The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-07-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Marion F. Stookey
and Mr.. and Mrs. Marion e. WATSON
drove to Osceola Sunday and spent
the day with friends. Mrs. Jennie
Holland came home with them and
visited here until Monday afternoon.
Harry Shumway and daughter,
Miss Nellie, of Los Angeles, Califor-
MIA, came last Friday and visited a
few days at the home of Geo. w.
Sanger. They were returning home
from visit with relatives in Chi
cagO.
Miss Gretchen Hurst returned Sat
urday evening from visit with
friends at Indianola, and also at
Glidden, Iowa, where she visited at
the homes of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Q.
Johnston and Rev. and Mrs. J. L.
Boyd. -,
], l., Gardner returned last We'd
nesday from Anna, Illinois, where ne
had been visiting for several weeks
at the home of his son. He went
to Pleasanton Thursday to visit a
few days at the home OF John
Thomas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion E. WATSON
came down from Des MOines last
Thursday and will visit couple OF
weeks with relatives in this city. Mr..
WATSON, who is travelling salesman
for the Smith & Davis Co., of st.
Louis, is enjoying his annual vaca-
tion
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Spencer and
daughter, Mrs. Grace Renfro, went
to Pleasanton Thursday noon to at
tend an infare dinner given by Mr.:
and Mrs. S. A. Edwards in honor OF
their son, Arthur Edwards, who was
married to Miss Opal Bott, at Hum
eston, last Wednesday.
Claude w. Beck, of Des Moines,
came down Saturday evening and Wis
tied over Sunday in this city, his son
Ralph who had been here visiting
his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Cochran, returning to Des Moines
with him. while Mrs. Beck remained
for another weeks visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Post, of Kan
sas City, Mo-, who had been visiting
with relatives at Davis City, came to
Leon Thursday and visited few
days with relatives in this city. Mr..
Post is employed as mail carrier
in Kansas City, and is enjoying his
annual fifteen day vacation.
Rev. and Mrs. JAS A. Armstrong
and their singer, Miss Naomi Fox,
came. in Tuesday from Corning,
where they had been conducting a
series of meetings extending for
several weeks. They will visit for a
few days at the Armstrong home in
this city.
Mrs. H. H. Flanagan and daugh-
ter Ethel, of Des Moines, were visi-
tors in Leon last Friday, while en-
route home from Garden Grove,
where they had been visiting at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Herbert
them to Leon, returning homo. on the
afternoon train.
Miss Jessie Akers, who has been
in training as a nurse at the Ottum-
wa hospital, came in Tuesday morn
ing to visit a few days with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. M. Akers, In
this city. She graduated as train
ed nurse the past week, and after
short visit here will 60 to Ottumwa
where she will follow her profession.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Harris, of
Bakersfield, California, came last
Thursday for visit at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Rebecca Blackburn,
in this city. 1t was the first time Mr..
Harris had been in Leon for more
than fifty years. Fifty years ago last
December he assisted his uncle, John
Harris, of Bloomfield, drive a big
drove of hogs from Bloomfield down
in Missouri on account of feed being
scarce in Iowa. They spent the night
in Leon, and more than fifty of the
hogs froze to death that night. They
were driven back to Bloomfield the
following fall and made money for
Mr.. Harris, Notwithstanding the
number he lost.