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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
THE JEFFERSON HIGHWAY RUN.
1t Was A Big Success All The Way
To Winnipeg.

i Director w. A. Hopkins, of Lamo-
mi, received the following night let
ter from j. ID. Clarkson, general man.
ager of the Jefferson highway Associ-
alton, telling of the enthusiasm with
Which the officers were received away
fup in Winnipeg, British Columbia. All
along the route taken which included
"a run of over 900 miles, the people
turned out in great numbers, and the
500 mile talk was the biggest kind of
success. The Jefferson Highway is
going to be the greatest auto trail in
county are mighty fortunate to be
located on this great highway enter
prise.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Aug. 5, 1916.
Our nine hundred mile talk and re-
lay run has been grand ovation start
to finish, have had total escort of
over four hundred automobiles. Was
received officially at boundary by
Manitoba Premier and escorted sixty
six miles to Winnipeg, outside the
city Mayor Waught met us with one
hundred autos, were guests city of
Winnipeg three days. We started in
Canada and were escorted back to the
states by Mayor Waught and party,
returning we have organized the ter
ritory to this point and collected the
mileage from five counties amount
ing to over fifteen hundred dollars.
AT meeting last night the Elks club
of ST. Cloud, Mimi, subscribed to q
thousand dollar membership.
J. d. Clarkson, Gen. Mgr.
Jefferson Highway Association.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
THE Icon CnAUTAvQUA
opens Friday for Eight Day Program
with Helen Keller as an Extra
Attraction Next Monday.

The Midland Chautauqua will open
al~EeUn on Friday evening Of this
week for an eight day session, and
the program provided, which has pre-
viously been published in this paper,
is one of the best offered at any Chau-
tauqua in all Iowa. The attractions
are all first class, there will be two
big bands, numerous musical num-
bers, Maud Scheerer's Shakesperian
Players, and many speakers of ma
tional reputation, including DR..
Frank w. Gunsaulus, who will
change his subject from "The Great
Modern, After Three Centuries" to
America After The war;" if it is de-
sired. Then there is Russia Today"
by Morris G.. Hindus, Russian exile,
who speaks from personal experience.
DR.. G. w. Wassam, of Iowa City, who
delivered such a splendid address at
the commencement exercises of the
Leon High School this year, his sub
ject being "The Stuff That Wins"
DR.. Geo. Lamont Cole will give us
Forty Minutes with the Navajoes,
Children of the Desert" and an il
lustrated lecture "Before You, Who?"
a fascinating story of prehistoric
America by DR.. Cole. "a Man Among
Men," by DR.. L. G. Herbert, and '"The
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Some Fine Wheat.

w. H. Hazlet, of Eden township,
who is spending the summer on a
farm which he owns near Bashor,
Colorado, has sent The Reporter
some samples of wheat grown in that
country on land adjoining his farm,
which are on display at this office,
and may persons have examined and
admired them. Mr.. Hazlet sent
samples of Silver King wheat raised
on dry farming land, and also sample
of the same wheat grown on irrigated
land. That grown on the irrigated
land measures AZ inches in length,
with extra we'll filled heads, while
sample of the same wheat grown on
dry farming land measures only 80
inches, but the heads seem to be as
well filled as the irrigated sample.
He also sent a fine sample OF spring
wheat grown on dry farming land.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Sankey Bros. are Top-Notch lnsur'
ance Men.

The three Sankey brothers, War
rem and Carl Of this city, and Moreau
of Des Moines, make a great trio OF
insurance agents They are all three
working for the Interstate Business
Mems Accident Association, which
each month awards special prizes to
the agents who write the greatest
amount of business during that
month. The report for the month of
June has just been issued, as 1t takes
about month to figure out the busi-
ness, as they have many hundred
agents working for them, and there
is keen rivalry among the first 100
leaders. For the month of June Carl
Sankey stood first, Warren Sankey
second and Moreau Sankey third.
That is some record for one family,
but the Sankey boys are real business
getters, and among the best men in
their line in the United States. Mr.
and Mrs Carl Sankey are for the
present making their headquarters at
lronwood, Michigan, Warren is work
ing in Colorado, and Moreau is work
ing in Michigan.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Says Clarke County Roads Are Best.

County engineer Mallette says that
Clarke county has the best roads in
southern Iowa. After returning last
week from trip up north of Des
Moines, he wrote the following letter
to county engineer John Hyland of
Clarke county:
Leon, Iowa, August 1, 1916.
John Hyland, Osceola, Iowa.
Friend John: During the past week
i was over some thirty miles of the
Lincoln Highway, the Panora Speed
way from west of Dallas Center to
Des Moines, and perhaps thirty miles
of the Spirit Lake Road and I find
that for the length Of your Jefferson
Highway through Clarke county, you
have them all beaten for dirt roads,
with perhaps the exception of your
big hill south of Osceola. Engine
work and wide dragging are making
you quite famous in Clarke county.
Next season am in hopes to get
the patrol system on the Jefferson
Highway through Decatur and also
hope to be able to show some better
results.
Yours very truly,
Frank G. Mallette,
Engineer of Decatur County.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10

New Woman and the Young Man."
by senator Elmer j. Burkett, of Neb-
raska. Then we have Ned Wood
man, the humorist and John Brodie
with his Scotch songs, in costume,
James Butin, the birdman and the
Mcdowell trio, a grand concert by
Sibyl s-McDermid and her
company.
But the best of all is special ex-
ira attraction booked after the pro-
grams were printed, Miss Helen Kel-
Ter, the worlds most remarkable
woman, and her teacher, Mrs. Macy,
who will give joint lecture on Mon
day afternoon, August 14th, without
extra cost to holders of season tick
cts. The appearance of Miss Keller
should attract an enormous crowd
next Monday afternoon. Her story of
her life and how she was educated is
more fascinating than any story ever
written or told This may be the only
opportunity you will have to hear
Helen Keller, and no one should miss
hearing and seeing this remarkable
blind and deaf young lady, who not
withstanding these defects is one of
the best educated ladies in America.
. AofO PCi ioOAduy Id4hcu Will a.
number of persons who have heard
the same program provided for the
Leon Chautauqua and they all speak
in highest praise of it.
The Chautauqua will be held on
the High School grounds, and the
Leon Bus Co. have arranged for
5 cent auto service to and from the
grounds.
Season tickets are on sale at So
for adults and 81 for children, good
for the whole eight days.
Everybody should boost for the
Chautauqua and buy season tickets
before the opening day.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Autoed Here from Oklahoma.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. l.. Lentz and five
children, Of Cherokee, Okla, form
er we'll known residents of Woodland
township, arrived last Thursday in
their Hudson Six for a two weeks
visit with relatives and old friends
at Woodland. Mr.. Lentz moved to
Cherokee couple of years ago, and
is well pleased with that country. He
tells us that Chas. d. Newlin, who
moved to Cherokee last winter has
been doing a fine auctioneering bust
ness down there, having number of
big sales.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Sold a Farm and Bought Another.

j. A. Harris had sold the 160 acre
farm in Eden township known as a
part of the old McCutcheon farm,
1 " miles south of the county farm,
to Clifton Mills, at $50 per acre. Mr..
Harris bought this farm twenty years
ago at $50 per acre.
Mr.. Harris then turned around
and bought the 160 acre farm ten
miles north of Leon, two miles south
Of Weldon, owned by the Hunestcn
State Bank, for which he paid $115
per acre. 1t is a dandy good farm,
one of the best in that section, and
he'll sell it for $50 an acre some
of these days.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Elected More School Teachers.

The Leon school board elected an
other batch of teachers the past
week, and now have, the corps of
teachers for the. coming year practi-
cally completed. Miss Gretchen
Mcclure, of .Indianola, was elect
ed to fill a vacancy in the
high School, Prof. B. E. Hoover,
of Charles City, was elected as man
ual training instructo to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of
Prof Fred J. Ehrhardt Miss Emma
Mark, of Pleasanton, was elected as
primary teacher and Misses Hattie
Lionberger and Freda Ferren, of
Leon as grade teachers
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Teachers Going to Be Scarce.

county Superintendent Miss Mabel
Horner informs us that it looks as if
there was going to be shortage of
teachers in Decatur county the COM
ing year. She requests that all
teachers who have not yet contract
ed for schools report to her, ard
that the secretaries of school boards
notify her If they have contracted
with a teacher, so that all schools
can be provided for. She does not
want to fill up our schools with out
side teachers If there are any home
teachers who have not secured
schools.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Davis City Reunion Next Week.

Grant Mallory, Oscar Goble, w. L.
Severe and others were in Leon last
Thursday distributing advertising
Reunion at Davis City, August 18th
to 18th. The Davis City reunion al
ways has a peculiar attraction for
Leon people, and they attend in
large numbers each year. This year
they say they will put the biggest
and best reunion they have ever held,
having secured a number of special
free attractions. Davis City has an
ideal park for such gatherings, and it
is fine place to go.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
G. b. Prices Big Clearance Sale.

G. B. Price, the north side clothier,
started his annual clearance sale last
Saturday, and is making big reduc-
tons on all lines of clothing and fur
nishing goods. He wants the room
for his new fall stock which will
shortly arrive and this is a great op-
portunity to secure clothing and fur
nishing goods at bargain prices, and
they are all new and up-to-date
goods, no old stock. Straw hats at
half price and everything else in
stock is offered at bargain prices. See
his big adv. in this issue and take ad-
vantage of the bargains which he is
Dff
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Free Movies Draw Crowds at Decat ur.

Quite large crowd were in at
tendance at the free moving picture
show given in the park at Decatur
City, by the business and professional
men last Saturday night. There was
count of the autos around the
square taken and they numbered 103.
They use high grade picture, but
owing to a defect in the machine used
some trouble was experienced during
the program and in order to show the
public that the business firms appre-
ciate patronage and presence they
placed an order for Valuable, up-tO-
date machine and will have it INSTALL
ed for use next Saturday night, and
this with the high grade reels will
assure an excellent show
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
"A Dozen New Ford Owners.

Estes & Co., the Leon Ford deal
ers, have disposed of an even dozen
new Fords since our last report, and
they could have sold number more
if they could have secured the cars.
They are expecting several car loads
in few days. The new purchasers
this week are ]. F. Fuller, j. W., Sell
& Son, Rev. Henry Esch, Lenna An
drew, w. F. Fletcher, Leon; F. l..
Clanton, A. j. Edwards, C. G. Jones
and Blair & Prather, Van Vert; P.
E. Bruner, Ray Campbell and r. E.
Jones, Decatur.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Tried to Dig Out of Jail.

]. C. McCarl, the young fellow
who was arrested on the charge of
stealing a mare and colt from the
pasture of U. r. Ramsey, near Van
Vert, made clumsy attempt to dig
out of Jail one day last week. On
account Of the excessive heat sheriff
Lorey had allowed McCarl to be at
large in the Jail, not locking him in
cell, and he dug hole in the plas-
tered ceiling and had removed one
brick from brick flue, evidently ex-
pecting to finish digging out that
night, but sheriff Lorey discovered
the attempt when he took McCarl his
supper, and he is now confined in a
roll
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
w. L. Barry's Davis City Implement
Store Burned Thursday Morning.

The big frame building owned by
Mrs. w. L. Barry, and occupied by
W. l.. Barry of Leon, with stock OF
implements and harness, at Davis
City, was destroyed by fire about 3
o'clock last Thursday morning, the
fire starting from an unknown source
in the front part of the building, and
it had made good progress when dis
covered. Only small part of the
stock was saved, Mr.. Barry estimat-
ing mis- loss on stock at $4,000, with
insurance of $4,000. The building
was large one, 70 foot front, and
located between the hotel and the
bridge on the east side of Main street.
There was $500 insurance on the
building.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Leon Won Two Games at Kellerton.

The Leon base ball team won both
games played at Kellerton last week.
On Thursday they defeated their old
8 to g. and on Friday won the game
with Davis City by score of 5 to 4.
Fusion and Wogan were the Leon
battery on Thursday and Moies and
Wogan on Friday. A large crowd
was present at both the games, and
they saw two mighty good games.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Resumed Trans.Continental Trip.

Rev. and Mrs. C. w. Shumway and
two sons, and Rev. F. B. Carter, Of
Los Angeles, California, who had
been visiting for couple of weeks at
the home of Mrs. Shumway's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Sanger, in
this city, resumed their auto jour,
ney to Boston, Mass, Monday morn
ing, where Rev. Shumway will enter
the Boston University to take post
graduate work the coming year, and
Rev. Carter will complete his college
education at Harvard University.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Sold Leon Opera House.

w. j. Butler, of Saline, Mo-, and j.
l.. Stanley, of this city, returned yes
terday morning from Cheyenne, Wy
oming, and Cripple Greek, Colorado.
While they were gone two trades
were made by Mr.. Butler. He first
traded the Leon opera house for an
500 acre farm near Cheyenne, Wy
oming, and then traded the farm for
business block in Cripple Creek,
Colorado.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Death of G. P. Bishop.

Mrs. j. c. Johnson received a
phone message last Friday, morning,
announcing the death of her father,
Mr.. G. P. Bishop, at his home in
Humeston. Mr.. Bishop had been in
feeble health for many months. He
went tc bed as usual Thursday even
in%, and was found dead in bed by
his wife when she went to call him
Friday morning, the physician saying
he had been dead for two or three
hours. Mrs. Johnson went by auto
to Humeston as soon as she received
the sad news of the death of her
father.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Returned From Auto Trip to Colo
RADIO and Wyoming.

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Hamilton and
baby and Charles Horn returned
Monday evening from an auto trip
to Colorado and Wyoming. They
visited many points of interest, Den
yer, Colorado Springs, Manitou, Es-
ties Park, and at Cheyenne, Wyom-
ing, they witnessed the Frontier Day
celebration. They were gone just
two weeks, and travelled 1921 miles,
and had just three small punctures
while on the trip.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10

Sheriff F. L. Lorey on Monday took
Hosea Scott and Theo Merrifield, OF
Davis City, to Creston, where they
were bound over by the commissions
4er to appear, at the next term Of tho
Federal Court to answer to the
charge Of selling liquor without -
government license. Both men ara
under Indictment in this county on
the charge Of selling liquor.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Library Notes.

1850 books were issued at the Ii
brary in June and 1895 in July. Z
"Story Hour" Saturday, August II
with music, readings and stories. ALI
boys and girls invited.
Only 43 per cent of the books cir
culated were adult fiction during the
month of July.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
No Jury Cases Will Be Tried at Aug
Mst Term OF Court.

The August term of the district
court will convene on Monday even
ing, August 21st. Clerk E. E. Beck
has received notice from Judge Ev-
ans, not to summon the jury until
further orders, as the attorneys have
agreed that the weather is entirely
too hot to try any jury cases at the
4.ugust term. A number of cases
will be tried to the court however,
and considerable probate business
transacted
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Jack Rabbit Stopped Threshing.

While bunch Of thfeshers were
at work on the farm Of =. NJ. Chas-
tain IT,, east Of Leon last Thursday,
a big JACK rabbit was scared up III
the field, and Mr.. Rabbit put a stop
to the whole th-eshing crew, all Of
the men and boys and dogs joining in
the chase to capture him, but he
showed G. clean pair of heels and es-
capped. Jack rabbits are very uncom-
mon in this country.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
viii Have New Court House Janitor.

Jerry Pickering, who has been the
efficient janitor of the court house
for a number Of years, will retire the
last OF. this month, the board of sup
ervisOrs having contracted with
Ralph Frost as janitor for the COM
ing year. Jerry has run things at
the court house for so long 1t will not
seem natural without him.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10
Help Wanted.

Men to take orders in exclusive
territories for my cleaner, Write for
proposition. Leon r. Oyerton, Pleas
anton, Iowa. i. 51-1t
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-10

3 For sale-A yearling Red Muley
bull calf, q good one. NJ. Grimm.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-10-21
LEGAL SIZES FOR FISH.

Inquiries indicate that there are
many who do not understand the ex-
act significance and necessity of the
six-inch law for brook trout and OF
similar regulations regarding the size
at which other species may be taken
Until an individual of a given
species has reached the prescribed
size it has never spawned, and if all
the individuals were caught before
they had arrived at the spawning
age it is perfectly plain that the com
plete determination of the species
would be matter of only short
time. 1t is therefore to the interest
of every angler to see that under
sized fish are not destroyed. Every
food and game fish should have a
chance to spawn at least once before
being taken.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-10-21
ICE ATTRACTS FISH.

Hibbard Raymond of the Lake
Keuka Fishing club has discovered
new way to catch black bass in hot
weather "Bass feel the hot weather
as much as we do" he said, $50 I
planned to make a place for them to
cool off in and then catch them out
Of it. The other day took cake of
ice and dropped it in the weeds in
the rocky cove off Fist point. Two
hours later | drifted by the spot with
golden sinners on my hooks and cap
tured two bass, one two and one
half and the other three pounds. I
wheeled around and snagged four
pounder. A few minutes later | had
caught eight nice bass. The cool wa
ter is refreshing to the bass and
sharpens their appetites. ."-Roches-
ter On. W Correspondent New
York World.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-10-21
PLANES WITH CLIPPED WINGS
French Aviators Are Compelled to
Learn Flying on "RclIers"
and "Penguins."

After | had received my prelimi-
nary instruction in the construction
of Nieuport machines (fast scouting
aeroplanes of French service) and
the technique of handling them, |
was put Oh a machine called the
roller" and given my first instruc-
ton in steering
The roller is simply a Nieuport
whose wings have been cut down to
such an extent that it viii not rise
except for perhaps foot or so in a
great burst of speed 1t runs almost
like a motorcar. BY its use one de-
velops the instinct for steering IN a
straight line and for turning 1t is
really much harder to steer a roller
along the ground than to steer a real
machine in the air. The contact
with the earth is always twisting and
turning it in the craziest fashion. BY
the time one. has finished his course
on the roller he understands hori-
zontal steering and knows something
about the management Of his engine
Perpendicular steering, which is
more important, of course, comes
when he is promoted to a penguin
This is a complete machine, except
that the engine is SO weak as moi tc
permit it to rise more than % or &c
feet. On it the student aviator prac-
tices rising and descending, and es'
pecially the art of landing.
Landing is the most difficult and
the most important department Of
aviation Half or three-quarters OF
the accidents occur because the avia-
tor has made a bad contact.-An
American Aviator in the Saturday
Evening Post
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-10-21
SEEK SUBSTITUTE FOR RENnET.

At cheese factories in Ontario
search for substitute for rennet has
followed the cutting off by the war
of the supply of calves stomachs
from Europe. Nearly as good results
are reported by Consul G. r. Tag
CART from pepsin, especially scale
pepsin, which is better than the pow
dered, and this costs only half as
much as rennet for the same yield of
cheese. 1t can be used either alone
or combined with such rennet of
home production as can be obtained.
The pepsin is dissolved in water
slightly warmed, and the factory at
Finch uses about four ounces to L.
600 pounds Of milk.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-10-21
PUTS BAN ON SHORT SKIRTS
Quaker College Authorities Give No.
tce That They viii Have None
of Them.

Scholastic powers are placing the
ban on immodest apparel of girl stu
dents. Modernist tendencies in dress
got check at Swarthmore college, a
co-educational institution in the good
old Quaker town of Swarthmore, Pa.
The dean of the women's college
recently sent out letter, which
speaks in plain terms, to every pa
rent and guardian who is planning
to send student to Swarthmore IN
the fall. The letter mentions the
fact that it is mailed before plans
for the autumn wardrobe can have
been completed. 1t distinctly says
that all clothes that do not meet the
approval of the authorities will be
remodeled and that those which can
not be made right viii be returned
home. Skirts must be of reasonable
length, chiffon waists are tabooed in
the classroom and gowns of immod-
est cut must not be worn at any
time.
Reports we're circulated last term
that the girl students were not liv-
ing up to the traditions Of the old
Quaker college and its customs in re-
gard to dress, that former students
and friends visiting the college we're
astonished at the short skirts. over
elaborate and far too decolette
gowns and fimsy blouses seen about
the dignifed old halls of the co-edu-
cational college. And they are not
going to have such goings-on at
SWarthmore