The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

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Q. A. Allen and J.. W., Mccormack, OF
Creston, were in Leon last Friday ad.
vertising the Creston district fair which
will be held at Creston September 10th
to 10Th.
All interested will meet at the Center
township cemetery at Franklin church
with tools to clean up the cemetery on
Thursday, Sept. 4, at 10 O'Clock a. N.
Bring your dinners.
Herman Langreder, of Richton Ill.,,
while visiting in this county last week,
purchased two fine Poland-China male
hogs from Woodland Bros, of Decatur,
and shipped them to Adolf Langreder
and Henry Eiscamp at Richton, Ill.
District court convenes in this civ
next Monday with Judge r. l.. Parrish
presiding. The term will be a three
weeks one providing there are cases
enough ready for trial. If the Clark.
Dull murder case is tried as expected it
will occupy the greater part of the term.
The season for holding fall sales is
drawing on, and we desire to call the
attention of REPORTER readers to the
tact that we are fully equipped for
printing artistic sale bills of all kinds.
III you are contemplating holding a sale
this fall get your bills Pointed at the
RKpohTER office.
DR.. j. q. Stone, the Leon osteopath
received last Friday from the state med
ical board his certificate giving him
authority to practice in the state of
Iowa under tine osteopath law enacted
by the last general assembly, the state
board recognizing the osteopaths now
the same as the old school.
Henry Lands received a telegram Sat,
urday from his son Sam Lands who has
been in the Philippine Islands for the
past four years, saying that he had
landed at San Francisco and is expected
in Leon the latter part of this week.
After the 5lst Iowa was mustered out
Sam received a good position at mill
tary headquarters and has been draw.
ing a good salary; his many friends will
be pleased to see him again.
Filemon Shields, the little philipino
brought to this country by Will
Shields proved a genuine hero one day
week. A little son of Sam Cham.
berlin, of Decatur, with a crowd of bows
was swimming at Woodlands dam and
getting beyond his depth was sinking
for the last time when Filemon was at.
tracted by the cries Of the other boys,
and without waiting to take off his
clothes ran down the bank and plunged
in, reaching the boy after he was out of
sight and bringing him to shore where
prompt measures soon resusitated him.
Two trains freighted with a unique
passenger list will be run to Cherokee
hospital when it is opened this week.
These trains will be specials containing
the insane patients that are to be trans
fsrred from Independence aud Clarind a
hospitals to the new institution at Chero-
kee. The board of control has already
arranged for the transportation. The
special from independence to Cherokee
will transport about $50 inmates and at.
tendants. That from Clarinda will con-
tain about 26O inmates and attendants.
The patients will be unguarded save by
the attendants. There will be one of
these for every fifteen patients. The
board will send no patients from the
Mt. Pleasant hospital to Cherokee.
There will be 100 patients, however, sent
to Clarinda from Mt. Pleasant and lou
from Mt. Pleasant to independence.
They will 20 in special cars.
DR.. B. Y. Walker, of Van Vert, who
has figured in considerable litigation in
the courts of Decatur county, became
involved in a difficulty with a young
man named Z. G. Myers at Van Wer,
Sunday evening and received a stab in
in the face from q pitchfork which may
cause him to lose his left eye. Myers
has charge of q stallion owned by Sam.
uel Heathers and DR.. Walker also owns
q stallion which he has been keeping at
Van Vert, and considerable bad blood
has been engendered. Sunday evening
DR.. Walker went to the barn and found
Myers there and ass aulted him with q
pitchfork, endeavoring to stab him with
it, as be had previously threatened to
do. In the scuffle which followed The
fork came out Of the handle, and eithe,
flew and struck DR.. Walker as some Of
the witnesses claim or was thrown b,
Myers al DR.. Walker claims, one of til,
prongs striking him just above the lei;
eye and running down to the nose in
|hicting a bad wound which NAV We,
cause him to lose his eve,