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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
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lished. Take advantage of this great
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Publisher Leon REPoRTER.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
Woodland.

Rev. Williams filled his regular APP
pointment at the A. g. church Sunday.
+. II. Carver and q. D.. Newlin were
Lineville callers Sunday.
E. FL. Carver was on the sick list Mon
day and not able to teach school in the
afternoon.
j. l.. Still made business trip to OF.
tumwa last Tuesday.
The Advent Sunday School will have
Children's Day the first Sunday iu
June.
|. ]. S. Coontz transacted business in
Garden Grove Monday evening.
DR.. w. l.. Gleason returned from Des
Moines Monday where he has been at
tending the State Medical Association.
Green Moore, of Wataga, Mo-, visited
here over Sunday.
for st. Joseph, Mo-, where he will have
an operation performed on his ear.
Several from this place attended
I'd. Amherst Otis lecture at Lineville
Friday evening.
Miss Verde Deisher returned from
Des Moines Saturday when she has been
attending Highland Park for the last
nine months.
John Mendenhall, of High Point, was
in town Saturday on his way to Line
vile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Mauk, of
Pleasanton, visited Saturday and Sun
day at Abe Jordan's.
Reece Evans, of Lineville, was in
town on business one day last week.
S. j. Swan put in several new tele.
phones OH the country lines last week
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
ravis City.

Horace McClaran's house is nearing
completion. Elihu Guthrie is putting
the finishing touches on the outside.
A large band of Gypsies are camped a
little west of town. They follow their
old vocations Of fortune telling, begging,
etc.
Orville Marble is learning biography
with Lou Slltz at Lamont.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Sparks nee Topliff,
of Battle Creek, Mich, are visiting her
parents here at present.
Mr.. Walker and Grace Horner, of La
moni, were in our city last Sunday.
Gully Foster returned from his Ne
braska trip Monday.
County attorney Olsen was in oul
city Monday.
Mr.. Hartshorn and wife spent Sunday
with his brother south Of Lamont.
Mrs. Sloan, mother of o. G. Bradley,
started last Sunday for California to
visit her daughter.
Uncle John Bennett was visiting his
sonsin Leon several days last week. Il
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin nee Wheeler are
visiting relatives here.
Chickens a week old sold for 25c
apiece here last Monday, and there were
none visible either. Can it be we have
d board of trade?
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
Crown.

n. S. Miller is buying hogs for Axes.
Mrs. McDonough has been very sick
but is better.
Mrs. Lydia Preston received tele.
gram that her father was very low and
to come soon. -.
Mrs. Mary Pease was very sick and
called the doctor one night last week
but is up again.
John Fitro and wife, of Kansas, visit.
ed Decatur county friends last week, be.
ing called here by the death of Mrs.
Fitro's father near Van Vert.
John Fitro ST. is in the hospital, be.
ing doctored for cancer of the face
James Baker and wife were down to
visit him last week.
Farmers are progressing nicely with
corn planting.
A tramp occupied the church after
Sunday School Sunday. The parties
that occupied it last Saturday night a
week ago are known and had better be
careful after this.
Grandma johnson visited Il. j.
Pease's Of High Point last week.
Mrs. S. L. Chandler is visiting Dolph
Pease and r. A. Hughes.
The school at North White Oak is
closed on account of measles.
Bob Martin is quite sick at his
brothers..
R. }. Pease, of High Point, has a
phone, as we have heard him talking.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
ScrOfllla

This root Of many evils
Glandular tumors, assesses, pimples
and other cutaneous eruptions, sore
ears, inflamed eyelids, ricketts,, dyspep-
STA, catarrh, readiness to catch cold
and inability to get rid Of it easily, pale
ness, nervousness and other ailments
including the consumptive tendency
Can be completely and permanently
removed, no matter how young or old
the sufferer.
Hoods Sarsaparilla was given the daughter
of Silas Vernooy, Wawarsing, N. Y. who had
broken out with scrofula sores all over her
face and head. The first bottle helped her
and when she had taken six the sores were all
healed and her face was smooth. He writes
that she has never shown any sign Of the
scrofula returning.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
Morgan.

Elders Cochran. Yields and Bell held
meeting at Union Sunday.
j. w. Osborn and family went fishing
Thursday.
Merton Cozad and best girl were al
DAVIS City Sunday evening.
q. B. Bledsoe visited his brother Sun
day.
j. Walker and family sundayed in
Missouri.
Little Lewis Hays has been very sick
with malaria fever.
| M. Miller and wife entertained a mum.
Der of young people Sunday evening,
All report good time.
A number Of the young folks partook
Of ice cream and cake at M. L. Dale's
Sunday evening.
Children's Day exercises at Wesley
Chapel was we'll attended Sunday.
very interesting program was rendered
by the Sunday School and others.
All that are Interested in the Dale
graveyard are invited to come at 2
p. m. Decoration day for the purpose
of decorating the graves.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
rl4E-ool.n WIDOW.
Up to Date No Silver Ts4saod Oratol 'Ha
Pleaded Her Cause.

Up to Date No Silver Ts4raod Oratol 'Has
Pleaded Her Cause.
For several years now the golf Wild
ew'e situation has been most pathetic,
but she gets very little sympathy from
any one save the other golf widows.
and they are too busy sympathizing
with themselves to feel an1ther's woes.
The attitude Of the general public to-
ward the stricken one is: Serves her
right. Any one who Is fool enough to
play the game deserves any hard luck
she gets" Your true zealot lie proven
bially hard-hearted.
A married woman to-day must play
golf or give up her husband. Even
when she plays she probably has only
the melancholy satisfaction Of occas-
ionally seeing the futtering Of his golf
coat across far bunker: but that is
something. It's a devoted and self
sacrificing man who plays golf with
his own wife. save at rare intervals.
when no man friend Is in sight or
when he feels inclined to show his
proud superiority by q little valuable
instruction. Flattery, judiciously ad-
ministered, will also bring the family
together on the links occasionally. II
a wife can only seduce herself to n
condition Of awe-struck appreciation,
and knows Just enough about the game
to wonder and adore IN technical sport.
ing terms, she may be allowed to trail
around the links with her husband,
but It takes tact to achieve this proud
distinction. The most she can hope
for under ordinary circumstances Is to
lunch or dine with her golf-smitten
husband. and hear him fight his bat
ties over again; but that Is better than
dining and lunching alone. and she
may prevent complete and final es'
arrangement.
The wife OF q cummuter has an es-
pecially hard time. He = 50 hurried
and he really doesn't have time q 90
home IS III save foE QuERoae4 q AleeRs
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23

II. E. Daniels, of Garden Grove, spent a
few hours in this city Saturday, while en-
route home from Des Moines, where he is
doing considerable carpenter contracting
this year.
Lewis Miles, of Corydon, U. s. district
attorney for the southern district of Iowa,
was in this city Saturday comforting with
the local politicians, presumably in the
interest of Conger.
Mrs. j. w. Rowell and son Edgar went
to Mason City Friday where they will
ell attends the State Dental Association
meeting at Clear Lake.
Mrs. F. w. McCaull and baby departed
Monday for East Waterloo, Iowa, where
they will make their future home, Mr..
McCaull being employed there as opera
tor for the G. q. W. Ry.
Mrs Ella Fisher and daughter Elsie, of
Fit. Scott, Kas.. arrived Sunday to visit
her nephew, N. G. Rhoades aud family.
Mrs. Fisher went Monday to Grand River
where she will visit friends.
DR.. j. w. Ro,.sll departed Monday for
Clear Lake, where he will attend the
meeting of the State Dental Association
and then join his wife and son at Mason
City for few days visit with relatives.
Mrs Ed. K. Pitman jr. came down from
Charlton Friday to oversee the packing of
their household goods, as they will go to
housekeeping in Charlton, where Mr..
Pitman is foreman of the Herald office.
j. w. Tomlinson aud wife, former resi-
dents of this county, now residing near
Saltwater, Ok, stopped off last Sunday
to visit relatives here for short time en-
route to their old home in Ohio for visit.
Mrs. A. G. Bonser departed Tuesday for
D~kl rk.< L. r.A.
home, Mr.. Bonser having engaged in bus
mess in that city. Her daughter Hazel
will visit friends in this city until Satur-
day.
John Burnison and son Sam returned
Sunday from their prospecting tour
through Oklahoma, and came back fully
convinced that Iowa is the best state in
the Union and will again locate on a De.
catur county farm.
Mrs. Guy Hasty, who has been visiting
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Greed Bobbitt in this city for the past two
weeks. departed Monday to join Mr..
Hasty at Winterset, and they will make
that city their future home.
VIM. Creighton came down from Des
Moines Monday and will visit few days
Stookey, and then go to Fredonia, Kas.,
where he will spend the summer. Many
old friends in Leon are pleased to see him
again.
Harry Harvey departed last Thursday
for Denver to resume his work as special
baggage checker on the D, & R. Il. run.
ming between Denver and Pueblo, which
position he held last year. The extra
heavy summer business in Colorado
makes it necessary to have a special
baggage agent to re.check the baggage of
the thousands of Colorado tourists. Vern
Acton went with him and expects to Sc
cure employment on some Colorado rail-
road
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
Correspondence.
And Items of Interest
as Reported by our
Correspondents.
Dekdlb.

Shelton Little and wife leave Tuesday
for Oklahoma.
Mrs. L. Van Werden is visiting her
parents this week.
Eta and Villa knode spent Sunday
with Mary Fry.
W. /. Wilson and brother spent Sun
day with Fry Bros.
w. II. Fry visited Steve Little Sunday.
DIR. Fry called on d. M. Fry Sunday.
Della Irving spent Sunday with Toad
Blades.
Allen Pence and Will Kirkpatrick were
in town Saturday.
II. s. Nelson assistant manager of the
X. & w. r. Il. was in town Saturday.
II. d. Fry called on Andy Wilson on
business Saturday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
Decatur.

Mr.. Macanley, father of Mrs. Brown,
died last week. He was ninety.
five years old. His granddaughter Cora
was in attendance at his funeral and is
still visiting here.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M. E.
church will meet at Creal's Friday after
noon.
Mr.. Riley mas been sick for week.
Rev. Weis, returned missionary
from Africa, lectured at the M. E. church
Sunday evening. We had with him a
native Zulu boy whom he brought over,
and who has been attending school at
Shenandoah for two years. The boy
sang several songs both in English and
African, accompanying himself on an
autoharp
All the young people and children
who will march to the cemetery and
decorate graves upon Memorial Day,
are requested tomeet at the school
house Friday at 2:3O D. m.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
Ladies' Can Wear Shoes

one size smaller after using Aliens Foot
1t makes tight or new shoes feel easy; gives
instant relief to corns and bunions. It's the
greatest comfort discovery of tn g age Cures
and prevents swollen feet, blisters, callous
and sore spots. Aliens Foot E ase is Ger.
tain cure for sweating, hot, ching feet. At
all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial pack
age free by mail. Address, Allen S. Olmsted,
Leroy New York.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
I:l!d6l3lIB
Excursion Rates.

z Annual Commencement Exercises
State University of Iowa City June 3 to
Is, rate one and Que third fare on GER
tificate plan. Limit June is.
Annual meeting Grand Commandary
knights Templar Of Iowa, Spirit. Lake,
Iowa, July 8 ta1u11 rate one and one
third fare lcate plan. Tickets on
G. M. KETcHAM,
burlington Route.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
Chronic Constipation Cured.

The most important discovery of
recent years is the positive remedy
tor constipation. Cascarets Candy
Cathartlc. Cure guaranteed. Genu-
inc tablets stamped c. C. C. Never
sold in bulk. Druggists, 1oc.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
Hoods Sa,-sapa,.ixxa

Promises to cure and keeps the
promise. Ask your druggist for II
today and accept no substitute.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
Early Seed oats.

1 have 800 bushels. Of choice early seed
oats for sale. NIKE GRIFr1N.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23

If you want attractive horse bills
bring your work to The REPoRTER office,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
RED PRINCE 7424!

Sire Of 5 from 2.l94 to 2:3O
sire Of the lirst.premi I'm 2 year
old at Iowa State Fair in 1900.
Sire Of more high priced colts
than any other stallion in
southern [)w:l. This great son
of the great Red Wilkes needs.
no 'hot airs, but will impress
himself filvorably upon any and
all who see him he being a
1900 pound blood bay l6f
hands high, black points and
very high all around action.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
! have also recently purchased the Inn,
ported percheron stallion
PRINCE!

Gray, weighs about $500,
has weighed 1900. Has the
finest disposition of any stallion
! ever handled, is a splendid
Individual and very superior
breeder, besides having a great
quality. may Of his colts at
tanning the weight of 1000 to
1906 pounds.
These two horses may be
seen at my barn any day.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23
III. MAI News.
LAND. BARGAINS.
For Homes or Profitable
Speculation.

10000 acres of selected farm lands in south.
ern Kansas joining Oklahoma in tracts Of 100
acres or more at very low prices to sell quick,
Guaranteed descriptions will be given pur.
chasers. will purchase an interest with peo.
pie who buy for speculation If agreeable to
them and will sell the land at very liberal
profits. Also farms and ranches in Kansas
and Oklahoma. Excursion rates. Please do
not write unless you mean business.
ISAAC MULHOLLAND. s.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-23

Buy Russ Bleaching Blue at Casters
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-07-12

/ the owners OF having taken the rings
| He seemed TO feel it a duty to report
his loss, however, and after being
quietly advised TO have an eye on his
employees and unknown customers he
was dismissed with the promise that
the matter would be looked into. As a
matter Of fact, no assignment was
made on the case. Some fash chap
had lifted" the jewels without even
! his call being remembered. and IL was
no use 10 hunt for n needle in a hay
stack
1t wasn't three days before another
case was reported by another Strand
! jeweler This time it was a diamond
sunburst and he was positive that he
| had shown il TO only three ladies before
he missed it. He was reluctant TO give
the names. but when pressed to do so
that Of the marquis wife again headed
the list. The others were almost as far
above suspicion, and the inspector look
ed at the complainant in a way to make
! him feel like a culprit. This time |
was put on the case, but | shall be hon
est enough to say that ii was a mere
matter Of form. 1t was more than any
officials head was worth even to hint
that one Of the three ladies mentioned
might have carried the ornament away
in a moment Of observation-disclosures
1t was about five days after this that
the third case was reported. This time
a jeweler had lost a pair of valuable
diamond earrings, and he had to be
hard pressed by the inspector before
he would admit that the loss was de-
tected almost Immediately after the
marquis wife had left the store. She
had greatly admired the ornaments and
had partly decided to purchase them at
later date. Not for one instant, not
on his life, did the jeweler suspect the
lady Of title of even taking the jewel
away in a fit Of abstraction, but some
how he felt it his duty to report the
case. The inspector didn't bluff this
third tradesman quite as heavily as he
had the first and second, and he looked
grave and thoughtful when l was Civ
en- the case and he related particulars
was told to go my own way about It.
but If / made a blunder Scotland Yard
would see me no more as a detective.
That wasn't at all encouraging. YOU
see, but had to go ahead and make a
start. Much to my surprise after
thinking the matter over | came to the
conclusion that the marquis wife
might possibly be guilty Of shoplifting.
The idea almost took my breath away
at the first go off, but when l came to
recall the many rumors about the mar
quis being a gambler, hard up, man
Of miserish habits at home, and so
forth, there looked TO be something in
it from detectives standpoint.
The lady was well known to me by
sight. She was past 40, much faded,
and her face always carried fretful,
worried look. l simply waited until
she appeared on the street i'm her car
riage as IL bound on shopping tour,
and then followed her. 1t was a week
after the third case was reported that
she came out, and she went directly to
a Bond street jewelers.. | followed
her into the store, where she was
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-07-12
What Shall We Eat.

Every day the same old question, what
shall we eat for breakfast, for luncheon,
for dinner? assails with monotonous reg
ularity the patient housewife who seeks
to provide good living for the family in
agreeable variety at moderate cost.
There is daily department in the Chi
cago Record Herald, which is intended
to answer this question satisfactorily
every day in the year. 1t is entitled
MEALS for a day." and provides menus
for three meals every day, with the neces-
sary recipes. These menus and recipes
are carefully selected by the Record
Herald's household editor, and cash
prizes are awarded to the best that are
received. Housewives everywhere are
invited to participate in the competition.
For full particulars, see the meals for
day" department in the Chicago Rec
ord Heard.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-07-12
A Tired Man.

Once there was a man who complain
ed constantly because it required so
much toll for him to make living. He
declared that he would rather be buried
than work for a living, and so his
neighbors started out to crafty his
wish. A stranger, seeing them about
to entomb a living man, inquired why
they were doing so. On being told that
the man complained of having to work
for a living and preferred to be buried,
the strangers heart was moved, and he
offered to give the complaining man
ten bushels of corn. "Is ii shelled?'
asked the discontinued soul, and when
informed it was not he remarked,
"Well, then, let the burial proceed"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-07-12
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LIGHTFINGERS.
Copyright, 1901, by c. B. Lewis.
BY vi. Quad.

The start Of the whole matter was
the lodging Of a complaint at Scotland
Yard by a well known jeweler doing
business on the Strand. He had miss
ed two diamond rings from a tray he
had been exhibiting TO several lady Gus
toners, but unfortunately for him the
gems had been gone an hour perhaps
before he knew that deft fingers had
purloined them under his very eyes.
He could recall the names Of four or
five ladies, and he headed the list with
the name Of marquis wife, but the
inspector on duty might well smile and
turn away at that Had the jeweler
not been in such a perturbed state Of
mind he would never have included
that name. Indeed, before he left the
place he apologized, partly TO himself.
for having given any names at all, as
it was utterly absurd to suspect any Of
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-07-12
HOPES FULFILLED.

After the rain, then the sunshine again;
After the night the dawn,
And a sweet release and abiding peace
After the pain has gone.
But over and over this lesson stern
The tickle and careless old world. must learn:
Under the beauty and bloom of the rose,
In hiding, the sharp, cruel thorns repose.
He only knows of the sweetness that flows
From natures purost rills
Who, weary, mounts TO the life giving founts
Far up among the hills.
But over and over this lesson stern
The fckle and careless old world must learn:
Under the beauty and bloom Of the rose,
In hiding, the sharp, cruel thorns repose.
After the fear and the sad, bitter tear,
Cometh the hope fulfilled;
After the climb, then the prospect sublime,
As the Good Father willed.
But over and over this lesson stern
The tickle and careless old world must learn;
Under the beauty and bloom of the rose,
In hiding, the sharp, cruel thorns rcpose.
Los Angeles Herald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-07-12
Sweating" Bees.

The process known as sweating" is
not confined to human beings. 1t is
applied to bees by some up to date
keepers.
The natural tendency Of the bee TO
work and its great dislike TO idleness
are made use of to the fullest extent.
Honey is a product that yields a good
profit, so the beekeeper brings the
flowers as near as may be to the hive
and induces his insect gatherers TO
work hard to collect the honey from
them.
An expert beekeeper gives the fol-
lowing idea Of what they will do. Sew
enty-five acres Of land planted with
white clover or sanfoin will keep 100
hives busy during the three summer
months. The yield of honey for each
fine day is ten pounds per acre, and as
the plant flowers twice and remains in
bloom for a week very often the total
yield is 10000 pounds.
Combmaking is lighter and less dan
gerous work than gathering honey, so
the young bees usually perform this
task. But the keeper wants them all
to work and work hard, so he provides
the base of the comb in natural size
and pure wax. That leaves less work
to be done at home, and the bees go
out Immediately there is nothing more
for them to do inside. The keeper also
takes care to constantly empty the
combs, so that the bees shall always
be laboring to fill it.-London Stand
o.I