The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-01-12

Eden township last Saturday morning.
Mother and daughter are both getting
along nicely.
City Marshal W. H. Albaugh has been
feeling quite poorly recently and is TAX
ing a two weeks rest from his official
duties, ex-marshal A. M. Pryor ofliciat
ing in his place.
There will be no scarcity Of ice in
Leon next summer, for iceman Roe
Caster commenced Tuesday to fill his
big ice house from his lake. The ice is
about twelve inches thick.
The Centerville Citizen says stock
shippers along that branch Of the Q
now have to accompany their stock only
as far as Burlington, and can ride the
rest of the way to Chicago on a passen-
ger train, as we'll as all the way back.
Rural route examiner Chas. S. Bryson,
of st. Louis, was in Leon the first Of the
week going over routes 3 and a, on
which petitions have been filed asking
for some minor changes in the routes.
The examiner will report his findings to
the department at Washington who will
decide in regard to the proposed
changes.
Ed Scott, of Des Moines, the well
sol who fnpp,nnly pa1n
this city regularly for Taft & Co., was
in Leon last Thursday, being on his way
to GAINESVILLE, where he was called to
attend the funeral of his father, Uncle
Charley Scott, who died at his home in
Albany on Wednesday at the advanced
age Of IS years.
A telegram was received last Wednes-
day afternoon from Rev. L. B. Wicker
sham, who was billed to fill the last
number of the Leon Library Course
with lecture at the opera hall that
evening, saying his train was eight
hours late at Kansas City and it would
be impossible for him to reach Leon.
The date will probably be filled some
time in March.
The Memphis, Tenn, Commercial-Ap-
peal recently offered prize of $500 to
the person who came the nearest guess
ing the total number of papers which
that paper published on a certain date,
ant. tire
Maud Young, whose guess was 5O,455,
while the correct number was 50,459.
Mrs. Young is we'll known in Leon, be-
ing the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. I. Ii.
Schenck of this city.
J. W.Wadley, a farmer 36 years of age,
residing near Lamont, was examined
last Friday by the insane commission
and adjudged insane. He first manifest
ed symptoms of insanity about four
years ago and the disease has been
gradually increasing, Mr.. Wadley mag
lining that persons were trying to break
up his home and kill him by electricity.
Deputy sheriff Ira Wallace took him to
the insane hospital at Clarinda for
treatment on Saturday.
In making up his yearly statement OF
the passenger business done at the Leon
station, agent G. M. Ketcham discovered
q curious incident when he compared
the local business at this station for the
months of December in the years 1908
and 1904, there being just $1.53 differ.
snce. In December 1908 the ticket
sales were $1,056.O9, and in December
of 1904 hey were s1,057.62. We doubt
whether there is another station on the
whole Burlington system where the
sales were as near the same.
THE REPORTER is exceedingly proud
of it's big subscription list, printing
more than six hundred papers each
week more than any paper published il
Decatur county, the total number O
papers printed each week lacking less
than 100 of being $500 copies. Adver
tisers are most cordially invited to WISH
the REPORTER press room and see the
enormous pile of papers which are
printed each week. The REPORTER en-
Joys one of the largest calculations O
any weekly paper published in the stat,
of Iowa.
One of Icons progressive business
firms has an advertisement of more thai
usual interest this week, which it viii
pay all our readers to carefully persue
In their advertisement comparison o
prices is made on prices of regular
goods carried in their stock with tn,
same goods priced in one of the big
Chicago mail order houses, and the same
goods can be purchased right here iron
the home merchants at less prices thai
the Chicago mail order house asks fo
them and the buyer has the freight II
pay in addition. This is only ont
sample, and we believe that in nearl,
every instance goods of the sam,