The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-11-06

recover.
A man in this town opposed some
thing his wife proposed to do, and in
the argument she asked him: "Who is
running this house, anyway" He said:
81 know you have been running it and
me too, bat l propose to show you that
l am running it now" But, as they
have been married forty years, not
much is expected of his threat.
Ralph L. Slower, formerly an operator
at the depot in this city, who has been
stationed for couple Of years at Raw
Inns, Wyoming, writes us to change his
REPORTER to Pueblo, Colorado, to which
place he has moved his family being
employed as operator at the Sante Fe
union station in that city. Ralph is
thorough railroad man and we are pleas
ed to see him advanced, the work in his
present position being much more
pleasant than in Wyoming.
6. B. Daugherty picked up a lady's
purse containing quite sum of money
in the waiting room at the Q depot Tues
day. The south bound train had not
left the station and on going through
the car and inquiring if any one had
lost their purse the owner was found.
1t had been dropped by Aunt Mary
Sears who was starting to Colony, Kas.,
to visit her daughter, and she was
saved considerable annoyance by hav.
ing it restored to her before she started
on her journey.
The city council of Mt. Ayr has passed
an ordinance against the filthy habit of
splitting on sidewalks or floors within
the town limits. The law is good one
and should be strictly enforced. From
sanitary standpoint the ordinance is
just the thing, not to mention the filth
ness and nauseating condition one
meets with on every hand. Just why
two-legged hog is allowed to spit his
filth all over the floors everywhere he
goes, is beyond mprehension., 1t is a
dirty habit and should be stopped. A
like ordinance should be passed in
Leon.
Mr.. Rasmussen, of the firm of Libbe,
Nourse & Rasmussen, the Des Moines
architects who have charge of the con-
struction of our new school house, was
in Leon Friday inspecting the building,
and while here paid quite compliment
to Tom Wallace who has the contract
for the plastering, saying it was one of
the best jobs he ever saw, and he could
not find a single bit Of the work which was
not perfect. He inspects large num-
Der of buildings each year and is com.
petent to judge, so Tom naturally feels
just little proud of bis work.
We have been shown copy of the
Usage, Iowa, News. of Oct. 90, 1902, in
which there is very fattering write-up
of the Anderson.Reohr Concert Com
pany which appears at the M. Z. church
in this city next Monday evening under
the auspices of the Leon Library Asso.
citation. The company is without ques-
ton one of the best musical organiza.
tons which are travelling in the west
and as the benefit of the concert goes to
the Leon Free Library the church
should be crowded. In case the revival
meetings at the Christian church are
still in progress next week the concert
will not commence until $50 O'Clock so
as to enable those who desire to go to
the Christian church to also attend the
concert.
Considerable interest has been taken
the past two months by people in this
county in the st. Joe Gazette's voting
contest, the first prize in which was
fine piano. The contest closed on Oct.
25th, but the vote was not announced
until last Thursday. The first prize was
won by Miss Emma Helene Fuller, of
Bethany, Mo-, who received 1920
votes, Miss Charlotte Lee Campbell, Of
Rockport, Mo-, second with O7,4O7,
and Miss Martha Young, of Lamont,
third with 272,42O. Miss Young received
handsome diamond set ring as the
third prize. Mrs. Alice Bells Tatman
of this city received IA $50 votes, stand.
ing 18th on the list at the close. She
had won the special award of diamond
set ring given to the contestant who
received the largest number of votes
during the week in September, 18th to
2lst. Miss Myrta Howell, Of Davis City.
also received $4,000 votes, but she re.
tired early in the contest. The unusual
circumstance of three candidates from
this one county was handicap to any
Of them winning the first prize asst
divided up the vote. Had all the votes
bin this county been cast for one candi.
tdate the first prize would have been
won by nice margin.