The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-19
YEARS Ago
Items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published a Quarter
of a Century AQo.

Of q Century Ago.
Charles Pennington was closing
his jewelry store with tho intention
of leaving this city.
The X. of P. lodge celebrated
their 25th anniversary with supper
at their hall and dance at the opera
house. A large crowd was present
and pleasant evening spent.
DR.. A. Brown made a visit to his
parents at Minburn last week. We
are sorry to hear that his father,
A. brown, is quite feeble this winter
and will probably soon retire from
active service in the ministry.
Daniel G. Sears passed away at
his home in Center township. He
was one of the pioneers of Decatur
county, coming here in 1854. His
last illness was of only few days
duration, his death being from con-
gestion of the lungs.
Mr.. Frank C. Davis, of Cedar Rap
ids, and Miss Mollie Perdue, of
Leon, were married at the home of
Mrs. Emma Sanford on Feb. 14th.
the ceremony being performed by
Rev. M. Noerr, pastor of the Presby-
terian church. The happy couple de-
parted the following day for Cedar
Rapids, where they will make their
home.
When Byron Hamilton came down
down Friday morning he was heard
to softly murmur,
"She isn't an angel,
She isn't goddess,
She isn't a lily, a rose or pearl,
She's simply what's sweetest,
Completcst and neatest,
A dear little,
Queer little,
Sweet little girl
And weighs about ten pounds.
Tuesday evening while at Davis
City, Dr. VanWerden had all his
wraps and buffalo robes stolen. He
was not away from his team to ex-
ceed five minutes, but the thieves
got in their work all the same. II
that town would go to work and
cause about twenty thieves and thugs
to be sent to the penitentiary it
would be greatly to the credit of its
law abiding citizens, and also an as
surance to strangers that they would
not be robbed upon entering its
gates.
Capt. ]. D. Brown had singular
accident the other day just after
starting to Chicago with a shipment
of stock. When near Garden Grove
he discovered the car in which he
had q load OF hne sheep was In
flames, and when discovered the fire
was under good headway, the flames
ascending several feet above the top
of the car The train was stopped
and the fire extinguished with water
carried from the tender tank. Forty
head of sheep were burned to death
however before the fire could be ex-
tinguished. The railroad company
promptly paid the loss when the Cap
tain arrived in Chicago, giving him
the highest market price for the
property.
After protracted negotiations with
Henry Bright We have at last sue
ceeded in purchasing his copy of the
History of Decatur County with bio
graphical sketches of it's great men,
and containing profuse illustrations.
This valuable book was obtained
at great trouble and expense, as the
edition was limited and persons hav-
ing copies disliked to part with them,
and il we had not been the fortunate
posscssor of a pair of crocodile
boots that Henry needed in his busi-
ness we perhaps would have lived
and died without this valuable book.
While in the past The Reporter may
have been at times dull and uninter-
esting, we can assure our readers
that it will never happen again as
we expect to draw largely on the con-
tents of this priced book, and it is a
mine of picturesque and interesting
facts, and of kind to please as we'll
as amuse, especially amuse. If we
have sufficient space we will be pleas
ed to reproduce some of the bio
graphical histories in full and that
there will be no charge of partiality
in the order of production we will re-
cord the applications in the order
made. We expect to be overwhelm-
ed with applications; mostly not to
publish, however. The woods of this
county are full of great men and we
are bound the world shall know of
them. Owing to the fact that we are
indebted to Henry Bright for our
valued book we will probably give
his sketch first and in full.
Lois Opllelia Beavers.
Lois Ophelia Beavers was born