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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09
Orphan Ridge.

A. j. Rumley, of Leon, spent Satur-
day night and Sunday at the home
of Jacob Butts.
Mrs. Fred Jones and Miss Sarah
Truitt spent Sunday at the home Of
George Stephens.
Mart Pickering and wife, Of Leon,
fishing on Little River.
A. j. Fulton caught fine string of
fish out of Little River last Sunday.
One of the fish weighed six pounds.
Everybody from these parts at
tended the decoration services at
Davis City last Sunday.
Andy and Jim Smith and w. M.
Barlean spent Sunday at Ed Camp
bells.
Charley Leahy called, on the Bar
lean boys Friday night.
Those that spent Sunday at A. J..
Fulton's were w. H. Fulton and wife,
Lon Fulton, Wade Fulton, Jefferson
Fulton and w. H. Jones.
Henry Underwood and wife called
on Uncle Hiram Hatfield Saturday.
We are glad to note that the sick
folks of this vicinity are all improv-
ing.
j. M. and w. NJ. Barlean called on
Zeke Merryman Saturday night.
Miss Daisy Merryman spent few
days last week with Mrs. Harl Will
hanson, returning home Thursday.
Tommy Patty, of ST. Joe, came up
Friday to spend couple of months
with his grandma, Mrs. A. J. Piper.
Mrs. A. j. Piper and son Lee and
Tommy Patty SDent Sunday at lin
McMorris'
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09
Lone Star.

Novia Tompkin and wife visited
Monday with the formers parents
near Weldon
Ernest Elsey was calling at Dan
Elsey's Monday morning.
Jim Thompson of4nea Woodland,
spent Tuesday night at the home of
Ira Brown
Misses Lizzie and Edith Quayle
spent Tuesday night at the. Steve
Trisler home
Will Trisler and wife, of near
Leon, spent Sunday at the home of
his parents, Dorm Trisler and wife.
Ira Brown was Leon caller Satur-
day afternoon.
Will Allen and family and Ira
Brown and family spent Sunday at
the home of Ernest Elsey.
Frank Elsey and wife came down
from Des Monies Saturday for a
weeks visit with friends and rela-
tiyes,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09
Scared Into Sound Health.

Mr.. B. F. Kelley, Springfield, ILL.,,
writes: "a year ago l began to be
troubled with my kidneys and blad-
der, which grew worse until / became
alarmed at my condition. i suffered
also with dull heavy headaches and
the action of the bladder was annoy
ing and painful. I read of Foley's
Kidney Pills and after taking them a
few weeks the headaches left me, the
action of my blader was again nor
NAL. and / was free of all distress.
Bell & Robinson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09
DELAYED CORRESPONDENCE
Woodland.

Erema and lone Woolman spent
Sunday with Marie and Lola Nc
Dowell.
Marion Beckwith went to st. Joe,
Mo-, Monday where he has secured
employment for the summer.
Irl and Okla Beavers made a bust
ness trip to Lineville Monday
Mrs. Cora Lane, Miss Grace
Rayn, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Beavers and
Wayne were Sunday visitors at the
w. T. Lane home.
Mrs Minnie Brooks and daugh-
ter, of Leon, came Sunday to visit
Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Bethards.
Dr.. McNay, the veterinary of Gar
den Grove, has made several profess
sional calls in this vicinity recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Hilton, of near
Pleasanton, We're here a few days last
week looking after the farm they re-
Gently purchased of Frank Sutherlin.
Geo. M. Jennings returned Satur-
day from a business trip to st. Joe.
Andrew Adair and family return
ed Saturday to Clio with Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. McGhee for a few days
visit.
Fred Still, who has been employed
in wholesale grocery store at Des
Moines, came Saturday for short
visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Still.
2. Housh and family spent Sunday
at the Ben McCleary home near High
Point.
Mrs Minnie Woolman is making a
reduction on ready trimmed hats and
invites the ladies to call and examine
them.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Konklin and
son We're. of near Leon, were Sunday
visitors at the home of Mrs. Mary
Beavers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09
Catarrh Cannot be Cured.

with LOCAL APPLICATIoNs as they cannot reach
the seat of the disease Catarrh is blood or con-
sttutional disease and in order to it you must
take internal remedies Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally and acts directly the blood and nue.
GUS surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not q quack
medicine. 1t was prescribed by of the best ply
sicians in this country for years and is regular
known combined with the best blood purifiers acting
directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect COM
binaion of the two ingredients is what produces such
wonderful results in curing Catarrh Send for test
imnoials free.
FL. CHENEY CO., Props, Toledo, o
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09
Sweet Creek.

Those that were Lamont callers
this week were: Frank Noftsger and
wife, John Zimmerman and Clary
Gentry, ]. w Wion, VIM. Jones, C.
R. Percy, Jim Woodmansee and wife
and daughter and Wilkie Wion.
Minnie Wiley visited Wednesday
night with her grandparents.
Ed Fest delivered hogs at Tus-
keego last week.
Henry Miller spent Sunday at the
home of his uncle, George Smith.
The L. D. S. minister preached at
Sweet Creek Sunday night.
Lem Jones, wife and children visit
ed Sunday at the home of VIM. Jones.
William Wion was Sunday visitor
at the VIM. Jones home.
Mildred Frink and Otis Creveling
called at the D. Gentry home Sunday
evening.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09
Could Not Be Better.

No one has ever made salve, oint-
ment, lotion or balm to compare with
Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It's the one
perfect healer of Cuts, Corns, Burns,
Bruises, Sores, Scalds, Boils, Ulcers,
Eczema, Salt Rheum. For sore Eyes
Cold Sores, Chapped Hands its SUI
preme. Infallible for Piles. Only
Csc at VanWerden & Kopp's.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09
Center.

John Myers entertained friends
Sunday.
Joe Leeper's family had reunion
Thursday of last week. We did not
learn the particulars.
Mr.. CARRIER has replanted his corn
on the Mcclure farm
The McEwing brothers visited with
Lorne Long last Sunday.
Frank Long has his barn to re-
pair.
Frank CARRIER is milking eleven
Jersey COWS.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09

Mrs. Henry Schwenk writes: 81
had eczema on my face for over four
years. We tried about half dozen
doctors, but never found any cure.
have been taking HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea for about three months
and it has done me more good than
all the doctors medicine w. c..
Stempel & Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09
What a Summer cold May Do.

A summer cold if neglected is just
as apt to develop into bronchitis or
pneumonia as at any other season.
Do not neglect it. Take Fsley's Hon
ey and Tar promptly. 1t loosens the
cough, soothes and heals the infiam-
ed air passages, and expels the cold
from the system. Bell & Robinson
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09
Summer Wash Goods

DulAAASA w 10A oOOU0
Here we have line, patterns are different
and nice line of shear goods for wear. Prices
lower than usual.
Lawns, batstes, etc. &c, 7Kc, SIC, 1Oc, 12kc, 15c
Lnon and inon finish suitings, tans and white values
extraordinary, per yard .1Oc, 12kc, 15c, 18c, Csc
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09

Foley's Kidney Remedy may be
given to children with admirable re-
suits. 1t does away with bed wet
ting, and is also recommended for
use after measles and scarlet fever.
Bell & Robinson.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09
Zepl1 yr
I lot1r

.
must make the greatest number of loaves Ds
bread you ever secured from any other four.
1t must give perfect satisfaction.
Test one-half of sack-if 1t doesn't do ala
the things we guarantee it to do. just return
the remaining half to your grocer and get
your money back for the entire sack! You
pay nothing for what you have already useds
Zephyr Flour is made from the richest-i,a
gluten Kansas hard wheat. which is abso-~
lutely the best -four grain in the world.
Prove 1t by ordering sack today of thu
following
J. A, CASTER, Leon, Iowa.
Lloyd & Mclaughlin, Decatur, Iowa
G. M. MILLER, Garden Grove, Iowa
SCOTT & McCLARAN, Davis City, Ia
BowersocA Mills and Power Co.
Lawrence. Kansas
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-06-09

Don't use harsh physics. The re-
action weakens the bowels, leads to
chrsnic constipation Get Doan's
Regulets. They operate easily, tone
1.-THE stomache, cure constipation.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-11-04

came to come up for two girls and
their trunks I supposed there was
something doing, and a. this here
woman had been looking for work in
the village thought I'd bring her
along"
Already I had acquired the true
suburbanite ability to take servants
on faith; no longer demanded writ.
ten and unimpeachable references. I,
Rachel lines, have learned not to
mind II the cook sits down comfort.
ably in my sitting room when she is
taking the orders for the day, and
am grateful If the silver is not cleaned
with securing soap. And so that day
merely told Liddy to send the new ap.
plicant in. When she came, however,
I could hardly restrain a gasp of sur.
prise. 1t was the woman with the
pitted face.
She stood somewhat awkwardly just
inside the door, and she had an air of
self-confidence that was inspiring.
Yes, she could cook; was not a fancy
cook. but could make good soups and
desserts If there was any one to take
charge of the salads. And SO, in the
end. I took her. AS Halsey said, when
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TIL CROLI Ar SIAIP((lA 81

standing at the foot Of that staircase
shootin' through the door-Tn never
30 the same woman again.
"Well. I'm glad Of that-anything
Tor . change" I said. And IN came
Eliza. flanked by Rosie and Mary
Anne.
Her story, broken with sobs ana COZ.
rections from the other two, was this:
At two o'clock (2:15, Rosie insisted)
she had gone upstairs to get picture
from her room to show Mary Anne
IA picture of lady, Mary Anne inter
posed.) She went up the servants
staircase and along the corridor to he,
room. which lay between the trunk
room and the unfinished ballroom. She
heard sound as she went down the
corridor like some one moving furni
ture. but she was not nervous. She
thought itmight be men examining the
house after the fire the night before
but she looked in the trunkroom and
saw nobody.
She went into her room quietly. The
noise had ceased and everything was
quiet. Then she sat down on the side
OF her bed, and, feeling faint-she was
subject to spells-("I told you that
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CHAPTER xxiv-continued.

did they go toward the club?'
Gertrude asked suddenly, leaning for
ward.
mo, miss. 1 think they came into
the village. I didn't get look al
their faces, but I know every chick
and child in the place, and everybody
knows me. When they didn't shout
at me-in my uniform, you know
took it they were strangers"
So all we had for our afternoons
work was this: Some one had been
shot by the bullet that went through
the door; he had not left the village,
and he had not called in a physician
Also, DR.. Walker knew who Lucien
Wallace was, and his very denial
made me confident that, in that one
direction at least, we were on the
right track.
I Gertrude" said, II have been a
very selfish old woman. You are 60
ing to leave this miserable house to-
night. Annie Morton is going to Scot
land next week, and you shall go right
with her."
To MY surprise. she flushed pain
fully.
i II don't want to go, Aunt Ray" she
said. Don't make me leave now"
"You are losing your health and
your good looks" I said decidedly.
"You should have change"
Il shan't stir a foot" She was
onuo11v docidod Thon rnoro 1oh+1r.
''Why, you and Liddy need me to ar
bitrate between you every day in the
week"
Perhaps was growing suspicious Of
every one. but it seemed to me that
Gertrude's gayety was forced and ar
tificial. I watched her covertly during
the rest of the drive, and did not
like the two spots of crimson in her
pale cheeks. But said nothing more
about sending her to Scotland; knew
she would not go.
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SYNOPSIS.

Gertrude and Hsis ass.t e.taSlished summer r
headQuarters at Sunnyside. The servants
desert: Gertrude and Halsey arrive with
Jack Bailey. The house was awakened by
revolver shot and Arnold Armstrong
vas found shot to death in the hall. Miss
Times found Halsey's revolver on the
lawn. He and Jack Bailey. had disap-
pesred. Gertrude revealed that she was
talked In the billiard room shortly before
the murder. Detective Jameson accused
Miss Innes Of holding back evidence. He
Imprisoned an intruder in an empty room.
The prisoner escaped. Gertrude was sus-
pected because Of an injured foot. Hal
sey reappears and says he and Bailey
we're called away by q telegram. Cashier
fHn ,. was arrested for embezzlement.
Halsey that while she still loved him, she
was to marry another. 1t developed that
Dr. Walker was the man. Louise was
found at the bottom of the circular stair
case. Recovering consciousness, she said
stairway and she tainted. Bailey is sus-
''seeing a ghost. Thomas, the lodEekeep-
er. was found dead with slip in his
pocket bearing the name of "Lucien Wal
lace" DR.. Walker asked Miss Innes to
vacate in favor of Mrs. Armstrong. She
refused. A note from Bailey to Gertrude
arranging meeting at night was found.
4 ladder out Of place deepens, the mys-
the excitement man stole into the house.
a search failed to reveal him. Miss Innes
shot an intruder A man limp.ng was
8een on the road.
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we told him, it didn't matter much
about the cooks face if it was clean.
I have spoken of Halsey's restless
ness. On that day it seemed to be
more than ever a resistless impulse
that kept him out until after luncheon.
I think he hoped constantly that he
might meet Louise driving over the
hills In her runabout; possibly he did
meet her occasionally, but from his
continued gloom felt sure the situa-
ton between them was unchanged.
Part of the afternoon I believe he
read-Gertrude and I were out, as
have said, and at dinner we both no.
ticed that something had occurred to
distract him. He was disagreeable.
which is unlike him, nervous, looking
at his watch every few minutes, and
he ate almost nothing. He asked twice
during the meal on what train Mr..
Jameson and the other detective were
coming, and had long periods of alb.
straction during which he dug his
fork into my damask cloth and did
not hear when he was spoken to. He
refused dessert, and left the table
early, excusing himself on the ground
that he wanted to see Alex.
Alex, however, was not to be found.
1t was after eight when Halsey or
dered the car and started down the
hill at a pace that, even for him, was
unusually reckless. Shortly after
Alex reported that he was ready to 70
over the house preparatory to closing
1t for the night. Sam Bohannon came
at quarter before nine and began his
patrol of the grounds, and with the
arrival of the two detectives to look
forward to was not especially appre.
hensive.
At half-past nine I heard the sound
OF a horse driven furiously up the
drive. It came to stop in front of
the house and Immediately after there
were hurried steps on the veranda,
Our nerves were not what they should
have been, and Gertrude. always ap.
prehensive lately, was at the door al.
most instantly. A moment later Louise
had burst into the r2hs and stood
Where is Halsey?' Ne demanded
Above her plain black bwn, her eyes
looked big and somber land the rapid
drive had brought no I'd br to her face
got up and drew forward q chair.
HE has not come back" said
quietly. "sit down, child; you are
not strong enough for this kind d
thing" Z ..5
don't think she even heard me.
He has not come hack r. shs
asksd. looking from me, TO Gertruds
DO Jon know where he vent Where
can ! ind himf &.
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CHAPTER XIV.
A Visit from Louise,

A Visit from Louise.
That day was destined to be an
eventful one, for when l entered the
house and found Eliza ensconsed in
the upper hall on a chair, with Mary
Anne doing her best to stifle her with
household ammonia, and Liddy rub
bling her wrists-whatever good that
Is supposed to dol knew that the
ghost had been walking again, and
this time in daylight.
Eliza was in frenzy of fear. She
clutched at my sleeve when I went
close to her, and refused to let go
until she had told her story. Coming
Just after the fire, the household was
demoralized. and it was no surprise
to me to find Alex and the under
gardener struggling downstairs with
heavy trunk between them.
Il didn't want to do it, Miss Innes,"
Alex said. But she was so excited I
was afraid she would do as she said
drag it down herself, and scratch
the staircase"
was trying to get my bonnet of
and to keep the maids quiet at the
same time. Nov, Eliza, when you
have washed your face and stopped
bawling." said, come into my sitting
room and tell me what has happened"
Liddy put away my things without
speaking The very set of her shout
ders expressed disapproyal.
"Well,"I said, when the silence be.
came uncomfortable. things seem to
be warming up"
Silence from Liddy. and long sigh.
If Eliza goes, don't know where
to look for another cook" More 81.
lence.
Rosie is probably good cook
snin.
;,'Liddy." said at last, don't dare
to deny that you are having the time
OF your life. You positively gloat in
this excitement. You never looked
better. It's my opinion all this running
around, and getting jolted out Of .
= rut, has stirred up that torpid liver Of
4 your" a, 3. Is
IT'S not myself I'm thinking about, |,
- said. goadsd into spesch. 'llay.
- my nysr 80 torpid. and maybs Il
wasn't; bit i know tlis: I've "a
enas ~, ma % - yor
s. 3 Il.
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"That First Invented Sleep

Nov blessings light on him that
first invented this same sleep! It GOV.
ers a man all over. thoughts and all.
like cloak; 1t is meat for the hungry.
drink for the thirsty. heat for the
cold, and cold for the hot. Il IL the
current coin that purchases all the
pleasures of the world cheap; and the
balance that sets the king and the
shepherd, the fool and the wise man
even. There is only one thing. which
somebody once put into my head
that dislike In sleep-it 10 that It re
,sembles death. There 10 very little
difference between q man In his frs,
sleep and man In his last sleep. -
From Cervantes.
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when I came. didn't !, Rosie?" "Yes'm,
indeed she did!")-she put her head
down on her pillow and
"Took nap. All right" said. Go
on"
when I came to, Miss lines, sure
as I'm sittin' here, I thought I'd die.
Somethin' hit me in the face, and
set up, sudden. And then I seen the
plaster drop, droppin' from little
hole in the wall. And the first thing
I knew, an iron bar that long (fully
two yards by her measure) "shot
through that hole and tumbled on the
bed. If I'd been still sleeping
Granting" corrected Rosie) I'D "a
been hit on the head and killed."
II wisht you'd heard her scream"
put in Mary Anne. "And her face as
white as a FELLOWSHIP when she tum.
bled down the stairs"
mo doubt there is some natural ex.
PLANTATION for it, Eliza" I said. "You
may have dreamed 1t, in your faint.
ing attack. But if it is true, the metal
rod and the hole in the wall will show
it."
Eliza looked little bit sheepish.
"The holes there all right, Miss In
nes," she said. But the bar was gone
when Mary Anne and Rosie went Ut
to pack my trunk"
THAT wasn't ALL" Liddy's voice
came funereally from a corner. "Eliza
said that from the hole in the wall 8
burning eye looked down at her!"
"The wall must be at least si1
inches thick" I said with asperity
Unless the person who drilled the
hole carried his eyes on the ends of 6
stick. Eliza couldn't possibly have
seen them"
But the fact remained, and a visi,
to Eliza's room proved it. NIGH
jeer all ! wished; some one hat
drilled hole in the unfinished wal
of the ballroom, passing between the
bricks Of the partition, and shooting
through the unresisting plaster O
Elias room with such force as t.
send the rod flying on to her bed.
had gone upstairs alone, and I comics,
the thing puzzled me; in two or tire.
places in the wall small apertures hat
been made, none Of them Of any depth
Not the least mysterious thing wal
the disappearance of the iron nipple
ment that had been used.
Mary Anne and Eliza left that after
noon, but Rosie decided to stay.
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Mutual Expectations,

A VIGOROUSLY close-fsted man was
taking his golfing holiday in Scotland,
where he hoped to improve his game,
and. by driving a hard bargain, had
managed to secure the exclusive serv.
ices of a first-class caddie, who was
known to be a very good player.
"Mind, now" said the ambitious
southerner, Il expect to receive some
really good tips from you during my
stay here, you understand" aye"
replied the Scotsman, hitching up the
heavy bag, IAN Aim expectin' the
like frae ye. ye ken."-Golf illustrated
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Planning a Desperate Revenge.

Planning Desperate Revenge.
The naughty. imperious beauty
handed him back his ring.
"Now that all is over between u.s.
she said, II suppose you will buy q
revolver and put an end to your
wretched existence?"
Worse than that" he Kissed, being
careful to introduce the necessary
sibilant; "far wors-s-se! I snail steal
revolver! And I shall shoot your
measly little sore-eyed poodle!"
A wild shrek burst from her lips,
She fell upon her knees and
But he had gone.