The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-05-02
THE OLD LEON SCHOOL
{. Y. Freeman, of Guthrie, Oklahoma,
Writes of the School Days of
1860 in Leon.
Guthrie, Okla, April 25, 1907.


Guthrie, Okla. April 25, 1907.
EDITOR REPORTER Seeing so many
good letters from early school days
schoolmates of Leon, and being one of
them, | write to encourage others to
write. Unlike many of my class of
winter G8 and go, left the following
spring and have never been back only
on a short visit twice. But the old
timers there can keep in touch with me
as my mother and brother Frank and
daughter live at Davis City and my
brother Billie Boone has "browsed'
around Leon most of the time.
After seeing Frank Warmers letter
in the Reporter l wrote him and receiv-
ed a kind letter. Frank is down, poor
boy, and made me feel bad when he said
he did not believe he could get we'll,
but his grip was packed. |, like Frank,
attended most every school from "a to
'64 when | went to California and got
back in time to attend my last school
of '6S and so. Frank was our star in
our dramas at school entertainments
and played the drunkard in "Ten Nights
in Bar Room" ETC., and played the
snake so real.
Mrs. Ada Lunbeck Curry's letter
brings to my mind all OF her fathers
family. Along in SS and 80 | enjoyed
myself with her brother Cass' family in
Emporia, Kansas, and also her sister
Lucy Lunbeck Corbett, the great edu-
Gator and teacher. Cass was droll. He
told me one day while he was away
from his shop (Cass did inside painting,
papering and decorating for the finest
houses them he left his slate hang out
with directions on it where he was etc.,
and when he came back Dan Porter had
written something on it and he thought
Dan was in Leon. He said he knew he
was pretty bad boy in his younger
days in Leon but when Frank Freeman's
mother told him that he had better not
play with Cass Lunbecll he thought it
time to turn over new leaf.
| wish all of the '6S and go class
would write SO we could keep in touch.
have not met many Of them since l
left Leon, but remember meeting some
of the soldier boys Frank spoke about.
In the early seventies when l was on
the construction of the Southern Kansas
r. r. Rube Weldon took dinner with me
in our car. 1t was near Chanute and
they had taken claims close there.
asked Rube if he ever fought any
more and he said no, was at dance
the other night and fellow called me
a liar and paid no attention to him.
l was thinking of the school we went
to over John Baldwin's store. The
windows We're up and we heard a row
going on down below, and / looked
down and one Of Jim Summers home
guards was holding piece of his
scalp down that Rube had just peeled
up with brickbat.
Frank Warner spoke about Mills
criticizing his poetry made me hunt
up my scrap book and | find about a
dozen of Franks best. | expect | am
the only one that thought enough of
them to keep them so long. Here is the
one Mills called him down on.
A certain swell OF our town
To church last night did go,
And when it came to going home
He thought to play the beau.
So Mills up to maid did step
And unto her did say,
Sweet maid can | accompany you
Says she, I'm afraid it will not pay.
Here is where he got even on Penni-
well.
Last night at the lecture
AS you may conjecture
Penniwell Went with his girl.
In trying to WOO her
He said SO much to her
That her rosy red lips she did curl.
When the lecture had closed
AS Penniwell knows
He left her and went home without her.
He hung down his head
And went home to bed
Thinking no more about her.
The above was based on facts.
Here is where he let's old Frinkeway
Sales and Tilda and Emma down.
Give us your hand on it,
Is all the words
That in this town
Can now be heard.
One says Elijah is the man,
Give us your hand on it, Tilda Ann.
How is your health old Frinke?
About the same,
Give US your hand on it Emma Jane.
This is good song
II we'll sung,
Give us your hand on it Elijah Young
Slocum.
E. Y. FREEMAN.
Weather-Crop Bulletin
For week ending April 20, 1907.
Des Moines, Iowa.
The weather conditions during the
past week were more favorable than in
the preceding two weeks. though the
average daily temperature was about
six degrees below the normal, and the
precipitation was very light in all dis
tricts. There were several moderately