The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-11-09
velie Buggies.

Velie Buggies.
WANTED 100 head of stock to feed on
pasture and stock fields. Will furnish
hay. 7tf. w. Il. SHINN.
Leave orders for rugs made by Iowa
Rug Co., of Des Moines, with Belle
Thompson, at Thompson & Warmers
store.
w. c. Stempel & Co. are sending lots
large bundles of wall paper which they
bought at soc on the 81. All nice
bright goods.
desire to return my thanks to the
many kind friends who so generously
assisted me with their votes by which
was able to win the piano in the Davis
City Lariat voting contest.
IONA BEAsLEY.
Rev. J. A. Armstrong, of Fontanelle,
Iowa, has accepted call as pastor of
the Baptist church of Leon, and has
rented the j. A. Mcintosh residence on
north Main street, and will move his
family to this city this week.
There will be services at the Baptist
church next Sunday by Rev. J. A. Arm
strong, the new pastor, at II o'clock.
Sunday school at $3.50 a. m. Sunday
evening at 1880 Rev. Reeeder will de-
liver his temperance lecture, "The
Curse and the Cure" This will be a
union temperance meeting and all are
invited to attend.
For SALB-One hundred acres in Eden
township, fair improvements, near
school house. $4,000 cash. part or all on
three years time per cent on deferred
payments purchaser giving ample
security. Address me at Leon, Iowa,
or call at farm l. miles east of Blockly.
W. j. SMITH.
The ladies of the NJ. E. church will
give their annual chicken pie dinner on
Tuesday, Nov. IA, and supper the same
day in the vacant room in the North
Hotel building. The delegates attend
ing the district convention of the
Woman's Relief Corps on this day will
be entertained at this dinner and sup
per. Everybody is cordially invited to
come and get good dinner and supper
Only % cents.
The International Live Stock EXPOSE
ton at Chicago is postponed until the
week OF December Is to % through the
inability of the builders of the new
ampitheatrc to secure the structural
steel in time. All events pertaining to
the Exposition will be held on DAYS of
week corresponding to those arranged
the previously advertised week. This
change in date will no doubt make the
attendance a great deal easier to a
number of people who could not leave
home for the earlier date.
Mr.. IL. w. Spargur. of Hamilton town
ship, and Miss Vessie Kizzire, of Burrell
township, were married by Justice
Frank Cox, at his residence in Eden
township on last Sunday evening.
After the ceremony the happy couple
returned to the home of the brides
parents, where wedding supper was
served. They will go to housekeeping
at once on the groom's farm in Hamilton
township. That no clouds may ever
darken their horizon without silver
lining is the wish of their MANY friends.
The express companies doing business
in Iowa have just made new order
which is causing great deal of kicking
from liquor dealers doing business
i'll Iowa, and also from many Of their
patrons. The new order is very
stringent one, and says that the mulct
law must be strictly observed, and
no more liquor will be accepted from
any dealer in Iowa to be delivered bv
express to any person in Iowa unless
he has regular permit to handle
liquor. Now if the railroads would also
issue similar order it would 20 much
toward putting stop to the traffic in
this state.
A dispatch sent out from Washing
ton, D. c., says: Paul V. Keyser, who
was yesterday appointed second assis-
tant attorney general for the postot1ce,
is only "A years DID, and is the youngest
man that ever filled that position,
Keyser's home is at Atlantic, la. He
entered the government service four
years ago at the bottom of the ladder
as a clerk. Last July he was promoted
to be law clerk and displayed such
marked keenness and ability and grasp
of legal matters that when the vacancy