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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
Alfalfa Day ut Leon Saturday,
June 7th.

The Decatur County Improved
Live. Stock Breeders Association are
making big preparations for Alfalfa
Day at Leon on Saturday, June 7th.
Prof. A. M. TenEyck, an alfalfa
specialist from Kansas will make an
address, being sent to Leon by the
Agricultural Extension Department
of the Iowa State College at Ames
have tried the experiment of rails
ing alfalfa will also tell of their sue
cess, and much interest is being
manifested in the question of raising
alfalfa in Iowa.
The Decatur County Improved
Live Stock Breeders Association, the
Exchange Nation Bank and the
Farmers & Traders State Bank are
ea4.ss offering prizes of 81 for first.
RI cents for second, SO cents for
third and 25 cents for fourth prize
for the best samples of alfalfa grown
in Decatur county, the samples to
be not less than four inches in diam
eter. Every farmer in Decatur coun-
ty who has patch of alfalfa should
bring in a sample and win some of
these prizes. >m
The business men of Leon are also
going to do their share in making
the meeting a big success and will
offer a big list of articles of mer-
chandise at extra low prices for that
day only, SO that any farmer who
comes to attend the meeting can
make a days salary in the saving
he effects in buying merchandise in
Leon.@ Watch for the big announce
mento of the special alfalfa day bar
gains which will be published in the
papers of next week.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
Davis City is Going to Pave.

The hustling little town of Davis
City is waking up. They recently
installed electric lights in their town,
several new brick business blocks are
being erected, and now they. are go
ing to do some paving. They have
circulated a petition which has
been signed by a majority of the
property owners and propose to pave
their main street from the Grand
River bridge to the depot 1t will
be fine improvement for Davis City,
and should be pushed along. Davis
City will be the smallest town in the
state of Iowa to boast of having paw
ed streets.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
Improving the Cemetery.

The Leon Cemetery Association is
certainly to be commended for the
splendid work they are doing in the
way of beautifying the cemetery It
scarcely looks like the same place.
The grass has been cut, lots seeded,
flowers and shrubs planted and cin-
der walks and drives built. II you
have not already become a member
'of the; association you should remit
your dollar ct once and be enrolled.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22

s,, One of the important new laws
which were passed by the last legis-
,Iature and which is now in force, re-
quires all school treasurers to de-
sposit all school funds in an approved
bank to draw interest at the rate Of
not less than per cent per annum
on 80 per cent Of the daily balances,
the, interest to be payable monthly.
The new law also abolished the sal
sries OF school treasurers, and these
officials are now compelled to serve
without salary. s3 sss
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
A Big Sale.

The administrators sale held At
the farm of the late Willis c.. Wood
ard, northwest of Decatur City, last
Thursday, was big one, the auc-
tioneers selling almost $4,000
worth of personal property during
the day. Everything sold brought
good prices, especially the cattle. i
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
TO The Customers Of Tho Leon Flee
AZ E trio Co.

Owing to our increased business
we find it necessary to ask our GUS
toners to call at our office, first
door north of the post Office, to set
tie their light bills.
Each customer will receive state
ment of his account on or before the
fifth of each month, when these bills
are due. IF NOT PAID before the
18th, the service will be discontin-
ued.
This does not apply to those who
pay at the banks.
Leon Electric Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
Recital.

Prof. Manley will give voice and
piano recital Tuesday evening, June
3rd, at S:15 o'clock at the M. q.
church, assisted by Mrs. Russell
3Manley accompanies, and an outTNf-
town reader. Admission, ~ and 25
cents, g,s ls ,sss
watch for program next week
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
City Federation Meeting Postponed

The City Federation meeting
which was to have been held last
week, was postponed until next
Thursday, May 22nd, at the P. E. O.
hall, at 2:30 o'clock, The program
will be given by the Amicitia, Soro-
sis and Social Circle Clubs. A full
attendance is requested as there will
be business of Importance to be
transacted
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
Death of T. A. Stebbins.
Thomas A. Ste

Thomas A. Stebbins, some years
ago a prominent farmer and busi-
ness man of Decatur City, died at
his home in Ft. Madison on last
Thursday Mr.. Stebbins had been
engaged in. the implement business
at Ft. Madison. His body was taken
to Keokuk Friday and placed in the
city vault until a private vault can
be erected in the Ft. Madison ceme-
torv 49, =.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
Gammill-Tish.

Mr.. Frank G. Gammill and Miss
Lisa Tish, from the. vicinity Of Line
vile, were married at the clerks
Office in this city Tuesday, the cere-
tmony being performed by Mayor O..
w. Foxworthy. The ha npy couple res
turned to the home Of II, q groom the
same day, and their fsi EsSd e1tepd
s.sss
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
COMMENCEMENT WEEK
BaCCalasreate Sermon will be on
Sunday, Commencement Wed
nesda,, Glass Play Thursday.

The commencement exercises OF
the Leon High School will be held
next week. The baccalaureate SER
mon will be preached at the opera
house on Sunday evening by Rev
Jas. w. Johnson, pastor of the
Christian church. g-r-s
On Wednesday evening the COM
mencement will be held at the opera
house, when eighteen graduates
comprising the class of '13 will re-
ceive their diplomas. The class will
wear the regulation cap and gown
and have adopted as their motto
''Grit Wins" For class colors they
selected Purple and Gold and for the
class flower the yellow rose. The
tickets for the commencement exer-
cises have been placed at Is and 20
cents. The following is the pro-
gram:
Music High School Mixed Chorus
Morning Invitation'-Vea
Offertory. Rev. C. w. Reeder
Music. Girls Chorus
merry June"-Vincent
Address. Rev. Geo. P. Magill
Music. ..... 80. Boys Chorus
In Old Madrid"-Trotere
Presentation of Diplomas. ......
Capt D. Brown
Glass Song
Benediction. Rev. Guy J. Fansher
The class play ''The End of The
Rainbow" will be presented at the
opera house on Thursday evening,
May 29th. 1t was originally plan
ned to present the class play on
Tuesday evening, but as this conflict
ed with the visit of the Burlington
jobbers to this city, the date of the
class play was changed until Thurs
day evening Admission to the class
play will be 25 and 35 cents. The
play will be staged under the direc-
tion of Mrs. Marion Wasson, of
Davenport, and the following is the
cast: :
Robert Preston, A Lawyer. .....
...... Guy McMorris
Douglas Brown, A Football Player
..... -. Reese Gittinger
Dick Preston, The Groom.
~. :. -. =. . Chester Jenkins
Stanley Palmer, Hawkins the
Butler,"... Claude Ogilvie
Ted Whitney, Capt. of the Var
Jack Austin, Preston's Secretary
. .
Marion Dayton, A Ward OF Pres
Nellie Preston, A Bride Edna Brann
Louise Ross, Known as Miss Cray
SON. .s.ss.s J, ~. LYDIA Stephens
Phyliss Lane, A Football Enthusi-
ast. -. -. go. Nellie Pullin
Kathleen Knox, Chairman of Rush
ing Committee. Florence Coffin
The Imp, A Freshman -.
........ 8. =. Josephine Beavers
Emilye Elliot, with conscience
........ -. T.. Grace CARRIER
Jane, A Maid. ). Flossie Easter
Mrs. Brown. ...... :. Gretchen Hurst
OF the "Theta Phi" Polly Price,
Elsie Mitchell-Elsa Earnest,
Letha Bunch-Marjorie Arnold,
Elma Forbes-Marie Swift, Dor
l.. othy Hull-Molly Bruce, Marea
Grogan.
There are eighteen in the gradual
ing class this year; twelve young
ladies and six boys, ten of them TAX
ing the Latin course and eight the
English course. The following are
the graduates:
Latin Course F. Ackerley,
Josephine Beavers, Edna Lenore
Brann, Nella Caine, Florence Coffin,
Flossie F. Easter, D. Reese Gittinger,
Marea Grogan, Chester L. Jenkins,
Claude G. Ogilvie. 1884,.
English Course-Mildred May
Avery, Letha P. Bunch, Grace Eula
CARRIER, Geneva Elsie Mitchell, Guy
l.. McMorris,; Elinor Blair Pullin,
Bryant 0. Sears, LYDIA Stephens
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
Attention.!

Those having cut flowers that wish
to donate to the G. A. R. for decora-
tion please bring or send them to
the G.. A. r. hall over the postoffice
early Friday a.. M, May 30th.
Committee
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
Flowers for Decoration Day.

II you want flowers for Decoration
Day. place your order with o. b.
Hull early, as flowers will be hard to
( get ct the last minute sss.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-05-22
School Funds Must Draw Interest.

Decatur County, Iowa
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
The Treaty of Ten Tsin
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

TIME Treaty of Tien--tsin
concluded SO years ago, will
probably loom large in the
history of the time to come. very
much larger than it does to- day
1t was about the year 1917 (the
year of the great Reformation
that China began to be vaguely
known to Europeans. The Jesuits
appeared among the Celestials
about 1925, and in 1890 the Eng
lish figure among the Foreign
Devils" The Englishman is moth
ing if not commercial, and,
thinking that he saw a good thing
in opium, began a quarrel with
the Chinaman over that drug that
lasted for years; of which, so far
as the honor of England is con-
cerned, the least said the better.
In 1857 took place the war be-
tween England and China, which
bHu6u Win liAS lONdl dSSLI uSIloil
of the Chinese fleet by Commo-
dores Elliot and Seymour, and the
perpetual establishment of John
Bull in the island of Hongkong.
The Treaty of Tien tsin. which
clinched the war of 1857, created
q new departure on the part of
the quaint and ancient people of
the Flowery Kingdom. Among its
provisions we're: The establish
ment Of ambassadorships at both
courts, a larger freedom of trade,
the federation of the Christian re-
ligion, a revision OF the tariff. and
the guarantee that the term bar
barian" should no longer be ap-
Piled to Europeans.
With this Treaty of Tien-t sin
begins Modern China. But lit
tie more than half a century has
elapsed-an insignificant period
in the evolution of a great ma
items life-and yet we already
have some pretty strong intima-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03

tons of the possibilities of the
future. Beyond a doubt it be-
hooves the white man the world
over TO prepare for those posi-
bilities, if we may not say proba-
bilities.
The yellow men number at
least 5O0,OOO,OOO. From the jap
anese we learn what $4,000, 600 Of
yellow men are able to do; and
from that we are in a position to
guess with fair degree of ao-
euracy what 500, 100000 of yellow
men can do If fully prepared.
With thousands of miles of Pa
cific seacoast, does it not he
hcove the United States to look
well to the ways and means of its
supremacy on the great Western
waters?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
:: How to Deal With Girls Love Fancies ::
To Oppose Cu Call ay Fatal as Experience Has Swn Says DOotyDx

course upon his weakness or his
faults. Make fun of them. Point
out his little eccentricities Of
manner or speech. and if you can
enlist the assistance of some
friend in this, all the better A
young girl can stand anything but
ridicule.
She will defy you and marry a
drunkard, or gambler, or a man
with a hectic past, but she will
quail before the knowledge that
people laugh at a man for eating
peas with his knife, or using bad
grammar, or being a rube
Another effective way of break
ing off an undesirable match is to
send the girl away on a trip or
to make good long visit. Pro-
pinquity is responsible for more
marriages than anything else. At
the love time of life a girl is sure
to imagine that she cherishes a
deathless passion for any good
looking man who happens to be in
sight, but get her away from him
and his spell is broken.
Cured Girl s Infatuation,
She sees other men. She gets
a new standard of comparison,
with the almost invariablc result
that in six months she wouldn't
look at the man that she thought
she was so crazy to marry. It's a
case of counter irritation. and it
works out as we'll in love as it
does in medicine.
Still another way to deal with
the situation is TO quit theorizing
and preaching about it, and give
the girl a living picture of the
way the marriage she proposes to
make would work out in real life.
l once knew a wise father who
followed this course.
His daughter, a dainty. cult
waited girl, who had been reared
amidst the most refined surround
ings. thought she was in love
With a handsome young man who
was himself coarse and vulgar
and game from a family far be-
low the girls in social status.
After every argument had been
used in vain TO prevail upon the
girl not to make a match that
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03

tating bad matches by frankly
opposing them.
Therefore, instead of forbidding
Sam the house, invite him in.
Have him around early and often.
and give Mamie an overdose of
his society. and before you know
it they will have quarreled. And
this nice hot weather, when
nerves and temper are on edge,
is a sociological moment in
which to try the experiment.
Ninety-nine in the shade is not
propitious for growing sentiment.
And ! should casually remark to
Mamie that, Of course, if she was
SO fond Of sam and found her
highest happiness in his company
that there was no use in wasting
any money on any other pleasure
for her such as going of for a
summer trip, for instance.
Don't abuse sam. Don't dis
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
A Sermon for MANY =:
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.

XVTHEN you your waiting
dead
o you begun
that the
Of knocked neghho calmly way
the knoc yourself
reflection Give yourself
Rattle tell he { ia YOU 10
the dozen cold
as eer
Then mir viii a a
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
BY DOROTHY DIX.

a FATHER. who has a pref
~ ty, bright lS-year- old
daughter for whom he has
made many sacrifices to give ad
vantages, is much distressed be-
cause she imagines herself in love
with a callow youth of the same
age, and he wants to know II
there is any way in which he
can keep her from wrecking her
life by marrying this boy.
Surely. Here are a few simple
home remedies for breaking up
undesirable matches, that are
guaranteed to work if applied
with tact and discretion.
First, drop all opposition TO the
sutton. Quit abusing him. Just
remember that romance thrives
on difficulties, and that when you
put young man in the position
of poor, prosecuted martyr. you
simply crown him with a halo
in the girls sight. Also you
make her his champion, and to
back up her arguments in his
favor she shuts her eyes to all of
his faults, and not only magnifies
his virtues but invents new ones
for him.
Every novel represents the
heroine as defying her parents,
and her friends, and the general
public and being true to a no.
Bile. but misunderstood, young
man, and as having her judgment
justified by his turning out to
be a duke in disguise, or getting
elected President of the United
States
Cupid At His Worst.
When you oppose a silly young
girl in a love affair. and read the
riot act to her, you give her a
chance TO visualize herself in that
poetic role and it makes her do
her clothes up in a bundle and
sneak out Of the house, and elope
with the man that you have ap-
piled every opprobrious epithet
to OF which you could think. 1t is
d matter Of common knowledge
that people never marry the nice,
suitable individuals their fami-
hes have picked out for them. and -
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03

that nothing blights loves young
dream like everybody smiling a
blessing on it,
Yet in the face of this advanced
information about how Cupid
acts. parents persist in precipi-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
Pertinent Paragraphs

Fishermen caught a monster
man-eating shark off the Georgia
coast. A pleasing change from
the sea serpent.
The Western clerk who eats
slxty-one eggs at a meal is to-
geographically blessed. He couldn't
do it in Atlanta.
St Louis man advertises that
ne knows his wife to be "a re
spectacle. well-meaninE woman "
he probably is weil-meaninR
himself.
Almost $50,OOO,OOO worth ~
precious stones have been irnnort-
ed in a year. We NAV kick a.
the price of steak, but we rnust
have our diamonds.
Fashion Notes: From Wash
ington-"Modihed trousers, vii
be worn by women. F'ron, Naw
York-Men's bathing suits IA
yored by women. About all wa
have left is a safety razor,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03

was bound to bring her disillusion
and unhappiness, her father said
to her: Il want you to go and
spend a month with this young
mans family, who will be your
family if you marry him. You will
bear his name, his position will be
yours, and he will have a right to
expect you to live as his mother
and sisters do"
Corned Beef and Cabbage.
Well. the girl went. She as
ISOLATED with his frowsy mother
and sisters. and was bored to
death by their ignorant CONVERSE
ton. She saw his father and his
brothers sitting around the house
in their stocking feet, and with
their coats and collars off, smok-
ing pipes.
She ate corned beef and cab
bage dinners She participated in
parties where they rushed the
growler, and sang rag-time to a
pianoIa accompaniment, and at
the end Of a week she came back
home cured.
Still another father that knew
kept his daughter from marrying
a drunkard by taking her where
she saw him in his cups. 1t was
one thing to have the young man
appear before her pale, poetic,
wistful eyed, repentant, telling
her that she could save him by
marrying him. and another to be-
hold him maudlin, nauseated, a
thing of disgust that made her
turn from him with loathing.
Oh there are many ways to
break up an undesirable match
absence, ridiCule, the substitution
OF new toy for the old, humping
girl up against the reality,
even dropping a sly hint to the
man that he's throwing himself
away on the gir., and that Mamie
is delicate. or has ways, or that
she has a temper concealed about
her angelic person, or that she's
eXtravagant. There are forty
seven different varieties Of v.ays
Of turning the trick, and all of
them work except forbidding the
banns, That merely eggs on the
wedding.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03

We should rather ascribe the
incident to the personality of the
soldier, whose hand was arrested
by the expostulation of his own
better nature. Viewed from that
point, it becomes significant of
the growth of moral sentiment,
which, in the end, will Danish war
altogether. Perhaps that merciful
Confederate at Gettysburg was, in
a sense, faithless to his cause.
Who can say that, if the shot had
been fired, the result Of the strug
gle might not have been different?
The fall of leader has lost many
a battle. Very likely if that act
of mercy had been witnessed by
the commander of the Alabama
regiment he would have cut the
conscientious soldier down with
his sword as a recreant from
duty!
Yet the man who spared the
generals life afterward declared
that he was glad that he could not
press the trigger, and every gem
erous mind approves his act and
his sentiment.
In former days, when most bat
ties were fought hand to hand and
foot to foot, the Juror CERTA-
MINIS fury of the fight) had no
such interruptions. Moral senti-
ment counted for little on the bat
tlefield. There was no time for it
to assert itself, even if it existed
then as widely as it exists to-day.
The dreadful scenes of slaughter
that attended Caesars campaigns
in Gaul, and the sacks Of cities in
the Thirty Years War, would be
impossible now among civilized
people.
Education Will Bring Peace.
When a modern soldier, secure
in his position, sights along his
gun at an enemy, his mind is in
a state for reflection upon the ma
ture and consequences of his in
tended act of slaughter. and the
mere fact that he can strike at a
distance and unseen may restrain
him, as 1t did in this case, from
striking at all He balances his
public duty against his personal
conscience, and unless the former
overwhelmingly appeals to him,
the latter may prevail. If he can
see a chance for mercy he will
exercise it.
All this shows plainly the direc-
ton which the advocates of uni
versal peace land we are all such
advocates, though we may differ
in our ideas about methods)
should take in order to bring
about the result they aim at. 1t is
the direction of EDUCATION. A
gun in the hands of a conscien-
tious soldier is a moral force for
peace, and so is a powerful bat
tie fleet in the hands of a great,
civilized nation.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
By GARRETT P. sERvIss.

NNE of the most significant
revelations of the mind of
the soldier in battle that
nave ever seen is in a letter from
a Confederate soldier TO General
j. L. Chamberlain. which the gen
fral quotes In his dramatic story
4 the awful battle of Gettysburg
in HEARST'S MAGAZINE for
June.
The letter is too long to be in
serted in this brief article but
you should read 1T in full. and in
connection with the vivid picture
of the scenes of that heroic con-
test (the mightiest battle ever
fought on American SOLD. in order
to understand its significance.
Impossible to Pull Trigger.
The incident to which the let
ter refers occurred during the
struggle among the rocks for the
possession of the famous Round
Tops The writer. who was a
member of an Alabama regiment,
had placed himself in a secure po-
sition between two rocks, where,
unseen himself, he had a clear
view of the nearby Federal lines.
and particularly of General Cham
berlain, whose rank he recognized
by his uniform.
He knew the Importance of
picking off officers, and he drew
a bead on General Chamberlain,
resting his gun on a rock to get a
sure aim. But, rs he was about
to pull the trigger, a sudden
qualm arrested him, and he did
not fire. Then he grew ashamed
of his weakness and drew a bead
a second time.
Il had you, perfectly certain.
But that same queer something
shut right down on me. l couldn't
pull the trigger, and l gave it up
that is, your life"
There are plenty of stories of
the blind madness and of the I'M
natural calm that, at different
times, possess the soldier in bat
tie, making him, in one case,
shoot and thrust and strike al
most without volition, and, in the
other case, perform similar acts
with the cold, unsympathetiC pre-
cision Of a machine; but it is rare.
outside of fiction, to hear of an
incident like this, where con-
science asserts it's rights
His Own Better Nature.
No doubt some persons would
see, in the resistless impulse that
restrained that shot, a mystic in
fluence which, for some providen-
tial purpose, paralyzed the finger
that was curved to press the trig-
ger; but such ideas belong to the
days when the Olympian gods
were believed to guide the spear
of Achilles or to throw a mantle
of invisibility about Hector.