The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22

]. M. 4Eiker and w. H.. Golfer. OF
Decatur City, were in Leon last
| Thursday, coming over to attend the
| m Getting of the board o. supervisors
and urging the selection OF county
| roads for that part OF the county.
Mrs. Rebecca J. Phillips, of Excel
sior Springs, MO, who is visiting at
| the home of Robert Jones at Garden
| Grove, returned to Garden Grove last
| Thursday after visiting a few days
in this city with Mrs. Maggie Sears.
! Mrs. J. H. Duro returned to her
home at Des Moines Thursday after
noon, after visiting couple of days
| at the home of Mrs. Fred Teale in
this city. Mrs. Duro was formerly
Miss Patzig, and has many friends
| in this city. ~
| w. A. Hopkins, c. E. and G. w.
Blair, a trio of good roads boosters
from Lamont, were in Leon last
| Thursday, appearing before the
board of supervisors in the matter
of selecting the county highways IN
that part of the county.
Mrs. ]. L. Young and Mrs. J. w.
Hurst and daughter Kathleen, went
to Humeston Friday to attend the
class play presented by the gradual
| ing class of the Humeston Hlgh
School, and visit their daughter and
sister, Mrs. Margaret Waight.
Harry Mayer, the we'll known
wool buyer for SHERMAN Bros, OF
Chicago, the largest wool house in
America, came in Saturday evening
from Kansas City and visited over
Sunday with his father, M. Mayer,
and many friends in this city.
Mrs. G. NJ. Tharp, CT Winfield,
Kansas, arrived Tuesday for a visit
with her father, S. Grouse, in this
city, Her coming at this time was
surprise on her father and he did
not know she was here until he went
home and found her at the house.
Charles P. Shaffner, of Terre
Haute, was a visitor in this city last
Friday. and went home feeling pref
tv GOOD over having the road from
Decatur City to Terre Haute select
ed as a part of the county ROAD
system by the board of supervisors.
F. L. Hall, the Van Vert banker,
was a business visitor in this city
Monday, coming down to act as one
of the appraisers in determining the
damages to the landowners in case
the proposed road around Dynamite
Hill, west of Leon is run around the
hill.
Miss Edith Harris departed last
Thursday on an extended trip to the
east, expecting to be absent all sum-
mer. She will visit in Chicago, Nj
agara Falls, New York City and other
eastern cities and then go to Vir-
ginia for an extended visit with rel
atives.
Mrs. D. R. Dudley, of Mt. Ayr,
stopped off in this city last Friday
for a short visit with her mother
Mrs. A. J. Allen, being enroute home
from Burlington, where she had at
tended the state chapter of the r,
E. o. society as delegate from the
chapter in Mt. Ayr. .-, :.
Rev. j. L. Peace, wife and daugh'
ter, Adra, departed last Friday for
Humeston. Rev. Peace had been IN
Leon for a number of weeks, being
in charge of the Holy Rollers meet
ings which were held at the Advent
church. He expects to conduct q
series Of NEE ings ats Humeston: S NJ
D. A. Meek, Of Eden township, re.
turned last Thursday from trip ste
| Montana and other western states
where he went to look for location
and found one to suit him near Big
Sandy, Montana, and filed on a claim
| twenty-five miles southeast OF that
town which he expects to improve.
Mrs. Mary Osteguy and sister, Mrs
Nellie DoWS and DAUGHTER Marguer-
lite, departed last Friday, for their
homes in Vermont after visiting for
several weeks at the home OF their
sister, Mrs. J. NJ. Brown, in this city,
and with numerous friends and rela-
tives in the vicinity of Woodland.
Charles Riley, of Decatur City,
was in Leon last Thursday. He will
shortly 60: to Iowa City to take
treatment for his enlarged tonsils
and hearing in an effort to be able
to take the physical examination for
admission as cadet at the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Nd, in June.
| Mr.. NJ, Bledsoe, of Van Vert,
one of the early settlers of Decatur
county, who came here in 1865,
came down Saturday to visit few
days with old friends in this vicinity.
Mr.. Bledsoe was ninety years old
last Christmas and does not get out
very much, as his health is not the
best.