The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-03-20
YEARS AGO
Items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published a Quarter
of q Century Ago.

z. H. Gurley, of Harding, was a
visitor in Leon, and made speech
| before the republican convention.
Every business house in Leon had
agreed to close their place of bust
ness at 1890 p. M, SO that all could
attend the meeting held at the
court house to take steps toward Sc
curing electric lights and flour
mill
George Foreman made a trip to
Spring Valley to examine mill own
ed by Lemmax & Co., with a view OF
securing it's removal to Ii on.
Mint Patterson, Of Saline, Mo-,
| was visiting with relatives in this
| city.
Miss Asenath Wood, of DeKalb,
| was the guest of Miss Helen Young
in this city. )
Geo. T. Young was called to Fair
field to see his daughter, Miss Har-
riett, who was taken sick while at
tending Parsons College.
Frank Gardner left en- business
| trip to western Nebraska.
A 1Oh pound boy was born to Mr..
and Mrs. Will A. Weatherby.
Mss Sue Roger had gone to Okla
uolIld lol oil eAIohuSu 'loiI Will
brother.
Miss Mall Atlee returned from
Memphis, Tenn, where she spent the
winter with relatives.
Fred Teale and wife, of Los An
geles, California, came for a few
| weeks visit with relatives in this
county.
Miss Helen Young returned from
Oskaloosa, where she spent the win
ter at the home of her aunt, Mrs,
John kalbach.
Rev. f. c. Watkins returned from
Nodaway, Iowa, where he had been
conducting a series of meetings for
three or four weeks.
F. N. Slade, of Columbus, Ohio
/ the new owner of the opera house
block, was in Leon looking after his
property and announced that he
would fix them up and expected to
rent them at once.
About one-half of the stock for
the proposed street railway had been
subscribed.
DR.. H. C. Vanw erden and Francis
Varga were elected members of the
Leon school board. At that time
there was a total enrolment in the
High school of IS pupils with an
average attendance of 60. There
were but six grade rooms in the
school at that time, and tne total en-
rollment of the schools including the
High School was 1886 with an aver
age attendance of 215 pupils in all
the rooms, Prof. S. M. Mowatt was
principal of the High School, the
grade teachers being Miss Esther
Sanger, Mrs. jennie Haskell, Miss
Noble, Mrs. J. l.. Harvey, Miss Cora
Brooks and Mrs. A. A. Roy.
Chastain & Artt had purchased a
block of ground in Miles addition
on which to erect their new cheese
factory.
w. F. Ellis and Miss Ollie Potts
were married at the home of William
Ledgerwood in this city, Elder H. A.
Lemon officiating.
G. NJ Axes sold his interest in
the butcher shop to his partner, A.
E. Ellis.
U. q. Tharp had secured position
as brakeman on the Rock Island R.
r., with headquarters at Trenton,
Mo.
Dan Thurman was carrying the
pot owing to some difficulty between
the postmaster and Dug Green, who
had the mail contract.
Al Drake, the well known conduc-
| tor on the Chariton-St. Joe run, had
been arrested on the charge OF big
| amy, wife No. I residing in Des
| Moines and wife No. residing in St
Joe.
The project of erecting a canning
| factory in Leon was being agitated.
Mrs. George Elston died at her
home in Davis City after an illness OF
almost year. She was survived by
her husband and two small children
A large crowd was present to wit
| ness the baptizing of ten persons in
Grand River near the Trembley
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