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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1907
Page
7
North Branch residents report illnesses as John Artist's children suffer whooping cough. Numerous family movements occur including sermons for Eva Masching funeral in Ext ra, marriages and relocations to Guthrie Center and Quanemo Kansas. Mr and Mrs Maris plan departure to Minnesota and Dakota homesteads as community bids farewell.
Gray Items report Edmond Farrell a Manning caller Monday while Miss Libbie Lewis spends the week at Manilla. Lamp moved from Manning Tuesday. Irah King visited Audubon Tuesday morning. Uncle Jim Crow ill. Abrs C E Mertz visited Audubon Monday. Oliver Greenlee of Shelby was here earlier this week. Harry Wilson spent weekend with grandmother. Miss Maggie Shaw closed her winter term at Valley Wednesday. Miss Ella Denton went to Audubon Friday evening returning Saturday.
Mr Mcores moves Tuesday into the Gray house on the hill. Mr Gray plans to buy a shingled high house on the t Lou Shingledecker began painting big grocery Wagons earlier this week. Several residents visit kin and neighbors. William Welch buys a Guthrie county farm. Numerous moves, visits, and small events shape a busy period in Cameron township with many families changing homes and plans.
Cameron Tidings reports a string of local engagements with multiple residents visiting, hosting, or moving between homes and farms. People mentioned include Jay Shingledecker, Mr. Lewis, Rev. Hayes, Samuel Magill, Job Magill, Mrs. Gray, Grandma Jay, the Huess brothers, Fred Tessman, Nancy Rutherford, Mrs. Rutherford, Mrs. Brancis Beal, George Northup, and Bert Fireball. Activities cover visits, moves, receptions, and purchases of farm equipment, reflecting everyday community life.
Audubon township reports marklets, visits, and family news. Miss Johnson works for Mrs. John Littlefield while Mrs. Theo Schwenneker appears on this week’s ill list. A baby boy arrived to Mr. and Mrs. John Littlefield on February 21.
An advertisement touts a plush sofa pillow top as a featured item in this paper. The ad claims the product offers comfort and style for living rooms. Nilek Dofing is noted in the text.
Local updates from Greeley Township report illnesses at Mrs Bertha Minorsman and Mrs J H Reynolds under doctor care. Will Egan moved near Anita. Walter Dove filled a revival appointment and Evangelical meetings held at No 4. Worth Hartzell returned with nearly one hundred head of hogs. Sammy Cutler’s bronchos ran away injuring him. Walter and Chas Hensley sale drew a large crowd with high prices, including roosters at 1.75 and two sows at about 40 each.
Anna Carper is on the sick list. The Delstand family visited the Rev. Graemers and Chris Kraus’s moved out to set up on the father farm. Mrs. Smith of Audubon canvassed here. Geo McCuen and wife were Sunday visitors at his father’s home. Phoebe Oleen spent Thursday at the I. A. Bates home. Evert Bates and family visited Leo Carper. Frank Kibler of Coon Rapids dug well for Jeng Sorensen. Margaret and Anna Koenig spent Sunday with Emma Magiz. Otto Schrader left for Rifle, Colorado to regain health. Lottie Delancey shopped in Audubon Saturday. Mrs. Anna Anderson of Kalaton Ta visited at her parental home. Charlie Huen and Chris Hue were at their parental home Sunday. Adam Weible and wife left for Nebraska to honeymoon with friends. Mrs. Hollenback visited before departure. William Martin moved to Boone to work at the round house. Emery family visited and helped load a car. Henry Rube family and Charles Ruhe visited. Doist returned from Geneseo Prophestown Illinois after two months. Dave Hart left for Spencer Nebraska to manage the Trans Mississippi Grain elevator. The community sends best wishes as the family plans its move.
Mrs. S. J. Johnston a crippled widow who kept house for her son Bernard a MecCurtie drug store clerk died in Belmond Iowa as a fire started in the stove room. A caller found smoke and the body in the kitchen with severe burns. the fire origin remains unknown. Nearby resident Jackson A. Moane, who vanished fifteen years ago after boarding a West Liberty freight train, is mentioned as a family clue in the same note.
Lincoln Center reports Henry Heesch shelled corn on Tuesday. John Stewart and family moved to Guthrie county that week. Agnee and Belle Shaw visited Mr. C. Elch’s home on Sunday. Tressa Baatendorf closed a successful term of school at No. Lincoln Friday of last week. Fred Rows Jr and his bride moved to a new home near Yempiet last Wednesday. Elsie Sichroeder rode the train from Gray to Manning Friday evening for a visit.
A flurry of movements marks Lincoln township with Masquerade dance returns, homesteads changing hands, and neighbors bidding farewell. George Aikman buys four buggies in Audubon on February 26 while Mr Campbell and Mr McLaughlin attend Nele Jensen sale. Kitson family farewell party with silverware gifts. Several farms change hands as John Stewart, Tom Newell, Carl Dude and Frank Brigga relocate within the region. Mr Kiteon, pioneer since 1871, departs to Viola township as Mrs Kiteon and family move to Texas. The week features farm exchanges between Paulsen, Stewart, Newell, Dude, Kitson, Signall and David families.
Hamlin life expands with depot plans and a new cement block factory as residents relocate. Hilmar Nielsen will work for M H Cameron next summer while Andrew Neary delivers ten loads of superior Duroc swine to Hamlin market. W S Thomas resigns farming to move to Audubon and settle on a new property. Samuel Cutler suffers a broken arm when a frightened team bolts the buggy in a Hamlin roadway incident.
A vivid verse sketch narrates March’s gusts and heavy snow giving way to squalls and muddy ground. The playful spring blossom struggles in wet earth, while a dull trap of weather yields to gentle charms and a hopeful April embrace.
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