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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-08-15
ENDORSED AT HOME.
Such Proof as This Should Convince
Any Leon Citizen.

The public endorsement of a local
citizen is the best proof that can be
produced. None better, none strong
er, can be had. When q man comes
forward and testjfes to his fellow
citizens, addresses his friends and
neighbors, you may be sure he is
thoroughly convinced or he would
not do SO. Telling ones experience
when 1t is for the public good Is an
act of Kindness that should be ap-
preciated. The following statement
given by resident of Leon adds
one more to the many cases of Home
Endorsement which are published
about Deans Kidney Pills. Read it.
Mrs. C. E. Henderson, Leon, Iowa,
says: II have used Doan's Kidney
Pills for dull, nagging backaches
victims to stomach, liver and kid.
ney troubles just like other people,
with like results in loss of appetite.
and other kidney disorders and have
found great relief. Other members
of my family have taken .Doahss Kid
ney Pills for lame and weak back
and have received good results.
can recommend this remedy highly
in return for the benefit it has
brought me and other members of
the family"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan.s-
and take no other.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-08-15
Alfalfa Will Grow in Iowa.

{ Ames, Iowa, July 31-Special: In
spite of the belief that alfalfa can.
not be grown successfully in Iowa
hundreds of progressive farmers are
growing it with large profit. How
they succeed, and how other Iowa
farmers may succeed, is made clear
in free circular, No. 3, on alfalfa
growing just issued by the Iowa Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station,
"The fact is" says the author of
the bulletin, Prof. H. D. Hughes of
the agronomy department that on
most of the soils of Iowa alfalfa can
be seeded successfully in much the
same manner as red clover and the
following year yield practically twice
as much. 1t is claimed by success
full growers that it is easier to get
a stand of alfalfa than of red clov-
err"
When soils are we'll drained and
we'll manured, says the circular, and
we'll prepared there ought to be no
failure. Sometimes applications of
lime are necessary, and very often
incubation with soil from a sweet
clover patch, but either process is
simple. Of 1913 farmers reporting
to the station that tried alfalfa
seeding, only IL per cent failed.
Where men succeed, they grow an
average of about four tons of fine
hay per year, but often and tons.
At market prices that means that
their alfalfa land is the most profit
able they have.
The bulletin section at the college
will send this circular to all who ask
for it.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-08-15
Davis City to Have Elevator.

c. r. Rauch, manager of the Iowa
Missouri Grain Company, with head
quarters in this city, last week
formed company at Davis City for
the purpose of erecting an elevator
at that place. The capital stock of
the new company is $4,000, and the
following citizens of Davis City have
taken stock in the project. Thomas
Sutherlin, Oscar Judd, William Lee,
John Gates, and Mr.. Bolan. These
men with the local grain company
will own the business. They expect
to incorporate soon. The contract
for the erection of the building was
let to G. H. Birchard, of Lincoln,
Nebr., who is an experienced man in
this line. Frank Dalbey of this city
is to furnish the lumber. The new
building will be modern in every
way and will be equipped with gas
engine, cleaners, wagon dumps,
scales, etc. 1t will have capacity
of 10000 bushels. The new firm will
be called the Davis City Elevator
Company.
The IowaMissouri Grain Company
are extensive grain buyers and ship
pers and, besides the large amount
of business they do here, they have
shipping stations at Kellerton, Mt.
Ayr, Redding, Worth and Gentry.
They are recognized as the largest
grain dealers in southern Iowa.
Lamont Chronicle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-08-15
NEW LAW A FAILURE.
Statute Assessing Moneys and Cred
it's Does not Bring Results.

Repeal of the new law as to assess
ment of moneys and credits will be
live topic in the next Iowa legis-
lature and is one of the tissues"
regarded as more important than
who it was that stole the Chicago
convention. In Taylor county, for
instance, the republican candidate
for the legislature and the republic
can candidate for the state senate
are both pledged to use their efforts
to secure repeal of this law that
was passed by the Thirty-fourth
general assembly. 1t is certain that
many others will be of like mind.
1t was advertised at the time that
the new law would result in bring
ing out of hiding much of this class
of property and it would pay taxes
tirely. At the time Governor Carroll
signed the bill it was hailed as
great step forward in Iowa legisla-
ton on the subject.
But it develops that under this
new law, while there was some in
crease in the state in the aggregate
assessment, there was not enough to
offset the loss in revenue by. lower
taxation rate.
Eight counties of Iowa actually
returned to the state an assessment
of moneys and credits and bank and
corporation stock less than the pre-
vious year. Combining both of these
items the records of the state auditor
show that in 1911 the aggregate
valuation was $227,105,OOO and in
1912 it was 1000. The
counties that lost are Scott, Taylor,
Warren, Cerro Gordo, Dickinson and
Jefferson.
The evidence that instead of the
new law bringing moneys and cred
it's from hiding it in fact had no
such effect in many counties will be
used before the legislature.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-08-15

For Sale Some ezra good utility
White Ofp!ngtons cocksrels Of heavy
laying strains. / need the room and
these will be sold very cheap, quality
considered. Call soon and get nrst
choice cheap. G. w. Reeder, The
Leon Orpingtons.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-08-15

Il Renter-If you have - little
money andsw1nt totoWna : farm. call
on 8. 4. Gates for psrtisslArs.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-08-15

For some time the people have
laid the high cost of living to the
tariff. Whether they. are right or
wrong the effect is the same as every
candidate for congress from the
great west is favorable to reduc-
ton of the tariff" says the Esther
vile Enterprise. "The candidate
may be sincere in favoring the tariff
reduction or he may not be, but
if he would announce himself as
unfavorable to a reduction of the
tariff as necessity he would not
get enough votes to wad a shotgun
at the election"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-08-15

Farmers, mechanics, railroaders,
laborers, rely on DR.. Thomas Elec-
trio Oil. Fine for cuts, burns,
bruises. Should be kept in every
house. 25c and SOC.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-30
A Tribute to LaFollette, Coupled
With a Regret

Senator LaFollette climbing that
mountain of privilege in order to
take away the only precious thing
that was in it, namely, the rights of
the people of the United States, and
the stones-the stand-pat stones-cry-
ing out to him: Bob, look around.
you are on the wrong journey. This is
not the way. You're betraying us"
tainted, laughed at, called back,
going steadfastly on and not allowing
himself to be DETECTED for single
moment for fear he also should heark
en- and lose all his power to serve the
great interests to which he had de-
voted himself.
| love these lonely figures climbing
this ugly mountain of privilege. But
they are not SEQ lonely now. ! am sor-
ry for my owne part that did not
come in when they were fewer. There
was no credit to come in when I came
in. The whole nation had awakened.
All of New Jersey, at any rate, was
tired of the game and was willing to
try an unsophisticated schoolmaster;
because it was in search Of somebody
that did not know how to play the old
game.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-30
J. J. GREEN,
H. H. MORE,
T. ]. TAILOR.
body.

Governor Brown will take steps to
find out something about who the
three prisoners are, and what kind of
a record the Millen county Jail has
before he goes far in the matter.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-30
Receiver
ASKED FOR
CANNERY
IN RE MADDOX CANNING CO.
Ware-PrOgrGSS Company H.
StitutGd Claim

Petition for receivership for the
Maddox Canneries Co., doing business
in Sumter county, near Americas, has
been instituted in Sumter superior
court by the Ware-Progress Orchard
Col, alleged claimant of the defend
ant company to the amount of seven
Thousand dollars.
MIR. Fred J. Strong, who is con-
nected with the defendant company, is
also made a party to the legal pro-
ceeding. Upon petition of the plaintiff
company, the Ware-Progress Orchard
Co., represented by MIR. Hollis Fort,
Judge 2. A. Littlejohn has granted a
temporary restraining order and APP
pointed Mr.. August Helwig temporary
receiver for the company's business,
which is located at Maddox.
The allegation set up in the petition
for receiver is breach of contract to
the amount of $1,000, as stated. The
canneries company has but recently
launched into the business of canning
potatoes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-30
(From Speech by Gov Woodrow

(From Speech by Gov Woodrow
Wilson,
Now there arose up in Wisconsin
that indomitable little figure of Bob
LaFolette. | tell you ladies and gen.
tlemen, l doff my cap to Bob LaFol-
lette. He has never taken his eye for
single moment from the goal he set
out to reach. He has walked a
straight line to it in spite of every
temptation to look one side.
Do you remember the story in the
Arabian Nights of the man who was
sent on a quest to the top of a great
mountain to bring an enchanted bird
that was there singing lonely in a
cage, and how he was warned that he
must not heed any voice by the way
side that he would find the wayside
strewn with great stones, that every
one of these stones was some traveller
in quest of that enchanted bird who
had allowed himself to be drawn aside
and had turned back at the call Of
some voice-for the very stones cried
out-and just so surely as he looked
aside or turned back, he himself
would be transfixed and turned into
stone? l have sometimes thought of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-30
Will The
FERTLIzERl
men ACT?
TO insure A COUNTY FAIR ?
Secretary Patterson Makes
This Suggestion

In order that the matter of holding
a county fair next year may be gat-
ten under way at this time so that
premiums may be announced the first
of the year to the farmers of the coun-
ty, Secretary Patterson, of the Board
of Trade has suggested that the fer
ii 'izer dealers here join in the move
ment, which means a great deal to
them
This has been the chief difficulty in
the matter of getting the county fair
matter here under way, the lack of
some one to take lead in the work
Secretary Patterson is glad, so he said
yesterday, to offer the cooperation OF
the Board of Trade to anyone who
VIII take up the work for the fair. 1t
will be necessary for him to have the
backing of some people of the city be-
fore he can make the plan a success.
The suggestion by Secretary Patter-
son that the fair be gotten under way
at this time is considered an excellent
one. 1t is only by an early announce
ment of the list of premiums that are
to be offered that interest suffic ent to
bring out the best agricultural ex-
hibits can be aroused. This is a very
important phase of the work where
the fair is to be mainly an agricul-
tural one, as such county fairs are.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-30
CRISP FARMER RAISES
TOO MANY POTATOES

Cordele, Oct. 29.-Though unusual
as the case may be, it is true that M.
H. Rogers, a Crisp county farmer, has
raised too many or too much potatoes
for his own pleasure and profit Since
the organization of the Crisp county
fair three years ago, Mr.. Rogers has
each year been awarded the first prize
for the best exhibit of potatoes. This
year he painted two acres in potatoes
and expects to realize fully 800 BUSH
els from the patch. Recently he has
exhibited some fine specimens that
weighed eight pounds each, and it is
q fact that some OF theme are tor
large for marketing, and now he is in
a quandary as to how to dispose of
the tubers at a profit
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-30
DIR. MABIE, EDITOR,
LOSES HIS VOTE
Nobody Told Colonies Associate He
Should Register.

Summit, N. J., Oct. 29.-Dr Hamil-
ton Wright Mabie, associate editor Of
The Outlook, who delayed a trip to
Janan so that he could cast ballot
here for Contributing Editor Theodore
Roosevelt, of the same publication,
canot vote, for he failed to register.
IT'S just disgusting, that's what it
is" said DR. Mabie. "Why didn't some
one tell me about registering personal
ly? But ignorance of the law does
not excuse me- he added in his best
editor al tone.
DR.. Mabie Iabored under the delus-
ion that he had voted at the Septem-
Der primary, and by virtue of that act
was registered for election.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-30
IS YOUR
MONEY
INVESTED
WELL Z?

Next to having money the most i'm
portant thing is how to take care OF
lt-how best to invest it.
A Banking Institution of this kind
cannot only care for your Financial
Interests in a careful, conservative
way-giving you abundant banking
facilities in every department Of
can also give you yalua.
BILE aid and advice about investments
and securities. Open an account with
the
sINK OF SOUTHWESTERN GEOR
GAS SAVING DEPARTMENT.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-30
MARRIAGE OF MISS PERRY
QUIET EVENT AT CORDELE

Cordele, Oct. ga quiet, though
pretty wedding was that of Miss Ma
bel Perry, daughter of J. A. Perry, of
dee, and Mr.. j. Ben Baldwin, of Sa-
vannah, which occurred here yester-
day afternoon at o'clock, at the
home of Mrs. J. B. Scott, with whom
MI Perry and daughter have been
making their home since moving here
from Sparta about year ago. The
ceremony was impressively performed
by Rev. w. S. Harden, pastor of the
Presbyterian church, in the presence
of a few intimate friends and rela-
tives of the contracting parties. Mr..
and Mrs. Baldwin have gone to Savan-
nah to make their future home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-30
DOES this MEAN A
new JAIL SCANDAL?
Governor Brown Has RGCeiV.
ed a Petition

Atlanta Oct. 29.-Here is another
prison scandal broke loose in Geor-
gia. Governor Brown is thinking very
seriously of complying with the fol-
lowing unique and vivid appeal which
he received through the mail this
morning:
Millen, Ga, Oct. 28th, 1912.
Dear Governor:
Please send somebody quick to in
vestigate this Jail 1t is as dirty as
dirty can be, and lousy.
Some of the prisoners have not TAX
en- a bath in four months. They is
mildly mean to us here and when people
comes to see us they have to stand on
the outside and boiler. But that is
good for them, for the inside amt fit
for nobody to visit anyhow.
Send somebody to see about how it
is, but please yo highness, don't send
any of the preaching an singin kind.
They don't git nothin' done.
We don't git nothin' to eat but once
a day and we nearly freezes from the
cold.
So please hurry up and send some
body.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-30

Nell-"Young Mr.. Saphead prides
himself upon being well-balanced. l."
Believes, he even parts his hair in
the middle"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-30

Many a woman is more apt to wor-
ry about her complexion than about
her conscience.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1912-04-10
&c. worth up to

yard.
Fine French Vals., Point, Ven
ice Clnney's AllOyer and Silk
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1912-04-10
priced to sell quick.

can afford to anticipate your
wants in lace at this sale.
Kid Cloves
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1912-04-10

per yard -. -. -. UN
American and Simpson n
per yard -. 80. -. ..%
Zoe and 1211ac Percale, =.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1912-04-10

Elegant line dainty patterns,
plain and fancy clothes, all pricet
at less than cost to manufacture.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-21
WHEREIN THE ANTT-vIvISEC-
 TORS ARE ,M1ETIFTED

Without doubt some of the earlier vivisectors were ferocious tigers, mas Querading as human beings, one in particular--a degenerate Italian sur geon-published some years ago, se- fies of reports describing in detail in. credible cruelties practiced upon dogs with a view of determining the amount of baking, broiling. bone breaking. blood-letting, and maiming a poor beast could suffer before mer- cifui sDeath came, to it's relief
 Another shark-hearted hyena brought disgrace upon his profession in an ef- fort to ascertain how much suffering it was necessary to inflict upon a mother collie before all evidences of affection for her little puppies would be obliterated The particulars are nauseating. No punishment could be too severe for the criminals perpe- trating these cruelties.
 HoQvever, these brutes, these fiends incarnate. are held in contempt by al right-thinking medical men. They are classeds as degenerates with homi- cidal tendencies. modern Calisulas and Borgias, who vented their lust for , cruelty upon redressless and defence less creatures-AlI in the fair name of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-21
TIE TRUTH CONCERNING
 vvEBCTIUN
MEMS SECTION

I believe it was Bill Bye who said sometimes it's better not to know quite 50 much than to know % many thfngs that ain't O." This sage oh- eeryation is vivified by the ouixetic tilting Of the anti-vivisectionista against inquisitoria1 horrors. which are. in the main, bodied forth only in imagination. Of this substance they have built an elaborate struc- ture. with vasty domes. towering cu- polas, ornate cornices, bewilderine labyrinths, and halls capable of ac- commodating myriads of blood-spat-
 tered vivisectors.
 Tn the dark. fearsome dungeons of this grisly edifice they have pictured
 the exper1mentors at their cruel work. Amid sar-piercing, soul-harrowing shr1eko and screams of pain the bloody villaina have celebrated their wicked orgies.
 Nov. where there is much smoke,
 there b usually some fire. This is
 admitted, to start with.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-21

Science.
 Science repudfates these demons ant their infamous work-work which has brought her nothing but shame. Ii | is from these bestial practices. com paratively infrequent and now happily obsolete, that anti-vivisection derives It's stock arguments. Our modern vivisectors, our Pas teurs, Kochs. F1exners, and Carols are men of entirely different motives and character-high-m minded, scholar ly, humane. and a1trudstic- men who in the medical world. WHAT ANIMAL ExPERIAnENTA- TDON HAS DONE vivisection-or more properly, ani- nal experimentation, as recognized by modern science,-has given us large part of our knowledge concerning. the uses of toxicity of much of our mater ia medica
 It has indicated the paths to sur gans. It has afforded us definite methods of dealing with septicemia. infantile paralysis, malaria, yellow fever, diphtheria, tetanus, tuberculosis and many other germ diseases. So great an authority as Dr. B. L. Trudeau has said, Everything that we know today of the causes of tuber-
 
 bearing on the prevention and con- trol of this diseease, we owe to animal experimentation"
 Animal experimentation has provid- ed us with remedies for the success full treatment of syphilis plague, chol- era, sleeping sickness, "hook worm disease, and other conditions which formerly received merely empirical at tention. It has enabled our surgeons tc transplant tissue, arteries, bones, and even organs. It has developed thai wonderful technique which now makes it possible for slkilful operator to re- pair Liberation in, the living, pulsine heart.
 | It has even saved the animals them selves-milliOns of them-that former ly died of "hoof and mouth" disease hog cholera, anthrax and other ail- ments
 And, Pasteur's work with the silk worm reimbursed France for the loss of Alscace and Lorraine. It would require volume to tell us what animal experimentation has done to furnish mankind with accurate in formation concerning causes of dis ease, and specific methods of treating the same. This is so obvious, that one can hardly discuss the subject academically.
 THE SKIN-CIAD, EGRET BEDECK-
 ED ANTI-VIVISECTTON
 And yet the vigilant "anti", clad in skins of animals, trapped or shot not infrequently under cruel conditions; decked out with an egret plume,
 A
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-21
CERTIFIED ICE
 Sprague Ice & Coal Go. East End East Washington Ave. Bridge Tel TO

And to this, what succeeds more fit tingly than silence-on the part of the ti-vivisectors.
 Our Rockefeller Institute, our Re search Societies all over the world, are engaged in Quarterless battle with the infinitely little'' foes of hu- manity. Let us accord them every encouragement and assistance that within us lies.
 They are SOLDIERS OF HUMAN TTY, fighting valiantly for the COM MON GOOD.
 DIR. EDWIN F. BoWDRs.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-02-15

The renewal OF the fashion for small
dogs has led to a remarkable case OF
fraud. the victim Of which is one Of
the best known women In Paris soci-
ETY. Walking UP and down the fash
ionable side OF the Avenue de Bois de
Boulogne was man who had several
toy dogs to show of, ostensibly Tor
sale. One Of the smallest Of them
was a particularly diminutive speci-
men Of the griffons Finally a woman
stepped up to ask It's price. The man
made the little dog perform several
tricks, and then, after some minutes
conversation, informed her that he had
a still more remarkable specimen in
his coat pocket. He then tished out a
little creature scarcely more than halt
the size Of the first
The woman concluded what she
thought was bargain and what the
man said was a sacrifice She put the
little one in her mum. went off to
luncheon and, on getting home again,
pulled him out from his hiding place.
For minute or two the animal
showed fear, but then, to her great
amazement and that OF her servant
the little griffon suddenly started to-
ward the window and ran up one Of
the curtains with the speed and agil
ity not at all unlike the best known
qualities of mouse. The butler and
footman were called, and there was
an exciting chase about the drawing
room before the little wonder was
captured. The new owner was then
rather more Mortified than surprised
to find that her grif1on was nothing
but rather diversified rat that had
been seWed into dogs skin.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-02-15
AWITcH STICK" FOUND WATER


August Grosenbaugh, an aged resi-
dent Of Fort Dodge, la, by the aid or
a witch stick" found place he
thought should be- a site for a Ctr
wen, The well was drilled 215 feet
and now six hundred gallons OF water
are pouring forth each minute TIE
council rewarded Mr.. Grosenbaugh BY
commencing his efforts and BY paying
him $40
Now this payment OF $40 for the use
Of the witch stick raised the ire or
several men, including Dr. JTW. Kline,
state lecturer on tuberculosis to the
medical profession, Frank Paige, q
retired scientist, and Captain George
Rlggland. one Of the wealthiest men
here They declare the council was
foolish ever to have had the "witcI
stick" used, as belief In its efficacy &
relic Of the dark ages DR.. Kim'
looked through the reference books q
the Carnegie library and printed th'
information he found concerning TN
witch stick" Members Of the cour
Gil merely laugh, point to the wei
and answer that they do not care nov
Mr.. Grosenbaugh selected the site
but that they are satisfied with ths
results.