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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
1
Local column reports visits and errands across Audubon Exira and surrounding farms. Residents including J B McGuire Charley Baird and Mrs. Martin are mentioned along with births, illnesses, property moves, and social gatherings.
A collage of notes on mourning colors, old customs, proverbs, and odd facts. It cites European black mourning, Chinese white, Turkish violet, Ethiopian brown, with misfit lines about snakes, ships, Lake Eyre, and a medley of witty quips on marriage, pace of life, and dining practices across ages.
The Atlantic Monthly is sold to a New York stock company and will transfer to new management on July 1. The magazine, founded in 1857 by Holmes, Longfellow, Whitman, Lowell, and Emerson, may reflect changes under the new owners.
A blaze at the Richard Gault farm home in an upper room followed a chimney pipe explosion caused by soot and gas. William Bratner Jr. and his brother Nicholas were present. the fire was quickly extinguished with little harm. Nels Jensen reports about 30 fall pigs and 70 spring pigs, plus purchases of Rose Comb Rhode Island Red eggs.
Danish Lutheran Church notes services on Good Friday at Hamlin at 2 PM and 8 PM. Easter Sunday services follow in Hamlin at 9:30 AM and 10:30 AM and at Atlantic at 7 PM.
Raymond Herrick, a crippled boy in a wheelchair, is assigned to call on delinquent Journal patrons as a new post office rule will stop mail for accounts delinquent a year or more after a set date. Provide news outlines or items for inclusion.
Theo Patty an insurance man boasted the town's largest Edition phonograph collection and entertained friends with daily "the best in the box." Last Sunday he visited the countryside to perform for two or three hours and played eighteen numbers before starving for dinner.
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