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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-26
Burr Oak Ridge.

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year.
G. e. Chastain was business caller
at Davis City Monday.
Misses Maud Adams and Violet Bru-
ner went to Van Vert Monday to visit
with relatives during the holidays.
Mrs. Chas. Chastain spent pleasant
day in Leon Thursday the guest of
Mrs. Lucy Allbaugh and Mrs. Harry
Bradfield.
Miss Minnie Hazlett visited at the
county farm Sunday.
We are pleased to hear the sick at
Oren Keller's are improving.
Mrs. Sarah Chastain has been on the
sick list.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-26
Garden Grove.

Byron Vail, of Superior, Neb., came
the latter part of last week to visit
with several friends and relatives here.
Harry Clark, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Il. Clark, former residents of this place,
came Saturday from Canada where he
has claim. He was on his way to
southwest Missouri to visit his parents.
Willis Aten, of Charlton, came Satnr-
day for short visit with his parents.
John Hitchcock and wife, of Des
Moines, who have been visiting with
relatives here went to Charlton Satur-
day to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. Piper
before going home.
John Arnold and Glenn Vail, who are
attending the state college at Ames,
returned for vacation Saturday.
Lucy Sullivan returned from Simpson
College, at Indianola last Thursday to
spend her vacation at home. She went
to Helena, Mo-, Saturday to visit her
brother Leo.
Claude Wood and wife, of Weldon
were here Sunday visiting at the home
Of the latter's parents.
The High School teachers left last
week for their homes to spend their
vacation. Prof. Reed went to Weldon
Saturday to attend the teachers meet.
ing and from there went to Van Vert.
Several from here attended the farm
er's Institute at Weldon last Friday
and Saturday and won prizes at the
corn show.
Miss Lois Royal left Saturday fol
Malkeytown, ILL.,, where she has sister
she will visit. She went by WY O
Corydon and stopped off to visit hel
friend Anna Culver.
Miss Stanley, Of Lamont, came the
latter part Of last week to visit hel
grandmother, Mrs. Geo. Shaw.
VIM. Knotts went to Derby and Chair
ton on business Saturday.
Mrs. Stewart, OF Charlton, who cam,
last week to visit her sister-in- law
Mrs. King, returned Saturday.
| Miss McNay accompanied by FRIEND
was down the latter part Of last weel
visiting at the home of her brother il
this city.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-26
Good Hope.
vacation.

Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Stevens spent
Wednesday evening with Charley I'm
hoff and family.
Mr.. Dave McMains, of Derby, had
business at J. N. Barger's Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Hoadley spent
Tuesday with the latter's mother, Mrs.
Anna Fierce, of Van Vert.
Mrs. W. H. Wise visited Friday with
her mother Mrs. ]. Waterman, of Van
Vert.
Ray and Mile Thompson and Oscar,
Orville, Elba and Mabel Wills spent
very pleasant evening with Oliver,
Tressa and Esther McGahuey Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lew Thompson and
daughter, Ivah, and Mr.. and Mrs. James
Downey and daughter Eddis were Van
Vert visitors Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Fierce took dinner
with Mrs. Anna Fierce, of Van Vert,
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Muse spent Friday
night and Saturday with the latter's
brother, Mr.. Sam Campbell and family,
of south of Leon.
Mr.. Ralph Hoadley lost fine COW
one day last week.
Mr.. Loran Downey, of Indianola, is
visiting with his uncle, James Downey
at this writing.
Mrs. H. A. Thompson, son Ray and
daughter, Mile spent Friday evening
at W. Fl. Wise's.
Mr.. Earl Wise expects to start from
Leon on the early train Tuesday morn
ing for Washington. Kansas, where he
will make an extended visit with his
uncle and aunt. Mr.. and Mrs. M. R.
Sanger formerly of this county and also
his cousins Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lvmar.
Miss Bessie Thompson is assisting
Mrs. James Upheld with her sewing this
week.
Mr.. H. A. Thompson is making i'm
provements on the the farm which he
recently rented near Davis City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blake, of Leon, were
visiting at the home of Ed McGahuey
this week.
Grant, Earl and Mile Wise, Oliver
McGahuey and Nathan Smith spent
Friday evening with Roy, Bessie and
Millie Thompson.
Miss Myrtle Wion visited Saturday
night and Sunday with Sylvia Muse.
Mr.. Grant Wise spent Sunday with
e. II. Baxter, of DeKalb.
Church at Good Hope was we'll at
tended Sunday evening.
Lloyd and Earl Barger visited with
Clyde Imhoff Sunday.
Mr.. Grant Wise who is teaching
school at the Wion school house in
Bloomington township came home Sat-
urday for weeks visit.
Mr.. Glare Citizens visited Saturday
night and Sunday with his friend, Miss
Bessie Thompson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-26
Davis City.

III
Claude Walters, Of Newark, N. j.,
came the past week to spend Christmas
with his parents and one of our Davis
City bellies.
Roy Robinson, who is attending the
State University at Iowa City, came in
Monday to spend the holidays with his
parents.
There is considerable sickness in and
around our city and some Of the cases
are reported dangerous.
Mrs. Newman and Mrs. Cation, of
Leon, visited friends in this place
Tuesday.
George Carter and wife, of Eden
township, were trading here last Sat
urday.
Mrs. B. D. Adams and Mrs. M. H.
Adams made trip to Leon Saturday.
Mrs. Frank Osborne, Of Decatur, was
looking after business matters here last
Thursday and Friday.
Winnie Riley, one of our popular
lumber dealers, brought home new
bride the past week. They are at home
to their friends in the house on Clark
street formerly occupied by John
Robinson. We gladly welcome the lady
to our society, and many friends wish
them both every happiness and pros
perity through life.
Mrs. g. P. Campbell returned last
week from visit in st. Joe.
Mrs. J. W. Wales visited friends in
Charlton the past week.
Mrs. Grant Craig and Mrs. Marx
Adams visited in Lamont last Thurs.
day.
Creighton Miller had business at st
Joe the past week.
Miss Anna Shirley who is teaching al
Allerton, came home to spend the
holiday vacation with her parents.
By request from the parties interested
we make the following statement: Mrs
Latishne Butts, nee Bennett, nee Cook
nee Miller, nee Blakesley, wants the
ICpOIU SOLu0 Ou0 6UdEUSU COFrOCUOI
that she paid fifty dollars to certain
parties to get her husband. She say.
she never thought of or needed any
help to get a husband, and from the
number of times the lady has beer
through the matrimonial market w,
fully agree with her.
i Mrs. J. E. Ownby, of Decatur, visited
Davis City friends the past week.
Miss Linnie Craig was guest of Mrs
Myra Howard the past week. !.
Grandpa Cummins, one Of our oldes
citizens, died at the home Of his son
Jenus, on the 14th of this month, an,
was taken to Kansas to be buried besid,
his wife who died several years ago
while on a visit to her daughter il
Kansas and was buried there.
The Willing Workers held sale las
Saturday and will use the proceeds t,
improve the new cemetery.
The M. E. Sunday school gave an en-
tertainment and had Christmas tire,
II Christmas eve.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-26
Sweet Creek.

Dusk Gentry and sisters Effie and
Clara were Lamont callers Thursday.
Belle, Jennie and Nelson Smith spent
Wednesday eveningat Frank Noftsgers,
Oscar Willis, OF Van Vert, visited with
friends on Sweet Creek last week.
Mrs. Mart Monnasmith and son
Clarence were Lamont callers Wednes-
day.
Hank Rauch, Dick Woodmansee
Virgie Creveling Fand Gerata Bedell
spent Sunday evening at Dusk Gentrys
Leslie Stanley called at Frank Motifs
gers Sunday.
Hazel Stewart called on Eva Wion
Sunday.
Those that spent Sunday evening at
Frank Noftsger's were: Fair Naylor
and family, Isaac Bedell and family,
Emmett Noftsger, Seth Baker, Eva and
Will Wion.
Us. Naylor called at Isaac Bedell's
Sunday.
I. L. Noftsger is on the sick list.
Grant Wise is visiting at home this
week.
Thomas Creveling and family visited
with Dan Gentry and family Sunday.
Dare Stewart called on Albert Wion
one day last week.
Mrs. J. w. Bedell had business at
Leon one day last week.
]. W. Wion, and wife and daughter
Eva were Lamont callers Wednesday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-26
Center.

S. W. Sears is feeding car load OF
steers.
r. Pease will build new room to
his house.
jamie Long was Pine Grove caller
Tuesday.
Mr.. Campbell lives on the G. White
farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Beavers were out
visiting Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Gardner came back from
her Neb., trip.
One woman in Center can beat hel
husband shocking corn.
JAMIE Evans spent Sunday at home.
Merry Christmas and happy New
Year to The Reporter and all it's read.
ers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-26
Weldon.

Mrs. Vern Hicks, of Leroy, spent
Saturday in Weldon.
Miss Ethel Kent, of Lucas, is guest
at the ]. H. Garris home this week.
Mrs. Boyd Mcvey and little son, of
Bozeman, Montana, arrived Friday for a
visit with relatives and friends.
Prof. and Mrs. s. W. Mitchell, of
Decatur City, came up Friday to attend
the institute and spend vacation with
relatives.
Miss Nellie Garris. of WOODBURY., at
tended the institute and visited rela-
tives until Saturday afternoon.
Miss Grace Lockwood, of Osceola, is
visiting her brother, e. A., and family.
Miss Mary Coffey arrived Saturday
to spend her weeks vacation with home
folks.
Miss Grace Minis, of Emerson, is the
guest of Miss Neva Kline, during the
holidays.
Miss Mabel Hodges, who is primary
teacher at Decatur City, came home
Saturday for weeks vacation.
Mrs. o. P. Jamison returned Saturday
from a visit with friends at Keokuk and
Brighton.
Miss Dell Hall in company with her
cousin, Mrs. Jenkins, Of Leon, left Sat
urday for Leavenworth, Kas., to spend
a week with relatives.
Bert Mitchell, of Centerville, spent
Thursday night with J. P. Mitchell and
wife. He was enroute home from Osce-
ola, where he visited his brother, H.
Mitchell, who was lately stricken with
paralysis.
Misses Camilla and Rosamond Thomp-
son are home from Van Vert to spend
vacation.
Clarence Eddy arrived Monday from
Cleveland, Ohio, to visit his mother and
other relatives.
A series of revival meetings began
Sunday at the Christian church with
Rev. L. G. Parker, evangelist, and G. e
McVey leader of song. The public are
cordially invited to attend these ser.
vices.
The Weldon schools closed Friday fol
a weeks vacation. An interesting pro-
gram was given by the pupils of the
primary room. Miss Morehead is spend
ing her vacation at her home neal
Humeston. Prof. ]. A. Mcintosh and
wife will visit relatives in Leon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Sears and baby, o.
Leon, visited Chas. Brannan and wife
the latter part of last week.
Miss Pearle Tallman closed hel
school at Green Bay Friday for a two
weeks vacation, and on Tuesday she
went to st. Joe, Mo-, to visit relatives
Among the college students who are
home to spend vacation are Fred Critch
field, from Iowa City, VIM. Beattie ani
r. L. Lockwood, from Ames, and Misses
Gertrude Luce and Kathryn Coffey, O
Des Moines.
Miss Daisy Kennedy, of Osceola, at,
tended the institute and visited friends
in Weldon and vicinity.
Presiding Elder, B. F. Miller, preached
at the M. E. church Saturday evening
and Sunday morning. In the afternoon
he drove to Leon where he preached in
the evening.
i Prof. Reed, of Garden Grove, attended
the institute and went to Van Vert
Saturday to join his wife who is visiting
relatives there.
The Farmers Institute and Teachers
meeting held here last week was well
attended. The program we'll carried
out, and was interesting from start to
finish. Considerable interest was
shown in the corn contest, and some
fine corn exhibited but at the present
writing we are unable to secure list
of the prize winners.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-26

For SALE Complete saw mill outfit
with 20 h. p. engine and corn burrs for
sale cheap on account of my health.
27tf D. A. BRIGHT.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-26

Get watch of Coe and get a big dis
count until Jan. l, 1908.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-26

Turn night into day by using Rosene
Oil. VIM. CREIGHTON & Son.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26
RANDALL, OF MARYLAND"
The Bentztown Bardi in the Balti-
more Sun.

Maryland, My Maryland" heard
the bugles play,
And oh, the golden music turned my
heart the golden way;
l saw the old State cleaning in her
beauty as Of yore,
Beside her ripping rivers and beside
her dreamy shore;
The sweet old song woke echoes of
her beauty in my breast
The song of Randall's Maryland,
may the wreath upon hiE. rest !
The song Of Randall's maryland,
how it rings upon the air
When from the sweet old valleys Of
the dear old State we fare;
Amid the alien cities or on hills ana
seas afar,
10 woos the hearts affection and it
wakes you whore you are
To the old homes tender beauty, and
the spirit brcathes a cheer
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26

had no patience with the prejudice
that exists between alleged classes;
that capital was only the joint accu-
mutation of employer and employe,
and that each should treat the other
with consideration and tolerance.
"The workingman," said he, "is
worthy of his hire, the business man
of his profit. The man who digs the
precious. metal from the earth is
worth his wages. The great financial
promoters, organizers, executives G.
America, are worthy of recognition
and reward They work as hard as
any of us, and their work is abso-
lutely necessary to the full produc-
tion Of the riches out Of which are
paid here in America the highest
wages In the world Through many
an anxious day and many a wakeful
night these men have planned and
prosecuted the great enterprises
which have developed the wealth of
the nation and have given employ
ment to millions of men. The riches
they amass and call their own are
seldom spent in extravaganza and
luxury upon themselves, but are put
back into new industries to produce
more wealth and give employment to
more men,
From one extreme Hearst has
switched to the other.
Which, by the way, recalls the
rumor of a Hearst-Harriman-Odell al
lance to make the yellow journal
editor the next democratic presiden-
tial candidate.-Long Branch Record.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26

thus had ample time for demonstra-
tlon. The increase Of passengers has
been tremendous during the first
year this tariff was in operation more
than forty per cent-and while, Of
course, the gross income from the
passenger business was not increased
IN the same proportion, it must be
noted that it did increase (3.01 per
cent?, while the operation costs re-
mained practically the same, no new
trains being put in, the increased
traffic having been taken care of by
filling out the vacant places OH the
regular trains.
In Hungary the zone-taritf has been
In force since August, 1889. The av-
erage rates are:
Flrst-class-2 cents per mile.
Second-class-1.7 cents per mile.
Third-class-1 cent per mile.
For through express trains these
rates would be:
First-class-2.5 cents per mile.
Second-class-2 cents per mile.
Third-class-1.25 cents per mile.
AS result Of the zone Tariff the
number of passengers trebled in four
years after it's adoption; TIE length
of the lines increased in that period,
however, eleven per cent. The re-
ceipts increased in the same time for
ty per cent. Those who wish to make
a closer study of the one-tarilf are
referred to the official publication Of
the Hungarian railway department,
der Zonentarif und dessen Resul-
tate" Budapest, 1892 1893.
ERICK OBERG.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26
HEARST AS A CONSERVATIVE.

William R. Hearst, the man, per-
haps, who has done more than any
other American to array the masses
against the classes, in his Labor Day
speech at the jamestown Exposition
recently posed as an exponent of
harmony between organizations Of la
Dor and capital.
He declared that the country had
become great by the honest labor of
its citizens; that every one here
works-the mechanic, clerk, profes-
sional man, and even the millionaire,
and that the proudest title of the
most successful millionaire was "Cap-
tain of Industry" He said that he
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26
FATHER RYAN AND JAMES r
RANDALL.

(From the Baltimore Sunday SUM-
A fund is being raised in Alabama
for monument to Rev. A. J. Ryan.
The Mobile Register states that
not inconsiderable sum has been sub
serlbed already, although the plan for
q memorial Of this singularly gifted
poet is yet in its infancy. Father
Ryan, as he was known best to
Southern people and the literary
world, had unusual qualities as
poet. Many Of his verses breathe
the purest spirituality, while some
OF his war poems stir the heart Of the
reader as deeply now as in the old
days, when they voiced living SEN
timent. Scarcely generation ago
Father Ryan's name was q house
held word in the South. It was not
strange, therefore, that in Mobile,
where years of his life were spent in
religious work, there should be a
movement to erect a monument to
him. He was one Of the poets who
put the sentiment of the South Of
his day into verses that ought to live
forever.
Another Southern poet, whose thrill
ling lines" Maryland, My Mary
land welded to music worthy Of
such a theme, make one Of the most
striking Of American war songs, i;
Mr.. James r. Randall, now living In
New Orleans. "Dixie" has q bright,
"catchy" air, which rings with the
spirit Of jollity and optimism. But
in no respect is it comparable to Mr..
Randall's fine poem and the admira-
BILE German air to which the verses
were set. The interests Of the South
ern man or woman In "Dixie" is
largely sentimental and is based upon
association chiefly. It is recognized,
Of course, that "Dixie" has q GER
tain ring in it which sets ones feet
to marking time and tempts him to
take part in the chorus. But "Dix-
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26
For the poet in whose music rings the
old home-love 80 clear!

hear the bugles play it and I hear
the voices sing
The words Of Randall's maryland, F"
and my heart began to ring,
And my soul was filled with longing
for the valleys that I knew,
The tender skies above them, with
their balmy breath Of blue;
heard the rivers calling, saw the
green fields by the shore,
And felt the old emotions that T felt
in days of yorel
0 Randall, God be with you, for we
owe you much who know
The glory of your "Maaryland," feel
the rapture Of it's glow;
The world should give you comfort
and the land reward your
worth
With all the goodly blessings of the
golden dream Of earth
For all the world is beauty when
the bugles and the band
Ring out the stately measure Of the
song you gave the landl
Maryland, Ny Maryland" I heard
the echoes ring,
saw the little hills Of home grow
green with breath of spring,
[ saw the orchards ripen in Octo-
ber's golden sun,
saw the shorees Of Edenland unto
the blue bay run;
My heart re-echoed Maryland"
and my soul responded, too,
0 Randall, of the golden song, God Is
grace be unto you!
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26

A scientist tells us there are very
intelligent people on Mars. If that
be true, they probably are not wor-
rying themselves about the doings of
other people on planets millions of
miles away.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26

ie'' would scarcely have had more
than the festing popularity Of q ne
gro minstrel song if it had not been
adopted as q sort Of war hymn and
set to an inspiring tune. Despite its
comic quality and the seeming IL
congruity Of its use as battle hymn,
it has lived nearly half a century.
He would be a bold prophet who
would venture to prophecy the time
when Dixie" will be no more heard
IN the land. But speaking with re
spect to the relative merits Of ''Mary-
land, My Maryland" and "Dixie,
it does seem that the former is enti-
tied to live as long as mems hearts
respond to stirring appeals to patriot
ism, to pride and to valor. Mr.. Ran
dall's poem has intrinsic merits
which entitle it to a place in Amerl-
can literature. The music to which
it has been set is vastly superior to
that of any other Of the songs Of the
Civil War period. The greatest Of
all battle hymns is the "Marseil-
laise." Its music appeals to almost
every emotion. The air Of "Mary-
land, My Maryland" expresses per-
fectly the spirit of Mr.. Randall s
fine lines, and the effect in way is
that of an American Marseillaise. .
1t is eminently proper that Alaba-
ma should raise monument to Faith
or Ryan, whose poems were valua-
BILE and permanent addition to South
ern as well as religious literature.
Due recognition should also be award
ed Mr.. Randall, whose Maryland,
My Maryland,' is really the classic
war song Of the South. It has car
ried Maryland S name to the utter
most parts of the world, for wher-
ever the songs Of battle are remem-
bered, Maryland, Ny Maryland,
claims immediate recognition for the
beauty of its words and Of its air.
1t is In order to suggest that the
South should not wait for the author
of Maryland, My Maryland" to
express its appreciation of his i'm
mortal lines. What could be more ap-
propriate than testimonial to M.
Randall, who has, written other poems
OF unusual grace and beauty, and
who is still in literary harness, aztec
many years Of patient and unobtru-
sive service7 A heartfelt tribute dur
ing life is worth more to the recipient
than all the flowers that can be placed
upon his grave or all the monuments
that can be erected to his memory.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26

South Georgia Farms and
Decatur County Tobacco
Lands for sale; for deScrip-
tive price list write to r. L.
Hicks, Real Estate, Balm
bridge Ga.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-09-26

It isn't always policy to believe the
man who tells you what he would do
if he were in your place.
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