The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-01
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Agent Ketcham sold ,l3s tickets I,
Davis City last Friday On account D
The Sunday schettol ppitihiG' i1al' l.a" y.
n at!A1' tIi-lhtI>4- Al.l ll1l, a.,
have, the celebrated Turkey Red seet
wheat, thatlisclean and pure, for sale
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w. II. Howard captured d iiice' sly arm
of bees which settled id the road sir
front of his residence about noon yes
terday.
Don't miss seeing the big ball game
at Leon next Tuesday between the o.
p. 9. Ii club of Gallatin, Mo-, and the
Leon Maroons.
Mrs. Mary l.. Coyington has sold hel
stock of dry goods and groceries al
'leasanton to Frank Wells, of Terre
Haute, who has moved the stock to that
place.
The Woodmen picnic which was tc
have been held at Pleasanton last Thurs
day and Friday was abandoned on &C
count OF the hot weather and the scarcity
OF water in that city.
The 9TH Annual Reunion of the
Pioneer and Veterans of Grand River
Valley will be held in the park at Davis
CITY, Iowa, Aug. l3-l4-l5 and l6, 1901
Everybody invited.
j. M. HOWELL, Secy
Another contingent of the Colorado
excursionists returned Saturday, and all
were more than delighted with the trip.
Those who returned were DR.. w. +,
Waight and daughter Louise, Misses
Halle and Bessie Moore Maude Meter
and May Caster.
An attache of the IS. lish.commisson
brought 200 young bass and 100 crop
pies from the U. S. fish hatchery at
Bellevue, Iowa, last Saturday and de-
llvered them at the Q depot to Josiah
Hamilton, of Kingston, who will stock
his big pond with them.
The northbound X 4 w. passenger
tram was an hour late last Friday,
being delayed by an accident, the
cylinder head on the engine blowing
out short distance south of Saline, and
engineer Bob Logan brought in the
train with the engine working only on
one side.
The Leon young folk who were camp
Ing at Davis City under the chaperonage
of MIR. and Mrs. George Carmean, return.
ed Monday afternoon. having had a
most delightful outing, and they are
claiming the credit of the fine rains we
have had, as this crowd never goes
camping unless it rains on them.
A phone message from Grand River
Tuesday evening informed Mayor
Woodland that he was a grandfather, a
pretty little daughter having been born
to MIR. and Mrs. Hoyl Gilreath. The
infant represents the fifth generation on
the Woodland side of the family, her
great great grandmother, the mother
of Mrs. VIM. Woodland, being still alive,
and although we'll along in years is
hale and hearty.
A small syndicate composed of j. r.
Bowsher, Carl Eales and II. A. Sigler
last week purchased all of the corn held
by DR.. II. d. Gardner in his cribs in
this city and on the Pryor farm in Gar.
den Grove township, embracing about
5000 bushels, the price paid being so
cents per bushel in the cribs. As the
most of this corn was purchased for
is to % cents per bushel by DIR. Gard
ner in 1895 it will be seen that the in
vestment has netted him snug sum.
Sam Wells, the Long Greek farmer
who went to Oklahoma couple of weeks
ago. decided he would rather settle in
the old strip than to take his chances
in the drawing for land in the new strip,
and homesteaded 100 acres of what he
considers fine land in Woodward county,
which has an abundance of spring and
creek water OH it. He returned home
Friday and expects to move to Okla
homa with his family in the spring.
A puzzle, try it; "The other day
travelling man provided puzzle to
merchant which made that wide-awake
young gentleman feel that he was deal.
ing with a wizard. The puzzle is as
follows: Take the number of your liy-
ing brothers; double this amount, add
to it three; multiply the result by 5, add
to it the number of living sisters; multi.
ply the result by ten; add number of
deaths of brothers and sisters; subtract
$50 from the result. The right hand fig
ure will be the number of deaths; the
middle figure will be the number of liv-
ing sisters and the left figure will show
the number of living brothers,
The following is taken from an ex.
change, and explains the condition IN
this section of the country: Down in
the south part of the state it is very hot
and dry. Henry Wilson, the Mt. Ayr
grocer. wrote a Lamont merchant as