The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-12-19

please your friends.
Mr.. Robert Trembly, of Storm Lake,
and Miss Lillian Leith, of Ft. Dodge,
were married at Fl. Dodge on Wednes-
day of last week, and will make their
home ateStorm Lake. The groom has
many friends in this city who extend
hearty congratulations.
If you are looking for Xmas present
for father, mother, brother, sister or
sweetheart, drop in at Thompson &
Warmers and see their line of handker-
chiefs, gloves, muffiers, sofa pillows,
linens, rugs and many other articles
which make serviceable and appropriate
gifts.
Postmaster John Ledgerwood was
elected the director of the State Fair
Association from the Eighth District at
the annual meeting of the State Horti.
cultural Society held at Des Moines last
week. In the making up of the list of
superintendent for next year Mr.,
Ledgerwood wss appointed and will
have complete control of the sheep and
poultry exhibits.
The big new pump purchased bv the
city to be used at the pumping station
east of town to furnish water for the
electric light plant has arrived, and Mr..
l.. M. Howe, Of the Howe Pump Co., of
Indianapolis, Ind, is here to superip.
tend the starting of the pump. 1t is
expected the work will be completed
this week and the much vexed problem
of water supply be solved.
Chas. Golf and wife, of Memphis, Mo.
have leased the New Hamilton hotel
and took possession Tuesday. They
are experienced hotel people and for
several years have had charge of Hotel
Kinney, at Memphis, one of the best
hotels in Missouri. Their son Will will
have charge of the office and he is a
general favorite with the travelling pub.
lie. The hotel is being entirely remod.
eled, the rooms enlarged, a big court
cut through all three floors, new system
OF water closets and bath rooms on all
floors, and everything fixed up in first
class shape. Host Golf and his family
are all hotel people of many years ex-
perience and will spare nothing to make
the New Hamilton one of the best hotels
in Iowa. They are pleasant social peo-
pie who come to Leon with the best of
recommendations and that they will
make success here goes without say
ing. We welcome them to Leon on be-
half of our citizens and trust they will
build up profitable business at the
New Hamilton.
The following from the Osceola Sen.
tinel will be of considerable interest to
many of the old soldiers of this city as
quite number Of them made applica-
ton to the city council, acting as a
board CT equalization, asking that they
be allowed the exemption, but the most
of them were refused Under Judge
Parrish's decision they are entitled to
the exemption, and Judge Fee at Cen
tervlle made similar decision. ga
suit came to head in this weeks court
in which the Osceola board of tax review
sought to make the old soldiers in GER
tain instances, pay taxes on exempted
homesseads. The statute says, all
homesteads of old soldiers, who have
no other real estate and no means of
income except from their labor shall
have their homes exempted to the ex-
tent of $500. The board OF review
thought that where a soldier received a
pension that it should be considered an
income, also that the law applied only
to- disabled soldiers. Judge Parrish
held that pension was gift from the
government. not an income, also that
the law applied to all old soldiers of the
war OF 81 regardless,of their ability to
work. !"
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