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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
Mrs. James Baker.

Rosalyne A. Young Baker, daugh-
ter of Thomas J. and Ida B. Young,
was born in Mills county, Iowa, Sept.
u, 1898, and died at her home in
Kellerton, May IA, 1911, aged II
years, months and 6 days.
A She, with her parents moved to
Decatur county, Iowa, where they
lived for one year. After living in
st. Joe, Mo-, for some time she again
moved to Iowa making her home in
Grand River until death of her faith
er and mother, and two infant broth
ers, -
After the death of her parents
Rosalyne went to live with her aunt,
Mrs. J. L. Brown.
She was united in marriage to
James Baker, July 20, 1910. She
united with the NJ. E. church in 1903
thereafter living a true earnest de-
voted Christian life inspiring all with
whom she came in contact. True to
the promise made her dying mother
she loved so, that when the sum-
mons came she took her flight to be
around the Great White Throne with
loved ones gone before.
She leaves to mourn her loss a
husband and one sister, two brothers,
and q number of other relatives be-
sides host of friends for all who
knew her loved her.
Interment was made in the
Knowlton cemetery. Services were
conducted by her pastor, Rev. J. A.
Nayle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
Letter from Alfred Deck.

The following letter from Alfred
Deck, for many years well known
resident Of Decatur county, who has
been living in Oklahoma for several
years, will be OF interest to his many
friends in tthis Vicinity:
Editor Reporter-P!sase find en-
closed $3.50 for the old Leon Re-
porter another year, for we like to
read the news from our old home
and it is just like getting letter
from home every week. We are
making hay for the first crop this
year, and it is good. We have plant
ed corn and kaffir corn the last three
weeks and will finish planting kaf11r
corn today. We have Indian corn
worked over the first time. Oats
are looking fine, but some of the
wheat don't look so good. 1t did
not come up until March and it has
been too dry. But the wheat which
came up last fall looks fine. We
raised a large crop of wheat last
year but not much corn. Land is
still getting higher, selling from $50
to 500 per acre. One farm joining
me, without much improvements,
sold this spring for $50 per acre, and
some little higher. I know of one
100 acres which sold for $4,000.
Yours truly,
A. Deck,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
Will GO Around Rock Quarry Hill.

Thursday morning, Mr.. j. B. Nc
Donald, state highway engineer, and
Mr.. Babcock, official photographer Of
the Waubonsie Trail, were here. They
are travelling the Waubonsie Trail
from Nebraska City to Keokuk and
are giving much good advice on how
to make permanent roads. Two auto
loads went with these men to the
rock quarry hill and met in council
with several Davis City boosters. The
question was how to avoid the bad
hill at the quarry. Will Lee, one of
the most prosperous farmers in the
vicinity of Davis City, offered So
foot right of way, extending over a
quarter of a mile through the best
part of his land north of the quarry
to the committee for $125.00. His
offer was readily accepted by the
Davis City people and a good road
will be made at once. Mr.. Lee made
a great sacrifice in selling this land,
but he has the boosting spirit and
realizes what it means to have a
good road running by his farm. The
Davis City people are going to put in
some good work on the roads and we
hope to soon have an example road
between Lamont and Davis City. Two
concrete culverts are being placed at
the foot of the hills near the Levi
Brooks farm which will be. a
greatly needed improvements La
moni Chronicle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
ChautauQua News.

The work among the children this
year will take up the Scout" Idea.
This institution is spreading over the
country like wildfire. The boy
Scouts" and the Camp Fire Girls"
movement will be adapted so as to
be worked together during the Chau-
tauqua.
There will be a Chautauqua man
along ahead of the opening day who
will send up some big paper balloons
that will let loose some orders for
ing these will get to go to the Chau-
free tickets, and the lucky boy find
tauqua free.
Much speculation has been in
dulged in among the lovers of the
lower order of animals as to whether
a horse can understand human
speech.
The little pony that is carried with
Garretta's collection of trained ami
mails and birds shows every indica-
ton of understanding speech. And
yet it is probable that he is only a
we'll trained performer that has
learned after patient drill and dis
cipline the fact that certain combina-
tons of words require him to do GER
tain things. .-!n-~.,,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
Ben Davis Apples.

The Ben Davis apple is lovely in
hue, it seems to invite you to step up
and chew. It's pretty and shapely,
it's profile is fine-but do not long
for the Ben Davis in mine. To eat a
Ben Davis is wasting your time; it
tastes like mattress and drives you
to crime. / ate Ben Davis when l
was quite young, and now I recall it
whenever I'm stung. 1t taught me a
lesson, a lesson prize, it sharpened
my wolf-teeth and opened my eyes.
And now when a fakir comes to my
door, to sell me some stock in a
mine full of ore, think of Ben Davis
and say to him, NIX" and tell him
to vanish and pelt him with bricks.
And when I encounter an oil-tongued
jay, too sweet and too gracious for
man made of clay, protesting affec-
ton approaching to love, l think of
Ben Davis and give him shove.
read in the magazine pages of men
who'd make us wealthy, again and
again; they're brokers or dealers in
moonshine and mist-just send them
two bucks and they will send you a
list. Their glittering spells don't ap-
peal to my wits; think of Ben Davis
and throw a few fits.-Walt Mason.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
Weather Crop Bulletin.

Des Moines, Iowa.
For the week ending May 81, 1911.
Copious rains over the larger part
of the state on the 14th, followed
four days of abnormally warm
weather, with light to heavy and
fairly we'll distributed showers on
the last three days of the week, have
caused rapid growth of all vegeta-
ton. The average temperature was
10 to Is degrees above the normal,
and the rainfall though generally de-
flcient, was ample for the present
needs except over the northwestern
counties where the rainfall has been
light for several weeks. Corn plant
ing is nearly finished and many Of
the early planted fields are being
cultivated. The stand of corn is
excellent, and replanting will not be
necessary except on sod ground
where cut and wire worms are very
active, and have already caused con-
siderable damage. Grass and small
grains improved during the week,
but owing to the deficiency of mois-
ture the timothy hay crop will be
light. Glover is, however, reported
to be in good condition. Rye is
heading and winter wheat is begin
ming to joint. Oats are generally in
excellent condition, and potatoes
garden truck and fruit are doing
we'll, although there is some COM
plant that cherries and plums are
not setting we'll.
Geo. NJ. Chapel
Section Director.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
Why Advertised Goods are Preferred

Il buy advertised goods by prefer
ence," says G. H. LOrimer, editor of
the Saturday Evening Post, "but I
never write to the advertiser"
Million of others do the same, and
the advertiser has no idea how wide
ly he has Influenced the public save
in the rising tide of his sales. Adver-
Using has become such an essential
of modern business that most people
have come to regard it as the in
evitable accompaniment of a success
full enterprise.
To persuade the public to patron
ize Jones' store out at Lone Cross
Roads would be difficult task.
People would not believe that a store
thus located could get business
enough to afford good bargains.
Similarly q business that does not
advertise usually lives in isolation
and dizziness like the remote cross
roads store. The public argues that
IL cannot have volume of trade
enough to offer good assortments of
substantial goods or to sell at a
close margin of profit.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
Prison Population Increases.


Four years ago there were about
500 prisoners in the penitentiaries at
Anamosa and FIT. Madison, while to-
day there are over 100, being big
Increase for the four years. Members
of the board of control offer vari-
Gus reasons for the increase.
Il am not certain whether crime
is actually on the increase in this
state, to the extent which these fig
ures would Indicate" said Senator
Berry, cor whether it is because
crime is being detected better than
in days gone by. Possible it is the
latter thing"
1T strikes me that one cause is
to be found in the fact that those in
generated are serving longer SEN
tence under the indeterminate SEN
tence law than they did under the old
determinate sentence law" said Mr..
Mott, of the board.
1T is a fact, however, that since
the law has been in force the men
have been serving longer sentences
than they formerly did"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
FENCE STATUTE is UPHELD.
First Test of Constitutionality of the
Law Providing for Erection of
Sheep and Swine Fence.

Iowa City, Iowa, May 16.-Judge
R. P. Howell, of the district court,
has upheld the constitutionality OF
the law passed by the general as
sembly compelling farmer to erect
a sheep and swine tight fence along
his half of a lot, where an adjoining
property owner has so fenced his.
The law was passed two years ago
but it has never before been tested
in the courts. The decision was CIV
en- in the case of John A. Goetz
against John Hayes.
There may be an appeal to the SUI
preme court for a final adjudication.
The proposition raised by the friends
of the statute is that where the law
compels a man to fence his part of a
partition line it is not unconstitu-
tional to specify the kind of fence
which shall be erected.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
Ralph Baker. ,

Ralph Baker, son of Richard and
Fannie Baker, was born at Nelsmore,
Ohio, on June 7, 1851, and died at
his home in Delta, Colorado, on May
IS, 1911.
He united with the M. E. church
when a young man, and lived con-
sistent christian life until his death.
In the year, 1869, he came to Gar
den Grove, Iowa, and attended the
normal school, conducted by Prof. X.
A. Hardness. He was united In mar
riage at Nelsmore, Ohio, to Patience
Graves, on May 6, 1875, and immed-
lately moved to Garden Grove, Iowa.
in which vicinity they made their
home until in January, 1910, when
they moved to Delta, Colorado,
where they have since resided.
He leaves to mourn his death a
wife and four children, Richard Sell
den Baker, Mrs. Gertrude Gretchen
McDonough, Grattan Henry Baker
and Margaret Helen Baker, all of
whom now reside in Delta, Colorado,
except Mrs. McDonough, whose home
is near Leon, Iowa. One child, Gannie
Grace, aged six years, preceded him
to the better world in March, 1889.
No resident of Decatur county was
better known or more highly respect
ed than Ralph Baker; no man has
done more for the community in
which he lived: no man whose death
will be greater loss. No faint of dis
honesty has ever marred his good
record. His time and money were at
the command of the needy, and his
hospitable home was always an open
house. He was a charter member of
the Country Culture Club, and was an
enthusiastic member until his death.
Born of good old Revolutionary
stock on the paternal side as we'll as
the maternal side, he was live and
interested spectator of current events
and himself man of good deeds and
kindly actions rather than of words.
1t would be we'll for any community
If there were more Ralph Bakers.
Peace to his ashes,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
Mrs. Edward O'Grady.

Salina Needer-O grady was born at
Fairibault, Mimi, November 4, 1880.
and died at her home about five
miles north of Grand River May Is,
1911, aged 80 years, 5 months and
II days.
n on October 27, 1908, while max
ing her home at Lawton, Oklahoma,
with her parents, she was united in
marriage to Edward O'Grady Of
Grand River To this union three
children were born; Mary Salina,
aged s; Joseph Patrick, aged 3 and
Edward Thomas, aged 2; all of
whom with a kind and indulgent
father are left to mourn the loss of
4 true and loving wife and mother.
Something over year ago, Mrs.
O'Grady contracted severe cold
which later developed into tubercu-
losis. Although all possible human
aid was given, it was in vain.
Funeral services were conducted
by Rev. FIR. White, of Maloy, at the
Catholic church in Grand River We'd
nesday morning. Interment was
made in the O'Grady cemetery.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
UNCLE SAM OFFERS BONDS.
Issue o. $50, 100000 With Prefer.
ence to Small Investors.

Secretary MacVeagh has invited
popular subscriptions to $4,000
900 issue of government bonds to re-
imburse the treasury general fund
for expenditure on account OF the
Panama canal. 81.
Treasury officials expect the loan
will be largely oversubscribed, and
in distributing the new securities
the governments announced inten-
ton is to give preference to smaller
bidders:
The new securities will bear per
cent interest, payable quarterly; will
be free from all national, state on
municipal taxation, and will be in
denominations of 500, $500 and
$1,000. They will be dated June l.,
1911, and will be payable in fifty
years.
BY provision of law the new bonds
will not be available to national
banks as the basis of circulation. In
asmuch as they are the first the
United States ever has issued with
such a restriction much interest is
attached to the price they will bring.
According to law they cannot be sold
at less than par.
Inasmuch as the postal saving
bank law fixes the par value of a
postal bank bond bearing 2k per
cent interest at 500, it is agreed
that the per cent Panama canal
bonds must bring more than par.
How much more is conjecture. The
estimates range from slightly above
par to 1903.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25

Nov it's up to the road super
visors to enforce that new law in ref
erence to dragging the roads, says
the Let's Record. Heretofore road
dragging was done whenever the
farmer felt so inclined. AS result
where the neighbors took pride in
keeping up the roads they would
drag them, but others not bothering
or caring enough about the roads
would let them go without dragging.
In some sections they didn't appear
to know what a road drag was. Now
they will have an opportunity 10
learn, as the new law puts it up to
the road supervisors to see that the
roads under their supervision are
dragged. If they fail to see that this
is done they are liable to arrest and
fine. The drag must be used on Iowa
roads,"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25

l am old and gray and spawned
and 1 look like twenty cents, but I
have one consolation now that life
is in it's fall, I can sit upon boul-
der, with my back against the fence,
and forget my tribulations when
see a game of ball. Oh, I love to
see old fellows in the sere and yell
low leaf, sitting, happy, on the
bleachers yelling fifty-seven ways!
For the time they have forgotten all
about old ages grief, as they shrek
appreciation of the home teams foxy
plays. I am old and stiff and sween-
led, and my ringbones bother much,
and the undertaken eyes me in pro-
prietary style, but I'd go to see the
ball games if had to use a crutch,
and I'll yell like ten hyenas as l
wave my ancient tile. You may say
I'm full of Goldfish, that my block is
out of plumb, when 1 make the sad
confession that an old man me an
noys, if he moons around his door
way, looking woebegone and glum,
when he might be at the ball game,
raising thunder with the boys. If
you are so beastly ancient that you
do not feel thrill when the home
team winning laurels and gor-
geous lot of fame, you should rent
a hearse to haul you to the boneyard
on the hill; for it's mighty foolish
living when you're weary of the
game.-Walt Mason.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25

Since the SHOWS have melted away
and the frost has come out of the
ground, James Hurlbut, of Lake
City, has discovered that instead of
80 acres of corn land ready for the
planter he has 80 acres of boulders,
many of them two feet in diameter.
Hurlbut lives near the Carroll coun-
ty line, and once removed all the
rocks from his place. All the farms
in the vicinity had to be cleared of
boulders. Hurlbut was puzzled at
first as to the cause of the presence
of the stones. 1t has finally been de-
cided that the action of the frost
brought the rocks to the surface.
The ground on his farm was frozen
very deep and the snow kept the
surface of the ground warm aud
moist. The action of the frost be-
meath pushed up the boulders. 1t is
estimated that Hurlbut has about
100 cords of rock on his corn land
that vary from eight inches to two
feet in diameter, every one of them
having been resurrected from the
bowels of the earth during the past
winter. ~ -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25

kind and loving disposition won her
the respect and esteem of the young
al we'll, as the old and her friends
number by the hundreds. Her sui
fering was long and great she being
in poor health for the past nine
years. She was united in marriage
to Dan Griffin, April II, 1873. She
leaves to mourn her death husband,
father. mother, two I:others, two
sisters and a host of sympathizing
friends. She was laid to rest in the
Catholic cemetery, Monday 10 a. m.'
Nav IS, with requiem mass, cele-
brated by Rev. Father McGlllln, OF
her parrish.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
Maurice Malcum Hart.

Little Maurice Malcum Hart was
born August II, 1910, and after
spending nine short months with his
parents and brother, departed Tor
his home in Heaven just at midnight
May II, 1911. Funeral services were
held at the home on Friday morning
at 10 O'Clock, and his little body
was tenderly laid to rest in the Leon
cemetery.
A precious from us has gone,
A voice we loved is stilled;
That never can be filled.
A place is vacant in our home,
A Card-In this way allow us to
thank everyone who gave so abund-
antly of their help, flowers and
sympathy during the sickness and
home-going of our sweet baby Maui
rice. Mr.. and Mrs. Melchi Hart.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
Davis City Don't Want Coal Mines.

The question of a coal mine at this
point is all UP in the air and the
chances are that coal in the ground
in and around Davis City can stay
there as far as the Abba Mining Co.
is concerned.
l.. A. Rosebrook, of Oskaloosa,
came down Thursday morning from
Leon, where the company is pros
pecting, to secure leases on a block
of land here, but by noon he came to
the conclusion that the farmers
here didn't want coal mine, and he
took the afternoon train for home.
The company has secured a lease
on 5000 acres at Koyle, and a pros
pect hole will be made on Jim Mil
ler's farm, and if it is found that coal
can be had in paying quantities, a
shaft will be put down.
A coal mine at this point (Koyle)
means more to Davis City than she
realizes at this time. 1t not only
means a lot to this city, but good
deal to the farmers in and around
this city.
A coal mine at this point, (Koyle)
means new town to the north of us
which would kill this point as trad
ing center, and leave the place with
cut a market.
The trade that we now get from
the east and north would naturally
go to the new town to the north of
us.
Turn this over in your minds and
look the proposition square in the
face and see if we can afford to pass
this coal mine up.-Davis City News
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
SCHOOL NOTES.
Editors a asIsa M SSsten

"Straight from the mighty bow
this truth is driven. They fail and
they alone who have. not striven.''
..5-'' Clarence Urmy.
At the recent high school track
meet held at Lamont, Bryant Sears
won first in the high jump and Ray
mond McMorris first in the half
mile run. AS a result of this the
boys are now wearing beautiful gold
medals. The boys are proud of them
too.
The primary room and 9Th grade
royalty entertained the high school
with an excellent program Friday
morning. A number of the parents
were present to enjoy it.
Puzzle pictures showing how tea
and coffee are grown, were sent to
each OF the high school students by
Chase & SanbOrn. The puzzles
keep the boys and girls out of mis-
chief.
The Glass of IL have sent out
their commencement cards an
nouncing the class day program,
Wednesday, May 81, and commence
ment exercises, Thursday June l.
Rev. Fifer of Des Moines gives
the address to the class. The bac-
calaureate sermon will be preached
by Elder ]. S. Coffin Sunday evening
May %, at the opera house. The
churches are too small to accommo-
date the crowd at the baccalaureate
services, so every one is invited to
the opera house. The school Will
furnish the music
Tuesday, May 80, is Decoration
Day and a legal holiday, consequent
ly the boys and girls will have a day
off.
A letter to the Board of Educa-
ton and high school faculty from
Prof. F. C. Ensign, Inspector of
schools, reaffirms that our school is
now fully accredited.
Passing examinations in May de-
ponds on getting lessons in Septem-
Der.
Mr.. Raglan, lecturer in the in
terests of the w. C. T. U. gave a
splendid talk to the high school
Wednesday afternoon.
The regular Friday program in
the high school will be given next
Friday at 2 o'clock, to which the
parents and friends of the school
are cordially invited,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
School Picnic.

Mrs. Selma Smith closed very
successful term of school at Normal
Vale, Friday, May 10Th, and about
the noon hour number of parents
and friends came with we'll filled
baskets and spread the table, which
had been arranged for the occasion,
with an abundance of good things
toIwhich all did ample Justice. After
dinner we listened to a delightful
program given by the children, which
was certainly a credit to both pupils
and teacher. Mrs. Smith has given
the best of satisfaction and no doubt
be welcomed back this fall. How
ever, she has accepted position in
the Pleasanton school and all join
in wishing her unbounded success.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
WORLDS HIGHEST BUILDING.
One of SIS Stories is Being Planned
in New York.

Plans have been filed in New York
City by the Broadway Park Place
company for the construction at
Broadway and Park Place OF the
highest building in the world. From
the curb to the apex of the tower it
will stand 720 feet. There will be
thirty stories in the main building
and an additional twenty-five in the
tower, fifty-five in all.
The highest building in the world
now standing is the Metropolitan
tower, 700 feet inches, and the sec
ond highest is the Singer tower, G12
feet. The Eiffel Tower, a skeleton
steel structure, is not considered a
building.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-05-25
HAS A STOMACH LIKE A SPRING
WAGON.
Man Who Can Eat Five Dozen Eggs
at One Meal Has Issued Chal-
lenge.

Thos. F. Curley, of Rockland,
Mass, who calls himself the champ
ion big eater of Massachusetts, has
issued challenge, backed by $500,
ito devour a larger quantity of eggs,
oysters or Holsters at one sitting than
any self-styled champion in the coun-
try"
Curley's most recent feat included
the eating Of five dozen boiled eggs
at a meal.
On two other occasions he devour-
ed thirteen 1-pound Holsters and 100
oysters at a. sitting.