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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09
Editors Met at Charlton.

The members of the Southern Iowa
Editorial Association held their win
ter meeting at Charlton last Thurs
day and Friday, and while it was a
very busy season for editors to get
away from their work, there was a
very good attendance, and a most
profitable meeting, as we'll as an en-
joyable visit too live city, one which
is making rapid strides. Charlton
has two splendid papers, tue Leader,
edited by H. w. Gittinger, the man
who can turn out more pencil writ
ten copy in a week than any man in
the state, and the Herald-Patriot,
edited by Will Junkin, who can boast
of the finest furnished editorial Of
flee in Iowa. They are both dandy
good fellows and left nothing undone
for the pleasure of the visiting edi-
tors. The sessions were held in the
fine X. of P. lodge room, which has
club rooms attached and banquet
hall, at which 200 plates were served
at one time on Thursday evening by
the ladies of the Episcopal church,
and they served a mighty good din
ner too. The Reporter editor spent
nineteen years of his boyhood in
charlton, and it was like going back
home We learned the printing trade
in the old Patriot office, and instruct
ed Henry Gittinger how to set his
first line of type something like
thirty-five years ago. The new coal
mines which have been opened up
near Charlton have given that city
great boom, and they claim to have
the greatest coal field in the state OF
Iowa. Most of the miners reside in
Charlton, being carried to and from
their work on special trains on the
Rock Island railroad.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09
Will Hold Stock Show in Connection
With Short Course.

The Decatur County Improved
Stock Breeders Association held an
interesting meeting last Saturday in
the Commercial Club rooms, at which
time it was decided to hold stock
show in connection with the Short
Course to be held in Leon, Jan. to 8.
It is going to be rather late to
show young colts and calves to the
best advantage, but good stockmen
aim to keep their young stock in
good condition at all seasons, so that
we expect to have good show, ii
everyone interested in good stock
will help little. Premium list will
be published at an early date.
1t was decided to change the Stock
Breeders Association into the Stock
Breeders and Fair Association, so
that it can get state aid for the pur-
pose of paying premiums. The presi-
dent was authorized to appoint the
following committee to sell shares at
$500 each: --..
John F. Rumley, Leon.
c. NJ. Axes, Leon.
W. H. Hazlet, Leon.
NJ. j. Porter, Decatur.
Fred Wo0lley, Garden Grove.
The following persons have already
agreed to take shares in the Decatur
County Fair and Stock Breeders AS
sociation:
C. M. Axes, Leon, 2 shares; Frank
Gittinger, j. F. Rumley, l.. A. Rurrell,
J.. w. Walton, l.. D. CARRIER, A. G..
George, A. E. Cotterill, of Leon, each
one share; M. J. Porter, A. E. Ellis,
J. H. Hill, w. H. Golfer, Horace Mill
sap, George Woodmansee, M. C. Free
stone, Tullis Bros, of Decatur, each
one share; A. H. Meter, c. M. Kline,
L. p. Hastings, of Weldon, each one
share; Fred Woolley, Garden Grove,
one share; S. P. Rogers, Pleasanton,
one share.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09
Library Notes.

The reading rooms of the library
are crowded every night.
The next 'story hour" will be Dec.
II at o'clock. This will be our
Christmas program and there will be
some extra numbers, music, readings
and the usual number of stories. All
boys and girls are invited.
Two thousand one hundred and
eight books were issued during the
month of November.
Three hundred and thirty-seven
students used reference books in the
library in November.
This is quite gain over the month
of October,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09
Sold Farm for $s5, 900 Cash.

Ex-Governor Frank D. Jackson, of
Des Moines, sold his S92 acre farm
south of Weldon, known as the old
Kingston farm, to S. C. Bradford, of
Des Moines, the consideration being
$85,000 cash. The sale was made by
A. NJ. Pryor, of Leon, and it is one
of the largest cash sales of farm
land ever made in Decatur county.
Mr.. Jackson had only owned this
farm a few years, and he cleaned up
a neat sum of money when he sold.
Decatur county farm land is advanc-
ing very rapidly in value, and it will
not be many years until our good
farms are selling at from $3.50 to
5000 per acre.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09
Death of Timothy Grogan.

Timothy Grogan, an old time resi-
dent of Decatur county, but who for
a number of years has made his
home at the Soldiers Home at Leav-
enworth, Kansas, died last Thursday
His remains were brought to Leon
on Friday and the funeral was held
at the Catholic church in Woodland
township on Saturday, interment be-
ing in the Catholic cemetery adjoin-
ing. Mr.. Grogan was about 20 years
of age, and was soldier in the civil
war, being in the same company as
Capt. A. A. jerks. We regret we
have no data for a more extended
obituary.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09
TWO LADS MEET DEATH.
Arthur Teale browns in Grand River
and Raymond Rumley Thrown
from a Horse and Killed.

1t is very unusual to have to re-
cord the violent death of two boys
in one issue of this paper, and this
week we are called upon to chronicle
the accidental death of two lads,
each thirteen years of age, Arthur P.
Teale, the thirteen year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Teale of Davis
City, being drowned in Grand River
Sunday afternoon, and Carl Ray
mOnd, the thirteen year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rumley, who
live three miles west of Leon, just
south of Palestine church, was kill
ed yesterday morning by being
thrown from horse which he was
riding, and was dead when he was
found by his father a short time later.
Arthur Teale in company with a
younger boy, Wilder Osborn, was
fixing a seat on the ice in Grand Rlv-
er at the Davis City Park Sunday
morning, so that it would freeze In
the ice and they would have place
to sit while putting on their skates
Arthur attempted to walk around one
end Of it, although cautioned by the
Osborn boy that the ice would not
hold him up and that he had better
hold on to the seat. In going around
the end the ice broke and Arthur fell
into the water which is quite deep at
this point. He came up once and the
Osborn boy tried to hand him stick
but he failed to catch hold of it and
disappeared under the ice. The Os-
born lad ran to the hotel and inform
ed Mr.. Teale and number OF parties
hurried to the scene. Hosea Scott
and Bunk Hamilton plunged into the
water, but it was about half an hour
after that his body was recovered as
it was lodged under the ice, and Scott
came near being drowned while at
tempting to locate the body. Efforts
were made by physicians to resusitate
him, but to no avail. Arthur was a
bright little fellow, thirteen years old
last August. and was an expert swim
mers but he had his overcOat and
heavy overshoes on which hampered
him and the current carried him un-
der tt e ice. Funeral services were
held at Davis City Tuesday afternoon.
The death of this lad has cast a
gloom over everybody in Davis City,
as he was a favorite with all who
knew him. His parents have the
sympathy of all in their sore bereave-
nient.
Wednesday morning about six
O'Clock, Carl Raymond, the thirteen
year old son of c. A. Rumley, OF
west of Leon, started from home
riding horse to go after the COWS. A
short time afterwards the horse came
back to. the barn, and few minutes
later the boys dog, which had accom-
panied him also returned to the
house. Mr.. Rumley started out to
look for the boy, and found him ly-
ing dead in a field some little dis
tance from the house, and it is sur
missed that the horse threw him, his
neck being broken by the fall. Fun
eral arrangements had not been COM
pleted at the time this paper went to
press. Mr.. and Mrs. Rumley have
the heartfelt sympathy of their many
friends in their bereavement.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09
RanSOIn-BraZeltOn.

Mr.. Harley Ransom, of Williams
burg, and Miss Lola Brazelton, of
Leon, were united in marriage at the
NJ. e. parsonage, at Waterloo, on
Wednesday, November oath. The
ceremony was performed by the
Rev. George B. Shoemaker and was
attended by few near friends of the
bride and groom.
The news of the marriage of this
worthy young couple came as a dis
tinct surprise to the friends at Will
liamsburg, which only shows again
that there are more things planned
in the cause of love than are i'm
parted to the wise ones of the local
neighborhood.
The bride is charming young
woman, a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clabe Brazelton, well-to-do people
of Leon; she was in the last year of
the course at the state normal school
and is young woman of fine at
tainments and is possessed Of q
splendid fund of that most uncom-
mon thing-common sense. She
visited here last summer and many
remember the young woman whose
lovable disposition endeared her to
all who met her.
The groom is son of Mrs. ]. A.
Tanner and was born and reared in
this community, he is a graduate Of
the w. II. S. and for the past few
years has been engaged in farming,
and in this has been successful be-
yond the average. He is a splendid
young man, Industrious, sober.
clean-minded and actuated by mo-
tives of the highest order. Among
his fellows he is held in the very
highest respect and his rating in the
business realms of the community
is first class.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ransom returned
on Thanksgiving and are now at
home on the farm south of town.
The heartiest congratulations are
extended coupled with best wishes
for long and happy married life.
Williamsburg. Qa.,) Journal-Tri-
bune.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09
Mrs. Will Gardner Appointed County
Recorder.

At the regular meeting of the
board of supervisors which convened
on Monday, Mrs. Will Gardner was
named as county recorder to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of her
husband, county recorder Will Gard
ner. The board made an excellent
selection, and one which will be
pleasing to everybody in Decatur
county. Mrs. Gardner is we'll quail
fled to fill the Office, and her friends
are glad she was appointed.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09
X. of p. Elect Officers.

Hesperia lodge No. 33, X. of p,
elected the following officers for the
coming year on monday evening:
G. C.-Charles Horn.
&. v. C.-Fred Epperley.
P.-Geo. M. Hamilton.
NJ. of W.-Walter Osborn.
X. or R. & S.-Louis Elwell.
& nj. at A.-Frank Horn.
l.. G Joe Hamilton.
O. G.-Earl Gardner.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09
Parent-T Teachers Meeting.

The Parent Teachers Association
will meet in the High School assem-
bly, room at 1880 Friday evening of
this week. s
The short business meeting will be
followed by pleasant social half
hour. Come and become better ac-
quainted with the other patrons and
teachers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09
Ober-Alder.

Bennie Obel and Miss Edith Alder,
both from Corning, Iowa, stopped at
the Methodist parsonage Saturday
evening. Their mission was that hap
py one of having minister of the
gospel pronounce them ''man and
wife," May the home that they
establish be Bethel to all who cross
its Threshold, and may their lives
be enriched with multiplied bless
ings.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09
Marriage Licenses.

Bennie Obel, Corning .21
Edith Alder, Corning ......... IL
Ernest We're Roberts, Leon IA
Helen Irene, Deck, Leon J. %
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09

For SaleA lot and half, desir-
able building site, two blocks east Of
High School. Inquire at The Re-
porter office. 9-tf
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-09

Butler, the jeweler, has some beau
5tiful new Wedgewood jewelry. You
are invited to come in and look It
over. y, ,'ss Is .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-20
SUBMARINE BUILDERS
STUDY U-B0AT PLANS
Five Companies Probably Will Sub
NIT Proposals on Bids Recently
Advertised For.

Fire submarine boat building COM
pan4es are studying plans of the two
Twenty-Five fleet suhme~sibles de-
signed by the Navy Department and
recently advertised for bids on con
struction. one company, it was learned
today. is preparing to submit its pro-
pcsals on the basis of steam turbine
drive for the vessels on the surface. as
planned by the department. Whether
other bidders will follow the same
course or submit alternative bids for
oil engine propulsion machinery has
not been stated. Navy Department Of
ficials, however, are gratifed at the
interest taken in these vessels by build
ers. since it was feared the excessive
speed requirements might keep them
from bidding.
Four submarines of the l. class-the
!. ., 3 and At was SAID today soon
will be ready for another official en-
durance trial, engine trouble having
prevented their acceptance by the gov
eminent on previous tests. The lubri-
eating systems for the engines gave
the chief trouble, ii was stated, and
Secretary Daniels said the builders
now reported they had overcome the
difficulty in laboratory tests and would
prepare Immediately for new trials.
The seven other boats of the L class
will not be ready for trial for some
months. and two of them rot for a year.
The building contracts call for delivery
In the spring of 1916 or 1917.
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HEART OF COUNTRY RIGHT,
EARL OF DERBY ASSERTS
Head of Recruiting Bureau Gives
This 1ntimation of Success
of Plan.

LONDON. December 20.-Lord Derby,
director of recruiting. and Ben Tillett.
secretary of the Dock Workers Union,
representing the opposite poles of So
cial and political life, appeared on the
same platform in music hall meeting
here yesterday. when Tillett described
his recent visit to the British front.
The Earl of Derby, who presided, said
on introducing the speaker:
when II comes to the question of the
number of men who have enlisted |
must not anticipate in any way what
will be said Tuesday by the prime min :
lister. / think the country will feel
when he makes that statement that the
heart of the country is right.
Il hope the new year will show a
brighter outlook than is discernible at
the present moment Probably the re-
suit Will come sooner than many ex-
pect, but not sooner than they hope-a
result which VIII be a victory for the
allied forces. | am not the least pessi-
mistic about the future"
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protein The lean part OF mea, 10 a
| food rich in protetns. OF course. since
| animals have the same chemical struc-
ture as ourselves. Flour contains
| some protein. peas and beans contain
a great deal. Eggs and milk are pro-
| rein food, and most fish are very rich
| in it.
! Proteins seem to be essential to. the
| repair of any waste In bodily tissue.
That is to
| Proteins Essential say. oarbohy-
to Repair Of Waste. a as sugar and d
cornstarch, and fats, such as butter
and lard, will furnish the system with
heat to keep 1t warm and give 1t en-
erey with which to work. But when
muscular work goes to the point Of
breaking down muscular tissue, or
when brain work wears out few cells
of the nervous system, only the protein
foods can replace the WORKOUT parts.
And since these microscopic parts OF
| the human system are continually be-
| ing worn out the essential place Of the
proteins on the bill OF fare is obvious.
The question Is, How much OF them
shall we eat?
| For latest Investigations seem to in
dictate that too much protein is as bad
as too little. There is not only the
teins eaten beyond a certain limit do
not cause breaking down instead Of
building up. but the well established
| fact that an excess of protein is a
strain on the kidneys. Yet authorities
still differ widely as to what this cor
rect amount of daily protein should be.
The latest ideas place it rather low.
and, according to them. we have all
| been eating too much meat Yet this is
clearly a matter to be approached with
circumspection.
| The fat and carbohydrate foods are
| a less delicate field of operations.
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Their function is simpler. and a little
abuse Of them does not carry as heavy
a penalty as a similar abuse of pro-
teids Carbohydrate is simply the form
that the nourishing elements take in
almost all plants. Sugar is a typical
carbohydrate, flour and potatoes depend
for their nourishing value largely on
these compounds. The carbohydrate
is a valuable dietary element. for in
most of its form its does not strain
the digestion, and 1t has a fuel value
about as high as the proteid.
Fat is the premier food as fuel
however. An ounce of fat has twice as
much fuel value as
Eof the Premier an ounce of carbo-
hydrate or proteid.
Food as Fuel. This is what makes
it a good cold weather comestible and
also explains the penchant of the I'M
tutored Eskimo for tallow candles.
lamp oil and raw whale blubher. Fats
life.
The consensus of opinion among au-
thorities seems to be that one meat
meal a day, taken in connection with
the protein content of the other foods.
gives all the protein sedentary man
needs. Fats can be more freely eaten
in winter than in summer. The varia-
ton of opinion as to the food needed
wide. Some authorities put it twice as
high as others. The expert who places
it lowest is said to have exnerimented
on a squad of soldiers who got hungry
under his frugal regime and stole out
by night to revel on sausage and bean
soup. The good professor was as
founded at the way they gained fat on
next to nothing at all. For the av-
erage man, real appetite. as distln-
guished from a craving for delicacies.
IS probably the best guide in eating
carbohydrates.
The Question Of a proper balance Of
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the daily food is undoubtedly an i'm
portant one. Many variable elements
enter into II, such as the state of
health, the time of year, the sort of
work done, the peculiar Temperament mt
Of each individual, even the variations
in activity from day to day. OF course.
tho danger of a little wrong eating is
not so great as faddists would have us
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-20
to arrange a menu with the right pro

portion OF each
Since dietary propaganda has become
common the average man or woman Is
prone to shy and beat a strategic re-
treat when any one mentions the mere
names of the proteids. carbohydrates
and fats. They undoubtedly have been
center of d fog of technical discus
sion which has failed to illuminate the
subject much, but they are important
. merit a little consideration
for all that.
The proteins are at once the most es-
sential on the list and the ones that
give the most trouble in preparing a
balanced ration. The human body is
about two-thirds water, but the re-
naming third of really solid substance
about us consists more than half of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-20
RUMANlAN GENERAL KILLS
HIMSELF WHEN ACCUSED

GENEVA, via London, December 90
Munich newspapers received here an
nounce the suicide of Gen. Jenesco,
commanding the I'd Rumanian Corps.
According to the story, the general was
suspected OF having been bribed by one
Of the powers.
The minister of war ordered an in
quiry. and his suspicious being con-
firmed. he sent two officers to inform
Gen. Jenesco of the result of the in
vestigation. Two hours later Gen. Je-
nesco killed himself.
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Won Kissing TO RETIRE;
HIS HEALTH SHATTERED

ROME, December 19. via Paris. De-
cember 20.-Gen. Won Kissing, German
governor general of the occupied por-
ton of Belgium, is to retire from the
governorship January ! on account Of
III health. according TO a dispatch from
Antwerp to the Corrispondenza.
Amsterdam newspapers several weeks
ago printed dispatches saying II was
reported in Brussels that Gen. Won
Kissing would retire. The message in
ttmated that the general was on the
verge OF complete breakdown, owing
70 III health and overwork
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-20
REFUGEES FROM SERBIA
PERISH IN MOUNTAINS
Half Million at the Mercy of Cold,
Hunger and Ravenous
Wolves.

LONDON, December 20.-"A half mil
Hon refugees fed from Serbia says
the Times Saloniki correspondent.
''preferring the horrible alternative of
a winter flight into snow covered
mountains to submission to the Ger
mans. Little has been learned of their
fate. but it is only too likely that many
thousands persisted of cold or starva-
ton. or were devoured by wolves.
A Half Million Fled.
when the converging Teutonic and
Bulgarian armies swept over Old Ser
bia most of the Serbian males not of
fighting age betook themselves to the
roads, while the women and children
remained in their homes. Some $50. 900
refugees thus assembled on the plain
of kossovo on the way to Albania and
Montenegro. OF these. a quarter of
million were persuaded to accept the
authority of the Austro-Germans the
others fled
Persons who saw the refugees enter
ing the Albanian and Montenegrin
passes state that they were then sub
sisting chiefly upon the flesh of dead
animals.
Little Wood for Fuel.
THE mountains OF Montenegro being
devoid of trees. it was almost impos-
sible for them to make fires. If ever
their suffering is told the story will
surpass in horror that of the Napo-
leonic retreat from Moscow
Ten thousand refugees who reached
the province of Salonilli are being well
cared for by the British relief and the
American sanitary commissions. Many
of the are employed digging trenches
for the allies around Saloniki."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-20
Salazar Liberators Free.

SANTA FE, n. NJ. December 2o.-A
Jury has returned a verdict of not
guilty in the case of Manuel U. Vigil
district attorney: Trinidad c. De Baca
state game warden. and two others.
charged with conspiracy to liberate
from prison Gen. Jose Ynez Salazar, a
Mexican federal soldier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-20
Field Marshal French in Paris.

PARIS. December 2O.-Field Marshal
Sir John French arrived at Paris last
evening from the front. He will be re-
ceived this afternoon by President
Poincare. Before leaving the front
Gen. French issued proclamation to
the British troops In which he pre-
dicted ultimate victory for the allies.
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believe. The human race has been
struggling with a cold world for so
many generations that its constitution
can stand fairly wide latitude of de-
Walton from the theoretically perfect
diet without taking to the hospital
But a proper diet undoubtedly Is an
immense aid to health and cheerful
ness.
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low that they are fifteen times as valu-
able food.

The fruit and vegetable at most, how
ever. is only an essential side dish. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-20
Grains, Milk, Eggs
and Meat Necessary.

pair its waste and for something to
furnish the energy that carries it
through a days work. This energy is
supplied for the most part by the va
rious sorts of grains, the few really
nourishing vegetables, milk, eggs and
meats The problem of the day is how