The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-29
twenty-five YEARS AGO.
Items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published a. Quarter
of a Century Ago.

On Saturday it commenced to
rain about 1 o'clock in the afternoon
and continued to pour down steadily
for twelve hours. The "oldest in
habitant" has been heard to say he
never knew more water to fall in the
same length of time. The small
bridges over the county are report
ed to be generally washed out and
carried away by the food, and it
will be some time before travel will
be resumed in some parts of the
county. In the south part of the
county there was heavy hail and in
some instances hogs were killed by
the hail and damage done to the
crops. s,t$
Geo. T. Young and Thomas Teale
had formed partnership and an
nounced that about the first of July
they would open an additional store
room in the Woods building adjoin-
ing the store of Mr.. Young, in which
they would carry full line of cloth
ing, connecting the two store rooms
with an arch. t"F
The commencement exercises of
the class of I'88 of the Leon High
School were held at the opera house,
there being ten graduates, each Of
whom delivered an Grafton, after
which they we're presented with their
diplomas by president of the board
J. F. PenniWell. Prof. S. M. Mo-
watt was pricipal of the High. School
and had but one assistant teacher,
Miss May Wilson. The graduates
were: Charles C. Harvey, Eugenia
ca Eotbor Voruo Mo,,roo Do,,
niWell, Maud Bullock, Fred Honnold,
Charlotte Vogt, Hortense, Dilsaver,
Lille Jackson, Bertha Cannon. n
The Memorial Day sermon was de-
livered at the Christian church on
Sunday by Elder F. C. Watkins.
A serious ARRAY occurred at, a
Sunday school in Richland township
last Sunday 1t appears that parties
by the name of Case and Mcconnell
got into a fight over some trivial
matter resulting in Mcconnell get
ting his arm broken. While the
fight was in progress the lady super
intendent of the school tried to stop
the affray, but brother of Case
prevented her from interfering, by
force, and this resulted in the plucky
lady filing an information against
her ill-bred and ungallant assailant,
upon, which ohe was fined and failing
to respond with the necessary dust
was required to abide for a season in
the Honnold asylum for the morally
defOrmed. Any man who will en-
gage in fist fight is a blackguard
and ruffian and nearly always a
coward, but one who will 80 engage
at Sunday. school or church de-
serves the county Jail and the con-
tempt, of all respectable people as
WELL [&,'.,
The lovers of baseball had organ!
lied club for the season of 1888,
with the following officers: President
Frank Lorey; vice president Willard
Young; treasurer Fred Close; secre-
tary J. E. Brooks; manager j. F.
Hamilton; directors, C. E. Gardner,
E. w. Curry, Mike Mayer, w. J. Sui
.livan, Fletcher Layton, DR.. VIM. Van
Werden and J. E. Penniwell. They
proposed to have a ball club which
could wallop any town in southern
Iowa, especially Osceola. 'l
Alma Jackson, of Omaha, came in
to attend the commencement exer-
cises, his daughter, Miss Lille, being
one of the graduates. s'l
Harry Hemphill, of Charlton, was
visiting relatives in this city. 'p>'
Miss Mildred Avery had returned
from visit with relatives in Mis-
souri,. 80
G. M. Ketcham's family moved to
Garden Grove, where Mr.. Ketcham
had been transferred as agent for
the Burlington. -,
Mrs E. M. Sanford and Miss Mollie
Perdue were visiting in Des Moines.
Harry J. Vogt departed for Bur
lington, where he had secured. "a
good position in the wholesale groc-
cry house of John Blaul &, Sons. -
Mrs. Jennie Haskett and daughter
Miss Hattie, left for Earlham, Iowa,
for visit with Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Haskett. ,%>t'..
Frank Woodruff and wife, of
Bethany, Mo-, attending the COM
exercises, being guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. s. A.. Gates. Mr..
Woodruff attended the Leon schools
years ago when Prof Frazier was in
charge. He. is now one of the lead
ing members of the Harrison county.
Missouri, bar. 5.tu i,sft
Decoration Day was fittingly OBJ
served, the speaker of the day being
Hon, ]. P. Flick, of Bedford. ,2.tt,