The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-12-26
Davis City.


Mr.. and Mrs. will Roberts, OF
Topeka, Kansas, came to spend
Christmas with relatives here.
/. N. Jeffries has bought 60 acres
of land from Arthur Adkins at $9C
an acre.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Judd left last
week to spend the winter in Cali
fornia. t 49,
George Franklin, of Pleasanton
was recent caller in our city, look
/ ing after the chances of selling his
mothers home residence.
Judd Maxwell and l.. A. Brown
got into a little difficulty last We'd
nesday night and in the wind-up l..
A. had to call doctor and Judd con-
cluded to make tracks for Missouri,
as it is not always safe to resist one
Of Uncle Sans servants.
Will Bass and children came in
from St. Joe the past week and
will again make Davis City their
home.
The joint sale of the late Walter
McCully and Arthur Scott held last
Wednesday was we'll attended and
stock brought good prices. Last
spring calves went as high as SGT to
$38 per head, and everything else
sold in like proportion.
Mrs Georgia Still returned to her
home at Leon Sunday. She had
been called here to assist in caring
for her mother, Mrs. Charles Van
dali, who while a little better is
still in precariouS condition.
Mrs. E. S. Grimes is on the sick
list. ..
DR.. Layton was called in CONSUL
tatlOn with Dr.. Nye in the case OF
the little four year old daughter of
Hose Scott. ..r
DR.. Glasge, of st. Joe, was called
in our city last Wednesday to see
Hose Scott, who has been laid up for
the past three weeks with hurt he
got while working on the railroad
bridge gang. =
w. r. Adams, who has had charge
of the gang of bridge carpenters
working in and near Davis City for
the past four months, received
orders to lay off all but eight of his
men for the present That is rather
hard luck for many of them are men
with families and need the work in
winter as well as in summer.
DR.. Nye, of Lineville, has decided
TO locate in Davis City, and will open
an Office here 81
Mrs. S. E. Adams left last Tues
day for Ottumwa, where she will
spend the winter.
DR.. WALES returned Saturday
from a trip to Rochester, Mimi,
Where he went to accompany Adam
McLain to hospital for treatment,
but the doctors there could not do
Mr.. McLain any good, so he went to
3LeMars, Iowa, for visit before re-
turning home.
Charles Penisten, of Leon, has
leased the Lewelyn hotel, and took
possession Saturday.
Mrs. Alice Marble will leave the
first of the week for California, to
accompany her mother back to this
county, where she will again make
her home.
Mrs. Claude Walters and baby, OF
Sss.th Dakota, came in last Saturday
to visit her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Freeman.
George Shoemaker and wife, of
Pipestone, Mimi, are spending the
holidays with relatives in our city.
i. N. Jeffries and wife took pos
session of their new home the past
week. May they now live to enjoy
the comfort and pleasures Of such
an elegant home is the wish of their
numerous friends in this locality.
Our school closed Friday for the
christmas holidays, OF two weeks. A
very nice program was rendered.
Mrs. Frank Ordway received word
recently that the remains of her son,
George Kingsberry, who had disap-
petared from his home in Montana
twenty-seven years ago, had been
discovered in an abandoned prospect
hole near his former home by
parties who had started to renew the
search for minerals in that locality
His skull and hair were both identi-
4 fed by man who had worked with
him for two years in the mines and
by a peculiar tooth which grew
crooked from an injury in childhood
George Kingsberry will be remem-
bered by many old settlers, as he
sahyed for number of years few
miles west of Davis City. His Wife
before her marriage was Viola
4 AIitchell, and still has relatives liv-
ing in this county Mr.. kingsberry
left his home one morning to go to
\ his work as usual and had never
I been heard Of by his family until
! His remains were recently found
Two bullet holes could plainly seen
TN his skull, showing he had been
Eaylaid from an ambush, as he had
\ 4 no Weapons with him. II is thought