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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1907
Page
7
Notes recount local social life with visits by Miss Spencer of Atlantic, Ed Newell family, the Bailey of Manning, and others. School reopened with a naval number enrolled. A new school bell is in use, church services planned, and community events noted including a party and engine purchase.
The Cameron column notes snowfall and community routine events. William Schrader has been ill recently. John Holtz and his wife visited their daughter Edith Wiley. Hattie Hoerning returned from two years in New York with relatives. Mrs Audubon Shelay drove to Gray with her mother, who left after a long visit with her daughter. Ida and Rosa Schrader’s relatives hosted. Schrader returned to Poweshiek County after four weeks with friends and kin.
The Audubon area sees multiple visits to doctors for a sick child and recovery reports from Kansas City. A wedding near North Branch features Howard Shossmith and Mary Mareau with a blue silk gown and cream appliqué, followed by a festive housewarming and neighborhood reception. The community also notes a funeral, train delays, farm purchases and revival meetings led by Rev. Hayes in Den Valley.
Leonard Dove returns to Indianola on Wednesday. Mabel Shideler shines in this week’s line. Will Aten back to Simpson College Monday. Dove attends Greeley Center church Sunday night. Frank Nelson detained at home Sunday morning. Ethel Shideler Maud Hendlee back to high school at Panora Saturday. Mr Hartzell ships two carloads of sheep to Chicago. Marcus Marean aids brother during absence. Des Moines duties pull Marie Shoesmith Clara Artiat back to school Thursday. Skating praised as season’s best and youth enjoy it. H O Shoesmith travels to Audubon for flour. Nelson family and Rey Aten share New Year’s dinner. A new baby arrives at Will and Ollie Foresman’s. Marcus Marean returns from Chicago with sheep and lambs. Grandma Kennedy’s health slow to improve. Neighborhood friends share suppers with Henry Benton. Mrs Reuben Shoesmith expected home from Des Moines. Glen Shoesmith recovering from typhoid. Walter Dove preaches at Greeley Center. Rey Aten resumes work in Wichita. A good service ends with buggy mishap on return home. Charlie Simond Bertha Allen wed New Year’s Day near Union Baptist church. Newly married couple starts housekeeping north of the church. Charivari party greets them on Saturday. A solemn wedding at North Branch parsonage on January second.
An Exira Iowa ad offers farm properties on small payments with relocation help and trade assistance. It invites readers to specify needs and promises referral to sellers with desired land or goods.
Iowa parcel offering 160 acres five miles from town with good roads and simple contact. 120 acres level bottom soil plus 40 acres rolling, corn on clover sod yields 70 bushels per acre, 40 acres seeded to clover and timothy, fenced hog pastures, deep well and windmill, 6 to 7 room house, new frame barn, orchard, 8000 down 4000 balance, terms by March 1 1907, asking price 65 to 75 dollars per acre.
Think of It No 2 offers 120 acres at 50 dollars, seven miles from a town, near coal, with 90 acres in cultivation and the rest brush pasture. It features well laid land, nearly stone free, small improvements, spring water, and priced at 50 dollars per acre with an eight thousand dollar first mortgage due March 1 1907 and the balance long time at six percent.
A descriptive advertisement offers 260 acres within reach of two railroads, featuring 40 acres cultivated, 70 acres bluegrass pasture, fine timber, a stone quarry, springs and wells, a 4 room house, barn, orchard, and good fencing. The property lies 3/4 mile from a railroad market, near a school, and priced at 45 dollars per acre.
A 6 250 acre model farm on the county’s main railroad line offers 160 acres cultivated with deep black Iowa soil, brush pasture, spring water, wind mill, two tanks, hog pastures, a monster 66 by 80 barn, cattle and hog houses, cribs, granary, wood and coal sheds, a two story house with stone cellar, all near a town, school and church. Price $70 per acre, $3000 to $5000 balance easy terms.
A person who disturbed the congregation last Sunday by coughing repeatedly is urged to buy a bottle at Foley’s Honey and Tar. Nick Doffing.
Audubon Township items note Benny Tibben sick and others visiting Canada, Koeas in Greeley, and Greeley Insurance meets January 12. Farmers shell corn for Bain, Franz, and Henry Cutler. Mrs Porter’s daughter ill but improving. Minnie Petri funeral today. Rev Cloeter returns from South Dakota. Literary at No 2 discusses character as architect. Petri children listed. local sales planned and residents moving to North Dakota.
Local notices recount mist and sleet in Greeley Township, Irvin Wilson hauling corn for Frank Duvall, Chas Higgins shelling for Andrew Nelson and George Egan, and cattle sales by J W McGuire. A baby boy arrives at the Jayne home, wolf hunt yields rabbits and a coon, and property purchases near Audubon surface. Also mention of January Cosmopolitan reading, a promoter for Rocky Mountain Tea, and Foley’s Honey and Tar cough remedy with cautions about substitutes.
A wife writes to Bob about a day downtown with Mrs Owen shopping for Christmas gifts. They haggle over cab fares and bargains, discuss lace curtains, remnant trimmings, and jackets, and end with a note on paying a shopgirl with a counterfeit dime and an appeal to figure out a debt. The letter closes with a domestic reflection on making others happy.
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