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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-03
For Sale

Two lots, well located, in Lake Ar
thur. For further information apply
at this Office.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
The Carpenter Company.

The wide range Of society by the plo-
Of the new Russo-Siberian play, For Her
Sake, which is to be seen at Van Vert
denis opera house Nov. 20, ought to fur.
uish exceptional opportunity for seen
ical effect. and it is said tEat the Car.
penter Company, who produced the
piece, did not fail to profit by their
chance. The company, it is stated !,
carries carload of special scenery, all
of which was painted by artists who
made study of The scene which it was
aimed to reproduce. The piece is in
four acts. The last act depicts the sui.
phur mine in Kara, Siberia, with the ac-
compartment Of some thrilling dramatic
action. The company is an exception
ally large one even for the spectacular
sort of play Of which For Her Sake is
one of the notable example.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
Turkeys and Cranberries High.

Turkeys and cranberry sauce, the two
staple features of the typical Thanks.
giving dinner, will come high this year,
and doubtless many family will have
to provide substitutes for them. No
trust is responsible for the high prices
ana no combination of spectators has
obtained corner on the market. 1t is
simply caused by a. Shortage in the
supply. The weather has not been
favorable to the product either Of tur-
keys or cra,hberries, and as a result
there is n9tia sufficient supply of either
to provide every family in the country
with it's share. And what will Thanke-
giving be without turkey and cranberry
sauce. The crop of cranberres in Wis.
coHsin, where the crop of the United
States is usually produced, is very much
reduced, and what the growers have
raised has been all sold to dealers who
are holding them for the immediate
Thanksgiving period when the demand
becomes stiff and prices are up in the
air
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
day OF THANKSGIVING.
Thursday, November 27, Designat-
ed by Mr.. Roosevelt.

President Roosevelt has issued his
proclamation designating Thursday,
November 81, as the day of thanks
giving.
The proclamation is as follows:
According to the yearly custom Of our
people, it falls upon the president at
this season to appoint day of festival
and Thanksgiving to God Over CEN
tury has passed since this country took
its place among the nations of the earth,
and during that time we have had, upon
the whole, more to be thankful for than
has fallen to the lot of any other people.
Generation after generation have grown
to manhood and passed away. Each
has had to bear its peculiar burdens,
each to face its special crisis, and each
has known years Of grim trial. when the
country was menaced by malice, domes.
tic or foreign, when the hand of the
Lord was heavy upon it in drought or
flood or pestilence, when in bodily dis.
tress and anguish of soul it paid the
penalty Of folly and forward heart.
Nevertheless decade by decade we have
struggled onward and upward; we now
abundantly enjoy material we'll being,
and under the favor of the Most High
we are striving earnestly to achieve
moral and Spiritual uplifting The year
that has just closed has been one of
peace and of ove1howing plenty. Rare.
ly has any people enjoyed greater pros.
perity than we are now enjoying. For
this we render heartfelt and solemn
thanksto the Giver of cool, and we
seek to praise Him not by words only,
but by deeds, by the way in which we
do our duty to ourselves and to our
fellow men.
Now therefore, 1, Theodore Roosevelt,
President of the United States, do
hereby designate as day of general
thanksgiving Thursday, the twenty
seventh day of the coming November,
and do recommend that throughout he
land the people cease from their ordl-
nary occupations and in their several
homes and places of worship render
unto almighty God for the manifold
blessings for the past year,. 4. 6
In witness whereof / have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at Washington this twenty
ninth day of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and
two and Of the independence OF the
United States the one hundred and
twenty. .seventh,-Theodore Roosevelt.
By the president. John Hay Secre.
tary ofState.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
The Iowa Corn Crop.

A writer in the Chicago Record. Her
aid pays the following tribute to the
Iowa corn crop:
But few things on this earth surpass
The cora they raise in Iowa.
It's wonderful, at least enmasse-
The corn they raise in Iowa.
Tis said: "See Naples and then d,e"
o, Naples may be some, but my!
It's greatly overshadowed by
The corn they raise in Iowa.
The pyramids are naught beside
The corn they raise in Iowa
o, what's our. nations greatest pride?
The corn they paise in Iowa.
Who cares for splendors Of the past?
|. Deep in the shadows they are cast,
And wondering men behold agast
The corn they raise in Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
New Court Cases.

Moore & Pryor VS.. Edward Mudgett.
Plaintiffs sue to recover $3.50 which they
claim they earned by selling farm
owned bv defendant in Woodland
township to @. M. Keller on Sept, 2,
1892, ON which he has already Y paid $500
on contract. Geo.W. Baker attorney for
plaintiffs.
G.. w. Norman vs. l. n. Halderman
administrator of the estate of Isaac
Halderman deceased. In 1890 plaintiff
borrowed $500 from Isaac Halderman
and to secure the loan gave mortgage
on fam in Burrell township. Shortly
afterwards he paid the note but the
mortgage was never cancelled and he
asks that the administrators be author
lied to cancel the mortgage as it ap-
pears on record and is cloud on the
title to the land. Hoffman & Jackson
attorneys for plaintiff.
Bessie Burk himer VS.. Bert +. Burk.
himer Plaintiff sues for divorce,
She was married to defendant in Appa.
noose county on Feb. 3, 1901 and lived
with him until May 80, 1902. when on
account Of his cruel and inhuman treat.
ment she was compelled to leave him
and return to the home of her parents
in this county. She also asks to be re-
stored to her maiden name Bessie
Vanderpool. S. A. Gates attorney for
plaintiff
+. E. Braden VS.. E. D. Briggs. The
plaintiff who is real estate agent sues
for $73:15 commission which he claims
he earned in selling a tract of land
owned by defendant in Pottawattamie
county. w. B. Kelley attorney for
plaintiff,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
A LIBRARY FOR FOUR DOLLARS,
Best Pictures, Best Fiction, Best
History for Price of a Century
SubSCrintinn.

-Four dollars is small sum with
which to supply family for year with
the best pictures and literature: 1.-The
high-water mark Of color reproduction, !"
as Howard Pyle characterizes the ex-
quisite color reproductions of his paint
ings in the December Century; and
fiction of the day.
The most striking success of The Cen
tury Magazine have been made in the
field of history, witness the famous Cen
tury War Papers, Nicolay and Hays
Life of Lincoln, ETC.; and it is to return
to the field of historical literature this
year. striking series of illustrated
articles on the early campaign of the
Revolution, written by Professor Justin
Harvey Smith of Dartmouth College,
will be one of the features, especially
covering the picturesque march Of
Arnold through the Maine woods.
Important articles on the "Trusts" will
be printed from time to time,-not
attacking or defending, but simply tell.
ing the inside history Of the great trusts
and how they are conducted.
Richard Whiteing, the author of that
popular BOOK "No. John Street," is to
write one of the serials for The Century
in 1908, "Tne Yellow Van," the story of
an American "schoolma am" who mar.
ries an English duke. Another serial,
by the author of MRS. Wiggs of the
Cabbage Patch," the most popular book
of the year, will begin to appear in the
December Century. Papers by "Mr.
Dooley," giving his unique Opinions
on literature; new light on the lives of
Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Walter Scott;
richly illustrated articles on the great
exchanges of the world, and the best
short stories that can be procured from
the leading writers,-all these are com.
ing in The Century. Beautiful pictures
in color will appear from time to time.
The pictures are richly worth framing
and place in every home. The read
ing means wide information, culture,
and rich intellectual pleasure from
month to month. The bound volumes
should have permanent place in every
library. Big returns, all this, on the
small investment of four dollars.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
The Metric System

Pioneer Press: There can be no doubt
that if England adopts the metric sys-
TEN all her great colonies, such as Aus
tralia and Canada, will follow in her
footsteps without much delay. When
this is occom piished it will leave the
United States practically the only i'm
portant country in III, world that ad.
hetas to its tedious, uncertain and COM
plicated weights and measures which it
is impossible to call system. For not
only are there three different tables
OF weights, but dozens of special
measures of length, area and volume,
like fathoms, the chains, knots, hands.
poles and perches that are rarely known
outside of the particular trade which
uses them. The bushel the barrel and
the bogshead and other measures of the
kind vary from state to state and mean
one thing for one commodity and an.
other for anotherlcommodity. Finally,
even in the common table there are 81
different ratios used, of which 10 are
not divisible by two. and there are lS
terms that have two or more meanings.
In contrast with this stands the metric
system with only 35 terms each con.
vertible into The terms of any other
with practically II single ratio ofour
monetary system. Experience has shown
that in the schools alone the substitu.
ton of the metric syste;nt tor the present
measurement would save two-tnirds of
a year for every pupil.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
MUST PAY FOR DRUNKS.
Counties Must Settle for their
BooZers.

The first bills for the care ofinebriates
under the new law reached the office of
the state auditor last Thursday. They
we're from the Mt. Pleasant hospital spd
were against come twenty or more
counties in the state. The law provides
that the expense of commitment aud
the maintenance of inebriates shall be
certified and borne in the came manner
as for insane. The charge for each in
ebriate in state hospital is therefore
$l2 per month. This amount is entered
up against the county from which the
patient is sent and must be paid by that
county out of it's insane fund.
The law provides, as in the case of in.
sane persons, that the state may recover
from the estates of the patients. How
ever, it is not supposed that any great
number of persons will be able to reim-
burse the county and that most of the
expense of care and treatment of in
ebriates will fall upon the several coun-
ties of Iowa.
The counties are abundantly able to
bear this expense however. Counties
are required to levy tax for care of in
sane persons each year, and in most
instances the levy has been at least one
mill on the taxable property Of the
country. This has brought in much
more money than has been needed. and
nearly every Iowa county has several
thousand dollars III its insane fund.
The Iowa code says: Takes thus levied
cannot be used for any other purpose, -
80 that the balance on. hand has az.
cumulated from year to year. AS dip.
somanlacs and inebriates are regarded
the same as insane patients by the new
law, the money on hand in the insane
fund can be used in settlement of the
hospital accounts the first of which have
been certified.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
SUSTAIN THEIR RULING.
State Board Of Health Insist that
DR.. Crofford's Physicians Ger
tificate be Revoked.

The state board of health at its meet
ing last Thursday decided to refuse to
suspend the order revoking the certifi-
cate of DIR. ]. ". Cronord, of Decatur
county, to practice medicine. DR.. Crof-
ford some months ago was sentenced to
to term in the penitentiary for the
murder of Miss Maud Stone as the result
of q questionable operation. He aps
pealed to the supreme court and the ap-
peal is pending. Following his convic-
ticn the board Of health suspended his
certificate to practice medicine. DIR.
Croford was released on bail pending
the decision of his case by the supreme
court. He took the ground that the
board of health should not have sus-
pended his certificate until it was settled
by the supreme court whether he was
justly convicted by the trial court. The
board, however, has concluded. to main.
tain its position and the order Of
revocation will stand.
Attorney General Mullan, at the last
session of the board, gave an opinion as
to whether the board of health should
have revoked the certificate He held
the board should have waited until the
question of DR.. Crotford's guilt was set
tied by the supreme court. The board
took action Thursday, however, from
reasons independent of DR.. Crotford 8
connection with the Stone case. 1t had
before it affidavits that showed, in the
opinion of the board, DR.. Crofford was
not proper person to hold certificate
to practice medicine. For one thing,
there was evidence that DR.. Crofford had
served term in the penitentiary in the
early '90s, having been convicted in the
federal court in the western district of
Missouri for counterfeiting. President
Linn of the board said the fact of this
conviction and other evidence before
the board as to DR.. Crofford's past war
ranted the board in not allowing him to
practice. 1t is understood by the board
that DR.. Croford has been practicing in
spite of the suspension of his certificate.
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
Lowest Colonlst Rates.

The Chicago Great Western Ry. on
the first and third Tuesdays Of Novem-
ber and December will sell one-way
second class colonist tickets to the west,
southwest and south at lowest rates yet
offered. For further particulars inquire
of any Great Western Agent or j. P.
olmer, A. P. A., Chicago, Ill. Dec. 1902.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
l..' 80 n . lss 2 ] Z -
Teachers Mill Meet.

1 Program of the teachers meeting to
be held at Van Vert, Iowa, Friday eve.
ming and Saturday, Nov. IA and Is:
FRIDAY EVENING p. N.
Invocation .. Rev. Tenant.
Singing ... - .... .. America. /"
Recitation, selected ;. ,....... Leon CARRIER.
Duet. =. .....,..... "Plant Blossoms.
Mamie and Alice Letter.
Recitation, Selected 500. Lola Kane.
Bass Solo,. .......... ......C. l., Belding.
Reading ..............Fa Fannie Blair.
Male Quartet "Old Kentucky Home. /"
Messrs. CARRIER, Johnson, Owens, and
Belding.
Address . State Supt. Il. G. Barrett.
Male Quartet. - Good Night" +"
SATURDAY MORNING 9 A. NJ.
Singing Girls Of Sth and 9th Grades.
Paper :" Reading in the Public Schools
Addle Crawford.
Discu ssion. Led by Mrs. Anna Mulkey.
Paper.......... ........... Examinations -
Prin. j. r. Beavers.
Discussion Led by Mrs. E. j. Mckee.
Methods in Teaching of Arithmetic
g. A. Axline, Humsston.
Discussion $500. Led by Mr.. L. Buchanan.
Paper, Mature, Study and Literature. y
Pearl Powers, Weldon.
Discussion Led by Edna Moore.
Paper . Relative Value of Studies. y
Ella Rogers.
General Discussion 10 minutes.
Paper, "The Quality and Quantity OF
History in the Grades. /" .......... ....... a
A. M. M. Do,non, Osceola.
Discussion Led by supt. ]. III. Drake.
Paper, "What May be Accomplished in
the High School Course of Study"
Supt. S. L. Hill, Weldon.
General Discussion.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
To Cure a Cold In One nav

Take Laxative Bromo.Q Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money ifit fails
to cure. +. w. Groves signature is on
each box. 25c,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-13
Stops the Cough and Works of tn
cn1d

Laxative Bromo-Q Cunning Tablets cure
a cold in one day, No )cure no pay.
Price 25 cents.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-06-07
The Tide of Prosperity.

There seems to be tide of pros perity setting in towards the Imperial colony from all directions that grows in volume daily and weekly. The last move is the building of the railroad into the settlement from the South ern Pacific main line, that is now an assured success. A private corpora tion was organized, secured the right of way and proceeded to build the roadDed to connect Imperial with the outside world and enable the inhabi- tants to ship out their rapidly increas- ing volume of products.
 The Southern Pacific officials have now taken hold of the project and will iron and run the road in connec- tion with their main line and they have promised to have the road open and in running order by September 1, 1902-next September. The origin al company has transferred to the Southern Pacific company the right of way and the grading that has been done through to Imperial on these conditions and the proposition has been accepted and work will be push ed at once on the new line-River- side Enterprise.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-06-07
O Irritation and Climate.

Editor E. F. Howe of the Imperial Press has made a study of the prob able effects of "reclaiming the Colo rado desert, including the Imperial country, also Indio and the lands on the Arizona side of the Colorado river aggregating more than a million acres of land" brought under irriga- tion, and he estimates the amount of water to be as equal as three feet deep on each acre per year, equiva- lent to yearly rainfall of thirty-siX inches, and this, he says, "implies that 120,000, 900 cubic feet of water will be carried away in the atmosphere each year, quantity of moisture which can well raise the question if the climate of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas will not undergo a material change, while the evaporation seems certain in some degree to change the temperature of the desert"
 He discusses the proposition out lined above at considerable length and concludes that "the skies will thus become the greatest storage resesvoir that could be conceived for the re- clamation of arid lands through Ariz- ona, New Mexico and Texas" MT. Howe has raised an important in- quiry.-Los Angeles Herald.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-06-07
Another Yuma Survey.

At the instance of B. P. Cheney president of the San Diego Land and Town Company, the San Diego Eastern Railroad Company will undertake an other survey to Yuma as soon as the present one is finished. The new sur vey will proceed for the most part south of the international boundary line, in Mexican territory. The sur veying party will be made up of the members of Engineer Richards party, under the direction of Engineer Saw age 1t will be a hurried stadia sur vey, running the lines much quicker than is possible in any other way, and the engineer expects to reach Yuma in less than a month after starting. The idea is to determine upon the feasibility of such line, as manv of the members of the committee believe that it will be better with easier gra dents than the other. It will be left for any company or individual who may undertake construction to decide between the two routes. MT. Richards in running his line was under instruc tions to keep on this side of the boun dary, and did so.-San Diego Cores pondence of Los Angeles Times.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-06-07
Headed for Imperial and the Coast

HVuuNu WI hupOh tut uHu NuO OUuCbs
 The Los Angeles Herald thus reviews the railroad situation so far as the Rock Island is concerned:
 In New York and Chicago railroad men and newspapers persist in reitera- tion of the statement that the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad will come to the Pacific Coast from El Paso, Tex, a statement which, while not confirmed is not denied by of ficials of the road. The report Is based on the new aggressive policy of the Rock Island company and the in formation given out from President Leeds office that further expansion Is contemplated. During the past year the Rock Island has added something between 1900 and 1700 miles to it's road, and has made known that it in tends to construct more. With the new mileage it has completed cOnnec- tions with the Pacific Coast and the City of Mexico the latter by joint trackage agreement with the Mexican Central. It also now reaches Memphis and is building to Galveston, with AL buquerque as another possibility Dur ing the year there was added to the system new mileage equal to about double that acquired in the immed1- ately preceding twelve years, and there is every reason to believe that this year will see further large additions to the length of track. Last year the stock capital was increased by $10,- OO0,OOO; this year it is to be increased by $15,000,00 Besides these and other additions to capital, bonds for SEA- 000,000 have been issued to pay for the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf road that was lately purchased by the Rock Island. The official statement of the company shows that it earned net in the fiscal year 1901-02, $7,220,941, which is equal to 12 per cent. on the $60,000 900 of stock outstandine
 "It is claimed with a degree of posi- tiveness," says an exchange, ''that the Rock Island has acquired control of the PhelpsDodge railroad from Ben son, Ariz., to Fl Paso, and that it also is financing the Phoenix and East ern to connect Phoenix with the Phelps-DOdge line at Benson, and also the Phoenix, Yuma and California road, projected to extend from Phoe- nix to Yuma. From the latter point to San Diego bay is an open field, say the promoters of the San Diego East ern railroad, who are going ahead with the financing of their company, but with the understanding that the survey and right-of-way is open to whatever railroad will give necessary assurances that a line will be built. The Rock Island has already com pleted arrangements for an extension from Memphis to Savannah, Ga., and the belief is that it contemplates out stripping all competitors and securing the first ocean to ocean line, to be from the mouth of the Savannah River to San Diego bay, the very shortest cut across the continent.
 "The Rock Island has had periods
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-06-07
A Grand Enterprise.

From Desert to Garden" is the title of an artistic, illustrated pamphlet prepared by l.. M. Holt for the Imperial Land Go. If some of those who travelled many times over that country from 1865 up to the days of railway connection between Los Angeles and Yuma, were to pass over it now, they would say: "Verily, the desert has been made to blossom and bring forth fruit, grain, etc. ."-Pomona Times.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-06-07

From Desert to Garden" is the title of an artistic, illustrated pamph- let prepared by l.. M. Holt for the Imperial Land Go. If some of those who travelled many times over that country from 1865 up to the days of railway connection between Los An geles and Yuma, were to pass over it now, they would say: Verify, the des- ert has been made to blossom and bring forth fruit, grain etc.-Pomona Times.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-06-07

of expansion, but they have been spas modic; it's policy has been rather to consolidate it's operations and build up a restricted territory. Now, how ever, it is becoming known as the most aggressive of the independent railroads, and there is no limit placed on it's possibilities.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-06-07

Some men give their conscience an anesthetic and then think they are doing right because it does not re- prove them.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-06-07

The man who lives in yesterdays is never happy.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-06-07

Wealth consists in enjoying, not in having.