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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
Southern Iowa Editors Meet.

The spring meeting of the Southern
Iowa Editorial Association was held at
Davenport last Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. AS it was the first meeting
of the association since the passing Of
the pass, it was feared that the auten-
dance might be smaller than usual, but
it proved to be the largest in the his
tory of the association, thus demonstrat-
ing that editors are not dead heads, and
they can afford to pay their. railroad
fare when they have a convention the
same as other professions.
The program embraced special feat
ures which proved of interest to the
fraternity, and during their stay in
Davenport the, members of the local
press and Commercial club left nothing
undone to show the visitors pleasant
time. The meetings were held in the
fine new $4,000 home of the Davenport
Commercial Club, and the city can we'll
be proud of this splendid organization.
On Friday evening an elaborate banquet
was served at which Hon. Henry yolmer
presided as toastmaster. Other speak,
ers were Medill Mccormick, publisher
of the Chicago Daily Tribune, Bryon
Williams, "Uncle By of the Western
Publisher, Chicago, G.. Logan Payne,
special advertising representative, of
Chicago, David Brant, of the Iowa City
Republican, President J. L. Long, of the
Osceola Sentinel, E. M. Sharon and B.
+. Tillinghast, of Davenport. During
their stay in the city the editors enjoy
ed special steamboat excursion up
and down the Mississippi river, and an
auto ride over Davenport, Rock Island
and Moline. The trip through Arsenal
Island was a revelation and the i'm
mense shops where the United States is
manufacturing small arms, ammunition
and army supplies, employing over 1000
wcrkmen were inspected.
The fall meeting of the association
will he held at Creston in October or
November, Des Moines, Washington,
Iowa City, Ottumwa and Clinton also
extending invitations.
The following officers were elected
for the coming year:
President. K. Huston, Centerville
Citizen.
Vice President-W. II. Robb, Creston
American.
secretary-Treasurer-O. E. Hull, Leon
Ran0rtar
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
people Will Talk.

We believe that there are many good
men and women everywhere and there
are a very great many in Leon.
There are others who are careless, in
different, imprudent-and they get
scolded and talked about. Others are
talked about because they act badly
for lack of sense or because they don't
wish to meet social requirements. 1t is
probably true that where there is so
much smoke there is some fire,
and yet why denounce anyone? Surely
there is good in all-more good in some
not good enough for you let them alone.
if you don't want to be. You can't turn
fair-minded people against one by your
talk. The average person only clings
the closer when the hammer is raised
against a friend, If all were honest
and as hard on themselves as on others
they might have things to blush for.
That being so isn't it rather reckless for
anyone to throw stones? We should
hate very much to let fly brick at the
sins of some of the Long Tongues we
know-the ones who have the most to
say. Much of the glass in their struc-
ture could go smashed. Speaking of the
deplorable hammering of most every
body by most everybody we think it
ssan be put in about this way; We are
just one big family. We are hard on
each other sometimes say bitter, hard
things-and then regret it. We know
that we are all sinners. None of us do
as we should do or might do, but isn't
there at times some good we can recall
to the credit of each and everyone and
don't we feel more kindly disposed as
we think of it? How the wrong in our
lives fades away as we think of the
good in those about us! That is the
good in ourselves that speaks. But
when we hammer people that is the bad
in us that is working. Mind this: No
man or woman can do wrong and not
suffer for it. All must pay the price
the penalty. What is said does not
matter much, but what is done makes
the burden light or heavy. 1t is true
saying that sit matters little what
people say, but it matters much what
one does.'
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
No More c. o. D. Liquors.

G. M. Ketcham, the Leon agent of the
Adams Express Co. informs us that COM
mencing today the express company will
absolutely refuse to handle any G. o. D
liquors in Iowa. The new law which
takes effect today provides that the
state mulct tax is to be assessed against
express Offices which handle c. o. d.
liquor, and as this is 5000 the company
will not pay it, so the liquor business
will be cut out so far as the express
company is concerned. This is a good
move, and one which the temperance
people will hail with delight, for the
CO. D. liquor business has been an
evil which has been growing day by day,
and the extent of the traffic was enorm-
Ous
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
TWO CENT FARE NOW
New Rate takes Effect Today, the
Railroads Submitting Under Pro-
test, to Make Trial of it.

The two cent passenger rate will be
put in force today by all the Iowa rail
roads, but they do it under protest.
The experience of the railroads who
tried to prevent the law from taking
effect in Missouri has led them to adopt
this course.
By putting in the rates under protest
with the state railway commission the
roads reserve the right to appeal to the
courts if it is found that the passenger
earnings show any marked decrease in
the next six months which is the period
allotted for the test. 1t is not believed
that serious decline will be noticeable
in the earnings in Iowa. Statistics
issued by the roads themselves show
that the average rate under the cent
rate was but ZIG cents per mile. This
was due to tho low rates granted travel
ing men and for special cheap excur-
sions, many of which were for less than
one cent mile.
The western roads have asked the
interstate commerce commission to
waive the old rule of thirty days notice
in changing rates and make it one day
for passenger tariffs. This would enable
them to contest the law, if decline in
the ca arnings for the six months ending
January 1, 1908, is shown Immediately,
and to have the old cent rate put in
by court order pending the adjudica-
tion of the case or cases.
Hereafter no reduced rates will be
allowed ministers, inmates of soldiers
homes, or charity passengers in Iowa,
and all must buy tickets at the regular
rate, of 2 cents per mile. Children be-
tween the ages of and II years will be
carried for half fare.
The states which have cent fare
laws now are Iowa, Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Arkansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and
Pennsylvania. The Illinois law went
into effect July 1, and number of the
other states at an earlier date. The
Wisconsin railway commission put
cent rate in effect in that state.
Travellers who are going from this
state to another state, even if they
have the cent law in effect in that
state, cannot buy ticket from an Iowa
station to station in the
other state, as the railroads refuse to
sell except at cents, claiming that
this is interstate commerce and the
states have no jurisdiction over it, or
power to fix rates. The only thing to
do is to buy your ticket to the last sta
tion in Iowa at cents, then pay your
fare at the cent rate from that
station to the first station in the
adjoining state and then buy an
other ticket from that station to your
destination. For instance if Leon
citizen wants to go to st. Joe or Kansas
City, he will buy a 2 cent ticket from
Leon to Togo, then pay cents a mile
from Togo to Andover, Mo-, and at the
latter station purchase ticket to st.
Joe or Kansas City. If the railroads
don't get tired of this monkey business
and sell straight tickets through at the
2 cent rate before long we will miss our
guess, for it will cause lots of trouble
to conductors and trainmen, as baggage
must be checked three times for the
one continuous journey.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
TO Be, A WEED CRUSADE.
are Trying to Rid Iowa of
NOxious Growth. Legislation
to be Secured to this End.
How to rid Iowa Of weeds?

That is the subject under considera-
tian OF the pure food committee of the
state department of agriculture. 1t has
direct bearing on pure food. Last
winter the legislature passed law pro-
hibiting the mixture of weed seeds and
seeds of grains and grasses, if the seeds
are planted together, the grain and
weeds will be harvested together, and
it is beyond the ken of science to de-
termine the extent of the misery and
physical i'll due to the seeds of weeds
ground up with wheat and other edible
grains and taken into the human stom-
ach.
Governor Packard of Marshalltown,
Professor Curtiss at Ames college and
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Wright the committee on pure food of
the state department of agriculture.
The committee has been in session at
Ames this week on the question of how
to rid the state of weeds.
First of all come the roadsides. They
are the special delight of the weed fam
lily. There is endless prcfusion, and
with all the effrontery of an invading
army the weeds take their stand to
deride the farmer in his fields across the
fence. In the roadside the weeds null
tiply in the drainage hollows at each
side of the pike and toss their malevo-
lent heads in the sun and rain, waiting
for the winds to carry them into the
fields Of the farmer across the fence the
multitudinous seeds which summer heat
and the joyous rain, falling alike on
weed and breadstuff, have brought to
fruition.
Lawmakers from time immemorial
have decreed against weeds, and the
Bible records the figure of the tares.
No man knoweth the wherefore of
weeds. But the pure food committee of
the agricultural department proposes
to know if they cannot be discouraged
in Iowa. There is one lone law
relative to the weeds in the highways
in this state. 1t requires them to be
cut once year. Owing to that partic-
ular contradiction of human nature
which makes men work against their
own interest often, the weeds are usual
ly not cut till late in the fall, when they
are but husks, and, falling meath the
blade, laugh at the reaper, because their
seeds have been swept into the fertile
fields to wait for the sunlight of the
springtime and the moisture and the
heat which will give them the start OF
the grain.
1t is planned by the committee to &c
after the weeds. Adequate legislation
will be asked of the general assembly a
year from next winter. In the mean,
while campaign Of education will be
undertaken that the people may come
to know that pure grain cannot be made
into pure food if the grain is mixed with
the seeds of weeds in the first place
And the source of the weeds in Iowa
and of the adulterations of grain seed
against which legislation was passed
last winter are the weeds at the road.
side
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
New Books at the City Library,

The following new books have been
received and are now available at the
city library:
How to Study Shakespeare by William H. Flem-
ing, in vol.
Stories of Authors Loves, by Clara E. Laughlin.
Water Wonders Every Child Should Know, by Jane
M. Thompson.
Heroes Every Child Should Know &
Poems Every Child Should Know.
Legends Every Child Should Know.
Songs Every Child Should Know.
Turkish Life in Town and County, by Lucy NJ j.
Garnett. #
Belgian Life in Town and Country, by Demetrus G.
Boulger.
The Cruise of the Cachalot by Frank I. Bullen.
Forest Friends, by John Madden
Geronimos Story of His Life
Newer Ideals of Peace, by Jane Adams
Fishing and Shooting Sketches, by Grover Cleye-
land.
Round the Horn Before the Mast, by A. Basil Lub-
book
A Thousand Miles Up The Nile by Amelia B.
Edwards.
The Story of the Cowboy, by E. Hough.
New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate D. Wiggin.
Nimrods Wife, by Grace G. Seton
Friday the 18th, by Thomas W. Lawson.
Wireless Telegraphy by A. Kenneey.
Manual of Wireless Teegraphy, by A. F. Collins.
Fiedbook of Wild Birds and Their Music, by +. s.
Matthews.
The Black Hawk, by Frank E. Stevens.
The House of Thousand Candles, by NJ. Nicholson.
The Confessions of Club Woman, by A. Surbridge.
Felicity, by Clara Laughlin.
Henry VIII and His Court, by L. Muhlbach,
Empress Josephine, by Muhlbach.
Queen Hortense, by Muhlbach,
Frederick the Great and His Family.
Berlin and Sans -Souci, by Muhlbach,
Louisa of Prussia, by Muhlbach. @
Napoleon and Blucher, by MuhlbacE
Mohamed Ali and His House, by Muhlbach.
Goethe and Schiller.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
The Daughter of an Empress, by Muhlbach.
Andreas Hofer, by Muhlbach
Frederick the Great and His Court by Muhlbach
Prince Eugene and His Times, by Muhbach
Old Fritz and the New Era, by Muhbach.
The Merchant of Berlin, by Muhlbach.
Joseph Ii and His Court, by Muhlach.
Marie Antoinette and Her Son. by Muhlbach
The Lady of Loyalty House, by Mccarthy
Bob Hampton of Placer, by r. Parrish.
The Man of the Hour, by Octave Thanet
Jane Gable, by McCutcheon.
The Doctor, by Ralph Connors.
The Cross Triumphant, by f. NJ. Kingsley
Trafics and Discoveries by R. Kipling.
A Ladder or Swords, by Gilbert Parker
The Assignation, by Edgar Allen Poe.
Doctor Johns, in two vol. g.
Angels In Art, by Clara Erskine Clement
Panama, the Isthmus and Canal by G. H. Forbes
Lindsey. =.
The Worlds Orators in 10 vol
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
RumIey-

Mr.. G. L. Rumley and Miss Della Way
Blakesley were quietly married by
Elder E. M. Romine, pastor of the
Christian church at the parsonage in
this city last Wednesday evening.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.. Abe
Blakesley and for number of years
has been resident of this city. The
groom is a we'll known farmer living
three miles northeast of Leon. Mr.. and
Mrs. Rumley will make their home on
the grooms farm and many friends ex-
tend hearty congratulations.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
Bird Regiment Iowa Cavalry Re-
union.

Centerville, Iowa, June 27, 1907.
The 18th reunion of the survivors of
the Third Regiment Iowa Cavalry
Volunteers will be held at Fairfield, Ia,
October End and 3rd, 1907. The people
of that city will give them most cor
dial welcome, and will make ample ar
rangements to entertain them; every
survivor of the regiment is earnestly
requested to attend.
JOHN ELLIOTT, president.
E. j. SANKEY, secretary.
Southern Iowa papers please copy.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
License to Wed.
Adventist announcements.

Please be prompt at Sunday school
next Sunday at 9:45 a. m. Preaching
both morning and evening. Subject at
II a. m. "Did Jesus rise?" at p. m.
"Home" Divine worship on Wednesday
evening. We bid you welcome. E. o..
Coontz, pastor.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
Wllliams-Croy.

At the home of Mrs. Samuel Miller in
this city last Thursday afternoon Mr..
Phillip Williams, of Davis City, and Mrs.
Samantha j. Croy, of Osceola, were
united in marriage, the ceremony being
performed by Rev. J. L. Boyd, pastor Of
the Leon M. E. church. Mr.. and Mrs.
Williams will make their home at Davis
City, and their friends extend congra-
tulations.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
Baptist Church.

Sunday School next Lords day 9.45.
No preaching at Leon. Covenant meet
ing Saturday at 10 nm. at Palestine
church. Preaching II a. m. next Lords
day. Also at Mission S. S. near. Decatnr
City at p. m. Palestine church at
8 p. m. J.A. Armstrong, pastor. .
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04

Postmaster Stookey has received no.
tice from the government postal au-
thorities that commencing July 1st the
price of stamped envelopes and stamp
ed wrappers was advanced cents per
thousand, with corresponding adj
vance in small quantities. The govern
ment is evidently taking advantage of
the prosperity to advance prices.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
Methodist Notes.

Preaching next Sunday, both morning
and evening. Other services at the
usual hour. All cordially invited.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04

No man need feel hurt if people say
he is not good looking.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04

There is good deal of inhumanity in
human nature.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-07-04
More Funds for Cemetery Walk.

The fund for the building of the
cement walk to the cemetery received a
nice boost last week from the Federated
Clubs who had charge of the library
course in this city the past winter.
When all expenses were paid there was
a surplus of $45.00 and the ladies
decided to donate one half of it, S22.50
for the purpose of furnishing the
assembly room in the library building
and the other half to the cemetery walk
fund. The following donations have
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28
The State Of "BoyviIIe"
PIaned For Ga. Boys.

"Boyville. " in which boys will
be supreme in the guidance of a
separate and distinct government
is now planned for Georgia by
Rev. Crawford Jackson and his
associates of the Central Juvenile
Protectory.
The plan is omprehensive in
in that it contemplates "Juve-
nile State" for saving both boys
and girls who may display way
ward tendencies. There are fam
GUS organizations of this charac-
ter, the most notable being The
George, Junior" in in New York
state, near Ithica, and Judge Ben
Lindsay's world-famed juvenile
court and reformatory in DenV-
err.
It is the design here to secure
large body of land for esta b.
fishing The Juvenile State. "
Boys will act as governor, legls'
lators, judges, in fact, the whole
machinery of government will be
in their hands.
The practical workings OF 9th
err com uities will form the bas-
is for that in Georgia. Laws will
be formulated for the guidance
of the citizens, purnishments will
be prescribed and administered
| sternly. The coin of the state
will be toll, and without that coin
none of the residents will be
clothed and fed.
Already the protectory has re-
ceived bona fiide offer from DR..
IL. G. Hardemau of 400 acres OF
good land between Commerce
and Athens. Other offers are in
vited, and tract near Atlanta is
especially desired.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28
Is There An Ice Trust?

The following press dispatch
was sent out from Atlanta few
days ago:
THE proposition considered by
the Southern states was defeated
and no effort will be made accor-
ding to the decision.to raise pric"
es or fix uniform rates.
The reasons which brought
this decision were that leglsla-
ton and public sentiment are too
strong against ombination IN the
South; that conditions affecting
| manufactures vary too much in
different communities, and what
could be a reasonable price IN
one place would be too low IN
another and that manufacturers
refusing to enter the com blnatlon
would make it impossible to
maintain prices.
THE antitrust legislation N
! in the Southern states was dis
cussed at length and severely
criticised, although its effect
iveness was tacitly admitted by
the action Of the exchange today
The fact thst the convention did
not fix the price of ice does not
mean that there is not now and
has not been for some years an
ice trust in this state. This ice
trust has nSEer arbitrarily fixed
the price of ice in all probability
still by sticking together and
aiding in the fight whenever an
independent concern had the
temerity to enter the market IN
opposition to trust factory,the
price has been kept up.
If you do not believe that there
is an ice trust in Georgia and a
very effective one at that, erect
an ice house in this city and I'M
dertake to purchas ice TO supply
vour trade from any standard
factory in Georgia.
1t is one thing to talk about SEN
timent in the South against trust
laws. it would be a good thing if |
the laws against the formation of
an ice trust in Georgia were en-
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28
The Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths.

prevailing i'll this
IS because so decep-
tive. Many sudden
deaths are caused
by it-heart dis
ease, pneumonia,
heart failure or
apoplexy are often
the result of kid
ney disease. If
kidney trouble is
allow Idtoadvance
neutrality-suspicious.
ed blood will at
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28
DECATUR COUNTY WENT DRY
BY 400 MAJORITY.

cambridge, Ga, March TO-
Decatur County went dry by
four hundred majority. Balm
bridge went wet six majority,
but the vote in other precincts
give a majority for prohibition
The whisky side had a band
from Fitzgerald. They made
every possible effort 20 win, but
to no avail.-Macon Telegraph
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28

A. V. Toole, of Atlanta, pass
ed thro this city yesterday On
his way 10 the land sale at Alma.
Louisville, Ky, has a solid
mile of wholesale whiskey houses
but ninety-fve counties in the
Blue Grass State have voted to
bar their wares from the people,
on the ground that it is poison
and dangerous to public welfare.
Mr.. E. M. Henderson, of Syl-
vania, who purchased the Leader
plant, assumed control yester-
day as editor and manager. B.
F. Knapp and ], Paulk will con-
tinue with the paper. Mr. Hen
derson' : family is located in the
Saunders house on South Main
street.
c. A. Pollard, a we'll known
Fitzgerald boy, left Jacksonville,
Fla, last Sunday, on the steamer
APACHE, " for New York City.
He will 60 from there to Nor
folk, Virginia, where he has ac-
copied a position with the band
to play for the jamestown Ex-
position during the whole season.
There is a substitute for the
alcoholic flavoring extracts, COM
monty used, in the saccharated
preparations which are really
better than the liquid. The
preparation comes in the form Of
powder or else a tablet, and
gives entire satisfaction to the
housewife. The Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union has
brought about preference, for
the non-alcohohc extracts, 10
many states.
I'VE wish the Enterprise would
continue the agitation of street
sprinkler wagon. The city
could put one in and assess
every man so much a door and
pay expenses. We've got to
have it. We had one when this
town was only three years old
and can much better afford it
now and need it even worse"
The above remark was by one
of our leading merchants and
carries weight with it.
One day last week some one
shot into the house OF Lewis
Thayer. The family were not
at home at the time but found
the bullet on the bed and the
hole IN the window pane and in
the plastering. 1t is not at all
likely that righteousness was
the cause but, as Mr.. Thayer
saws, that would not lessen the
sting providing he or his wife
were killed in some of these &C
cidental shots. This is not the
first time. Mr.. Thayer declares
that he will be obliged to take
full benefit of the law if marks
men DO uot keep their distance
from his premises.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DIR. E. A. RUSSELL,

lux, u. n N = ODI1H3
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office upstairs in Hansen Build
ing. Office Hours-8 to IL; 2 to A.
Special attention to Diseases OF
Eve, Nose, Throat and Ear.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-28
Attention Farmers.

Plant the best cotton seed and
get the best price for your COT
ton. I can furnish you with
pure seed aad pure Floradora
cotton seed.
H. G. Powell,
2t Box $40, phone 40.