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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1907
Page
7
C. W. Hansen advertises the largest stock of furniture in Audubon and announces month end closeout sale. Read the notice in the teaue and call for deals on beds tables chairs and appliances before stock runs out.
A London Truth excerpt critiques English society as half-witted with moral color, noting literature art love and sport harbor knaves profiting from newly acquired knowledge and a claim that the city lost a hundred miles and received six pence on the pound as a commission on a transaction.
After 17 years of effort Joseph Petrillo of Boston succeeds in inventing a one wheel quarter hour striker for clocks. Experts claimed the device impossible, yet Petrillo’s breakthrough ends a long global striving by skilled workers over many decades.
A man named Nick Doffing is asked to buy a bottle of Foley’s Honey Aid Tar after disturbing the congregation last Sunday with persistent coughing.
Gray residents report corn shipments and social visits. Grace Newell and Mishler shoppers appear, with several trips to Carrollton and Omaha noted. Rev Hayden and Rev Admas visit for meetings, and a lecture on February 16 at the Chicago Concert Trig hall is advertised. A man lies severely ill, and a chicken theft warning is issued.
M M Corner longtime Cameron township resident died at home in Gray after years of hardship including the loss of his wife and daughter and a house fire. He suffered paralysis and passed away Wednesday January 30 with funeral services at the U B church and burial in Cameron Center cemetery.
North Branch reports gradual strengthening of Hugh Heller and a flurry of local activity. Bowman Chapel hosts growing meetings as Miss Schwenneker assists Mrs Shoesmith, with Fern Marlow visiting North Branch friends.
Audubon Township updates show Witte family marks, Dutler and Hat ill, Dick Witte visiting from Adair, Charles Rose buying 160 acres from Bartelt, Timothy Seed sold at 1.75 per bushel. Charles Spencer reports. Ben Garver buys a farm. Willie Heckman ill. George Kneas and Charles Petri visits. Anna Genderick and Jacob Scheeler wed in Guthrie county. George Meyer injured after icy fall. Naylor home hosts daughters Mabel and Nellie marrying S W Taylor and H Sparling. Porter family farewell party as they plan to move to Exits this week.
Sunday visitors included Henry Turner at Harry Northup's and Wallace Bolton with wife at William Trav el's. Mrs Louis Gray visited Joseph Johnston's. Sylvester Moore shelled corn Monday. Ray Barnsey and Nellie Turner attended Eden Valley church. Revival meetings closed. one conversion noted. Mr Kartum sought sewing machine repair work at Jay Shingledecker's in Rors. Wallace Bolton took a return excursion to view Texas. warm sun thawed after a brief frost.
Mr A Witton was under a doctor’s care days last week while a Sunday night visit fell short of sleighing. Mrs Newell attended a lecture at Gray. Revival meetings began at J B church in Botna. Robert Summerville Sr shipped a carload of hogs to Omaha. Ed Baker of Viola township visited a school child Sunday evening. Charles Garmire and Miss Jace Cameron visited the Campbell home. Charlie King moved to work at Greewaldt Groreluschen Company Hardware. Mae Campbell attended a banket at Duttons in Manning and reported a fine time. James Mockler plans a public sale Thursday January 31 and will move to Dakota by March. Bart and Walter Kitson left Gray High to help move to Viola. George Weaver and wife leave for Anenemo Kansas for treatment at a sanitarium hoping for a swift recovery.
Public sale announced by the undersigned to be held at a place miles northeast of Extra on See 27 in Greeley township. Details specify an auction of items as listed in the notice and governed by local sale provisions. The notice identifies the auction location and the date reference for the public sale.
On Wednesday February 13, 1907 at 10 o'clock A M a public sale will offer 4 horses and 80 head of cattle plus pigs, machinery, wagons, harness, tools, furniture and household items. Featuring a McCormi binder, Rock Island tool, hay, corn, potatoes, chickens, stove, beds, chairs, dining table, clock, and more. Terms are usual with free lunch at noon. R Jones Auct and AW Harvey Clerk.
The undersigned will sell at public auction at his farm three miles north of Extrd depot on the old Olney farm starting at 11 a.m. Six head of horses including a gray mare and bay mare, two colts, and two yearlings with cattle consisting of injich cows some fresh and spring calves plus brood sows Duroc Jersey and full blooded stock. Machinery includes corn planter, wire, riding cultivator, walking plows, harrow, wagons, mower, binder, saw, feed grinder, corn shellers, bees, chickens, 1000 bushels of corn, seed wheat, and 10 tons hay. Terms usual. NIELS PETERSEN, BEMicapy, Aug. Hairy, Clerk, OLUr WkesseN, Clerk.
The trustees of Greeley Township meet at Center School House at noon on March 2 to set township road plans for 1907. Bids may be filed with the township clerk until noon March 2, and the trustees reserve the right to reject any or all bids. Roscoe Turner township clerk. How to Avoid Pneumonia recommends Foley's Honey and Tar to stop coughing and expel cold with mild laxative action. Ad by Nick Doffing.
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