Iowa Old Press

Audubon County Journal
Exira, Audubon Co. Iowa
1/7/1909

Oakfield-Brayton column.
-As Dr. KOOB was making a sharp turn in the road out near Ed NELSON's last Sunday in his auto it suddenly turned turtle and while a lot of damage was done to the machine involving quite an expense for repairs, the doctor himself was not injured in the least, but it was a narrow escape.
-As Reno ORDWAY and Forest FREEMAN were driving through town Monday the buggy tongue fell to the ground and the horses started to run away, soon colliding with a telephone pole, demolishing the buggy and throwing both occupants to the ground. Mr. FREEMAN was not hurt but Mr. ORDWAY was stunned for awhile but fortunately no bones were broken and aside from the severe shock no other results are feared.

(Submitters note: Page 7 of this issue contained the first of 27 approximately weekly installments of the early history of Audubon County and its settlers, as written especially for the paper by a man named H. F. ANDREWS. The entire series was intended to cover the county history only down to and including the year 1865. Audubon County is reported to have been organized by an Act of the Iowa Legislature in January, 1854 and it then included the westerly tier of counties now included in the neighboring county to the east, Guthrie County. In the next month, an amendatory legislative act re-drew the boundary line between Guthrie and Audubon counties so as to give back to Guthrie County its present westerly tier of counties, and thereby leaving the boundaries of Audubon County as they exist today.)

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1/14/1909

The front page had an advertisement of a 240 acre farm, located on second bottom land and having nice outbuildings, being for sale at a price of $80 per acre.

Page 2 had the second installment of the early Audubon County history. The writer of the history claimed in this installment that the first record of Europeans being in Audubon County was made when the government surveyors surveyed what is now Audubon Township in 1849, with the first permanent settlers in the county arriving two years later, in 1851. The writer also asserted quite vigorously that the first permanent settler was Nathaniel "Natty" HAMLIN and the second one was John S. JENKINS, both of whom migrated to Audubon County from more easterly points in Iowa.

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