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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-08
Possurn Trot.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Warner were
business callers at Ross Judd's Mon

Mr.. and Mrs. George Warner were
business callers at Ross Judd's Mon
day.
Those going from this nighbor-
hood to Des Moines Monday morning
to attend the state fair were Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Quayle, Ina Fronk, R..
X. and Ralph Davis, Ira Newman
and Ebert Worden.
Lloyd Hensley and Arthur WOrden
were business callers at Weldon Mon
day morning.
Mrs. Charley Worden and Myrtle
Worden took dinner with Mrs. Ar
thur Worden Tuesday.
Charley Meacham returned home
Tuesday from Montana.
Those calling on Mrs. Frank Wor-
den Monday afternoon were Mrs.
Charley Worden, Myrtle Worden,
Ellen Smith and Eddie Sigler.
Mrs. Will Sigler and children spent
Tuesday with Mrs. Lew Smith.
Mrs. Kate Tansey and children and
Miss Allie Tansey came Tuesday for
a few days visit at Uncle Joe Wor-
denis.
Mrs. Arthur Worden, Mrs. F. Wor-
den spent Wednesday afternoon at
Uncle Joe Worden's.
Ira Worden and others returned
home from Des Moines Wednesday.
They report fine time and plenty
mud.
Mabel Meacham went to Osceola
Wednesday, returning home Thurs
day.
Miss Gertrude Davis was calling
on Mrs Frank Worden Thursday af-
ternoon.
Mrs. Lloyd Smith spent Thursday
with Mrs. Ross Judd east of Weldon.
Mr.. Davis was business caller at
+. Worden's Thursday aftrnoon.
Mrs. Meacham and Mrs. Warner
were business callers at Weldon last
Thursday afternoon.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-08

Charley Quayle and wife returned
home from Des Moines Thursday.
Dorman Trisler and daughter, Miss
Christina, visited friends in Leon
last Friday.
Mrs. G. Meacham was calling on
F. Worden's Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Hacker came
Friday for a visit at Charley Hack
er's.
Mrs. Hugh Smith and May Sigler
were calling at Mr.. Pollard's Friday
afternoon.
Mrs. Lloyd Smith and daughter
went to Osceola Saturday for an over
Sunday visit with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Dement,.
Most everyone from this neighbor-
hood were business callers at Weldon
Saturday.
Mrs. Kate Tansey and children and
Miss Allie Tansey returned to their
home in Weldon Saturday after visit
ing several days at Uncle Joe Wor-
denis.
Lloyd Golf, of Weldon, spent Sat-
urday night with Fred Hensley.
Ross Judd and wife spent Sunday
with Frank Worden and wife.
Charley Worden, wife and daugh-
ter, Lottie and Arthur Worden and
family spent Sunday at Alvin Mark
hams in Leon. Mrs. Markham is
quite sick.
Anna Pollard went to High Point
Saturday, where she begins teaching
school Monday, Sept. 5th.
Misses Ina Fronk, Gertrude and
Nellie Davis were calling at Glenn
Smiths Sunday afternoon
George Warner jr. and wife spent
Sunday at Cliff Vaughn's.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-08
Kingston.

Several from here attended the
state fair last week.
Jim Upheld and daughter, Bessie
and son, Carl, were Leon visitors
Friday.
George Redman and Guy Smith
delivered lambs at Van Vert Friday.
Mr.. M. F. Springer and wife, and
Mrs Margaret Stone, of Leon, left
last week for six weeks visit in the
west. They expect to go to the coast
before their return.
Bert Redman and family spent
Sunday afternoon at George Bigger's.
Will Smith and wife, of Washing
ton, Iowa, are visiting at the formers
brother, George Smiths.
Geo. and Pleasant Bigger spent a
few days in the northern part of the
state last week.
George Smith and wife, and Will
Smith and wife took dinner at Geo.
Redman's last Thursday.
Jim Downey and family spent Sun
| day at Frank Binnings.
John Willant and wife visited with
their daughter, near Van Vert Mon
day.
Arthur Richey and wife, Guy
smith and Vile, Geo. Redman and
family, Mrs. Charley Imhoff and Mrs.
Edd Hall took dinner at Geo. Smith s
Saturday.
Ben Redman shipped car of hogs
from Kingston Tuesday.
Mr.. Crichton, of Leon, was calling
at Frank Binning's Monday.
Grover Hamilton delivered lambs
to Horney & Murdy at Van Vert
Monday morning.
George and Will Smith and wives
took dinner at Arthur Richey's Sun
day.
Mrs. Laura Keller, of Van Vert,
spent a few days last week with her
! daughter, Mrs. Helen Hamilton.
Izora Heather begun her school at
| Woodland Monday.
Frank Keller and wife spent Sun
day at Bruf Thompson's.
Geo. and Will Smith and wives
took dinner at Guy Smiths Monday
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-08
Pleasant Valley.

i. D.
Mrs. E. E. Robb and daughter Mary
we're visiting at George Robb's Sun
day.
Mrs. T. R. Roberts was visiting at
Van Vert Saturday and Sunday.
Charley Robertson, of Davis City,
called at T. A. Sutherlin's Sunday.
Mrs. A. Zika and daughter Leila
were visiting at the home of her son,
Fred Zika, Sunday evening.
Miss Beatrice Christofel, of Leon,
was visiting at home last week.
Sarah Virden returned home Mon
day from Des Moines, where she had
been visiting with her sister the past
week.
School began Monday with Miss
Laura Sell teacher.
Edward Euritt. Of Lamont, was
visiting with Levi Wirden Saturday
and Sunday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-08
Mrs. vesta sparger.

Vesta Sparger, the subject of our
sketch, was the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Kizzire, who have lived in
in Decatur county for many years.
She was born March 10, 1882, and
died August 81, 1910, being at the
time of her death % years, months
relief to her from years of suffering
with that dread disease Consumption,
which she endured as only those, who
trust in their Savior, could. She said
that she must suffer,as her Saviour
had suffered for her. AS he. expressed
to His Father, that he was willing
to die for the world, SO she expressed
her desire to her parents, that she
was willing to suffer and die for him.
Her only sorrow was in parting
with her faithful husband, which she
leaves with her father and mother,
two brothers and three sisters to
mourn her departure. Everything
was done by a loved husband and
parents that could be done for her
recovery, and skilled physicians, but
without any relief. She was loved
most by those who knew her best.
She was kind-hearted christian girl,
which she proved in her daily walk
and profession. Being satisfied in
time of affection as we'll as in time
of health, trying to do good, helping
the needy, giving a kind word of
christian consolation to all, and if
all she had done kindness to would
bring a flower she would sleep today
beneath a bed of roses Funeral
services were held at the home of
her parents, northeast of Pleasan-
ton, Scripture lesson st. John 18th
chapter, Text 1926 verses. And Je-
sus said unto her I am the resur-
rection and the life; he that believeth
in me though he were dead, yet shall
| he live.
And whosoever liveth and believ-
eth in me shall never die. Believeth
thou this?
| This certainly would apply to our
beloved sister, for she had not only
believed in Him but had confessed
Him to the world, and had followed
Him in regeneration, and been bap-
tized with the baptism that he was
baptized with, and drank the cup
that he himself promised they should
drink, and has now gone home with
Him to rest in that celestial city
above, where there will be no more
sickness nor no more pain. For the
former things have passed away.
| After funeral services the body
was taken to Hamilton cemetery
where her friends had prepared the
tomb, which was to receive her body
where it would moulder away to its
mother dust, waiting the call of the
blessed master at the final resur.
rection day, and the spirit had as.
cended to the father who gave it
and all things there are finished.
The church has lost a faithful
member, the husband a loved com.
panion, the father and mother q
loving daughter, but their loss is he,
gain. Cyrus Deyoe.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-08
Ransom j. Harmon.

Ransom j. Harmon died at his
residence in Davis City, at $3.50 on.
the evening of August 29,1910, at
the age of II years Z months and Is
days. A post mortem showed that
the disease was hardening of the iv-
err, portion being quite solid.
Mr.. Harmon was born in Niagara.
county, New York, January 16, 1885,
The family came to McHenry coun-
ty, ILL.,, in 1855. In the spring of
1861, while visiting an aunt in Min
neapolis, he enlisted and was en-
rolled in the first Minnesota regi-
ment of Infantry, April 20, 1861.
The regiment was sent to the front
in Virginia, when there was much
fear that the army of the rebellion
would seek to take Washington. AT
the first battle of Bull Run, July FL.
1ool, Mr.. Harmon was wounded, but
not so severely as to keep him long
from duty and he served the full
three years, being mustered out on
May 5, 1861.
He returned to Illinois, and on
October, %, 1864 was married to,
Mrs. Mary A. Goodrich.
In November, 1874, they removed
from Marengo,I I'LL. to Davis City. and
have resided there ever since, al
most SO years.
| Seven children were born to them
! C of whom are living) five sons
and one daughter. OF the sons, VIM.
R. lives at Cedar Rapids; Harry at
Des Moines; Arthur at Sioux City;
James at Creston, and George at Ga
| lena. Edna died on March 8, 1899.
The other daughter, Mrs. Alice
Martz, lived recently at Pittsburg,
Kansas, but as her husband is now
running as engineer on train be-
tween Elko, Nevada, and Salt Lake
City, they will soon make their home
in one of these cities. She has been
here some time, rcomforting and
helping her mother, in the hour of
trouble and grief.
Mr.. Harmon's health has been
i failing for some time and for two
and half months he has been con-
fined to his bed by the disease be-
fore stated.
For many years he labered hard
as plasterer and brick mason, but for
a long time his prosperous sons have
abundantly supplied the parents with
means so that he was long ago freed
from the necessity of further work
and life has been pleasant in his
old age.
All the sons were here at various
times during their fathers illness,
and three of them and Mrs. Martz
were present when he died and ALI
but Arthur were here at the funeral
He was absent from home and could
not be reached in time.
Elder H. A. Stebbins. of Lamont.
| preached the sermon. The Davis
| City G. A. R. attended in body and
at the grave they performed their
ritual ceremony in honor of their
dead comrade.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-08
Sweet Creek.

Mr.. and Mrs. George Lloyd visited
relatives at Grand River Sunday.
Those that were Lamont callers
this week were John Zimmerman, and
Ellie Gentry, Frank and Bird Motifs,
ger and j. W..tWion.
Mr.. and Mrs, George Smith return
ed home Tuesday from Belmont
Iowa, where they were visiting Mrs
Smiths sister, and stopped on their
way home and took in the sites al
the state fair. ),
Frank Noftsger, Dusky Gentry and
Ed Fest took in three days Of the
state fair last week.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-08
Decatur r.. F. d. No. 2.

Miss Marie. Norman visited Mon
day with her cousin, Miss Dale Alley
Mrs. Estella Baker and children
spent Sunday with Mrs. Vira Nc
Gahuey.
Mrs. Jams Rauch and son, Forrest
visited Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. H
A. Rauch.
Misses Birdie and Estella Norman
spent Sunday afternoon with their
aunt, Mrs. Nancy Logan.
Miss Marie Mannasmith visited
Sunday with Miss Cleve Ellars.
j. M. Miller and family called at
the George Williams home Sunday.
Miss Edith Norman spent-Tuesday
and Wednesday with her cousin
Miss Estella Norman.
Sammy Covington and wife and
daughter Eunice, called at C. p
Shaffner's Monday.
James Phipps and daughters were
Decatur callers Friday.
Several from here took in the SHOW
at Lamont Monday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-08

Notice ice bills are due and
must be paid the first of each month.
Please have your money ready when
the wagon calls the first of the
month. j. M. Caster.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-08

Try one of those splendid meals
which are being served every day at
the Park Hotel.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-08

We have a good supply of cord
wood cut in 16-inch lengths, split or
in the block. Prompt deliveries.
Phone H. A. Wright.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-09-08

For the best auto oil and batter
fes see II. A. Wright.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-28
HERE'S A NOVEL SUGGESTION

Editor Herald: Perhaps you Will
have room for another suggestion on
the question of equal suffrage in your
most interesting Letter Box.
I believe it Is true that nothing
is settled until it is settled right" l
also believe that nothing is settled
right until it is adjusted in harmony
with natural law or universal prin-
Ciple.
The positive and negative forces are
universally coeXistent, but the two
cannot be merged into one without
destroying the individual qualities Of
each. To have both men and womep
competing for the same office and
when elected contending for different
ideals would tend to create friction
between the sexes in many ways. Is
there not a better way?
The sentiment for the popular cleo
ton of senators is growing very fast,
but why have two legislative bodies
composed of the same kind of repre-
sentatives elected in the same way?
Why not abolish the senate as it now
exists and substitute for it a house of
women representatives, elected by the
popular vote of the women, to CO.
operate with the house of men repre-
sentatives Jointly legislating for the
people?
This I believe would be scientific
and in harmony with natural law.
Los Angeles, Cal j. .. u.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-28
A WIDOWS EXPERIENCE

Editor Herald; l am a constant
reader of your grand old paper" and
would like to answer Aud Lang
Syne's" letter Listen not to false
prophets" If your heart is right with
God and you feel you are doing right,
then by all means marry. Would this
lady that predicts so much evil finance
you in your declining years if you
needed it? Or walk with you, hand
in hand, and speak cheering, hopeful
words to you as you enter into the
valley of the shadow? It's so easy
to give advice. A few years ago l
was persuaded to marry certain
man. God told me not to; that he
was not the right one, but my friends
knew better, as all friends do, and
gained their point So I embarked
on that troublesome matrimonial sea-
And there was trouble that | hope and
pray no other woman will have to go
through. But it's all over now, and
did the friends who advised and proph-
esied so much come forth when l was
having my trials and tribulations?
No, not one They came afterwards
and congratulated me- and I hate them
for their deceit. You tell this lady to
read in St Matthew, 7:l-2, ~: 36-37,
23:13-14 and James 3-8. Read the 23d
Psalms, get the true significance Of
each verse, and marry and be happy
and don't let idle talk spoil your life.
WIDOW,
Los Angeles, Cal
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-28
AMENDMENT NO. I

Editor Herald: Have you given con-
stitutional amendment No. /, which
will be submitted to the electors of the
state at the coming general election,
the deep study and critical eXamina-
ton it requires?
Do you realize that the report of the
commission on revenue and taxation is
full of inaccuracies and that most of
the arguments being advanced in favor
Of the adoption Of the amendment are
merely glittering generalitles which
will not bear the light of investigation?
I claim that the tremendous efforts
being made for the amendment are in
a large measure inspired, and that the
people of this state have not been en-
lightened regarding the true condition
Of affairs.
| assert that no opportunity was af-
forded to send to the electors, through
the secretary of states office, an argu-
ment against the amendment, as pro-
vided by section 1885 Of the political
code. Such an argument is in course OF
preparation by the undersigned and
will be submitted to the press within
the next three or four days.
A cursory examination of the amend
ment has convinced me that 1t is not
for the best interests of the people Of
the state, and that it should be over
whelmingly defeated.
A. T.. BOYNTON,
state Senator, Sixth Senatorial Dis
trict.
San Francisco, Cal
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-28
BRAVE AND HONEST

n UR morning Republican contempt
rary, in an editorial favoring
~ the election of John D. Freder
icks and the defeat of Thomas Lee
Woolwine for district attorney, admits
at the end that Woolwine is "brave
enough" and "honest enough" With
this much conceded by an enemy, and
the assurance by those who know him
we'll that he is a first class lawyer
and irreproachable citizen of high
standards no one who has misgivings,
if nothing more, about the advisability
of re-electing the incumbent should
hesitate as to his course on election
day.
No man in Los Angeles has sur
passed the record of Thomas Lee Wool
wine as a militant, consistent foe of
Southern Pacific domination. He has
made sacrifices to do it, giving up his
law practice in large part-at times
wholly-to battle for a free govern
ment, and he has battled to mighty
good purpose, no small share of credit
for the recent awakening of the people
being his. Believers in and workers
for good government and foes of ma
chine corruption owe him much.
But they owe themselves something,
too They are entitled to an honest
district attorney who will not play
fovorites, cover up crime, squander the
public money or let others squander it.
The bulwark Of the machine is the dis
trict attorneys and coroner's offices.
Let no one deceive himself with the
belief that the hold Of the machine on
Los Angeles county was torn away
by the good government victory in the
recent primary If Walter Parker is
assured of these two offices he can re-
build his machine to its old efficiency
in fortnight.
In his campaign for election Mr.
Woolwine has set a high standard for
himself. In view of his past good rec
ord it is not conceivable that he would
fail to be diligent, impartial, economi-
cal and fair as district attorney. He
will not only close the blind pigs, but
will prosecute known offenders of all
degrees and stations. If he even makes
sincere attempt to live up to his
platform he will be an immense i'm
provement over the incumbent.
His chief newspaper opponent ad-
mits he is brave and honest Take the
word Of his friends and his known rec
ord for the rest.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-28
BELLS DETRACTORS

THEODORE BELLS opponents are
still representing-and to the dis
n credit of Bells rival IL must be
said, he has been representing-that
Bell has ceased to attack the Southern
Pacific and is afraid to mention Boss
Herrins name even in a whisper.
There was never moment when this
was true. In his speech here on Tues
day evening Mr.. Bell said with all the
emphasis that has characterized his at
titude for years:
There will be no William F. Her
rim or political bureau of the South
ern Pacific or any other corporation
in the government of California if I
am elected governor.
A record of several years of cam
paigning to arouse the conscience of
California on this subject stands back
of Mr. Bells good faith. Without i'm
pugning the good faith Of his opponent,
it is also the truth that his open oppo-
sition to the Southern Pacific is of
comparatively recent origin. Again in
his speech Mr.. Bell said:
There will be no William r. Her
rim to tap legislators and governor
on the shoulder and place his men in
judicial positions. Hiram Johnson
knows that I am sincere. He is
trying to blaCken my reputation
and make it appear that I have de-
serted the fight Of a lifetime.
No leader in the history of California
has shown more political courage than
Theodore Bell He went into the San
Francisco municipal campaign and
fought Pat Calhoun's puppet Mccarthy,
for which he was promised extinction.
He was one of the few men that had
the courage to call William r. Hearst
a charlatan to his face. 1t was Bell
who virtually read Hearst out of the
Democratic party.
There is today in San Francisco labor
union opposition to Bell that he in
CURED when he opposed McCarthy-not
because of any union matter but be-
cause Mccarthy was the candidate of
Calhoun.
Most men like courage, and Theodore
Bell is trusted today because he has
shown so much of it, When his OPP
ponents try to show that after these
years he has suddenly become a craven
they pay a very unfattering compli-
ment to the intelligence of voters who
know Mr.. Bells record.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-28
DR.. GIadden's Municipal Church
ATLANTA JournaD


The proposal OF DR.. Washington
GLADDEN., the famous Congregational
list minister OF Columbus Ohio, that
municipal churches" be established
in every town and city, as set forth
by him in an article in the Century
Magazine, has occasioned considerable
comment in the religious world.
DIR. Gladden's idea of the municipal
church is not that there should be a
new church in the ordinary sense of
that word, but that there should be
an organization made up of represen-
tatives of all the churches of town
or city and that this organization
should conduct in a systematic and
businesslike way every phase of char
liable and benevolent work.
He considers that the churches have
experienced a "slackening of their
power" because they have allowed
such work to be too greatly absorbed
by outside agencies. and asserts that
such work is peculiarly the work of
the churches and could be carried on
by them effectively both to the better
ment of humanity and to the better
ment of the churches themselves.
The machinery for the municlpal
church is already at hand, thinks Dr.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-28


At the recent bankers congress In
Los Angeles, George NJ. Reynolds, the
president of a Chicago bank, committed
himself to certain old-fashioned doc
trines in relation to the rate of returns
that should be permitted in the case OF
public utility corporations. In word,
Mr.. Reynolds believes that such cor
porations should be allowed to make
what may be called a speculative
profit, and share an increment OF value
which they have not earned.
This position appears to have been
very much in consonance with that
taken by counsel for the Spring Valley
Water company i'm the litigation now
at hearing before Judge Farrinston IN
this city. Mr.. Reynolds is quoted:
II can remember when the first rail-
road was built through the state in
which I was born. At that time the
land in the state had only nominal
value. The building of the railroad,
which made the markets for the pro-
ducts of the soil accessible, caused an
of the value of farm land,
until now it is being exchanged at 500
an acre. L cannot see how any FAIR
minded person should presume to take
the position that the railroad snould
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-28

GLADDEN., in the pastors associations
of cities and such other local church
declarations. An enlargement OF these,
both In membership and in activities,
would be all that is necessary. The
care and succor of the poor, the sick
and the unfortunate would be the
prime object of the municipal church,
and In addition DIR. GLADDEN. laws out
a tentative program for its activities,
as follows:
1t should turn the light on bad
housing conditions, and secure healthy
habtations for the people; should pro-
vide Fairgrounds for children; should
investigate the drink traffic and the
social evil; should look into the prob
lem of unemployment and start an
employment bureau: should endeaVor
as the representative of the Prince
of Peace to mediate in Industrial wars
between employers and employed.
The institutional churches located
here and there throughout the coun-
try are stressing many phases Of the
work proposed for the municipal
church. but DR.. GLADDEN. thinks that
all the churches should be represent
ed in the work in a compact organ
ization. and that the work in this way
should be given greater emphasis,