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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
William Allen Mcintosh. !.

William Allen Mcintosh, was born
in Sullivan county, Indiana, October
9, 1910, and died at his home five
miles north of Grand River, Iowa,
June 20, 1911, aged 70 years, 8
months and 20 days.
The deceased was one of the best
known citizens of Decatur county.
He came to Decatur county in 1854.
and has resided in this county even
since. He was the tallest man in
the county, and in his younger days
was noted for feats of strength and
endurance. Notwithstanding his
splendid physique he was of a kind
disposition, and many times after a
hard days work he would walk sew
eral miles to sit up with sick neigh
Dor. He was united in marriage to
Miss Elizabeth Millstead on Feb. 2,
1853, and to their union were born
nine children, six of whom had pre-
ceeded the father to the Great Be-
yond. He is survived by his devoted
wife and three children, Mrs. Me-
linda Bohall, Wilbert and Edward
two sisters, two brothers, ten grand
children and four great grandchild-
ren.
Funeral services were held at the
Christian church in Grand River on
Saturday, conducted by Rev. Craven,
of Mt. Zion church, the services
being in charge of the I. o. o. F.
lodge, of which he had been a worthy
members for many years. Interment
was in the Young cemetery.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
A. J. Laurie, Mayor.
Walter Davis Citv Clerk
Princeton Had a Big Fire Tuesday
Night.

Princeton, Mo-, celebrated this year
and wound up with a display of fire.
works not on the official program,
for those who remained in the town
in the evening witnessed the most
disastrous conflagration in the his
tory of the town. About 9 o'clock
a. fire was discovered in a doctors
Office on the north side of the square,
and it spread rapidly, burning over
two blocks, and destroying 21 build
ings, many of them substantial two
story brick buildings. Their hotel
and telephone exchange was burned,
SO it is impossible to obtain any par
ticulars at the time The Reporter
went to press. The fire could be
plainly seen at Pleasanton and Gains
vile, and a number of GAINESVILLE peo-
pie drove over in autos.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
An Appeal for Help.

]. We have been requested to pub
lish the following appeal for aid for
the farmers of Tillman and Camanche
counties, Okla, whose crops were
destroyed by hail storm and tor
nado on June gath:
Chattanooga, Okla, June 27, 1911.
The severest hail storm and tor
nado which has occurred in our state
within ten years moved a path seven
miles wide and about thirty miles
long through Tillman and Comanche
counties late Saturday afternoon. The
hail literally destroyed all vegetation
and the wind laid waste to about
one hundred houses and more barns,
the great majority in the stricken
district are absolutely destitute,
few only having tornado insurance.
The farmers have no feed for their
stock, but they are going to try cot
ton again, but they must have money
to pay for food for their families
and feed for their stock, the grass
having been burned up already by
hot winds. The merchants of this
place are already overloaded by car
rylng accounts for the farmers and
are not able to bear any further
burden. You are requested in the
name of humanity to ask your good
to aid us Immediately, send
ing remittances to either of the two
banks here.
A. J. Laurie, Mayor.
Walter Davis, City Clerk.
The Reporter will be pleased to
receive and forward subscriptions to
the proper parties if any of our
readers feel inclined to respond to
this earnest appeal for assistance.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
GIRLS win THE PIANOS
Misses Theda Hines and Fay Evans
Win the Pianos in Merchants
Popular VOTING Contest.

The big piano contest which has
been conducted by a number of the
Leon merchants for the past six
months, closed Monday evening at
8 o'clock with big rush of votes
for the various contestants, and few
minutes later the ballot boxes were
turned over to the judges, Geo. T.
Ogilvie, S. Varga and Roe Caster jr.,
who made the final count which
awarded first place to Miss Theda
Hines, who received 3,393,245 votes,
Miss Fay Evans being in second
place with 2,O57,195, and both of
these young ladies receive piano,
as the merchants had offered two
fine pianos to the successful contest
ants. 1t was a big job to count the
ballots, and the judges did not COM
plete their work until after 2 o'clock
the next morning.
The following is the official count
nAs
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
RAILROADS OBEY NEW LAW.
Burlington to Install Sanitary Drink
ing Cups Throughout System.

Chicago, ILL.,, July 3.-Railroads
throughout the country are speedily
complying with the new sanitary reg
ulatiOns made compulsory by a num-
Der of the legislatures. The former
practice on the part of theabig cor
porations to oppose legislative action
by injunction has been abandoned
with general alacrity to conform
with public opinion.
The Burlington system has taken
the lead in the installation Of indi-
vidual drinking cups on all it's lines
north and west. Though the new
law affects the Burlington only in
Illinois and Kansas, the officials de-
cided to supply all it's patrons in
every state with the new individual
cups.
Special automatic devices have
been installed so that every car will
be furnished with an apparatus to
supply travellers with the individual
cups. The individual cup is made of
pure cellulose. 1t folds fiat and can
be carried in pocket, purse or satch-
el.
P. S. Eustis, passenger traffic man
ager of the Burlington system, has
personally directed the installation
Of the automatic devices. He said:
For some time Wisconsin has had
the ban on the so-calhed death cup
it being customary ON trains running
through the state of Wisconsin to
have the porter remove the drinking
cups at the northern or southern
boundary of the state and replace
them after the train had traversed
the other boundary line.
''The Burlinton system, seeing the
wisdom of such a measure, deter
mined not only to comply with the
law with referenceto these individual
states, but to extend it's application
everywhere on the system. The in
dividual drinking cup with the prop
er safeguards is being installed in all
Burlington stations as WE'LL"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
Resigns Government Position.

Major J. L. Young returned to
Leon Monday to remain permanent
ly, having resigned his position in
the treasury department at Wash
ington, D. c., his resignation which
was filed some weeks ago taking ef-
feet July 1st. For several years the
Majors health has been very poor
at Washington, and he felt it was
unwise for him to remain longer
at Washington. He has held a posi-
ton in the treasury department for
number of years, and his friends
trust that relieved of his official du-
ties he will be able to regain his
former good health.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
Corn Club Jubilee Picnic.

President Fred Woolley, of the
Garden Grove Corn Club, writes us
that the annual Corn Club Jubilee
Picnic will be held this year on
Thursday, Sept. 28th, at the c.. A.
Davis park near Garden Grove. The
change was made from Saturday to
Thursday in order to accommodate the
large number of merchants and busi-
nessmen who would like to attend,
but find it impossible to be away from
their places of business on Saturday.
Special efforts are being made to Sc
cure some extra good speakers and
other entertainment for the picnic
this year, and the officers are going
to make the picnic this year the big
gest in the history of the club, and
that will be doing some. .s
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
BABE FATALLY BURNED
little Son Of Nj. and Mrs. John
Chastain jr. sets Fire to Cloth
inQ and is Fatally Buraed.

A heartrending accident resulting
In the death of Rane. the fifteen
months old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Chastain jr., occurred at their
home two miles east of Leon Monday,
the little fellow dying as the result
of terrible burns received by setting
his clothes on fire with some matches.
AS was her daily custom Mrs.
Chastain had given the little boy a
bath about ten o'clock and dressed
him in his nightclothes, taking him
upstairs and putting him on the bed,
and he invariably went to sleep at
once. Mrs. Chastain went about her
household duties and had stepped
out of the house for couple of min
utes and when she returned smelled
smoke and running upstairs found
her darling child terribly burned. 1t
seems that instead of going asleep
as usual the little fellow had crawled
down off his bed on the floor and
had found some matches either on
the floor or the window and in some
manner had ignited a match and set
fire to his nightgown, which being
of cotton burned in flash, his little
limbs and body being terribly burned.
Mrs. Chastain realized that he was
seriously burned and at once phOned
for physicians and Drs. Layton and
Bowman were rushed to the scene in
an auto, and every possible aid was
given the sufferer, but it was thought
he had inhaled the flames and all
that could be done was to alleviate
his suffering, and his little spirit
took it's flight to its Heavenly home
about one o'clock.
: Rane was an unusually bright and
.affectionate little fellow, and the fond
parents as we'll as many friends are
heart, broken over his death.
Rane Clinton Chastain was born
April %, 1910, and departed this
life at the home of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. M. Chastain jr., July g.,
1911, being one year, two months
and ten days old. The funeral SER
vices were held at the home on Tues
day afternoon at three o'clock, con-
Quoted by Rev. J. S. Coffin, pastor of
the Christian church. The text was
selected from Matt. 1884, "Verily
say unto you except ye turn and be-
OOAAO as l4IClO SAl1O1 Gil yS oAdl Ill l1O
wise enter into the kingdom of heav-
en- The floral decorations were
very beautiful. A large number of
neighbors and friends were present
to lend their sympathy and kind
words in this dark hour of grief. The
little body was laid to rest in the
Chastain cemetery six miles south
east of Leon. Those from a distance
attending the funeral were Harry
]. Yost, of Lamont, Iowa, and Mrs.
S. F. Williams, of Kansas City, Mo-,
brother and sister of the child's
mother. The entire community en-
ters into sympathy with the parents
and little Goldean the little sister,
in their loss.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
The Union Service.

The union service, the first of the
season, was held last Sunday night
at the NJ. E. church. DR.. Clemons,
of Chicago, was here and gave
patriotic address. The next union
service will be held at the Christian
church next Sunday night and Bro.
Hoff, of the NJ. E. church, will be the
speaker. The morning services will
be held as usual at each of the
churches Members of all churches
in the city are urged to attend these
union services for they are not held
for the benefit of the Methodist and
Christian churches alone, but for all.
J. S, Coffin
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
Weather Crop Bulletin.
For the week ending July 2, 10:
nnc

For the week ending July 2, 1911.
Des Moines, Iowa.
Following the showers on the
evening of June 25th and the morn
| ing of the 26th. the weather was
much cooler until the 2Sth, but the
last four days of the week were in
tensely hot; the maximum tempera-
ture at many stations exceeding 100
degrees on the three days. The
drought continues with increased
severity over the larger part of the
state notwithstanding the fact that
the showers of a week ago were more
extensive and in many places the
rainfall much heavier than was indi-
Gated in the last bulletin. Some
stations reported two to over $50
inches of rainfall, while in the south
ern and southwestern counties, there
was no rain during the week and
only light showers in the eastern Sec
tions. Except in the northeastern
counties where showers were fire.
quent prior to last week and in local
tiles in the northwestern counties
where the rainfall was the heaviest
on the 25th and Goth, the conditions
are becoming serious. Pastures are
dry and brown, garden truck and
early potatoes are nearly failure
and the water supply is failing in
many localities. Practically all of
the winter wheat and rye is in shock,
and give promise of fair to good
yields of excellent quality. Much of
the early oats, spring wheat and bar
ley have also been cut and most of
the remainder will be harvested dur
ing the coming week. The yield of
oats has been seriously reduced by
the dry, hot weather, and reports
indicate that the quality of most of
the small grain will be only fair.
Over the larger part of the state,
corn is still holding it's own, but in
many localities is beginning to show
the effects of the drought and in
few sections the crop has already
been damaged. Much of the early
planted corn is beginning to tassel
and most of it must have rain within
the next week or ten days to make
an average crop. Considerable dam
age was done by rain, wind and hail
storms in portions of Pocahontas and
adjacent counties on June 25th. Fav-
orable weather has prevailed for Sc
curing the light hay crop in good
condition and this work has been
vigorously pushed. The drought
and intense heat are also injurious
to apple and other late tree fruits.
The following is a summary of re-
ports from crop correspondents,
showing the estimated condition of
staple crops, July 1, 1911, as compar-
ed with the average condition on that
date in past years: Corn, 1O2 per
cent; oats, 72; winter wheat, SS;
spring wheat, so; rye, 80; barley,
10; flax, "a; hay, 81; pastures,
50; potatoes, SO; apples, IS;
7S; grapes, 81. On July 1,
1910, the conditions were as follows:
Corn, SO per cent; oats, e2; winter
wheat, 81; spring wheat, 92; rye,
90; barley, 80; fax, S5; hay, 6s;
pastures, 20; potatoes, Sc; apples,
s.; plums, 4; grapes, so.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
New Pastor for Baptist Church.

The Leon Baptist church has call
ed Rev. N. B. Sill, of Darlington, NO.,
as pastor and he will be with us next
Saturday and Sunday. Covenant
and business meeting next Saturday
at 2:30 O'Clock. Business of i'm
portance is to come before the
church, and every member is urged
to be present at this meeting. Ser
vices on Sunday morning at II
o'clock, at o'clock in the afternoon
and again in the evening at 8
o'clock. All are cordially invited to
attend all of these services and meet
the new pastor.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
Parents Day at. Grown Chapel.

parents Day" will be observed
at Crown Chapel, on Sunday, July
18th, at II o'clock a. m. A special
invitation is extended to all parents
to come and participate in the ser
vices. The choir will be composed
of parents, and the songs will be
those they sang in their youthful
days. The discourse will be in the
form of lecture, the subject being
"The Setting Sum-" Everybody
should come and enjoy this meeting.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
FINE HAIR COVER.
Also Cures any Case of Dandruff or
Money Back. At VanWerden &
KOpp's.

Partisan Sage will stop itching
scalp and falling hair in two weeks,
or money back.
1t refreshes the scalp, gives it
delightful, comforting feeling, and
is not sticky or greasy.
1t puts the radiance of sunshine
into women's hair, and women who
use it regularly are sure to have fas-
cinating hair. 1t makes hair grow
profusely; yet silky and lovely.
A large generous bottle of Partisan
Sage only costs SO cents at VapWer-
den e Kopp's. Girl with the Auburn
hair on every bottle
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
County to Issue Bonds.

The board of supervisors met in
special session in this city Monday
and voted to issue county bonds in
the sum of $4,000 in order to take
up outstanding warrants. There are
about $31 900 of bridge fund war;
rants outstanding and about $4,000
of county fund warrants outstanding.
The bond issue will consist of $1O,-
900 in denominations of $500 and
$4,000 in denominations of $1,000.
The bonds are to run for a period of
ten years and will draw II per cent
interest.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
Boy Scouts Had an Outing.

Twenty of the Leon Boy. Scouts
enjoyed a two days outing on Grand
River last week in charge of Rev. E.
M. Hoff. They took the train to
Decatur City Tuesday morning, then
hiked it out to Woodard's dam on
Grand River, each scout carrying
his blanket and cooking outfit in
true scout style. The boys enjoyed
their outing to the utmost, fishing,
swimming and learning woodcraft.
They returned Thursday noon. .
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
Death of George A. Cowden.

Friends in this city have received
the sad news of the death of George
A. Cowden, at his home in LaHarpe,
Kansas, on last Wednesday,, his
death following an illness of several
weeks. Mr.. Cowden was for num-
ber of years a resident of Leon, be-
ing manager of the T. w. Ballew
Lumber Co., in this city. He is
survived by his wife, one son and two
dauhters. His funeral was held
at LaHarpe on Saturday, under the
auspices of the Masonic lodge.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
J. r. PenniWell
A. B. Tansey
J. S. Parrish

The Presbyterian Church receiv-
ing the largest number of votes for
the month of June are entitled to
the $500 donation for that month.
Don't forget your votes and re-
member that we are going to give
$500 at the end of the year for
the churches having the largest to-
tails besides the regular $500 month
ly donation. One vote with every
cent purchase at our store. Double
votes On all Nyal Remedies.
Stempel & Cherringt Pharmacists.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
Government Thermometer Regis
tered 1O7.

The past week has sure been a
scorcher, the mercury soaring above
the century mark every day. On
Sunday the government thermome-
ter kept by Morris Bardner registered
107, and for several days it has been
hanging around 1O5 and 106. And
no rain in sight. The continued ex-
cessive heat and lack of rain is
making serious inroads on what
promised to be Decatur county's
bumper. corn crop, and unless rain
comes within a few days the corn
is going to be burned up.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
Leon Had a Sane Fourth.

There certainly could be no
complaint. that Leon did not have a
sane Fourth this year. There was
no celebration, and scarcely a fire.
cracker was heard all day long. Busi-
ness was practically suspended and
everybody spent quiet day trying
without success to keep cool for the
mercury was up around 106 all day.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06

This is the season to freshen up
the furniture, make the floors glossy
and the woodwork fresh and clean.
Perma-Lac will do it best. Sold by
Van Werden & Kopp.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
UphOlstel'ing.

We will be here for a few days
only, doing all kind of upholstering
and furniture repairing. We learned
our trade ;. in the factory and can do
your work neat. Come see us 1st
door east of Journal Office or phone
the furniture stores. .
Ss# Lon Roberts.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06

A Card desire to return my
thanks to the many kind friends for
their assistance whereby l was en-
abled to win one of the pianos award
ed at the contest which closed on
Monday evening. To each and all
am grateful for the favors extend
ed to me. Fay Evans.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06

A Card wish to thank my many
friends who so generously gave me
their support in the piano contest,
by which I was enabled to win first
choice of the pianos by handsome
majority. :, Theda Hines.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06
Announcement,

The following is the result of
Stempel & Cherrington' Aid to Char
ity Contest for the month of June.
Total to
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06

For Sale-A good rebuilt, run
about. Price right. See II. A.
Wright.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-07-06

For sale75 tons Of hay. VIM.
Biggs, Leon, Iowa. B.s
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-12
THE WEATHER

eTATE-Showers tonight except fair
in southern portion. Sunday fair.
locAL-Fair tonight; Sunday fair.
and slightly warmer.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-12
WAITED LONG TINE PESTS DRIVEN OUT
Bothersome Insects at Chau-
tauqua Are Routed.

Late yesterday afternoon Superin-
tendent Hollern of Glen Miller Park
finally put down all possible fears
which the prospective campers at the
Chautauqua might have entertained
about the presence of hornets and
caterpillars on the camping grounds.
The Chautauqua promoters have been
trying for several days to secure
someone to clean out these colonies
OF insects. but until Supt. Hollern
came to their assistance, they could
get no one to undertake the task Mr..
Holiern secured some kerosene and
smoked out off the pests he could
find. As no more have been discov-
cred since the smoking-o -out, 1t is be-
lieved all have been exterminated.
The sale of lots is better than any
one expected. Already lis lots have
been taken and the sale does not op-
en- to the general public until Monday
morning. 1t is expected that before
the office closes tonight big ma
jority of the 23O lots will have been
engaged. Several Of the campers are
planning on taking advantage OF the
concerts which the Bland Orchestra
will give throughout the two weeks OF
en- every evening beginning a week
from Monday, and no admission will
be charged.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-12
PROGRAM OF BAND
CONCERT TONIGHT

The Richmond City band win rem
der the following musical numbers at
the concert to be given at Eighth and
North E streets this evening under
the auspices of the North End Busi-
ness Mems club:
Part I.
!. March, ACROSS Canada. Duble
2. Overture, -Orpheus" -. .Offenbach
5. Song Hit, "An Aboard for Blank
ct Bay ..............V Won Tflzer
4. Selection from The Old Town"
5. Caprice Little Egypt. Bergenholtz
Part ~.
6. March, The Charioteer". Ashley
Z. Selection from The Goddess OF
Liberty" - .. Howard
s. Two-Step. High links. !. Conrxdll
9. Waltz, Loves Garden. .
........ ....... Franzen-Morse
Finale Troopers Tribunal.
............s..... Fillmore
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-12
RELUCTANTLY AGREE
TO the Marriage of Their
Daughter.

Reluctantly George N. Smith and
wife Of Scottsburg, Ind. gave their con.
cent to the marriage Of their daugh.
ter. Miss Mabel. who IL living at Hag-
erstown. and who ON February Is be-
came sixteen years old. Evidently
young John H. Lamar, aged go. also of
Hagerstown. had pressed Mr.. smith
for their consent. as he received the
following formal letter OF consent
which was appended to the license
blank filled out by the bride.
'Scottsburg. Ind. Aug. 3. 1911. Mr..
Lamar: You ask us for our consent to
the marriage. We think Mabel too
young but we will give our consent
and hope 1t Is for the best.
George n. Smith.
Maggie Smith,"
Though the letter does not display
much sentiment insofar as the parents
Of the bride are concerned, 1t was to
fill . most important office for the
young couple. They were granted q
license Friday on the strength of this
letter. and on the consent of Lamar's
parents. The groom Is q farmer and
prosperous. His bride has been living
In Hagerstown for some time and il
Nas there that the young people met.