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WEATHER INDICATIONS—
.Warm, Warmer!. Warmest!!
In His Glory!
Old &ol, the genial sod of warmth and light has de
-creed that mankind shall swelter for several months
yet and FRIEND has likewise decreed that he will pre
vent Buch torture to the race by closing out his summer
goods—all of 'em remember—at a price which will be
as refreshing as a morning breeze. Onr "Mark Down"
sale continues and Summer Clothing, Furnishing
Goods, Underwear, Etc., Etc., are being closed out
Tapidly. Our sales in this direction are surprising and
those who buy are surprised at our cut. For instance,
we marked our goods low to begin with afid now we've
made another cut. We can't guote prices on every
thing but we are
in competition with Old Sol. Alpaca coats which are
worth $1.50 are being tied up at 11.00—think of it—
one dollar. Men's grey flannel coats and vests which
were marked low at $3.75 are yours at $2.50—think of
it—two dollars and fifty cents. Men's 50c straw
hats are marked down to 25c—think of it—twenty
five cents. There's comfort for you through the sun's
rays are melting and if you take advantage of our
prices you'll be
In Your Glory.
and your purse won't squirm. We will rid our shelves
and counters of our summer goods and will not ask
the weather prophet's concent -The trend of trade is
FRIENDWARD—prices arid the
genuine Mark Down"
sale is what causes it! There is satisfaction in being
cool—shall we sutisfy you? All our summer goods
must go and go at once. Thanks for Your Attention!
Boston One Price
Cash Clothing House
\UDUBON, IOWA
Jig Immigration to El Campo,
Wharton Co., Texas,
What bus brought this about? We may answer* tho £1 Campo settlement ii now
3arly five years old and so far advanced that it is beyond the experimental station. It
nearly five years ago since the first home«sookers bought land in El Campo. Since
ient several hundred families havo moved there. They have thoroughly tested all
onditions .such as Health, 8oil and Climate and what products are most profitable to
'also. Theso people are now writing to their'frionds to
Come to El Campo, in Southern Texas,
'here one can enjoy the most delightful clirauto where land is cheap and will produce
an average a bale of cotton to the aero, which means a not profit to the farmer of $15
•o $20 per acre where you can have fruit and vegetables in abundance, and whero
lowors of every clime bloom almost tho year round.
The Gulf Coast Country is acknowledged the
Garden Spot of Texas.
Here the cool and refreshing Gulf breeze tempore the heat of summer. It seldom goes
above ninety degrees in summer or below tweuty-flvo degrees above zero in winter.
Every condition is hero
Favorable for Farming.....
By reason of its proximity to the Gulf, an ample und soasouable rainfall is guaranteod
and drought is therefore unknown. Tho land is exceedingly rich and productive, the
soil being alluvial, of great depth and well adapted to the growth of
Cotton, Corn, Oats, Sugar Cane
and the greatest variety of fruits, vegetables and grasses known to the semi*tropical
climate. Take advantage of
jfeOur Low Excursion Rates
or call on
and by all me'ans come and look at the country and seo for yoursolf what tho lapd is
pi$duoing and have a t-alk with the farmers who are already there and have raised
eropa, and you will bo convinced that this is tho country for you.
Domft Delay. Joinour next IIOmeHeelcerM' Ex
cursion via the 91. K. T. and Burlington
Route on July HOth.
Come now while we are offering spocial inducomenta to Homesoekers. Land is
still sold very cheap and on long time payments. For further information, excursion
rates, maps( pamphlets, etc., write
EL GflMPO, TEXAS, LAND 60., J. E. Norllm, Manaoer
Joseph Cann,
"I should think they do," said a
I dealer iu cutlery whose specialty is
w- «afety razors.
jjrt' you would be surprised at the num
ber 'of them who oome iu here to buy
safety razors and Accessories—as pres
ents tor brothers, cousins or sons, they
are usually careful to explaiu. But
they require the most minute directions
for the sake of their male relatives, of
course, as to the way in which tho ra
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..Agent for Audubon and Vicinity.
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of Our best saioty razors, could noc
refrain from asking him it he wanted it
for himself.
"'Oh, no,' he replied. 'It is for a
lady outside! She is going to give me
sixpence for bhying it I say, guv'nor,
do you think I'll get any more jobs like
it if I wait outside?'
"Without thinking I told him he
might but, alas, he was doomed to dis
appointment, for with a persistence
—a better cause he made him-
Hamlin Department.
O. P. Tyler was swapping yarns
with his Audubon friends, Tuesday.
George Scott, John Moore and Will
Clark marketed hogs at the Station
this week.
Grandma Schoouover will soon go
to South Dakota to visit with her
daughter for a few weeks.
Vint Rose and his merry band were
sleeking things up about the Station
last Tuesday iu fine shape.
McGuire shipped the heaviese load
of piggies, Wednesday noon, that was
ever pulled out of the Station.
The boxes to pack the Blue Grass
Creamery butter, for shipment to
England will arrive next week.
Will McGuire shipped twenty-two
cases of eggs this week. Six hundred
dozens is a pretty good record tor one
week!
Ed. and Willdisposed of their crop
of creamery hogs -to Will McGuire,
this week, at the fancy price of three
cents per pound.
Alex Crees has donned his work
ing suit and is doing farm work and
consequenty George Murphy has re
turned to his Exira home.
Rev. Conner, of the Evangelical
church at the Station, baptized Hub
While and Freeman Sheets in the
creek, at the Frank White Grove, last
Sunday.
The tiling has all been laid among
the Counselman cribs and now you
can wander down that way without
bfeing afraid ot miring down or being
obliged to swim.
Mrs. J. E. Banning is still at the
bedside of her mother, near Atlantic.
We did not learn in what condition
the lady's health was when we were
at the Station, Tuesday.
llarry Counselman Percy bought
1,000 bushels of 15c corn of Arthur
Burl lei t, on his farm south of the
Slatiou aud Harry is putting in his
time between meals hauliug the same
to the elevator.
At the Fairview school house next
Sunday the Sabbath School will be in
charge of Mrs. Clark Gray and will
meet at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. At
3 o'clock there will be preaching by
Rev. M. J. Conner.
Mr. and Mrs. Win. Maxon, from
over in Greeley, were callers at the
creamery last Monday evening and as
a mark of their good will brought
Mr. and Mrs. Schoouover the finest
gob of honey you ever saw.
John Wiles was here from last week
Thursday un^l Honday working in
the creamery while Mr. and Mrs. Ed.
Schoonover were visiting relatives at
Elliott. Monday John left for Wau
kee, near Den 'Moines, to begin work
in a creamery.
The barley harvest has commenced
about the Station in dead earnest.
We noticed machines at work in the
Frank Ballou, Henry Young and Alex
Crees fields and from the-number of
shocks we judge that the yield must
be pretty good.
Hub Shoesmith has changed the
modes operandi of things this week
and is minding the store over at
North Branch and visiting with his
family while his partner, Mr. Luke
Baker, is at the Station 'helping Jim
Elrod wait on customers.
Some naughty boys were running
horses the other Sabbath and as Rev.
Cahlll, of Audubon, was approaching
Old Hamlin they' ran full tilt into
the Rev. gentleman's buggy, upsetting
and breaking it and throwing him
out, straining his back severely.
Old Hamlin literary, last
night, they elected. these
At the
Saturday
efflcers:
Joe Bell, President.
Charlie Wells, Vice-President.
James Fenton, Secretary.
The meetings Will be held every
Saturday evening.
Charley Talbott, the Audubon
bakery man, was down looking over
the creamery laBt Monday. Charley
is using about one hundreed and
twenty pounds of our creamery butter
a week and George Preston, the Au
dubon grocer, is using about seventy
five pounds a week.
Next Sunday Evangelical services
at the Staiion will be as foliows: At
10:00 o'clock A. SI., Sabbath School,
conducted bv Ed. Schoonover. At
11:00 preaching by the pastors. Sub
ject Sire." Immediately following
the ordinance of baptism will be
administered. A hearty welcome is
extended to all.
AVill McGuire bought tlrase very,
very fat hogs of Supervisor W. D.
Stanley this week and I tell you they
pulled dowu on the scales right hard.
There were twenty-oue head iu the
bunch and they averaged just three
hundred and eighty-six pounde each.
Then there was that king hog that
we were telling you about, well, he
was in this bunch and he weighed
just an even six hundred pounds.
The Republicans of Hamlin town
ship met at the Center school house
last Monday night and nominated
Wilbur Kennels for Trustee, and
Henry Young for Justice of the Peace,
to fill vacancy, selected Frank White
as township chairman for the ensuing
year, and elected.these gentlemen to
represent the township in the county
convention which meets at Audubon
today: Clark Wilson, Frank White,
W. D. Stanley, Harry Percy, Wilbur
Kennels, W. D. Young, George Scott
and J. J. Dimick,
I was dreadfully nervous, aud
relief took Karl's Clover Root Tea.
-*nd my nerve* and atreagthened my
System. I was troubled with
Kidney and
"one System. I
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troubled
Bowel trouble,
oleknaod "»atem so
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Gray Department.
Geo. P. Wiley drove to Audubon
one day last week.
Mrs. Dr. Beers is visiting her
people in Jasper county.
Mrs. Sleere who' has been sick for
many weeks is convalescing.
Mosier, the Audubon butcher, is a
twice-a-week business visitor here.
Harvest and 'haying hands are
scarce but wages still remain low.
Charley Romey was hauling out
lumber tor farm improvements this
week.
Miss Corla Corner is assisting Mrs.
Charley McLachlin iu her household
duties.
Mrs. Frank Buiikuer who has been
ill for some time is much improved
in health.
M. D. Crow has been under the
weather for a feW days caused by
overwork.
Best Binding Twine and lowest
prices on same at Greenwaldt & Grot
eluschen's.
No creamery in sight yet, but we
have as fine a location for one as the
state affords.
Ready made screeu doors aud ex
cellent wire cloth at Greenwaldt &
Groteluschen's.
Our worthy postmaster, August
Greeuwaldt was under the weather a
few days last week.
A fine shower refreshed mother
earth Friday last and now vegetation
is growing luxuriantly.
Mrs. E. J. Lancelot fell, and sus
tained such .injuries as to compel her
to keep quiet for a few days.
The little daughters of W. F. Gray
and Addison Settlemfre spent Sab
bath with friends in the city.
Pete Moller was doing business at
Audubon last week and Walter
Audas was yard master during his
abseuce.
Walter J. Audas is mentioned as
the choice of the 'democrats for
treasurer. Mr. Audas is an honora
ble man.
Greenwaldt & Groteluscheu bought
ten thousand pounds of twiue and
already have distributed 8000 pounds
therefrom.
The best signs of returning pros
perity are that rats are plentiful and
bees are swarming themselves to ex
travagance.
Mr. Wm. Clark and his sons Wil
burn and Rob, returned from Omaha
and Council Bluffs celebrations very
much pleased with the recreation.
Nearly every evening' Hans Chrjs
tensen can be seen nwirhing through
the grove for stray swarms of bees.
His catch so far has been profitable..
George Davis is hauling his last
years' corn to market. He has about
four weeks' hauling and receives thir
teen cents per bushel. The quality
is poor.
From present indications the out
side townships will patronize the
Gray High school during the next
school year which commences Sep
tember first.
Mrs. Mailer's father died suddenly
at bis home at Battle Creek, Iowa,
Monday last and Peter and Mrs. Mol
ler left here for the old home im
mediately.
"Bert Lacy is visiting his friends
here' tor a few days. Bert is working
in Minnesota where he gets one dol
lar and fifty cents per day, and hands
are scarce at that.
Mr. and Mrs. Asmus Boysen were
Audubon visitors Thursday. Mrs.
Boysen went on to Colfax to meet
her mother and accompany her to
Mrs., Boysen's home here.
Our up-to-date druggist has added
ice cream that's simply delicious, to
his neat counter of confectionary.
'Gene knows what is most appreciated
these sweltering hot days.
Barley harvesting Is .well under
way and that cereal promises profit
able returns. The tame hay crop is
also nearly completed with a rich
crop secured under favorable condi
tions.
Nets Chri8ieuaen marketed two
car loads of fat hogs here Saturday
last. Forsbeck & Groteluscheu were
the purchasers and (hey were shipped
on the special from this place Sunday
morning.
Prof. A. M. Gray and wife, of An
drew, Jackson county, Iowa, are
visiting their relatives aud friends in
Irwin, Shelby county, they will re
turn to their school work some time
in August.
Charles Wilson, our gentlemanly
agent at the C. N. W. is an expert at
hiving bees. With his little dinner
bell in one hand and revolver in the
other he can just settle anything in
the bee line.
Miss Grace, the young daughter of
O. L. Ruseell, of Manniug, and for
merly station agent here, has been
making an extended visit among her
many young friends. She returned
home Friday.
Talk about foot racing you ought
to have seen the "fat" and the
lean race at the Frank Gray cele
bration. The fat" came out ahead,
aud now we can challenge the county.
Address Frank Gray for reply.
George Gray's horse and buggy
came up missing Friday last and in
consequence George had to foot it to
the ranch. The rig returned however
when Mertz got through visiting his
triend, but by gad" the air was
blue, etc., etc.
The Y. P. S. C. E. elected the fol
lowing officers for the next term:
John Crow, president Mrs. Wiley,
vice president Grant Lancelot, secre
tary W. H. Lancelot, Jciiuirman L.
O. Com Mpq Hp -'--nan
lot Organist, Mips Libbie Lewis,
Chorister.
Tuesday evening July 13, occured
the installation of the officers of Uto
pia No. 161 I. O. O. F. The officers
for the ensuing term are Samuel Keat
N. G. W. H. Lancelot, V. G. W. J.
Audas, Secretary and W.Z.Scott,
Treasurer. District Deputy Grand
Master Latlirop, ot Defiance, per
formed the ceremony after which an
ice cream sociable was participated in
by all present. £•.
Ross Department, a
Why not buy your twine of j. F.
Luse aud save that half cent.
Mrs. Albert Fest was at Audubon
Wednesday, having an aching tooth
extracted.
One day last week Chas. Jordan
captured a genuine badger on the Ben
Carr place.
Miss May AVetherell, of Carroll,
visited a few days this week with
friends in Ross.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Luse contem
plate a trip to Montana about the
middle of August.
Chas. Jordau's baby boy was very
ill the first of the week, requiring
the aid of an M. D.
Fred Rutherford will soon leave
for Norfolk, Nebraska, where he will
work on the railroad.
Miss Jennie Davisaud Miss Hobart,
of Defiance, Sundayed with Mr. and
Mrs. Inman Shearman.
Miss Sadie Olsen, of Viola town
ship, is assisting iu household duties
at the J. F. Luse home.
Miss Jennie Killinger expects soon
to leave for a two-months' visit with
relatives in Jackson county.
Mrs. Sarah Luse, of Chinook, Mon
tana, mother of J. F. Luse is very ill,
the result of being severely scalded.
That up-to-date Jones Lever Bind
er and Chain Mower are making a
record that competitors cannot break.
Mrs. J. A. Humiston and Miss Et
ta Brown, ot Audubon, passed Tues
day with the Fest and Shearman fatal
ities at this place.
Carloads of. %-X
Cob*! Cob*I CobmlWS''
at Ross, one cent an inch. Call on J.
F. Luse.
Luse is selling his crib lumber.
This lumber is almost new. If in
need of lumber it will pay you to
call and see him.
Nels Christensen shipped from
Gray Sunday by the apodal stock
train three carloads of fiue" hogs—the
product of his Cameron to'tvnship
ranch.
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Kopp aud Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Luse dined at the hos
pitable home of Mr. and Mrs. 'Geo.
Wright, in Cameron township, last
Sunday.
From January 1st, to July 1st,
1896, Shearman, the station agent at
this place, issued forty-two express
money orders and in the correspond
ing time in '97 he issued just twice
that amount—84 exactly.
Rob't Henderson went to Missouri
Valley Saturday to make arrange
ments for the training ot his pacing
stallion, Limber Jim, and Saturday
of this week this horse will be taken
there and placed in the hands (if
trainer Frazier until fair time.
Cameron township delegates to the
republican county convention held at
Audubon July 15th: Wm. Lewis,
John Crow, Sam'l Randies, F. C.
Miller, John Lovelace, Jas. Hall,
Geo. Wright, Geo. Ross. Lincoln
township: Arthur Baker, S. F. Gar
mire, Geo. P. Wiley, W. J. Lancelot,
Ben Brookfield, Love Estes, L. M.
Brausou, Am. Aikman.
MARRIED—At the residence of J.
H. Kilpatrick, in Chicago, July 4th,
Melvin E. Kilpatrick to Miss Emma
Smith, Rev. Harkes, of M. E. church,
officiating, only a few intimate friends
of the family being present. The
young couple were the recipients of
many beautiful and useful presents,
and after refreshments they departed
for their new home which was in
readiness for them.
At the home of Mr. Chas. Farn
ham July 7, the many friends of Miss
Ethel gathered to spend the evening
The early part of. the eve was Bpeut
iu all kind of games and social
merrimeut a most delicious sup
per of ice cream and cake were served,
after which the merry makers depart
ed for their homes, expressing them
selves as having had a very pleasMit
time. And we want to come aguin
Ethel. MRS. TIIOS. RUTIIEKFOKD.
Last Friday afternoon about 1
o'clock, during the thunderstorm, the
house of Albert Jiugst, iu Viola
township was struck by lightning
instantly killing Fred Meiser, who
was working for Mr. Jiugst. Mr.
Meiser was about 23 years of age, was
liked by everyone and a special favor
ite of the children, aud in fact was on
the floor amusing Mr. Jingst's young
sters at the time ihe fatal bolt de
scended. lie was well and favorably
known in this vicinity, having made
his home for some time past at the
Dave Hart home until Mr. Hart and
family moved to Ross. Deceased has
no relatives in this slate, his only liv
ing relative being a half bcollier re
siding iu Kansas. A short funeral
service was held at the Jingst home
aud the remains were laid to rest iu
the Grove cemetery. The funeral ser
mon will he preached next Sunday by
Rev. lvielI, at Bethel uhurch of which
he was a devoted member. The man
ner and ?mlleniic«s of ~hls death are
the cause of deep sorrow to his many
friends, which is much alleviated
however, by the tact that Fred iwis a
trough Christian and prepared for
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EXIRA, IOWA THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1897. $1.00 PER YEAH
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At the time of the Milierite delusion
In 1848, when many people believed
that the end of the world would come
An a certain day iu April, aud many
others who did not really believe were
ret moved to superstitious uneasiness
by the fervor of the Millerites, there
were a number of eager watchers for
the appointed day iu au old New Eng
land town.
Word to the Wise
is Sufficient.
Don't be humbugged by men traveling through
the country buying or contracting poultry when you
can get just as much or more from your home buyers.
We understand there are strangers traveling in this
vicinity buying poultry and we have never known it
to fail after they have left the country, those that
sold to them acknowledged they were swindled in
weights or some other mysterious manner, and would
have received more net cash from us. However, the
very next time a new man comes around they have
forgotten their former experience and are again ready
to be canght in the same trap. We do not blame any
one for wanting to get all they possibly can out of
their produce, but we cannot understand why the
people of Audubon county will be swindled time after
time in the same manner.
We all know these men cannot travel around here
without big expenses and in these days of fierce com
petition the home merchant $:iil net you just as much
or more for your produce as any traveling concern
possibly can. Our motto has always been honest
weights, honest prices, and on these principles we
want to buy your poultry this year. Get our prices
before you sell to strangers and then if you think you
can better yourself sell to them. Remember we pay
cash for poultry if you want it.
We Carry all Kinds of
It was a late spring, aud there was a
light fall of snow ou the ground. On
the night before the dreadful date there
flamed in the sky a magnificent crimson
aurora, aud the red light iu the heavens,
with its red reflection ou the snow, ter
rified many nervouB people to the verge
of distraction. They thought it signi
fied the beginning of universal destruc
tion.
One woman, who lived alone, with
the back of her house close to a ceme
tery, waked near midnight and was
overoome with horror. Without stop
ping to dress Bhe ran out of her house
and along close beside the burying
ground boundary toward the dwelling
of her next neighbor. Her bare feet
slipped in the snow, and onoe sho fell,
but rose immediately and ran on.
Her neighbors aim were awake, the
wife lying quaking in bed, the husband
at the window. He looked out just as
the frantio figure in white sprang up
from her fail in the drifted snow—
emerging, us it appeared, from the
graveyard, and bathed in blood red
light. Turning his head, he shouted
baok hastily into the dark chamber:
'It's true, wife, the end of the world
has oome. The dead are rising from
their graves. I've just seen the first
one."
The supposed corpse, however, pres
ently took refuge in his house, and
when morning dawned and the world
still existed the trio
were no doubt reas
sured.—Youth's Companion.
11. Fred Figeher, Pre*.
John Polxilk, Vice JPre*.
...Bee Supplies
In stock and can fill all orders on short notice at less
than manufacturers prices. If you need anything in
this line don't fail to get our priceB.
We Also Carry
In stock and can furnish them at lowest prices.
E. Bilhar?
AUDUBON
xiuring
1750
Circulation.
Guaranteed
.to Exceed
town.
ITS
montns spent in me Aus­
tralian colonies in the years 1870 1, I
had more opportunities thnu were pleas
ant of studying the habits of ants.
These insects, as is well known, are not
only a nuisance, but an absolute pest iu
hot countries. They march in myriads
and destroy everything in their road.
In justice to the ants, I am bound, how
ever, to admit that I have found them
useful in mora ways than one. For in
stance, I bought an opossum skin rug
from a native. I soon became painfully
aware of the fact that it literally
swarmed with fleas aud other vermin.
In vain did I exhaust my stock of pep
per. Even turpentine seemed to have
no effeot beyond increasing the reckless
activity of these irritating settlers.
At last, in despair, I threw my rug
down on an ant hill. Iu less than half
an hour every flea and objectiouablo
parasite was eaten, but the rug was full
of ants. I therefore huug it on a mimosa
bush, audas soon as tho autsfound tbey
were suspended they basteued to leave
the rug and descended by the bush as
best tbey could.
Again, I had killed a suako iu Tas
mania and wished to clean und blouch
the skeleton, which I intended to havo
mounted as a necklace. I left the body
near an ants' nest In a few" hours there
was not a vestige of flesh on tho bones.
The sun soou did the rest.—Gentleman's
Magazine.
The Ijargeiit Book.
Professor Max Muller of Oxford, iu
recent lecture, called attentiou to t'
largest book iu the world, the wood
ful Kuth Daw. It cousists of 729 pa
in the shape of white marble pi
covered with inscriptions, each i- .t
built over with a temple of brick. It is
fouujJ near the old priest city of Mau
dalay, in Burma, and this temple oity
of'more than 700 pagodas virtually
makes UP this monster book.
Geo. P..Wiley, Cashier.
houi* GNttetuaehvri, Afutt C'h
RESPONSIBILITIES. S50.000.
Farmers Exchange Bank.
GRAY. IOWA.
Do a General Banking Business, receive deposits subject to
check at sight. Buy and sell domestic and foreign exchange.
Interest paid on time deposits. Money loaned on good com
mercial paper or approved collateral. Co-partners individ
ually liable—H. Fred Fischer, John Polzin, Geo. P. Wiley,
Louis Grotelusclien. Collections made and promptly
remitted.
The GRAY PHARMACY,
C. EUGENE MERTZ. "topmeron.
DRUGS, MEDICINES^CH£ly(ln1"
Stationery, Perfumery, Jewelry, Painta.
.P^rlptloni Carefully Compounded*?,,
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