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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-02
Kingston.

N. 2. Springer spent a few days in
Des Aoines last week.
Otis Binning happened to quite
painful accident last Thursday. While.on
his way to work, in some way fell from
the farm cart in which they were rid
ing, the wheel passing over his head
but fortunately he was not hurt danger
ously but his face was bruised pretty
bad and quite cash cut just at the
corner of his eye. He is able to be about
again now.
Horny Redman and family spent Sun
day at John LETTERS, near Grand River.
Helen Hamilton visited at Fetch
Keller's Friday.
Jim Upheld and two children were
Leon callers one day last week.
Ben Redman and family, Ben Dobson,
and family and Steve Strong spent Sun
day at Bert Rednan's.
Mrs. Lenna Hamilton and daughter
Madge went to st. Joe Saturday where
they will spend the winter and Miss
Aadge will attend school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hart called on Mr.. and
Mrs. Guy Smith Sunday evening.
George Redman and family spent
Sunday at Frank Binning's.
Grover Hamilton delivered some hogs
to Ben Redman Saturday morning.
Mrs. Carrie Ross and Mrs. Horny
Redman we're Leon callers Monday.
Guy Smith has the work commenced
on his new house.
Quite number Of people are hauling
sand while the roads are good.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wilantt and
daughter went to Van Vert Tuesday.
Harry Trauple and family spent Sun
day in this neighborhood.
Mrs. Harry Binning, Of Grand River,
came Monday for few days visit with
Mrs. Frank Binning.
Mr.. Caldwell's sister, of Shenandoah,
came Monday for few days visit.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-02
Center.

L. D. CARRIER has gone to the state
fair with his team and wagon.
Mrs. Wright and the little boys
came out to the Boyce farm and made
a lot Of cider from crabs.
Wheat and potatoe crops are short.
Mr.. and Mrs. LATE Weaver enter
tanned number of friends Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gardner were out
to the Ocean farm last Saturday.
Manchester brothers are done thresh-
ing in Center.
L. Long and ]. Watson went to mill,
at Davis City Monday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-02
CORRESPONDENCE.
Davis City.


down the past week visiting relatives.
Bert Cummings. and wife, of Kansas
City, visited the past week with his
mother, Mrs. I. e. Cummings.
Miss Nettie Bowman, a former Davis
City girl, but now located at Kansas
City, has been enjoying visit with old
time friends here the past two weeks.
After weeks visit with friends here
Miss Rosa Hockert, of Ottumwa, left
Monday for visit with relatives at La
moni.
Miss Lacey Lanning, of Charlton, Wis
tied her many little friends here during
the reunion.
Rev. and Mrs. o. f. Howard have re-
turned from three weeks visit with
relatives at Little Sioux and Shenan-
doah.
Mrs. Ed Graham and sister, Miss Mar
garet Wernitch, are visiting their
sister. Mrs. Laura Wright, at Shenan-
doah.
Tom Goldman came in from Kansas
City last week and attended the re-
union. Tom is former Davis City boy
Will Adams and family came up from
Albany to attend the reunion and visit
his mother, Mrs. S. e. Adams.
Orville Marble, of Kansas City, is
visiting his mother, Mrs. Alice Marble.
Miss Beatrice Wilmont, of Kansas
City, visited at the home of Mrs. Alice
Marble last week.
Clarence Marble and wife, of Skid
more, Mo-, visited here last week. Mr..
Marble returned Monday but Mrs.
Marble will visit a few days longer.
Mrs. Cora Custer was the guest of
Mrs. s. R. Frazier last week.
James Keshlear, of Kansas City, is
here visiting his family.
Miss Cozzy Keshlear, of Leavenworth,
Kansas, visited here a few days last
week.
Lawrence Young and wife, Of Line
vile, were in attendance at our reunion
last week.
School will commence next Monday.
Mrs. P. E. Shirley left Monday for
Des MOines where she will visit her
daughters, Mrs. Anna Hadley and Miss
Jae Shirley.
Grant Craig is in Creston.
Mrs. Lille Harper is here from Pat
tonsburg, Mo-, visiting relatives.
Mrs. G. G. Grimes returned home last
Tuesday from Moline, Illinois, where
she had been visiting her sister.
Mrs. 3. A. Norman has returned home
from visit with her sister in Montana.
Ed Brickett, cousin of Mrs. Bessie
Mitchell, of Blue Ridge, Mo-, is here
visiting.
Anis Mitchell and daughter, from Kan
sas, are here visiting his brother, VIM.
Mitchell, and other relatives.
Grandpa Jordan left Monday for a
visit at Mt. Ayr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carter Scott are visit
ing their daughter, Mrs. Julian Butter
worth, at Iowa City.
Frank Goldman returned to Des
Moines after visiting his father here
the past two weeks.
Prof. Erwin Spencer was business
visitor here Tuesday.
The reunion passed Of nicely and a
most enjoyable time was had, large
crowds being in attendance.
g. G.. Grimes and wife were pas
seDgers to Weldon Tuesday.
A number of our people are attending
the state fair at Des Moines this week.
Miss Van Glider is visiting her par
ents at Milo this week.
DR.. Reed leaves this week for Seattle
where he will take in "the sights" be-
sides visiting other points.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. o. L. Frazier,
Friday, a baby girl.
J. G. Keshlear returned to Kansas City
after visiting several days with his
family in this city.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-02

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disease or diabetes. Bell & Robinson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-09-02

For any pain, from top to toe, from
any cause, apply DR.. Thomas Eciectric
oil. Pain can't stay where it is used.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
GAMBLING IN FUTURES.

Several bills have been introduced
in congress to prohibit dealing in
the futures of wheat, cotton and
other agricultural products, and close
up the bucket shops. Recent events
in Chicago, where virtually the nerve
of one man shot the price of wheat
away up yonder and advanced the
price of -four and bakers bread, has
put the public to thinking and Won
dering whether that sort of trad
ing" is a benefit to the wheat grow
er. When it comes to something to
eat people rouse up and take notice.
Patterns exploits in the Chicago
wheat pit have attracted the world,
and furnished convincing argument
for the necessity of a law to crush
this atrocious species of gambling.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
Wants to Count Murders,

From the Shellman Sun.
The Dawson News is disposed to
boast of the claim that there has
been no lynching in Terrell county
by Terrell county citizens in the past
fifty years. There have been two
lynchings in the county, but on both
occasions the lynchers were from ad-
Joining counties. They are law-abid-
ing people in Terrell, says The News.
In the very recent past we have be-
come convinced that we cannot boast
OF our knowledge of human nature.
We think we know a man, but the
occasion may come at any time
proving that we do not know him.
Mob violence is possible in Terrell
county, as in other counties-the oc-
cas1on only is necessary. We are
glad with The News that the people
over there have not yet found the
excuse for lynch law, and hope they
may never. Now that The News has
sought to make a comparison we
nave proposition to make to our
esteemed neighbor, viz: You get a
complete list of the killings, white
and black, that have occurred in Ter
rell county by people living in that
county during the past fifteen years,
and we will get up the record in Ran
dolph county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
A NEIGHBORLY SPIRIT.

That is a fragrant boquet our
neighbor, the Americas Times-Re-
corder, presents our other neighbor
Albany. In noting that the con-
tract has been let for a $4,000 city
hall and the money subscribed for
quarter of million dollar cotton
factory in Albany the Times-Re-
corder says;
These substantial evidences
of increasing importance and
development are gratifying to
the friends of Albany, no mat
ter where located While there
is some keen business rivalry
between that city and this there
is no room for any unreasOna-
BILE envy on either side, or for
any other feeling save that of
brotherly kindness and good
will Every step Albany takes
forward is a step in the pro-
gressive uplift of southwest
Georgia, and whatever tends to
move this section onward helps
every county and town within
it,"
That's the right kind of spirit,
and one in which The News freely
shares. We like to see our neigh
boring towns prosper and expand.
And while they are at it Dawson will
not be asleep. We just now have no
new projects of the magnitude of
some in Albany and Americas,
which set the pace for Georgia cities
Of their size, but Dawson is growing
steadily and solidly and is keeping
step in the march of progress. In
fact, if there are three better towns
all in a bunch anywhere than AL
bany, Dawson and Americas The
News has not heard of them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
PILING UP DEFICITS.

At what point is the increase of
national expenditures over and above
the increase in population going to
stop? There was a time when the
government could not spend what it
did not get The modern invention
of national debts has changed that,
and governments can mortgage the
property of generations unborn. The
practice is beginning of borrowing
money to pay the interest on pre-
vious borrowing.
We see it stated that the chancel-
lor of the British exchequer has just
announced that expenditures to
which the government is committed
will exceed the income 100000,
and new taxes must be levied The
cost of the army and navy has been
increasing fast, and it is proposed to
add another $30,000,O00 to the navy,
to spend an equal amount in reliev
ing the unemployed and to disburse
$35, 100000 year, to begin with,
for old age pensions, 1t is proposed
to get $20,000,0O0 more out of in
comes, much of which will come out
of people of small means, as much
more out of urban lands, which will
increase the rents paid by jewellers
in towns, and to get 100000 more
out of inheritances and $25,OO0,O0O
more out of the liquor trade.
Our own government is moving in
the same direction. There will be de-
ficits on the present schedule of ex-
penditures until new taxes are laid,
and the chief reason for new taxes
will be the Philippines, the army we
have had since the war with Spain,
and the determination to have the
biggest navy in the world with the
possible exception of that of Eng
land.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
HEROD HAPPENINGS.

Rev. Clarence White, the evangel-
list of the Bethel Association, spent
Saturday and Sunday here. He
preached a very forceful sermon on
Sunday, and made many admirers
during his short stay. We hope to
have him with us again before very
long.
Mrs. D. ]. Dennis, who is in She'll
man, the popular guest of her sis
ter, Mrs. VIM. Saxon, is expected
home Thursday. Her many friends
will welcome her gladly.
Our streets are being worked this
week, and will be uniformly widened
to thirty feet, which will add much
to the looks of our little city when
the sidewalks are finished.
Mrs. c. M. Harris and little Melin-
da returned from Shellman Friday
Melinda was a very popular visitor
both in Cuthbert and Shellman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lumpkin Quinn are
at home to their friends in their new
residence on South Church street.
They moved in on Thursday
Mr.. Howard Clark of Albany was
a popular visitor here last Monday
and Tuesday. His many friends here
gave him a cordial welcome.
Messrs. Geo. and Jim Polk McLain,
Charlie Harris Kelley and Leon Nc
Lendon attended the chautauqua in
Albany Thursday.
Misses Ruth and Olive McLendon
have recently visited their brother,
Hugh, at the agricultural college at
Americas.
The dust was effectually laid here
Saturday, and Sunday afternoon was
what might be called wet weather
itself.
Rev. D. S. Dennard filled his ap-
pointment at Union church near
Richland last Saturday and Sunday.
We are glad that little James
Dennard has recovered from a re-
cent severe spell of sickness.
Miss Helen Melton has been pro-
NOTED to a teachers place in the
Baptist Sabbath school.
Mr.. G. M. Harris made a business
trip to Randolph county Wednesday
and Thursday.
There have already been several
applications for positions in the
school here.
Misses burlington and Brim we're
popular guests of Mrs. Fred McRee
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. McCurdy of She'll
man were pleasant visitors here last
week.
Major McLendon and his zebras
are camping at Harris springs near
here.
Misses Ruth and Olive McLendon
spent Sunday with the homefolks.
Mr.. John Perry of Florida has
been a recent visitor of friends here.
DR.. Elm Collum attended the med
ical convention in Macon last week.
Mrs. M. Higdon of Texas is the
guest of her neice, Mrs. H Rauch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Lee of Doverel
attended preaching here Sunday.
Mr.. Walters of Randolph county
was here the first of the week.
Messrs. Mathews and Sem were
welcome visitors here Sunday.
Capt. D. ]. Dennis visited Shell
man relatives Friday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
CHAMBLISSTON CHAT.

At the recent meeting of Turkey
Creek Primitive Baptist church Rev.
Philips was called to the pastorate
for the remainder of the year. He
will preach on the third Saturday
and Sunday in each month.
The young people had a singing
at the home of J. w. Russell. Quite
a crowd attended, and all seemed to
enjoy the afternoon very much.
Mr.. w. c. Edwards has been up
spending a week. He said he was
on business, and we are all pretty
sure he means business, too.
Miss Bertha Bolton is staying with
her aunt, Mrs. J. A. Perry, who has
been sick for some time. At pres
ent she seems to be improving.
Mrs. Maggie Hairbuck is on the
sick list again. We hope she VIII
be out again in a few days.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
CAN YOU SPARE THE CHANGE?

If somebody, or several some
bodies, will advance $10,00O,000
the earth-bound human race will be
able to enter into communication
with the inhabitants of Mars by next
July-that is if the carefully thought
out plans of Professor William Hen
ry Pickering, Harvard's astronomer,
are practically demonstrated. The
reason the Harvard astronomer
names July as the best time for the
truly wonderful experiment of sig
mailing the inhabitants of the planet
Mars is that in that month the great
planet will be 100000 miles nearer
the earth than ever before.
Professor Pickering believes that
the planet is inhabited by a highly
civilized race of beings who are now
carrying on great engineering works,
and he is going to prove it if some
one will advance him the little mite
of ten million dollars.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
LET'S QUIT

1 Standing in the postoffice doors.
2 Standing at our boxes to read our
mail.
8 "Cussin" where anyone can hear
Throwing paper or trash on the
streets.
5 Standing under awnings which
are about to fall
6 Saying things about people we
wouldn't tell them.
Z Saying things in the paper we
won't do in the store.
s Talking when we ought to be
silent.
9 Being silent when we ought to
talk.
10 Throwing banana Feelings on the
pavement.
II Smoking cigarettes where other
people are forced to inhale it.
II Empting our faces full of tobacco
juice on the sidewalks or floor
for ladies to drag their skirts
through.
We heard very fine gentleman
sly: eff you eXpect-to-rate as a man
you won't expectorate on the floor
or sidewalks" To say the least of
it the observance of the twelve sug-
gestiOns above will show thoughtful
consideration of other people
Dawson, Ga. CITIZEN.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
MURDERS AND LYNCHINGs.

Just because The News stated that
the people of Terrell county had
nothing to do with and were in no
way responsible for the killing OF
the negro Alfred Iverson by mob
our good neighbor, the Shellman
Sun, wants to compare with us the
number of homicides in Randolph
and Terrell counties the past fifteen
years. What good it could possibly
do we do not know, but we are not
at all afraid of such a comparison,
and will gladly give The Sun the
information as to Terrell county
as soon as we can conveniently look
it up. AS an observer and ChrOni-
cler of events in this section for
more than fifteen years The News
knows there have been too many
murders in each of these counties,
spect that will permit of a great deal
of boasting. But with all that no
mob's blood shed by her people has
stained Terrell county during the
fifty-three years of her existence. 1t
is a record of which mighty few 9TH
err counties can boast, and one for
which we have no apology to offer
for calling attention to-especially
since some of our adjoining counties
are getting so unneighborly as to
come over on Terrell soil to pull off
their lynching bees.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
Man Is Made of Dust.
Dust Settles.
Be a Man.
TOO MANY PARDONS.

From the Dublin Times.
1t seems to us that within the last
few months the Prison Commission
and Governor Hoke Smith have par
doned an unusual number of con-
victs. A bad precedent is being es-
tablished.
When people see that it is such an
easy matter to obtain a pardon or to
receive a Communication of sentence
after they are placed in the peniten-
tiary they are more apt to commit
crimes from which they would
shrink if more of the convicts were
made to serve out their full time.
One of these cases which we call
to mind is that of w. G. Thompson
of Savannah. Less than a year ago
he was found guilty of appropriating
funds to the amount of several thou
sand dollars in connection with one
of the large mercantile firms there
He was convicted and sentenced to
seven years in the penitentiary. At
ter he was sent there he was treated
with a good deal of consideration
and Jared better than some of the
other convicts. Soon after this eff
forts were made to have him released
or to have his sentence committed
While he was serving his sentence
ThompsOn's wife, who had gone back
to her home after her husbands I'M
fortunate trouble, became ILL He
was given permission by the prison
authorities to go to his dying wife
After her death he returned to the
prison and again started upon his
sentence. Then the effort was re-
sumed by his friends to have him
taken out of the penitentiary, and
his name now appears on the list of
convicts whom the prison commits
sion and the governor have seen fit
to pardon.
The frequency with which pardons
have been granted, or recommended
tions made for pardons looking to
the release of prisoners, in the state
of Georgia has been marked and no.
ticeable for the last few months.
We should not wonder at all if state
politics has not had something to do
with the situation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
SPLIT ON PORT RATES.

The unexpected in politics keeps
happening. Now, according to the
Atlanta Journal, here's Chairman
Guyte McLendon of the Georgia
railroad commission, who was ap-
pointed a member of that board to
succeed Governor-elect Joe Brown
when the latter was removed from
the commission by Governor Hoke
Smith because he was not in accord
with the executive as to the treat
ment of the railroads, agreeing with
Brown and opposing Smith in the
matter of port rates Mr.. McLendOn
wrote the governor something to that
effect, too, and further said he had
looked fully into the question of port
rates sometime before the governor
recent letter on the subject was sent
to the commission The chairman
of the commission declares that there
are too many idle freight cars now,
and that he doesn't think it will be
wise to increase the number by fur
Their expressing the railroads.
That the governor and his APP.
pointee are at loggerheads is caus-
ing much speculation as to whether
the family row will terminate in al
event for which there is already ;
historic precedent in the Office o
Governor Smith and the office of thu
railroad commission.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
Roast Here and Hereafter.

From the Marietta Journal.
The biggest hypocrite in this world
is he who says grace over a three
pound roast that he has no intention
Of paying for.-Blakely Reporter.
Why confine it to a roast, brother?
There may be other articles of food
on the table that he thanks the Lord
for that he will cheat some merchant
out of his honest dues for the same,
The man may live by bread dishon-
estly obtained in this life, but it will
prove a 'pellagra" to his spiritual
life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28

Things have changed indeed in
Washington. When Senator Tillman
called at the white house the other
day he was received ahead of Book
er Washington, who he found there
waiting to see President Taft. How
different it was from the days of the
former president, who had been
known to even keep distinguished
callers waiting while he lunched and
chatted with his negro friend from
Alabama
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28
BUYING SOUTHERN COLLEGES
From the Savannah Press.

Tannah Press.
south has something more vital at
stake.
By the way, this is a very insid-
iOus and powerful thing-the control
of the universities. The nations Of
Europe, to return to Bishop Cand-
ler'S letter, understand all these
things. They have been experiment.
ing with educational institutions for
centuries. When England wished to
insure her domination in Norman
dy she founded the University of
Caen. When Spain desired to con-
solidate the Netherlands she estab-
lished the University of Douay. At
ter the battle of Jena Germany set
about healing the wounds inflicted
upon her in that disastrous defeat
by founding the University of Ber-
lin. Bismarck undertook the Ger
maniZing of AlsaCe-LOrraine by re-
constructing the University of Stras-
bourg. Oxford has been the breed
ing ground of tories for centuries.
The world knows what comes of such
influential plants. The power of in
tellectual forces in any state is won
derful. The event has justified the
wisdom of these far-sighted propos-
ais. Political changes have been ac-
companied, and the promoters have
achieved vastly more than the origi.
nal cost
This scheme for capturing and
controlling the colleges and the uni.
versities Of the country. especially
of the south, is a deeply laid one
Bishop Gambler eXclaims in the Ian.
guage Of the Psalmist: Surely in
vain the net is spread in the sight
of any bird.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-28

rom inc Sit
Editor Pendleton of The Macon
Telegraph did not attend the educa-
tional conference in Atlanta.
We do not blame him. The Press
has already printed extracts from
Bishop Gamblers pamphlet showing
the danger of this movement to cap
ture and control southern educa-
tiOnal institutions in favor of pro
greSsive' ideas on race questions and
economics. The Macon Telegraph
fears that the list of southern col
leges which have been captured is
startling. This is the age in which
the art of being poor and respecta-
! BILE seems to be almost lost; it re-
quires a rare heroic spirit for a hun
CRY college to refuse aid, even when
conditions are unwelcOme In some
southern colleges there are profess
SOrs whose utterances indicate a COM
plete acceptance both of republican
economics and of the northern view
of the war between the states; also
quite an advanced" position on the
race question. The most prominent
men acting for the general educa-
tiOnal board in the south are openly
in favor of the obliteration of the
color line. No college that accepts
a large gift from a trust or from an
anti-cOlor line philanthropist can es-
cape the responsibilities imposed by
this debt. The beneficiary is bound
to defer in considerable measure to
the opinions and wishes of the bene-
factor The whole country has ia
fear the capitalistic control Of col
leges financed by Rockefeller and
Carnegie. 1t is easy to see that the