Audubon County journal., June 25, 1914, Image 3

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MUMS IN IOWA
CORHJELT FARMS
I ThiA list of farms are in tJhue
CORN BELT OP IOWA and are of
fered for sate by the Audubon
County Journal. Believing
NO. 1—Contains just 34 acres near
a pretty little town. One male
from school, about 30 acres of
good land and 4 acres rough
with timber. Improvments are not
very good. A young ar
tbard mow producing about one
1
car load of apples each year
and will double production In a
year or two. A large amount
Improved farms run up to. $175.
per acre. With a little tile and
buildings this would be a valu
able eighty.
•No. 7—80 acres at $102.50 peT acr
terms to suit purchaser. Two
miles from town. Smooth land
mostly with south slope, a quick
warm soil slightly sandy, very pro
ductive. River cuts off 7 or 8
acres,from one corner the banks
are high and there is no low
or wet land outside of the river,
and waste excepting river bed. A
good four room he use nearly new
other buildings small.
No. 9—73 acres at $130 with good
terms on balance at 6 per cent.
Two miles from one town 3 miles
from another. American neighbor
hood, rolling land, some timber
soil, some black loam. Good pro
ductive farm. Good s^v^n- room
lwuse and large barn in excellent
condition, fine orchard and wind
Jt/
break.
*r= 8^
iV
No. 11—80 acres at 95.00 per acre
terms to suit with five and one
half percent on inferred payment,
five miles from small town, on
good road mail route and teleplio
line, mile to school, mostly Amer
j?$- icaris
with
,,
I
Wmi
knowLg that, all things considered
we are offering the beet homes
for the least money that can be
found anywhere.
0f
berries of all kinds for which the
adjacent town furnishes a good
market. About 20 acres are in cul
tivation, Price $130. pr acre.
No. 4—80 acres at $102.50 per acre
$2500 down, balance at five and
one-half per cent, unimproved,
good heavy soil, lies smooth needs
some tile, eight and one-half mije
from two good towns. school
house on the land. Shiort distances
from German community where
a few Norwegians,
tjs.j Best black soil smoothly sloping
tit1 su^h to ere which runs a
•i', long south side about two third
57 lemth of farm. All in cultivation
but 8 acres pasture along creek.
Good five room house other build
ings poor.
No. 12—100 aac-ies at $95 per acre,
terms to suit at 6 per cent. Two
miles from town 5 miles from
another. About 80 acres level
balance rolling with some timb:r
I? River crossing one end of 20 acr
Soil a sandy loam, very warm
a: quick. Buildings not very
good but will do for several
years.
4
No, 17. 110 acres at $130.00 $6000
cas'h balance ait five and one-half
per cent. Three and half milee
1 from country village just between
Gieirman amd American neighboi
hood The very best of heavy
black loam soil, smooth, nearly
level, farms adjoi ling and outlet
c&n
easilly be seouired. Very little
of this farm can be called wet
however and every foot is tillable,
its Tichness will last always. A
complete set of buildings, on goot
,road, telephone and mail route.
No. 23 acres at $130.00 per acre at
I emcumberance $15,000. at 5 per
-nt due in 1921. Seven miles fro
nice little town. American neigh
borhood. Best of soil, lies gently
1 rolling, about 20 acres too wet to
farm agricultural land. An1 extr
good set of buildings large house,
fine barn, built 1913
No. 24—160 acres at $127.50 unim
proved three miles from a town.
Beet of black loam soil smooth
with south slope well fenced.. The
price is subject to change with
out noticei.
No. 25—160 acres at $115.00 per
acre, good terms at 6 per cent, un
improved, eight miles from nice
town gently undulating best heavy
black soil, fenced hog1 tight on
tflinee sides.
ip
No. 26—160 acres at $135.00 pier
acre Brucumbrance
$12,000
at
5
County Legislature
B°ard
'4 Session
•/1
Autiors office. Audubon, Iowa
June 8th, 1914.
1
Board of supervisors met at 9:00
o'clock a. m., as [per adjournment ot
June 1, 1914, meim'bersi present: D.
D. Sampson, chairman R. P. Olark
and E. P. Johnson.
Minutes of meeting June 1st read
and approved.
On motion claims on the County
Fund were allowed as follows:
Ate res Blackmar and Go., pri
mary election supplies....$ 150 00
Audubon Advocate, board pro
ceedings 6 27
Audubon Advocate, supplies!
for clerk, $4.50 for treas
urer, $5.00
Audubon Advocate, supplies
sheriff
Audubon Advocate, ballots
for primary election 135 00
Audubon Advocate publish
ing proclamation
Audubon County Electric Co.
lights for primary election
1 50
Leroy township
Audubon Hardware Co., sup- ff§|
plies for shea'Tiff, .15 paint
for court house, $18.80 8 95
Audubon County Journal,
board proceedings, $8.00
road notice, $2.70
Audubon County Journal, sup
plies for auditor lo 0
W. H. Bolton, refrigerator '7'
for County Home ... ."a"
.4 00
4 ,r t'
m# 70
35 00
7 65
26 70
Jasi. Hollenbeck, veterinary
services at County farm.
H. J. Hoogenaker, board pro
ceedingsi, $34.14 supplies
for county engineers,
$13.75
H. J. Hoogenaker, publish
ing proclamation primary
election
A. C. Harmon, stool for county
engineer
Hermansen and Sltone .repair*
to court house win
dows 2
Hjermansiein and Stone, glass
and putty for County farm 16 10
Iowa Telephone Co., tolls from
4-25 to 5-24, 1914 8 75
Wesley Jay, bailiff district
court, May term, 1914....
4 00
Chas*. R. Limn, court report
er, May term, 1914 120 00
Ohas. R. Ldnn, court report
er, balance due for year s7
ending 7-1-14 .19 54
Le Mars Printing Co., sup
plies for clerk
50
°f Supervisors, at Their I
nlrtrOMrLiirlP
"V"
66
1!
2
and hanging at jail, 14.30 18 80
aittorney 3 iji1^
A. H. for imfl
clp.rir S9 r.n•
'9 50
{0r
clerk, $2.50
tor, .15
Blair E. Rice, assistant in
clerks office for May 1914
Ella M. Stearns, county su
perintendent, livery visiting!
Shools, $28.10 postage,
12.00
Ira Stetzelli, bull for County
9 90
Fa/rm
a a V'
f. fc0n'
18 00
Conklin, 26 meals for
jurors, May term, 1914.... 9 3 0
V. L, Culver, board of 'health
meeltings-, $2.00 board of
review meetings, $S.OO
dubon, Iowa, 1914 10 00
Eugene Dietagon Co., sup
plies for county engineer.. 14 09
Fjdlar and Chambers, supplies
for auditor 3 25
C. D. Porsbeck, county en
v-hq?
gineer, postage, $1.00 feh^jgil
freight, ex- |f|8|iS
rams, .80
press, drayage, $7.06. .7'.
Flick Drug Co., supplies for
recorder
W. amd Y. E. Cui'ley, repairs
and -uppliesi for surveyorsi
instnunent
Green Bay lumber Co., lum
ber for County farm....
J. E. Griffith and Co., merchan
dise for County Farm, $1.10
medicine for prisoner, .50.. 1 60
J. E. Griffith and Co., supplies
for offices 26 11
Hammond Stephens and Co.,
supplies for county super
intendent
8 S
00
Pay Roll No. 16.5 Audu'bon
new
47 89
9 90
9
Dr. P. E. James, health
physician Audubon town
4-1-13 to 2-1-14 4^ 84
Robt, S. Leoto and Co., paper
I for court reporters
15 oO
50 0
°a
Pay Roll miscellaneous bridge
repairs, Audubon town-
elhip
71ew
00
Lumber Co., 1 car piling
00
00
C. A. May, health physician1
3-1-14 to 4-1-14, Audubon,
!owa 4 16
Metropolitan Supply Co., sup
plies for auditor
per'.ent clue 1922, 5 miles from
one station, six miles from an
other Gtently undulating, lies al
most perfectly, draining to the
west. No outside water running
2 0 0
On motion the resignation of s.
Godwin, trustee of Greieley town
ship, was accepted
On motion claims on the bridge
Fund were allowed as follows:
Psy Roll, unloading gravel
Hamlin, Iowa
Pay RcM, miscellaneous
bridge repairs Hamlin
township
Pay Roll No. 33, L-sroy town
ship (extension)
Pay Roll No.25, Exira re
pairs 38
6 60
4 4 00
Pay Roll, miscellaneous, bridge
75
work, Leiroy
Pay Roll, No. 4.5, Exira
18 87
11 00
W. w. Smith, agent, frieght on
Pj]ine 125 96
J. A. Humiston, agent freight
on lumber 574 95
EJk Horn and Kimballton
253
I Casje Threshing Machine
Co., No.2 drag auraper
Wheeler Lumber Bridge and
supply Co., 1 car lumber
(emergency) 314
Hermansen and Stone, cook
w.a.gon for bridge crew
jjj
9 4
Oakfield township, No.
34.2
01
it, best of soil. A very fine set
of buildings. Eleven room house
and one of the largest and best
barns in the country. Plenty odf
fire orchard on this place. A
splended windbrake. Here Is an
exceptional tine bargain.
No. 48—371 acrtt at $115.00 p«r
l&P
05
Green Bay Lumber Co., Au
dubon Iowa. No. 5, Leroy
$10.90 for No. 5, Melyille
$1.70 repair 12 60
Audubon Hardware Co., mis
cellaneous bridge material
and supplies 41
Green Bay dumber Co.. Gray
Iowa, bridge material .. 80 45
|\to mieet again at 1 o'cuock p. m.
On motion the following resolutio
was adopted:
., -°r
1 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 6 A
of h€alth
meeting, Audubon la,. 2 00 Alfred Ohristoff.erson, et. al
Otto Witithauer, auditor, post
age, $8.10 frieght and ex
press), 6.79 office supplies
.80,
Otto Witthauer, auditor, re
cording deed, .75 extra
help making primary lists'
$9.00
$9.00
Christian Hansen, clerk Oak
field township
Niels P. Hoegli, trusitee Oak
field township
J. P. Juhl, trustee Oakl'ield
township
Drace Sorensen, trustee Oak
f.'ield township
Elmer Hardie, clerk Melville"
township
Fred Sunberg, trustee Mel
ville township
E. B. Thomas. cle:k -Melville
township 10 00
T'lios, Law, trustee Melville
township
9 00
0
2 00
2 00
10 00
Whereas, it is more convenient
a11
concerned to pay the depu-
ties employed in the various' county
for auditor, 2.75 -.V. 34 74 Therefore
A. Neitzel, trustee Oamer- 1 BG IT RESOLVED, By the board
of
Clarice Oelke, recorder, post- I(wa
s,ued t0 the county offioeTS:
Matt Parrott and sons Co., To J. L. Rippey, deputy aud,^.
supplies, for auditor
1 05 ?75.oo
per month.
"I
mp,nt,
2 65
D. D. Sampson—i'es. 'ilpSi!
R. P. Clark—Yes*
Hamlin township.
Pay Roll unloading culvert"
Audubcn Iowa
rhos Rutherford, dragging
county reads, Cameron*
to 6
O. C. Sitory, filling at bridge
011 county road, Leroy town-
slliP
50 40
S Dennis, unloading and
hauling culvert Audubon
Iowa
.56 72 John Reuschling dragging
county roads Melville
township
51
Henry Minerman dragging
county roads, Greeley
township
E. E. Smith repairing road
in Hamlin township
E. E. Smith, repairing road
00
slliP
C. A. Petty, grading white
arrow highway Audubon
Elk Horn and Kimballton
highway in Hamlin and
Sharon
55
Arthur
bridge
Wm. Alt hauling
tools
1 57
M. E. Mortensen treasurer
exchange $10.71 postage
$14.40 supplies, 7.70.... 32 81
iMantz and White, collecting
insane accounts 73 66
Monarch Printing Co., sup
plies for recorder, $31.99
Mike Farrell, hauling bridge
tools
Baayton Cement Works., re
pairs to bridge, Sec. 21,
2 00
5 00
On motion the board adjourned
acre, good terms Adjoining a sta
tion five and one-half miles from
nice town all in one body, and lie*
snioctl.Jy with south slope, good
soil very productive. About 5 acre
fine timber and pasture balance
all tillable.
A great many cattle have been
fed on the place and crops below
what the land is. A fine river
forme south) boundary and part
is rich bottom land and part ia
upland We consider this a snap.
fe-
pipe
ait
offices at the same time the officeial Midland Metal Mflg. Co., cul
are •peid,nivi8: last o£ each
supervisors of Audu'bon County
that the
Audit)r
be, and
0° ihe isi hereby authorized to issue
•tf' PaPer county warrants as follows on the
shemffi office, $4.50 paper
same da.te Ml
warrants ar is
T° B' Mi^:,and
reC°"1"
To' V. M. Jones, deputy treasurer,
$50.00 per month. I
A vote resulted as follows-
11
E. P. Johnson—Yes.
On motion bounty for killing wild
40 10 animals was allowed as follows:
Evelyn Wood, 1 adult wolf 20 00,
lersen 1 adult wolf 20 00
Forest Parnham, 1 adult wolf 20 00
457 gophers
Harry Reuschling, et. al,
466 gophers
13 69 Ralph White, et al., 680
gophers
45.70
68 00
On motion Claims on the Domestic
Animal Pund were allowed as
lows:
1
to Scott Herrick, claimed 4.00 for
one lanifc^ killed allowed
2 00 Lars Peter Larsen, claimed 21.00
for 3 ewes killed, allowed 10.50
Elmer E Schaerer, claimed S.00
for 2 lambs killed, allowed 8.00
00
6 85
30
26 40
9 00
12 35
in l^eroy township
E E Smith, grading and fill
ing in Hamlin township
E. E. Smith, grading and fill
ing in Sharon township 150 00
Fred Chiistensen, dragging
county roads in Hamlin 28 00
R. L. Herbert, dragging coun—
ty road in Leroy and Ham
lin township
4 70 J. A. Campbell, dragging coun
ty roads in Lincoln town-
sh'P
13
00
31 50
22 75
John Buckshire 24 days work
on county roads Sec. 2S V'
and 19 and between Sec.
33 and 34, Exira town-
48 00
204 75
Nelson, dragging coun-
roads
in Exira and Oak-
field township 21
Mike Farrell, dragging roads'
in Audubon township .... 19
Bernard Doffing dragging
county roads in Audubon
township 1913 and
55
78
1914 4410,
W. O. Griftfth agent, frieght'
on culvert pipe, etc 56
Lana Construction Co., cul-'
vert pipe, emergency
work 664 44
Verne Cozdne dragging coun
ty roads in Leroy, Camer-'
on and Lincoln town-
shiP
yic'
Iowa, freight on culvert
7 .»^-
12 25
Edwin Hackwell dragging
county roads in Audubon
Township 40
Iowa Pure Iron Culvert Co.,
culvert pipe 10-15-13, Au
dubon Iowa, 31 gg
A. J. Mantz, agent, Kimballton
3
Westsrn. Boiler Pipe Co, boiler
pipe
Elkhora Iowa. .229 60
Midland Metal Mfg. Co., cul
Vert pipe at Hamlin Iowa I
emergency material 308 00
vert pipe at Audubon,
Iowa, emergency majt- 6
erial 153 66
•Midland etal Mfg Co.,
culr
vert pipe at Gray, Iowa, "i
emergency material 56 72
Western Boiler Pipe Co., cul
vert pipe at Hamlin, Iowa,
emergency material 235 50
W. W. Smith, agent frieght
on culvert pipe from Exira
Iowa 10 40
Metal Mfg Co., "cul-
^ert
p'pe
•^•Xl'ra Iowa,
WW
Audubon township emer-,
It is ordered by the board of su
pervisors, that the compensation of
the clerk of the. district court, be
46.40 fixed as follows, viz: The salary as
fixed by law $1200.00 per annum,
and in addition thereto 40 per cent
0f
fol
wj':
4.OO1
On mat ion board orginiized as1
4 00 findings of the local boards after'
a careful examination of the ab
stract of assessment they decided to
make no change.
(J0
On motion claims, oa the Poor
Fund were allowed as follows
Peter Mortensen, hauling coal
for Hans Hansen (Sharon "V
township)
County Board of Equalization, with I\,
D. D. Sampson as chairman, no 'sh^nt of a road descnb
peals having been filed from
"ranu IV per Ctil I
the probate fees (in no case to
exceed the sum of $300.00 per an
num) Collected by said clerk, same
to be retained by the. clerk at time
of making his quarterly reports.
This order to take effect July 1st
1914,but includes compensation of
the clerk for June 1914
On motion the matter of the peti
tion of Jens P. Jensen et. all. for
as 0 ovb
the.
"7
The board then e-convened' as
board of supervisors and on motion
claims- on the Road Fund were al
lowed as follows
N. L. B?ck, sharpening road
grader
Pay Roll, emergency road
work
3 50
Commenting at S. E. corner of
Section 3i, lownship SO range35
and running thence east one-half
mile on the section line between.
Sees. 32—SO—35 and £3ecs. 5—
79—35 and terminating at public
highway, No. 209 running north
and south, come 011 for fisal hear
ing, and same was ordered estab
lished conditioned on the petition
ers paying damages as per the re
port of the appraisers and all other
costs in connect on with the es
tablishment.
On motion the application of Wm.
D. Davis for refund of $70.00 on
account of doubly assessment, was
rejected.
On motion the Hoard adjourned to
meet again at S o'clock a. m. to
morrow, June 9th 1914
Auditor's office Audubon
June 9tli 1914.
Board of supervisors niet at 8
clock a. m. as per adjournment
of previous day, members present
D. D. Sampson' chairman R. p.
Clark E. P. Johnson.
I Minutes of June 8th read and ap
37.50 proved.
Iowa
a of up vi
ors acting as ex-officio board of can
vassers proceeded to canvas the
vote cast at the primary electi0n
held Jiune 1st,
1914.
On motion the Board adjourned
to meet again at one o'clock p, m.
One o'clock p. m. board met as
per adjournment, members all pre
sent.
On motion the board proceeded
with the canvass of the primary e
lection returns.
On motion board adjourned to mectj
again at 8 o'clock a. m. tomorrow
June 10, 1914.
Auditors office Audubon Iowa
June 10, 1914.
Board of supervisors met as per
adjournedment of 9th inst., at 8
o'clock, a. ni. members present D.
D. Sampsan chairman R. P. Clark,
E. F. Johnson.
Minutes of the previous day read
and approved
On motion, the board of supervis
ors ex-officio county board of can
vassers, having completed the can
vass- of the vote at the primary etl,ee
tion, June 1, 1914 declared the fol
lowing persons nominated:
FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE
A. H. Edwards
Otto Witthauer
Hans Madsen
COUNTY AUDITOR
Wm. J. Hamilton
H. A. North up '1
Peter Jensen
OOUlNTY TREASURE
A. F. Fest
M. E. Mortensen
OLERJK OF DISTRICT COURT
F. M. Rice
H. W. Wilson. -,i
SHERIFF
J. C. Boyer
Qbarles Slfuabergi
f'
COUNTY RECORDER
Cflarice Cei.ke
Wiren Lane
1
COUNTY ATTORNEY
H. F. Andrews
John A. Grahman
CORONER
J. C. Newlon
P. Soe
J. L. Parker
4"'1
gency material 142 04
On motion the board made the fol
lowing order.
l-
y,i
A. C. Harmon
MEMBER OF BO
ARID OF SUPERVJ
SORiS, TERM BEGIiNiNING JAN-»
IJARY, 1915
F. L. Anderson'^" .1 /1
B. J. Black
1
4
Joseph Moody
MEMBER !OF THE BOARD OF SU
PERVISORS, TEiRM BEGINNING
JANUARY 1916
R. P. 'Clark
Soren. Madsen 1
George L. Jorgensen
263 11
Midland Metal Mf Co., cul
vert pipe, Audubon, Iowa 7
emergency material 100 08
-Midland Metal Mfg. Co., cul- s®«s
vert pipe, Hamlin Iowa, 'SB
emergency material .... 37 00
Midland Metal Mfg. Co., cul- ijfl
vert pipe, Anita, Iowa fior
AUDUBON TOWNSHIP
TRUSTEE
Chas. Boehme'"1'
W. C. Ti'bben.
1
Herman C. Wedemeyer
Bernard Doffing
John W. Martin
1
CLERK
Levi Walker ,,
Roscoe Turner
ASSESOR
H. A. Hansen
P. J. Kommes
'CAMERON TOWNSHIP'
TRUSTEE V.
Ai. Miller 1
A. C. Neitzel
1
CLKRK
A. W. Harvey I
Glen Hunt 1
ASSESSOR *7
J. W. Cannon
Jerry Hoover
Homer Beers
LEROY TOWNSHIP
JUiSTliCE OF THE PEACE
Clhas. S. White
D. L. Thomas
1
1
1
Thos. Rutherford
CLERK 1 1
Ira R. Mill en 1
ASSESSOR
John Lovelace 1
DOUGLAS TOWNSHIP
CLERK I
A. J. Sliupe
exira township
1
JUSTICE OP THE PEACH
J. P. Lair
T. J, McGovern
CONSTABLE
J. C. Coe
C. I. Dimick
TRUSTEE
Clarence Masclnng
Wm. Wulf
J. M. Dimick -I
H. S. Burton
H. P. Hansen
Stim 1. McGafiin
I-
\u
1^
j,
4
GREELEY TOWNSHIP 7.,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE I
1
CONSTABLE
John Hay.
TRUSTEE
Wm. Porter
P. W. iRidgley
Geo. WiahJerit 1
Frew Hayes
W. J. Ha-rtsell
CLERK I
Fred Reynolds
ASSESSOR I
R. C. iBuchannon
HAMLIN TOWNSHIP
TRUSTEE
T. J. Coglon I
•Hans Mortensen
Nels R. Ratte-nborg.
M. Kmudseii
P. K. Petersen I
Chas. Higgins
CLERK
I
Peter R. Nissen
J. R. Stanley
ASSESSOR
B. F. Dry den.
F. L. Clhrisitemsen -j
CONSTABfLE
L. M. Andersen
W. H. Jay
TRUSTEE
•W. E. Kennets 1- is
CLERK
1
D. L. Freeman,
ASSESSOR
H. B. Oliver
Geo. C. Everts 1
C. S. Christensen
A. F. Jensen
4
l"
1
LINCOLN TOWNSHIP
TRUSTEE
r'
ASSESSOR
F. W. Asmus
MEiLVILLE
TOWNSHIP
CONSTABLE
John. Reuschling
1
1
TRU'STIEJE
Chas. Layland
E. B. Thomas /j:
Fred Sunberg
1
John Twisrt.
Oassie Root :j
CLERK 1
J. W. McGuire
ASSESSOR .1
W. F. Hoyt
Gib&on Law ,1
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