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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-18
4 Ladies who have used Maple City
Soap will testify to its merits.

Mrs. l. N. Clark has been dangerously
Ill the past week but is now consider.
ably improved.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-18

For Oklahoma real estate, write to
call on G. B. Jordan. Enid, o. T
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-18

w. A. Garrett, proprietor Of the Leon
home nursery, with his force of expert.
enced builders, has just completed the
work of budding over $4,000 peach and
plum trees in the nursery in this city.
The Leon home nursery now contains
over 100000 choice young trees from
one to three years old, and the stock
will all bear inspection. MIR. Garrett
will be here aga n the latter part of this
month and the. first Of October to see as
many of his last springs customers as
possible and take their orders, as well
M to- re place any thev,have lost. !, II you
lost any Of your trees come IN and tell
Mr.. CARAT. Andif not, tell your neigh.
~, RS how well your trees grew.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-18

A boy going with his first girl believes
every word she says.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-18

On account of the closing Of the II 10.
lei Le9n l have arranged with w. +.
Myers q Co. to make their store a leay-
ing station Instead of Hotel Leon. Bus
will leave for all trains from w, Il.
Myers drug store on and after this date
as follows: 5:25 a. M, 8 a. NJ, II a. m. i,
2 p. M, 4:3O p. NJ, p. Ii. To meet
trains as per time tables. Leon bias
calls on slate inside store or outside.
g. B.DAuGHERrY,
Proprietor The Leon Bus Line.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-18

Rex Conditioner expels worms from
all stock.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-18

Thompson & Warner have established
a we'll earned reputation as leaders in
the millinery world of this section and
they have redoubed their efforts this
fall to maintain that reputation, having
bought magnificent line of tie latest
novelties and imported patterns espec.
tally for their grand fall millinery open
ing on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 10
and 20. The ladies can not fail to find
just what they are looking for in the
way OF new fall hat, and the line runs
from the most elaborate to those for PEG.
pie who do not care for such expensive
headgear. All will be shown at their
grand fall millinery opening on Friday
and Saturday, Sept 10 and 20.
While at the Linevile fair last Thurs.
day q. NJ. Axes and Jid WATSON had a
serious accident They were driving
down town from the fair grounds, and in
turning corner they met bus which
crowded them to the outside of the
road and close to number of persons
who were walking, MIR. Axes, who was
driving Jim CLIPS team and road wagon
pulled the team up short to keep from
driving into the crowd and the light
road wagon was overturned throwing
both men to the ground, giving them a
terrible fall. Mr.. WATSON struck on the
side of his face and his head and face
was badly skinned and bruised. 1t was
thought he was fatally injured. but he
soon recovered consciousness, and was
able to get around. Mr.. Axes was un.
concious tor. more than an hour. The
| injured men were taken to the office OF
DR.. Glendenning, who with the assist.
lance Of DR.. Fo1wprthy, Of Leon, dressed
their injuries. ltis q wonder they were
not both killed. The team ran, away
latter the accident and the road wagon
ras considerably broken up.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-18
VAN wERDEN OPERA HOUSE
"Gamille''
TONIGHT!
WILLIAM OWEN
"ScH00L FOR j SCANDAL"
sssfs@sy Eve III

A trial of Maple City Soap will cor.
vince you that 1t " perfsction.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-18

The biggest and best display of new
fall millinery ever shown in Leon will
be thrown open for the inspection of
the ladies of Leon and Decatur county
at the grand fall millinery opening Of
Thompson 4 Warner in this city on Fri
dav and Saturday, Sept. 10 and 20. The
cream of the markets mas been brought
and you will see the very latest styles
as we'll as large number of fine import
ed pattern hats. Why not have your
new hat the very latest in Style and
quality, ard the stock and prices can
not be equalled at any store In southern
Iowa, Remember the dates and be sure
and come early.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-18

Secretary of the Leon school board
DR.. j. w. Rowell has completed the tax.
ing of the annual school census of the
Leon school district. He found 3l2
girls and 265 boys af school age, be-
tween the ages of 5 and 81 years, a
total of SIT, as compared with 5S3 last
wear. a decrease of 6. He also enumer.
ated 81 pupils who are between the
ages of and ID years, to whom the new
compulsory education law applies. and
these must attend school for at least
twelve consecutive weeks during the
next year, or they will be looked after
by the truant officer. The law provides
that the parents are liable to a fine if
they fail to send their children to
school,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-18

County Auditor Gill won first money
in the free-for.all pace and trot at Line
vile fair last week with his fine little
mare Malissa K, which was driven and
trained by +. p. Hamilton OF Garden
Grove, getting mark Of ,22::29i, a At
Eldon the week before she was worked
out a mile in 2:l3 but on account Of hav-
ing bad attack Of dstemper She will
not be tracked any more this year.
Mr.. Gill also won second premium in
the roadster and coach team class with
his brown team hi,ched to his road wag.
on, the team being driven by Charley
.Akes who showed them to the best ad-
vantage, and many thought should
shave woniirst. The class being mixed
one, for roadsters and coach horses gave
the advantage Of size to q large gray
team owned by $: r. Williams. Of Line:
willie, who,Ayon first, but there was not u
,team on the grounds that coull ontsts p
sthelLeon team. ~ ~ ID
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-09-18

For many years Mrs. Lucy Ray has
enioved the reputation of being the
most up-to-date milliner in southern
Iowa, and her marble front millinery
emporium is the finest fitted millinery
room in the whole state. She has just
returned from an extended stay in
Chicago, where she visited the leading
wholesale houses and selected stock
of new millinery goods the like CT which
was never brought to this town before.
Box after box of imported pattern hats
we're purchased and on the. occasion of
her grand millinery opening, Friday
and Saturday, Sept. 10 and 20, the lad
les of Leon and Decatur county will be
given an opportunity to inspect the
yerv cream of the markets in new style
millinery and it will be regular feast Of
new ideas in the millinery world. Don't
fail to be there on the opening days.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28
THE HUNGRY G~ANGSIERS.

The herculean efforts of the New
Orleans ward bosses to get control of
the vast fund to be raised for the
sewerage and drainage of hat city
are well worthy of a better cause.
When this tax was voted it was with
the express and explicit understand
ing that ward bosses and buns would
not be able to get hold of the money.
The Haggerty bill providing for a
merger of the two boards practically
turns the thing over to the politicians.
The guarantees in the original con-
stitutional amendment are to be done
away with.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28

II extended popularity, we, as one of
his constituents and supporters are
Justly proud, but we submit that in
view Of this demand on him to stand
for the nomiration, such maidenly
modesty as is depicted by our friend
Leveque is entirely out of place, if
not reprehenslble. His should be
the spirit which lilledCustius as he rode
into the chasm, that thrilled Horatio
as he stood on the bridge. Let him
bow to the expressed wishes of the
multitude and DEMAND a general
primary that every Democrat in the
State may exercise his preference in
choosing the Democratic candidates.
II Robert f. Broussard is not part
and parcel of the very administration
Leveque SO vigorously denounces, if
his political fortunes be not indissolu-
bly, welded to those Of Murphy j..
Foster, then he will stand forth and
drawing a line on the political check
er board, 0 it and bid the people
follow him into the primary move
ment and do battle for political
freedom. Will he do it?
Ii be does not then the conclusion
is irresistible: The present state Of
affairs is perfectly acceptable to Nj.
Broussard, the evils complained Of
exist only in the feryid, overweight
imagination of Friend Leveque, who
is thus left in the plight of the fell
low given to too much converse
thro' his sombrero.
Which horn will you impale your
self upon, my dear Harlequin?
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28
LITTLE SHORT OF An OUTRAGE.

So the Lafayette Gazette terms the
move to put Lafayette, Acadia and
Vermilion in one judicial district.
This opinion is unanimous among the
lawyers here. They assert with every
show of reason that it will greatly
inture business especially in civil
matters as it will be impossible for us
to have more than three months Of
court in the year. Two parishes
would be a suitable district and keep
a judge busy. But the handful of
politicians at Baton Rouge, who run
the legislature are deaf to alientreaty
and persist in running things their
own sweet way, All of this confu-
sion grows out of the effort to make
a few soft jobs for a useless court of
appeals. Useless because it will be
an expensive nuisance as a stationary
court.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28

vote they are sure Of the election.
How patriotic too, and how Demo-
cratic to ALLOW the poor nan (proyid-
ing always that be is called Whitley to
vote. 1t is so charitable to the poor
to allow them to vote! 1t is like
giving a knife to a baby to play with
and one thing is pretty certain that is
that poor men will always be poor, so
long as they are allowed to vote.
They always vote for the machine
which will keep them poor as l well
observed during the last presidential
election particularly, when all the
poor laborers, miners, mechanics, etc.
in the North voted for Mckinley and
the trusts who Cypress them. But so
much the better for the machine. The
machine wakes fat on the taxes of the
poor.
Now Mr.. Editor 1 must close this
letter. l conide these reflections to
you because the MER1DIoNAL is a
Democratic paper, in a Democratic
parish, Of a Democratic state.
All how | do love Democrats and
Democracy-especially Democracy,
which like charity covers of a multi
tude of sins! Long live the Democ-
racy of Louisiana. They are on the
right track apd will not forget the
WatchWord. | perceive that the Leg
islature is largely composed of faith
ful patriots who will see to it that
Democracy gets 40 backset. I will
probably communicate to you a few
hints from time TO time. Adieu.
Yours,
r. CROKER.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28
Weather and Crops.
r. CROKER.

The drouth continues and as day
by day we scan the pitiless sky and
worship each passing cloud for the
moisture it mockingly withholds we
realize that the country is facing a
condition OF affairs sad to contem-
plate. Except in a few favored To-
calities the corn crop is cut short SO
to Is per cent. Unless the summer
rains set in-those daily tropical
showers We often have, tha rice crop
will be next thing to a failure, and
Can not exceed a third Of a croan
Salt water is here to stay { nd t..
more than a month earlier than last
year will do mnch damage. Reports
from other parts Of the rice district
are no better as these wilEshow.
New Iberia, La, June 24.-The
continued drouth throughout this and
other sections of the rice belt will cut
off at least one-third of the rice crop,
as a great many Of the pumping
plants had to shut down on account
of salt water. Out of a total of az
pumping plants on Bayou Teche more
than half of them are shut down
three days in the week on account of
the salt water which rises when the
bayou is; low, and unless it rains
within the next few days the rice crop
in this section will not average more
than four sacks per acre.
Crowley, La., June 24.-Thef farm
ers and millers are exceedingly down
in the mouth, and the best-posted
men now readily admit that the dam
age to the crop at the present will
easily reach, if not exceed, 80 per
cent. of the acreage under cultivation
in southwest Louisiana.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28
Perry's Bridge Again.
Editor

Editor MERIDIoNAL:
The Perry's Bridge rough riders
are still raising merry h.. They
cut up a set Of new harness for Jno.
Nugier's sol at a ball. They stole
old man Molezun's chickens right
under his window and then pulled up
all bis melons-vines and all. They
paid Joe Mills a visit and tried to
ride his horse to death. Old man
Delaupe also had a call from these
marauders and had all his melons
pulled up.
People are getting very tired OF
this and something serious will hap
pen soon if a stop is not put TO it.
FARMER.
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80 -
Sherif's Sale
STATE OF LOUISIANA
NNotl esf, Judicial Dlstriieessl e &
Succession of Zenon

kt~
Succession of zenon Landry
| by virtue of a commiss;on
- salelssued from the Hoana0 order II
judicial District Court aforoa aofshle l7T
ma5tefs OF the above numhara1ia. u tbs
6led succession. and to me1direaaa5 d emf
authorizing and empowering seti falr
premises. l will proceed to III, iaes a TIL
anfIlon, to the last and higbaaass public
~ iaIe residence of the deeeassa ssiddef,
9TH Ward of said Parish, on s0asea IN tie
Saturday, June %, 1aaq
between the hours prescrihaa
al n property belonging to ~; " laa,
Sion described as follows, to-T Sita aueesa,
Item 1. One certain traot
lana situated in the Parish Of ye paeeel O.
on the west side of Vermilion ps%elllillon
tanning forty and fifty hundraIaasoa IVY on-
arpents; bounded on the norm s Y. lae5ai
OF Augustin Landry, on thaa Y llanaa
lands OF Augnstin Landry, east NUN ~ By
OF August1n Landry and on tba ~ n lands
merry by lands of Edgar Brouss aess ief.
Item :. One dwelling house,
Item 4. One corn crib.
Item 5. One LOT of fencing
Item ?. one one garden and yard fence,
Item 8. One kitchen honse
Item 8. One lot of fencing w;ra
Item IL. II mule. ItemS1. aaa h
Item Il, one horse. Item &. g one holss.
Item IA, one calf. Item IS ona h eoWs
and harness. Item 16. one ,IoVagg g
double trees. Item II. one NM piom aad
narrow. Item Is, one lot ri Mug
coops. Item 10, 20 and 81, three he sds.csea
and furniture. Items g, q and 81 sI' sSs
armolrs, Item IS. One stove, ennb salss
M table ware. Item &c, two ft aSisaS
Item u, n clock and one pitcher a isas,
q, SIX chalrs; Item 20, seven bIsntesagss
ana Quits; Item 80, seven sheets. IfsSSs
81, Pillow. Item 81, twelve chief.
And other articles of movable prouertv
TERMS AND C0NDITIoNs-ms
sald property to be sold on the f~ollowlnss
Terms n conditions, to-wit: All adm
olcatlons under ten dollars $4,000 Ia hs
PAID cash on the day. of sale. ALL adm
dlcatlons over ten dollars to be navaIl5s
IN three equal installments falling d yg ns
January lst 1908. 1904 and 1903 resosa.
lively. The notes to be secured by s,sh
suretles as the officer making tia sals
may deem sufficient and to bear 4 nsT
annum interest from maturity It'll na MI
and to contain the usual clause Of fen IN
cent. attorneys fees, :
The real estate to remain s~pecialIv
m~ortgaged with vendors lien to secure
b payment of the. purchase price, auS
the act to contain the pact de non alien.
ando.
Sheritf's osice, Abbevills, La, thisAh
@sy of May, ~S02.
j. o. HEBERT.
Sheriff, Vermilion Parish,
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Constabless Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA Parish q WE
milion--7th Justice Court.-No. 20
John Nugier
CE.

BY virtue Of a writ Of feri faeIas NE
me Issued in the matters Of the abeys enss1
tied and numbered suit to me dils 81 r.
the premises. | have seized and will pr9s
coed to sell at public auction, to theI Iss.
and highest bidder, at office OF TN sAs
tice Court, in said parish, on
Saturday, July 18th. lsVs
between the hours prescribed BY laW. w
following-descrlbed property, lows.
po aeoot s a;se q Rog the p safss are 1ak s aa 4
some are cypress. Said property Dsi I'M
lands of Eugene Noel, Hall& slat q s sds.
Co, and lands formerly oWnsa III 7th
mar Lege and w. G. Hall, IN Jug
Ward,spSrish of Vermiiion.
TERMS-Cash, with benefit Of aPpea
ment. JOS. b. mIs4sbIaa-
June 2s, 1902. Cohsefs
HpTnf1
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Saturday, July 10Th, 1902,

between tae hours prescribed by law, the
folloWing-described property, to-Wit:
The II undivided one-half interested
the defendant Louisa Dyson. in and to
One certain tract of land lying on the
east bank of the Vermilion River, meas
urlng five arpents front IN said river hF
forty arpents deep and bounded ab0gebg
Fernest Duhon, below by Raymond
Trahan or wife, east by public road and
west by said river. g
Another tract of land lying on the easE
bank of said river measuring two arpeIts
front by forty arpents deep. and bounded
north or above by Thomas Bouraue q
wife or assigns, east by public road, south
by w. Fl. Fuller and west by river.
Another certain tract of lfsnd sltuatea
in said Parish of Yermilion, containing
fifty superficial arpents, commencing II
the south east corner of the north Wess
quarter of section Twenty-nlne, lip. HI
s. II. East following the eastern ilne q
said quarter section to the depth g
twelve arpents up to and adjoining thp
land of Simon Breaux, thence following
the southern line of the land Of sinioK
Rreaux in a northwesteTiy dlreCtloa ~
rs to give said tract a depth OF thirteen
;rpents III the western line thereon III
four arpents front and running from say
north western point, thirteen aTrpents
duo south 80 the southern line Of Sa@
south west quarter of said seetiol g
thence east four arpents to the p0lhs ~
beginning, with Ill the Improvement
thereon.
TERMS-Casl1.
Sherilf's Office, AbbevilIe, La, tlis 0sA
day Of June, 1902.
30. HEBERT. Sheriff.
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Saturday, July 18th. 1902.

the following described movable property
belonging to said SUGGESTIONS, to-wit:
Tie entire stock of goods and merchan-
disc, consisting of dry goods. clothing,
hats, hardware, notions, groceries ETC., IA
the store buildings at Cossinade, said
parish, lately occupied by the deceased
Desire Meaux; also
One wagon, one hack, all the store
buildings lately used by the deceased for
the purpose of carrying on the business
of merchant.
LEONARD MEAUX,
Administrator.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28

Said COW has q calf not branded and
has been depredating on my premises for
the past year. Owner is hereby notified
to come forward, prove property and pay
expenses or will have her sold accord
ing to law. GERARD FREDgR3CK.
June 29.30d.
Brand to be seen at this office.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.
SATURDAY, JUNE %, 1902.
TAKE 4 HORN, PLEASE.


defence of right, than our own loved
Leveque of the New Orleans Harle-
qQin, whose trenchant quill is ever
prodding some hateful evil.
Bat not unlike other men Leveque
has his hobby 1--WE were about to say
Bobby. When he does mount this
hobby and ride him forth his great,
ness suffers q fail, Hist, thou, while
he capers around the rem
THE OFFICE BOY WANTS TO KNOW
What Joe Leveque would have
given to see the idol of zines cheers
co~ncitoyens de la paroisse d'Ascen-
sion ct de la troisieme district con-
g~ressionelle'' doing the rubber when
the newspaper guy said "Hello, guv-
'nor?"
How many gubernatorial bees
Bully Bobby Boy is Juggling around
IN that bonnet O. his'n?
If the buzzing keeps him awake at
might?
If that Harlequin fellow expects to
help him rob the hive?
If Joe hadn't better get his own
self innoculated for hives?
II he's already got them and if
that accounts for the tall scratching
he's doing for Bob5y?-Donalsonville
Chief.
/ believe 'tBob'' is modest-so
modest indeed that he must have even
more genuine worth and solidity of
character than | have accredited him
with, during the long years of our
friendship.
For, note you his reverence!
Note you with what modesty he
'tucks up his pa~ntaloons and keeps
vout Of the rain!
Why, sir, that fellow has a we'll
proportional sense of majestic!
He knows how not to commit high
treason.
He knows that, whereas the Third
district is for him as an unit and Or
leans is for him as a unit am now
talking about the untrammeled will of
"a supposedly free people-he knows
that although this is SO and although
the people of the entire state might
be equally as pronounced in his favor,
the people have nothing to do with it!
The making of L%ouislana's govern
or; sirrah, has long since been re-
moved from vulgar hands and reposed
among things kingly, consecrated
and sacred!
Tell with the people!-Harlequin.
Now shorn of all redundant ver-
,biage and prolixity of commendatory
compliment two naked propositions
are presented for our consideration
Somebody i. e. Murphy j. Foster
and the state administration abso-
luteIy dominate the Democratic party
Of this state and with the aid Of the
machine make and unmake our Off
Gals. Next, the people Of the 3rd
congressional district and OF the city
Of New Orleans to q unit, are
possessed of an uncomfortable desire
to see Congressman Broussard in the
gubernatorial chair.
The first proposition we emphati-
eally deny. But admitting for the
sake of argument that it be true,
then as a member of the official
household, a leader of the dominant
wing of the party, and the trusted
friend, adviser and lieutenant Of
Senator Foster, the Hon. r. F.
Broussard falls under this terrible
accusation. He becomes an Access
sorry before and after the fact.
OF Congressman Broussard's wide
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28

Drouth still prevails in Texas. Peo-
pie are offering up prayers for rain,
and a large crowd assembled for that
purpose at the courthouse at Tyler.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28
Auction Sale.
EsY ADMINISTRATOR.

STATE OF LOUIsIANA-17th Judicial
District Court-Parish of Vermillon.-
No. 475.
SUGGESTIONS of Desire Meaux and Emeline
Landry.
TpY virtue of an order issued out Of the
A1 above Court and a commission there
under to me directed. dated the 23rd day
of June, 1902, fully authorizing and en-
towering me in the premises, Twill offer
for sale at public auction, and will sell, at
the late residence of the deceased, at
Cosslnade. Vermilion parish, Louisiana,
for Cash, to the last and highest bidder,
on
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28

Batson the wholesale butcher of
the EARL family has been granted a
new trial by the Supreme Court.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28
Sherif's Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA-Parish Of yer.
milion--l7th Judicial District Court.
No. 1856.
Theodore Laporte
Theodore Laporte
VS..
Louisa Dyson.

virtue of q writ of seizure and sale
- to me issued in the matters Of Tie
above numbered and entitled suit to ne
directed, fully authorizing and empowap
ing me in the premises, / have seized and
will proceed to sell at pnblic auction t6
to the last and highest bidder. at tho.
principal front door Of the courthouse Dc
SAID Parish, in the town of Abbeyiles
La, on
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-28
Taken Up.

By the undersigned at his home about
five miles north of AbbeviIle, one red
COW, white or bald face mark thus on left
hip: