Iowa Old Press
The Audubon Times
Audubon, Audubon Co. Iowa
June 30, 1881 - Vol. 3 No. 8
Emerson H. Kimball, Editor and Publisher
-Mrs. Horner, of Viola township, was a caller last Saturday.
-Exira has a cigar manufactory, conducted by Andrews Bro's.
-R.G. Sands made his wife and family a present of a new organ.
-Barlow & Breneman have a new awning in front of their drug
store.
-G.H. Jones presented his wife with a handsome organ last
Saturday.
-Chas. Bartlett, Exira's liveryman, is building an addition to
his stable 16x28.
-Beech Roads is building himself a house on the block north of
Fort Spriggs.
-D.A. Morrison called at this office last week and subscribed for
the Times.
-Davis Bros. have dug a large well and put in an excellent pump
on the school grounds.
-Mrs. Joseph Toft, of Exira, is visiting her sister Mrs. Aaron
Eby, of Melville twp.
-A pair of twin girls is what Mrs. M. Dubois presented her
husband with last Saturday.
-Johnny Harris, of the Defender, and H.S. Smith, of
Exira, made our office a call Friday.
-The wind of last Saturday night blew Mr. Bilharz house off its
foundation, in Melville twp., sec. 31.
-Capt. Stuart made the Guthrie Center band a present of a $50
check last week in response to a serenade.
-Clark Cross, Charlie Ogborn, J.A. Gray, Joseph Snider and many
other whose names we have forgotten called Friday.
CORRESPONDENCE:
Aden, Cal., June 5, 1881
Ed. TIMES:-- As I have a few leisure moments I will write you a
few lines. We arrived at Reno the 28th of last month; had a
pleasant trip but rather tiresome one. We took the stage from
Reno to Susanville, Cal., and then to Aden, a distance of 200
miles and through one of the worst countries I or any other man
ever saw, and some as nice as ever laid out of doors. We are east
of the mountains or rather in them, I think. I intend to start to
Washington Ty. next week and if I find as much poor country there
as I have seen since I left Audubon I can't tell where I will go
next. There are portions of Wyoming, Utah and Nevada that is a
good grazing country, but the biggest inducement I saw in Utah,
was that a man could have more than one
woman. I haven't seen any place that I would have that I could
buy.
There are no railroads in this section of the country. Everything
is freighted here. I will give you the prices of produce:.......
(the rest is unreadable)
ADVERTISEMENT:
D.J.S. LYNCH,
Plasterer, Stone and Brick Mason -- Audubon, Iowa
[contributed by Wee, July 2004]