The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-11-16

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Velie Buggies.
| You will miss great literary treat if
you fail to hear DR.. John p. ID. Johns
lecture at the opera house Friday even
ing.
WANTED 100 head of stock to feed on
pasture and stock fields. Will furnish
hay. 7tf. w. e. SnINN.
Does advertising pay? You would
think so if you could see the number of
wall paper customers at w. G. Stempel &
Co.'S 20 per cent reduction sale. Adj
yertising brought them.
While the subject of DR.. Johns
lecture for Friday evening has not been
announced, any one of the five which he
is delivering this season are worth
going miles to hear. Get seats at Van
Werdens.
Harl Williamson, rural mail carrier on
route No. 2, is warm advocate Of the
road drag. He says the farmers along a
good part of his route are using the
drag and the road has been in excellent
shape all summer.
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church next Sunday morning at II
o'clock, by Rev. Jas. Armstrong, the new
pastor. Sunday School at $3.50 a. M.
Rev. Armstrong will use his Crap
Ophone to amuSe the children at Sun
day School.
Mrs. q. J. Sankey has been i'll for a
couple OF weeks and last Saturday she
had sinking spell which required the
services of two physicians for several
hours to revive her. Her trouble is
with her heart, and while she is some
what improved, her condition is still
quite serious.
A series of temperance meetings will
be held at the Baptist church in Leon
all next week, commencing on Sunday
evening, conducted by Rev. G. w. Reed
err. The meetings will begin each eve
ming at 1880 o'clock and cordial invi-
tation is extended to everybody inter-
ested in the temperance cause.
Rural Mail carrier VIM. Perdew on
route No. says he has one mile of ex-
cellent road on his route the result
of continued dragging of the roads. j.
E. Macy and w. H. Metz have each
boen dragging half mile of road all
summer and Billy says he can always
trot his team over this mile. 1t is to be
hoped that other neighbors of Messrs.
Macy and Metz will take up the road
drag.
Elsewhere in this issue appears a
notice of the Decatur County Farmers
Institute and Teachers Meeting to be
held at Garden Grove Dec. IA, Is and
1G. AS this is to be one of the best
educational meetings that has ever
been held in Decatur county, county
superintendent Eli Hutchinson will ask
all school boards whose teachers will
attend the meeting, to give the teachers
Friday and if possible both Thursday
and Friday so they can attend.
On last Thursday, Miss Dora, the
daughter of MIR. w. b. Hamilton. a
former well known resident of this
county, now living at Pomona, Mo-,
while temporarily insane, attempted to
commit suicide by shooting herself
with a shotgun, but her aim was not
good and the charge tore off her left
arm at the shoulder, so that it had to be
amputated The young lady is about
IS years Of age, and has been in poor
health until her mind became affected.
The annual convention of the W. r. G.
of the Seventh district was held in this
city on Tuesday. The district embraces
seven counties, Appanoose, Lucas,
Wayne, Decatur, Union, Adams and
Taylor, in which are 20 Corps, and every
county was represented by delegates,
there being 10 present aside from the
local members who were out in full
force. Department President, Mrs.
Elnora J. Hawk, of Colfax, was present
and presided over the convention. All
of the visiting delegates were entertain
ed at the chicken pie dinner and supper
given by the M. E. church ladies. A
full report of the convention will be
published next week.
The Greenfield Democrat has the fol-
lowing to say about Rev. James A. Arm