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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
5
Gray News Misa Ella Dentom shopped in Manning Saturday. Residents report sickness and social visits, with several shoppers from Manning and Audubon. A white frost damaged fruit and floods delayed travel north to Texas. The U B Church hosted Rev Granger of Des Moines conference for services in Eden Valley.
Advertises a new pool table and sight chair offered for 210 dollars, with a quick sale price of 125 dollars. Mentions DeWit's Wiltod salve and Bealink product with claims of healing and cooling effects for piles, endorsing Nick Dolling as seller.
Gray based farmer James Gregg, known as the Farmer Farm manager near Gray Paul Minus, details stock and grain experiments for a major agricultural paper. He ordered three settings of Rosa Comb Rhode Island Reds chickens from Mrs Lancelot after selecting the best stock.
The Audubon County Convention of Rebekah Lodges outlines a full day schedule with opening ode and roll call, welcoming address, greetings, traveling password, luncheons, multiple lodge musical numbers, door work, balloting, president's address, election of officers, social hour, banquet, and a later music session. An advertising insert promotes Kodol for indigestion with a sponsor note.
Pleasant dance at John Petri's Saturday night. Henry Ilsa and family visited George Kness Sunday. Charlie Jensen ill with pneumonia. John Hammann and family visited Christian Meckmanta Sunday. Aristos Anna Lily Jensen with Hans Wetersen family. Jake Wahlert Jr. remodeling near south Greeley. building a large barn. Mrs. Sarah Littlefield building a large barn near the Audubon township creamer y. Miss Susie Heckman helped sister in Adair. Fouts family from Galva visiting. Fred Bartelt Audubon County Fair Director attended officers meeting. WANTED R J Gilchrist as Republican sheriff candidate. About 100 Republican votes in Audubon township on June 2. Audubon Cwp Republican ticket: Trustees Thomas Rogers Charles Boehne Henry Tibben. Clerk Joel L Swinehart. Constable Wm Petit. Justice of Peace Wm Kirkham. Committeeman Charles Boehme.
In Willimantic Connecticut Alvin H Stimpson credits Foley s Kidney Cure with curing acute kidney trouble after many remedies failed He reports being entirely well after using four bottles and asserts the product s virtue for others with similar distress Nick Dolling
The governor, distracted by factional pressures and crime cleaves, is pictured amid the Locke Snyder wedding and a flirtation with his stenographer Miss Brandon. He abruptly proposes to her, risking his office and steno secretary. The tale interlaces politics, pardons, and a quixotic romance.
A high law man enters a drug emporium and asks for Bunowm's Balm for Business. The druggist replies he has nothing exactly that but offers something far better. The prosaic customer presses for an alternative while the dispenser deflects.
In this Harner's Weekly extract Daisy, at age 15, asserts independence asking to choose her clothes receive callers alone attend matinee weekly finish school and later go to Europe. Her father and mother initially resist but concede to her demands as she reveals she will control daily home life.
The piece extols disciplined marksmanship and self reliance, contrasting trained riflemen with unprepared civilians. It praises an expert marksman in Broadway Magic Mine and urges education on military matters, warning against ignorant jingoism and reformers unaware of primaries.
Mads Nelson and Christensen visited nearby towns while land inquiries outsell in Elk Horn. J Bruhn of Topper and relatives visited, A Boysen’s new residence nears painting. A platform dance drew a good crowd and funds. H C Madsen lists a Good Single Horse and a new Top Buggy for sale. Governor Berry and Indianola senator speeches drew visitors from Atlantic. Disbrow the piano tuner from Atlantic worked here. Elk Horn Mercantile Co store remodeling began, weather caused delays. Miss Euneborg Anker wed Rev. Schmidt of Blair Nebr at the local church. dinner followed at the bride’s home. Schmidt pastors Danish Lutheran church at Blair.
A lapidary near in a strange tale about a tadpole shaped yellow diamond. He splits the stone with a steel knife and expects a dramatic price rise as the yellow taint vanishes. The result is a pure white diamond, a result the craftsman calls a common miracle.
Tampico correspondent reports the tarpon caught yesterday by the Countess of Wilton on the Panuco River measured seven feet ten inches long with a girth of 4842 inches. The catch eclipses a prior, poorly authenticated record of seven feet four inches held by an American consul at Trinidad. The Countess and her husband Sir Frederick Johnson are visiting aboard the yacht Zenaida.
In remarks attributed to Opha Moore a former office colleague, the Colimbus Dispatch notes Governor McKinley was not a musician yet possessed a smooth, gentle voice and a fondness for simple hymns. She recalls him humming softly from his private office during late work hours.
Mrs Plodder A Long recalls asking about future value of yearly savings while a man she invested with misled her and did not return the promised share. The anecdote highlights caution in handling money and trust in financial matters.
Reports from Bear Grove Guthrie Center and Audubon County include Rev Kelley’s sermon, farm updates from Thordes Shoesmith and Arden Shelley, and a candidate slate for Sheriff and Secretary of State. Several residents move homes or invest in farm machinery while booster efforts seek an overland road link Des Moines to raise real estate values.
Cameron News Amos Fancher sold a fine lot of fat cattle Saturday. William Parrott lost a valuable horse and colt last week. Junt Zion hung paper for William Parrott on Wednesday. William Ballou’s were Sunday visitors at the Parrott home. James Baker called in the community Saturday on his way to Audubon. Miss Maggie Swist overnights with Mrs. Mabel Schrader Wednesday night. William Schrader and family from Audubon planted potatoes Friday and Saturday. Henry Schrader and family own a new carriage bought last week. Rev. Johnson of Des Moines delivered a discourse at Eden Valley Saturday night to a large youth congregation. Harry Schrader and Eden Valley youths attended baptism at Evangelical church in Perrine’s pasture Sunday afternoon.
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