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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07
Brayton News Items

BraytOn News Items
Lucille, Cozette and Charles
Miller spent several days last week
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bramson in Atlantic.
Garner Bartlett, OF Osceola, was
in Brayton on business last week.
Mrs. George Hardwick was a
visitor at the Valentine Leonard
home in Audubon last week. MIR.
Leonard has been very i'll for some
tame.
The remains of Willis Jenkins
who died Friday at Lincoln, Ne
braska, were brought here Satur-
day, and funeral services were held
Monday, with interment in the
Oak6eld cemetery.
Frank Devine, Of Houston,
Texas, arrived in Brayton Sunday,
called here by the death of his
cousin, Willis Jenkins.
Mrs. Clarkson and two daugh-
tiers, of Winterset, visited in Bray
ton with her brother, Frank Ben
ham and wife Thursday.
Miss Anna Dorr, of Sioux City,
was in Brayton Monday to attend
the funeral of Willis jenkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. M. Bartlett and
daughter, Miriam, drove to Osceo-
Ia theday, to visit their son, Gar
ner, and family, expecting to re-
main unit! after the Fourth but
we're called back Saturday by the
death Of Willis Jenkins.
Mrs. Jens Miklesen went to Ne
ola Saturday to visit her parents
Theodore Gearheart and wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Christensen
and children, of Corning, are visit
ing relatives in Brayton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Clark anc
Mrs. Gustafsen from near Orient
we're calling on friends in Braytor
Sunday.
Miss Mabel Rasmussen, who is
attending school at Harlan, came
home Saturday to remain unit
after the Fourth.
The relatives from out of town
who attended the funeral of Willis
Jenkins Monday were MFR. and
Mrs. Warner and son, Willis, Of
Creston, Iowa; Mr.. and Mrs. Vim.
ton Burton, Of South Sioux City
Nebraska, and Frank Devine,. o.
Houston, Texas. Mrs. Warner il
q sister Of Mrs. Jenkins and Mrs.
Burton is a sister Of the deceased
Howard Clark, of Des Moines
was visiting his brother, R. !
Clark, and family, last Friday.
John F. Bergh, of Atlantic, wa
IN Brayton on business Monday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07

Dan Wagner, son Of John. Wag-
ner, was one Of the Audubon coun-
ty men who graduated from the
State Agricultural college this
year. Bachelor of Science in AMI
NAL Husbandry is his degree.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07

Miss Myrtle Harris and Ray
Harris, Of Missouri Valley came
Saturday to visit relatives at the
Bush home. Ray returned Tuesday
but Miss Myrtle will remain sever
al weeks.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07

Father, what is the difference
between visit and visitation"
"Well, Sammy, when we go to
grandrna's it's visit, but when
grandma comes to see us it's q
visitation"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07
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Miss Clara Tibben will leave
Saturday to visit her sister, Mrs.
Frank schlater and husband at
Brush, Colorado.
Miss Anna Dorr, of Sioux City,
came to attend the Willis jenkins
funeral in Brayton and is spending
q few days with friends. i,
Cecilia Thielen stepped on a
nail just outside the Legion Hall
on July 9TH, and the wound is prov
ing quite serious.
Rev. Baldwin, wife and son, Of
Lake Preston, South Dakota, came
to Extra to spend the Fourth and
to visit at the DR.. jacobson home
and with their many friends.
Genie and Kathryn Thielen feft
Thursday morning for Denver,
Colorado Springs and other western
points They expect to stay several
weeks. s..
Kirk Knox and family and Miss
Lou Knox are leaving today on q
six weeks auto trip which will take
them to Lyman, Nebraska; Lusk,
Wyoming and several other points,
They expect to be in Cheyenne,
Wyoming for the Frontier Days.
After a meeting Of the Girl
Scouts Wednesday afternoon. Mar
guerite and Marjorie Wilson enter
tanned the members and their
leader, Miss Carrie Rendleman, at
Ice cream in honor Of their eleventh
birthday.
Funeral services were held at
Hoboken Sunday over the bodies
of 1911 soldier boys who lost their
lives overseas during the World
War. The body of Merle Hay is
omong the number. Merle Hay,
Thomas T. Enright Of Pittsburg,
and Corporal James Gresham Of
Evansville, Indiana, were the three
heroes who were first to fall, all
the bodies being among the arrivals.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07
Conducting Survey to
Determine Land Values

Representatives of the Iowa
Farm Bureau Federation will meet
with the Executive Council in July
when that body will sit as a board
of equalization of land values for
purposes of taxation.
In order to have accurate
information for the occasion the
Federation is conducting careful,
statewide survey to determine
present values as compared with
those OF two years ago when specu-
lation was'rampant ndprices seek
ing new levels every day.
Some of the older counties of the
state were not SO upset by the late
land boom. Values remained fairly
conservative, with taxes in pro-
portion. But in most counties
prices scared to the skies, and now,
with q marked reaction in progress,
leaving taxes based upon the max
imun figures reached, the problem
has become distressing
The Federation officials realize
perfectly that an equitable appor-
tionment and distribution, one
county with another, is about the
hardest thing on earth to accom-
plish, and dependable, 6rst-hand
data is absolutely necessary if the
Executive Council is to act intell-
igently and with anything approach
ing fairness to all.
This information the Federation
proposes to furnish. When COM
pleted the survey will show land
values by counties, both in 1919
and 1921. It will show whether the
| initiation experienced two years
ago has been discounted and to
what extent; it will show the per-
centage of bankruptcies resulting
from the boom, the proportion of
cases where owners have been COM
lpleted to take back farms that
could not be paid for, and much
other information of a. similar
nature.
The Chas. Escher and Son Stock
Farm of 400 acres over in Shelby
County was sold recently for $500.
an acre. The farm is we'll improved,
the house being fine succeed
bungalow. There are several large
barns, granaries, corn cribe, ma.
chinery houses, silos and sheds
which were considered in the tran
saction. But counting out the
worth Of the improvements the
farm sold at record price.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07

Air Tight Tins Of so
Ask your dealer to show
you the new vacuum
sealed tins of so Chester
fields. "A compact, com
venient and absolutely
AIR TIGHT packing
the cigarettes keep fresh
indefinitely.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07

Genie and Kathryn Thielen feft
Thursday morning for Denver,
Colorado Springs and other western
points. They expect to stay several
weeks. &c.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07

Rev. Baldwin, wife and son, Of
Lake Preston, South Dakota, came
to Extra to spend the Fourth and
to visit at the DR.. jacobson home
and with their many friends.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07

Miss Clara Tibben will leave
Saturday to visit her sister, Mrs.
Frank schlater and husband at
Brush, Colorado.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07

Cecilia Thielen stepped on a
nail just outside the Legion Hall
on July 4th, and the wound is prov
ing quite serious.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-07-07

Miss Anna Dorr, of Sioux City,
came to attend the Willis Jenkins
funeral in Brayton and is spending
q few days with friends. &,
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07
BALM FOR RAINY VACATIONS
"Neather Insurance" Designed TO
Give Monetary Solace to Travel
ers That Are Unfortunate.

Cot all your vacation toys? Got
your fishing tackle. your round trip
ticket. your mosquito lotion and your
rain Insurance?
Yes there's balm In Gilead at last
for the bitterest of human tragedies.
For there's 10 denying that a rainy
vacation Is q worse catastrophe than
a collision of planets. even If the lat
ter involved the wping out of all
ones wife's relations.
The balm consists of q bet made
with you by an insurance company
that It won't rain during your vaea-
ton. In other words. you take out a
rain policy for that period. And then,
If It happens To pour cats and dogs all
the time you have the consolation of
collecting tidy sum of rain insnr-
anee when you return to town. You
may be so constituted that the money
would fail to console you for the lost
vacation days. but there are other fel.
lows who would pray for rain IN order
to beat the company"
The idea comes from England. where
all sorts of freak assurances are prae-
ticed. Records of the United States
weather bureau are used to figure out
rates based on the probabilities Of
precipitation In any given part of the
United States and Canada. One In
surance company points with pride to
the fact that last year II paid SILL
2f3.25 to the waltham fair on account
Of loss due to a rainy day. the fair
corporation haying taken out rain
policy. And the Kansas free fair at
Topeka was protected by $4,000
rain policy with British company.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

fSaiiensl Crop Improvement servieel
In building concrete road. there
should be no compromise. We have
learned to orr sorrow that those com
munities which have constructed one
track, thin slab OF concrete have been
sadly disappointed and it is difficult
70 get enthusiasm in that neigllbor-
hood for more concrete roads.
When we build let rs build the best
We know how. Let us insure that our
gravel roads will be 50 graded and
drained thar the water may never
stand upon tho surface.
A cement road can best be laid over
a good gravel road which has had its
he'd pounded down for years There
Is no form of roam 50 economical. and
II Is practically good for all time, II
the foundation Is good and the CON
crete mixture is right.
Steal has an affinity for concrete. the
two practically expanding and con
tracing equally. The greatest combi-
nation for permonenee Is concrete and
steel This is proven to every ones
satisfaction In building concrete tow
er or bridge They are invariably re
enforced with steel
Por the same reason concrete
highway must be REINFORCED. II a
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

National Crop Improvement ssfYieal
Ever IN the most populous sections
Of Illinois. a half days rain will ma
room every family outside Of the VIII
iage limits. This Is just as true few
miles from Chicago a. II Is few miles
out Of Cairo; and throughout the cen
ter OF the state; farmers are often com
PEELED TO walt for days before they
can pull their cars out OF the mud.
In the wlntertime the best roads
are kept clean with snow plows. but
where those roads have become deeply
rutted and where there Is only n day
or two between snowstorms, the road
crews. being oYerworked, cannot pos.
slbly get those roads clear. In conse-
auehce the farmers get out their hobs
and when they come to drift In the
road merely take down the fence and
drive across the field.
This is death on the farmers auto
mobiles because, as rule. the bobsleds
are much narrower In tread and the
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

In this issue appears an advertise
mont of the "Old Reliable st. LOUIS
,fslahe Democrat, to which we request
your attention. The Globe Democrat sIs'
hsses its claim for your subscription
an its absolute fairness in printing
the news in an unbiased uncoiored
wav There have been great and I'M
,,o,tznt additions to its news gathering
facilities, both at home and abroad
There have also been added NUMBER
of new daily features There IS always
a good continued story, news OF the
.ucqad in photographs, daily comic car
ICONS and many other regular features
for men. women and children. FOR
.particulars we urge you to read the
advertisement, and then send in your
orders at once to the Globe Printing
eoa. Publishers ST. Louis. Mo.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

cars therefore haze TO make new
track.
Where there Is Q reinforced con-
crete pavement. IL Is comparatively
easy to run the piows and these roads
are In daily operation where the back
roads are piled full OF drifts.
The frost Is perhaps the greatest
enemy TO a concrete road. therefore II
is necessary TO reinforce this road with
steel. Both sides Of the road VIII rise
with o freeze In the fall and lower with
the thaw In the spring, making a great
hinge IN the center. This accounts for
the jagged longitudinal cracks which
appear after one season In any road
not properly reinforced.
The additional cost Of steel REIN
forcement Is said to be only about 5
per cent OF the expense Of the road.
Other states are learning from expert
ence that no road Is properly made un-
less reinforced. We should profit By
the experience Of other states Let u
do II right while we are doing II.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

As highway transportation de-
velops and passenger cars and trucks
become practically the sole means Of
road travel, the proportion OF tirst
purchasers OF cars and trucks In the
total of car sales viii decrease. and
the demand for new cars each year
will become more and more nearly
equal to the number Of cars which
drop out OF service. For this reason
II is becoming increasingly iuipor-
tant for the trade to know how many
cars viii be required for replacement
OF those withdrawn from service.
Analysis OF registration. production.
export and import figures over a
period OF years leads to the con-
clusion that the average life OF the
100000 cars retired from service In
the last seven years was about SO
ears--Sclentifc American.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

road cracks and splits for lack Of re-
enforcing II becomes very costly TO
keep It in repair. II Is clumsy ex-
pediept nj best To pour these cracks
full of soft asphalt. These cracks
Will constantly widen unless re-en-
forced and the roads soon break up
into chuck holes.
Probably the most satisfactory
method In point Of efficiency yet de-
ydsed for reducing the number Of oh
iectionable cracks In concrete pave
ments. Is that of employing steel re-
enforcement" says the office Of pub
lie roads In Bulletin No. 249. United
States Department of Agriculture.
A steel fabric Will strengthen ce-
ment road the same as wire net
ting viii REINFORCE wire glass against
breakage by fire or other causes.
II Is said that the additional expense
of steel reinforcement should not be
more than per cent. We cannot af-
ford TO go to the great expense OF
building a concrete road and emitting
this very important detail.
Let rs do II right In the first place
because II will be difficult TO sell bonds
10 maintain or reconstruct that ROAD
II II goes to pieces.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07
Read our locals and 5orei9l News
IT may be a Csttsr from homs'
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be
Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure cartarr-
hal deafness, and that is by a eonstitu-
ionaf remedy Catarrhal Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tubes
When this tube inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing.
and when it is entirely closed, Deafness
is the result. Unless the inflammation
can be reduced and this tube to its nor
NAL condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever. Many cases of deafness are
caused by catarrh. which is an infiamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
Halls Catarrh Medicine acts thru the
blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Catarrah Peafness that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Medi
cine. Circulars free All Druggists.
75c.
F. j. Cheney & Co. Toledo. o.
By Associated Negro Press.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

Austin J. Harnan OF Custer. Okla,
has invented what he calls a new
and improved tombstone" says the
Columbus Dispatch. II Is designed TO
represent a llfe-size human figure
standing erect. For instance. II might
be soldier. The material Is galyan-
lied iron. made hollow. SO that the
lower part OF Il may be filed with
cement to make a heavier Ease. The
body is hollow IN order that If de-
sired. 1t may hold an urn containing
the ashes Of the deceased. As for
the head. II Is meant to be screwed
on and may be made likeness Of the
person for whom the tombstone is
erected.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

National Crop Improvement Service
Miles upon miles of good gravel
road In Illinois have been utterly
ruined by the heavy trucking service
which is. using them daily and the
sad part of 1t is that the better a
road originally, the more the trucks
have cut II up.
The time has come and we may rs
well admit II, when we must build a
system OF good roads which will stand
heavy traffic so that auto trucks may
handle much Of the short-haul freight
OF the country, relieving the railroad
OF this class OF business and enabling
them to take care of the long hauls.
Good roads for trucking will prevent
another freight congestion which has
paralyzed business ever since the war.
Many experts say that this freight
congestion had o very important part
In bringing bout the high cost of liv-
ing.
1t is generally agreed that concrete
roads will Adequately take care OF the
traffic as Va hare known 1t for the
vhsusks ard KinAnsss Hssl
n IL not wrfttsn blessed ~ he thAs
fssdth the poor. bat he sAat consid
srsth the poor. A little thought and
attIs kindness are often worth mors
than . great deal o. uaonsy.-Iohs
Snsk1n
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07
To insure publication all cores
pondence should reach this office
not later than Tuesday morning.
The editor.

Any church needing good
pastor and a splendid preacher. a
man OF high ideals and broad VS.
ion, we can recommend Rev Jno.
b usn, OF Mt Vernon, Ill. who
successfully pastored Shiloh Bap-
fist church OF that city for 5 con-
secutivc years. His address IS
1911 Herbert, St.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07
REAL TREAT FOR IMMIGRANTS
Ice. Cream Something New to Arrivals
at Ellis Island, but They
Finally Liked II.

Immigrant struggles with American
food on Fills Island reached climax
when Commissioner Wallis introduced
plates OF ice cream TO the LOO diners.
The idea behind the Ice cream was 10
give the immigrants q real treat on
their reaching the land Of promise.
What happened was a marvel to wit
ness. Tie first persons served we're
Balkin native and native OF
East India. The East Indian took a
lick and liked IL. lie looked around
and saw that the Balkan opposite him
had a bigger piece. Greedily he
grabbed for II. Then the fight began.
Both got well smeared In the face with
the food
The other diners touched the Ice
cream. and finding 1t cold. thought
they knew the trick. The stunt was
to smear the cold substance on your
neighbor's face. This happened sew
eral times. Then someone tasted the
ice cream and with whoop an
nounced II was mamma too precious to
be wasted on counienances. The head
steward said the same thing Ia the
eight languages he speaks. The face
smearing ceased abruptly.
But the final experiment was yet
to be made. The real genius OF the
meal took up his knife and piece Of
bread and spread the new butter ten
DERBY over Il. He started the fashion
with a bang, and all the rest enjoyed
their ice cream that way.-New York
World.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

Rev. A J Hester. of Ioppa,
attended the Synod of {. ?.
Church held at Princeton. KY.
last week. He reports splendid
meeting He goes to Chicago
and Evanston, Saturday to visit
his children and attend the Prince
Hall Masonic Grand Lodge which
holds its annual session ia Evans
ton.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07
Cancer Truths" Free
to Sufferers

A remarkable book about cancer and
is treatment without cutting has been
published by Dr.. o. A. johnson, Suite
SIS, 1923 Main Street, Kansas City.
Mo. The book, Cancer Truths, >" tells
of this eminent specialists experiences
in treating thousands of cases of can
Ger without the knife in the last twen-
ty years. This book should be read by
every cancer sufferer. A copy will be
sent free. post paid, to anyone who
swrites DR.. johnson
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07
oil, nsalth nlns

Understand that IL yov are mentailg
emitted with sfotnesa old age ans
death, NO amount OF desire or afarms
nEien can make you VOL, young, %
long lived. To be healthy. you mnss
lDs mentally in unity With health; u
.cefhsin young. yo1 must b. mentally
,s2e with youth, and TO live long. yos
yuuss be mentally unined with nfa
..s,- Wallace D. Watties In The Mas
pssA
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

The editor Of The Gazette would
like to know the address OF Rev.
A. J. Day, formerly of Clarks-
vile, Tenn, and Rev. +. Bomar
formerly OF Cairo. Anyone able
to furnish such information please
drop US postal card.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

II Is announced that the archeologi-
cal service In Thessaly has informed
the minister of education Of the dis
covery OF an Olymplan temple at Ferries
near. Veiestion, Of the fourth century
before the present era. The temple.
IL Is stated. resembles that at Olympia ;
1t Is In a good state Of preservation
and has 10 bronze plaques with laws
and DEGREES.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07
-You must mail copy OR
Noodays to secure publication.
Announcements

We are authorized to announce 'ne
a.ma of Ed Cockrel. of Grant Precinct
"a a candidate for County Commission
- If Massac County. subject TO ehe
action of the voters at the hepuD,'ea"
primary election Wednesday Septem-
Ia, 1921.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

"If q man Is rich and has good
health and beautiful wife and two
or three lovely children" she said.
"what more can he wantl"
'Weil," he replied. "there's many a
beautiful wifo who talks more than
y absolutely necessary."-1htca
Nerald and EKaminef.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

Moderator McCrary, and grand
son Joseph Edgar will stop over
in Centralia. Sunday for a few
hours enroute to Chicago and
Evanston. Those who are indebt-
ed for The Gazette please be pre-
pared to settle.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07
Nsv snsfructiora.

Conductor Ticket. please" Pas
ssnger-."Certainy sir. Here IL ths key
Of my trunk. which In In the Baggage
car. In tho pocket Of my seconi.best
dress 10 ny mileage book."-Harpsrs
Bszaf.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

Mrs Vetla Whitaker and little
daughter have returned to their
home in Detroit, Mich. after visi :
ing her mother and other relatives
for several weeks.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07
The prayers OF the righteous
availeth Fanch.--Bible.


3ssnshine is delicious. rain is refresh
ting, wind braces up. snow is exhils
rating; there is really no such thing
as had weather. only different kinds a
Ioo& weather John Ruslia-
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

Mr. Thos. Urquhart, and family
moved to Chicago. Saturday.
where he has purchased a home
on Evans Ave.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07
Walker S Indigestian Cure.

Rev. J. B. McCrary is agent ioi
Or. Walker Sure cure for lndi-
gestion and Dyspepsia. soc and
SI.oo bottles. $I.Io by mail
We can cheerfully recommend it.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1921-10-07

Il have to face the fact unused the
fashionable photographer. as he looked
' over some recent pictures, -ttae there
are some vssy ugiy features In sA;s
Aualness.-