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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
5
Local notes recount visits in Manning and Gray with many names. Mrs. Kittell visits, Mundt store offers Christmas candy, and several residents plan or report weekend trips, visits to relatives, and farm work. A surprise birthday for Mr. George Weaver and other social events are mentioned along with rural commerce and a detergent ad.
Gray mourns as Mamie Jensen of Manning dies after brief illness. Her mother, visiting Gray, returned home Saturday and found Mamie unresponsive upon arrival. Funeral services were held Monday with the Denton family in attendance.
Greeley residents report farm work and family news including new paint at School House No.2, hogs and corn shelling for local farms, and Mr. and Mrs. Will Egan visiting near Larland. Mentioned are Thomas Egan Sr on the sick list, a new hog house on the Duvall farm, and turkey disappearance later found in a neighbor’s field. Hog cholera warnings persist. many communal updates, travel to Stuart for a sick relative, and Union Baptist Christmas preparations with a beauty tree and program.
Hides center at Powell's. Chas. Newman and George Meyer marketed hogs this week. Witte Brothers hauled corn to A. J. Baylor. Christian Heckman Sr. sold hogs in Exira. Henry Stephenson attended to grand jury in Audubon. Two weddings rumored. Born to Christian Heckman and wife a boy on Saturday December 9. Local funerals and church events noted. Hans Marquesen bought William Sas stock of goods from Tepac Thomas place. Mrs. Earley’s funeral attended. Christmas tree plans at the Lutheran church. Ladies Aid meets.
For sale in Poplar Iowa my property includes two store buildings, three barns, corn crib, granary, chicken house and two acres of land. The general store is 38 by 62 with post office in same and rented two years from January 1. A hardware and implement store 40 by 42 is under roof for carload of implements. Fixtures go with both stores. Price 3500 if sold before February 16 1906. Jasper Jensen Audubon Iowa.
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