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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04

Leon needs good band and should
support one. We have good band now
and you should help the boys along by
attending the band concert at the K. P.
hall Friday evening.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04

Some time ago David Rankin, of Tar
kio, took an inventory of his possessions
which showed the following: 25,64O
acres of land, 10000 fattening hogs,
5000 cavtle, 800 horses, more than 300
cottages, in which the employees of the
big farm are housed, great quantities of
farm machinery and the like. The
total foots up something like 81 900 900.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04
Gibbs.Harrls.

Mr.. Lewis w. Gibbs and Miss Stella
Harris, both of Humeston, were married
at the clerks office in this city last
Wednesday, the ceremony being per-
formed by Justice John Holden,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04
License to Wed.

Lewis W. Gibbs, Humeston. %
Stella M. Harris, Humeston. .1S
Bert A. Heriford GAINESVILLE. ..21
BERTHE M. Willis, GAINESVILLE Is
Leroy Il. Truman, Lamont ni............21
Mary Frances Hill, Lamont. 10
Robert O. Graham, st. Joe, Mo-. 80
Martha 0. Hilbus, Smithville, Mo....,32
G. w. Poland, Grand River .2G
Jennie Woods, Grand River 16
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04

Ask Mrs. Ray to show you the Lillian
Russell, the Stubborn Cinderella, and
Flewer Pots hats, and all the swell
things in millinery.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04

For SALB-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, 1909-03-04

RAGS WANTED-A quantity of largo,
clean, white cotton rags. Bring to The
Reporter Office. Highest price paid.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04

In order to sell some of the hats you
have to sell hair. We have both the
hats and the hair. MRS. Lucy RAY. I
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04

Frank Dobson, wife and children were
passengers from Decatur City to Block
ley Saturday to visit at the home of his
father, Joe Dobson.
Chas. Hatfield had business at Hiram
Manchester's Tuesday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04

We have plenty Of native lumber on
hands to sell. Already sawed ont. No
waits. Dekalb & Smith. 24-tf
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04

II yonr lawn mower needs grinding
don't forget to bring it to us on or be-
fore March 10th. FARQuHAR & Sons.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04

Remember Mrs. Ray has complete
line Of hats, switches, hair rolls, hair
puifs and Marcell waves. Call and see
them.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04

Men who spend all they make often
don't make all they spend.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04

March 4, Mrs. A. M. Stevens.
March 5, J. v. Foltz.
March 6, P. H. Sullivan.
March s, Newman Edwards.
March o, s. A. Miles.
March 10, Frank Manning.
Mar. II, ]. ]. Scars.
Mar. IL, John Edwards.
Mar. 13, G. W. Pelsor.
Mar. 10, Mrs. Peat Boyer.
Mar. 16, s. B. Woollums.
Ask to see bargains at Bowshers'
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04

Ask to see bargains st Bowshers' !.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-03-04
Capt. }. L. 6ooding's Sale Dates.

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01

all. so somebody brung it home to Ma and when I started in I used that pa l. Looks pretty rough. don't it? It's pretty much of a tin can but it was Pas and besides. new pailS costs fifty cents. and that's half days work fer me.
 So yes'day I gets me to the breaker by seven and gets over on the hill and has a ketch with the little kids before goin' to work. When we onct get to work. there ain't much chance fer baseball;-it's jest work all day.
 Why do I have a lamp? Well. you see. I've got the bad corners. It's awful dark and the dust is bad. Us older boys mostly gets them bad places. Sometimes fin sunny days I kin see to pick the slate in there. but mostly it is so dark that I uses my lamp all the time.
 No. the work ain't hard. only some times yer back gifts sore. You don't do nothin' but bend over and D ck and fer a greenhorn it ain't no cinch. I've been there goin' on six years now. and I never minds it. In winter it's bad on account of the cold on your hands, but mostly it ain't so worse.
 'Yes'day we quit at four. Didn't have no more cars. they said. so we all skins home. takes wash of our face and hands. and makes for the baseball. No. we don't wash all over every day when there's steady work. Onct in a couple of days does us a plenty.
 There was a good game up there. yes'day The Reds was playin' the Yankees so us little fellers never had a show till most six. but we had a good one then. Played till near eight and then we lost the ball.
 Then we takes a sneak down by the saloon but there wasn't rothin' do- in there. so we cuts it out and goes home.
 Ma was sittin' on the stoop wait in' fer me. She don't like them fellers I goes with. She don't like me to stay out nights. She's allus glad when she sees me in bed of night. Says she knows where I am then.
 ''There ain't nothing else to tell you. Oh. yes. there was Hunkie got killed on the track to-day.-but that ain't nothin'. our days is mostly alike here when the mines is workin'. There's Ma a-callin' now. suppose she wants me to go to the store.-so long,"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01

The aborigines of Australia, of whom about 75,000 remain, are apt students of reading and writing in English. but apparently cannot be taught even the simplest forms of mathematics.
 Teak wood is given it's extraordinary durability by barking the trees two years before they are cut, causing the oil to develop. as though to protect the trees from exposure.
 A British religious organization is trying to transplant a race by encour- aging the emigration of the Lapps from Lapland, where they are in dan ger of extinction, to the more health ful regions of Labrador and New Foundland.
 Experiments with covering the arms of it's signals with gold leaf instead of paint have proven economical to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad The treat ment lasts without renewal for ten or twelve years, while formerly the sig nals had to be painted yearly
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01

A big company has been formed in London to exploit new form of chrome leather, which, it is claimed. is made waterproof by working a rubber soIution into its pores after it is tan
 A French chemist has figured it out that the oceans of the world carry sc mn ions of radium in solution, while mo 900 tons are contained in the sedi- s~~.r-s,f m the floors of the Seven Seas
 TSor fine past four years Great Brit afn hos led the world in the per capita -... - <zssr,,s,ffou Of sugar, with the United Ss-s~T Il cIoee second, Bulgaria. Greece sSS nerv1a haying used the least
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01

Whats that? What was I up to yist'day? I ain't sure I can remember it all. but I'll try
 My days is mostly all alike when mines is workin'. Ma and me lives in that there little log shanty with little Bill and Sissy. They goes to school, but none of that for me. Never learnt a thing in school. I didn't. There bum. When went to school. it was in one door and out the other.
 Yep. I'm fifteen now,-been work in' in the breaker since I was ten. Days is mostly the same to me. Yes t'day mornin' I was a dreamin' away two-forty about our nine. We was a playin' the Hogtowners and they was one ahead. I goes up to the bat a Id soaks her fer a homer and jest as was gettin around to third. and the fellers was a hollerin' to beat time, comes to and Ma was a-singin' Rose, Johnnie. rise.
 Don't you hear the bells a-ringin'? Johnnie. are you wakin'?
 It is time to be alive Early in the mornin'.
 Continually keeps callin'
 Johnnie. are you wakin'
 It is half past five"
 "She sings that every mornin' to get me up. Pretty good of Ma. to wake q feller that way, ain't it? It's a blamed siaht better'n bein' hauled out by the hair like some of the kids is.
 50 I gets up and puts on my clothes. That's the part I don't like fer cent. After you once gets dirty. 1t don't make no difference, but it's pretty tough to get out of a decent bed and into them black mine-clot as. Anyhow. I gets on my clothes fills my lamp and goes down to breakfast.
 s'It was a dandy day. Ma had fried eggs and taters. Mas a swell cook and she puts the real thing into yer pail. I uses the pail as belonged to Pa. When the cage fell and killed him, the pail he had wasn't broke at
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
A RELIGIOUS AUTHORS

Rev. Joseph H. Fesperman, Sails bury, N. C.. who is the author of sev- era1 books. writes: For several years I was afflicted with kidney trouble and last winter I was suddenly strick- en with a severe pain in my kidneys and was confined to bed eight days un- able to get up without assistance My urine contained a thick white sediment and I passed same frequently day and night. I commenced taking Foley's s Kidney Remedy. and the pain gradual ly abated and finally ceased and my urine became normal. I cheerfully re- commend Foley's Kidney Remedy" F. R. Brill, loaa1 agent. s136
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
SURGICAL APPLIANCES

ELASTIC SURGICAL APPLIANCES fashioned on hand looms to individ- ual requirements. Requisites for physicians. nurses, hospitals. Will liam Snowden. No. 6 Taylor Block. 1119 Broad street. A practical ex- perience of over 25 years. Telephone ss7 29 stf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
RAILROADS
WzHMfk X.zzYsHzHeg
 eZAAEkHZA@ OCTOBER 12, 1908. Trains Leave Bridgeport as
 Follows:

FOR NEW xoRK-.4:4A. .s:ts. !ses; s:os s!sI fsss ,d:os 5aa7 ,.os .aso. fsi. .la:2s. 12:s4. .1:4s. .s:a7. s:ts. .4:1s. s:0s. .5:27. s:12. "s:2e. s7:2s. .s:11. ss:27. 1o:oo F. M.-sUNDAYs -.4;44: 's:ls. ts:26: .lo:os 4 M.- fe:45. .7:2s. "s:11. .s:27. s:52. P. M.
 FOR WASHINGTON, yia Har3ezu River.-s12:s0 (daily) A M.: s1:aA P M
 FOR NEW HAvEN-.11:s2, s1:af. .2;1s; s;5o; 7:ss; s:ss.: .s:ss. S 1:so. :a:as. s.so. !s:4s. Ms :4:ss. as:s s:ss. fi1:54 P. M suNDAYs@:1s:ss. .1:41. .s:1s. SIS, s:4s. .1o:44..11:ss. SAT. s1o:o2 P. M.
 FOR BOSTON. via New Londsn and Provtdence-s1:41. s2:1s. e:5o. 1 HISS A. M--2:ss; 's:4s: .4:ss. .1l;;ss A. M.-'2;as '4:aS. 's:sa
 FOR BOSTON. via Hartford and Willimantic-'s:s5. A. A.-"s:3o. F.
 FOR TWISTED and lnserned,as. 2:s5. .s:s4. 7:4o P. M-sUNDAYs- S:30 A. M.-6:45 P. M.
 FOR WATERBURY,. ANsoNIA DERBY and Intermediate Stations--. 5:OO zoo, S:0O. 9:45 A. M- 2:35. f5:54. TAO P. M.-SBNDAYS- s:3o, 10:o0. A. M.-6:45. s:50. P. M
 FOR CT. HARRINGTON, LENOx PITISF1ELD. ETC.---7:oo. o:s0, AM -4:33. F. M.-SUNDAYS-S: A. M
 FOR DANBURY. NEW MILFoRn ETC., via BrOokfieId Junctfon.---.:o0 9:5G, A. M.-4:33. 6:37 P. M.
 FOR LITCHEIELD, ETC.-s:so 4 M-4:33 F. M.-SUNDAYS-S: A. M.
 Express trains tLocaI Express,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
Business Opportunities

Our speciality is Business Proposl- tions of all kinds: stores. factories, cafes realty, etc, bought. sold, ex- tion confidential. MacDanieI & Co. Business Brokerage. PIP Warner Build ing. Bridgeport. H7sn
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BREAKER BOY
The Real Story of Pennsylvania Youngster Whose ''Days Is Mostly All Alike When the Mines is Worzin' ''-Fifteen Years Old and Been Working Since Ten.
SCOTT NEARING

CFormer Secretary Pennsylvania Chi.d
 Labor Committee.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
UP-To-DATE TAILoRs

DO YOU WANT to have your clothing cleaned. pressed. repaired. or alterod. The well known Middle street taiIor will do the job neat. quick and rea- sonable. Matthias Sajben. custom tailor. 2 Middle street. betweeal port. Conn Bfs
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
SHOES

NEW AND SECOND HAND Shoe, for sale Repairing neatly ana prompt
 ly done at lowest prices Nathan Hartman. 72 State street. \ 0
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
FURNITURE
INSTRUCTION

PIANO REPAIRING-Now is the time to have your piano put in per- feet condition. Our workmen are not busy and we can give you a very low figure now. Let us tell you how much it will cost. Drop postal or Call. Steinert's Piano Store, 915 Main St. L6 atf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED.-We want to buy 1C0 van leads of second hand furniture and household goods. and also mdse. of every description. We give 5 per cent. more than other dealers. A.
 Elwood & Son. Inc. auctioneers, salesroom. I'll John St. 26 If. |" WE SELL everything in asbesros. j.
 F. Welsh. successor to Feeney q
 Welsh. U 61 3e IF YOU want an extermfnator for all kinds of bugs and insects. why not get one that has a $1.oo0 guarantee. 114 Kossuth St. U61S6
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
CARPET CLEANING

Steam Carpet Cleaning
 and Fluff Rug Works. Has Removed to 236 Stratford Ave.
 O.. w. WILCOX, Prop.
 J. G. FLORIDA, Mgr. 1328-S ..S23 If
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
B A R G A I N s

B A R G A I N s in one, two and four-family houses; building lots on Wells Place, Strar- ford and at Washington Bridge; City building lots at great reduction in prices; want to close these properties; payments to suit purchaser.
 Steamship tickets to and from all parts. Money drafts at lowest rates.
 JAMES EEELEY'S Open Evenings Arcade
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01

Exclusive Service Charities and The
 Common Press Bureau)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
PERSONAL

MRS. BLANCHE BARNARD, Clair voyant and Trance Medium. gives readings daily; Sunday by appoint ment only. Six questions answered by mail, 25 cents and self addressed postpaid envelope. Address 491 Main St., Bridgeport, Conn. 112 elf MADAM CARLYN. the great English Clairvoyant and Palmist, tells all you wish to know. Can be consulted at 947 Broad St. B IF ID
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01

MONEY ADVANCED TO CoNDUc- TORS, engineers. firemen, trainmen. clerks, letter carriers. mail clerks. school teachers, bookkeepers. cash iers. mechanics and others. Strictly confidential Heffron Co.,, Room. 301 Meigs Bldg. GIT eff
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
MONEY TOLOAN

MONEY LOANED on household goods, also on second and third mortgages on property, to be repaid iE small weekly payments. Strictly conff-. dentiaL Bridgeport Loan Co, Room no, Warner Building, S4 Fairfield Ave. IS If
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01

MONEY FURNISHED sALARIED PEOPLE without security or col-. lateral, easy payments. Offices inf 62 principal ZIP ,st.ias cites. ,, save tar yourself D. H. Holman. Room 47 Taylor
 Building, 46 Cannon St. tB3 stf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
FEMALE HELP WANTED
MALE HELP WANTED

mechanical architec- tural or structural. are always in demand at good salaries: ten young men wanted to join club to learn drawing, at home evenings: instru- ments furnished. Address c. S. K, Box S28, City. U25 "tf
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05
"SQUAW MAN" DEVELOPED
FROM A TABLOID DRAMA

The story of the manner in which
Edwin Milton Royle came to write
THE Squaw Man." which win be used
to celebrate the fifth anniversary of
the Belasco theater tomorrow night,
is one that will bear telling. To be-
gin with, Mr. Royle is native of
the west. He was born in Salt Lake
City, and was brought up in cattle
country, in wyoming, to be exact. His
growth was to the accompaniment Of
the thunder of hoofs, the crack of the
stock whip and the whiz of the lariat,
and so it may be judged that when
theme was handy to his mind it was
inevitable that he should write a
strong and truthful picture of the life
that was his from earliest infancy.
To Mr. Royle one day came story
of an Englishman who had sacrificed
himself, his hopes and prospects, by
taking upon himself the onus of
charge of embezzlement in order that
his cousins wife, whom he regarded
highly, should not be made to suffer
disgrace, and who on his arrival in
Wyoming married an Indian woman
and thereby was relegated to the social
cellar of the state with the degrading
epithet of "squaw man" attached to
him. To this story Mr. Poyle built
and added from the wealth of his
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05

scribed as gay and sportive, but clean,
and is said to dispense even with the
slapstick in favor of the merriment
of the situations themselves.
Among the songs will be quartet Sc,
lections by Arthur Clamage, Albert
Leonard, Jean Hathaway and Estelle
Praeger.
.JJNIQUE-Two vaudeville acts new
to Los Angeles and another interesting
one-act comedy are promised on the
bill which opens Monday matinee.
Pong and Lee, headliners, pledge
something novel in comedy acrobatics.
They will try to make you laugh as
we'll as wonder. The Del Costa duo
have a singing act which has been sue
cessfully presented in the east, and
which is announced as pretty ana
The Mysterious Mr.. Smith, this
weeks pIaylet, is by Edwin T. Emery,
whose offerings of the last two weeks
have proved popular A hilarious hus-
band and a wife who stoutly dis
ciplines him afford the skeleton for
the comedy situations, which Emery,
Denton Vane, Al Franks, Herbert
Cramer, Miss Douvee, Miss Constance
and Miss Salmon will enact
New song numbers will be inter
polated, and there will be new motion
pictures and an illustrated ditty
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05
SUMMARY OF THE EARLY
PRODUCTIONS IN EAST

The following compact summary OF
late eastern productions is from the
Seattle Times:
The theatrical season has started
unusually early on the Atlantic coast,
and several new productions are made
each week. Early in August Sidney
Drew appeared in his enlarged Vaude-
vile sketch, Billy" and proved false
the late Maurice Barrymore's one-time
pertinent remark that the difference
between John and Sidney was that
John Drew and Sidney didn't; Savage
produced 1.-THE Florist Shop before
easily enthusiastic Atlantic City audi
ences and reviewers, but 1T dldn make
so large a hit in New York week
later. 1.-The Only Law" on the order
of "The Easiest Way" did not satisfy;
'The Ringmaster" was produced Au-
gust 8 at the Maxine Elliott theater,
where it is still going 1.-THE Dollar
Mark" made it's first appearance IN
Hartford, Conn, August 16; "A Broken
Idol' failed to break the ice at the
Herald Square the same night, ana
Belasco's production of Dttrichstein's
rs Matrimony a Failure?" seems des-
tined to be one of the seasons sue
cesses. 1.-THE Flag Lieutenant with
Bruce McRae as a star, started on wen
August 90, and Claiming Pollocks
such a Little Queen" with Elsie Fer
guson, is called pretty romance and
may become popular. Hattie Williams
has graduated from musical comedy to
straight comedy and made big hit IN
the first production of Detective
Sparkes" at the Garrick August %.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05
"NELL,s" PREMIERE TO BE
in PRETTY 1912 WAR PLAY

"Springtime. in which the new star
Nell as Mabel Taliaferro henceforth
is to be known. will first be seen, under
the direction of Frederick Thompson,
is a novel and unusual dramatic work
by Booth Harrington and Harry Leon
Wilson, co-authors of 1.-THE Man from
Home" in which William Hodge is
starring, and "Cameo Kirby" in which
Dustin Farnum is the featured player.
Old Louisiana in the tempestuous days
of 1916, when Gen. Andrew Jackson was
capturing New orleans from the Brit
ish. furnishes the locale and the set
tings, while the juxtaposition OF
money-making Yankees and patrician
descendants of adventurous French
settlers supplies the contrasting char
acters of the play. Notwithstanding
the martial times during which the ae-
ton takes place, "Springtime" has
chiefly to do with the newborn love of
the maiden Madeleine for a stalwart
American youth. The young girl is an
utterly new character and one which
has been written to fit the physical and
artistic qualities of the dainty actress
Nell.
Throughout the play there runs an
undercurrent of musical accompani-
ment, composed and arranged by Har-
ry Rowe Shelly.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05
BRITISH DRAMA DROUGHT
REFRESHED 7Y REPERTOIRE

Writing from London to the New
York Saturday Evening Post, Edward
Garnett hopefully halls the two new
English repertoire theater projects as
harbingers of a renaissance in the Brit
ish drama. Speaking of the Victorian
era, he says:
"All literary critics are agreed that
the Elizabethan drama was representa-
tive of Elizabethan culture, but nobody
can pretend that the Victorian drama
was ever representative of Victorian
culture. Compare the list of our great
Victorian nOvelists and poets with that
of the contemporary dramatists. We
find the dead poetic drama of Tai
fourd and his school, two or three
clever, garish plays by Lord Lytton, a
few pseudo-realistic dramas with a
purpose by Charles Reade, plays of the
teacup and saucer school of Robert
son, the plays of Mr. Pinero and Henry
Arthur Jones.
"These are the flowers of the Victor
ian drama blossOming amid the inter-
minable thicket of deadwood, the sem
sational sentimental, meretricious vul-
garities false to life and false to art,
that have filled the play-bills of the
last sixty years.
Adverting to- the repertoire theater
idea, Mr. Garnett expresses the belief
that as one result of such an estab-
HShment, the standard of cfltlclSm,
which, under the influence of the com
mercial drama, has been of poor quail
ity, will gain in originality and insight
And this should react favorably on the
standards of the ordinary play-goer;
though 1 am bound to admit that the
excellent literary criticism that now
appears in so many of our leading Lon
don newspapers has had much less ef-
feet in improving the literary taste of
the British public at large than one
would have supposed.
"The last word must, however be one
of hope The outlook for drama in the
past three years has changed much for
the better. After the prime minister's
recent declaration in the house Of
commons we may surely hope that the
ridiculous British censorship which
has SO long paralyzed the freedom of
outspoken serious drama will be re-
placed by the creation of sane au-
thoritatiVe body. The old view that
the theater is merely place of amuse-
ment is giving way slowly. but none
the less giving way, to the idea that
the theater is one of the most potent
instruments we possess for the aes-
thetic. mental and moral instruction of
the citizen"