center and
Audubon are all going to have base
ball teams this season. All these
{ towns have good base ball timber, so
there is no reason why lovers of the
national game should not be able to
witness some real good ball playing
in Audubon county.
| Miss Charlse Oelke, who has been
home the past several weeks visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Oelke,
departed Saturday morning for
/ Yuma, Colo, to attend to her farm
work there. Charlse says there is not
much profit in farming on large
scale unles you give strict attention
to the work yourself, therefore she
expects to keep on the job herself.
I According to an article in last
weeks Manning Monitor their paper
will be issued this week from their
new quarters in the building former
ly occupied by the Manning Herald.
They have installed a new press and
much new equipment has been added
which will help materially in getting
out their enlarged paper. The new
owners are making a good showing
in their field of labor and deserve
the patronage of the whole commun-
ity.
| Mrs. G. Weldy of Hamlin phoned
us Friday morning the glad tidings
that she had received telegram
Thursday from her son, George
Weldy, that he had arrived safely
from overseas and was at Newport
News, Va, and expected to receive
his discharge and be home soon.
Young Weldy has been in the 313th
Sanitary Train with the SSth Di-
vision. His parents and friends
will be pleased to greet him when he
reaches Audubon county
Mrs. Mary T. Watts left Friday
afternoon for Atlantic where she
was to meet her son, Harry Watts
and daughter, Catherine Annette of
Des Moines and then go on to 0ma-
ha to help celebrate the Goth we'd
ding anniversary of her parents-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. r. j. Watts. Both
Mr.. and Mrs. Watts are well past the
80 year mark and enjoy rugged
health. Only last year they enjoyed
visit in Chicago and while there
Mrs. Watts recovered from a double
pneumonia Illness.
Holger Lindholm and force of
carpenters began the carpenter work
on the w. j. Kness new modern home
on s. Tracy street last week and the
work is now we'll under way. The
material for the three new houses to
be built for John Horning is arriv-
ing daily and work commenced on
them in Freeman's addition to Audi
bon. Several other new homes are
to be started soon in Audubon. The
delay in the arrival of material and
the scarcity of carpenters is delay
ing building some in Audubon this
spring.