The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-11-02
velie Buggies.

yelie Buggies.
man with a family wants work on
farm with tenant house. Hit
E. r. WALTERS, Leon, Iowa.
We will pay Chicago prices for milk
Bring in your milk and get the highest
price paid by any creamery i'll southern
Iowa. LEON CREAMERY CO.
Regular services at the Christian
church next Sunday by the new pastor
Rev. ID. +. Sellards. A cordial invita-
ton is extended to all to attend.
j. H. Funk, Van Vert, Ben Dobson,
Decatur, A. A. Burchett, Westerville, all
came to Leon and bought new Charter
Oak wagon of Bowsher q BowSher.
For SALE-A few good male pigs,
White and Silver Laced Wyandotts,
Light Brahmas and Barred Plymouth
Rock chickens. SIMON GOODMAN, Leon,
Iowa, r. i. ID. 4. 11-2t*
A little baby boy of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hamilton, Of Davis City, died Sun
day, it's death being caused from a
growth on it's neck which choked it to
death.
Geo. 7. Ogilvie will sell at public sale
at his farm 2 miles northeast of Decatur
City on Thursday, November 8, 1905, 4s
head of registered and high grade Short
Horn cattle, cows, heifers, bulls and
calves, II head of horses, 80 hogs, and
farm implements of all kinds.
A little daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. l.. jackson Sunday morning,
but JOY was turned to grief on Monday
when the little one passed away. The
many friends of MIR. and Mrs. jackson
extend their heartfelt sympathy in
their second bereavement.
The High School foot ball team went
to Humeston last Saturday and were
defeated by the Humeston High School
team, it being their first defeat this
season. Our boys claim that Humeston
ran in several players who we're grown
men, and their team was much the
heavier.
The proposed court house tax will add
but a few cents to the tax of the ordi-
nary taxpayer, and the benefits every
citizen of Decatur county will receive
from having safe place to keep the
public records is worth great deal
more than the amount of tax any person
will have to pay.
VIM. Asbach, of Davis City, is the
pOssessor of probably the Oldest bible
in Decatur county, the book having
been printed at Cologne, France, in the
year 1880. He promised to bring it tc
The REPORTER Office so that any who
are Interested in old books may have al
opportunity to see it.
Every man who is interested in the
welfare and prosperity of Decatur
county should make it his duty to ge
+ out to the polls next Tuesday and thel
see that his neighbors do the same
I Decatur county should have new
court house and not stay away behint
the times with the only old shack of
S court house in southern Iowa.
y Mrs. Belle Gunter, of south Leon, wa
, brought before the insane commissioners
last Saturday and ordered taken to tn
insane hospital for treatment. For sew
o eral weeks the neighbors have notices
h that Mrs. Gunter was acting strangely
r and her condition continued to groS
Il worse uuUll IL was uGCcSSdfy W pldC
i her under restraint. She was taken t
Clarinda Saturday afternoon by deput
sheriff Ira Wallace and Mrs. G. NJ
e Sutherlin.
d Thompson & Warner announced tn
:. first Of October that they would Civ
" prize of $500 dollars in gold to tn
child who returned to their store tn
greatest amount of cash sale ticket
IS during the month Of October. Tn
IS contest closed Tuesday evening an
d Miss Oneta Pickering of Leon won TIL
h prize with $4S5.34 worth of ticket
r There were quite number of contest
e ants and considerable interest wa
taken in the contest.
Mrs. Henry Hauenstein, of Gran
!. River, a sister of the Benefiel boys {
. this city, died at the home of her daugi
. ter, Mrs. A. ]. Biddle, in ST. Louis, o
y last Thursday, where she had gone an
~ had an operation for gall stones perform
y ed few weeks ago. Her remains wei
brought to Grand River for intermen
the funeral being held on Saturday
= She is survived by a husband and min
~ children. A fitting obituary will /
!" published next week.
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