Audubon County journal., July 24, 1902, Image 5

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Directory of Baptist Cburch.
Sunday servlcos:—
Preachiug 10:45 a.m. Sunday School 12:00 m.
Preaching 7:00 p. m. Junior Society 3:00 p. m.
B. Y. P. U. meeting Friday evening, :.!0 p.
Prayer meetinsAVednesday evening, 7:30 p. m.
Covenant meeting Wodnesday evening preced
Ing first Sunday in each month.
You are cordially invited to attend these ser
vices and worship with us.
U. M. WILCOX, Pastor.
J. (J. Hardmau was a county seat
caller Tuesday.
Hans Nymand was called to Exira
on business, Tuesday.
Henry Johnson, of Audubon, was a
caller in Bray ton Monday.
J. P. Christofferson marketed some
choice porkers in Bray ton Tuesday.
The ball team exect to play a re
turn game here sometime next week.
Lee Griffith shipped a nice car of
fat porkers to South Omaha Tuesday.
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Jenkins & McGovern shipped two
cars of hogs to the Omaha markets
Monday.
P. J. McGovern's father, of Atlan
tic, came up Sunday and passed the
day with him.
Marion Jenkin6 went to Atlantic
Monday to attend to business affairs
between trains.
Lu Miller sold his fine driving team
the first of the week to a land agent
from South Dakota.
T. J. McClain, of Exira, was a bu
siness visitor in town Tuesday after
noon for a short time.
Mrs. Frank Heath went up to Ex
ira Monday to visit with her friends
and relatives for a few hours. JQ'
Mrs. Kirk Merrick was visiting
with friends in Exira Tuesday and
attendin'g to business matters.
Lars Esbeck, who resides out near
Elkhorn was visiting with friends in
Braytoo Tuesday for a few hours.
Mrs. AVill Woodward, of Exira,
came down Sunday and visited a few
hours with her brother, Fd Lewis.
In the absence of the pastor, Xel6
Sorenson will conduct the services at
the Brayton Baptist church Sunday.
Mrs. Owen Green and daughter,
who reside near Lorah, were visiting
with their friends in Brayton Sunday.
Geo. Hansen, a prosperous farmer
\ving west of Brayton, is building a
&w kitchen to his already fine home
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jlth Rev. Wilcox is over in §helby
m^unty this week, where he is con
evicting servii
VLi that place.
Albert Wagner and wife, of near
Anita, drove over Sunday and visited
with their relatives at the Doctor W.
R. Koob home.
H. S. Wattles went down to Car
son Tuesday evening and will remain
a week visiting with his daughter,
Mrs. J. M. Thomas.
Tic McGovern and Frank Jenkins
departed for Omaha, Monday night,
where they went with stock shipped
by Jenkins & McGovern.
J. H. Burkhead and wife have the
care of a little girl this week very
sick with tonsilitis, but on Tuesday
she was slightly improved.
H. M. Bartlett is building a large
barn out on his farm near Brayton.
He purchased the lumber of Nels Sor
ensen at the Green Bay Yards.
Neils Hoegh, county supervisor,
went out to Council Bluils Tuesday
to attend tne congressional conven
tion which convenes in that city. W:
Miss Minnie Campbell visited with
relatives at the Frank Heath home
the last of the week, returning to her
home at Exira the first of the week.
Chris Hansen, a prosperous and
well to do farmer, living four miles
northwest of town, la building a
roomy^addition to his fine country
home.
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Mr. and Mrs. N.-P. Clemensen, liv
ing northwest of Brayton, had the
care of a very sick child, the last of
week, but at present she is resting
easier.
A dance was held out at the Nis
Christensen home, Saturday, where a
jolly crowd of people assembled to
pass the evening in social dance and
other amusements.
H. B. Newcomb, of Atlantic, rep-'
resenting the New York Life Insur
ance Company, was in Brayton the
first of the week soliciting business
for his company.
Harnessmaker William Buckley is
quite sick this week and is unable to
attend to his duties in the shop. The
doctor says he is threatened with an
attack of typhoid fever.
HONEST INJUN!
Did you ever eat such bread as
your wile makes out of
It's better than the kind mother used
to make. Hother didn't have such
(lour. That's why.
For sale by
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JENKINS & VAIL.
BRAYTON, IOWA.
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B. F. Simpson was in town Tues
day. He says he is very busy now
caring lor his large crop of hay. Ben
has his moustache shaved off so uow
his best friend hardly knows him.
Pearson's orchestra went up to Old
Hamlin, Wednesday evening, and tur
nished the music tor the dance at the
dedication of the new bam of Clar
ence Oaks, who resides at that place.
John Harrison, of Exira, will come
down some time this week and paper
the church. He will also paper a
room for H. S. Wattles up at the
Chas. Bisom home while he is in the
city.
Nels Sorenson is suffering from a
painful abscess on his wrist this week
which causes him much pain and loss
of sleep and renders him unfit for
the performance of his duties at the
lumber yard.
Men to work in the hay field are
very scarce at present as we noticed
severar men in town Tuesday inquir
ing for help. The wages are good but
everyone is busy and an idle man can
not be found.
H. C.Nelson has just finished an
addition to his beautiful country res
idence which gives him considerable
more room and makes the things
about the house much more conven
ient and handy.
Since the rains, John Jenkins has
been unable to cut, across the track*
from the depot and at first he feared
he would lose the hay on this land,
but now he says he will be able to
commence work in a few days.
H. S. Wattles, county surveyor,
went out in Audubon township Mon
day and set some grade stakes out on
the bills and in a short time the
graders will peel off the brows of
some of the lofty hills in that town
ship.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Scott, who
'reside up near Exira, were made to
rejoice Sunday over the arrival of a
big baby boy, that came to their home
to remain for a few years arid then go
out into the world to fight the battles
of life.
Mrs. Grace Aldrich and daughter
and Mrs. Mark Heath, whose homes
are in Atlantic came up on the morn
ing train Saturday and spent the day
with their friends at the Frank Heath
home, returning home again in the
evening.
C. G. Thompson is having his house
up near the blacksmith shop painted
this week by Painter Ed Lewis who
is doing a very creditable job. He is
having it painted a red trimmed in
white which adds much to the ap
pearance of this home.
Chas. Bisom finished putting up
his large crop of hay Wednesday.
Charles has secured some very choice,
bright hay notwithstanding the fre
quent rains we have been having. He
had 90 acres in all and reports the
yield ab very satisfactory.
Misses Edna and ltuby Pearson re
turned from Des Moines. Saturday,
where they had been for two weeks
visiting their aunt, Mrs. Wm. Cham
bers. They were in the capital city,
during the time of the recent high
water and saw the greater portion of
the lower part of the city under water.
The Green Bay Lumber Coin pan}'
have torn down tneir old coal sheds
and are now putting up new build
ings in their place. John Ivoob is do
ing the carpenter work. Manager
Nels Sorenson says the company be
lieves in keeping up with the "times
by making such improvements as
this.
Mrs. John Koob, who has been vis
iting, the past week, with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Sissler, over near
Highland church, returned home
Thursday evening after a most enjoy
able visit. While there her father's
barn was struck by lightning, catch
ing on fire and was entirely consumed
with the' corn crib near by.
.Jno. McNamara returned from Mon
tana, Monday evening, where he has
been at work for the past six months.
He returned here to get his threshing
outfit ready for use as he expects to
start out in a few days and help the
farmers thresh out their large crop of
grain. John is a good thresher and
always has all the work he can do.
Hans Nymand will soon begin the
erection of a large country residence,
costing him in the neighborhood of
$1500, which will be when finished
one of the nicest homes in this part of
the country. Hans believes in keep
ing abreast of the times and realizes
that the best house he can build is
none too good for he and his family.
J. C. Ha id man returned from his
South -Dakota trip the last of the
week and is very well pleased with
the country. He bought a quarter
section of laud near Huron, at 820.00
per acre and traded one of "his stal
lions in as part payment on the land.
John says the land he bought has
corn on it this year and walking
through the field it struck him
around the shoulders and gives prom
ise of a bountiful crop as the ground
is a deep black loam, very rich, the
kind of soil that raises good corn,
such as we grow in Iowa.
Kees Hal lock and wife will depart
the last of the week for different
points in the west. They will stop off
in Nebraska and then go on to Salt
Lake City, Utah, and view the many
points of interest in this beautiful
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city which was laid out by Brigham
Young and followers, viewing the
vast Mormon temple and the taber
nacle building where fourteen thou
sand Mormons assemble to listen to
music that comes from a huge pipe
organ that contains fifty-five hundred
pipes and costs $100,000.00, and hear
the choir fiye hundred and fifty
strong as they sing out the glad an
thems. From this city they will go
on down to Salt Lake and take a
plunge in the briny waters of the
Great Salt Lake and here alone they
could spend a week very profitably
looking over the many items of in
terest. They expect to journey on
from here to California.
While Owen Ide was mowing hay
on his farm near Brayton, one day
last week, the team became frighten
ed and started to rub away. Mr. Ide
seeing the danger of a serious accident
while the machine was in gear started
to throw the gear brake forward so as
to throw the gearing back and stop
.the sickle from running at such a
high rate and dangerous speed and in
some manner lost his balance and was
thrown violently from the machine
to the ground. The wheel of the mow
er passed over the entire length of his
body from his foot to his shoulder
leaving a black and blue streak the
whole distance, beside badly bruising
the left side ot his body. At first it
was feared that he was injured inter
nally but on close examination it was
found be was only hurt from the se
vere bruises he is now suffering from.
He is now recovering very nicely but
is very sore and stiff as a result of the
accident. Mr. Ide considers himself
very fortunate in getting off as well
as he did as we often hear of many
fatal accidents resulting in a runaway
with a mower.
One of the most exciting and inter
esting ball games ever played in
Brayton or the county took place at
Brayton the first of the week between
the Brayton team and Beuton Bloom
ers, from over in Benton township,
and both teams put up a good game
only four errors being made, two on
each side. After considerable contro
versy the Benton boys came to bat
and their side was retired without a
run. The Brayton boys next tried to
make a hit but failed to score. The
Behtons then made a score in the sec
ond inning. After this neither side
scored till the sixth inning when
Brayton msdeone, the only score they
made during the game, and Benton
made three. In the seventh neither
side scored and in the eighth Benton
added two more scores to their credit.
In the ninth both sides were put out
without a run. Both pitchers threw
a fine game, allowing no one to take
a base on balls. The score by innings
is as follows:
Brayton 0 0000100 0—1
Benton 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 2 0—6
Batteries: Brayton, Burcher, Koob
and Franklin Benton G. Morgan and
C. Morgan struck out, by Burcher
12, by Morgan 11 hits, Brayton 5,
Benton 8.
Spinning an Bgg.
One of Lord Kelvin's favorite experi
ments while teaching natural philoso
phy at the University of Glasgow was
to spin an egg which was suspended
in the air. If the egg were hard boiled,
it would spin a long time otherwise,
owing to the friction between its con
tents and the shell, its motion would
soon cease. Lord Kelvin inferred from
this that the interior of the earth can
not be a fluid, or the globe's rate of ro
tation would have been checked long
ago. Once the students substituted
raw eggs for the hard boiled ones pro
vided for the experiment. Not one
would spin properly, but Lord Kelvin
was not to be fooled. "None of them
boiled," was liis only comment.
A Crnel Joke.
Oswald, a witty and original Pari
sian, had a mania for practical joking.
He was very amusing to his friends,
bnt when his talents were exerted to
avenge some wrong there was more
bitterness than fun in his wit.
One evening when a man who had
not treated him politely gave a recep
tion he revenged himself cruelly. The
man was slightly deformed. All the
hunchbacks of Paris, 500 in number,
presented themselves at his reception.
They had received notices from Os
wald that if they would go to this ad
dress on this evening they would learn
Of a legacy which had been left them.
The Pride of Profeaalon.
Soldiers, remarks the Kansas City
Journal, are the only ones who really
have pride in their profession. When
a soldier dies, he is hauled to his grave
on the trucks of an old cannon, and
his memory would be disgraced if any
other vehicle were used. But think
what ^.howl would go up against the
family if a dead farmer should be
hauled to his grave on the trucks of a
sulky plow!
Flat Nosea Considered Beautiful.
In ancient Persia an aquiline nose
was often thought worthy of the
crown, but the Sumatran mother care
fully flattens the nose of her daugh
ter. Among some of the savage tribes
of Oregon, and also in Aracan, contin
ual pressure is applied to the skull in
order to flatten it and thus give It a
new beauty.
Not Very Smart.
"There's no use in trying to make me
believe that Francis Bacon was a very
smart man," said Senator Sorghum.
"Have you read any of his works?"
"No, but bis biography shows that
when there was a Sittle financial deal
on hand he wasn't clever enough to
keep from getting caught."—Washing
ton Star.
We have noticed that the man who
begins a fight with a velvet hand is
soon using a club.—Atchison Globe.
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THE GREAT JOKE, DEATH.
Fanny Side of Dying Often Treated
of In Literature.
"Death," said a publisher, "has been
treated humorously in our literature
often. Indeed I am quite sure that a
collection of many thick volumes might
be made under the title of 'Death's
Funny Side.' Thomas Hood was one
of our best writers of this sort of
verse. Don't you remember his ballad
on the young sailor who died heart
broken over his girl's unfaith? The
last stanza was:
"His death, which happened in his berth,
.At forty odd befell
They went and told the Sexton, and
The sexton tolled the bell.
"Hood did another ballad on the sub
ject of a soldier who lost both legs In
battle, who was in consequence jilted
by his sweetheart and who then hung
himself. Now, that is rather tragfc, is
it not? It has a bizarre but none the
less poignant tragic note. Guy de
Maupassant indeed once handled al
most this same situation, but he han
dled it from the opposite viewpoint,
and don't you remember how he nar
rated the first, the crucial, meeting of
the lovers after Ben Battle's double
amputation?
"But when he called on Nellie Gray
She made him quite a scoff.
And when she saw his wooden legs
Began to take them off.
"This treatment drove Ben to de
spair:
"So round, his melancholy neck
A rope he did entwine
And for the second time in life
Enlisted in the line.
"And there he hung till he was dead
As any nail In town
For, though despair had cut him up.
It could not cut him down.
"There is a tremendous literature of
humorous epitaphs. There must be, I
fancy, 10,000 of these, but two of them
are all I can recall. The first goes:
"Here lies the body of mild Maria
She went one day to start the fire.
But the wood was green,
So she used kerosene.
And now she's where the fuel Is drier.
"The other is grimmer:
"Life Is a lie, and all things show It:
I thought so once, and now I know it.
"Then there are songs on the side
splitting aspects of death, some of
which have caused tender hearted la
dies to .double
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with mirth. 'Johnny
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What next?
A lunch for 5 cents*
A wholesome, nutritious, hunger satis
fying lunch for a nickel I
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Go to the grocer's early and^1
be at the head of the line*|
Jones aiid'His'Slster Sue' is one such
song, and I bet that six people out of
ten in America know it by heart
"Yes," the publisher concluded, "un
der the title of 'Death's Funny Side' an
anthology of many, many volumes
could be made. The anthology should
be bound in black pigskin, with grin
ning skulls and crossbones tooled in
gold on it."—Philadelphia Record.
A Matter of Principle.
"Why is it," says the girl, "that In
giving an account of an accident they
always give the age of the person in
jured? I can see the sense of their
talking about blonds and brunettes, a
mustache or full beard if it is a man
or a red, green or blue gown if it is a
woman, for that is a means of identifi
cation for acquaintances and friends
who may be interested. They don't
even put the age in the death notices
now, but if you meet with an accident
out it comes id"nil the papers in town.
But they will never publish mine. I
have it on my mind every time I cross
the street, and when there is a particu-,
larly bad crowd I say to myself, "Now,
remember, if you are run over here, no
matter how badly hurt, you are to re
member never to tell your age. It's a
matter of principle." New York
Times.
Rejected Fortune*.
Professor Bell had a strenuous time
over his invention of the£j^~_^bfce. H"e
took the first working^roddRf his
instrument to John—a. Logart^id of
fered him a half interest for $2,500,
saying that it would do away with the
telegraph and that there would be mil
lions in it. Logan replied: "I dare say
your machine works perfectly, but who
would want to talk through such a
thing as that, anyway? I advise you to
save your money, young man." Bell
then offered a tenth interest to an ex
aminer in the patent office for $100 in
cash. It was refused. That tenth in
terest was worth $1,500,000 In fifteen
years.—Pearson's.
Ratner Airy
"There is an acquaintance of mine,"
remarked the doctor, "who gives him
self airs because he was given up to
die thirty years ago and has kept him
self nlive.till.naw_hy tnking nxv^pn."
Excursion leaves Omaha Tuesday
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"How'old is lie now?" asked the pro*!
fessor.
"Over eighty."
"He's what you would call an oxyge-,
narlan, is he?" said the professor, look
ing at him vith half shut eyes.—Chlca-'
go Tribune.
An Appropriate Name.
"It is a pretty name," the Impres-,
slonable traveler murmured, "but tellj
me why do they call you Manita?'
There was an arch smile on the sav-i
age maiden's face. I
"Evidently," she said as she signaled!
to her brothers, who were concealed lnl
the brush with clubs, "you do not'
know our favorite food."
How the Chimney Swift Got Ita Name.
Occasionally a bird is strong mind'
ed enough to break away from old tra
ditions. Before this country was sefc«
tied the swift nested In hollow tree*,
but after trees began to.be cut down
and chimneys arose above the roofs of
houses everywhere the birds were
quick to perceive that fires are gener
ally out by the time their nesting sea
son arrives therefore, why not take
advantage of tlie innovation? So com
pletely did they forsake their old nest
ing sites to build in chimneys that the
name chimney swift is now universal
ly applied to them.—T-adiea Home
Journal.
A London paper says that Amrt/
can fashionable women ar^^Hmng
tteits (njiumeiite^ with
oglyphlcs liv silver, and that one wom
an was chagriifed to learn from a Chi
nese diplomat that the hieroglyphics
she wore read. "May my enemies die
in torture," and "May Ihavefifty sonB.'*,
Harlan P. Hall, of St. Paul, nestov
of the Minneapolis press, has an.
nounced himself as a candidate fo*
governor of Minnesota on the Demo*
cratic ticket Mr. Hall started five
newspapers in St Paul, four of which
survive and are prosperous. Personal
ly, he is exceedingly popular.
A Liverpool (Eng.) firm employing
over 500 clerks and managers, engages
a fellow of the British Phrenological
society in the Midlands to select suit
able candidates for vacancies. Other
firms in Leicester, Nottingham. Der
by, Birmingham and Brighton do the
same.
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