Audubon County journal., December 09, 1915, Image 1

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Oil account of the sickness of
Mr. and Mrs. Egberts baby, Mrs.
Egbert is unable to collect newp
items this week, and Mrs. D(6L1
Spoo will receive any items for the
Journal.
We will be thankful for all new®
handed to MTS. Spoo for publican
tioa.
MISS LIZZIE GUDE
Wihile Miss Lizzie Gude was at
tending to her duties' at the
Charles Van ©order home in Audu
bon, the first part of the week,
in some manner, wihile takiing a
boiler of water off the stove, lit
came in contact with, a pail of hot
water that was near it, which was
over turned throwing the water
yer her clothing which penetrated
to her limb scalding it so badly
that it produced a blister from
her hip to her foot. Medical aid
was called at once and applications
to relieve her sufferings were ap
plied'. By this prompt service her
distress has not been so severe,
amd her many friends are pleased
to know that she is getting along
bo nicely.
EVANGELIST BOOTH
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CETTING ITEMS
The Journal.
IK SELL US
[01SII8IICOK
Next Tuesday auto's will start
ouit in different direction® over the
county to sell tickets for the
Short Course which will start in
Audubon in January. All that can
should avail themselves of this gold
en* opportunity. Domestic Science
for the wives and daughters, stock
judging Cor men and boys.
It's the "milk of the Cocoa Nut"
now-andiays and our advise is to
buy a ticket when tihe auto calls..
You will never regret it.
A
Evangelist Booth, w.ho was con
ducting a meeting here with the
Reverend Cox at the Methodist
Episcopal chuirch, for the past
two weeks, received wtord Monday
morning that his wife's mother
•while attending to her domestic af
fair overturned a small cupboard on
wihich was a bottle of turpentine.
In some manner the bottle fell on
the stove nearby and caught fire,
which' set fire to the oldi lady's
clothing and before it could be
extinguished she was frightfully
burned. The Reverend left on the
first train Monday morning for O
maha, their home.
THE HIGH SCHOOL
/LECTURE COURSE
The Lecture Course committee
will present the Edina Earl Crum
Conceit Party on Thursday evening.
Dec. 16th., in the High School As
sembly Room. This party consists
of three young ladies all artists in
their lines,—accompanist, violinist,
and soloist. You can not fail to
miss this as it is one of the
beet numbers on the Course, be
ginning at 8:15 sharp. Seats wall
be on sale at F. H. Cotton's Store
on Tuesday. Prices 25 and 35c.
THIIHV CUT
BUSIIIESS HEETIHG
A very interesting session' of the
Thursday Club was held at the
home of Mrs. E. C. Wilson last
Thursday afternoon with twenty-one
present. A rare treat was given the
Club in the paper given by Mrs.
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Ella Boorman Bell of San Francis
co, a niece and guest of Mrs. D|eki
ll oyde. She took as her subject
the Exposition, city, grounds and
buildings, a.n'd illustrated: by chart
The pest of the program was dis
pensed with for the day because of
important business to be transact
ed. The Cluib after due delibera
tion voted to acquire by puirohase
the corner lot and building owned
by Theodore Patty and located
just west of Rose Cottage,
Club room. The library will be
Cliub and library room. The library
Will be moved immediately in order
to give the of P's, oosses&ion
of the room .wihich ttoey have so
generously donated for many years.
After adjournment luncheon was
served by the hostess. Mrs. Bell
and Mrs. Beldiing were guests of
tihe day also at the later houtr Miss
Willoughby, Miss Perley and Miss
Dor non were present.
Misses Linna and Lola Brinkerhoff,
Mable Hansen, and Lillian Dyer and
Immediately after the ceremony
the bridal couiple repaired to the
home of the brides parents, Mr.
amd Mrs. Thor Madsen, who resides
on, Washington Ave., where a four
course wedding dinner was served.
The home was tastefully decorated
in white.. The flowers used for
decoration were white carnations.
The bride wore a veil amd a beau
tiful gown' of white silk crepe de
chine, made in the princess style
and carried' a shower bouquet of
cream roses. The bride is an ac
complished young woman, ^for years
she was a worthy clerk at the
Mercantile store and for a year
and a half she was as
sis
taint
cashier at the Farmers Rani. The
grocm is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hans Mairquesen of this place. He
has an Interest in the Depart
•ment store known as Marquesen
anld Son of this place and is favor
ably known in a great circle. He
is an industrious young man with
many good habits and their friends
join this paper in wishing this
young couple a long and prosper
ous life together with as liittle
shadow and as much sunshine as
will make life worth while. They
have gone to housekeeping in the
A. Boose property, where they are
at home to their friends.
Mm. Asa Green has gone to Oar
roll, Iowa, to visit and help care
for a sick sister. Just before
starting to Can oil she received,
word from another sister whoi
lives in Alabama that she is dan
gerousLyilll with typhoid fever.
LARGE SHIPMENT Of
STOCK TO CHICAGO
Hensley and Diimick shipped
thirteen carloads, of stock from
here last Saturday to ttappal Bros,
of Chicago, by special train. This
is the largest shipment of stock
aver shipped from this locality
to one commission firm. Dimick
of sheep: of Peppers Bros, in Gree
ley. Dimick, Hpnsley, Herbert Thie
Jien, Pete Mexico and Walter Lar
sen went to Chicago with
shipment.
29 YEAho OLD EXIRA, IOWA, THURSDAY, DEC. 9, 1915
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WERE WELL REPRESENT
ED AT ANITA MONDAY
and Mrs. J. M. Dimick Mr. and the use of one of their lodge
Mrs. Luther Hensley Mw.%' ••ti.iayt. rooms, rent free, for a good m^ngr
Gault, MTS. Fred Cotton Mrs.'^108,1®
Kathleen Miller of Brayton, and the Ppeoiated
Last Thursday evening, Novem-
of Miss Lilly Madsen and Mr.
Storm Marquesen both of EJk
Horn. The ceremony that united
these two young people for life
.was performed by Rev. C. C. Kloth,
at the Danish Lutheran Church
•at 6 o'clock P. Mi
804 thls
lNlow
1,et'8
ber 2, 1915 occurred the wedding 'Mrs. Molllie Hunt Monday. We are
^fSoost IFor Extra, Tli© City ZBeaiatifu.!
THURSDAY CLUB BOT
E
T(he ladies, of the Thursday Club
are to be commended for the pro
gressive spirit they have shown in
purchasing a home for the library
which they founded and have main-
tained for twenty-two years. The
library contains about two thousand
volumes we understand and haa
been added to each month and
this with practically no outside
assistance as the ladies have been
very slow and reluctant about ask
ing outside donations. This fact is
apparently appreciated by the pub
lic as the crowjded houses indicate
whenever the Cliub gives one of
its famous plays. The site just
purchased1 for the library is beau
tifully located at the southwest
corner of the park, is a corner
lot and bolide a frame building
which can be nicely used until
the ladies see fit to erect the fine
'building which they have in con
templation. The public library is
a factor Cor social betterment and
Those who autoed to Anita Mon- should be assisted and encouraged
day evening to attend a meeting of.^y the entire community. The
the Pythian Sisterhood were Mir.! K^gfrts of Phythias have donated
has been much ap~
by
the Club .members.
a11
aad booat
Messrs Arthur and Hans Hansen *reo ^rom' debt.
and Frank Wagner.
boost tor the library
it into a new home
Later the abstract of title not
being completed to the property a
bove mentioned, the library was
moved temporarilly into a vacant
room over the Fred Cotton grocery.
•Mrs. John Reed was a guest of
pleased to have the Reelds with us
a&aftn.
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SALE DATES
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E. B. Perry 7 miles southeast
ot Exira, 7 miles east of Bray-,
ton, Monday, Dec. 13tih.
Chris Andersen 2 1-2 miles
south and 1 mile east of Exira,|
4 miles east and 'I mile, north
of Brayton, Tuesday, Dec. 14th.
Edward CMiak 6 1-2 miiles
southeast of Exira. 1-4 mile
south of Dist Schcol house no.
4 Audubon Tup. 7 miles east
of Briytoin, Thursday Dec 16.
Mrs. Kirrstina Nielsen one
and one half miles west and a
half mile south of Brayton, and
in the Cield 40 rods east of
road on Friday, Diec. 17th.
Marttfn D. Nelson 2 1-2 miles
northeast of Exira on the old
Sherman Knox farm in Greeley
Twip. on Tuesday Deec. 21st.
Mrs. Gertrude Petersen 1-2
miles north and' 1-2 nulla west
•of the Exira Creamery, 1-2 mile
east, 3 south and 1-2 east of
Hamlin, Monday, Dec. 20 th.
had five carloads lroni his herd lot' dressed in a gown of blue crepe de
Hensley lour from his herd lots,. chine with an over dress of shad
and tliey bought two carloads oljow lace, and the groom wore a
Herbert Thielen, and two carload! suit oi' fine navy blue serge.
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GEDERS-4LINE
JOINED IN WEDLOCK
On Wednesday afternoon, Dec
1st., at 3 o'clock at the Germain
Lutheran Church of Guthrie Ooun
ty, occurred the marriage of Miss
Anna C. Gebers, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Glebers, to Mr. Jay
D. Kline, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Kline. Rev D-eletske, pastor
of the church, spoke the words
which united this young couple
as husband' and wffle.
The ceremony being witnessed by
Miss Veda Kline, sister of the groom
as bridesmaid, and Mr. Henry Geb
ers, brother of the bride as best
man. v.
The bride was very prettily
After the ceremony they departed
for the home of the bride where
a delicious wedding supper was
the'served to the invited guests.
I The bride was born and raised ih
S a 5 S &
Audubon Couinty and is a deserved
popular young lady, of kind and
womanly ways, by which she has
encircled herself with a large num
ber of admiring friends who hold
her in highest esteem. She will
Ho 'doubt be a loving helpmate
•for the one of her choice.
The groom has been reared to
true noble manhood at his home in
Auduibon towfnship and is an honest
•and upright enterprising young
man highly respected by every one.
He is a very intelligent young farm
er which this community has
been proud to own. They will
start housekeeping on a farm two
'and one-half miles northwest of A
nui where they will have the
very best wiishes of their many
friends. ,y
ZIER ESTATE AT
AUCTION SOLD WELL
Tthe ZaJger land' sale which took
place in Cameron township last
Week went off very nicely. The
far mi of seventy-nine acres located
northeast of Gray, was sold to Geo
Zaigier at $154. per acre. The old
farm was purchased by Will
Zaiger ajt $156 per acre. The 120
acre tract Just south of the home
•farm was sold for $147.50 per a
cre to Peter M. Petersen. The acre
average for the entire tract was
$152.5.0.
John Zaiger settled in Cameron
in the latter seventies when yoiu
could pretty nearly buy a farm
for a song. and could' homestead
in some parts of Iowa yet. And
ofiten wonder how much of
change there is in store for those
of us who are here a third of
centuiry from this time. There may
be graveled roads, interurbans and
all that sort of thing by that
time, but evien then with all of
man's changes the country wil.l
not contain as much real beauty
as it did in those old pioneer
•days. (Camteron Correspondent.)
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BEGINNING THE BEEF
CATTLE BUSINESS
"The successful. business" man
from the city, wlho thinkss that
his abiliity is just as great along
other lines, is the man- who is apt
to fall in the pure bred cattle
business," said W Harding, Se
cretary o£ the American Shorthorn
Breeder's Aissociation in a talk t$
a number of Animal-''- Husbandry
students of Ioiwa State College re
cently. "You college men who are
trained in the methods of cattle
breeding and who know- how to
properly care for stock have a dis
tinct advantage. If you are unable
to buy a good herd, start with a
few good females and sb good a
bull as yon can afford. $500 wiaul'd
not be too much to pay for a
good head for your herd."
Poor care was the reason he
gave fotr the large number oif fail
ures. Breeding cows should be
kept only in fair flesh and not i-n
high condition. Good feed is as
important as good breeding in de
veloping good beef cattle.
The possibilities for sale, the faCed
policies of the breeder's association
and your own environment and
preferences should determine you.
choice oi breed. All have tlieir gcuu
points and' all have a few faults
under good conditions one will
do as well as another.
Mr. Harding is a man who is a
ble to speak wiith authority on
the beef cattle business, having
been engaged along these lines l'or
some time. He is at present the
owner of a large herd of valuable
Short horns at Waukesha, Wisconsin
Mi'ss Amy Lulte, one of the cen
tral girls of Audubon, was an o
ver Sunday visitor with her sister,
'Mrs. Ed Tibben and husband.
Clyde McClain is here from Los
Angeles, California, to visit his
mother. Airs. Eva. McClaiui and fam
ily.
Postmaster Kreamers home is
quarantined £or scarlet fever. 'Flutf
die oldest child has been quite
sick hut ls able to be up e^gain.
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NELS BECK EFFECTIVELY
STOPS HOGS ROOTING
Mr. Nels Beck of this city is
the patentee of one of the best, ff
not the best ,hog catcher and
(footer-stoppers) on the market.
The pig in the pen at the Journal
office had finished rooting up an
acre of clover (and less) and had
commenced on our ten acre lot of
alfalfa (and less) and to stop
further destruction we invited Mir.
Beck down to demonstrate his new
inventions.
When the time arrived wie offer
ed our services to help which was,
on account of the simplicity of
his machine and tihe ease in hand
ling it, refused.
But we showed him the hog and
in far less time than it takes to
tefll it Nels had that hogs snoot in
the wire loop, and holdiihg the
hog with one hand operated on the
hogs snooter with the other and in
an instant that hog was forever de
prived of rooting with his nose at
least.
Without joking if we had a
hundred hogs we would have them
all served as above.
IDEM SEED'
til IES1IIG
With a large part of Iowa's
corn crop immature and unfit for
good seed corn it becomes a mat
ter of dollars and cents to the
farmer to see that his seed corn
is properly tested before spring
planting begins.
All recognize a special need for
seed corn testing this year if a
good stand of corn is to be in
sured in the spring, but many have
heretofore hesitated at testing be
cause of trouble and expense in
vo-lved. To these men who do -not"
want to invest in any of the mark
et seed corn testers, the Farm
Crops department of th* Iowa
State College wishes to recommend
a practical tester wihich can be
made at home with very little ex
pense and operated with little
troulble. This method is the rag
doll method, one of the Cheapest
as well as one of the best practi
cal testers.
luiie tester consists simply of a
strip of old flour sack or a piece
Of muslin, 8 to 10 inches widfe
and as long as desired four feet
being the most convenient l-engtl
The cloth is then ruled' off into
squares, leaving the room for roil
ing at each end, and each square
marked. The corn for testing, must
be laid out in a defiinite ord(*
and the ears numbered to corre
spond with the markings on the
cloth. The cloth is then moistened1
and spread out flat upon a table
six kernels from each ear, two
from the butt, two from the middle
and two from the tip on opposite
sides of the ear, are placed upon
each of the squares of the cloth
with the corresponding number.
The doll is then rolled up and
tied at the top and bottom.
The doll when thus completed is
W&tf f°r
a period of
$1.00 PER YEAR
a"
bout twelve hours after which
they are removed and stood upon
end to drain off all surplus water'
As many as desired may be wrap
ped in a bundle and kept at an
even- temperature for about a week.
A temperature of 70 degrees, or
average room temperature wfidl
usually bring good results.
At the end of the week the doll
may be unwrapped and the re
sults of the test read. Those ears,
the kernels fromi which all show
good germination, should be kept
for seed. Those showing, good germ
ination' in but five of tlin six ker
nels should be diiscaid unless
seed is hard to secure in any case
they should not be kept with the
better seed but separated and
planted in a separate portion of
the field where those winch do
not grow can be most readily rer
planted.
In making this test special care
must be taken to make identifi
cation of the ear from. which the
kernels were taken easy and ac
curate. Any confusion' of this point
will make the test worthless as
the bad ears cannot be distin
guished. The test should be made
as near to planting time as con
venient as many things are apt to
happen to the seed corn after
the test and destroy its germ
inating qualities if the time be
tween' the test and planting is too
great. The latter part of March or
the early part- of April is uBually
the most convenient time for
such work.
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Farm
Boys'
Corner
A Young Oorn Judge. 1
Last week we spoke of the crowd
of boys wlho won the chamiptionshlpi
of their respective counties in cona
growing and were to have the
chance to visit the Panama expo
sition free. They are in San Fran
cisco this week and having a won
derful time.
You will remember that the boy
who is champion of them all as a
corn growler is Wade Houser ofl
Union.
But there is still another import
ant fact about him wihich was not
reported last week. He is also an
expert corn judge. Last winter he
won a big corn judging contest
in Hardin County.
It is possible that this latter
fact may have had something to
dio with hiiis becoming the cham
pion corn grower among the boys
of Iowa. At any rate there are
very many people who think that
the first important step if one
wiishes to become a.suiccessfui corn
grower is to learn to judge the seed
corn that he plants.
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To judge an ear of 'corn 'cor^
rectly, giving proper weight to .^
each of the important points which '\4*
tmuat be considered, is not an
easy thing to do at all. In fact it'"4*""*
is as hard' to do as to solve a
good hard problem) in arithmetic.
The first point that is consider-sp*'
ed when judging an ear of seed r'i*
corn is its maturity and soundness.
Unless it is mature and sound1 it nC
can not be expected' to grow.
When judging an ear for maturi-^f#
ty and soundness, we must remem
'ber these seven points:
The kernels must not be mouLdy-^ffe
either at the crowins or at the cob.
Mouldiness usually means that the'
vitality lias been impaired' or de
stroyed. i.
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The ear must not be chaffy.,'
A chaffy ear is one whose kerneto
will rattle when the ball of the
thumb is drawn lightly along the
row.
The kernels must not have white
patches either at their crowns or
on their backs to any great
This is called starch in ess. A little
of it is allowable somietimes, but
•not much.
The backs of the kernels must
not be blistered.
An ear which is firm and dry
and which shows none of the
faults described above is consid
ered sound and mature.
Suppose you cut this explana
tion out and' keep it. The Journals
is going to give you a chance
to use it a little later.
The Exira High School will have
their contest next Friday evening
at the High School auditorium and
the Congregational church. Admis
sion 15 cents.
'Mrs. Croy is still improving front
her recent illness of several weeks.
Harold Miller came up Friday
and spoilt the day with his parents.
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It must net be s&ppy. A sappy
ear is one that is not Weill
out. It is too heavy for its siae .''"''
and easily twisted. ifelg
Tihe germs must not be blistered.,
The germs must not be discos',-
ored. If they show
ing from, yellow to
you open them with
it means that they
weakened or dead.
a color rang-*
black when
a knife blade,'
are either
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