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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1907
Page
4
Hamlin residents report business calls and farm transfers around Hamlin, Guthrie Center, and Elk Horn. Peter Nelson shipped two cars of coal to market. others sold stock, moved to Audubon, or planned farm improvements. A church bazaar raised funds for an organ while residents panel local commerce and housing changes.
A medical pitch notes that effective medicine requires regular bowels and urges consulting a doctor about Ayer's Pills as a remedy for sluggish liver. Prepared by J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell Massachusetts.
Rock Island road began a Monday morning project to add a twenty foot extension to the freight house at the Rock Island station. A west side platform will accompany the improvements as freight receipts surge for years. Agent Spar greeted workmen with a broad smile as they arrived by train.
For sale 28 acres in Guthrie county with 9 acres hog tight pasture 6 acres timber balance good farm land a good house 2700d well table and outbuildings. Price 55 per acre. Trade and cash as first payment accepted Balance payable yearly if desired Call at Journal office 28
Advertisement claims chronic constipation risks to health and asserts Ortho Laxative Fruit Syrup and Urino Laxative Fruit Syrup cure the condition. It promises immediate relief, digestion aid, and liver and bowel stimulation, urging immediate use and to refuse substitutes. Sold by Nick Doffing.
Last Wednesday Sam Cutler on the way to town was thrown from his buggy when his team bolted near the George R Spencer farm. He broke an arm and was shaken up. Ed Kobler, driving G B Gill's team, was tossed from the wagon as the teams ran through a fence and into the highway. The wagon was damaged but no other injuries occurred. both teams escaped unscathed and later reached the Gill barn.
TF. J. Thelban sells his store and merchandise to H. Johnson of Elk Town, formerly with Paterson Johnson. Johnson will take possession March 1 and continue to serve customers, pursuing new ventures including a stake in the lightning rod business and retaining the Bost Food Agency. The Times praises Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and colds, while a remark against yellow package butter pears remains noted.
Mrs. Fred West and husband file a 141,521 chattel mortgage with County Recorder Dodson to Dr. R P Parriott, house physician at the West baby farm, covering piano, organ, horse, cow, harness, wagons, engine, buggy and household furniture at 1314 Thirty-fifth Street. Both Mrs West and Annie Beattie remain jailed as Beattie’s bail remains set at 10,000. hearing on Annie Beattie for infant murder is set for Friday at 10 AM.
In Wooster City a local court faces a potential annulment of a divorce decree as William Largent and Bila Culp seek a marriage license twelve hours after securing a divorce. Judge Evans is watching for evidence of intent to remarry at the time of the divorce. an Iowa bill to curb immediate remarriage lags, not yet law until July 4.
Waterloo and Cedar Falls Electric employees forming a union are being discharged by the Waterloo Cedar Falls Northen railroad officials. Officers and other union sympathizers lose jobs as replacements are found among non union workers. The move aims to ensure prompt pay and collective action.
Habeas corpus proceedings were started in district court by Attorney John Newburn for Anna Beattie charged with murdering "Baby Jim" at the West maternity home. Judge Roe set bond at 10000. petition seeks reduction alleging excessive bond as counsel was unavailable.
E E Schrimpf, 29, a bill poster, and Mrs M Meacham, 26, were held by local police at the request of Sheriff J W Dregor of Minneapolis on a warrant for kidnapping Schrimpf Jr, the 5 year old son. The child was with Mrs Meacham at the time of her arrest.
Mondamin case where Mrs George Purcell’s 14 year old daughter saw skirts catch fire while tending a blaze. The father George Purcell rushed to help, and both mother daughter and the father were badly burned before flames were extinguished.
President Hill M. Bell of Drake University announced in chapel that Mrs. Mary Kinney, daughter of Kinney Powell, left $5,000 to the Carnegie library endowment fund. The transfer was completed yesterday and the gift completes the library fund to about 999,007 while only 11,000 more was needed to reach completion.
Special notice states Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung troubles is not affected by the National Pure Food and Drug Law as it contains no opiates or harmful drugs. It is recommended as a pure remedy for children and adults and is for sale by Nick Dofting.
An Iowa listing offers 160 acres five miles from town with good roads and a telephone house at the door. It notes 120 acres level fertile soil suitable for corn and clover, 40 acres rolling, little waste land, four acres seeded to clover and smoky, a fine corn crop on clover and fodder. Expected yield about 70 bushels per acre. Any portion of the farm can produce these results.
The notice advertises 9 acres of hog pasture fenced with woven wire, 40 well fenced, 10 acres, with deep well and windmill, a 6 or 7 room house, 4 new frame barns, some orchard. The bid stands at 85 dollars, dropping to 75 before a year. Terms 3000 to 4000 dollars, by March 4, 1907, easy terms on balance.
Think of It No 2 offers 120 acres near Trom good town at 50 per acre with 90 cultivated and rest brush pasture. Close to coal area priced with $3000 first mortgage at 6 percent and $2000 by March 1 1907, remainder long time at six percent. Good spring watered stock and grain farm with improvements.
For sale is 260 acres three-fourths of a mile from a railroad town with good roads. 40 acres cultivated, 70 acres bluegrass pasture, rest timber. 20 acres hog pasture with a stone quarry worth thousands. Well watered, well fenced, 4 room house, granary, hen house, 40x48 barn, big orchard. Priced at 45 dollars per acre. Journal Extra.
Stock and grain farm in the county with 250 acres at 70 dollars per acre. 5% miles from a town on the railroad, 40 rola to school. R. F. Dy at door. Near church, good neighborhood. 160 acres cultivated fine land with deep black Iowa soil. 100 acres brush and timber pasture. Bluegrass, springs, wells, wind mill. Two tanks hog pasture lots. Monster barn 6x80, stone foundation. Cattle sheds hog house crib granary. Two story stone house with 9 foot deep cellar. Ideal location. Price 3000 to 5000. Balance easy terms.
Av 7 210 acres at 357.60 till January 1 1907 and after that 60. Your and one half miles from fine town on Rock Island. Good roads, 160 acres almost level balance rolling. Good soil with no stone sand or bars. Fenced hog and cattle pasture. Big orchard and fine groves, some timber nicely watered. New four room house, stables, good stock and grain farm at a low price. 500 to 600 down, balance long time.
Size A 9 220 acres priced at 61 per acre. Three miles from a large town, good roads, near wood and coal. About 5 acres of fine grove and timber, 100 acres bottom land, no overflow, rolling but not rough. One mile to school. Ideal cattle yard, fenced and crossed fenced. Includes a good six room house, granary, large barn. Easy terms. Would take 80 or 20 acres in exchange.
Classified offer for a 120 acre Iowa farm priced at 37 50 an acre. Describes seven miles from a town with coal underlay, 25 acres cultivated and 60 more triggerable, timbered areas, ample water, three building sets including a $2400 house, a coal bank royalty of 400 annually, and coal reserves lasting at least 25 years. Trade accepted in good value, easy terms. journal extra.
Real estate notice describes 120 acres near town two and a half miles from good road and school. It highlights well fenced fields with five or six pastures, woven wire hog pasture, running water from springs, a reliable well, and prevents freezing or drying. Claims first class quality in a well located, well watered farm.
A state farm near Yon includes about ten acres of timber, buildings, and feed lots to grove on chard. Half farm in tame gram features a good four room house, small stables, and out buildings. Journal.
Property ad seeks buyers for a 160 acre farm described as rolling and largely arable with blue grass pasture, fenced fields, cattle shed, hen house, new four to five room house, and stone walled cellar. Adjacent lands sell for sixty to seventy dollars per acre. seller urges early response via Journal office.
12 acres near town four miles from town and one from school, 75 acres under cultivation, balance brush pasture, well fenced, cross fenced with traps, well watered, new four room house, coal shed and hen house, arib, stable, sheds, etc all new. Will take a thousand in trade or will sell on long time with small down payment or good note. Storm clause included. Journal office.
A real estate listing describes 226 acres valued at 61 dollars per acre located three miles from the county seat with good roads and well water. Features include bottom land, some rolling terrain, clover antimothy, fences, good soil, a large house, barns, sheds and chard and grove. The property is suitable for grain and stock farming with price range 2000 to 4000 dollars and a long-standing balance.
The notice offers 160 acres for 68 dollars per acre located eight miles from town. It describes gentle rolling terrain, good soil, ample water, and strong fencing with historical March 1907 terms. The seller proposes a balance over long time, with two to three years no payment, then 100 dollars yearly.
107 acres at 55 dollars per acre with good water and orchard. Almost level land includes small buildings and black walnut grove. 80 acres are second bottom. most is level except a 1 2 acre in the northwest corner. Some low land overflows. near coal and two railroad markets. Handy to markets.
A detailed sales pitch describes a 120 acre parcel near two towns and the Bock Island line. Features include a 1.5 story house, barn, shed, woven wire fencing, multiple pastures, orchard, orchard, deep well, windmill, and good soil. It advertises easy terms and notes 100 acres cultivable with slight rolling terrain.
Seventy acres or sixty acres? A fine home for a few dollars near school and church. 60 acres at $65. Gently rolling, all seeded, well fenced, one mile to school church store shop, creamery. Five or six room house. Good stables, cribs, sheds, pastures, orchard. Call at Journal office.
Forty acres described as well located two and a half miles from town with a fine grove a spring water twenty or thirty trees a good orchard a five or six room house a suitable barn and out buildings. Price sixty five dollars with easy terms per the Journal.
Seemingly readable property listing describes 190 acres at 65 dollars per acre three miles from a small town on the Milwaukee line. Includes well watered, fenced land, fruit patches, a four room house, a new four horse barn, a cow shed, corn crib, buggy shed, and a $200 mortgage due in two years at six percent. Call at Journal office for No 171. 200 acres at 40 dollars per acre two miles from a good little railroad town. Stock farm with solid improvements and amenities.
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