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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-12-25
SCHOOL NOTES
Fay Macy-Gladys Chambers
Editors

1t is upon the smooth ice we slip;
the toughest path is the safest.
,- Edgar Ketcham visited physics
class Thursday morning.
Misses Gussie Griffin and Fora
Overholtzer visited High school
Thursday afternoon.
Prof Munroe, of Faribault, MIMI,
spoke before the High School Thurs
day afternoon on character reading.
Mabel Slower was absent part of
last week on account of illness.
The debate which was held before
! the High School Thursday morning
was won by the negative, the sub
ject being Government ownership
of railroads." Abby Carrithers and
Fay Macy spoke on the affirmative
and Leland Ackerley and Charley
Scott on the negative.
James Scott visited High School
Thursday morning.
DR.. Stewart gave a talk to the
High School Thursday morning.
Roy Nordike and Leonard Has
tings visited High school Wednesday
afternoon.
Edith Chambers visited High
School Monday afternoon.
Thursday morning.
ROLAND and Edith Shields visited
High School Tuesday.
Olive Arney and Alma Mullins Wis
tied High School Monday afternoon.
The contest was splendid but
would have been better had the Sen
! Tors won first place. Nancy Kemp
was awarded first place, represent
ing Leon at Osceola. Nina Olsen
got second place and Ida Hazlet
| third, they will represent Leon in the
county contest at Van Vert.
The Seniors have one consolation.
They won first in oratory in the de-
clamatory contest
The domestic science girls had
some fine exhibits at the Farmers
Institute which were highly praised.
Lola Brazelton gave two readings
in the eighth grade Friday after
noon.
Prof. Munroe visited the eighth
grade Friday afternoon.
Miss Cooney gave program We'd
nesday afternoon.
Edna Kerr was absent last week
from the seventh grade.
Mrs. McGinnis visited Mrs. Atkins
room Tuesday morning.
Miss Deck visited Mis- Cherry's
room Thursday.
Mrs. Cline visited Miss Cherry's
room Thursday.
The High School had a Christmas
tree Tuesday morning and mock
trial Tuesday afternoon.
Victor Shultz. from Abel, one of
our old students, visited High School
Tuesday.
Our orchestra Gid very we'll in
their first public appearance at the
contest
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-12-25
lndict Councilmen for Failing to
Drag Streets.

Up in Polk county they have COM
menced indicting officials who fail to
perform their duties in regard to
dragging the streets and roads. Last
week three members of the town
council of Clover Hill, a small town
near Des Moines were indicted. The
Register and Leader says:
Among the twenty-three persons
indicted by the grand jury yesterday
afternoon were three Clover Hill
councilmen-W. w. Wilcox, Miles
Pitman and D. w. Crouch-charged
with failure to obey the state road
dragging law -.
1t is the first time in the history
of Polk county that indictments of
this character have been reported by
the inquisitors. Warrants for the
arrest of the three officials were
placed in the hands of Sheriff Griffin
last night. .'
Similar charges lodged against
Mayor Charles Ashwort of Glover
Hill, in Justice John Conroy's court
are said to have been ignored by the
grand jury. 1t was stated that such
action was taken as AshWOth is al
lowed a voice in the council only
when the other members are unable
to agree upon question before it..
Harry Brown, a Clover Hill cOun-
Gilman, pleaded guilty to having dis
obeyed the road law in Justice Con-
roy's court last summer and was fin
ed $40. He had been member but
a short time He stated he was ig-
norant of the law.
The indictments against the Glow
er Hill officials are a result of the
activities on the part of Gels Bots
ford, secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce. He filed the informa-
tions against the cOuncilmen in the
justice courts, and they waived to
the grand jury.
1t is charged that in the true bills
against the officers they evaded the
responsibility placed upon them by
the statutes in that they made no at
tempt to drag the roads during the
muddy season.
The report submitted to Judge
McHenry by the Investigators y the
final one for the year, The srand
jury was discharged. Il ,533 y
REpOFTER KnR aAIR Mia
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-12-25
A Feel in the Christmas Air.

Theys a kind O. feel in the air to me
When the Christmas time sets in
That's about as much of mystery
AS ever I've run ag'in.
Fer instance, now, while l gain in
weight
And gineral health, I swear
quite state
A kind O. feel in the air.
They's feel in the Christmas air
goes right
TO the spot where man lives at!
1t gives Teller appetite
They amt no doubt about that!
And yit they's somepin-1 don't
know what
That follers me here and there
And hants and worries and spares
me not
A kind O. feel in the air.
They's a feel, as l say, in the air
that's jest
AS blamed-on sad as sweet.
In the same ra-sho as feel the best
And am the spryest on my feet
They's allus kind Of sort of ache
That l can't locate nowhere,
But it comes with Christmas, and no
mistake
A kind O. feel in the air.
Is it the racket the children raise?
Why, no!-God bless 'em, no!
Is it the eyes and cheeks ablaze,
Like my own wuz long ago?
Is it the blast O. the whistle and beat
O. the little toy drum and blare
O. the horn? No, no. 1t is jest the
sweet
The sad-sweet feel in the air.
james WhitcOmb Riley.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-12-25

REPORTER FOR sAIR HULA
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-12-25
To Our Correspondents.

We ask that all our correspondents
sign their name and address when
ever they ask for more stamped en-
velopes and supplies. We have a
large number of correspondents and
cannot always remember your names,
SO please sign your name to your cor
respondence.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-12-25
The County Road Engineers Annual
Report.

Frank Mallette, the county road
| and bridge engineer of Decatur coun-
ty, has completed his report for the
year 1913 which the law requires
him to make to the State Highway
Commission, and from it we CLEAN
the following interesting figures:
BRIDGES.
On hand, Jan. l, 1875 2,221.S1
Collected in 19l3..... 18,591.64
Balance on hand Nov. L.. 9.725.49
Estimated collections for
1914 -. 100000
Paid for repairing wood
bridges and culverts.. 5,219.S2
Paid for steel bridges. >. 1852
Other REPAIRS. -. -. 6.OO5.O4
On hand Jan. /, 1913,
county road. .... 2,293.01
On hand Jan. l, 1918
county road building. 2,881.15
On hand Jan. l, 1918
motor fund. ..... 699.40
COUNTY ROAD FUND COLLEC-
TONS IN 1913.
County road building COL
lections in 1913. :. 6,094.68
Motor fund collections in
Balance in county road
fund Noy. l, 1913... 1918
Balance in county road
building fund, Nov. /,
Balance in motor fund
Nov. l, 1913. 49,. 2.315.76
Estimated collections for
1914: 100000
Balance on hand in town 10. -.
ship road fund Jan. 1, .,.
1918. 1913
Collections in township
road fund in 1913. =. 15,558.03
Balance on hand, Nov 1,
1913. -. 1,2s7.34
1913 cost. 3,2ss.o7
Repairs on county road
system from Jan. LIST to
Nov. LIST. . :. ..... 6,473.S6
No. of miles of road drag
ged regularly. ..... 1876
Cost per mile ...... 900
The following shows where the
money spent on the county road sys-
tenn for grading and filling was eX-
pended:
Leon and Garden Grove
road. >. ........$ 2,076.36
Leon and Woodland road $3.50
Leon and Davis City road 462.1O
Roads east and south of
Lamont. ......... 551.6O
Leon and Decatur road. 167.81
Corn Belt Trail. ..... 108.07
Waubonsie Trail, east =. 1,646.15
Cannon Ball Trail. .. 517.34
Filling over culverts. 394.63
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-12-25

Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum
sets you crazy. Can't bear the
touch of your clothing. Doan's ONT
ment is fine for skin itching. All
druggists sell it, SOC a box.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-12-25

Order cut flowers and Horal de.
signs from o. E. Hall, local agent OF
Lozier, of Des Moines, at The Re-
porter office. Orders sent by phene
or mail, but order as early rs posi-.
BILE.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-12-25

We guarantee our cement blocks
the best sAd cheapest on the market
Leon Cement and Brick Co.
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rays. and sinners shall be converted unto
X x x *
Affection.

Those in distress and trouble turn to
the book of Psalms to find comfort and
consolation. There their woes are not
only graphically pictured, but the words
of solace are many and gracious.
There are many who like David cry:
Save me, 0 God,
For the waters come in unto my soul;
sink in deep mire. where there is standing;
! am come into deep waters, where the floods
overflow me:
am weary Of my crying: my throat is dried:
Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God"
But as they read further the words of
the sixty-ninth Psalm a way of deliver
ance out of the mire and the pit of af-
fiction is made known and they say with
the psalmist:
But as for me, my prayer is unto Thee o
Lord. in an acceptable time.
o God, in the multitude Of Thy mercy hear me
in the truth Of Thy salvation"
And the Lord hardened and heard in
the truth Of His salvation, and in the
abundance of His loving kindness, and
the waters of affliction are dried up, and
the song bursts forth into hosanna to the
Son Of David; hosanna in the highest.
The minor key of the psalms is in
variably changed into the major tones
of joy, thanksgiving and praise.
For the poor and the afflicted ones
there are psalm jewels in these words of
hope and promise:
Il know that the Lord will maintain
the cause of the Afflicted and the right of
the poor. For thou wilt save the
afflicted people,
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Penitence.

The cry Of the penitent heart finds its
fullest expression in the words of the
Psalmist and nowhere more expressively
than in the fifty-first Psalm.
There was very sad story in David'S
life. There is in most lives sad story
of some kind or character Of sin and un-
worthiness. but David's sin was the great
transgression-one that cannot be even
thought of without detestation. 1t was
his only DETECTION from the path of recti-
tude, for it is written that The DAVID
turned not aside from the commandments
of the Lord all the days of his life. save
only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.' -
Under the preaching of Nathan he was
brought to deep conviction and penitence
for his great sin.
The penitential psalm. though written
upon particular occasion. is meant for
general use as much as any other of the
psalms.
AS he prayed and was pardoned, SO
may others pray and be forgiven. In
his prayer was confession Of sin,
81 acknowledge my transgressions and
my sin is ever before me. Against Thee,
Thee only, have / sinned and done this
evil in Thy sight"
Then the plea for purity: Create in
me a clean heart, o God. and renew a
right spirit within me-"
1t is Il model prayer for every penitent
sinner. The penitent's prayer is not alone
for himself. David prayed for pardon
for peace of conscience, for grace to sin
no more. for access to God, SO that he
might be able to do good to others.
Then will teach transgressors thy
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Gratitude.

The psalms are abundantly rich in ex-
pressions for the lips Of those who have
1T in their hearts to bless the Lord for
His mercy and loving kindness
"Oh, that men would praise the Lord
for His goodness. and for His wonderful
works to- the children Of men,
The cultivation of thankful spirit is
a duty OF the greatest importance. There
is no greater virtue than gratitude: no
nobler life than that which is free from
every feeling of ingratitude.. The CRATE
1ul heart is the one most loved and hon
ored. as the ungrateful is the most de-
spised and hated. If ingratitude between
man and man is SO despicable, how shall
we measure the offense of the creature s
1ngratitude to the Creator? Every die
tate of revelation and Of reason should
impel us to praise and thank God at
all times.
How can any Christian fail~to bless
the Lord, who redeemeth his life
from destruction: who crowneth him
with loving kindness and tender mer-
cies?"
who forgiveth all thine iniquities,
who healeth all thy diseases, who
satisfyeth thy mouth with good
things
These psalm gems on Gods love and
goodness to men should inspire us to
adopt as the language of our hearts
this gem on praise to His holy name:
Bless the Lord, o my soul, and forget
not all His benefits"
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Ttirb of CHRISTIAN
Cnneahor 5un1ap
afternoon meetings
Mr.. Bryan to Speak on Faith"
in Columbia Theater at
3 Pm. Tomorrow.

~ HE third meeting Of the series of
Ill. Sunday afternoon services under
the auspices Of the Christian En-
deavor Union will take place tomorrow
afternoon in the Columbia Theater at
$3.50 o'clock, at which time Secretary of
State William Jennings Bryan will speak
on Faith The meetings at which Mr..
Bryan speaks are open only to men.
The services of this series are evan
gelistic in character, their purpose being
to win men into the Christian life and
into fellowship with the churches and
adult Bible classes of the city. Mr.. r.
L. Holmes, president of the Christian
Endeavor Union, has asked for the
hearty cooperation Of the Young Men s
Christian Association, the Pastors Fed
Grafton of Washington. the Epworth
League of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South of Washington and vicin-
ity, and the Presbyterian Young Peoples
Missionary Union
The invocation will be delivered by Rev.
DR.. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor Of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church. and
the Scripture reading will be by the
Rev. Paul B. Warrington, pastor Of the
Maryland Avenue Baptist Church. Dean
Charles N. Gregory of the George Wash
ington University will preside over the
meeting. A musical program will be
given.
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family feud, made him responsive to the
call of the home land The Jacob return
ing with great possessions had under
gone. during his struggles, service and
strife to overreach Laban, who had
tricked him into marrying Leah, and
secured seven years service also for
Rachel. a spiritual transformation.
God had revealed Himself to the wan
dering exile at Bethel and in Haran
there came the revelation of man that
caused Jacob to realize his dependence
upon the Almighty. Like many of US. he
had only learned this in part and trust
ed to his own cunning craftiness to Sc
cure his wives and wealth instead OF
trusting God, who caused the cruel crafty
chicanery of Laban to be the source Of
blessing since Leah did more to build
up his family than did Rachel, for the
former was the mother of six sons, one
of them Judah. while the latter at the
time of our lesson was the mother OF
but one, Joseph. whose career will be
the subject of our study during the bal
ance of the quarter.
The punishments Of God arc always the
source of blessing to the one who sees
the lesson of the Lord in the penalty
inflicted as a result of our sin. The reap
ing of our Sowing always carries a sug-
gestive lesson to the inqufring child of
God.
Fleeing secretly from the dangers in
Haran. followed by Laban, who over
took and made treaty Of peace at Miz-
pah with him, Jacob faced the perils
Of his homecoming. 1t is easier to con-
quer the difficulties in the world than
it is to overcome the perils of the home
life Many man who shuts God out in
his struggle for supremacy in the battle
for bread bows in supplication for divine
assistance when he realizes that the
efforts of the physician have failed to
give relief to the stricken loved ones.
The punishment of his exile had not re-
moved the danger that threatened Jacob,
when he took hasty departure from the
home that he loved from the brother
that he had wronged.
Conscience stricken by the reminders of
the past, Jacob. with his characteristic
courage, pushed forward seeking to
placate his brother whom probably the
angels reported to be near, by mes
sengers of peace to secure protection
through prayer and to overcome Esau by
prudent precautionary plans to the cru
cial experience in his spiritual expert
ence and education, that endowed him
with power.
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Peril, Prayer. Power.

Conscience makes towards of us ALL"
Jacob was no exception, for when he was
Informed of the non-committal reply of
his brother that assured him of Esau's
coming to meet him with 400 men. Jacob
was greatly afraid and distressed by
his imminent peril. In the time of diff
ficulty PRAYER is the refuge for every soul,
for God bids us Ito call upon me i'm the
day of trouble and 1 will hear and de-
liver thee" Jacob in his emergence
sought the Lord in the first prayer that
has been handed down to us in the
Bible, and God heard him. Face to face
with Jehovah men come to know and
speak the truth. Conscience had done its
work. the Mesopotamia experience had
not been in vain. the providential deliver
ance from Laban and the angels warning
all helped to make Jacob conscious of
his unworthiness. and how through the
grace of God he had received the bless
ings in the past and only by divine favor
could he hope for future blessings. so
that he plead the promises of God in
asking for deliverance.
The realization of his wrong to his
brother called for restitution. The spirit
of diplomacy cannot account for the gen.
erouS peace proposal Of about one-half
OF his enormous possessions by which
Jacob sought to re-eStablish peace with
his brother. The message Of peace was
not an elaborate defense of his rights to
the birthright, but rather a humble recog-
milton of the place that naturally they
would have occupied with Esau as Lord
and Jacob as servant. The love for his
family moved him to try to avert any
conflict with his brother, who was making
conquests by the sword. Above the
family tie was the religious motive that
caused him to make efforts at peace. The
greatest force today i'm destroying the
war god is the same God that led Jacob
not only to seek to make an honorable
peace. but division of his possession and
family SO that IL conflict came some
might have been spared from the hands
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Botomaf presbpterp.

~HE Presbytery Of the Potomac met
W in the Franklin Street Church, Balti-
more Tuesday last and adjourned Thurs
day afternoon. Mr.. W. w. Warwick, an
elder in the Central Presbyterian Church
of this city. was elected moderator.
The reports from the various churches
in the presbytery were very encouraging.
announcement being made that the debt
resting on the foreign mission committee
of the entire church. and amounting to
$50, 600 had been paid.
The presbytery gave to this work or
foreign missions more than $1,000. The
Central Presbyterian Church of this city
gave as it's part of the contribution more
than 81 600. the largest amount given by
this congregation in several years Inc
Central Church is thus helping, IT is
pointed out, to support two missionaries In
the foreign field and two missionaries
in the home missionary field.
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Series of @iSSiomarp
Contentious to Be Deln
About 100 to Occur Betmeen September
Is ann february Is Rfxt.

ment of the movement will be devoted
to colored churches. 1t announces that
this series of conventions is to become
an annual event, with a perfection of
organization in course of time that will
carry the conventional lessons into every
cross roads
The ultimate aim Of the conventions is
the taking up of vast collection of
money for missionary work at home and
abroad. This money end of the plan is
to come next March. All societies of
all names and objects are in the plan.
Along with the conventions is to go an
educational series, to be conducted by
the missionary education movement.
The aim Of this movement Is not merely
to get money. but to introduce efficiency
methods into money raising in the
churches for missions.
The amount at present given by all
Protestant churches for all missions Ia a
little short Of $4,000. 600 a year, of which
$40, 100000 to $45, 10000 is for missions
at home. The coming summer is to be
spent by missionary leaders preparing
for the September opening.
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~ HE country is to have another big
vi. series of missionary conventions
1t is announced by the Laymen's
Missionary Movement that it will under
take to hold no fewer than 1900 con-
ventions between September 10 and
February Is next, and it calls upon min
listers and laymen in all parts of the
country to join 1t. The movement will
try to hold conventions in all towns Of
5000 population and over, and It pro-
poses great number of teams of speak.
ers, four to six men in each, to go from
city to city. two days in each. Missions
Of all kinds are to be propagated. not
simply foreign missions as the movement
essayed when 1t started a few years
ago.
The movement proposes Institutes for
ministers, enormous quantities of liter
ature about missions. and the inspiring
of daily and other newspapers with in
formation about it's plans. One depart
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The Savior's Love.

One of the pleasing and significant
names given to Christ was that of Shep-
herd. He was not only the Shepherd of
the Jewish fold, but of that ''other fold"
which includes all the rest of the world.
Christ said: Il am the Good Shepherd
and 1 give my life for the sheep"
His tenderest care and infinite love was
expressed in the appelation Of Shepherd.
Speaking as such, he said, my sheep
hear my voice, and know them" And in
expression of His boundless love He add
ed: I gave unto them eternal life. and
they shall never perish, neither shall any
man pluck them out of my hands,
thousand years before the advent of
Christ the inspired pen of the Psamist
wrote the twenty-third Psalm. the verses
of which rank among the first of the IA
vorite passages of Gods Word.
1.-THE Lord is my shepherd: l shall not
want In these words and the five verses
that follow how sweetly is the shep-
herds love revealed! His care in provid-
ing for every want. His companionship
and guidance not only through the green
pastures and beside the still waters, but
through the valley of the shadow of
death. and His assurance that good
ness and mercy shall be the portion of
His people ''all the days Of their life.
and that they shall dwell in the house of
the Lord forever"