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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-26
r. F. D. No. 3.

Mrs. Fred Smith, of Blockley, is i'm
proving nicely from an operation which
she submitted to recently.
Green Stanton and Henry Underwood
are harvesting with S. P. Hoover.
Wheat is making from Is to 80 bushels
to the acre, and oats about the same.
Some one who believes in getting
revenge after night poured coal oil in
H. Rookstools we'll.
James Parker was an over Sunday
visitor at Gene Lewis.
j. NJ. Shawhan returned Monday from
Shenandoah.
c. c. Still and Oneal Wheeler are go
ing with Manchester Bros. threshing.
George Rogers was the first man on
the ridge to finish harvesting.
Mrs. Lyde Fulton was an over Sunday
visitor at the home of A. Fulton.
The young folks enjoyed pleasant
evening at E. Houshs Tuesday.
George Stevens and Fred Jones were
business callers at Squire Frank Cox's
Monday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-26
Salem.

Laura Waller returned Sunday from a
visit with friends near Leon.
Steve Marble and Lulu Hubbard at
tended the carnival at Leon SATURDAY..
D. P. Cowles was threshing in these
parts last week.
Geo. Blakesley was helping Charley
Campbell with his harvesting.
Mona and Earl Still visited Julia and
Lee Horney Sunday.
Johnny Monroe was seen on his way
to Leon Sunday.
Walter Moore called on his best girl
Sunday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-26
Tuskeego.

We had a nice rain last Thursday.
Mrs. G. R. Percy is on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Rhodes visited
with Lee Moulton and wife Sunday.
Mrs. Jennie Poush, of Kansas, is visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Moore.
Mr.. c. T. McNiells sundayed at W.
NJ. Piercy's.
Roe Ashburn returned home after a
short stay at Valentine, Neb. He
reports fine crops there.
Miss Fay Rhodes spent Sunday with
Misses Fern and Bessie Null.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stafford called at Nile
Jackson's Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Huntley's are moving to a farm
south of here owned by Mr.. Moulton.
Mrs. Whittier will move in the house
vacated by them.
Mrs. Foster, of New Hampton, Mo-,
is visiting her daughters, Mrs. jackson
and Mrs. Fesler.
Owen McNieli took dinner Sunday
with Everett Payton.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-26
Make Success of your Talents.

The opportunity Of your life is await
ing in the new towns on the Chicago
Great Western Railway. Openings in
nearly all lines of business. Write to-
day to E. B. Magill, Mgr, Townsite
Department, Omaha, for full information
and copy Of "Town Talk" Sept. 10.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-26

Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum sets
you crazy. Can't bear the touch of
your clothing. Doan's ointment cures
the most obstinate cases. Why suffer.
All druggists sell it.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-26

Sound kidneys are safeguards of life.
Make the kidneys healthy with Foley's
Kidney Cure. L. P. Van Werden.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-26

For SALE OR RENT--A good 12O acre
farm also 200 acres of pasture, 4 mile
northwest of Van Vert.
ACKERLY & SHIELDS,
Grand River, Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-26
E. 3. S. News,

Fred Wiley made his regular call at
the Straight home Sunday.
Roy Brown and best girl attended
church at Tuskeego Sunday night.
The young folks that spent Sunday
at Gentry's were Misses Virgie Crevei-
ing, Sadie Deveries, Mabel Wills,
Messrs Oscar Wills, Otis Creveling and
Dusky Creveling.
Sunday school was not we'll attended
Sunday on account Of the picnic.
Chas. Payton and Willis Wion and
best girls We're trying the good roads
Sunday evening.
Give Straight spent Sunday evening
with John Wiley.
Eva Wion made business trip to
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-26

Can't look we'll, eat we'll or feel we'll
with impure blood feeding your body.
keep the blood pure with Burdock
Blood Bitters. Eat simply, take exer-
else, keep clean and you will have long
life.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-26
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets
Druggists refund money If it fails to cure E. W.
GROVES signature is on each box. Csc
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-07-26

"My child was burned terribly about
the face, neck and chest. applied DR..
Thomas Electric Oil. The pain ceased
and the child sank into restful Sleep"
Mrs. Nancy NJ. Hanson, Hamburg, N. Y.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21

think the day Of judgment has arrived.
Give me a club"
The leader handed pa an ak handle,
and when we looked ahead towards the
corral where the rabbits had been
driven, it seemed as though there were
million of them, and they were
! .mping over each other so it looked
as though there was a snow bank of
rabbits four feet thick When pa said
he was ready fellow sounded bugle,
md pas pony started off ON the jump
for the corral, and all the other horses
started, and everybody yelled, but they
held back their horses so pa could have
the whole field to himself.
Gee, but l was sorry for pa. His
horse rushed right INTO the corral
amongst the rabbits, and when it got
right where the rabbits were the thick
est, the darn horse began to buck, and
+ossed pa in the air just as though he
had been thrown up in a blanket, and
he came down on a soft bed of strug-
Cling and scared rabbits, and the other
horsemen stopped at the edge of the
corral and watched pa, and I got off
my horse and climbed up on a post of
the corral and tried to pick out pa.
Then all the hundred or more dogs
were let loose in amongst pa and the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21

of buffalo for the cowboys and Indians
to chase around the wild west show.
/ couldn't do anything with pa, so
we stayed at that town until pa got
good and ready to go home. He bucked
the faro bank some, but the gamblers
soon found he had so much money
that he could break any bank, so they
closed up their lay-outs and began to
sell pa mining stock in mines which
were fabulously rich if they only had
money to develop them. They sailed
some mines near town for pa to ex-
anime, and when he found that they
contained gold enough in every shovel
full of dirt to make a man crazy, he
bought a whole lot of stock, and then
the gamblers entertained pa for all
that was out.
They got up dances ara fandangos,
and pa was it, sure, and 1 was proud
OF him, cause he did not lose his heat.
He just acted dignified, and they
thought they were entertaining dis
tinguished man. Everything would
have gone all right, and we would have
got out with honor, if it hadn't been
for the annual rabbit drive that came
of while we were there. Part of the
country is irrigated. and good crops
are grown, but the iackrabbits are so
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21

backed in the circus, and gone into
lions dens, and been married, and he
guessed he was not going to show the
white feather chasing jackrabbits.
They could sound the bugle charge as
soon as they got ready, and they would
find him in the game till the curtain
was rung down.
That was what they wanted pa to
say, so, as pas horse was tired, they
suggested that he get on to fresh
horse, and pa said all right, they
couldn't get horse too fresh for him,
and he got on to a spunky pony, and
l noticed that there was no bit in the
ponys mouth, but only rope around
the pony's nose, and l was afraid some
thing would happen to pa. l told him
he and better dismount, and climb a
mesquite tree and watch the fun from
a safe place.
Pa said: ''Not on your life; your pa
is going right amongst the big game,
and is going to make those rabbits
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget Gathered by Our Special Cores
pendent at Madison.

Madison.-The largest railroads
of the state are to be given
another chance" to show that a
two-cent fare would be disastrous.
supplementary hearings will be
granted by the railroad rate COM
mission. While continued COR
respondence has been carried on with
the roads relative to these rates, de-
tails have arisen which will ultimately
mean that additional hearings must be
granted. No definite time has been
set as to when the hearings will take
place, but it will follow after the COM
missioners have made a thorough in
vestigation of the matter The two
cent rate in Wisconsin involves mil
lions of dollars and will be probably
months before the commission will
have an opportunity to have sifted the
statistics to come to a final decision.
From the present outlook only the
larger roads will be asked to appear
again. The points upon which the
commission are undecided and which
the railroads will be asked to answer
will be formulated questions prepared
by the. commission. The rate COM
mission has under consideration at
this time the grain rates in wisconsin
and the cheese rates in the southwest
ern part of the state.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
He Surprised Eliza.

A story is going the rounds of the
territory press of farmer, living
few miles from Henryetta, who wore
his old suit until everybody was tired
of it, and his estimable wife was al
most ashamed Of him. But one day,
when selling produce in town, he de-
termined to buy new suit, and
happy thought struck him. He would
surprise Eliza. So he bundled a new
suit into the wagon, hurried toward
home, and at the bridge, two miles
from town, he stood up in the wagon
and peeled" and threw the despised
old suit into the creek. Then he
reached for his new clothes. They
were gone-had jolted out Of the wag-
on! The night was cold, and his
teeth chartered as he scurried for
home. He surprised Eliza even more
than he anticipated City
Journal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
Fashionable Eyebrows.

In private life it is considered objec-
tionable.
Nowadays a woman's eyebrows
should be natural. They must be
slightly curved, soft and fine, and the
hair must be lustrous and satiny. They
must not be too long nor must they be
rough.
There is beauty doctor in London
who works upon the eyebrows with
out the electric needle. If they are too
heavy or too long, too bushy over The
eyes, or struggling, he pulls out the
hairs with tweezers and Immediately
paints the spot with weak ammonia.
1t must be done carefully, because am
monia kills the hair
Here are the latest eyebrow rules:
The eyebrows should be lifted as high
as possible without wrinkling the fore
head.
The brows should be slightly darker
than the hair, but should not be PEN
ciled. 1t is allowable to stain then,
but never to use the pencil.
Knitting the brows should be avoid
ed; it is unbecoming, it makes the
brows look heavy and ugly, and 1t
makes wrinkles between the eyes and
over the nose.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
"Mammy" Wouldn't Tell.

On his native heath down in "Ole
Virginy'' there is nothing the average
darby resents SO vigorously as i'm
pertinence on the part of one Of the
race. A regular 60 de-wah nanny"
known by young and old as "Aunt
Prudy,'' was toiling up a long hill near
her cabin home with a huge basket of
clothes on her head, when she was
stopped by little pickaninny sitting
on the fence who yelled in a shrill
voice: 'Whar yuh goin', Aunt Prudy?"
Aunt Prudy turned slowly, and, with
frown tos make a statue thrill, thus
addressed the little negro: Use gwine
whar Use gwine, OATS whar Use gwine.
Yellah brat a-sittin' on de fence AKIN
me whar Use gwine! Use gwine whar
Use gwine, OATS whar Use gwine, an
doan yuh axe me no mo- whar Use
gwi1e, kase / amt gwine to tell
youh!"-Baltimore Sun.
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confederate money, when he found
that there was only one bundle Of con-
federate money, and the rest was all
good greenbacks, the bundle Of con-
federate money probably having been
shipped west to some museum, and the
robbers having got hold of it in the
dark, brought it along. Pa burned
up the bad money at the hotel, and
then he got stuck on the town, and
said he would stay there few days
and rest up, and incidentally break
few faro banks, by a system, the way
the smart alexis break the bank at
Monte Carlo.
leased pa to take the first train for
home, so we could join the circus be-
fore it closed the season, and he could
report to the managers the result of
his business trip to the west, but pa
said he had heard of a man who had a
herd Of buffalo on ranch not far from
that town, and before he returned to
the show he was going to buy a herd
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
Smart Afternoon Dress.
A Charming and Picturesque Co.'S
tune This, One of the Prettiest
That Have Appeared.

This is very charming dress in
Empire style; it has a plain, short
bodice. to which the skirt is set in
gathers. The foot is trimmed with
three shaped founces put on with
curved ends terminating each side the
center front.
The bolero is little full on the
bust, the fulness being gathered into
the strap that goes all round the edge.
1t is ornamented with two buttons.
From under the fronts of bolero come
the fronts of vest of broche fas-
tened by buttons. The pulled elbow
sleeves are finished by two hem
stitched cambria frills, and are orna-
mented with buttons.
Materials required for the dress:
Eight yards As inches wide, one-half
yard brocade for vest, nine small but
tons, eight larger size, two yards lin
ing silk, six yards frilling.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
University Summer Session.

University Summer Session.
The Appointment of Prof. John H.
Latane, of Washington and Lee uni
versity, Virginia, as professor of po-
litical science in the summer session,
completes the arrangement for the
eighth summer session of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin to be held June
25 to August 4. Prof. Latane, who is
distinguished student of American
diplomacy, fills the vacancy caused by
the appointment of Prof. Paul S.
Reinsch as delegate to the third Pan
American conference at Rio, position
which will occupy Prof. Reinsch dur
ing the entire summer The courses
offered by Prof. Latane include a
series of lectures on the larger prob
lens Of diplomacy, including timely
subjects as "The Hague Court and the
Worlds Peace Movements" Chinese
Exclusion and Trade Relations, -
''Forcible Collection of International
Debts" and ''The Present Status of the
Monroe Doctrine"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
SOME SUGGESTIONS THAT MAY
PROVE OF HELP.
The First Year Comes the Cotton
Wedding-May Be Made Gay
Affair-Some Astrologi-
cal Lore.
The "Cotton'' Wedding.


One year of welded life brings the
Cotton" anniversary, and it may
be made most attractive affair. So
soon after the original ceremony it will
probably not be a difficult matter to
arrange for a reunion OF the bridal
party, and this alone will make the
occasion a memorable one. Send the
invitations on squares of fine cotton
cloth written with indelible ink.
Decorate the rooms with vines, plants
and branches. Over these put guam
tity of fluffy cotton flakes. Portieres
and window Grapes are effective made
from strips of white cotton. If cards
are to be the amusement, Hearts is
a good game, and there are so many
articles in the shape Of hearts which
will make appropriate souvenirs and
prizes. The dining-room table may he
covered with thin layers of cotton in
stead of a linen cover. At each place
put cotton SNOWFALL tied with ribbon,
the name card tucked under the bow.
Inside the ball put a tiny souvenir.
The center-piece should be jardiniere
wrapped with cotton and filled with
the kind of flowers that were used at
the event Of year ago.
There should be a wedding cake con-
tanning a ring, piece of money and a
thimble; all young people know the
meaning of these symbols, and there
will be jolly time when the bride
cuts the cake. Have the ice cream
frozen in balls, tied with ribbons of
spun sugar candy of the color used at
the original wedding supper.
The gifts to be given the happy pair
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
INCLINED TO FRECRLE.

The best the girl with freckles can
hope to do is to keep them faded,
that they do not show so much; she
cannot remove them; If she take the
skin of the new skin is soon very
much worse than the old, being SO ten
der that it is the more easily affected
by the rays of light.
A very present help in keeping
freckles faded out is to always wear a
yellow veil; there is something in the
chemical change in the rays passing
through the yellow chiffon that keeps
them from affecting the cuticle. And
another help is to plaster her face
with cold cream and powder beneath
the veil when going into the light and
heat out OF doors in summer.
Then she should not wash with soap,
but use the bran bags and almond meal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21

numerous that they come In off the
plains adjoining the green spots, at
night, and eat everything in sight, so
once year the people get up rabbit
drive and go out in the night by the
hundred, on horseback, and surround
the country for ten miles or so, and at
daylight ride along towards corral,
where thousands of rabbits are driven
in and slaughtered with clubs. The
men ride close together, with dogs,
and no guilty rabbit can escape.
Pa thought it would be picnic. and
SO we went along, but pa wishes that he
had let well enough alone and kept out
OF the rabbit game. Those natives are
full of fun, and on these rabbit drives
they always pick out some man to
have fun with, and they picked out pa
as the victim. We rode along for
couple of hours, flushing rabbits by the
dozen, and they would run along ahead
of us, and multiply, so that when the
corral was in sight ahead the prairie
was alive with long cared animals, SO
the earth seemed to be moving, and 1t
almost made a man dizzy to look at
them.
The hundreds of men on horseback
had come in close together from all
sides, and when we were within half
mile of the corral the crowd stopped
at signal, and the leader told pa that
now was the time to make a cavalry
charge on the rabbits, and he asked pa
if ne was afraid and wanted to go
back, and pa said he had been a SOL
der and charged the enemy; had been
a politician and had fought in hot
campaigns; had hunted tigers and
lions in the jungle, and rode bare
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
Concerning Gloves.

slightly shorter. and need not rise
higher than the elbow, for, although
day gowns are worn with short sleeves
this season, they are of necessity long
er than those worn in the evening.
CLEANING WHITE KID.-You can
clean white kid gloves at home by this
process: Place the glove, in a small
basin, and pour over just enough ben
zoline to cover, set a plate over the
basin, SO as to prevent the spirit evap-
Grating, and let the glove soak for five
minutes. Have thick cloth ready on
the table and a piece of clean flannel,
take the glove out of the basin, let it
drip little, set it on the cloth, and
wipe it with the flannel, changing the
surface constantly as it is soiled. The
glove must not be rubbed too hard or
the surface will be spoiled. When the
glove is quite clean, blow into it to
initiate it and hang in the shade in a
draught.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
To-Day Liking Is for Delicately Pen
ciled Brows Rather Than Heavy
Ones Of Former Days.

Fashions in eyebrows change and
the eyebrow of to-day is not the eye
brow Of yesterday. The latest brow
is delicate and slightly uplifted. There
is in it the almost querulous express
sion which one notes in the portraits
of the old-time beauties.
The worst eyebrows in the world
from the standpoint of beauty are the
heavy furry eyebrows. Yet there was
time when even these were consid-
cred pretty.
When queens reigned in Russia the
big black eyebrow was the thing, and
the beauties of those days used to pen
Gil the brows heavily to make them
dark and threatening. In those days it
was considered mark of aristocracy
to have a heavy line running across
the forehead-a heavy black furry line.
Until very lately women penciled
their brows, and the eyebrow pencil
is, of course, a necessity on the stage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
University Newspaper Course.

University Newspaper Course.
The training of students for news
paper work is a new field of activity
which the University of Wisconsin
has entered upon during the past year,
and which is to be developed and eX-
tended next year. While there have
always been a number Of students in
the university preparing for journal
istic work, no particular provision
has been made for giving them prac-
tical training in the details of news
paper work until the beginning of the
present year. At that time course
in newspaper writing was offered in
the English department, and was elect
ed by some 80 students interested in
journalism. AS result of the enthu-
siasm manifested in this new work, a
University Press club was organized
with membership Of so. For next
year a four-years' course has been out
lined for students preparing them
selves for a journalistic career.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
A Pretty Design for Evening Glove,
Afternoon and Evening Lengths
White Ones in Fashion.

A PRETTY DESIGN.-One of the
prettiest styles of elbow-gloves yet
shown is de1icately shaded at the top
an almost imperceptible mauve, with a
slightly and Indefinitely
traced pattern upon it of lilies of the
valley or ivy leaves. Bas-relief pat
terms Of the same indefinite and pic
turesque nature appear on the upper
arm Of white gloves, shaded faint
shell-pink or a faint sea-green.
STYLES TO WEAR.-Except for
mourning wear, white gloves are worn
upon all smart occasions. For even
ing wear the glove must rise beyond
the elbow and meet the short evening
sleeve more than halfway up to the
shoulder. For day wear the gloves are
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21

Well, we are on the way back home,
after having engaged Indians, cowboys,
rough riders and highway robbers to
join our show for next season. Pa
felt real young and kitteny when we
came to the railroad, after leaving our
robber friends at the Hole in the Wall,
far into the mountain country We
came to lively town on the railroad,
where every other house is gambling
house, and every other one plain
saloon, and there was great excitement
in the town over our arrival, cause
there don't very many rich and pros
porous people stop there.
Pa had looked over the money the
robbers had given him, to throw it
away, because it was old-fashioned
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21
INVENTOR OF VALENTINES.

girls were hired to assist in making
the valentines. Pictures and embossed
paper were bought, paper lace, tinsel,
and other things were secured, and
big supply was made up. Enameled pic
lures from Germany were procured
and original designs invented and or
dered printed. The scissors were put
aside for dies. which cut out designs
with one blow. It soon appeared that
Miss Rowland had developed q real
business.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-21

Miss Esther Rowland, of Worcester,
Mass, who invented the modern val
entine in 1S49, never married, and died
some ten years ago. The Springfield
Republican recalls the fact that she
was a graduate of Mount Holyoke
seminary, and her father had a small
bookstore and bindery. She sought
to add a new feature to the business,
and her method is thus described:
Miss Rowland took stiff letter paper,
scalloped and fringed the edges, cut