The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-12-30
twenty-five YEARS AGO
Items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published a Quarter
of a Century Ago.

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The only change in the officials al
| the court house was in the clerk S
office, Millard F.. Stookey retiring
and being succeeded by T. H.
Schenck
Drs. w. VanWerden, Layton and
Brown removed the ball from Tart
Fulton's neck which he received in
the affair last March. We are pleas
ed to learn that Tart is feeling some
what better
The Decatur High School will pre-
sent the five act drama, "Under the
Laurels," at the new Christian church
in Decatur on New Years night.
Two young men in Lucas county
fs.ve Invented corn husker. 1t is
said to do reasonably good work The
corn blades and husks are stripped
from the stalks, and the stalks are
left in the field while the corn is
stripped off the husk and both corn
and fodder are saved.
The first of the year there will be
a change in the law firm of Parrish
& Hoffman, Mr.. C. w. Hoffman retir-
ing, and Judge ]. w. Harvey becom-
ing associated with Mr.. r. l.. Parrish.
Mr.. Hoffman will open his law office
in the corner room over NJ. Mayors
store, where he will be pleased to see
mis- old friends and attend to any
legal business they may have,
r. Fl. Johnston, who lives about
seven miles east of town in Wood
land towship, came to Leon the. day
before Christmas with his wife, and
ler mother to do some shopping.
While they were still in town mes
,senger arrived with the information
that their houses will all its contents
had burned to the ground soon after
they left home. Everything they
possessed was destroyed except three
quilts. which they had with them in
the wagon. Mr.. Johnston issa hard
working man and the loss is severe
one on him as he eshad no insurance.
"A subscription paper was. circulated
In Leon and in his home neighbor-
hood by his kind hearted friends
and quite a little sum was raised to
,nelp him replace needed articles
which were destroyed.
Prof. s. M. Mowatt, of Jefferson,
Iowa, was visiting in Leon.
Misses Helen and Bessie Finley, of
High Point, spent:the holidays with
friends in Leon.
Fred Rogers, Of Wymore, sNeb.,s
came in Christmas afternoon to visit
his old friends ins Leon for a, few
days. ~. .s ga -
Gene Hebener issback from Mt.
Vernon, Illinois, where he has been
working in a marble shop the past
year, and will remain in Leon for q
while. Z
Miss Glare Lunbeck came home to
spend Christmas. She is located at,
Davenport, working in the interest of
an Aid Society. She will return to-
her labors the last OF the week.
E. B. McClelland, Chas. Edwards
and DR.: J. W.. Rowen and Misses
Mary Ray, Viola Wasson and Grace
Curry went to Alton this afternoon
to visit few days at the home of
DR.. Rowell's parents.
p. J..Sankey was advertising all of
section 18 in Grand River township
for sale, offering to divide the sec
:tion into quarters and sell the west
half at $15 an acre, the southeast
quarter at S14 and the northeast
quarter at $40. The land was all
fenced and in blue grass. (Wonder
what this land would sell for today?)
The scholars of the Woodland
school took Millard Chandler, the
teacher, to Steel Creek on Christmas
day and baptized him because he
would not treat.