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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-19

past few years far beyond our great
est expectations. Corn is yet In the
plastic stage of it's development, and
for that reason it adapts itself read
lily to new conditions, responds
lquickly to good treatment, and gives
better returns for the efforts put
into it than any other crop that
grows
Upon the great fundamental law
that like produces like" rests all
human progress. That poor seed
means a poor CROP no one will
question; but it is not SO fully recOg-
nized that unless great pains be TAX
en- to plant only the best seed, the
crop will gradually deteriorate, or
run out" as we often say.
Corn has been taught, talked,
preached, printed, painted, demon
strated and advertised in every agri-
cultural country in the world. Thou
sands are teaching it today. Hun
dreds of corn demonstrating trains
have penetrated every section of the
country in the past fifteen years.
There are corn demonstration farms
everywhere. Thousands of corn
clubs have been organized, and are
now at work. There are corn shows,
corn picnics, corn growing contests,
and corn schools; but still, with all
of the work done by our educational
institutions, bankers, manufacture
ers and farmers, for the improve
ment of corn, the average per acre
yield in the United States is less
than lwenty-six bushels-nOt half a
crop.
Poor seed is the greatest cause of
the poor yield of corn. Just one
small eight ounce ear of, corn added
to each hill will raise the average in
the United States to fifty-tWO BUSH
els per acre, double the yield and
value Of the crop, and add about
81, 100000 to it's total value.
Summarizing the facts as given
above we have the following state
ments: ~
First-Corn from a standpoint of
acreage yield and value exceed every
other crop.
Second-Every place that corn Is
grown, there you find high priced
land and prosperous people.
Third-No other crop can replace
corn, but corn can readily take the
place or any Otner gram crop.
Fourth-Corn is put to a greater
of uses than any other crop
that grows.
Fifth-The possibilities are great
err for the Improvement of the yield
and the quality of corn than they
are in any other crop.
The most important needs for a
greater yield and a better quality OF
the corn grown are:
First-Better care of the seed
and more careful testing before
planting.
Second-The institution of cam
paigns Of education for the home
of home grown corn,
together with improved methods OF
and the organization of
Coys' corn clubs, etc.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-19
What is q Bootlegger?

We have always thought that q
hootlegger was man says the Car
india Herald.
But enc. Of the first copies of the
laws passed by the legislature last
winter has at last reached county
clerk Anderson, and turning the
book open, we're stared in the race
by a provision of the statutes which
says that bootlegger may be a
corporation such as an express COM
pany, or storekeeper, the definl-
ton of the Iowa statute of the name
"bootlegger" being as follows
Any person who shall, by himself, or
his employe, servant, or agent, for
himself or any other person, COM
pany or corporation, keep or carry
around on his person, or in vehicle
or leave in a place for another to
secure, any intoxicating liquor as
herein defined, with intent to sell or
DISPOSE of the same, by gift or 9TH
erwise, or Who shall, within the
state, in any manner, directly or in
directly, solicit, take or accept any
order for the sale, shipment or de-
livery of intoxicating liquor, in VIC
lation of law, shall be term a boot
logger, and shall be guilty OF q mis-
demeanOr.
Not only are the railway and ex-
press companies enjoined against
carrying liquor, and the town and
county officials authorized to seize
liquor in transit, but it is made
easier to convict the bootlegger by
the provision, in the statute which
makes soliciting the sale equally as
criminal as would be the sale itself.
Verify the way of the transgressor
getteth harder every two years.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-19
CORN Is KING OF ALL CROPS.
Twenty Per Cent of All the Tillable
Land in the United States Plant
ed to Corn Every Year, Pro-
ducing 2,7OO, 600, 900 Bu.,
Worth 81 800, OOO, 900. /,
Nv Prof. p. G. Holden.

BY Prof. p. G.. Holden.
Corn is king of all the crops. Over
twenty per cent of all the improved
farm land in the United States is5an.
nually devoted to the growing OF
corn. In the year 1914, 1OIOOO,-
900 acres were planted to cSrn In
this country, producing something
like 7OO,OOO,OOO bushels, which
brought the growers $1,sQO,OOo,-
900. For nearly fifty yesrs the
land planted to corn has ben equal
to if not greater than TIE acreage
of all the other cereal crops combln-
ed.
Corn is the univer'al crop. IN
1914 the worlds crorof this cereal
amounted to more nan 3,oOO,oOO, :
900 bushels, grown on 10, 100000
acres of land, we United States
produced two-thi,ds of this tremen-
dous crop. u 1866, forty-nine
wears ago. corr brought the Ameri-
can farmers All 100000, and for
fortv-nine wars since that time,
corn has stadily increased in acre.
age and yalle, never once falling be-
low the fgures given.
Wherever corn is grown, there
YOU WI AAAO AACA, PAOopOAOu0 Vim
muniies. Corn is grown in every
section of the United States. 1t was
bva few years ago that we thought
p,rthern Iowa was too far north to
produce profitable crops of corn,
but South Dakota is now numbered
among the corn growing states
with an annual yield of close to
II, 100000 bushels. In 1913, Cana
da produced 100000 bushels.
The annual corn crop exceeds cot
ton by nearly billion dollars. In
1913 the cotton crop of the United
States brought in total of $780,
100000; the hay crop, 1897, OO0,-
900; the wheat crop 100000; The
oats crop $440, 100000. Iowa and IL
linois each put in about 10,OOO,UOO'
acres annually to corn, each produce
ing from 300,000,000 to 100000
600 bushels.
Here are the figures on the corn
crop by states, showing the produc-
tiOn in bushels for 1914:
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-19
Queer Quirks of News.

San FranciscO.-Mabel B. Barnes,
waitress, spilled soup on the shirt
front of Charles D. Powell, million
aire Birmingham business man. She
blushed and apologized. Their eyes
met. They will be married soon.
Berkeley, Calif.-Beatrice Willard,
7 year old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leon Willard, is mental marvel.
She spoke sentences when 10 months
old. At 8 she wrote. At 5 she was
reading Stevenson and Kipling and
passed the Binet mental test for
adults. At years, with less than a
years schooling, she is ready to en-
ter high school,,
Denver, Colo.-Pearl Sharpe
Franklin, white wife of full blood
ed negro, is trying to prove that she
is a negress, so that her white daugh-
ter may have the right to marry a
negro. The woman's husband is OPP
posing the marriage, claiming the
girl is white and should not marry a
negro.
Allentown, Pa.-John l.. Detweil-
er and his wife Of Skippack town.
ship are both deaf. Their dog, how
ever, seems to know their affection,
and warns them when the butcher,
the mail carrier or the baker stops
at the dccr.
Clarksburg, w. V.-The IS
months child of Mrs. Harry Wolf,
operated upon recently, was discov-
cred to have a frog weighing more
than a half a pound in his stomach.
1t is believed the child drank a tad
pole in a glass of water, which thriv-
ed on the milk fed the child and de-
veloped.
Southwestport, Mass.-Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Wing, married for fif-
ty-two years, have spent fifty years
without speaking to each other.
They converse through a third per-
son on necessary matters. Neither
will disclose the cause of their quar-
rel.
Chicago Susan A. Price, of
Williamsburg, Va, in an address,
declared that religious revivals,
camp meetings and Billy Sunday re-
vivals are fruitless sources of in
sanity. The women are especially
affected, said DR.. Price.
Marmarh, N. D.,-While playing
on the railroad track, the 2 year old
daughter of a section foreman was
down by a switch engine
and five cars passed over her with
out injuring her. Her mother wit
messed the near tragedy.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-19

gives Il clue to the shape of the
stellar universe.
The galaxy affords beautiful
chance for the imagination. You
have before you countless stars in
all stages of development. Some are
young and blush white, some like
the sun, others reddish and far adj
vanced in stellar age. Why is it not
possible that somewhere among the
myriad of stars and suns there is
some system where conditions of de-
velorment have been the same as
those On earth, making possible the
existence of life similar to ours
and from which beings may even
now be looking and specializing on
that faraway star which is our sun?
The mind can penetrate the dis
lances which even the astronomer
and his instruments leave untouch-
ed
MeteOTs.
Watch this month for the meteOrs
of the Perseid shower. These me-
teors 1ecur every year and seem to
come from point in the cOnstella-
tion Perseus. They are what is left
of comet which disintegrated in
The solar system and which had
path or orbit such that it intersects
the orbit Of the earth this month.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-19

notwithstanding the immense
quantities of corn produced in this
country, we imported in 1913, s.
100000 bushels from the Argentine
Republic, South America.
In the Argentine corn culture has
in recent years made some very
great strides. From 100000 acres
put in in 1900, the planting has
been rapidly extended, and recent
estimate made by the Argentina De-
partment of Agriculture puts the
land seeded for the crop maturing
in the spring of 1914 at 1O,25O,OOO
acres.
Corn culture in Europe is largely
centralized in a group OF countries
comprising Austria, Hungary, Rou-
mania, Servia, Bulgaria and in the
southern governments of Russia. In
this territory, upwards of 10000
600 acres are planted yearly, and
the normal yield is approximately
SOC, 100000 bushels. Over a mil
lion acres are devoted to growing
this crop in the Philippines, and
upwards of 10000 acres in Japan.
We begin to realize what a great
crop is corn when we learn that IN
1914 the corn crop in the United
States would build seven Panama
Canals. The Panama canal cost APP
proximately $3OO,vOO,OOO and is the
greatest engineering feat of the age.
The attention of the world has been
attracted by it's greatness, yet every
wear the farmers are growing a one
and three-fourths billion dollar crop
and we hardly give it second
thought.
The feeding of the corn crop is
another important matter. There are
about 1OO,OOO,OOO people, apd over
200, 100000 farm animals In the
United States, including cattle,
horses, mules, sheep and swine, that
eat corn in some form every day in
the year. Corn furnishes q great
variety of feed and food for man
and animal. Take away wheat, bar
lev. rice and oats, and corn. will com
pletely substitute them all, supply
ing our needs with meal, hom1ny,
syrup, starch. corn sugar, on alco-
hol. and one hundred and ffty 9TH
er preparations.
For centuries our domestic plants
have been bred for certain purposes
and as a consequence certain parts
Oh the pA6ut7 axe 0VACA AAASAeS '>A~'' -
oped The selection, in the case of
corn, has been to secure more grain,
not q greater per cent Of stalk. The
result is that an ear of corn weighs
as much az the stalk under ordinary
conditions. When highly bred
plant is subjected to unfavorable or
even to normal conditions, the first
thing to suffer is that quality which
has been most abnormally develop
ed. In the case Of corn, If the care
IL poor. we may obtain two-thirds Of
a crop OF stalks, but less than one
possibly but one-third of q
crop of grain.
Corn requires much greater care
to prevent deterioration than most
other crops, since 1t 10 q compare
lively new crop, as we all know 1t
today. and its characteristics have
not been 30 thoroughly fixed
through centuries Of breeding. %
have those Of many OF the grains,
hut for the same reason It u also
mi ~ more susceptible to improve
ment II It 10 given the proper treat
81 intelligent selection and brood
ing, corr has beoe improved . the
"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-19
51-3t Administrative of said estate.

Tuesday as DR.. Hills was going to
Kellerton after his new Studebaker
auto he met with an accident that
might have been serious. The doctor
was accompanied by Mrs. Hills and
son, Monroe. While driving along at
a pretty fair rate this side of Keller
ton the car dropped into chuck hole
with such force that it threw Mrs.
Hills and Monroe out in front Of the
car, Mrs. Hills receiving badly
bruised shoulder while Monroe did
not get hurt at, all. One of the axles
on the car was bent 80 badly that the
doctor had to telephone to Kellerton
and have them bring the new car
out to him and haul the old one in.
This IL one of the lucky auto acci-
dents and Mr.. and Mrs. Hills are very
fortunate that it was no worse. ~
Lamont Chronicle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-08-19
Notice of Appointment of Admins
tratriX.

In the District Court of the State OF
Iowa, in and for Decatur County.
In Probate.
In the Matter of the Estate OF Willis
w. Crees, Deceased.
To Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that the IN
dersigned has been appointed and
has qualified as administratrix OF the
estate of Willis w. Crecs, late OF De-
catur county, Iowa, deceased. All
persons in any manner indebted to
said deceased or his estate will make
payment to the undersigned; and
those having claims against said de-
ceased or his estate will present them
in manner and form as by law re-
quired, for allowance and payment.
Dated this End day of August, A.
D. 1915.
ANNA C. CREES,
hi ok~ 49, rf cold 0afQ to
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-20
Constipation Advice

TRIETS and constipation cannot
stay together. When TRIETS are
taken, constipation vanishes in
short order.
TRIETS easily and gently cast
from the body all surplus bile.
undigested food and waste matter
in the bowels, leaving them clean
and sweet
TRIETS strengthen and help
the liver and bowels 80 that they
DO their work regularly. thus re-
moving the cause OF constipation
and other liver and bowel troubles.
while other constipation remedies
merely force q passage-vay
through the bowels. and make no
attempt 90 cure 10 permanently.
Searmint favored Easy %
take
A. any up-to-date drug stores.
Sold in 1Oc and 25c boxes.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-20
MARSHALL COUNTY p U 3 L c
SCHOOLS WILL CLOSE EARLY
THIS SEASON.
School In Sand Hin District Has A.
ready Been Ciosed-Moundsville
School May Also.

a lack Of school funds may cause
n or two OF the school districts co.
Marshall county 10 shorten their term
of school This condition already
exists iu sand 1911 district where the
school term o. 90 be- Curtailrd 90 the
extent Of two or three weeks az least
one other district. the M~uuudsviile
Independent. may also De- compelled
20 shorten the school term for the
same reason. 10 is not definitely aef
tied, however. about this latter dis
trict. as in o. talk last 'y'uIuE with
n o. the members Of the school
board he said that they would have
TO 60 over their ngurDs again before
deciding. but a. any rate they would
not have 20 Cut on more than Two
of the term and hr hoped chat
o. would hot be- necessary fu furfaIi
a. all
According FOO fHr Law. fIH county W
r-rrirfrnunUf Uf school. d. NOT Ur.
miftrd fU elru ans orders whom there
.a no money iu that fund
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-20

.Ir off HHiDrHIr delivered 1rHfIHuH fn tTa
30 b. church HI T.UHn|aIa TIIrafHu
evening .rd.r fha auspices off the W a.
E Dr. .f that place
N.Ha blanche "uwun Of THrmIrrflr
fr Wiley.
Wr oscar Uamrfrr ~ pIffahHrrh has
been called Ir.ue f1 fNe bedside ~ rIs
mother. Sire Comfy Hampton who 10.
.Is OFF, Dor daughters Nra D. a.
H.#.r
|HH many friends uf WIaa claire
H.HH. rHrrHf FOO know chat Hrr Dol CON
N.U. f. H"r home with |H rrIUTH
Tho HHHrrHI H.rrrfOrH mrnauraI on
fH. HH| diamond Er.HHE mHrrirE which
IT, fu .. IH Mr. John Dr. whites field
NT. Do T Murdoch and daughter
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-20
AND HEAT co.
GETS A Big WELL
FOUR MILLION CUBIC FEET PER
DAY IS CAPACITY OF
ITS LATEST.
Land Owners Get Less Than Dollar
Per Day-Company Gets Ap-
nroefr1ateI &


The Wheeling Natural Gas Co.
drilled In a well Tuesday on the
Booher and Reynolds tract. on Big
Run, near Cameron. a well producing
10000 0 cubic feet Q day.
The owners OF this oil right. Messrs.
Booher and Reynolds OF Cameron. get
$500 per year from the Gas company.
for this wei. according to the terms
OF their lease. At the rate the well
is flowing. computed at 30 cents per
thousand feet. the daily income from
the well would be $500. Deducting
so per cent for operating expenses. II
would still leave 5000 per day. The
land owners get less than 81 per day.
n there IL any doubt OF this. tho
records a be found Al the Marshall
county clerks Office. Deed book 129.
page 22l. the above lease II recorded
and was made by ?. r. Reynolds and
wife and W. J. BoOher and wife 20
the Wheeling Natural Gas Co, BY a
lease dater March %. 1908.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-20
SHORTAGE OF SCHOOL FUNDS
CAUSES EARLY SUSPENSION

and Mrs. W.. j. HurGy. Mr.. and Mrs. W.
D.. krleEtU. Nr. and Airs. a. A. Miller.
Ars Thomas Ankle and Mr. and Mrs. e..
%. Walker
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-20

Marjorie. ~ Nt Pleasant. 3D.. have been
visiting 90 fhe home OF Mrs T. a Horls
where her mother Mrs Comfy Hampton
DBL very sick
Sunday school o0 % m Christian
Workers League. e. goo g. m TrrIr Tho
Ideal christian and Ula Heavenly Urfu
or Irn ...H Leader. Mrs EFnHH
IrII Everybody welcome
Hotel tIrrk-f found that .Nrf fr o..
used except Iu case OF fire rIarar#
whirH those college boys STOLE cut oil.
che corridor
Mararrr-Whrrr go you raI uf
fIFrk-IHnHH nailed If Hu owe r the
coal bfnd-Feru state Frnfh
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-20
IRIETS

They Keep You Well
Take HeNets For Indigestion.
Most Drug Stores Sell Both.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-19
DAIRY HERD DIES in FRI

Thirty-one Cows Perish When Barn
10 Destroyed.
Thirty-one dairy cattle persisted in
a; fire which destroyed the barn on
the farm OF Emil Nelson, north of
Manchester. The barn was struck by
lightning.
|s Joseph Nelson, son of the owner,
saved the horses and seven cattle be-
fore the roof fell in. The loss is esti-
mated at more than $4,000. /.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-19
m, WiDke|man ann.
GRAY HAIR BECOMES
GaRk, THICK, GLOSSY
look years younger! Try Grandma's
recipe of Sage and Sulphur
and nobody will know.

Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea
and Sulphur, properly compounded,
f1:ngs back the natural color and lustre
10 the hair when faded, streaked or gray;
asse ends dandruff, itching scalp and
stops falling hair. Years ago the only
way to get this mixture was to make it
Mt home, which is mussy and trouble
apme. ... ,.
Nowadays we simply ask at any drug
store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
aair Remedy" You will get a large
Sobtle for about so cents. Everybody
uses this old, famous recipe, because no
one; can possibly tell that you darkened
POUR hair, as it does it 80 naturally and
..senlyg. You dampen a sponge or soft
Hush with it and draw this through
Your hair, taking one small strand at .
zime; by morning the gray hair disap-
sko, your hair becomes beautifully dark
thick and glossy and you hook years
Eonnger.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-19
PIONEERS ARE FOR PEACE
Gathering at st. Paul Sends Message
to President Wilson.

Territorial Pioneers of Minnesota,
who gathered at the old capitol at St.
Paul to celebrate the f1fty-seventh an
niversary of the admission of the state
to the Union, and many of whom
fought through the Civil war, declared
themselves to be delegates of peace
and unanimously passed resolution
expressing their confidence in Presi-
dent Wilson and the action he will
take in regard to the Iusitania trag-
edy. The resolution follows:
BE it resolved, That the Territorial
Pioneers association, at its annual
meeting in St. Paul on the occasion
of the fifty-seventh anniversary of the
admission of Minnesota to the Union,
sends it's greetings to the president Of
the United States and expresses to
him it's confidence that he will act in
the present crisis for the best inter
ests of the. nation
Moses P. Hayes of Minneapolis was
elected president of the association.
Other officers are: Frank c. Ford,
Newport, vice president; John A..
Stees, st. Paul, treasurer, and George
H. Hazard, st. Paul, secretary.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-19

employe, he went to the rear of the
place and tried to reach a small gas
fame which was burning near the
tank. AS he approached the rear of
the building the explosion picked him
up bodily and flung him on pile of
debris. The bicycle shop was COM
pletely wrecked and started to burn.
In the restaurant of Charles Was
senberg, next door, Lawrence Berg
steen, James Coyle and DR.. C. c..
Thorsness were seated at a lunch
counter. Josie Wassenberg, Mrs. EN-
ma Franklin and Francis Bowish were
in the kitchen. These six persons
were virtually blown out of the build
ing, which Immediately collapsed.
Every window in street car pass
ing the place was blown out and a
panic ensued in which several persons
narrowly escaped injury
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-19
ABOUT The STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers,
ROBBERY PROBABLE MOTIVE
Three Brothers Found Murdered on
Their Farm Five Miles West
Of Lowry, Pope County.

Sven, Louis and John Mitmoen, Of
were murdered on their farm five
miles west Of Lowry, in Pope county.
The three brothers had "bached" it
on their farm for thirty-five years.
The tragedy was discovered by a
neighbor who went to see the broth
ers concerning the purchase of some
hay He Immediately summoned the
county authorities.
One of the brothers was found in a
bedroom on the ground floor with his
head crushed and rag tied tightly
around his neck. The body of the Sec
ond victim was found in the kitchen,
where evidences of terrible struggle
were seen. His head was split open
and blood was spattered on the walls
and floor. The body of the third
brother was in the barn with his jaw
broken and his head smashed in A
rock spattered with blood lay beside
him. The cattle in the barn had tram
pied him almost beyond recognition.
All had been dead three or four days.
Robbery Probable Motive.
That robbery was the motive for
the triple murder and that the crime
was committed by two or three men
is the conclusion of officials Finger
bloodstains were found upon the furni-
ture and various articles in the house.
Two pocketbooks covered with blood
had been emptied of their, contents.
Sheriff George Gilbertson found ST.
700 in gold and bills in a bureau
drawer which the murderers had over
looked
The bachelor brothers were wealthy
men, owned several hundred acres of
land and saved their money carefully
They never used bank and, accord
ing to neighbors, kept from $4,000 to
$4,000 in the house all the time They
secluded themselves from all company
and lived very misery. One of the
brothers was believed to be insane.
Sheriff Gilbertson and a detective
from the Twin Cities are working on
the case and expect to make arrests
shortly.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-19
Realty Transfers.

Mary Ristau to Henry N Somsen, Und.
IL North ~ #. of L 8 B SO North
New UIm, $780,,
Carl P. Manderfeld to Andrew A.
Backer, L 7 B l and North New
Ulm, $1,000.
g. L. Campbell to Joseph w. Stadick,
= 5 and B So South New Ulm, $500.
u. J. Nenno to Martin L. F. Eyrich ct al.
LIZ II South New Ulm, $500.
hseph Hillesheim to George Piehl, L
3 and 4 B l Romberg's Add. Sleepy
Eye, $500.