The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-03-02
THE WAUBONSlE TRAIL
Leon Boosters are Making an Or
oanized Effort to Secure this
Good River to River Road.

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Good River to River Road.
Leon has woke up, along with Mt.
Ayr, Kellerton, Lamont, Davis City,
Decatur City and other towns and
decided that they want the Waubon-
sic Trail to come through the south
ern or central part of Decatur and
Ringgold counties instead of follow
ing along the line of the X. 4 w.
railroad through Grand River, Van
Vert, Weldon and Humeston to Cory
don, Word was received last Thurs
day evening from the Mt. Ayr Com
mercial Club that they had sent
representatives to Shenandoah to
endeavor to have the road run via
Mt. Ayr and Leon, and asking that
Leon send a committee to Mt. Ayr
Friday evening to take steps with
them in the matter of securing the
road. Leon never does anything by
halves, and Friday morning a special
coach was chartered and headed by
the X. P. band nearly a hundred
boosters went to Mt. Ayr, being join
ed by delegations at Lamont and
ing was held, the proposition thor
oughly discussed, and it was voted
that a committee consisting Of five
members from each town along the
proposed route be held at Mt. Ayr
and Leon on Monday to arrange for
going to Shenandoah with the two
counties organized and meet the OFF,
GERS of the Waubonsie Trail associa-
ton and make an effort to have the
road established through Mt. Ayr
and Leon, and then straight east to
Corydon, it having been already de-
cided that the trail would have Cory
don as an objective point. The road
is now located as far east as the west
line of Ringgold county, at point
which is a mile north of Mt. Ayr.
Leon is directly east of Mt. Ayr, bit
the towns along the X. & w. got
busy and have already Joined the
association and want the line to run
north to Tingley then east to Grand
River, and other towns along the
railroad line. This route would be
35 miles longer than through Mt.
Ayr and Leon to Corydon from the
point on the west side of Ringgold
county where it is definitely located,
and we believe it can be shown that
not only the shorter road but much
better road can be run through Mt.
Ayr and Leon. 1t will lengthen the
route about II miles to go from Kel-'
lerton to Lamont and Davis City, but
If more direct route is insisted on
the. road could run from Kellerton to
Decatur City and then to Leon. 1t
is direct road straight east from
Leon to Corydon through High Point
and Lewisburg.
The committees from Lamont, Da-
Wis City and Leon met in this city
Monday and agreed to make con-
certed effort to secure the road, and
a similar meeting was held ut Mt.
Ayr at the same time at which COM
mitteemen were present from Keller
ton. The upshot of the meetings is
that a special train has been charter
ed Ly the boosters to run to Shenan-
doah Thursday to present the claims
Of the Mt. Ayr-Leon route, and there
will be big crowd 60 from all the
towns. The train starts from Mt.
Ayr at a. M, and leaves Leon about
9 o'clock.
It will be remembered that the
Leon Commercial Club through it's
secretary, ]. S. Coffin, proposed to
establish river to river road across
the southern tier of counties in Iowa
as long ago as last May, when secre-
tary Coffin wrote to all the county
seat towns asking them to meet and
take up the matter, but there was
not sufficient interest shown at that
time, but the proposed Waubonsie
Trail is evidently the result of that
agitation.
The towns along the north route
nave already presented their claims
and paid their admission fees, but
the route has not been settled yet.
Everybody here is hoping that the
trail will come through Leon, for
we have many advantages, including
the best auto machine shop in south
ern Iowa, and in couple of months
we will have the best garage be-
tween the rivers, modern fire proof
structure, and this will be one of the
advantages which the boosters will
urge. There is one thing sure and
that is that if the road passes
through Mt: Ayr it will come to
Leon, either through Lamont and
Davis City, or from Kellerton to
Decatur City.
A special meeting of the Leon
Commercial Club will be held this
Wednesday, evening to. hear the
official report of the committee
meeting and arrange to go to Shen-
andoah on the special train. The
train will leave Leon at about 9
a. M, and return some time in the
evening. Let everybody who can
go and help the boosters to secure
the Waubonsie Trail for Leon.
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