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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-03

and capable. The first meeting was Sat
urday afternoon with Mrs. James w.
Smith and Mrs. A. j, Gorham. 1t was
Treasury day. A general discus
sion was held by the members on the
subject "Original Poetry of Work and
Play
Following is the programme for the
coming winter;
September 16-With Mrs. D. c. Dart
and Miss Anna r. Decker.
Review of Evolution of a Girls Ideal
by Clara L. Laughlin, Mrs. j. F.. Mar
shall.
October With Mrs. A. G. Andrews.
M. Marshall.
October 2l-with Mrs. Charles I. vor-
hies. Education and the Larger Life"
c. Hanford Henderson and Mrs. Cor
ham,
November 4-With Mrs Arthur Betz,
THE World and the Wife Miss Violet
Whitworth.
November 1s-with Mrs. W. c. Druehl.
Review of 'Diaz. Master OF Mexico" By
James Creelman; Mrs, J, r.; sehreek.
wood. Review of Passing a Sing of Third FIoor
Back" by Jerome X jerome. Mrs. John
Reed.
and Ruth Palmer. ''' Review Of master
Of tho Inn." by Robert Herrick. Mrs j.
w. Smith.
January e-with Mrs. ]. W. christy,
IhS.lS vi ItOulcuSt lrlQcS ItlOUCt US
Win C. Comfort. Miss Lyle 8. WINNER.
January 20-Review OF The. Melting
Pot" by J. Zangwill, Mrs. II. c. Cav.
February 3-With Mrs. schreck. Re-
view OF Mary Cary" by Kate Bosher.
Miss Edna c. Cohn.
February l7-With Mrs. Harry CAM.
Rare Days in Japan" by George 4.
Ladd. Mrs. Marie Hunt.
March 9-With Mrs. Cav. Review of
Beloved Vagabond." by william J,
Locke, Miss Anna Y. Decker.
MapfD oy-NNifb M
Treasury day,
April 6-With Miss Whitworth
Schools OF Painting" by Miss Lydia
! Palmer.
April 20-With Miss WINNER. Review
| OF Critical Essays on Contemporary
American Artists by Nilsen Lanroii,
Miss Eta Powers.
May with Mrs, Marshall. Review OF
| I'VE OF the Never. Never Land" by
Aencas Gum. Mrs. Hugo w Druehl
May 2S-With Mrs. Byron Cummings
| Review OF The Spell OF the Yukon"
by Robert w. Service, Mrs. Gould B.
| BlakeIy.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-03

King Lear discussed.
Favorite parts read.
My favorite play. Why?
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-03
Wasatch Literary.

The Wasatch Literary club, organ
lied 1897 and federated in 1906, is one
Of the oldest and most important clubs
OF Salt Lake, In addition to its social
features, it is philanthropic and social.
Its study is along various lines and an
especially interesting programme has
been arranged for this year, Mrs. Earl
Dunshee is ths present president and
will prove Il pleasant and efficient lead
er. The programme is as follows.
October 3-Hostess. Mrs. f. O. I.eath-
erwood, 1921 East First South street.
Reception
Presidents address. Mrs. Earl Dunshee
Memories OF Europe" Mrs, Byron
Cummings.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-03

Continued on the Following Page.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
LIGHTNING KILLS A BOY
Son of Alfred Warn0Ck, of Morgan
Township found Dead under a
Tree on Monday Morning.

Ira Warnock, the fifteen year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Warnock,
of Morgan township, was found dead
under a tree in the pasture of Rich
ard Gatliff about a half mile from
his home, at 7 O'Clock Monday morn
ing, having been struck and killed
by lightning. The lad left home
Sunday evening about 5 o'clock to go
after the cows, just gefore the rain
storm, and his failure to return home
that evening did not occasion any
alarm, as his parents thought that he
had been caught in the rain and had
gone to one of the neighbors for the
night. AS he did not return home
the next morning his parents went
to look for him and found him lying
dead under big tree in Mr.. Cat
lifts pasture. The lad had evidently
taken refuge from the rain under the
big tree which had been struck by
lightning and was quite badly splin-
tered up.
Mr.. Warnock and family had just
returned about five weeks ago from
a stay of five years in Oklahoma,
and moved on a farm near Elm
Chapel, in Morgan township. They
have the sympathy of many friends
in their sore bereavement.
Funeral services of the lad were
held on Tuesday, interment being in
the cemetery at Lineville.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
Editors Are at Clarinda.

The Southern Iowa Editorial AS
sociation will hold their fall meeting
at Clarinda, Iowa, on Thursday and
Friday of this week, an interesting
program having been prepared, which
includes an address by Victor Rose
water, editor of the Omaha Bee, and
q chalk talk by Bart" (Charles L.
Bartholomew the great cartoonist
of the Minneapolis Journal. Bart
is an old protege of The Reporter
editor, having commenced work as
"devil" with US while we were pub
fishing the Herald at Charlton, more
than twenty-five years ago. He has
been the cartoonist on the Minneap-
oils Journal for more than twenty
years, and ranks as one of the best
scartoonists in America. A big ban
quet will be rendered the editors by
the Commercial Club of Clarinda on
Thursday evening. Horace Barnes,
of the Abba Republican, is president
of the association and o. e. Hull of
The Leon Reporter, secretary. Ex-
president, Scott Robinson, Of Glen
wood, who years ago AwAs& one sof the
editors of the Decatur County Jour-
nal in this city, will have a paper on
5"Why I left the Newspaper Busi-
ness"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
Will Spend Big Sum on The Trail.

Extensive work is now planned for
a part of the Waubonsie trail road
just west of New Market. Through
private subscription, county and
township aid, $1,000 has been rails
ed to take the kinks out of section
of the road on the township line be-
tween the Jesse Hughes corner and
that of the Wamsley corner. This
stretch of road is but one and a quar-
ter miles in length but it lessons the
distance travelled about one and a
half miles. 1t takes out many dan
gerous places and makes a very fine
roadway. There are five culverts in
this stretch and these will all be
made of cement. The hills will all
be cut to a grade not to exceed 71a
per cent. All of this work is on what
is known as the south Waubonsie
trail.
Extensive work has been done this
summer on the north Waubonsie.
Material is now being hauled for the
new bridge across the East river.
This bridge will be one hundred feet
long and will span both channels of
the stream. The grading and other
work has stopped temporarily on
this line but much more work will be
done during the fall. Some danger
GUS places are being eliminated on
this line also and some heavy fills are
being made to eliminate. heretofore
heavy grades.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
and IT RAINfD AGAIN
Auto Day Postponed until Thursday,
October 26th. The Third Time
wifi be the Charm.

Well try it again, and perhaps the
third time will be the charm. The
heavy rains last week made the
roads impossible for autos, so it was
necessary to again postpone Icons
big Auto Day, and the date has been
set for Thursday of next week, Oct.
>26th, and if the old weather man
will Just look on us with kindly eyes
there will be some big doin's in Leon
that day.
The program as printed elsewhere
in this issue will be carried out with
the exception that an additional
speaker has been secured, President
U. G. Reininger, of Shenandoah,
president of the Waubonsie Trail AS
sociation, having promised to be
with US that day and he will have
something of interest to tell you in
regard to what has been accomplish
ed with the Waubonsie Trail and
the good roads movement in Iowa.
It was sore disappointment to
many when the weather interfered
for the second time with Auto Day
last week, but it could not be helped.
So make your preparations to come
to Leon on Thursday, Oct. 26th, and
you will have genuine day of pleas
ure.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
G. G. Dye Had q Bad Accident.

. Hon. C. G. Dye, the we'll known
Woodland township farmer and good
roads advocate, met with a painful
accident which will confine him to
his home, for some time, last Thurs
day afternoon. He was doing some
repair work at his home and while
engaged in erecting a scaffold it fell
with him and a heavy timber struck
him in such a manner as to crush a
bone in his ankle and break the
small bone in his leg a few inches
above the ankle. DR.. Lovett, of
Woodland, was called and reduced
the fracture, but the injury is a SER
ious one, and will confine Mr.. Dye
at home for some time, and may
cripple him for life. To make mat
ters worse Mrs. Dye had departed
just few days previous on a visit
to her parents in Ohio, but kind
friends are giving Mr.. Dye every at
tention.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
Settled Controversy Over Land.

At a special meeting of the city
council held on Monday evening an
amicable settlement of the contro-
versy with J. F. Penniwell over the
condemnation proceedings of his
tract of ground for a site for the
water tower was effected, both sides
making concessions and the council
paid him $3.50 in addition to the
award of 500 made by the apprais-
ers selected by the sheriff, and in
return Mr.. ,Penniwell sold the town
the "a feet remaining west Of the
tract condemned, making in all the
south a. feet of lots 5 and s, the
size of the tract being 44x72 feet,
and Mr.. Penniwell has made the city
a deed to the land. It is a happy
ending of the controversy; as Mr..
Penniwell had appealed to the dis
trict court from the award as made
by the appraisers, feeling that he
had not received enough money In
view Of the damage which taking
this land caused to the balance Of
his property.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
Foot Ball Accident.

Earl Dorm, the popular and
speedy quarterback of the Leon High
School foot ball team, will be out of
the game for the balance of this sea-
son, as the result of an accident in
the game with Charlton in this city
last Saturday afternoon. Just as
the whistle blew at the close of the
game Dorm was tackled by Johnson,
Chariton's right end, and in some
unaccountable manner his left arm
was struck just above the elbow,
fracturing one of the bones of his
forearm. The injured player was
placed in an auto and hurried to a
physician, who reduced the fracture,
and Earl was attending school on
Monday, but he will play no more
foot ball this year. It is a hard loss
to the team as Dorm was one of the
speediest players and best kickers in
this part of the state.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
Lightning Destroys Big Barn.

During the storm of Sunday even
ing the big barn on the farm owned
by Cohen Bros, of Des Moines,
known as the Sankey farm, seven
miles southeast of Leon, was struck
by lightning and totally destroyed.
James Osborne, who resides on the
farm, had returned home about six
o'clock, and had turned his team out
in the pasture. A couple of hours
afterwards he noticed a light and
went to the door and saw the barn
was on fire all over, and so far gone
that nothing could be saved from the
building. Mr.. Osborne lost fifteen or
twenty tons of hay, 800 bushels of
oats, some corn and other feed, and
all of his harness and most of his
farm tools. He had some insurance,
but we could not learn the amount.
The barn was built few years ago
by E. J.. sankey, and was one of the
best in that part of the county, being
2Sx4O and built of the very best
material. 1t is reported that Cohen
Bros, carried insurance, but as they
live in Des Moines we could not learn
the amount or the company it was
insured in.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
List of Premiums

To be given on live stock by the
Decatur County Improved Stock
Breeders Association, exhibited at
the Farmers Institute in Leon, Fri
day, Nov. 8, 1911:
For the best draft horse foal.
1st $500, End 5000, 3rd $1.OO.
For the best draft mare foal,
1st $500, End $500, 3rd 800.
For the best bull calf, any beef
breed, 1st $500, 2nd $500, ard
For the best heifer calf, any beef
breed, 1st $500, End $2.0O, 3rd
S1.0O. -
For the best heifer calf, any dairy
breed, 1st $500, End $500, 3rd
$1.OO.
For the best boar pig farrowed
since March 1, 1911, 1st $500, 2nd
$500, 3rd $1.0O.
For the best pen of three gifts
farrowed since March l, 1911, 1st
$500, End $500, 3rd $1.00.
For the best pen of three lambs.
male or female, born since February
l, 1911, 1st $500, End 5000, 3rd
$1.00.
The rules are that exhibitor must
be the owner of all stock exhibited
at time of birth and shall be the get
of registered sire.
Foals and calves shall have been
born since January 1, 1911.
Fifty per cent will be deducted
from any association premium won
by non-members.
The Decatur Shire Horse Co. will
give $500 for 1st, $1,000 for End,
$500 for 3rd premium on colts of
1911, sired by their horse.
The Decatur Percheron. Horse Co.
will give $500 for 1st, $1,000 for
End, and $500 for 3rd premium on
colts of 1911, sired by their horse.
The Belgium Horse Co., T.. A.
Jackson, keeper, will give $4,000 for
the best colts Of 1911, sired by therir
horse to be divided as follows: horse
colts, 1st $500, End $500, 3rd
$2.O0; mare colts, 1st $500, End
$500, 3rd 5000.
The yearling colt class has seven
the best colts of 1911, sired by their
colts on payment of $1.OO, entry fee
to be divided with the best colts.
Truman's Pioneer Stud Farm will
give an engraved silver cup for the
best colt sired by any draft stallion
sold by them in Decatur county.
Anyone intending to enter stock
should notify the secretary as early
as possible so that we can make ar
rangements for barn room enough
to accommodate everyone.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
A SMOOTH CROOK.
Alleged Newspaper Man Gets Forged
Draft for $3.50 Cashed by First
National Bank of Grand
River.

A pretty smooth crook giving the
name of John C. Manning, and claim
ing to be from San Francisco, sue
ceeded in cashing a bogus draft for
$3.50 at the first National Bank of
Grand River last week, and made his
getaway with the cash.
Manning had opened negotiations
with editor Horace Greeley, Of the
Grand River Local, for the purchase
of printing Office which he owned
at Shannon City. He stated that he
desired to pay cash for country
printing Office, and was evidently at
home around print shop. He fin
ally closed deal for the Shannon
City office, and was to pay Greeley
$40 to bind the contract, and the
balance was to be paid when the
Office was turned over to him the
following week. He was to pay
Greeley 800 for his equity in the Of
fee and agreed to assume all liabil-
tiles. Manning went to the Shannon
City bank and rendered the cashier a
draft for $3.50 issued by a bank in
New York on a bank in Arizona.
When the cashier told him they
would not cash the draft without in
vestigating it, Manning picked it up
and left. He went to Diagonal,
where he also tried to cash the draft
but without success. On Monday
Manning went to Grand River pre-
sumably to close the deal up with
Greeley, and Cashier Brothers CASH
ed the draft, as he had been inform
ed by Greeley that he had sold his
Shannon City paper to Manning. He
paid Greeley the $40 and made ar
rangements with him to conduct the
paper at Shannon for another week
in order to allow him time to move
his family to that place, and then
disappeared. The Grand River bank
sent the draft to bank in Des
Moines, and they telegraphed to the
New York bank who replied that the
draft was evidently clever forgery.
A Pinkerton detective came at once
to Shannon City and Grand River to
try and secure a trail by which he
could follow Manning, and while
there stated that Manning was want
ed in nearly every state in the union
for similar crookedness.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
New Court Cases.

w. G. Braden vs. r. S. Dickinson.
This is an appeal from decision OF
Justice A. R. Warford. Plaintiff
sued for $50 as commission on a
land deal, and the justice dismissed
the action for the reason that de-
fendant was not a resident of De-
catur county, Iowa, but resided in
Platte county, ..eb. From this de-
cision plaintiff has appealed to the
district court. G. w. Baker, at
torney for plaintiff, A. P. Olsen, at
torney for defendant.
Mary e. Golf VS.. L. H. Goff. The
parties were married in Missouri in
1888 and have six children. The
plaintiff is now running hotel at
Weldon and asks for a decree of
divorce on the grounds of cruel and
inhuman treatment, claiming he has
threatened to kill her and unjustly
accused her of adultery. She asks for
a decree of divorce, the custody of
their minor children and 500 tenn
porary and such sum as the court
may fix as permanent alimony.
Marion F. Stookey, attorney for
plaintiff.
Farmers & Traders State Bank vs..
Maud B. Turner ct. al. Suit is
brought to foreclose a mortgage on
lots I, 2, and 4, block IA. Miles
addition to Leon, given to secure
four notes amounting to $207.90. J.
W. Harvey & Son, attorneys for
plaintiff.
John S. Teale VS.. Decatur County
ct. al. Plaintiff asks for an injunc-
ton restraining the board of SUPER
visors and county bridge foreman
from removing a county bridge on a
public highway adjoining his farm in
Bloomington township, alleging that
the highway can not be used if the
bridge is removed and cuts him off
from access to 160 acres of land. A..
P. Olsen, attorney for plaintiff.
B. E. Rushing vs.. F. A. Greeland
and w. A. Ramsey. An appeal is
taken from the court of w. H. SUIT
ton, Justice of the Peace of Garden
Grove township, wherein plaintiff
was given judgment against defend
ants on a note amounting to
$259.92. Marion Woodard, attorney
for defendants.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
Farmers Institute and Teachers
Meeting At Leon, Nov. IA.

Arrangements are being made for
a successful Farmers Institute and
Teachers Meeting to be held at Leon
on November l, 2, 3 and 4, and the
program will be one which should
attract a large attendance. The
Decatur County Live Stock Breeders
Association has hung up good list
of cash prizes for the best live stock
shown, and at meeting of the Leon
Commercial Club held last Friday
evening a committee was appointed
to visit the Leon merchants and Sc
cure prizes for displays of grains,
farm products, ETC., which will be
published next week. Among the
prominent men who will address the
institute are Prof A. H. Snyder, of
the State Agricultural College at
Ames, who will talk about silos,
which should interest our farmers.
Prof. McDaniels, also of Ames will
speak on Farm Crops" and will
judge the exhibits of farm products
and award the many prizes. Prof.
R. H. Bliss, of Ames, will lecture on
Animal Husbandry," and DR.. B. l..
Eiker, of Leon, president of the
Safe Board of Health will talk on
"Public Health"
For the teachers program one of
the principal speakers will be Mrs.
B. F. Carroll, wife of Governor Car
roll, who has done much good work
for the boys and girls of Iowa, and
has been instrumental in establish
ing many mothers clubs in this
state. Other prominent educators
will address the teachers, and the
annual declamatory contest will be
held during the session.
There should be a much greater
interest taken in the Institute by
the farmers of Decatur county. The
institute is veritable mine of in
formation for them on vital farm
topics, and no farmer who hopes to
make a success of farming can af-
ford to miss attending the entire
session. Let's see if the attendance
cannot be greatly increased this
year. Let each farmer who is in
terested and expects to attend see to-
it that some of his neighbors also
come.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
Marriage Rumor Proved False.

1t is rumored that a youngAschool
girl about fifteen years of age and a
member of prominent family of
this place, was, surreptitiously mar
ried iasta Saturday nigh In South
Lineville to gentleman considerably
older than her and a man of some
what shady history. The ceremony
was supposed to have been performed
by minister from Princeton.-Line-
vile Tribune
When the above clipping was
shown to Recorder Spencer last Sat-
urday that official began to smell a
very large sized mouse and at once
started on the hunt of certain mar
riage license that had been issued
late in September and had not yet
been returned This license had been
issued to C. F. Metsker of South
Lineville, to wed Miss Nina May
HUFF. Mr.. Metsker had been accom-
panied to the recorders Office by
Rev. J. c. Pierce, of this city, and
Mr.. Spencer at once set out to have a
talk with the Princeton minister
Rev. Pierce explained that while
young Metsker was known around
Lineville as George Jones his name
really was Metsker and that he had
accompanied him to Lineville to per-
form the ceremony several days pre-
vious, but the girl could not be
found. OF more interest to Spencer,
however, than any other part of the
story, was the fact that that Rev.
Pierce still had the unused license
which he freely surrendered to the
recorder. Metsker's affidavit on file
in the recorders Office states that
Miss Huff is over 18 years of age
Princeton Telegraph.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
Leon Dentist HOnOred,

DR.. J. W. Rowell, of this city, was
signally honored by the members of
the Corning District Dental Associa-
tion at their annual meeting held at
Bedford last week, being elected
prsident of the association for the
coming year. The annual conven-
tion at Bedford was we'll attended
by the members of the profession
from the southwestern part Of the
state. Another Decatur county dem
tist, DR.. w. ]. Mather, Of Lamont,
was elected % one of the three mem-
3bers Of the membership committee.
The next meeting Of the association
will be held at Red Oak. lows, In
October, 1912.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
Careless Supervisors.

Since the details of the Cass cpl
sode have become public the Times
Republican has had numerous sug-
gestiops that it ought to "roast" the
board Of supervisors for the manner
in which it has been conducting it's
business.
So far as this newspaper is con-
cerned it does not care half as much
about rQasting someone as It does to
have the, existing evils corrected. 1t
will admit that there is ample ma
terial for the basis of a roast, but the
revelation in recent months ought to
bring about better conditions without
even a suggestion from a newspaper.
Months before the Cass episode ex-
plOded this newspaper made the pre-
diction that there would be an awak-
ening. 1t had no knowledge of where
or when it would come about, but
knew it was as sure to follow as
night the day, when business is con-
Quoted as it is in Taylor county.
There are too many understand
ings" and agreements" that do not
get into the record of the proceed
ings. The board should take the
people into it's confidence. Publicity
of the public's business Injuries no
one.
Newspapers ought not to have to
"roast" public officials to get them
to perform their duties, especially af-
ter such an awakening as the courts
are now reviewing. This newspaper
will print the facts that develop III
court and live in hopes that some
thing will be learned from them,-
Bedford Times-Republican.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
The Runaway Girl.

3 Managers Van Werden & Ogilvie
have secured the above excellent
company for Thursday night, Oct
10th.
q They have been playing all the i'm
portant Lake towns during June, and
claim four years continued success
through the west and south, an All
Star Cast of principals, funny COM
edians and the famous Broiler Girl
chorus. "The Runaway Girl" their
feature play is in two acts with Is
big singing and dancing musical
numbers and is guaranteed clean,
moral and refined.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-19
Church of The Brethren Notes.

There will be protracted meeting
commence at the Church of the
Brethren 5k miles northeast of
Leon, commencing on Sunday morn
ing, Oct. %. Christian workers
meeting at 10 a. M, preaching at IL
a. m. Services will begin each even
ing at 1880. Communion services
will be held on the evening of Nov.
4th. Ed. J. D. Brewer, of Lenox, is
expected to be present and conducs
the services. All are cordially in.
vited to attend these meetings.