The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-31
Davis City.

Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey and Oscar
Goble made a trip to GAINESVILLE, MO-,
last Tuesday.
Mrs. John Archey, of Leon, visit
ed over Sunday with friends in this
city.
Miss Lucille Post left Monday for
a weeks visit with relatives in Leon.
After a six weeks visit with her
daughter, Mrs. George Shoemaker,
Mrs. r. M. Walters will leave one
day this week for Eagle Grove, Iowa,
for a visit with her brother. From
there she will return to her home
at Sweeney, South Dakota.
Friends in this city received word
the past week that Frank Rabidou,
the seventeen year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Rabidou, died on July 20
at their home in Oklahoma.
After short visit with old friends
Miss Jae Shirley returned to her
home in Des Moines last Thursday.
Mrs. Ralph Johnson accompanied her
for a weeks visit at the Shirley home
in Des Moines.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mart Robbins visited
with friends in the country last Mon
day.
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the Jenk Wright property on Clark
street.
Since our last communication
Mrs. Julian Butterworth came in
from Minnesota for visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Carter Scott.
From here she will go to Wyoming
where her husband has accepted
position as professor in one of the
state colleges.
| Mrs. Maggie Dorr made trip to
st. Joe, Mo-, one day last week to see
her uncle, w. r. Adams, who is still
an inmate Of the state hospital. She
reports her uncle as better in some
way but very respondent and still
mentally not right, and yet seems to
know every thing and was glad to
see her and asked about the family.
DR.. Reed, P. F. Farley, Grant NAL
Tory, Mark Adams and Earl Mellow
ell and several others, all whose
names we did not learn, attended the
Ke11erton ball game last Sunday.
Okla Adkins last week threshed
out his big wheat crop of 11S acres.
He threshed over three thousand
bushels of wheat, and yet it has al
ways been claimed that Iowa land
does not pay for a wheat crop.
B. F. Mcdaniel, an old and highly
respected citizen of New Buda town
ship, died last Saturday. The funer:
al services were held in the Davis
City Saints church on Sunday, con-
Quoted by Elder Elvin, of Lamont.
Interment was in the Davis City
cemetery This is sad bereavement
to the family especially to the moth
err, for on May 18th last they buried
their only daughter and it is said
that grief for his child fastened on
the death of the father. All extend
| to the sorrowing friends their SYM
pathy. A more fitting obituary will
| be found, we trust, elsewhere in this
| paper.
| A construction train with a force
of men has been making Davis City
headquarters the past week, laying
the new steel rails. George Lasley,
section foreman at Lamont, and his
men were called here last week to
help. F. NJ. Kicks got the Grand
River bridge dump ready for the
heavy rails. The Davis City depot is
now complete and we are satisfied,
even if the company did not give us
a brick one.
Mrs. Mary Bennett and sister, Miss
Ollie, are visiting friends near Shen-
andoah this week.
Mrs. Francis Hamilton visited
with Leon friends the past week, and
was also looking after the new
mothers pension law.
Mrs. Walter McCully returned last
Friday from visit at Kansas City
and other western points. While
gone she visited with Mrs. Frank Nc
Keehan, a one time resident Of our
city. She reports Mrs. McKeehan
we'll. Her sons are both living in
the Philippine Islands, Earl banana
fruit raiser and Lyman a practicing
physician.
Mrs. Ida Hablecorn, of Lamont,
was an over Sunday guest OF Mrs.
Myra Howard in this city.
Mrs. Arthur Sylvester, of Montana,
came in the past week for visit
with relatives and old time friends.
Arthur Cummings and daughter
CRYSTAL, who had been called here on
the sad mission of bringing their
wife and mother here for burial, left
on Wednesday of last week for their
home in Wyoming. His parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Cummings, return
ed with them.
Elder Campbell has bought the
property on Davis street known as
the Grandma Boeger place. The ell
der and his family will soon become
residents of our city. All extend
them a cordial welcome as citizens
of our community.
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