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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06
Davis City.

! E. W. Teale and family made trip to
Des Moines in their auto last week.
Mr.. Teale remained but Mrs. Teale and
children came home Monday.
a Miss Emma Heller, of Tingley, stopped
off here Friday and visited friends, be-
ing on her way to Ridgeway.
Henry Arnold, of Chicago, was here
last week visiting his sister, Miss Mary
Arnold, who is visiting here from
Hoquiam, Wash.
Clare Teale, of Kellerton, is clerking
for A. L. Teale.
MISS Alice Jeffries left Monday for
st. Paul, Mimi, to act as bridesmaid to
Miss Ora Nome on August 18th.
.. MI Mrs na Anna i hoadley, of Burlington,
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. P. E. Shirley.
Miss Elizabeth Turkelson left Sunday
for Battle Creek after pleasant visit
with Mrs. b. A. Norman and Mrs. G. G.
Grimes.
Mrs. Pete Markley came in from Chi
cago last week to visit her mother, Mrs.
Minerva Franklin.
Mrs. Margaret Sylvester and Mrs.
Lillian McClaran returned home Sun
day afcer weeks visit with relatives
at Andover.
Miss Lourinda Mcintosh left last week
for Duluth. MINI. She was met there
by Fred Ross and they we're quietly
married. The best wishes of their many
friends go with them.
Misses Sophia and Matte Adkins re-
turned home one day last week from
Oklahoma where they had spent the
winter.
Julian Buttersworth, of Waterloo, is
here visiting friends.
Ralph Scott, OF Blythedale, was here
Sunday calling on friends.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06
Bur Oak Ridge.

Most everyone are through harvest
ing and attending Chautauqua.
w. H. McCalla and family and Charley
Chastain and family were Sunday visit
ors at Walter Briners.
Mrs. Mary Stratton and little son re-
turned to their home at Bethany after
a few days visit with her sister, Mrs.
Will Johnson.
Mary Edgington visited Esther and
Anna Peters Saturday.
Z Mrs. Hannah Lambert came over from
Clearfield to assist in caring, for her
daughter, Rosa who is qnite sick at Bid
Frost's.
+ Ernest and Perry Chastain were Sum
day visitors at Charley Chastain's.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06
Lonesome Ridge.

This part Of the country was visited
by good rain Wednesday and Thurs
day.
Lewis Hamilton and wife returned
home Thursday from where he has been
working for Lewis Cannon.
Miss Mergie Mills spent few days
last week with her friend, Miss Elva
Campbell.
Arthur and Bill Campbell and Chas.
Boyer departed Friday for Montana.
Miss Nellie Smith called at M. w.
Hamilton's Sunday evening.
Julia Horney and Essie Hamii ton spent
Sunday with Cecil Guthrie.
Will Smith and wife called at Mrs..
4. r. Campbell's Sunday evening, A
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06
CORRESPONDENCE.
Grand River.

DIR. Wards next dates at Grand River
are August 10th to 18th.
Mrs. A. j. Edwards of Diagonal came
Tuesday to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Irwin Brennaman; she was accompanied
by her little granddaughter Vivian
Jones of Kansas City, Mo.
Max Willis of Tingley was in town
between trains Tuesday.
Miss Agnes Conwell went to Leon
Tuesday to visit friends.
Miss Marie Peckham of Mt. AYR came
Tuesday to visit her uncle's family at
Westerville.
Miss Ada Dale of Leon came Tuesday
to visit her cousin, Miss Ruby Ticknor,
during the reunion.
Mrs. II. G. Bone returned Wednesday
from visit with her parents at STAINS
berry, Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. L. Armstrong of Skid
more, Mo-, came Wednesday to attend
the reunion. Mrs. Armstrong of Sey-
mour accompanied them.
Mr.. and Mrs. McMayme of Davis
county are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Irwin Brenpaman.
Misses Margaret and Mergie Edwards
of Diagonal visited friends here during
the reunion.
Mrs. Thomas Sloan and daughter,
Verna of Ellston. came Tuesday and
remained over the reunion.
Frank Bedier of Leon was in town
during the reunion.
Mrs. Chris Lethe of Beaconsfeld came
Wednesday and remained during the
reunion.
John Overholtzer and family of Ting
ley visited relatives here last week.
Edward Carrier and Miss iona Full
lerton we're married Wednesday morn
ing by Mayor Hines at the home of Mrs.
A. H. Behold.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. T. Trimble and daugh-
ter Fora of Mt. Ayr returned to her
home Monday after weeks visit with
friends here.
Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan of Knoxville,
ILL.,, and her neice, Mrs. Sherman Amos
of Indianola came Wednesday to visit
Mrs. S. Jennings and other relatives.
Mrs. Anthony Cox of Leon visited
Mrs. Robert Fear Sr. during the re-
union.
Mrs. John Weldon was taken sudden.
ly ill Wednesday at the reunion, she
was taken to the home of her SON
Harry Weldon and her condition is
serious.
Miss Bessie sperring of Dyersville
is visiting her sister, Mrs. z. L. Nor
they.
Mrs. Anise Craft and little daughter
of Van Vert were the guests of Mrs
Alex Keller during the reunion.
Mrs. Frank Worden of Weldon visited
her mother, Mrs. Mary Bradshaw last
week.
Mrs. Essie Adair of Diagonal has
been visiting this week with her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Briner.
Fred Ticknor and Tod Ackerley re-
turned Tuesday from Des Moines, where
they had been on business.
Miss Minnie Bay returned to hel
home in Ottumwa Monday after weeks
visit here with friends.
Miss Effie Mcconnell was in Leor
Tuesday and Wednesday of last week
A. J. Edwards of Diagonal was il
town Saturday on business.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06
New Buda.
(Delayed)

NOO1uyC
Glenn Frazier is helping McLains put
up their hay.
A. W. Martin and family spent Friday
night with his mother, Mrs. j. Martin.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. S. Fetty spent Sun
day with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Haywood Shoots near Andover, Mo.
Nora Patterson is working for Mrs,
S. o. Sprinkle.
Floyd Thompson spent Sunday at W..
j. Latta's.
@Bennie Hardinger and Ora Fetty at
tended the basket dinner at the Dow
ney school house Sunday.
Mr.. Roy Atteberry and family spent
Sunday at 0. L. Fetty's.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06
THE LEON REPORTER THURSDAY AUGUST s. 1905

Fed Gore, wife and little son Bryan
spent Sunday at Tom Gnthrie's.
Miss Letitia Hamilton is on the sick
list.
Jim Anderson and family spent Sun
day at the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Mccormick.
Joe Ingram and family spent Sunday
at II. Marvin's.
Clifton Mills was seen sailing south
Sunday evening.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06
Mushroom.

Guy Yingling and wife are visiting
near Lineville week, before beginning
to move to Davis City.
Several threshing machines have be-
gun their annual work in our neighbor-
hood the past week. The oats harvest
is very light.
Clarence and Earl Doolittle left for
Webster City, Iowa, last week to visit
relatives and make their fortunes. They
report wages at $50 and $35 month
up there.
Mrs. Mart Still is visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Oda Vanderpool, and helping
to care for the new girl.
Robert Wyland and wife, of Charlton,
are expected at the parental home of
Mart Still this week to visit through
reunion.
&. Doolittle and family. sundayed at
Arthur Ventling's. II
IF Won want; to use any cement blocks
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06

Miss Eta Hardinger visited sunda
at A. w. Martins.
John Mcdaniel and lady friends,
Birda and LYDIA Frazier, attended tne)
basket meeting at the Downey school
house Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Hagen visited Sum
day with their son, Jason Hagen.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06

We have fine line of lawn mowers
ranging at reasonable prices at our
store. VIM. CREIGHTON g. Son.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06

Cement blocks are the coming build:
ing material. make them any size and,
will be pleased to quote you prices.
Roe CASTER JR.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06

We have plenty of native lumber on
hands to sell. Already sawed out. No
waits. Dekalb & Smith. 24-tf
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06

| have 100000 good brick on hand.
Will deliver to any part of the city.
32tf. f. L. JENKINS,.>Al
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-06

II you want to use any cement blocks
this spring let me figure with you.
ROE CASTER JR.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14

For February festivities that take
place on or near the fourteenth of the
month, there are this year host of
charming novelties. The old-fash-
ioned valentines are, of course, out of
date for everybody but children, yet
the sentiment of the day still fingers
in the hearts and darts and paste
board Cupids used on the new candy
boxes. What, for instance, could be
prettier remembrance for any young
man to give his "best girl" or even
a young woman for whom he had no
particular regard but to whose family
he was indebted for invitations to
dinner or tea, dances or other func
tions Of the season, than one of these
candy-boXes? Two different styles
are shown on this page-one covered
with bright-red paper and decorated
with big bow of red ribbon, having
in the centre Cupid himself, with his
bow and arrows; the other simpler,
but just as effective, covered with
white crepe paper and decorated with
a gilt arrow pierced through two
hearts. If these boxes are wanted
for souvenirs at luncheons or parties
they can easily be made at home by
a clever girl, for the crepe paper is
very simple to manipulate. The heart
shaped pasteboard boxes can be
bought ready-made at most stationery
stores, and the hearts and arrows cut
out of red and gold paper respec
lively, declares McCall's Magazine.
Even easier to make is the little
round box shown at the top of the
left-hand corner of this group. Any
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14
A PATHETIC INCIDENT.

A wistful-faced little chap with a
crutch boarded a Fourteenth street
car the other day, accompanied by
man, evidently his father. Shoulder
ing brown eyes illuminated the little
face, made wien by hours of pain,
as he smiled up at the tall man at
his side, who, broad of shoulder and
strong of face, smiled back encourag.
ingly. A troop of small boys noisily
invaded the car. Reckless in. their
good spirits, one of their number was
roughly pushed against a crutch
causing it to fall to the floor. The
mans eyes blazed more with anguish
than with anger as he exclaimed
harshly, "Be CAREFUL" The sturdy
urchins, awed at what had occurred,
subsided in seats opposite. The man
looked over their heads into space
The child looked first at the boys,
then with questioning eyes back at
the man Father" he whispered,
as he lightly touched his sleeve,
would you love me better if / was
like those boys?" The man gave a
startled glance across the aisle at
chose boys" insolent in their per.
feet health and boyhood vigor, then
tightly grasping the hand nearest tc
him said: "No, son, love you better
than all the world-just as you are
Washington Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14

Of paste, and a twist Of baby ribbon
The white ice cream basket is made
in exactly the same way, with the
substitution of white paper for red
and a little pasteboard Cupid stuck
on the handle in place of the heart
and arrow. The favors for valen-
tine dance, chi1dren's party or cotil-
lion are simply fancy paper hearts
fastened on slender sticks, wound
with paper and decorated with ribbon
streamers. The candle shade makes
most effective table decoration. II
Is of white paper, decorated with
red hearts and gold arrows, and the
top and bottom of the shade are fin
ished with twists of the paper touched
up with gold paint.
St. Valentines Day was originally
the day dedicated to the incoming OF
spring. The Romans kept it in honor
of Pan and Juno, and the festival,
which lasted several days, was called
"Lupercalia. The early Christian
church, desiring to effect a change in
this much-abused feast, very adroitly
reconstructed the old practice of the
lottery of lovers names. In place OF
the names of real youths and maid
ems, whose appellations, written on
slips of paper, were drawn by the
young people of the time, the church
substituted the names Of the saints.
The idea had it's own beauty, and the
notion of dedication was thus pre-
carved in q rnora Sniritua1 sense than
in the old Roman festival. This feast,
and not the existence of the real st.
Valentine, is the origin of the gallant
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14

THE FRUITERER'S PROPOSAL.
On Monday the chap started on his vaca-
ton;
On Tuesday he'd started summer firta-
ton;
On Wednesday he told her in tones rather
"Miss Jinks, I shall call you my straw.
berry blonde"
On Thursday, grown bolder, he laughed,
you're peach!"
(She answered, "The kind, sir, that's just
out of reach
On Friday, not daunted, but still quite as
He begged, aMay kiss you? You've lips
ike cherry"
Then Saturday came, and instead of good.
He cried, Lets elope, dear apple of my
But thus she responded, "I'll ne'er wed
prig,
Nor any young man that's not worth fig,
Your fruits may be good, but you're not
quoth the maid,
"And I've no use for lemons save in
lemonade"
Walter Pulitzer, in Judge.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14

round pasteboard box can be used as
a foundation for this. 1t is covered
with white crepe paper and big red
heart pasted in the centre. 1t adds
to the appearance if the edges of the
box are touched up with a line of gold
paint, as shown in our illustration.
For serving refreshments at val
entine party there is nothing more
effective than heart and arrow ice
cream or charlotte russo boxes, and
the best thing about them is that they
can be so, easily and quickly made.
Buy some rather thin bright-red
pasteboard at a stationery store, and
also a sheet of white pasteboard.
Then get some of the ordinary pleated
paper cases that are used for char
lotte russo, BISCUIT glace, etc. An
arrow is cut out of the white paste
board, painted gold or covered with
gilt paper and pasted across the large
heart that has just been cut from the
red pasteboard. A circle is then cut
out of the heart, through arrow and
all. the ice cream box inserted in the
opening ana uelu Ill place Will liItle
paste.
The paper baskets can be even
more quickly made, She foundation
being the same sort of pleated paper
case. In making the red paper basket,
this is given a handle formed of
wire, with red crepe paper twisted
around it and heart and arrow
pasted at the top. The paper itself
is simply covered with frill of red
paper, held in place by just touch
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14
A Dream of Beauty.

A valentine dining room is dream
of beauty with the walls hung with
green vines and pink hearts. In the
centre of the table have heart OF
white snowdrops with pink ribbons
running to each plate, which is also
marked by a pink heart name card Or
namented with bunch OF snoWorops
for the ladies and pink carnation for
the gentlemen.
Serve oysters or chicken in heart
shaped pastry shells, tomato or love
ample" salad, ices or cream in heart
shaned forms and cakes in the same
shane iced in pink.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14
"Tying LOVe-knotS."

A picturesque st. Valentine con-
test. which will not cost the hostess
but a few dimes, is to provide each
girl with a length of colored satin
ribbon, suggests The Del1neatior.
This is the only apparatus needed
for the game of Tying Love-Anots. "
Each man is to be the timekeeper
for each girl and he must talk to her
all the time she is tying an artistic
love-knot out of the ribbon.
He keeps his watch in hand, and
tries to divert her attention and make
her answer his questions. Three
minutes is the time limit, and If she
succeeds in making the knot, he must
wear it through the evening, pinned
to his cravat If she fails she must
keep at it until she succeeds.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14
Rates. Too High.

A lanky" :countFyman from the
mines came into the Argus Office.
my old guv'nor's dead and 1 should
like "a bit of poetry or sumthink put
in the paper about him.
"All right" says the clerk, 'hand
it over"
Cant you fix sumthink up for
me?" asks the miner: He was a
right good chap
"Oh, yes," replies the clerk, well
manage that for you; our charge for
In Memoriam' notices is sixpence an
inch"
ooh, thunder!" exclaims the
mourner. 81 can't stand that; my
guv'nor was over six feet!'-Mel-
bourne Argus.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14

the 1ifeboat and pinnace, and attempt
ed to make the shore, but both boats
were crushed to splinters the moment
they touched the surf, and their occu-
pants were drowned or pounded to
death before the eyes of the Mortified
spectators.
This drove an inventive old whale
man to write on board in large let
ters, bend line to an oar"
The crew on the wreck read the
message and did as directed. The
surges heaved the oar landward and
it was caught with a bluefish drail
A hawser was then attached to the
end on the wreck and drawn ashore
and made fast.
Next the inventor improvised a
sling out of a pair of old hawsers and
bowline, which would travel over
the names, and by means Of this ex-
tempore breeches buoy all the re-
naming crew were rescued.
1t is not improbable that this de-
vice led to the invention of the
breeches buoy.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14
A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.

Ralph D. Paine, while delving into
the old sea-logs kept by eighteenth
century captains, and now stored in
the Essex Institute at Salem, brought
to light a strange tale that yet was
fact. He tells about it as follows:
"The Grand Turk, a good ship be-
longing to Elias Haskell Derby, Of
Salem, well known merchant, was
returning to Salem from the West
Indies.
During the voyage Captain Inger-
soil rescued the master and mate of
an English schooner, the Amity,
whose crew had mutinied while in the
Spanish Main. The two officers had
been cast adrift in small boat to
perish. This was the first act in a
unique drama of maritime coincidence
in 1774.
after the castaways had reached
Salem, Captain Duncanson, the Eng
lish master of the Amity, was the
guest of Elias Haskell Derby while he
waited for word from his owners and
an opportunity to return to his home
across the Atlantic. He spent much
Of his time on the waterfront as a
matter of course, and used to stand at
a window of Mr.. Derby's counting
house idly staring at the harbor.
"One day while sweeping the sea-
ward horizon with the Office spyglass,
the forlorn British skipper let fly an
oath of the most profound amaze
ment. He dropped the glass, rubbed
his eyes, chewed his beard and stared
again. A schooner was making across
the bar, and presently she stood clear
of the island at the harbor mouth
and slipped toward an anchorage well
inside.
There was no mistaking her at
this range. 1t was the Amity, his
own schooner which had been taken
from him in the West Indies, from
which he and his mate had been cast
adrift by the piratical seamen. Cap
tain Duncanson hurried into Mr.. Der
by's private Office as fast as his legs
could carry him. By some incredible
twist of fate the captors of the Amity
had sailed her straight to her cal.
tain.
"Mr. Derby was man of the great
est promptitude and one of his an
chored brigs was instantly manned
with a heavy crew, two deck guns
slung aboard, and with Captain Dun
canson striding the quarterback, the
brig stood down to take the Amity.
at was Captain Duncanson who led
the boarders, and the mutineers were
soon overpowered and fetched back
to Salem Jail in irons. The grateful
slipper and his mate signed a crew
in Salem, and took the Amity to sea,
a vessel restored to her own by so
marvellous an event that it would be
laughed out of court as material for
fiction. From Pioneers in Distant
Seas" by Ralph D. Paine, in The Out
ing Magazine.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14
A Strange Result,

According to the Edinburgh Even
ing Dispatch the attack at Grimsby
on rabbi Cor, as another contempo-
rary has it, rabbit-the details still
lack confirmation had an unexpected
sequel:
''The rev. gentleman was conveyed
home, where he is now under medi-
cal treatment. Result: Motherwell,
two goals; Third Lanark, one goal. J"
Punch
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14
FLORIDA SHARK STORY

A tarpon pursued by shark near
Garden Key, in one of it's tremendous
leaps fell across skiff containing
two fishermen who were so busily en-
gagged with net that they did not
notice it's approach.
The skiff broke in two, the fisher
men became entangled in the net,
and the shark took a huge bite out
of the side of one of them. Bolton
Larkin, cutting his body nearly in
two 1t is thought the shark mistook
Larkin's body for the tarpon it was
in pursuit of, for sharks in those wat
ers have never been known to attack
a man.-Punta Gorda Herald.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14
LOG CABIN SAYINGS.

De light is fer all, but Lawd help
de sinner what got gas bill ter
pay wen Satan fall foul 'er him.
Heaven comes so clost ter de airth
dat eff de small mems wuz higher dey
could touch it wild de tips er dey
fingers.
De sun shines fer all mankind, but
dar's some er us dat warm our hands
in it an den ak de Lord fer candles
wen de sun goes down.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14
The Finishing Touch.

While the organ-grinder ate the
thickly buttered slice of bread on the
back porch, the summer resident who
had provided the repast amused her.
self by trying to turn the crank of
the organ steadily.
cit must. be quite difficult to turn
the crank in such excellent time as
you do" she said at last.
''No hard, if you no hava da
monk" replied the organ-grinder,
with a melancholy smile. ''Turna da
crank, keepa da time and watcha da
monk-dat TAXA da arteest!" -
Youths Companion.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14
Some st. Valentine "Don'ts."

Remember that you want to enjoy
the st. Valentine party as we'll as
your guests; therefore observe these
rules:
Don't fret and worry every hour OF
the preceding day until you are ner-
vous and sensitive to everything that
goes wrong.
Don't rush your games too close on
each others heels. Young people
like to talk.
Don't seem to be making an effort
to entertain them at every moment.
Suggest the games when the talking
grows a little less spirited.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14
That Little Valentine Boy.

His other name is Cupid. That is
what the old Romans called him.
He had still another name given him
by the early Greeks, Eros. But what
ever he may be called, he is the same
jolly little sprite that you paint, draw
or paste on your valentines as the
love fairy.
He looks very harmless with his
chubby-baby cheeks and his loving
eyes. But look at him closely and
you will find in those eyes sparks Of
mischief glinting through the love,
like points of mica in quartz rock.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-14
Methods of Reporting.

In short, the three possible methods
are, first, TO leave the mans speech
alone; second, to report what he says
or some complete part of what he
says, and third, to report what he
means. But the present way of re-
porting speeches (mainly created,
think, by the scrappy methods of the
Daily Mail) is something utterly diff
ferent from both these ways and
quite useless and misleading.-G. K.
Chestertop, in the Illustrated London
News,