The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-08-23
CORRESPONDENCE.
Grand River.

"A new ceuleuG Walk mas Deen put III
at the Methodist church and Griffin has
a fine one completed around his down
town property. The town has. put in
several crossings, which were much
need.
JIG. Brothers and w. Fl. Shields are
visiting in Minnesota.
Mrs. Sarah Arnold, of Henderson, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. r. w.
Boeger.
Vern Beck fell and hurt his hand on
a nail last week which caused much
pain but he is around again.
II. G. Bone has sold his residence
property to Blair Brenneman, who will
take possession about September 1st.
Mrs. Chas. Edwards and children of
Osceola, are visiting her sister Mrs. P.
H. Griffin this week.
Many of our Yeomen were at Van
Vert last Thursday at the picnic given
by the Yeomen.
G. W. Drake has purchased the stock
of goods at Westerville OF Harry Ham
mond and will take possession as soon
as they are invoiced.
County Attorney Kelly was here last
week looking after official business.
Alex Keller is threshing again. He is
good hand at the work.
Pat Griffin made business trip to
Minnesota to look after the land inter
ests of Silas Tesky.
The ladies of the Baptist church gave
an ice cream social Saturday for the
benefit of the church.
Carrick Bradshaw, George Riggs,
Cliff Shaw, Schuyler Young and others
will leave for North Dakota with view
of locating. We hope they will get
choice farm.
]. w. Burkhart and sister are home
visiting their mother.
Ackerley Mercantile Co. and Coving-
ton & Armstrong have put in safety
gasoline lighting plant in their stores.
The light is a good one and is almost
equal to daylight.
W. G. Overholtzer and Us. Davidson
had business at Leon last week.
]. f. Scott put a new roof on H. w.
Drews house.
R. W. Boeger has several fine farms
for sale cheap. See him if you want
good land as you cannot beat Decatur
county as an Iowa farm.
T. P. Taylor is limping yet as result
OF falling off load of hay two weeks
ago.
G. A. Boyd sold fine car Of steers to
VIM. Bronson last week for 81 cents a
pound bringing him over $1,400. Curt
has younger bunch which he will be-
begin feeding soon.
Frank Boyd has eighteen fine steers
which he has began feeding. They
average 400 pound each and are all
black.
Corn looks we'll all over the state
with plenty of rain in most places.
Miss Jessie Brenneman and brother
Lee, of Charlton, are visiting at their
cousins home here, Mr.. and Mrs. Blair
Brenneman.
The state fair is going to be we'll
attended from here by the way our peo-
pie are fixing to attend.
Miss Ethel Edwards returned from
two weeks visit at Indianola.
Tod Ackerley left last week for
months visit in Wisconsin where he has
relatives.
Mrs. Dovie Berry was an over Sunday
visitor at Beaconsfeld.
Our farmers are getting good prices
for timothy seed and much has been
threshed.
W. B. Cox was at Hopeville Sunday
to fill his regular appointment.
J. H. Edwards filled the Baptist pulpit
Sunday morning and evening.
Miss Della Fuqua is staying with Mrs.
Nancy Brannaman while Mrs. Berry is |
absent.
G. H. Chapman was over to Van Vert |
to the Woman Picnic. He makes one
of the best Black knights the local |
homestead over had. Little did Sir
Walter Scott dream when he was writ |
ing Ivanhoe that one of the greatest
societies the world ever
saw would be founded on his work. |
Little did he dream that the characters
he represented in his great historical
novel were destined to appear in the
new world in a gle 1t secret society that |
would benefit thousands of widows and |
orphans and relieve them from debt as |
did the visiting of Ivanhoe, England's |
best historical novelist, ana endear his |
name to millions then unborn. No one
knows where ones good work ends. The
good lives long after it's promoters
have departed this life, while their
mistakes are soon forgotten by char
table world.
E. L. Armstrong left on business last