The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-02-25

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pears the name of O. L. Jones, of Des
Moines, aged 46 years, to Mrs. Mary
Quick, of Davis City, aged 80.
The grocery store Of j. Hofhines was
thronged all day Tuesday when lady
demonstration was serving delicious hot
coffee free, advertising the Ferndale
brand which Mr.. Hoffhines sells,
16 Shropshire sheep, Is ewes which
will bring lambs March Is, good buck,
all in fairly good shape, for sale.
27-1t* M. r. DAVENPORT,
mile west of Blockley.
DR.. Enos Mitchell has issued invita-
tion to the physicians Of Decatur county
to attend a banquet which he will give
at his home in Weldon on March 3lst,
in honor of the completion of twenty
five years service as a practicing ply
sician at Weldon.
Leon friends have received cards an
nouncing the birth on Feb. LIST Of
Los Angeles, CAL, who will be remem-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Max Sanford, who
was DOIu iilu LII Uulo ClUJs
A few more free homesteads in Ly-
man county, S. d. March 1st is Land
Seekers excursion. See G. M. ketch-
am, station agent, or w. II. jenkins,
who will go on above date.
w. H. CANNON, Oacoma, S. D.
Land and Emigration Agent.
e. H. Lewis this week received a let
ter with news of the death of Mrs. A.
P. Garretson at her home in Mt. Pleas
ant on Feb. 5th. Mrs. Garretson was
years ago resident Of this city, and
her daughter, Miss Della, we'll known
elocutionist, has frequently visited at
the Lewis home.
Another Chicago theatre, the Alham-
bra, was partially destroyed by fire
Monday morning, the fire starting from
a restaurant. in the basement. A hotel
occupied part of the building, and 200
guests were in the house at the time,
many of them being rescued by fire
men who carried them down on ladders
The dead bodies of two men and one
woman were found in the ruins.
In honor Of her seventh birthday,
Miss Nina Bowman last Saturday enter
tanned about thirty of her little friends
at a birthday party given at the home
of her parents from 2 to S o'clock, and
the youngsters enjoyed a splendid time
leaving number of pretty presents for
their hostess in, honor Of the occasion
We print in this issue Of THE REpoR
TER circular letter prepared by Prof
p. G.. Holden, the we'll known corn ex-
pert at the Iowa College of Agriculture
at Ames, on the Importance of farmers
selecting good seed corn for this season
Prof. Holden gave some excellent lee
lures on corn at the recent Farmer S
Institute held in this city, and the pres
ent paper on the subject of seed corn
will be read with interest by our farmer
readers.
Bowsher & Biddison, the big nipple.
ment dealers of Leon, are remodeling
the upstairs of their big store building
in this city, and converting it into 6
mammoth sample room, where every
thing carried in their line in the way O
implements and buggies will be found
set up so that all can see them. 1t is
the largest sample room in the entire
state and everybody is invited to cal
and look at it whether they are in the
market for anything or not. You viii
always be cordially welcomed at thi:
big store.
1t is said that the rural mail carrier.
will soon get another raise in salary
the house committee on postoffices anc
railroads last Saturday completing thei
work on the appropriation bill, thu
amount this year being $4,000, 5SS, al
against S153,500,000 last year. The sala
ries Of rural delivery carriers is to b,
increased from 5000 to $72O per year
the increase to take effect July 1, 1904
The bill also provides that on and after
that date carriers shall not solicit bust
ness or receive orders of any kind 70
; any person, firm or corporation, ant
shall not, during the hours of employ
ment, carry any merchandise for hire
The Decatur County Republican, the
new paper which was started in Leor
last fall by Mathews & Humphreys
being later acquired by F.J Mathew
q Son, has again changed hands, TIN
new proprietor being r. w. Bruce, lat
editor of the Leon Journal, who will
take possession March 1st. At the tim,
the Republican was started Mr.. Bruc,
predicted that it would be failure, bu
has evidently changed his mind. Thu
paper was started as Cummins organ
and it is not known what it's futur,
policy will be, as Mr.. Bruce has been al
ardent stand-patter, and feminist tn,
Governor. Wallace has had consider
able newspaper experience, and W.
wish him abundant prosperity, but tn,
prospects for third paper in Leon ar,
hardly to be considered as fattering.
The board of supervisors held meet
ing in this city Tuesday with count
bridge superintendent Leeper, arrang
ing for getting the bridge material TO
the necessary bridge work the coming
year. The bridge fund is badly over
drawn on account of the building of ney
bridges and repairing many of tn
bridges which were washed out the las
two years, and it is the intention of tn
board to build only two new bridge
this wear these haipm to raplooa nj,