The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-01-04
A Kate Strong Letter.
Geary. Okla, Dec. 10, 191

Editor Reporter: Well as ] have
my brain cells unlocked this fore
noon, will write common ordinary
letter to The Reporter. Have a pref
ty good reason also and that is times
are close and Oklahoma is short on
money so ] know my paper will be
discontinued, but I may renew for
think not receiving The Reporter for
a week or two will be like your wife
away on visit, better appreciated
when she returns home. l think it
is a good law to stop the paper when
the time expires.
Prospects look more favorable
since we are getting such heavy rains,
the most we have had since the
ty of cold weather to freeze the
worms and bugs of so many different
kinds one ever saw in any sun kissed
bug eaten land. The Rock Island
railroad suffered quite loss by fire
last week at Geary, the round house,
three engines, several thousand ties
and the motor car or boot-legger's
special, as it is called, flying between
Anadarko and Geary. 1t will be
quite loss to Geary.
Dec. 10Th, 1911, J. D. Strong's
10th birthday, and beautiful typi-
cal ideal day. Snow or 10 inches
deep, a grand sight for Oklahoma.
Trees are as white as the ground,
the heaviest snow l have seen in Ok
lahoma; even the horses are scared
and come snorting and jumping out
of the barn; do not seem to know
what such a vast expanse of pure
white means. 1t makes me remem-
Der old Iowa, but miss the merry
jingle of the bells. Farmers are
jubilant over it for it means an
abundant wheat crop. By the way,
| l must tell J. DIS old friends in De-
catur county few things that have
happened since wrote to you. Think
| if write them he will stop the pa
per, but here goes. He bought him
little farm in 1910, Fl acres just
outside the corporation. He has half
of it fenced hog tight, he calls it, but
only has two hogs, one horse and one
COW. His horse is a 1925 single
driver He dug pool, one-half
acre across, 10 feet deep, but still
dry land at times. One portion OF
this farm is in alfalfa and the bal
ance he was blowing until the snow
came. He borrowed two horses OF
Glare Strong and pillow of one of
his neighbors. When he stopped
blowing he found he had lost the
rolling cutter or pillow lay. One
doesn't know how long he plowed be-
fore he missed it and hasn't been
able to find it yet during this time.
He had me uD at 5 O'Clock a. m. l
wanted him to hire out over town to
pillow the women's gardens. He said
if he did l would follow up and do
the collecting. One morning while
he was so industrious | got even
with him. He goes up just before
daylight to feed his hogs and COW.
He has the corn in the piano box
that he keeps on his farm, but his
milo maize is in the barn. Well he
had gunny sack full of milo maize
on his back and bucket full of
water, carrying Another man close
by, who has some hogs, had bucket
full of swill in each hand. Mr..
Strong Ct had better call him that
had his head down, Of course the
weight bent him over, so they ran
into each other. Away went water,
swill and sack of maize. John said
he thought sure he was held up. l
did not pity him any. He had no
business to get up so early to fall
SO hard, but he is all right now, as
he and the hogs have caught two jack
rabbits since the snow.
Just received letter from Can
ada My daughter Lila and husband
saa1Sop CT s! !! sel!IM GUS 'eI9ql elB
below zero but they do not feel the
cold there like in Oklahoma. Snow
all the time, but it is more like hail,
doesn't stick to the feet at all. Coal
is $13 per ton, everything high but
wooden goods and linens. She says
in the United States all you hear is
Taft. There at the close of every
entertainment they sing God Save
the King
Well as l have described and writ
ten a little about things in Oklahoma,
will say a little about myself. / had
a very severe attack of asthma the
first week in November, but soon re-
covered and I was due to entertain
the Priscilla Club the 28th of No.
vember and as it's president I wished
to before my term of office expired.
| had planned what and how l would
serve before I was taken sick.
happened to get hired help who clean
ed my house up in good shape and
with Steve's wife's assistance made
it complete success. The time was
so near Thanksgiving, it was easy
after being planned. Our club con-
sists of 16 members. I took two
kinds of paper for my fancy pump
kins, the foundation was plain yell
low, the outside crepe orange color.
Made a narrow band out of card
board, joined together, which made
it about as large around as half
gallon cup and another piece for the
bottom as large as a saucer, cut the
plain yellow paper in the shape of
sunflower and pasted the round
pieces of card board in the bottom
and the pedals to the rim. Used Ii
brary paste for all, then cut the Or
ange paper in sections like musk
melon and pasted over the miniature
pumpkin. Made the lid ON the same
plan and for the stem used green
paper with small piece of green at