Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-07-29
& LOCAL AND PERSONAL =


tending the state teachers summer
school at Carroll, was home for the
week end.
Miss May Delaney of Manning was
an over Sunday visitor in the city
with her friend, Miss Mayme Rudy
and other friends.
Miss Dorothy Musson of Minneap.
oils. Mimi, arrived in the cry Tues
day evening for a fortnight's visit
with relatives here.
Mrs. P. C. Nelson departed Mon
day morning for Phillip, S. D., where
she will visit at the nome of her sis
ter, Mrs. E. A. Hood and family.
Mrs. Nels Munksgaard and chill
dren were passengers to Carson
Tuesday, where they will be guests al
the home of her sister for week or
ten days.
Miss Luella Witter of Maramec,
Okla, arrived in the city Tuesday
morning for an extended visit at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Joe Nc
Laughlin.
Mrs. Robert Ocheltree who spent a
week in the city visiting at the home
of her brother, H. ]. Hoogenakker
and family, returned on Friday to
her home in Des Moines.
p. C. Nelson was called to Clear
Lake, the latter part of the week by
the sudden death of Thee. Jensen, a
former reSident of Audubon county
Mr.. Nelson did not know the cause
of his death but went to attend the
funeral.
A. II. Edwards, II. ]. Mantz, John
Horning, H. M. Bartlett and F. d.
Searls were passengers to Cedar Rap
ids Monday morning where they
went as delegates from Audubon
county to the state judicial conven-
ton which met on Tuesday.
j. M. Armstrong of Sterling,
Colo, who has been looking after
business matters at Omaha and
points in Iowa, was in the city Sat
urday. He was travelling overland
in his car and after spending day
in Omaha, returned to his home at
Sterling.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Crees. Jr.,
drove to Carroll Tuesday where he
i went to be examined by a govern
Y ment physician. John has not
been in the best of health since his
return from France where he was
wounded and gassed while fighting in
Belleau Woods.
J. G.. Prosser returned from Cedar
Rapids Monday after spending the
past ten days at the bedside of his
father, who is critically i'll and not
expected to live. The patient was a
little better the day he left, but the
attending physician holds out nc
possible hope Of recovery.
G. w. Hoover left Saturday for
Padroni, Colo, where he will spend
couple of weeks with his sister
Mrs. M. Anciaux. After a short
visit in Denver, he will go to Casper
Wyo., for a visit with his daughters
Mrs. w. w. Walrdon and Mrs. w
H. Freeman and their families.
Lewis Kutler, southwestern lows
boy who went to Russia six months
ago to bring his mother, brothers
and sisters from that stricken conn
try, has written that the party hal
been refused passports on the return
trip because of the condition of hi!
mothers eyes. He is waitaing FOL
their improvement.
Rev. Jackson Giddens of Winter
set was in the city last Saturday Wis
iting old time friends, stopping
here enroute home from Elliott
where he had been on business. Rev
Giddens was pastor of the Methodist
church in this city four years and
, made many close personal friends
, all of whom were very glad to meet
him again.
Albert Bert, the 1s-year-old boy
who escaped from the Council Bluffs
Jail after getting away from authors
ties four times, and who later escap.
ed the police at Missouri Valley, and
added the Sioux City police to the
list of sleuths who are not quick
enough to get him. He gave the
police there the dodge last week, and
is still at large.
w. w. Smith had quite an un,
pleasant experience late Tuesday at
ternoon when he fell from the plat
form at the Rock Island depot
landing between the platform and ,
box car on the sidetrack. He land.
ed with considerable force against
the platform which caused him 9
great deal OF pain for while. For
tunately he soon recovered from the
shock and did not sustain any seri
Gus injury.
Mrs. Malthe Malthesen of Ches
ter, S. D., arrived in the city the lat
ter part of the week for a visit with
John c. Jensen and family and with
other old time neighbors. Mrs
Malthesen says crop conditions in
South Dakota look especially goot
at this time. She and her family
are well pleased with their new loca
ton, although of course ii is not
quite as pleasant rs it was here
where they had so many old time
friends.
Plans for the Midwest Horticul,
tural Congress to be held in Council
Bluffs, November 18th to goth were
nearly completed in two-days' SEES
sion OF the various committees last
week. The members of these com
mittees come from the fifteen mid
western states taking part in the bis
show, and gather in Council Bluffs
about once a month to outline the
business OF the congress. The aud
itorium at Council Bluffs will be en-
larged for the show, at which be
tween $4,000 and $4,000 will be
given in prizes.
Miss Lorraine Graham. daughter
of Mrs. Melville Graham OF Audubon
is at the Jones hospital, recovering
from an attack OF illness, with which
she was seized while on her way
home from Omaha, where she had
submitted to an operation for relief
from chronic appendicitis. The i'll.
ness was aggravated by the operation
although not caused by it. She /:
now doing nicely. Miss Graham IL
in charge of the economics depart.
ment OF the Audubon schools. She