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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
LEON SCHOOL COLUMN
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The new microscope has been re-
ceived and will soon be used by the
botany class in the analysis of flowers.
A number Of the young ladies have
started the study in didactics. Sa-
bins Common Sense Didactics is used as
text.
The history classes are enjoying the
new volume set of Larned's His tory
for Ready Reference.
Miss Clara Caster visited the High
school one day last week.
Several in the schools have been have-
ing the measles, but no serious cases.
are reported.
Teacher: Now Patsy, would it be-
proper to say, "You can't learn me notbr-
ing?
Patsy: Yes'm.
Teacher: Why?
Patsy: Cause you can't.
Last Thursday each of the senior class:
received beautiful little invitations
from the junior class, inviting them to.
spend Friday evening at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Ketcham. The house,
was beautifully decorated with the
senior colors, emerald and pearl. The
evening was spent in a most ENJOYABLE
manner. The prize winners in the con-
tests were Charles Housh, Himena Hoff-
man, Iva Briggaman and Miss Drake.
Refreshments were served during the
evening and the seniors departed at a
late hour, thinking the juniors to be
splendid entertainers. Each guest was
presented with beautiful Easter egg
as souvenir of the evening.
Last week Prof. Voelker received
some new music which is being nrac-
ticed by the High school chorus.
The teacher had been telling the class
about the rhinocerous family, "now
name some things" said she, "that are
very dangerous to go near to and that
have horns" "Motor car, replied little
Johnnie Jones promptly.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
Crown,
A. Goodman expects to ship hogs from.
evening".

A. Goodman expects to ship hogs from
this place soon.
Most people are through sowing oats
and are blowing for corn.
Mrs. John Halverson, who has been
threatened with typhoid fever, is again
able to be up.
IA. Carrithers is having his house
on the farm painted. Frank Garber is
doing the work.
Mrs. ]. F. Lewis Matched 12S chicks
from $50 egg Old Trusty incubator.
They are doing nicely.
Clate Keller has been doing some re-
pairing on his farm north of here.
P. c. Morgan has been doing some
road work.
We understand Abe Goodman has
purchased place near Garden Grove.
Mrs. Gertrude Hunt, of Imogene, has
been visiting relatives in these parts
the past week.
Chas. Axes purchased corn of Charlie
Peugh and G.. A. Carrithers.
Sunday school will be organized at
the Chapel at 2 p. m. next Sunday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
"At The Village Post Office"

A musical play in two acts will be
presented by home talent at the opera
house Friday evening, April "a, under
the auspices of the Christian Endeavor
Society, Of the Christian church. The
plsy will be under the direction of
MISS Eva L. Bing, of Kings School of
Oratory, Pittsburg, Pa, and will repre-
sent all the humorous scenes and situa-
tions of post office in the rural districts
with excellent musical specialties.
Don't miss it. Admission Is, Is, and SOC.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
Entries In Good Roads Contest.

There were three formal entries made
with the Leon Commercial Club last
Saturday to compete for the $4,000
cash prize which the Club will award
next fall for the best five miles of road
leading to Leon. The entries are
farmers residing on the Leon Davis
City road, the Leon-Lineville road, and
the road running north and east from
Leon to Ralph Bakers. There seems
to be quite an interest taken in this
contest and there are some mighty
good roads now leading to Leon.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Either Assessor Honnold did an extra
good job of assessing this year or else
the taxpayers gave in their property
better, for the city council meeting as
board of equalization last week, found
but four assessments which they thought
should be raised, those of Bowsher &
Bowsher, 7. W. Ballew, G. A. Hubacher
and j. S. Coffin. The parties have been
notified to appear at special meeting
to be held on Friday night of this week
and show cause why their assessments
should not be raised.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

In remitting for his Reporter, Willard
Young, for many years a prominent
businessman of Leon, now secretary
and treasurer of the Mclaughlin Coal
Co., at Memphis, Tenn, writes that
Frank Kirwin, former we'll known
young man of this city, is working
there, and that Lew Honnold, the tailor,
was also in that city few days ago.
Willard, who was always an enthus-
iastic democrat says everything down
there looks like it would be Bryan this
wear sure,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
Baptist Church.

Pleasant Valley Saturday meeting
April 18th II a. m. Preaching Saturday
evening at 1880. Lords day Easter
IL a. m., missionary sermon.
Easter exercises with program in the
evening. Mrs. Armstrong will deliver
an address also short speech by the
pastor. Come to the meetings at
Pleasant Valley Baptist church.
JAS. A. ARMSTRONG, pastor.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
Appropriations for Year 1908.
Notice..

The City of Leon will receive sealed
bids up to o'clock p. m. May 5th, 1908,
For one hundred and fifty barrels
good Portland cement.
One hundred yards good river sand.
Seventy five yards gravel.
Samples must be submitted with each
bid.
The City reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
S4-3t. S. G. MITCHELL City Clerk.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Walter Case, of Beaconsfeld, who was
recently tried in the Federal Court at
Ottumwa on the charge of bootlegging,
was found guilty and sentenced by
Judge Smith MCPHERSON to serve thir-
teen years in the federal prison at Ft.
Leavenworth, Kas., and he is now serv-
ing his sentence. Case was for num-
ber of years resident of this county
and several indictments were returned
against him, but he evaded arrest and
trial and finally moved from the county.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

DR.. G. B. Peterson, of Cashton, Wis.
stopped off here Tuesday and spent a
day with his brother, j. j. Peterson
superintendent of the new court house
while returning from business trip to
Topeka, Kas.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

The Pleasanton Index, for the second
time within nine months, last week an
nounced its suspension. 1t has always
been somewhat of a mystery to under
stand how the paper could exist as
long as it did in place as small as
PleasantOn,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Friends in this city have received
stork cards announcing the arrival of
Miss Mary Frances Millsap at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Mill
sap, near Decatur City, on Saturday
April 4th. Mother and daughter are
doing we'll and the proud papa is re-
covering from his excitement over the
event
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Bowsher & Bowsher this week shipped
Velie buggy to Mack Davis, of Bloom
ington, Neb., we'll known in this county.
He wanted good buggy and found that
he could buy it from the Bowshers and
pay the freight to Nebrasks and still be
ahead on the deal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

There will be Sunday school organ
lied at Crown Chapel on Sunday after
noon, April 10th, at o'clock. All part
les interested in having Sunday
school are urgently requested to attend
at this time.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Miss Elizabeth Lytle entertained
few Of her girl friends Monday evening,
previous to her leaving for Kansas to
spend the summer. Those present
were: Mary Cox, Eliza Allard, Minnie
Bigley, Maggie Whistler, Bess Goch-
onour, Hattie Beavers, and Bobbie Pace.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

If there was continuous line of
farmers extending for five miles in any
direction from Leon who kept the road
adjoining their farms in as good condi-
tion as does Ed Macy, who lives two
miles north of Leon, they would capture
first prize in the Leon Commercial Clubs
contest hands down, for Mr.. Macy keeps
his share Of the road like city boule-
ward.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

For several years the trainmen on
this branch of the Burlington system
have claimed that all the old junk piles
called engines owned by the road are
dumped on the train crews of the Chari-
ton branch, and we believe it for last
Saturday one of the engines which
went through here on freight train
was No. 1, and it looked as if it had
been in use since the road was first
built
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
BraceWell-Gammlll.

Mr.. Storkie Bracewell and Miss Opal
Gammill, were quietly married at the
clerks office in this city last Thursday
by Justice G. w. Beck. The happy
young couple are two of the best
known and most popular young peo-
pie OF the southeast part of the county
living near Bracewell, and they have
many friends who extend hearty con-
gratulations and wish them unlimited
prosperity and happiness.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Capt. ]. D. Brown received telegram
last Thursday announcing the death of
his uncle 7. Il. Brown, at his home at
Potterville, Mich, and he left that
evening to attend the funeral, being
met there by his brother, Capt. T. H.
Brown, of Chicago. Mr.. Brown was the
last surviving brother of Capt. Browns
father
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Early Richmond Cherry trees 4 to &
feet high 25 cents each. Pear trees 4
to 8 feet high 25 cents. Crimson Ram
blers two years old Is cents each at
Decatur nursery.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Parties who have occasion to drive
down toward Woodland say that Uncle
John Barry has one of the finest pieces
of dragged roads adjoining his farm to
be found in all Decatur county. And
there are many others down that way
who are doing good work with their
n raps
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
A. c. Church Notes.

Meetings will begin at the Advent
Christian church Tuesday night and to
continue over Sunday. Topic Sunday
night, at s p. M, Inherent Immortality
is Resurrection" All are invited to at
tend these services.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Lem Vanostrand is putting his new
Mason auto to good use in connection
with his bus line, making regular trips
to the depot whenever the roads are
not muddy, the only trouble being that
all the passengers want to ride in the
auto, but Lem gives the preference to
the lady passengers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
Ray Layton made a trip to Des Moines

Ray Layton made a trip to Des Moines
Sunday in his Mason auto, taking up
some prospective buyers from Osceola
While on the trip he sold four Mason
cars, three to parties in Osceola and
one to gentleman from Cedar Rapids.
He has been appointed agent for the
Mason for five counties in southern
Iowa, and will be pleased to show the
merits of the Mason car to any person
who is contemplating purchasing an
autO
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Having rented the Allbaugh
land in addition to my pasture, can
take a number of head of cattle to past
ure; parties living in south Leon can
arrange to turn in at the gate at G. M.
Axes residence. Roe CASTER.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Early Richmond Cherry trees to 5
feet high Is cents each. Pear trees 4
to 5 feet high 25 cents. Crimson Ram
blers two years old 25 cents each at De-
catur Nursery.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Early Richmond Cherry trees 4 to 5
feetshigh 25 cents each. Pear trees 4
to 5 feet high 25 cents. Crimson Ram
blers two years old 25 cents each at De-
catur Nursery.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Advertised letters remaining uncalled
for in the Leon postoffice Mrs. Martha
Graham, W. E. Notaling and Co., E. O.
Parrish, theatrical.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
Notice..

I have put in a gasoline engine and
emery wheel and disc sharpener, and
am prepared to do all kinds of plow
work. David Shaw, at the old Picker
ing shop. 29tf.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

G. Biggs & Co. have announced that
they will retire from business and are
closing their big stock out regardless
of cost. Read their announcement in
this issue.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
Methodist Notes.

Next Sunday at II a. m. the pastor
will preach the Easter sermon. Ats p.
m. the Sunday school will render an
Easter program. All cordially invited.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

There will be various articles, also
bread, cakes and pies, etc. at the P. E.
o. hall, April 18th. 1926
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Furnished rooms for rent by Mrs. M.
Van Nostrand, east of bus barn. 34-1t.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
Grand River.

DR.. Wards next dates at Grand River
are May 4th to 9th.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

hereby certify that the above is a
true report of financial condition of
City of Leon. Iowa, for the year ending
April ], 1908, as shown by official re-
ports on file in my Office.
S. G. MITCHELL, City Clerk.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Get your aprons, kerchiefs, etc. at
the bazaar, April 18th. 1926
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

Where one man is in trouble, nine
men imagine they are.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16
Report of Condition of the City of
Leon.

Showing receipts and disbursements |
OF the City Of Leon, Iowa, for the year
ending April 1, 1908:
CORPORATION FUND.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-16

INDEBTEDNESS.
October 81, 1899, refunding
bonds, electric light. $500 90
July 81, 1902, bonds issued to
pay outstanding warrants.... 5000 90
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-06-05

E. F. Turner, of Hamilton County,
said: q was riding horseback across
he country Thursday and passed
through the town of Meridian, where
[ took dinner. After dinner | start
I'd toward Waco, and had a hard
lime on account of high water
AT about $50 P. NJ. l was a few
miles from Clifton, when l found 4
cyclone chasing me, and l galloped
away from it as fast as my horse
could carry me. Presently l. found
hat it had passed me, and l sat on
he brow of a hill and watched its
course. 1t was carrying along much
debris, and when it struck the
Bosque River it sucked up all the
water, leaving the bed of the river
practically empty. 1t crossed the
Bosque obliquely and the water it
took out of the bed of the stream
was carried upward in column
which appeared to me to be about
500 feet high.
''The most remarkable part of this
phenomenon was the fact that it had
torn up by the roots big tree and
the tree was on top of the column
of water, waving like plume
When the column of water broke the
tree went sailing on and fell about
half a mile from where it was taken
up
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-06-05
The Romantic Woman.

A wise man has pronounced palm
istry to be an absolute absurdity
beneath contempt" He has reduced
our Zines of life and heart and head
to muscular textures. The action of
the four fingers and the thumb re-
spectively produced the first two
lines, and all the others can be medi-
cally accounted for.
1t is disillusioning, of course, es-
pecially if one has been assured by
some fashionable palmist that one
possesses extraordinary gifts and that
| good fortune is ones portion. But
if we accept what psychologists tell
us about one thing we must believe
them when they say another. One
professor says: Humanity is daily
gulled through it's extraordinary ig-
norance of the elementary facts of
| physiology"
The scientific announcement of
palmistry will probably trouble those
who practice the art as little as 1t
will the women who submit their
hands that they may learn their fate.
| The cold light of science is power
! less to affect the fiuttering hope ev-
cry woman holds that there may be
pleasanter surprises in life than she
i believes are in store for her. Nor
| is her faith shaken when the oracle
declares that the sorrows of her past
have overshadowed those of all 9TH
ers who have bravely borne the cr1ss-
crossing of their Line of the Heart.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-06-05
Sounding by Sight.

An ingenious device by which the
depth of a swift river above Il high
fall in Ontario was ascertained is de-
scribed by Mr.. H. w. Hixon in the
Engineering and Mining Journal. 1t
was too dangerous to make soundings
from a boat, SO Mr.. Hixon planted
transit on one bank, and from it car
ried a strong wire, with heavy lead
weight at the end, to the opposite
shore. The wire was drawn taut.
and the weight was gradually pulled
across on the bottom of the river.
At stated intervals a sight along the
wire from the transit to the point
where the wire dipped into the water
gave the inclination of the straight
line. The length of submerged wire
and its angle with the water surface
being known, it was easy to calculate
the depth at the various points.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-06-05
Charm of French Rural Life
BY FRANK PRESBREY.

Normandy and Brittany, towns
have a quiet sweetness in which the
strident call of commerce and the
hustle and noise of our American
towns are strangers. Wherever COM
mercial activity comes in the charm
goes out There is little striking in
the contrast between the country and
the small towns. You leave the bril-
liant colored peoples in the fields to
meet the timid, open eyed children in
the village streets, and you simply
exchange the peasants working at the
roadside for the white capped women
knitting in their doorways, and the
men, wooden saboted and clad in
blouses and baggy trousers at their
work There are no striking con-
trasts between country and village
such as We are accustomed to in
America. A Normandy or Brittany
village is but cluster of houses and
matched rooted cottages, picturesque.
ly set amid the trees and fields or
course the larger places lose from ne
cessty the pastoral features of the
villages, but in them you see nothing
of the broken down and often filthy
outlying sections observable as you
approach most American cities. If
the section is one of poverty it will
be picturesque-not made hideous
with the dumpings of empty cans and
the towns refuse. Neatness and at
tempt at identifying are observable
everywhere. Even in the country we
found the edges of the roads and the
rows of trees often trimmed with
care. No family is so poor that it
cannot have some bright flowers in
window boxes and greater variety
in the always present little garden.
One of the most notable features of
both town and country is the absolute
lack of idleness. Thrift and indus
try are written everywhere This is
characteristic of the French people,
and it shows in their Governmental
balance sheet, for France has not one
cent of bonded Indebtedness held by
any one except French people. When
Bismarck levied war indemnity on
France after the Franco-Prussian
War in 1870 it was paid 'out of the
stockings of the masses with a
promptness that surprised the world.
From AN Intimate Excursion in
The Outing Magazine.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-06-05
Useful Fat,

A reporter was congratulating Mr.
Marconi, at Sydney, N. S., upon his
success with transatlantic wireless
telegraphy.
But, SIR said the reporter, "they
tell me you are working so hard that
you only sleep four hours a night?"
Yes, that is true said the in
ventor.
mo wonder you are getting thin, :"
the reported observed. you are
growing famous, to be sure, but at
| what a price of flesh"
81 am not like the Italian admiral,
Libertini, then" said MIR. Marcon.,
| laughing. ''Libertini," he went on,
had won many battles and great re-
nown, and at ball given in his
honor one lady said to another:
But how frightfully fat our dear
admiral is getting
Yes, said the second lady. Isn't
it fortunate? Otherwise he wouldn't
be able to wear all his medals. -
Washington Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-06-05
Growing Il Foot a Day.

During the long drought of last
spring, in Mauritius, a singular spec
tacle, amid the stretches OF dying
and desiccated plants, was presented
by the white flowers of giant aloe
stems, which sprang up on the noun
tains and over the waste lands with
amazing speed. At the time of the
Towering, shafts as thick as mans
arm shot up from the heart of the
plant, grew from twelve to eighteen
inches in twenty-four hours and
reached a height of thirty feet. A
cluster OF aloes before the flowers APP
pear resembles a gigantic asparagus
plant.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-06-05

light of truth we shall yet be certain
that the truth, the truth alone, is
worth mems fealty and shall make
them free.
The Spirit as the Comforter ap-
meals to the heart of every Christian.
Who of us does not JOY in the fact
that above us and within us is this
comforting Spirit of the LORD our
God? The human heart cries out LOT
comfort when distress and danger anu
destruction come upon it. When our
hearts are bowed in anguish and our
souls are crushed with grief, when
every human tie is severed ana no
mortal hand may avail to d1spel our
utter darkness, then the spirit OF
the loving Father strengthens, sus-
tains. sanctifies the SOIL. save me.
O God, for the waters are come into
my SOUL" we cry out with the
Psalmist. In the Judah wilderness
of the world our souls thirst for Him,
our flesh longs for Him as in dry
and thirsty land, where no water IS
Then the Spirit comes, and with HIS
entrance the live springs of refresh
ment minister to our souls deep need:
The Spirit as the Comforter is Coz
in His presence ministering to the
humanest of mortal needs. NO man
can live happily without Him. No
man can weather the trials of tribula-
ton and the temptations of prosper
ity without Him. Lending the sor-
rowing light hearts He keeps the sue
cessful level headed.
The sense of the constant presence
of the Spirit of God in the individual
and world life is the certain indica-
ton of a true religious experience.
No man who lives near to God is with
out it. 1t is elemental in Christian
experience And this consciousness
of Gods abiding and guiding is the
mainstay of the soul. Without 1t
progress is impossible in the truest
sense With it we may fight with fear
lessness, with hope unquenchable,
against municipalities and powers,
against the weaknesses of high
places and the sins of mighty men.
For the abiding Spirit of the living
God is the controlling energy in the
feat Him temporarily; evil policies
may Illustrate His purposes and hurl
themselves against His plans; but the
Spirit of God is unconquerable. He
is the controlling, the overruling en-
ergy of the world. In this Spirit we
should find our strength. From Him
we should derive the comfort of our
souls.
Let not your heart be troubled.
Come what may, be the storms of life
what they WILL God will not leave us
comfortless He will not leave us
orphans He is with us. He will
abide with every soul who bids Him
enter. He will constantly refresh us
ALL He will give us courage and be
our strength. He will suffuse us. He
will comfort us. And He does.