The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-07-25
twenty-five YEARS Ago
Items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published a Quarter
of q Century AGO.

Frank Taylor, of Chicago, spent
Sunday with relatives in Leon.
]. DR.. and Mrs. J. G. DeWolf, of Eu-
reka Springs, Ark, were visiting at
the home of their daughter, Mrs. H.
j. Close.
Mrs. J. w. Harvey was slowly i'm
proving from a serious illness.
Major J. L. Young, who has been
resident of this county since the
subsistence of the flood, packed all
his household goods in car last
Saturday, and headed for his new
home in Colorado. The family took
their departure Tuesday. The Ma
jor will devote himself to editing
new paper at Brookfeld, the name
of the paper being The Maverick.
This in Colorado parlance, signifies
''an unbranded steer" We wish the
new paper unbounded success. Leon
will greatly miss the Young family,
but Icons loss will be Brookfield's
gain.
A number of the friends of Mr..
and Mrs. J. P. Hall, on the eve of
their departure for Colorado, has
tily organized a surprise party for
them, and while they in company
with Dr. and Mrs. McClelland were
taking tea in the north part of town
last Thursday evening, the mob in
vaded the McClelland home, and
for a while had everything their
own way. On the arrival of the
rightful owners, they found their
house and grounds all handsomely
illuminated, and all available space
filled with their friends. The sur
prise was a most complete one, and
all the more pleasant on this ac-
count A very pleasant evening was
spent, and the well wishes of host
of friends follow Mr.. and Mrs. Hall,
who will doubtless remember the af-
fair for long time.
Mrs. Ralph Mccullough and her
little boy Clement, of Charlton, we're
Leon visitors over Sunday, the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Hoffhines.
Henry Reuter- left orders at his
meat market to give every man that
called ten pounds of steak to cele-
brate the birth of Henry Reuter-, jr.
At meeting of the Decatur
! County Bar Association, N. P. Bull
lock was expelled from the associa-
ton for unprofessional conduct.
Seth Richards, a resident of Leon
in older times, now reiding at Oak
land, California, was shaking hands
with his old friends in this county.
Mr.. Richards was associated with E.
iJ. Close in Leon, and George T.
Young at Mt. Ayr, in the dry goods
business.
Quite a number of Leon young
folks were enjoying a camping out
! ing at GAINESVILLE, Mo.
| J. c. Carr, who lived on the Calvin
Johnson farm for eleven years, but
who for several years had been re-
siding in Kansas, was visiting friends
in this county. Mr.. Carr reports
everything very dry in Smith county,
his home, chintz bugs taking every
thing.
w. H. Albaugh anr wife were re-
joicing over the arrival of twelve
pound boy at their home.
Postmaster E. K. Pitman had in
stalled fine new outfit of fixtures in
the Leon post office.
L. P. Sigler received from Kansas
275 head of fine Holstein cattle, and
among the number are six bulls, i'm
ported from Scotland, four of them
costing $4,000. Ed Daugherty
brought them through to Leon in
good shape.
A street fakir gobbled up nearly
hundred dollarsfrom Leon suckers
who thought he was selling all kinds
of jewelry and then giving back the
money they paid for it. But when
he made larger sales he forgot TO
give back the dollars paid to him.
and quietly slipped away.
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