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The Keota news., 1913-08-15
FOREIGN.

The peace treaty between tho Bal.
kan states was signed at Bucharest.
Rumania.
A conference between John Lind
and DR.. William Hale, the two repre-
sentatives in the Mexican republic OF
President Wilson. took place aboard
the battleship Louisiana.
n. A. Jennings and Marvin Ferree
two American newspaper correspon
and they are held by order of the
minister Of the interior
A verdict of manslaughter was re-
turned by coroner's jury against,
Benjamin Jewell whose seven-year-
old daughter died OF diphtheria
while under Christian Science treat
ment at London.
The announcement Is made in a
telegram from Bucharest, Rumania.
that Bulgaria has waived claim to the
port OF kavala on the Aegean sea. If
true. this concession greatly improves
prospects for lasting peace
So much interes, has been taken in
women that important publications
have gathered symposium of views
of prominent men. The great major
ity favor an extension of privileges to
women.
Wilber T. Gracey. United States
consul at Progresso. in the state OF
Yucatan has requested that the
United States gunboat Wheeling.
which is patrolling the lower gulf
coast, be sent to Progresso. where
Americans are in danger.
Emperor William at Berlin, con-
ferred the Grand Cross Of the Order
of the Red Eagle on the Rumanian
premier, Titu Mjoresco. president OF
the Balkan peace conference at Buch-
Arrest. in recognition OF service 10 the
cause OF peace.
The Keota news., 1913-08-15
SPORT.
OF WESTERN LEAGUE.

five-round bout between bantam
hen and jackrabbit was pulled Off
at meeting OF Dover. Colo, county
farmers. The hen won
Colonel F. S. Cody, the famous An
glo-American aviator, was killed in an
aeroplane accident at Aldershot, Eng.
and passenger he was carrying also
met death.
The endurance contest, consisting
OF a 200 mile run in ten hours with
out motor stop, inaugurated by the
Denver Motor club, will be launched
Saturday, August %.
William NJ. Johnston. the boy lawn
tennis wonder from California, won
his place in the final round of the
New York state championship tourney
on the turf courts Of the Crescent Ath-
letic Club at Bay Ridge.
A large crowd thoroughly enjoyed
the fine racing program at the Den
yer City park track of the Gentlemen's
Driving and Riding club. Wilma B,
owned and driven by DR.. H. E. Peters,
made two sensational finishes in the
2:20 trot, just nosing out Horace G.
under the wire.
Herry G. Legg of the Minnikahda
club, Minneapolis, Mimi, won MS
seventh cup embiematic of the cham
pionship of the Minnesota State
Golf Association when he defeated
Dudley Nudge Of White Eear, at tho
thirteenth annual tournament at
Minneapolis The final score wac ,;na
up and eight to play
The Keota news., 1913-08-15
REPRESENT BRITISH PRIORITY.
Grand Master MeIish Given Signal
and Unique Honor on Visit to
English Conciave.

Denver, Aug 12.-Armed with Gre
dentials bearing the autograph sigma
ture OF the Duke of Connaught, Will
liam B. Melish, grand eminent COM
mander of !he Knights Templar of
America, will at the grand ball on
Thursday evening officially represent
the Grand Priory of England and
Wales at the conclave now in session
here Sir Knight Melish will appear
at this ball in the uniform of the or
der in Great Britain. and this will be
the first time that this uniform has
ever been worn at any conclave in this
country
Immediately after | give up the Of
flee of grand commander of the
Knights Templar of this country l am
going to step into the uniform of the
knights of England, and tecome the
representative OF that country" de-
clared Melish. The honor of being APP
pointed special representative for the
Grand Priory of England and Wales
conferred upon Melish is the first that
has ever been given a knight of this
country.
The Keota news., 1913-08-15
DENVER CAR DooGES ACROSS
BRIDGE AS IT SiNkS-HAlTS
ON THE VERY BRINK.
DAMAGE IS $4,000
LIGHTNING SHOCKS GiRL-FARMS
OVERLOOKED AND RESI-
pENcES DAMAGED.

Western Newspaper Union New. Service
Golden, Colo-A cloudburst, attend
ed by lightning and thunder, south or
Golden caused a fifteen-foot wall OF
water to rush, swirling and raging,
down kianey's run, sweeping through
fine residences and places OF business,
tearing out bridges and inundating
truck gardens in the lowlands towards
Denver. The downpour lasted for an
hour and a half.
Miss Ruby Kalabaugh was stunned
by bolt Of lightning.
The loss to truck gardens and farms
has not been calculated. Estimates
place the damage to residences, busl-
nesses and bridges at $4,000.
A Denver and Interurban car, load
ed with sixty persons, passed over one
bridge a few moments before 1t went
crashing into the raging torrent 1t
stopped just short of second bridge
before it slid into the water.
Police and residents Of Golden rode
into the flood waters and succeeded
after some time in rescuing all occu-
pants of the car.
The residences Of S. T. Shipman and
George kellum. two of the finest i'll
Golden, were deluged.
With the first intimattons of flo
farmers and truck raisers in the low
lands sought higher ground.
Water main and sewer connections
were broken and the city was without
electric light until O'Clock.
The Keota news., 1913-08-15
GEN e RAJ.

Cardinal Gibbons says suffrage is
certain to come to women.
The drink bill of the Wisconsin law
makers in the session just closed foots
up TO S57o.
News reached Lima, Peru, that an
earthquake destroyed he Peruvian
towns of Caraveli and Quicacha.
An earthquake shock occurred at
Lake Placid. n. Y. followed by a drop
in temperature OF sixteen degress
The vibration was brief but sharp.
AS a result OF their activity in the
recent telephone operators and wait
ers' strikes. the ST. Louis police will
be excluded from the Labor Day pa
rade, 1t was announced by union lead
ers.
Narragansett society folks are sat
isfied that all or virtually all of Mrs.
John II. Hanan's jewels. which were
stolen from her rooms In her Ocean
Road home, Shoreacres, on the night
OF July 25, have been found.
Governor Sulzer of New York, the
especial target Of Tammanys animOs-
ity, admitted that he had applied GER
tain campaign contributions to his
personal use, but that he afterwards
reimbursed the fund to the full
amount.
lsidor Straus, the New York mer-
chant and philanthropist who lost his
life when the Titanic sank, left an es-
tate valued at $i,565.1O6. His wife,
Mrs. Ida Straus, who refused to de-
sert her husband when she could
have been saved, left an estate OF
s325,57s.
AS sequel to the declared intcn
ton OF United States immigration of
ficials at Los Angeles to proceed
against Charles Victor Hall, million
aire oil operator, in connection with the
alleged illegal residence OF Marie Rita
Seutans. Partisan flower GIRL 1t was
announced by Halls attorney that Hall
and Miss Seutans planned to be mar.
ricd before divulging their where
abouts. Hall is sixty-one, the girl
eighteen.
The Keota news., 1913-08-15
Lind's Arrival Sign Of Peace.

Washington, Aug. 12.-The safe ar
rival IN Mexico City Of John Lind, per.
sonal representative and officially des.
Ignated adviser to the American EN-.
bassy, ended some tense moments in
The Mexican situation. Administra-
ton officials look forward hopefully
10 a favorable reception OF their eff
forts to suggest measures Of peace in
ending the struggle between the con.
tending factions in Mexico.
The Keota news., 1913-08-15
WASHINGTON.

The trade of the United States in
the last fiscal year was greater than
in any previous year Figures just
compiled show that II was S4.2I5,o ,o0O.-
wears record of exports and imports.
The balance in favor OF the country
this year was $653.0oO. 900. The eX-
ports exceeded those of 1912 by $261,-
500 900, while the imports increased
by only 1859, 100000.
The Keota news., 1913-08-15
IN LATE DISPATCHES
OOlNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

State Auditor Gordon of Missouri
received from A. J. Thedick OF F'res-
no. Cal. claim for s76,000,000 from
The escheat fund OF the state OF Mis-
souri,.
A Jury was sworn, the government
stated its case and the taking OF testl-
mony was begun at San Francisco In
the first of the Diggs-Caminetti white
slave trials.
General Felix Diaz and his atten-
dants took a long ride over the boule-
wards at Seattle, Wash. The general
declined 20 discuss the Mexican situa-
ton or his mission to Japan.
James Combs, aged twenty-siX, engi-
neer helper at the Norfolk, Nebr.,
electric light plant. was instantly killed
by falling on a live wire. Combs went
there month ago from Sterling,
Colo
John Dendt, clammerer. who
found pearl of fifty grains while at
work in the Mississippi river near
Lansing, Ia, being ignorant OF the val
ue of the pearl, sold it to Chicago
buyer for $50.
At midnight Sunday. Californias
alien land act, the subject of DIP
iomatic interchanges betw cen United
States and Japan. and 6S5 other bills
passed by the last Legislature. be-
came effective.
James Cardinal Gibbons formally
opened the twelfth annual convention
OF the American Federation of Catho-
lie societies ut Milwaukee with cele'
bration OF pont,flcal high mass At st
JoEn's cathedral.
After a trial lasting an entire week
at Rawlins. Melville Davis, twerty'one
years old. was found guilty OF man
slaughter in the second degree for
killing his sister, Mrs. Frank Ryder at
Fort Steele, Wyo., November IL, 1912.
The honeymoon of Prince Stanis-
laus Sulkowski and his bride OF a fort
night. who was Miss Marie Louise
Freese, daughter OF 4 Los Angeles
millionaire, has become game or
hide and seek between the prince and
deputy United States marshals OF two
states.
Governor Samuel NJ. Ralston of
indianapolis, started on the first vaca-
ton he has ever had-and the COVER
nor is fifty-six years old. He will
spend two weeks in Massachusetts at
the summer home OF Thomas Taggart,
Democratic national committeeman
from Indiana
The Keota news., 1913-08-15
Boy Killed BY Liqhtnino.

Colorado Springs.-James Munson.
fourteen year old and sculptor, was
killed by bolt of lightning while the
horse which he was riding escaped un-
injured.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06
Lure Of Golf.

A military gentleman, who could
swear better than he could play golf.
was f1attered. one day, to find quite a
crowd of we'll dressed strangers fol-
lowing him round.
Il hope" he said gallantly, that III
play well enough to reward you.
ooh, it isn't that, major" replied
one, I'VE came out to listen. Golf IL
Illustrated.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06
The Country Schools.

One of the serious things the
country school must contend against
| is the lack of thoroughly trained
| teachers Another is the custom OF
changing teachers every term or So.
Under the later attempts to create
an organization Of the rural schools
the teacher is presumed to leave a
record of studies and of the indiVid-
ual pupils; but that doesn't amount
to great deal as any rural teacher
knows. There is lack of continuity,
lack of teachers. Moreover, bright
as our school ma'ams are it is hard
ly advisable that the schools should
be entirely turned over to feminine
supervision, especially the recent
graduate from the high schools as
they are now. AS matters stand the
teachers now employed in the rural
sch FOOLS are the best available. 1t is
not in depreciation Of the excellent
work our girl school teachers are
doing that this is said, but in COM
parison with what might be done.
Mainly it is question of wages.
Men fail to see a future competence
in the salary of a rural school teach
er. Speaking to a gathering at
Columbus, Ohio, the other day, Mr..
Claxton. United States education
commissioner suggested:
CONSOLIDATE the country schools
and have one for every sixteen miles,
put it in charge Of "A man who is
given d contract for life or during
good behavior, give him a 20 or 80
acre piece of ground and a house and
make him cultivate his land as a
model farm; build him a home as
you have built parsonages for your
preachers. put shop or laboratory
in your centralized school and farm
ers' children will be able to obtain
education that will fit them for the
complex life they must lead
Bills introduced in the legislature
the other day provide state aid for
consolidated schools. Thus a two
room school would be given $3.50
for equipment and $500 annual aid
| a three room school would be given
$3.50 for equipment and $500 annual
| aid, a four room school more. pro-
tionately.
Together they suggest that there
! are eXcellently trained men who are
| now seeking a $73 a month positions
| in town and city schools who would
| find ten to twenty acres with a decent
| house on it, and $50 to $50 month
an attractive proposition under let
us say five year contracts. The cost
| Of living has entered into the calcu-
lations of the salaried man to a
most important degree. A little
farm we'll titled, d little salary and a
little school house we'll fixed would
make an excellent combination tC
the we'll qualified man who. as many
we'll qualified men do, found himself
with a family and with no high sal
aried position in sight.
At any rate, and whatever we shall
do we are in a way to do something
toward the Improvement of the rural
schools. 1t is not a question of what
the schools are doing but what they
ought to do for the children and
Iyouth of the community. 1T is a
question also which the country resi-
dent should approach without pre-
JUDGE against others or in favor OF
himself The school question is not
a class INSTRUMENTATION
! Times Republican. W
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06
The California Picnic.

| The Iowa Association of Southern
California sends greetings to all
Iowans everywhere. and extends to
them a cordial invitation to meet in
Eastlake Park, Los Angeles, for the
great annual all-day reunion and pic
mic, Saturday, February %, 1913.
Of rainy that date, or just before, 1t
will be postponed to Saturday, March
l., at the same place.
While there will be chance to buy
dinner at the park, all are urged TO
bring a good old fashioned Iowa pic
mic dinner and to invite friends to
share it. Provision will be made for
checking packages at cents each.
The splendid Iowa plan Of
county registration will be carefully
carried out, and every one is asked
There will be headquarters for each
college in the state, and three O'Clock
is suggested as a special reunion
hour for former students of each
school to meet and register Tourists,
visitors, transients, permanent resi-
dents, all are welcome. If you ever
lived in the good old Hawkeye state
you are wanted Program and cleo
ZION Oh OlllCeIS dl HILL past L"o
o'clock
You can readily see that we cannot
personally reach all Iowans, so we
ask you to aid us in extending far
reaching publicity. Let each one
feel that a measure of the success de-
ponds upon him and send the word
along to interested thousands.
Our Iowa Association is member
of the Federation of State organiza-
tons which is doing a wonderful
work for Southern California. All
Iowans are invited to visit head
quarters and enroll in the Iowa
county registers. (The Federation
expects to move soon to it's own home
on West Seventh street.)
Enrolment books are kept for ev-
cry county of every state in the
Union. Register as soon as you
come. to California, SO your friends
may find you.
Yours very truly,
C. H. PARSONS,
Secretary of Iowa Association.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06
Notice of Probating VIII.

To All Whom it May Concern:
You are hereby notified that there
is now on file in the office Of the
Clerk of the District Court of Iowa,
in and for Decatur county, an instru-
ment in writing, purporting to be the
last Will and Testament Of Jacob
Manchester, late of said county, de-
ceased and that 10 o'clock a. m. Of
the 18th day of March, 1913, has
been fixed for the probate of said
will, at which time you can appear
at the Court House in said county
and show cause, if any there be, why
said Will should not be admitted to
probate.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said court at Leon, Iowa, this
4th day of February, 1913.
E. f. BECK,
23-3t Clerk of District Court.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06
Notice of Final Report.

In the Dicstrict Court of Iowa in
and for Decatur county.
No. 1717, Probate.
In the estate of J. NJ. Edwards.
deceased.
TO Louisa Edwards, Neumon Ed
wards and Della Coin
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned Patrick Griffin. Admin
istrator Of the estate Of j. NJ. Ed
wards, deceased, has filed his final
report therein in the office of the
Clerk of the District Court in and
for the aforesaid county. and has
asked for its approval and his dis
charge from further duty or respon.
sibility therein. and that said report
and application for discharge viii
come on for hearing before the
, Court aforesaid at Leon, Iowa, or
the 18th day of March, A. D., 1913
at which time and place you car
appear and show cause, if any YOU
nave, why said final report should
not be approved and the undersigned
discharged from any further duty
and responsibility.
PATRICK GRIFFIN,
2o-4t Administrator
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06
7. O. WOODMANSEE
j. W. ROWELL
Dentist
DIR. G. H. MITCHELL

DIR. G. H. MITCHELL
surgery and Obstetrics . Specially.
B;ggs block, Leon, Iowa. Phone
Is. All calls answered day or night.
Hours y to a p. M. and to 8 on
L Saturday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

You'll get a 10 per cent discount
at AZ NJ. Casters cash store.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06
Lady Wanted

To introduce our very complete
spring line of beautiful wool suit
ings, wash fabrics, fancy waistings,
silks, ETC., handkerchicfs, laces and
petticoats. All up to date New York
City patterns. Finest line on the
market. Dealing direct with the
mills you will find our prices low.
Profits $1,000 to $4,000 weekly.
Samples and instructions packed in
neat sample case shipped express
prepaid. No money required. Ex-
elusive territory. Write for particu-
lars. Be first to apply. Standard
Dress Goods Co., Desk 61O, Bing-
hamton, N. 7.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06
Highway Notice.

70 Sarah A. Redman, w. 3. Red
man, Margaret A. DeKalb. II. D..
DeKalb, Rose Landes, L. J. Lam
des, Helen VanW erden, l.. p Van
Werden, Lillian ID. Sharp and Ed
II. Sharp and all whom it may
concern:
view, and if required, to locate a
highway, commencing at the south
east corner of the northwest one
fourth of the northwest one-fourth
of section 33, township 70, range &c,
west of the 9Th p. NJ. in Decatur
County, running thence north to
Burlington r. r. right-of-way, 400
feet south of the northeast corner Of
tho northwest one-fourth of the
southwest one-fOurth, section 2S,
township 10, range 90. west of the
9th p. NJ, thence in a northeas,erIy
direction along east side of said
right-of-way to public highway 80
feet east of where said public high.
way crosses said railroad on over
head bridge in the southeast one
fourth of northwest One-fOurth OF
section %. township 10, range 26,
west of the 9Th p. NJ, said highway
in section 81 running through the
land of Sarah \. Redman and in
section IS running through the
lands of b. -. Dekalb, as they APP
pear upon the tra nSter books in the
auditors office in the court house
in Leon, Iowa. and terminating at
point as described above, has report
cd III favor OF the establishment
thereof, and all objections thereto
or claims for damages must be filed
in the auditors Office on or before
noon OF the 18th day Of March, \.
d., 1913. or such highway will be
to.
r. r. McLAUGHLIN,
lscHlD Auditor of Decatur
2i-it County, Iowa
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

in and for Decatur county, an instru-
ment in writing. purporting to be the
last will and testament Of Adam
MrLain, late of said county, de-
ceased, and that o'clock p. NJ. Of
the 18TH day of March, 1913, has
been fixed for the probate Of said
will. at which time you can appear
at the Court House in said county
and show cause, if any there be, why
said Will should not be admitted to
probate.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said court at Leon, Iowa, this
18th day Of January, 1913.
|. (Seal) T.. E. BECK,
PAST Clerk Of District Court
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06
\ Wyoming Letter.

Wauneta, Wyoming, Jan. 81, 1913.
Editor Reporter: will write a
few lines this morning from. WINDY
Wyoming' to let our old time friends
in Iowa know that Wyoming is get
ting to the front. We certainly had
a "booster'' crop for 1912. and the
threshing machine is still hummlng,
heard the whistle this morning OF
one of our near neighbors, who is
finishing threshing some late oats
that he cut after he threshed his ear
lier crop. He had nearly 5000
bushels of grain. We threshed IN
October and had about $500 bushels
of grain. Such an immense crop or
grain has made the price very low.
/ see in the Cheyenne paper that
Pine Bluffs Ca small station east OF
Burns, our shipping point) has al
ready shipped out 1000 cars OF
grain which is more than any other
station west of Omaha has done.
Macaroni wheat does we'll here as
ours made 80 bushels per acre. The
farmers are holding meetings along
the proposed route of new rail-
road running out from Cheyenne
northeast up through this country
which they believe will 60 through
in another year and would sure raise
the price of the land.
Lots of people arc proving up on
their land. Only few are leav-
ing. Another crop or two such as
we have had this year and last will
nut most of the homesteaders on
easy street. We have had a very
good winter, only a very long one
as we had IS inch snow the l4th
of September, and the thermometer
registered % to 20 below the first
of this month and we've mad so
much wind, that's Mornings pc
setting sim" AS we live on the ola
Cheyenne and Black Hills trail and
have the Wauneta Postoffice at our
ranch the stage stops twice a day 50
we don't get very lonesome. NOT
long ago on opening roll OF papers
we found had been sent to our oflce
when they should have gone to Silver
Crown and they were for a bunch
of old Iowa boys, the CARRIERS and
Johns.
The old Reporter doesn't fail many
times to reach us on Friday and al
though there are so many new
names in it / look it all over and
find lots of people mentioned that
used to know and many times let
tiers from those who like myself have
moved away, yet are real glad to get
the news from Iowa.
AS my letter is getting somewhat
lengthy will ring off for the present
and will write and tell you when we
get the new railroad.
Respectfully,
Mrs. Mary Newman.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06
The Glorious Future.

Thank heaven my children Will
soon be old enough to take care OF
themselves"
do you expect to give up working
when they are able to do that?"
NO; but l am looking forward to
the time when I can use some of my
earnings to have my trousers pressed
and get my hair cut at least once
every three months"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06
Notice of ProbatinG Will.

To All Whom it May Concern:
You are hereby notified that there
is now on file in the office of the
Clerk Of the District Court of Iowa,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-02-06

Itching, bleeding, protruding or
blind piles have yielded to Doan's
Ointment, SOC at all drug stores.