The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-05-03
From Our Correspondents
Grand River.

Grand River.
DR.. w. G. Wards next dates at Grand
River are May Is to 10.
G. w. Hoffman and A. P. Olsen were
here last Saturday getting signers to
the remonstrance. Some say they made
a mistake when they signed the Decatur
petition but will not try to make it
right now. If you feel you have made a
mistake make it right if you have a
chance.
DR.. W. G. Ward was here last week
and has more work than he can do. He
ought to stay two weeks, for he is a
good hand in the business. AS money
maker dentist has us all faded. as he
always has pull with our people. He
is great land owner too, for it is a
poor day that does not bring him an
acher or two. But we will get even
with him in the sweet bye and bye; we
will settle with him according to the
scripture, an eye for an eye and tooth
for tooth. But we must say he did us
a good job.
Robert Fear and Miss Grace Over
holtzer were married last week at the
home of the BRIDES parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. G. Overholtzer, w. B. Cox Of
fciating. Only few of the relatives
and immediate friends We're present.
The happy couple are among our best
young people and are we'll and favora-
bly, known as both were residents here
all their lives. They will go to house.
keeping at once on the groom's farm
southeast of town, where he has every
thing ready. We wish them all the
happiness and prosperity humanity are
heirs to on their journey through life.
H. w. Drew has new we'll put down
on his place.
II. G. Brown, our worthy blacksmith,
has fine new gasoline engine and emery
wheel to polish plows. He has some
other fine new tools, with which he is
turning out some good work.
Fred Bone has purchased Belongs
drug store at Van Vert and will take
possession this week.
Prof. \. f. Burk, expert occulist of
Centerville, was here last week serving
his many customers.
u. B. Riggs and W.B. Day have just
finished new cave for w. G. Over
hotter.
E. L. Armstrong is running the drug
store for II. G. Bone.
j. D. Andrew, republican candidate
for sheriff, had business in town. De-
catur county will have good sheriff if
either Andrew or Wallace get it. They
are strictly prohibition and ought to
vote it. We hope one of them will be
the next sheriff.
Inc country is shocked from end to
end over the California earthquake.
Aid and sympathy is being sent from all
parts OF the country. This is as it
should be in Christian nation. All we
can do is to alleviate the suffering of
our brethren in such cases. We cannot
prevent them as they are beyond con-
troll and are not as far reaching in their
ruin as the liquor traffic, which we can
prevent it we will. A family cannot be
healthy ii they drink water from we'll
with dead horse in the bottom neither
can community if they have saloon,
rotten drug store or dives; they are
just as ruinous to the public as the we'll
is to the family. If a railroad engineer
carelessly runs train of the track and
kills hundred passengers, the effect is
the same to them and the public as
though he had done it OH purpose; so if
you lgnorantly elect gamblers, drunk
ards and liquor sellers to Office you in
Jure the public the same. Their work
destroys our schools, churches and
homes. Do not be like the men who
said Lord when saw we you hungry
and thirsty and gave you not meat and
drink You know the answer; you see
it all the time. Why do you vote for a
man who has sold the juice of hell all
his best years and murdered whole
families by inches. If he were to kill
them at once you would hang him, but
ii he prolongs it for years you vote for
it. And say when saw we this. You
miserable liar you see it all the time
but if you are ignorant we will pardon
you. But we cannot forgive the en-
lightened church and enlightened voter
in whose opinion the liquor men find a
sanctuary. The church is like unto a
big fat sleeping sow giving suck to the
liquor traffic and its imps, when it could
by rousing from it's lethargy, drive them
from our land in one election. The
church should no more tolerate hin,
than counterfeiter, thief or murderer,
as he is soon guilty of all. Earthquakes
and volcanoes are, as a rule, confined to
certain parts OF our earth, and are not
as destructive as the effects of liquor,
which is world wide and is under our
control while the former is not. Our
government and state will be no better
as long as you vote for rum sellers and
gamblers when you have chance to
vote for honest bankers and for honest
Christian men. There is power in your
VOTE as we'll as in the life and example
OF our Lord, ard you should use it to
help make the world better and extend
his kingdom.