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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19
sunny Side.

A. E. Woodmansee attended K, p
lodge Thursday evening.
Len Hamilton and Ed Rumle.
went to DeKalb Thursday where the.
purchased a fine thoroughbred Shor
Horn Bull of Harvey Dekalb.
Mrs Willard Gardner and Mrs
Bessie Little and little son Gardner
of Leon, were out fishing in High
bank Thursday.
A couple of prairie schooner:
have been camping near Sunny Side
school house from Tuesday unit
Saturday afternoon. They stopped
off for rest. The party consisted
of seven in number. They We're OF
their way to Denver, Colorado.
Floyd Rumley was caller at J
c. Hull's Friday evening.
Mrs. Bertha Strange and Mrs
Sam Southern visited Grandma Rum.
ley Monday afternoon. .
Mrs. Ed Rumley and Mrs. Bertha
Strange and daughter Anna called
on Mrs. John S. Gardner Tuesday
afternoon. .s~
Warren Rumley spent Tuesday at.
ternoon with his little friend Amy
Hull.
Sam Southern and family called
on Jeff Strange and family Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Ed Rumley and son Warren
and Amy Hull visited Mrs. c. S
Rumley, of north of Leon, Wednes-
day.
The Misses Hazel and Velma Nc
Kay, of Leon, spent Friday night
with Frances and Anna Strange.
Miss Iowa Hammer, of near Deca,
tur. visited at the Rumley home
from Saturday until Monday after.
noon. Miss Hammer attended the In
stitute in Leon the past week.
Quite a number from this vicin-
ity attended the School Rally Day
and Flag day in Leon Saturday.
Floyd Rumley has been working
for Mr.. Len Hamilton the past week
Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Ash, of Deca-
tur. were Sunday afternoon callers
at c. V. Maynard's.
Jeff Strange and wife and daugh-
ter Anna were Leon callers Friday
afternoon.
This neighborhood has been well
represented at Bro. Ronk's revival
services which are being held at the
Tabernacle in Leon the past week.
Sam Southern and family spent a
couple of days camping and fishing
near the Springer bridge on Grand
River the past week.
The Misses cora and Lima Cum.
Minis are attending Normal Institute
and Summer School.
Miss Thelma woodmansee and
Miss Jennie Ross attended club meet.
ing in Leon Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. c. S. Rumley and mother
Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley were bust
ness callers at Sunny Side farm Fri
day afternoon.
Floyd Rumley was a Davis City
caller Sunday afternoon.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19
Leroy.

Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Stubs who
have been visiting relatives here re-
turned to their home in Grand Riv-
er Thursday.
Mrs. Rosa Clark and little son De-
Fyoe came Thursday to visit friends
and relatives.
Elizabeth Culver returned Thurs.
day from Cambria where she has
been visiting the past week with hel
sister, Mrs. Emily Bond.
Mrs. Sam Overholtzer returned
Thursday from Humeston where she
had been visiting relatives.
Mrs. Day and daughters Vivian
and Mary were passengers for Hum
eston Saturday to visit her brother
Miss Nora Kello of Allerton, visit
ed with her brother John and friend:
| a few days last week.
&. A. Silvers was called to Mis-
souri, last week by the death OF hi:
brother
Mr.. Lyman Young went to Ole
| vein Saturday to visit relatives.
| Ceagil Kello of Allerton, came
Saturday to visit his brother John.
| Lois Sherron Of Weldon came
Saturday to spend Sunday with hel
cousin, Madaline Silvers.
Mr.. and Mrs Amos Baker wen
Ito Van Vert Saturday to visit hel
brother, Mr.. Brown and family.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19
Lanes Marmion
9287, (24836)

~
Lanes Marmion was bred by Geo.
Godber, Patterson, Chesterfield, Eng.
land, and was imported in August,
1907. Recorded in stud books of
the Shire Horse Society of London,
England, and the American Shire
Horse Association of Chicago, ILL.
nois.
He is dark brown, with stripe
down face and has three white legs.
Weighs 1000 pounds. sE
State Certificate No. 413O.
The pedigree. of the stallion Lanes.
Marmion, owned by Sigler & Norton,
Leon, Decatur county, Iowa, describ-
ed as follows: registered in the
American and the English Shire Stud
Book; breed. Shire; Stud Book No.
92S7 (24S36); color, dark brown;
marks, stripe down face, three white
legs; foaled in the year 1904, has
State Department of Agriculture and
it is hereby certified that the said
stallion has been registered in the
proper Stud Book duly recognized
by the Iowa Department of Agricul-
ture, Des Moines, Iowa, and has
been certified to by DR.. F. G. Hume,
NoCSTlAhIl tu, DIS UciuS lIeo lIOul
hereditary, infectious, contagious or
transm issible disease or unsoundness
specified in the Stallion Law Dat,
ed at Des Moines, Iowa, this 5th day
of june 1913. A. r. Corey, Secre-
tary Iowa State Department of Ag-.
ricu Hure.
Lanes Marmion will make the sea-
son of 1913 as follows: Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday at Sigler's.
barn in Leon, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday at S. w. Robbins barn in
Decatur City !,
TERMS: $500 to insure colt to
stand and suck Parties parting
with mares or removing from coun-2
| ty, forfeit the insurance and same
4 becomes due and payable at once.
Mare and: colt will be held for SER
vice fee. Care will betaken to pre-
vent accidents, but will not be re-
sponsible should any occur.
SIGLER & NORTON,
Owners and. Keepers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19
Harold Denmark
lR1R


The pure bred saddle stallion
Harold Denmark, was bred by R. w.
Crumpacker, of Unionville, Mo. Sir,
ed by Cleburne Denmark 2O96 out.
of Toots 6S64. He is a beautiful
dark grey, foaled in 1906, and for
style and action has no superior. He.
won third prize at the Iowa State
Fair in 1912, in a field of fifteen.
State Certificate No. 69S7.
The pedigree OF the stallion Har-,
ola Denmark, owned by Sigler &
Norton, Leon, Decatur county, Iowa,
described as follows: Registered in
the American Saddle Horse Breed
ers Register; breed, saddle horse;
stud book No. 4316; color, dark
grey; foaled in the year 1906, has
been examined in the office of the
Iowa State Department of Agricul-.
ture and it is hereby certified that
the said stallion has been registered
in the proper stud book duly recog-
nized by the Iowa Department of
Agriculture, Des Moines, Iowa, and
has been certified to by DR.. F. G.
Hume, veterinarian, as. being free
from hereditary, infectious, contag-
ious or transmissible disease or un-,
soundness specified in the stallion
law. Dated at Des Moines, this 18th
day of May, 1913. A. r. Corey, Sec
rotary of Iowa State Department of
Agriculture.
Harold Denmark will make the
season of 1913 at Sigler's barn in,
Leon, Iowa.
PERMISSIBLE to insure colt to
stand and suck. Parties parting
with mares or removing from coun-,
ty, forfeit the insurance and same.
becomes due and payable at once.
Mare and colt will be held for SER
vice fee. Care will betaken to pre-
vent accidents, but will not be re-
sponsible should any occur.
SIGLER & NORTON, Il.
Owners and Keepers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19
Missouri Bill and Jack

will make the season. of 1913 at the
Jan Cesler barn in Leon, Iowa, with
AXES horses.
Missouri Bill is one Of the best
Jacks in the country. He was sired
by Leazenby's imported jack, foaled
in 1909. Is brown ir color, with
white points, has extra good bone
and a good big foot and ears. STANDS
l5A hands high, and is a dandy
good one.
Parties from a distance wishing to
breed to this jack can come ana see
Missouri Bill, and if they don't say
he is the best jack they have ever
seen in Decatur county we Will pay
them for their trip to see him.
The jack named Jack is black IN
color, with white points, stands 10
hands high, and has proved to be
the best breeder that ever stood IN
Iowa. Vrett at Decatur City has
team out of this jack, two and three
year olds, which will weigh better
than 5000 pounds.
State Certificate No. 725.
The jack named Missouri Bill,
owned by VIM. Axes, Leon, Decatur
county, Iowa, described as follows:
Color, brown; markings, mealy nose,
eyes and belly; foaled in the year
1909. is not of pure breeding and is,
therefore, not eligible to registry in
any stud book recognized by the
Iowa Department of Agriculture, but
has been certified to by DR.. +. u.
Hume, veterinarian, as being Tree
from hereditary, infectious, contag-
ious or transmissible disease or un-
soundness as specified in the stallion
law. Dated at Des Moines, iowa,
this 9Th day of May, 1913. A. II.
Corey, Secretary Iowa State Depart
ment of Agriculture.
State Certificate No. 476.
The jack named Jack, owned by
VIM. Axes, Leon, Decatur county,
Iowa, described as follows: Color,
black; markings, white points; foal-
ed in the year 1901, is not of pure
breeding, and is, therefore, no, ELI
gible to registry in any stud book
recognized by the Iowa Department
of Agriculture, but he's been certi-
fed to by DR.. F. G. Hume, veterinar-
ian, as being free from hereditary,
infectious, contagious or transmits
sible disease or unsOundr>ss specl-
fed in the stallion law. Dated at
Des Moines, Iowa, this 9th day OF
| May, 1913. A. r. Corey, Secretary
! Iowa Department of Agriculture.
TERMS:-$15.OO for Missouri
Bill, $1,000 for Jack, to insure colt
to stand and suck. Care will be
taken to prevent accidents, but will
not be responsible should any occur.
Parties disposing of mares or taking
them from the county, forfeit the in
surance and the fee becomes due and
payable at once.
II. AXES and w. III. AXES,
Owners and Keepers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19
White Oak.

Mr.. and Mrs. S. l.. Scott left Fri
day for Ottumwa and Charlton to
visit relatives.
Misses Ruth Wagner and Mabel
Scott went to Marengo Saturday for
a three weeks vacation visiting
relatives.
Lincoln Williams and family Wis
TIED Sunday with II. w. Jones and
family.
Miss Edith Shields went to Grand
River Friday for few days visit
with relatives.
Miss Elizabeth Jones went Satur-
day to visit few days with her
friend Isabel Hastings near Weldon.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. Brant, also
Paul Jordan, of Leroy, visited Sun
day at the H. S. Miller home.
Miss Edith Shield entertained 20
of her friends last Tuesday evening
in honor of her 18th birthday.
Light refreshments of peanut sand
wiches, fruit salad, pickles and two
kinds OF cake were served. All de-
parted at late hour wishing Miss
Shields many more happy birthdays
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bay and sister
of Garden Grove, visited over Sun
day at the James Bay home.
George Myers met with quite a
painful accident last Friday evening.
One of his calves became fastened in
the wire fence and in trying to loos-
Ell it got one of his fingers torn off
near the second joint. 1t is too bad
for Mr.. Myers as this is the busy
timo of the year and he can not use
his hand for some time.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Mil
Ter, a baby boy, Thursday, June -.
Mr.. and Mrs. SIM Evans and chill
dren visited Sunday at the Victor
Hull home near High Point.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19
Ulcers and Skin Troubles.

If you are suffering with any old,
eczema or other skin troubles, get
a box Of Bucklin's Arnica Salve and
you will get relief promptly. Mrs
Bruce Jones, of Birmingham, Ala,
suffered from an ugly ulcer for nine
months and Bucklen's Arnica Salve
cured her in two weeks. Will help
you. Only Csc. Recommended BY
Bell & Robinson: x sss3
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19
Center Township.

Clabe Brazelton and Mr.. Ammon
have built a garage on the Ed Crees
farm. ..as '& z
Charley Thomas has new barn
being built of good material on ce-
ment foundations.
The late frOsts damaged the corn.
There is some good rye fields in
Center.
The wheat is heading out in this
vicinity.
Several farmers north of Leon de-
livered wool at Leon Thursday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19

@ To whom it may concern:-This
lis to certify that my barn burned
May 10. 1913, also my grain, hay,
harness and one horse. l had the
same insured in the Iowa State In
surance Co. by Novia S. Beavers,
and the same has been settled in full
$4,000 to my entire satisfaction.
This company paid me in full for
barn and contents burned on the
same foundation, May 10, 1911. .
John A. Adair.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-26
British War Office Victim of
Fake Inventors Amusing Hoax

Subsequent inquiries which I have
made show how he obtained the money,
and that brings me TO his alleged inven-
tion. He first got IN touch with two
young men who lent him $4,000 on the
strength Of the story OF his wonderful
wireless device and Of his wish 10 make
further experiments. He was also
promised $4,000 for one-third share Of
his invention when It was perfected.
Shortly after this Gray got In touch
with the War Office. and finally. IN re-
spouse to a telegram from the War o.
fice' which was anxious for his prom.
ised demonstrations without furtbar
delay Gray sent box to the hangar
allotted TO him. It was carefully az
amined l believe. when he failed TO an
pear in person, and proved 10 be o1iv
a box OF sand.
From what ! have discovered since
believe Gray mad no intention OF at
tempting TO give a demonstration 20
the war Office. but was simply making
use OF the War Offices offer 20 rea1.
sure the person who had offered biv,
the $4,000. feel positive he had no
knowledge OF wireless telegraphy. He
certainly could neither transmit nor re-
ceive message"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-26
Charlotte BrOnte ShOwS
Romance in Her Letters
Four Hitherto Unpublished MsSveS to Professor Constann
Heger, Presented to British Museum Reveal That Her
Attachment for Him Was Not Reciprocated
HIS ANSWER WAS TO REPRovE HER FOR WRITING

greatest self-reveiation OF all In Il Char
lotte Bronte writes
: Day and night find neither rest nor
peace. II 1 sleep am disturbed by tor
menting dreams. in which I see you,
always severe. always grave. always in
| censed against me.
Forgive me, then. Monsieur. II I adopt
the course OF writing to you again How
can endure life IL I make no effort 70
ease its sufferings?
Il know that you will be irrftated when
you read this letter. You will say once
more that 1 am hysterical-that have
black thoughts &C. So he G.. N,-e'-.--
1 do not seek to Justify myself: I submit
to every sort OF reproach. All I know in
that cannot, that 1 MlII not. Iesl.i
myself 10 lose wholly the friendship Of
my master l would rather suffer tha
greatest physical pain than always have
my heart lacerated by smarting regrets
IL my master withdraws his friendship
from me entirely shall be altogether
without hope: IL he gives me a little
just httle-I shall be satisfied-happy:
L shall have reason FOR living on; for
working.
Monsieur, the poor have not need OF
much to sustain them-they ask only for
the crumbs that fall from the rich mems
tables. But II they are refused the crumbs
they die Of hunger. Nor do I. either. need
much affection from those love. should
not know what TO do with a friendship en-
tire and complete-I am not used TO IL But
you showed me OF yore a little interest.
when l was your pupil in Brussels. and
hold on TO the maintenance Of that little
INTEREST," hold on to II as I would hold on
to life.
You will tell me. perhaps. I take not the
slightest interest in you. Mile. Charlotte.
You are no longer an inmate Of my house:
have forgotten you
Well. Monsieur. tell me so frankly. II
Will be shock to me. 1t matters not II
would be less dreadful than uncertainty.
Il shall not reread this letter. I send IL
as have written it Nevertheless. I have
a hidden consciousness that some people.
cold and common sense. In reading IL
would say. She is talking nonsense
N 0'"he0 AASS Oh SuCh peiSohS IN
no other way than by wishing them one
single day OF the torments which have
suffered for eight months. We should then
see If they would not talk nonsense. too.
"One suffers in science so long as one
has the strength so to do. and when that
strength gives out one speaks without too
carefully measuring ones words.
Il wish Monsieur happiness and pros
perity."
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-26
Especial Dispatch. }

LONDON, August %.
TIN amusing hoax has been perpetrated
Aon the War Office by James Douglas
Gray, alias "McCallum Mhor," the
motor laird who claimed to have in
vented a wireless device by means Of which
the operator. working from the ground,
could at once cut off the ignition of the
engine Of an aeroplane thousands OF feet
above.
So impressed was the War Office with
his idea, which promised TO put the air
fleets of the world at the mercy Of Great
Britain, that 1t placed a hangar. an aero
plane and dirigible at Grays disposal on
Salisbury Plain.
Then came the awakening. Gray sent
TO the hangar box which was supposed
to contain his wonderful apparatus. When
it was opened. owing to the inventors"
non-arrival, II was found to be full OF
sand. There is now a hue and cry" after
Gray.
Mr.. II B. Petit, OF Boundary road. Hol-
land Park, who Is fully acquainted with
Gray's exploits. tells remarkable story.
Gray" ne says..''was employed by me
as filter at Willesden In the summer OF
1911, but he had TO be dismissed owing
to the theft OF a workmanE bicycle.
read Of his marvellous adventures IN the
spring Of 1872 when. masQuerading as
'McCallum Mhor.' he toured the country in
hired automobiles and defrauded hotel
proprietors from Inverness 10 Folkestone
by means OF worthless checks. and OF his
sentence at Edinburgh in May. 1872. to
nine months Imprisonment, but heard
nothing more OF him until this year. when
met him at Brooklands-
He told me OF HIS prison life. showed
me an aviators certificate in his name
from the Aero Club OF France-how he.
obtained II I cannot imagine. for he
could no more lily tnan a horse-and
bought an automobile from me for
S1.375 cash.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-26
"KidLet'' Blooms
in Poetic Verse
Miss Victoria Sackville-WeSt Publishes
a Poem Dedicated to a Mys-
ferrous "R. O."
Especial Dispatch.)
LoNDoN, August %.


MISS VICTORIA SACKVILLE
WEST, who figured as "Kidlet" IN
the recent great legal battle for the
fortune of Sir John Murray Scott. has bios
somed out as a poetesS in the August
number of the English Review. Her poem
is called Sweet Spirit of the Night" 1t is
dated Florence. 1912, and dedicated to "R
c." The verses run in part
Thou did'st pause
Shy. timid. on the threshold. though there
laughed
The mischief in thy roguish eyes, then soft
Thou cross't the room on tip-toe to my bed
One finger on thy lip
Cautious To make no slip
1 saw the wreath OF vine leaves on they
head.
Then with a twirl
Thinking I slept,
And a joyous whirl
Into a dance leapt
The careless spirit too long restrained:
The purest dancing,
Feet sometimes CHANGING
To touch the ground;
A 1.-THE body twisting and coiling,
Advancing. recoiling.
Thou vert too pure for Bacchus. and too
young for Pan.
What vert thou? IN the daytime dost thou
sleep
In a cave
Like a grave
Till the moon calls thee. in the sleep of
man.
To thy light revels through the sombre
deep?
The fount OF Joy was bubbling in thine
eyes,
Dancing was IN thy feet,
AID on thy lips a laugh that never dies,
Unutterably sweet
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-26
Too Many Heroes in China,
Complains Yuan Shih-kQi
President of Disturbed Republic Says SelfApponted Cou
rageous Ones Act Like Spoiled Children, and to Take
Care of Them Is Too Much for an Ordinary Mortal.


tunity for us TO rejuvenate China 1 VIII
assemble all the talented men Of the ma
ton to carry on the work Although 1t is
difficult, firmly believe that 1t is possible
to save the situation
The Wish of Yuan.
Il am old. What does a man OF sixty
desire more? But I cannot bear TO see a
nation with 5000 years of history go to
pieces II am alive will not allow rebels
to have their way 1 will work with the
cooperation OF my countrymen 10 restore
peace and consolidate the Republic 50 that
may retire and live In some quiet valley
TO watch the prosperity of the nation
This is truly my original ambition"
The mandate quoted was issued as a
supplement to one published a few days
ago to explain the reason the President
advanced Northern troops into Kiangsi. II
is this act which precipitated the present
rising.
Those troops were moved into Kiangsi.
says the President TO protect the people
The then Tutuh OF Kiangsi urged that
NANCPo W sent On dCCOuHL OF uneaS1neSS
among the local forces-and in response
to his request the Vice President acted.
The President refutes the idea that the
troops entered from several directions and
ravaged the country. rs was stated by
those causing the uprising, and takes the
opportunity to mention that even II wrong
had been done it was for Parliament to
take the matter up. 1t was not compe-
tent for few to take the law into their
own hands to punish those whom they
chose TO declare responsible for wrong
actions.
incidentally he refers to his ideas on
the question OF the Presidency by say
ing:-
The formal Presidential election will
be held before long. Although may be
I would never have recourse to
force OF arms to contend for power and
my own interests. In fact. there have
been no powers or interests for me-noth-
ing but difficulties and distress in the posi-
ton fill"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-26
Soup and Toes
Test Manners
Odd Experiments Alleged To Have
Been Made in Question of
British Apologies.
Especial Dispatch.l
LONDON, August %.

LONDON, August 30
4 ORD ROSEBERRY'S recent lament OF
the decay or manners has ied an in
- vestigator TO test the question: by the
laboratory method. and he has made the
following report to the Daily Express =
After a careful and prolonged examina-
ton, have great pleasure in certifying
that the general civility Of London is we'll
maintained. and might even be said to show
marked Improvement over the figures for
the corresponding week last year.
The first Londoner subjected TO obser-
walton was a top-hatted city man In a Liv-
erpool street omnibus. Applying the tread
ing-on-the-toe test, the operator exerted a
twenty eight pound pressure on this mans
patent leather shoes, and in response 10 the
apology. 'Awfully sorry was graufied TO
hear the subject come triumphantly out OF
the ordeal by his immediate answer, MOI
at all, not at ALL
"On leaving the omnibus the manners
tester increased the pressure to forty
pounds on the same toe, but the experiment
could hardly be classed as successful
Using the reverse test-that OF allowing
the toes TO be trodden upon-in ten cases OF
which record was taken nine persons
said 'Awfully sorry and the tenth de-
clared that persons with feet like that
ought to sit on the top Of the omnibus and
hang their legs over the rails.
The soup test as applied at several
West End restaurants. yielded equally sue
cessful results. the percentage Of noise 10
the quantity OF soup consumed being
slightly under three per cent These fig
ures. however. are only approximate. as
some diners were eating soup in dis
tinctly foreign accent. and these cases
could not properly be included IN the Eng
liSh total
Children in all parts OF the city show a
well marked desire 10 be polite, and there
Is distinct Improvement in the manner Of
asking for cigarette cards"