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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1906
Page
7
Gray May es Hepp and Lou Stetzel visited Gray on New Year's. Manning saw visits from Grace Lancelot, Delphia Rogers, and Mrs Mundt family. Des Moines students returned to work after the holidays. Mayor Rogers and local families spent New Year’s with kin. town buzzed with business and a phonograph dance at night.
Ross notes list Tuesday to Sunday visits and travels among area residents including Rev Fleming, Samuel Magill, Willie Johnson, Thomas Rutherford, Amos Poesgelin, and many others. Cattle sales, cobs hauled, revival meetings led by Fleming, health updates, and a box supper at Bands school house are described along with community prayers and a temperance lecture.
The report lists numerous New Year activities in Douglas including dances at Mr Petersen's and Audubon lodge, a George Summers home visit, Grace Cameron returning to Des Moines for school, and box supper reminders. A court notice in Audubon County Iowa concerns the will of Jacob Andrews filed January 2. The text mentions several local names and a theater ad with a joke about a comedian's open mouth reaction.
Friday January 12 at 2 PM at Center School House Cameron township to discuss transferring all rights to the cemetery from the association to the township trustees for caretaking. Residents recall past fencing, monitoring and labor by neighbors and Mr L B Bridenatine who has shouldered duties. meeting invites all interested to decide the course.
Aug Kienont and Rev. Ehlers attended New Year’s afternoon services in South Lincoln. Rev. Ehlers, recently improving, joined others as Mrs Schrader and Mrs Porsehn with Viola attended on New Year’s Day. Hulda Polzin visits relatives after a summer in South Dakota. many attended the church Christmas program at the Evangelical Lutheran church in Xinaseve.
A fragmentary Greeley column reports births and illnesses, New Year visitors, and community events. Notable items include Ellen Egan#### des Des Moines trip, family health updates, a box social at Little Valley schoolhouse, and a Union Baptist church watch night with Rev Sloan and parishioners sharing meals, readings, and music as Old Year ends.
A fragmented poem laments a negligent farewell to the old year. The speaker notes inconstant judgment, reflecting on gifts ill appreciated and a sense of delinquency haunting the speaker as the year ends.
The trustees of Growley township will meet in the Center school house February 1, 1906 at 2 00 p m for the purpose of letting out the road work of said township for the year 1906. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Township Clerk
A veteran journalist recalls traveling in Kansas and Arkansas with a robber-turned-editor who robs, but later befriends him. The encounter yields a lesson on writing style and the fate of a condemned man at Fort Smith, with the editor guiding the writer to craft a concise, forceful column about the hanging. The tale ends with a parting gift and a note to keep the memory of the incident.
A Caldwell man is detained as a possible killer of former Governor Frank Steunenberg. Reports describe dynamite wired to a gate, two bombs, and nitroglycerine in a metal case. Shoshone County offers a $10,000 reward. funeral may be held in Boise.
In Atlantic on December 28 attorney J B Rockefeller with four city ministers appeared before the executive council to argue the Atlantic census case. A district judge allowed the council to adopt the court finding that the count was 252 too high or to order a recount. The ministers led by Presiding Elder Stevenson desire a count under 5000 to hinder saloon operations. Rockefeller represents the census enumerator and business men favor accurate results, while the council fears a recount could be overturned by the supreme court and nullify the census volume.
Apple water offers a cooling drink for the infirm. Use baked apples for speed, or raw apples for flavor. Sour apples are soaked in boiling water to steep, cooled, strained, and sweetened. Raw apple liquor uses three to four juicy apples sliced and covered with boiling water for three hours, then strained and sweetened with a touch of lemon for flavor.
Audubon Township events include short notice dayballing by Wm Everett, a fines stock sale by George Kness at Jacob Carstens, a Hartelhorne dance, Grace Hocamp resuming music studies in Dex Moines, and social visits by Mrs. Nancy Douglas of Adair. Also: William Kroeger scheduled 1000 bushels of corn for Charles Boehme, a family reunion at William Hocamp Sr home, and Charles Boehme selling butcher stock to F. O. Nelson. Community gatherings, new phone lines for J H McCreary and William Wahlert, and sheller ads urge neighbors to participate in corn shelling. a literary meeting at No. 8 notes a debate on whether the negro has faced more abuse than the Indian.
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