The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-12-31
COURT HLvSf CHANGES
New Treasurer, Auditor and County
Attorney January lst. Other
Officials do not Change.

there Will be but three changes III
the officials at the court house. Coun-
ty treasurer w. G. Cozad fetires at
ter serving for four years, and he
has made a reputation as being one
OF the most careful and accommodate
ing treasurers Decatur county has
ever had. He will return to his line
farm in Morgan township, and again
become a private citizen. He has
MADE many friends during the time
ne has been ip office. The new coun-
@ty treasurer is Elba Shewmaker, of
Grand River, who has already moved
to Leon and is familiarizing himself
with the duties of the Office. He has
selected as his deputy j. Wesley
Chew, the we'll known banker of
Pleasanton, who recently disposed
OF his banking interests at that place.
They will make good team in the
treasurer's Office.
In the auditors Office r. F.. Nc.
Laughlin retires after serving two
terms and he has made host OF
friends during his incumbancy, being
one of the most popular county of1c-
ials who ever held down a job In the
court house. Rube is genial fellow
who makes friends of all with whom
he comes in contact and we regret
very much to see him retire from
public. office and to lose him as a citi-
zen of Decatur county, for in a few
weeks he and his family will move to
Cedar Falls, where he is now COM
pleting fine new modern roomtng
house in that growing college town.
His efficient deputy Geo. M. Hamil-
ton, retires with him, and as yet has
made no definite plans for the future,
but has several good things under
consideration. The new auditor is
also a democrat, Walter c. Osborn,
who comes from farm west of Davis
City, and we predict for him that he
will make just as popular county
official as his predecessor. He is
fine fellow, good business man and
he will make good as a county oftic-
ial in every sense of the word. he
has selected as his deputy Floyd H.
Cozad, who has served as deputy
county treasurer for the past four
years, and his selection is a good one,
for there is no more competent office
man in the state than Mr.. Cozad.
Ed H. Sharp retires from the office
of county attorney after serving four
years. He has had about as strenu-
GUS q time in the Office as any coun-
x ty attorney who ever held the office,
having an unusually large number of
important criminal cases to try, yet
he has made good record in the
number Of convictions he has secur-
ed. Mr.. Sharp will resume his pri-
vate legal practice and will again
office with G. w. Hoffman He is
succeeded in the county attorneys
Office by Geo. w. Baker, one of the.
best attorneys in the state, who has
on several previous occasions filled
this responsible Office to the entire
satisfaction of the people of Decatur
county. Mr.. Baker has the reputation
OF being one of the best prosecutors
who ever tried case in the district
court of Decatur county, and the law
breakers had better look out when
they get George Baker after them,
for he never lets up until they are
convicted if guilty.
In the other, offices the present in
8cumbents succeed themselves, F.. e.
Beck, as clerk of the district court,
Will Gardner, as county recorder,
ssDufy" Lorey sheriff, W. M. Frost
as member of the board, and Miss
Mabel Horner will continue as coun-
ty superintendent until July 4th, the
Legislature having extended her term
of Office until that time, and also
taken the office out of the hands of
the voters and placed the selection
OF a county superintendent in the
hands Of the presidents of all the
school boards of the county. Miss
aHorner is one of the best county sup
erintendents in the state, and prob
ably has done more to improve the
schools of Decatur county, than any
county superintendent who ever held
the Office.
Buy A Missouri Farm.