The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-06-01

ciefk aU Tile uepoG during UHe absence
of Fred Pierson went to Ottumwa Fri
day to be assigned to another station.
Mrs. M. G. Mullin returned Monday.
to her home near Weldon after visiting
for few days at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Frank Hickman east of town.
Pearl Craig returned Friday evening
from Diagonal, where he had been for a
month clerking in the store of L. P.
Jordan who moved his stock from this
city.
Mrs. w. H. McCalla, of Eden town
ship, went to MonteZuma, Iowa, last
Friday for short visit with relatives
and old friends, that being her former
home
Fred Pierson, freight clerk at the
Burlington depot returned last Thurs
day from a fifteen day vacation which
he spent visiting various parts Of Col
orado.
Mrs. Johnson Hoffman left Friday
evening for Wapello, Iowa, where she
will visit for couple of weeks at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Carrie
Drake.
Miss Laura Leonard who spent the
winter with relatives at Cripple Creek,
Colo, returned to Leon Sunday and is
visiting at the home of her. uncle Less
jenkins.
Mrs. Cora Fithian and two sons, of
ST. Paul, Mimi, are expected this week
| for a visit of several weeks in this city
at the home other sister, Mrs. Marion
r. Stookey.
Mrs. E. J. Upton and granddaughter,
Fay Millen, of Albany, Mo-, returned
home Saturday after weeks visit at
the home of her sister, Mrs. James
Howell, north of Leon.
Mrs. j. l. Trisler returned Thursday
to her home at Garden Grove having
been called here by the serious illness
Of her sister, Mrs. Willis Frost, who
lives just east of Leon.
Miss Helen H. Young who has been
here visiting her sister, Mrs. w. w
Warner, for several months, went to
Chicago Friday evening and will spend
the summer in that city.
Miss Grace Mckinley, of Ravana, Mo-.
one of the teachers in the Princeton
public schools, arrived last Thursday
for visit in this city at the home of
her uncle Robert Bowsher.
Mrs. j. A. Caster left Wednesday
afternoon for a weeks visit at the home
of her brother, George Brown at Sayan-
nah, ILL.,, and will also spend few days
in Chicago before returning home.
Mrs. Mary Brown, of Pleasanton, who
was visiting at the home of of her sister
Mrs. j. B. Newlin in this city, went te
Decatur City Tuesday to attend to
some business matters in that city.
Mrs. George w. LaFollette left Satur.
day for Fit. Madison where she expects
to visit for several weeks at the home
of her son Henry LaFollett, who is EN-.
ployed as guard at the state peniten-
tiary..
Mrs. Rose Parneli, of Chicago, who
has been visiting her father, s. l.. WOOD
at Davis City, stopped off here last Fri
day and visited a few days at the home
of G. Nj. ketcham, being on her way tc
Chicago. :,
A. A. Chapman who has been filling
the position of operator at the Leor
|station for couple of weeks went tt
Ridgeway, Mo-, last Thursday to take
charge of the station at chat place for a
few days.
Mrs. A. Swearingen, of Corpus Christi
Texas, who was called here to bury hel
husband, left Friday for Indianola
where she will visit few weeks will
relatives before returning to her home
in Texas.
j Mrs. Sadie Hefner, Of st. Louis, ar
rived in Leon last Thursday and is
visiting for few days at the home O.
her sister, Mrs. J. S. Ryan in north Leon
being on her way to visit with relative!
in Nebraska.
| Miss Mayme Sporleder, of Lamont, wa
an over Sunday visitor at the home o.
Mrs. Fred Teale in this city, and de
lighted the congregation at the M.
church Sunday evening by singing ;
beautiful solo.
| B. O. Springer and wife departed yes
terday for Manhattan, Kas., where the,
will visit few weeks and then go tt
Portland, Oregon, for an extended visit
They do not expect to return to Leol
until the first of December.
Alva Markham, the we'll known
harnessmaker who formerly resided il
this city, was visiting with Leon friend
the latter part of last week, being OF
his way to Cofeyburg, Mo-, where h,
has good situation in a harness shop
Evangelist o. E. Hamilton and hi
singer, Prof. ]. P. Garmong, who have
been conducting a series of meeting
at Weldon, were visiting at the hom'
of Mr.. Hamilton's grandfather, JOSEPH
Hamilton, in this city last Friday
being on their way to their homes il
Des Moines.
) The most attractive eastern excursion
during the coming summer, will be t.
Ashbury Park, N. Y, on occasion of tn
annual meeting of National Educationa
Association, July 3rd to 9TH, inclusive