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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07
Pleasant Valley No. 2.

The farmers are getting along
nicely with their spring work, hav-
ing their oats and potatoes in, gar
den made and are breaking up mead
ow for corn.
Miss Nora. Brammer is assisting
Mrs. Web Sipherd with her work this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Immersion
, and son Ebert were visiting last
Sunday at Mrs Ida Chicks.
Rev. Curtis Adams preached at
Grand River last Sunday.
William Warrick and wife moved
, one day last week to Charley Actons
house for the summer and he will
tend the Drake farm.
MIR. and Mrs. Clyde Cooper and
/ two daughters returned to their
home at Hurt, Kas., last Wednes-
day, after two months visit with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Fo-
! land.
Jefferson Grim and family started
for South Dakota Tuesday, where
they expect to make their home.
Misses Nina Poland and Zerna
Bolds were visiting the past week
with their cousin, Miss Helen Rush,
at Van Vert.
Mrs. George Dobson and two
! daughters helped surprise her sister,
Mrs. Thomas Quincy, last Friday, it
being her birthday, and all present
report good time.
James Bolds was calling on his
sister, Mrs. Isaac Poland one day last
| week.
Cranmore Wycoff, of Kansas, came
in last Saturday to visit with old
friends
Mrs. Holmes returned home last
Saturday after a visit here with her
sister and many friends
James Edwards still continues very
sick, being no better
Grandma Brammer, who has been
! sick for five weeks, is convalescent.
Alva Poland has rented Mrs. Allan
Pence's farm.
II. l.. Brammer and son Rolla de-
parted for Nebraska last week.
Mrs. Allan Pence and son were
visiting with her mother, Mrs. Louisa
WadsWorth, the past week.
A fine son was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Novia Arnold last Thursday.
Alva Trowbridge is working for
his sister, Mrs. George Arnold.
Miss Nina Poland visited over
night at the home of her sister, Mrs.
William Warrick, last Friday night.
Mrs. John L. Drawn went to dag
onal Saturday to visit her mother.
Mrs. Allan Pence spent last Sat
urday with Grandma Brammer.
Claude Wilkie and Lee Sanders
have rented the farm owned by David
and William Thomas near Funktown
and will keep batch this summer.
Mrs. Louisa Wadsworth and Misses
Amy, Esther, Martha and Clarissa
Brammer called on Mrs. John Acton
last Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Quincy, of
Clarke county, were visiting at Geo.
Dobson's last Sunday.
Miss Mary Brammer was visiting
with Mrs. Arthur Evans at Grand
River last Saturday.
Walter Evans took over one hum
, dred dozen eggs to Grand River. They
We're all laid within two weeks. Who
can beat that?
Allan Pence made business trip
to leon last Thursday.
Miss May Allen has been keeping
house the past two weeks for her
uncle, Walter Trowbridge, while Mrs.
Trowbridge was visiting with her
daughter, Mrs. George Arnold, near
Mt AYR
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07
Pleasant Valley.

James Young and family were Wis
iting their son, Ray Young, and wife
last Sunday
Miss Julia Virden was visiting with
Miss Katherine Dobozy last Saturday
night and Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Millsap were visiting
with her sister, Mrs. T. A. Sutherlin,
last Sunday.
Mrs. George Virden and children
spent Saturday evening at Lawrence
Attebury's.
George Virden went to Creston last
Friday on business.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. T:
R. Roberts died Saturday morning
and was buried the same day at De-
catur 10y.
Katherine Dobozy, Julia Virden,
Ray Robb and Rollie Virden were
Decatur callers Saturday night.
Lawrence Attebury and wife were
visiting at Davis City last Sunday
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07
Lone Star.

Mrs Lulu Tompkin and baby WIS.,
tied Tuesday at Ernest Candles.
Blink Boynton and men baled hay
for Ira Brown Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dorm Trisler visited
their daughter, Mrs. Ransom Pease,
OF Leon, last Friday.
Ira Brown helped Ernest Elsey
make fence last Friday.
Miss Edith Quayle. was the guest
OF Mrs. Clifford Vaughn last Friday
night.
Quite number attended the horse
sale at Weldon Friday
Mr.. and Mrs Novia Tompkin were
Weldon callers Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Jake Trisler visited her sister
Mrs. Ern Gamble, who has been very
sick with malaria fever, last week.
Ira Brown and wife spent Satur.
day night at Will Browns, near Leon
Bliss Coontz spent Saturday night
and Sunday with Ike Elsey
Misses Lizzie and Edith Quayle
were calling on Hattie Brown Sun.
day afternoon.
Tom Quayle and family spent Sun.
day with his father.
Will Allen and family visited al
Ira Browns Sunday afternoon.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07
Isradney.

We are having fine weather.
j. B. Snyder was saving wood in
Center last week.
B. E. Gardner delivered hogs al
Garden Grove one day last week.
Johnny Vail, the hustling real es.
tate agent of Garden Grove, passed
through Bradney one day last week
Guy Williams and sister Nellie
were visiting at the Rick Barrett
home last Sunday.
Mrs. Charley Beavers and daugh-
tiers made a trip to Leon last Mon
day morning.
Some of the farmers are talking of
planting corn soon.
Oscar Beavers and wife were visit
ing at w. T. Walters last Sunday.
I. A. Jackson made business trip
to Garden Grove Saturday and came
home with new manure spreader.
A number of the Bradney young
folks attended the band concert at
Leon Saturday night.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07
Grand River.

The drawing contest on dishes at
I. T. Johnston's Saturday was pretty
we'll attended, and Mrs. John Bur
nam was the lucky one. They have
drawing contest every Saturday
and there is about sixty pieces in the
set of dishes.
DICK Durham has purchased a new
soda fountain, and says he can fix
them up right now.
Win Matsler came Saturday to fill
his appointment.
The Grand River school had a
weeks vacation last week, and we
never heard any of the scholars com
planning about it,
Inc people in and around Grand
River are certainly catching some
nice flsh, but they have not caught
any 5O-pounders yet, but they caught
lew OF them last summer.
talk about your hen eggs. One of
our good merchants in the little old
town of Grand River received sixty
seven 5O-dozen egg cases of eggs last
Saturday. What do you know about
it?
The Grand River ball team went
to Tlngley last Friday and got beat.
~ SUI DIS . 10 IN FAVOR OF
Tingley.
Mr.. Holiday, one of the bridge
men, was Westerville caller Sat
urday night and Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs. John Davidson and
her sister, Mrs. Kate Roger, visited
Sunday at ]. F. Crees'.
Miss Ada Dale, of Leon, is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Herbert John
ston.
The Baptist Sunday school picnic
was failure last Sunday on account
of the weather.
Miss Marie McGraw, of Wester-
vile, visited Saturday night and sun
day with Miss Helen Brammer, of
this place.
They say Rev. Scott Jones is going
to hold meeting at the Maple Grove
church. Everybody cordially invited
to attend
Lirt Mcconnell is feeling and look
ing little better than he did week
ago.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07
Burr Oak Ridge.

George Dockstader and family, of
Des Moines, came down for weeks
visit at the home of Frank Chastain.
George McCalla and Willard Chas-
tam, OF Davis City, Miss Maude
Adams, Master John Adams and Mr..
ana Mrs. McCalla were over Sunday
visitors at Charles Chastain's.
Miss Mary Rumley spent last week
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ernest
Hamilton, who resides near High
Point.
Mrs. Charles Chastain received a
letter from Mrs. Asa Bethards, who
recently moved to Newton, Kansas
stating the arrival of 10 pound boy
at their home.
Mrs. A. ]. Rumley is spending this
week at the home of her daughter
Mrs. Ernest Hamilton, of near High
Point.
Arthur Lille and family have de
parted for Dakota where they wen
to make their future home.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07
r. F. d. No. 2.

Mrs. James Phipps and daughter
Garland were Leon callers Wednes-
day.
Frank Sellars and wife and w.
:Sellars and family departed last week
for Colorado to make their future
home.
Mrs. George Butcher and Cecil and
"erna Butcher were Davis City callers
last Saturday.
Mrs. R. S. Forkner visited with he1
daughter, Mrs. H. A. Rauch, last Sun
day.
Esther Norman spent Saturday
might and Sunday with Edith Norman
Miss Cecil Butcher visited Mon.
day with her friend, Miss Anna Car.
roll.
Those among the Decatur callers
Saturday were ]. K. Norman and
wife, James Phipps and family, T
Baker and family, Isaac Norman
wife and two daughters Edith and
Marie, Pat Ellars and daughters Bes.
sic and Cleve, S. M. McGahueY and
son Mahlon.
Mrs. James Pearce was caller al
the Reed home last Saturday
Mrs. Vir McGahuey visited at the
Pat Ellars home last Sunday.
Rev. Cooper, of Davis City, will
preach at Terre Haute April 10, 1910
at 3 p. m.
Mrs. nellie Williams called on the
sick at Thomas Williams Saturday
morning.
Miss Pearl Miller called at Larkir
Millers last Friday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07
Postum Trot.

Mrs. Lloyd Smith and daughter
Lois were calling on Mrs. j. j. Smith
Monday afternoon.
Miss Gertrude Davis spent Monday
and Tuesday at the home of her
brother, R. K. Davis.
Arthur Worden was business
caller at Charley Worden's Tuesday
morning.
G. d. Worden was business caller
at Van Vert Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Arthur Worden and daughter
Georgia were business callers at We'll
don Wednesday morning.
Mrs. c. D. Worden spent Wednes-
day Afternoon with her daughter,
Mrs. Charley Hacker
Ed Worden, wife and daughter
and Mrs. F. Worden were calling on
Mrs. Arthur Worden Thursday after
noon.
Mrs. George Warner was calling
on Mrs. C. Meacham Thursday after
noon.
Mrs: Lew Smith was calling on
Mrs. f.. Worden Friday morning.
MISS Llssie Worden spent last week
with her cousin, Mrs. j. Halverson,
| near Leon
Frank Worden and wife were bust
ness callers at Weldon Friday after
noon.
Quite a number from here attend
ed the horse sale at Garden Grove
last Friday afternoon.
Ira Worden and several others
from this neighborhood attended a
party at J. Halverson's Friday night.
Mr.: and Mrs. r. Ball were down
near Leroy Friday afternoon on bust
ness.
F. Worden and wife spent one
evening the past week at c.
Meachams.
Most everybody from this neigh
borhood went to Weldon Saturday
afternoon
Frank and Ira Worden attended
lodge in Weldon Saturday night.
Uncle Joe and Ira Worden spent
Sunday at Floyd LIZARDS in Weldon.
Perry Worden and family spent
Sunday at Arthur Worden's.
Mr.. and Mr.. Pitman, of Leon spent
Sunday with their daughter, Mrs.
Don Hacker.
Frank Worden and wife spent last
Sunday at ]. H. Delk's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis and daughter
Gertrude spent Sunday evening at
Lloyd Smiths.
Charley Meacham, wife and son
spent Sunday at Ross Judd's.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07
Center.

Bunch and Stephens bought lot
OF threshed hay of Mr. Pease.
Capt. Brown drives new wagon.
f. Long and L. L. Long exchanged
oats seeding.
Alpha Long will be home toward
the last of this month.
Mr.. Flaggard delivered some posts
at Pine Grove.
There is mutual attraction at
Weldon for Mr.. Markham.
About half of the wheat is alive.
F. CAREERS children. have a nice
driving team
Myers and Markham were bust
ness callers at Pine Grove.
Ben Sears and family have all
been sick the past week.
Sim Evans had business at Leon
Saturday.
Brazelton and Sears exchanged
work during oats seeding.
Granville Long is placing more
mesh wire fence on his farm.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07
THE SECRET OUT.

"What made my lovely complexion? do not
like to tell, for it was medicine, but the incest
woman ever took. 1t was Lanes Family Medicine
that did it." This is pleasant herb tea which acts
favorably on the stomach and bowels, purifying the
blood and cleansing the skin like magic. 1t cures
headache and backache. Druggists aud dealers sell
IL, Csc. ( d
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07

There's no better spring tonic than
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea. The
standard for thirty years. Tea or
Tablets, 35c. Get a package today,
and you will thank us for the adj
vice. w. C. Stempel & Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07

There is no cough medicine so
popular as Foley's Honey and Tar.
1t lever fails to cure coughs, colds,
Group and bronchitis. Bell & Rob-
son.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07

Baby won't suffer five minutes
with Group if you apply DR.. Thomas
Eclectric Oil at once. It works like
magic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07

The Park Hotel is serving spec
aal Sunday dinner. Try them once
and you will become a regular GUS
toner.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07

Impure blood runs you down
makes you an easy victim for or
gantic diseases. Burdock Blood
Bitters purifies the blood-cures the
cause-builds you up.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07

Regulates the bowels, promotes
easy natural movements, cures con-
stlpatlon-Doan's Regulets. Ask
your druggist for them. 25 cents
box.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07

Many people fail of success because
they lack get up and most of us are
short.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-04-07

Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure
any case of kidney and bladder
trouble not beyond the reach of
medicine. No medicine can do
more. Bell & Robinson.
Macon beacon., 1910-02-04
STOP LEAKS ON THE FARMS
BY Not Permitting Waste Places to
Exist Considerable Percen-
tage May BE Added.
CBY B. E. LARAO

One of the greatest losses that can
be avoided is due to thOughtlessly Civ
ing oyer small pieces of land to con-
stitute thickets and waste places
At first thought most farmers will
say 1t doesn't amount to much, but II
you will figure up the amount of non
producing land you are paying taxes
on you will soon ascertain the fact
that you are losing the use Of a con-
siderable per cent. OF your land in
vestment.
All other business men take into
consideration such items; why should
not the farmers do as we'll? An uli-
nois farmer writes as follows: 81
keep tab on a piece of land purchas-
ed three years ago. It was a some
what broken 2G-acre tract, with sew
eral strips and corners turned out to
non-cultivation. Having acquired it
late in the winter and being over
crowded with work, l couldn't get to
it then, SO / decided to make an ex-
pertinent with it. The first year it was
cropped according to my instructions
and the amount and value Of the pre-
duce carefully determined
THE second year 1 had all neglect
ed portions brought into cultivation
and cropped similar to the previous
year. When the crop was harvested
and the amount and value calculated
I found l had an increase of IA per
cent. over the previous crop. Accord
ing to other plots of mine 1 had to
attribute three per cent of the in
crease to better season, thus leaving
IL per cent. in favor of cleaned-up
waste places, besides the appearance
of the land wonderfully improved and
the selling price greatly enhanced"
OF course the only value of such an
experiment is to serve as an object
lesson and an experiment that few
will undertake, but hope it may stim-
ulate some farmer to grasp the impor.
tance of utilizing all Of his land.
Macon beacon., 1910-02-04

g ENATOR BURKETT of Nebraska
- has bill pending in the senate
judiciary committee to prohibit the
use of telegraph lines for interstate
transmission Of news to be used for
gambling urpOses-repOrts of races,
especially.
There was a hearing on the meas
ure recently and sentiment in it's IA
vor was developed.
"Everybody's in favor of the BILL
said Burkett. They all conceded it's
good bill and ought to be passed"
When do you expect to get it out
of cOmmittee?"
Cant tell anything about it."
But aren't they for it?''
Every one of en-
Why don't they report it them"
We'll. you see," the senator ex-
planned, they say its all right and
ought to pass, but they're afraid it's
Macon beacon., 1910-02-04
How Nick Longworth Earned Dollar

the town, but as l had to make an
early start, | preferred the hotel
rather than trouble my friends with
an early breakfast.
'I was sitting in the parlor about
midnight, talking over old times with
the proprietor. Just as / was ready
to retire an automobile stopped in
front, and a couple of men much the
worse for wear came in. They bought
wine freely. One of them demanded
that the piano be played.
champagne buyers are rare birds
at that hotel, and the proprietor did
not want to lost his good customers.
He turned to me. Nick he said, Just
beat the box few minutes. They'll
never know who you are l played
ragtime, grand opera and love songs
while the men bought more wine. AS
they were about to go one of them
came over to me with his wallet in his
hand.
"'Here, profess, he said, you're the
goods as a piano player. Buy little
present for yourself
He handed me dollar bill l have
it framed at home as a certificate OF
my ability as a workingman."
1t is we'll known that Nicholas can
beat the box in pretty creditable
shape.
Macon beacon., 1910-02-04
SAND LOAN CLOVER
Excellent as Rotation Crop and
VIII Grow Anywhere.
OF All Plants IL Seems 60 30 Endowed
with Better Power 20 Recuperato
Coll Than Others-It 10 Su-
perlor to Other Grasses.

BY c. NJ MILLER.)
A farmer in Sedgwick county, Kan
sas, who says he is afraid to try al
falfa because some of his neighbors
have not been successful with It, wants
to know whether clover would not do
better on his soil, which he describes
as a good black loan. "a little sandy"
II have never tried clover" he writes.
but 1 notice that 1t grows in places
along the roads in the vicinity of my
farm"
There can be no doubt that clover
will do we'll on good black loan. a
little sandy" because the growth Of
vagrant clover alongside proves that
the proper bacteria are present in the
soil.
Clover Is a great crop for a rota-
ton, and we suggest the following:
Corn, wheat and clover; or, when 1t
is desired to grow a cash or market
crop, such as potatoes, beans and cab
bage, the rotation may be heightened.
and the crop will thus receive the
benefits from the rotation and be han
died with the same labor and teams
required to perform the general farm
work, thus decreasing the cost Of pro-
duction and eliminating the fertilizer
bills.
Clover should be grown every third
or fourth year; or, where this crop
fails, some other legume should be
utilized. OF all the plants with which
we are acquainted clover seems to be
endowed with a power to recuperate
soil more than others.
1t Is superior to other grasses be-
cause 1t sends it's roots down deeper,
thus feeding upon mineral and vege-
table substances in the soil that are
out of reach of the surface feeding
plants. 1t also increases the nitrogen
and humus content of the soil and is
an excellent food for all kinds of live
stock.
There is no forage crop, excepting
alfalfa, that possesses as many valu-
able qualities as our common red ClO-
yer. All ruminants prefer it to other
hay.
Glover thrives on almost all forms
of soil, and it Is especially valuable
on sandy soil, as it draws its nourish-
ment from the subsOil and from the
atmosphere and brings back to the
surface many soluble elements Of fer
t1ltty that have been washed down
through the soil by teaching.
Alfalfa ought to grow we'll on this
Kansas farm, and simply because some
other farmers have not succeeded with
1t Is no reason why our young friend
should not try it. Sow on high or roll
ing land, we'll drained, in perfect
seed beo thirty pounds to the acre
and it ought and doubtless will do
we'll. 1t is successfully grown in
nearly all of the eastern states, but Is
particularly we'll adapted to western
soils.
Macon beacon., 1910-02-04

REPRESENTATIVES, LONGWORTH
IN might have been expected to tell
this story some years ago when he
was "Nickier" than he is today; but
its truth is vouched for by a Washing
ton newspaper that never-well, hard
Iy ever tells lie. Thus it is:
Tucked away among the valuable
trophies of Representative Nicholas
Longworth is a dollar bill.
1.-The first and only dollar 1 ever
earned" says Mr.. LongwOrth, always
excepting the $500 per annum that
Uncle Sam is good enough to pay me
for the honor of representing, in part,
the city of Cincinnati in the house of
representatives.
1t happened in a political campaign
several years ago. | had been on the
stump around the state of Ohio. One
night l made a speech i'll a little town
which supported a small but COM
Portable hotel. l was well known in
Macon beacon., 1910-02-04

n HERE is a man in Washington who
L at some stage of his drinking be-
comes very melancholy. The joys of
life go hence then. He shuns his COM
panions, be they never so boon. His
thoughts-his black thoughts-suffice.
He does odd things. One night he had
been at a club with a number of
friends. Along about 'steenth drink
time he rose, donned his overcoat and
left His friends, knowing his moods,
did not seek to detain him. He went
over on Pennsylvania avenue.
'FKeb, sir? Carriage?" asked on of
the many who pilot seagoing hacks
over the pavement.
'Yes, l want a keb, sir. carriage" I"
said the bibulous one, with indigna-
ton in his tone, though there was no
Macon beacon., 1910-02-04

the top of the box, so as to open up
the space, that the hog, after being
ringed, may go on through and not
have to turn back into the pen with
the others.
The lever may be made of Two by
four-inch piece Of oak or other hard
wood and should be put in SO as to
work easily, having holes in the box
to correspond with the ones in the
lever. An iron pin is tied with a stout
string to the box to hold the lever
while ringing the hog.
The box may be set with end next
to the lot or pen in which you have
the hogs. Open the gate a little, just
enough so that the box will fill the
opening. Keep the end where the
lever is closed until a hog is driven
into the box, then open up the lever
end gradually and as the hog starts
to go through close up on his neck.
This will not choke him or damage
him in any way, but will hold him
until you put on the jewelry."
Macon beacon., 1910-02-04
Live Man Has a Funeral "Cortyzha y

occasion for it. Il want three kebs.
Let 'em prophesy about me-"
The cabman scampered his horse
down the avenue till he found two of
his like. All three trotted their horses
back to where the generous one was
waiting. The generous one eyed the
eQuipages sadly as they drew up to
the curb. The first hackman de-
scended and opened the door of his
vehicle.
Where are your friends, sir?" he
politely inquired.
''Friends?" the customer repeated.
II have no friends. I'm going to use
all these wagons myself. This is a
cortyzha my boy, a cortyzha. Pro
ceed."
And in single file the three cabs
proceeded to the Blank apartment
house. The generous one paid the
bill of all three cabmen. He was al
most happy to think that he had
pulled off something while alive that,
according to his friends, he would not
get when he was dead, if he kept his
present pace.
Macon beacon., 1910-02-04
Burkett Bill Would Abolish Something

not constitutional. They're for the
bill, but against its enactment on con-
stitItiOnal grounds"
Had you thought of abOlishing the
constitution as a means of getting rid
of the difficulty?"
Burkett looked savagely down the
corridor towards the rooms which the
committee of constitutional sharps
meet in.
Il have thought mighty seriously
that it would be a good thing to abol-
ish the constitutional lawyers" he
said.
Senator Burton gets many an odd
appeal for information. This week he
received the following letter from a
law student:
Dear Congressman: Will you kind
ly send me some literature on the
central bank scheme. How can a G. B.
be kept from political caprice? Is
the United States too vast for a C. B. !?
If not, how can the supporter of such
a view be answered."
The answer which H. B. Fuller, Mr..
BurtOn's secretary sent, was filled
with all the courtesy that our Ian
guage knows, but the law student will
have to dig up his c. B. information
himself