The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-04-30

-EON REPORTER, tt
"Ben Hur" will please your wife.
Buy sack.
For sAIE-A Winchester repeating
shot gun. 36tf 2 Milo MOORE.
Just received-A stock of carpet felt
Will protect carpets from moths. Sold
by G. F. Fransham &Son. 4
For SALE-l corn planter, moving
machine, l IA inch stirring pillow cheap.
r. A. SIaLER.
Tbs brightest, cleanest, latest style
photos at Swearingen's oyer where the
Bee Hive used to be. 36.4t
Goldsmith Elector will commence the
season at Leon on April LIST. Terms
same as last year.
BowsHER & SIGLER.
A force of carpenters are building a 16
foot addition to the freight platform at
the depot, something that has been
badly needed at this station for several
years.
The Leon High School graduates have
fixed the date of their class play, ga
Dress Rehearsal" for Wednesday even
ing, May 18th, at VanWerden's opera
house.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bobbitt, one of the
aged ladies of this city, slipped on the
sidewalk at her home Monday morning
and in falling sprained her back so that
she suffers severely.
If,you are looking for something to
tighten the hard work incident to wash
day, try Maple City self-Washing Soap,
and it will be welcome visitor to your
home ever afterwards.
Rathbone Sisters picnic at the K. P.
hall Wednesday evening, May s. All
Rathbone sisters and K. 2. s and ladies
oiS AhNilCu w COulC anu UIluS your
baskets full of good things to eat.
F. G. Mullinnix, the we'll known con.
tractor, had the misfortune to lose his
purse containing about $40, one day the
past week. In an advertisement in this
return.
A little baby boy arrived at the home
OF MIR. and Mrs. Will Fletcher of east of
Leon Thursday morning, but the little
one was not long for this world, its
spirit taking its flight Tuesday morning.
Ire funeral was held yesterday morning
at 10 O'Clock, interment being in the
Leon cemetery.
DR.. Gleason, of Woodland, had J. r.
Bowsher on the going south order last
Saturday by having Poke Coontz tell
| Mr.. Bowsher that he had Goldsmith
colt down at Woodland and for him to
come after it, and after awhile Poke
relieved Jim by saying the reason was
it was not mare colt.
Agent Ketcham sold Ill excursion
tickets to Van Vert Tuesday morning,
and the train had goodly number OF
passengers from Pleasantop and Gains.
vile. Many Leon people drove to Van
Vert to avoid the long wait there ss
the special train did not leave Van
Vert returning until o'clock, reaching
Leon at $50.
E. ]. Sankey has received notice that
under the rating of the new pension
law his pension has been increased from
$36 to $40 per month, this being the
rate for amputations above the knee OF
or elbow. The new rate will also in.
crease w. j. Sullivan who received his
notice yesterday from $36 to $40
and Jacob Ross from $50 to $40, and the
old veterans deserve every cent of it.
Hoar frost rested on the walks several
mornings the past week in large quaint
ties and ice formed on outstanding
water Sunday morning. Fears were en-.
tertained that the fruit was killed, but
several men of age and experience ex.
press the opinion that little if any dam.
age was done. When the atmo sphere is
as dry as it has been the last week fruit
buds are very likely immune from
frost.
F. A. Rohr has rented the front suite
of rooms in the Evans block on the east
side for his cigar factory and is getting
ready to engage in the manufacture Of