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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-12-29
MISS WINNIE HOUSH
Winner Of The Reporters Diamond Ring

THE REPORTERS diamond ring contest
closed promptly at six o'clock last
Saturday evening and when the votes
were counted by the judges it was
found that Miss Winnie Housh, daugh-
ter of q. Housh, of Eden township, WAS
the winner, having received III, ,0s6
votes out of grand total of 872,S23
votes which were cast in tho contest,
her nearest competitor being Mrs.
Minnie Brannaman, Of Decatur town
ship, 16S,1l9, Miss Jessie Wilson of
Long Creek township, being third with
143,859.
The contest started on Sept Lat, and
from the first week created great deal
Of interest, which increased as the con-
test progressed. The various candi-
dates and their friends did heroic work,
and in addition to collecting q large
amount Of money on back subscriptions
were the means of adding nearly 500
subscribers to THE REponTRRs big list,
and the paper can now show one of the
largest circulations of any weekly
paper published in the whole state Of
Iowa. The rules of the contest were
simple and clean cut, the contest being
limited entirely to money collected for
subscriptions, no votes being allowed
for advertising, job work or other
sources of revenue in a newspaper Office
For each sent collected from a present
subscriber, OF the paper, either in
arrears or advanced payment two votes
we're allowed, while a. an incentive to
secure new subscribers four votes were
allowed for each cent paid by a new
subscriber. The contest was carefully
guarded, SO as to insure fair count
and since Dec. 8th, the votes were de-
posted in sealed ballot box so that nc
4 one could tell how any of the candi-
dates stood, or how many votes they
would have to cast in order to win the
( prize. The ballot box was locked and
the keys deposited with the Farmers
) q 'IfaQ0FS oUdUe DdIlk, duu were
I delivered to the judges, Mayor V. r
McGinnis, County superintendent Ell
Hutchinson, and Fred E. Teale after the
close Of the contest.
The last week Of the contest The RE
i PORTER office came pretty nearly being
\ swamped taking care Of the business
: .,ronght. in, and only small dea OF ths
vast amount Of work entaiied can bs
obtained when one looks at the enor
lmous number Of votes cast in the con
test, nearly three-quarters of a million
kHad We allowed votes for job work ths
vote would have exceeded a million
but we thought best to limit it simpl,
to subscription and have reason to fee
glad that this rule, was adopted as j,
prevented any controversy or chance
for dispute in the matter Of givins
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-12-29
Card.

To the many and kind friends who
rendered mo such valuable assistance
in THE REPORTERS diamond ring con-
test, desire to return my heartfelt
thanks, as realize that to their jealous
work am in great measure indebted
for my success. The beautiful ring will
ever shine as grateful remembrance of
these friends. WINNIE HoUsH. !.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-12-29
Notice.

No. 1856 drew the beautiful parlor
lamp at Keller & Co.'s hardware store.
Party holding said number please call
and present the proper ticket and re-
ceive the lamp. B. W. KELLER & Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-12-29
The Journals Contest.

The voting contest which has been
running for several months at the
Journal Office closed Saturday evening,
the winner Of the first prize, a Kimball
piano being Miss Clara Hodges, of Well
don. Miss Olive Bright Of Leon won
the second prize, diamond ring, and
Miss Olive Bennett, of Garden Grove,
the third prize, kodak. The contest
ants in this contest were allowed votes
for both subscriptions and job work,
the total vote cast being 450,622. The
following is vote Of the various candi-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-12-29
License to Wed

G. Q. Cunningham. ..., ...,....,.. ........ 5:
May Quick ]. ....... 81
G. |. Carpenter s.
Blanche Eprag 1. Il
James Cox ]. u
Iva Pritchard 1. !. :. u
J. A. Evans. u
Blanche Osborne ....... . II
Willard Lowell 81
Mary Ann Henderson ...,...... 4
W q. Hines s. . +. l.. I. i.
Dollie Allbee ~. Il
lW. I. Ashburn, q
Catharine Bsantwait i
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-21
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the worst ills of life. The man or woman who
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goes through life bearing load of misery
and wretchedness that is terrible to think
of.
Headaches as rule, result from a dis
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Mental excitement, loss of sleep, bodily
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ing daily, came from a subject of the
Mikado. Thirteen Japanese churches
reported to the Association. These
might just as we'll read thirty-one, as
! thirteen. 1t rests entirely with those
who furnish the funds to say how many
of these congregations shall be gath
cred. Last years annual report gave
4066 Hawaiian church-members. They
added 144 to the army of the cross dur
ing the year Thus it took twenty-eight
: men to bring one new recruit. a very
good showing indeed for the Congrega-
tional churches of Massachusetts dur
ing the same year required thirty-two
to get one. Our Hawaiian Christians
beat those of the old Bay State! But
81 Japanese won ninety-eight, little
less than nine men being equal to the
task of leading a single countryman TO
the Cross. AS a matter of fact the S21
represented several hundred who had
returned to Japan or gone to the United
States. By far the most active Chris
tians on these islands, not excepting us
white people of Central Union, are
these Japanese. Their pastors are men
of education, culture and ability. They
have ideas and are full of fresh
schemes. Suppose the members of this
church should band themselves togeth-
er to bring each two people into the
church in one years time what would
you conclude had struck Central Union?
But that is exactly what the members
of the Makiki Japanese church have
done. If we could only put an evangel-
list on each plantation in Hawaii in
very few years the Japanese Christians
would out-number those of all other ma
tionaIities combined. The trouble with
the japanese is that he has eyes and
knows how to use them. He speaks out
in meeting. When Christian white men
aid Buddhism by contributions of mon
ey or the equivalent, the ordinary Il do
not say the Christian) Japanese says,
THAT man is not sincere. If he were
he could not give money to support
cause which fights his Master openly.
Can it be that he is so cowardly as to
fear Buddhism? Is he afraid that 1t
will hurt his business if he does not
help it? Does he think that the favor
of us Japanese viii be won by his
treachery to his own religion? Is he
not kind of Judas selling out his
Lord for gold?" Now I do not mean
to assert that this is the correct view
of the case-far from it-but this is
what he thinks and inasmuch as large
percentage of Japanese care not whit
for Buddhism but despite it, they come
to regard Christianity as no better
because of such half heartedness on the
part of some of its adherents. To be
fair to the Buddhists, to treat them
honorably, to rent land to them on
terms of the open market, to allow
them perfect freedom Of action so long
as they do not conflict with our laws
is one thing-every Christian ought to
be fair to every one. But to pay them
to carry on their fight against Chris
tianity is a very different matter. For
Buddhism is hostile to Christ, in this
country it's priests have often striven
to boycott our Christian schools, it
breaches a narrow patriotism which
distrusts foreigners, it proclaims itself
(Conunued on page g.
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| get. Yet hearing that the Board was
| In debt be refused to let the association
ask for the pittance of SIS. And al
this time by giving up the ministry
; he might have had government posi-
ton. Now that is the spirit of Christ
and until we reach it we have no right
to throw stones at these Hawaiian
Christians, some of whom will be SO far
above some of us in heaven yet it
may be ages before we know that
they've gotten there.
When I think of the cutting down of
our public school teachers salaries, see
the needless cruel multiplication of sa-
looms. hear tales of how some gambling
dens are winked at by the authorities,
read published accounts of graft and
catch whispers of good bills defeated
by influence, l am not 50 proud of some
of the civilization the United States
has given Hawaii. 1t sounds strangely
like chapters from the story of Tam
many or Steffens or st. Louis or Miss
Tarbell's graphic pen and ink sketches
of Standard Oil It smacks too much
of Home Sweet Home" But when I
get close to actual Hawaiian Chris
tians L can discern the outlines of the
Cross and then I'm satisfied that the
missionaries did their work well.
Don't be discouraged. If my business
paid one-tenth of the returns in divi-
dends that labor for Christ in this Ter
ritory is earning every day in terms Of
renewed lives, its stock would
never be quoted, it would be hid
den so deep in the safe depo-
sit vaults of few multimillion-
aires. I should advise you to invest in
this enterprise and invest freely on
account of the results achieved on be-
half of the aboriginal race of these Isl
ands alone. That is Echo No. 1 from
the Lihue anniversary.
The second is an Interrogation mark.
We have SO Hawaiian churches where
are we to find leaders for them? We
older men are passing on, few younger
ones are ready to take their places.
Principal Thompson Of Kamehanleha
says it is useless to ask educated young
men with developed wants to enlist in
the cause on the wretchedly small sal
aries that they see some of their min
listers receive. This statement has
force For Jesus Himself laid down the
rule, 1.-The 1aborer is worthy OF his hire"
We need a ministry capable of winning
the respect. confidence and support of
all the better elements in the commun-
ity. Such must therefore be men of
excellent training In time pastors of
this stamp if consecrated will win gifts
from the field adequate or nearly ade-
quate to their wants but not at the
outset. They must be tided over and
this the Board ought to do. l believe
that if it were known that the Board
stood ready to guarantee adequate sup
port to pastors, young men of the
right sort would be Forthcoming. But
that cannot be done without much
more generous gifts of it's Treasury.
There was little cloud at Lihue. the
size of a mans hand. It was a cloud
not of menace but of promise. Its
composition was japanese. Singularly
enough the only utterance there, which
provoked editorial comment by morn
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| lives. AS long as this is true, dis
enlargement is impossible.
But what of race prejudice? PeoplG
say it exists here in fierce degree among
our Polynesian brothers. 1 am con-
strained to believe them but personally
1 have not seen it. 1t has been my
privilege to attend the spring meetings
of the four Island Associations and
now the anniversary of the Territorial
| association We of foreign birth and
parentage asked the Hawaiians to open
the door to all races. We based our
plea upon the common brotherhood of
mankind in Christ. We urged a plan
that would introduce five languages
into the meetings, and must in the fu-
ture result in the Punishment of all
except English. The request was
scarcely debated. With simple loyal
ty to Jesus and an appealing trustful-
ness in their friends who made the re-
quest they granted all that was asked.
1 have never seen anything more nobly
done in any land or by any people.
1t has been my privilege to travel
widely and to live among all sorts and
conditions of men but I have yet to
witness brotherhood more practically
exhibited than by Hawaiians. These
darker skinned brothers of ours trust
US, work with us as though We were
of the same blood, listen to our fault
finding with patience, suffer US to dis
cuss in their associations their fail
ings, to bring the blush of shame TO
their faces and in place of getting
angry love US and resolve by Gods
grace to realize the ideals we bring to
them. If that does not argue the tri-
umph of missions l do not know where
to look for it. Try it on the japanese
in the same trenchant spirit and see
where you would land. No, 1 believe
that we have here noble band of
Christian Hawaiians and whenever I
hear them aspersed L think of how
Elijah played the baby with Jehovah
some $500 years ago. Listen to him out
there in the desert Il have been very
jealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts;
for the children of Israel have forsaken
thy covenant, thrown down thine al
tars and slain thy prophets with the
sword; and I, even L only, am left; and
they seek my life to take it away"
And Jehovah laying his hand upon the
head of the petulant boy said, Yet
have L left me seven thousand in Israel,
all the knees which have not bowed
unto Baal, and every mouth which
hath not kissed Him.
Test these men by any standard you
please and they measure wondrous
we'll when you compare our 1900 years
of Christian history with their less than
one century. 1t seems impossible that
We should have done equally we'll under
like conditions.
Let me tell you of one pastor, pure
blooded Hawaiian. His association had
asked the Board to grant him SIS a
year. His church had called him on a
salary of $25 a month and had been able
to pay only $50 during the previous
half year. He had at times lacked fish,
poi, tea and bread. For weeks togeth-
er he and his family had lived on
breadfruft. He had eaked out expenses
by any kind of manual labor he could
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-28
SAINTS LOST IT.
By Score OF 1 to O lola Won a
Victory.
Brilliant Ball Game in Which
Sensations Predominated.
PITCHERS DID WELL.
Carter and Morgan Receive
Much Of the Credit.
Home Run by SeIgle Brought in
Only Score.

The Topeka Saints and the lola
Gaslighters put their heads together
Friday afternoon on Washburn field
and made baseball history. They
ground out a whole chapter and in it
they put pictures of one Morgan, one
Carter and one Seigle. Around the
face of the latter were wreathed palm
leaf branches galore. This big Dutch
man, gritty and scrappy. and talkative
as a new photograph, laid his trusty
willow against one of Carriers out
shoots, and landed the horsehide
over the left field fence and made the
only run of the game. thereby lacking
the blue ribbon of victory on the
score board for the gray gowned gas
magnates from lola, by the lonely
looking score of to 0.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-28

1t was a great game and a pitchers
battle in which Morgan got a shade
the better of 1t. But twice did the
Saints solve his delivery, while his
teammates landed safely seven times
upon the artistic work of Saint Nick
Carter. The dark compleMoned visit
ing slab-artiSt has wind up before
his delivery which made the grand
stand and bleacher's laugh, but the
smile came off before many innings
were past From out of that double
jointed arm calisthenics he whizzed a
ball that had all kinds of curves,
breaks, parabOlaS and a general mix
ture of geometric designs. 1t had the
Saints guessing, too, although but four
struck out. Alberts' hopefuls were
able to land on the sphere but not to
advantage. The results were usually
summed up in some fielder's nit and
the batter was not even given a license
to operate on first base. Carter had
the IOlans in almost as bad a fix. They
found him seven times for fair, yet
these were so scattered that they did
no damage. Seigle got two of these,
and one was his home run When 1t
was made the GaslighterS on the
bench got up in glee and glory, tossed
their caps into the air and generally
ripped up the atmosphere and the
peace and ouietude of the neighbor-
hood. They were genuinely glad
and acted like a lot of schoOlboys who
had escaped a licking.
Carter, too struck out four men.
Probably he had more strikes against
the visitors. than did Morgan against
the Saints, but the heavy hitting visit
ors were always looking for a chance
to light on one of his benders. Cap
tain Lew Armstrong, the prodigal son,
was back in harness and in the cage.
1t made a world of difference over
yesterday. The team seemed ginger
ed and got together at the first crack
of the whip. He handled Carter as
only he can handle a pitcher, and the
result was written in chunks of anx-
iety all over the faces of the Iolans
who Rugged the bench and looked de-
spairingly towards the score board on
which lay two parallel lines of goose
eggs up to the seventh inning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-28
scroggins Picks One Off the Fence.


The Saints had one real chance to
score in the third. Olson got to hrst
on a fielder's choice. Abbott had nit
just before him and was forced out at
second. In an attempt to double the
down to first. It went over Mlllsop
head. He recovered it and slammed IL
down to second His throw was wild
and the ball rolled out into left field,
Olson getting to third. Two were out
and Lining at the bat. The rooterS
prayed for a hit, but it didn't come.
The little right fielder tried harder than
ever in his life, but he missed three
of the wide ones which Morgan dished
UP to him.
So far as support was concerned hon
ors were even. Two errors had to be
chalked up against the wild throwing
visitors but neither cost anything One
was plastered onto Abbott for fumbling
an easy grounder and letting an Iolan
reach first. Neither did that figure in
the expense account. In general the
work behind the pitchers was almost
perfect. Cole made one pretty running
catch in the sixth which had just
little touch of the sensational about 1t.
the same kind. But taken altogether
the playing was of the ordinarily good,
faultless baseball kind in which all
chances were accepted, making the re-
suit of the game wholly contingent
upon a successful clean hit, such as
Seigle finally wrenched from Carriers
pitching. The Joplin newspapers have
frequently said that lola and Topeka
are in the same class. Friday after
Moons game showed why that state
ment has been made and reiterated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-28
MISS ROOSEVELT PAID.
GateIzeeper of Worlds Fair Collected
so Cents From Her.

St. Louis, May 2s.-Miss Alice
Roosevelt was the guest of honor at
the Worlds fair grounds Friday. She
was accompanied by a large party of
friends.
The first point of interest visited by
Miss Roosevelt was the Illinois state
pavilion. She arrived just as the
dedicatory exercises were completed
and attended the reception. Later she
was the guest at a luncheon in the
directors room of the west pavilion
restaurant.
Owing to a mistake, the daughter
Of the president, to whom it was in
tended to extend the courtesies of the
Worlds fair, was forced to pay the
regular admission fee.
Instructions had been given to the
in an automobile but as she ap-
preached the gate in a phaeton, the
guard considered that it was his duty
to demand admission fees.
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For Sundays Only.

The first sergeant in my company felt
said soldier who had returned from the
Philippines, land one day when 1 had
carelessly called him Tom, he drew him
self up and stiffly replied:
Private Blank, I am Sergeant John
Poole, your superior officer, and don't you
dare cross the gulf between us"
"A few days later went into action
against the Moros. and the sergeant wa S
wounded in the leg. I stood right beside
him as he went down, and when he grOan-
ed out I said:
Sergeant, if it wasn't for the gulf be-
tween us I could help you to the rear
You blamed foolr' he replied, as he
reached UP hand to me. Cant you I'M
derstand that on Sundays I'm your SUI
perior officer and that there is a gulf be-
tween US, while on week days I'm Tom,
your old frfiend, and that the gulf don {
amount to a tow string"