The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-01-11
DOWN AT WASHINGTON
Interesting Notes from the National
Capital by G. A. Wood, Special
Reporter Correspondent.

Washington, d. c., Jan. 6, 1912
A Virginia horse has established
jumping record of 32 feet. Prob.
ably saw his first automobile.
At the close of the year 1911 there
were 7,34O national banks in the
United States, with capitalization
of $1,O33,3O2,135.
A Baltimore highbrow scientist
has decided that man is sweetest
when angry. But you couldn't make
our wives believe it.
| There are a whole lot of people
who will not agree with the New
Jersey applicant for citizenship who
! said that Roosevelt is dead
Another star will soon be added to
the national ensign, when President
Taft issues his expected proclama-
ton that New Mexico has been ad-
mitted to statehood.
| Moving pictures are dangerous
and ought to be prohibited. A Mas
sachusetts woman attended a
"movy" and saw her husbands mug
on the screen taking in the sights of
the midway with lovely young di-
vorcee.
To our unmarried gentlemen
! friends we are glad to announce
, that neither DR.. Mary Walker nor
Belva Lockwood intends to take ad-
: vantage of the leap year privilege.
At least, they have said so.
: Another of the famous old land
marks of Washington, the Arlington
Hotel, will soon make way before the
: progress of modern improvements.
! A six million dollar hotel will take
the place of the famous old hostelry.
An energetic movement has been
: started by the energetic women of
| Washington to compel the street car
Things have come to such a pass
that either the car companies must
: change the style of their cars or the
women must change the style of
their skirts.
Among the other trials laid up for
us during the coming summer is an
advance in the price of straw hats.
The war in China is causing short
age in the importations of straw
braid, which comes from Shangtung,
where millions of rolls of the mater
ial have been burned and destroyed
by the rebels
The house in which Francis Scott
Key wrote THE Star Spangled Ban
ner" will soon be torn down. The
Francis Scott Key Memorial Asso-
citation undertook three or four years
ago to raise funds to purchase the
building, which is located in the old
Georgetown district of Washington,
but the effort has not been successful
and the historic house will have to
go.
With view of getting in closer
touch with congress and the depart
ments, the National Dairy Union@has
moved it's headquarters from Chicago
to Washington. The union has for
it's principal objects the determina-
ton of the sentiment of the dairy
men of the country on all questions
and securing legislation favorable to
those engaged in the industry.
The federal aid good roads con-
vention of the American Automobile
Association will assemble in WASH
ington January 16 to draw up pro-
gram for a national system of i'm
proved highways, to which congress
will be asked to subscribe. Forty
two state associations, with other Or
CARNATIONS, business men and farm
ers, will be represented.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans,
U. S. NJ, commanding officer of the
battleship Iowa in the battle of San
tiago, and commander-in-chief of the
Atlantic Fleet during it's famous
round-the-world cruise, died at his
home in Washington January 3, of
acute indigestion. The remains were
inferred at Arlington with full mill
tary honors.
"a Key to Common Kinds of |
Trees" is the title of a publication ,
just issued by the department of |
This is a guide to the !
genera of our common trees, pre-
senting such characteristics as may
be recognized by those who have
little or no knowledge of botany, and
is adapted to use in class or field.
This bulletin should be of special in
and should prove of great value in !
public school work.
Making the rather questionable
assertion that he ''is the only hog
dentist in the world" citizen of
South Omaha has written the Post
master General to call attention to
he efficacy of his tooth treatment for
he relief of porcine troubles. He
says that the department of Agri-
culture has been wondering what has
been killing off hogs and that he
las the correct answer. Every dis I
ease known to swine, he states, is
lue to bad teeth, and his remedy is
Is good for we'll hogs as for the sick
)nes.
Woman is costing us about twice
IS much as she used to, according to
igures just issued by the census bu-
eau. In the seven years including
1909 the value of millinery and lace
goods manufactured in the United
States increased from $29,77S,O0O
% $S5,894,000. In 1904 the value
If domestic goods manufactured was
b37,1l9,000; in 1909 it had gone up |,
o $o5,938,O00, an increase of 81
ger cent.
Representative Howard, of Geor-
ria, in urging before the house naval