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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-24
Lonesome Ridge.

E. Cannon and wife accompanied
by Hey Gammill and family spent
Sunday at Levi Virden's near Keller
ton.
Will Bennett, wife and son Charles
spent last week with relatives at Da-
Wis City.
Miss Grace Garner of near Weldon
is spending few days with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. O. Garner.
Mrs. E. J. Evans visited with Mrs.
j. N. Still Monday.
Mrs. John. Allbaugh and children
spent Friday afternoon at John Min
or's.
Mrs. E. A. Little and son Elmer
spent Sunday at George Evans.
Clyde Waller and fanny spent
Sunday at the ]. N. Still home.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-24
Round Knoll.

Mrs. Fred Irving spent Tuesday
and Wednesday of last week with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Steen.
Mrs. Oscar West and Mrs. John
Wilson spent Thursday with their sis
ter, Mrs. Ed Carrier.
Frank Fullerton was in this vicin-
ity Thursday.
Albert McNichols called at the Rob
Palmer home Thursday.
Oscar West was a Des Moines
visitor Thursday.
Miss Velma McJimsey is working
at the Albert Fullerton home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Green and
children of Hopeville spent Saturday
and Sunday at the Lue Green home.
Miss Lena Irving spent Sunday
with Miss Flossie Palmer.
Clair Palmer spent Monday in
town with his cousin Billy Shipp!
Several from this vicinity attended
the Apostolic meetings at Van Vert
saturday night and Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Briner and chill
dren visited few days last week
with relatives in Missouri.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-24
PleasantOn.

Mrs. Belle Snethen and daughter
Ethel departed for Lamont last Sat
urday to attend the Latter Day Saints
Reunion.
Rosco Gentle visited his sister,
Mrs. S. A. Moore last Friday and Sat
urday.
Rev. Fair pastor of the G. u.
church preached his farewell sermon
last Sunday night to a large audience.
A gloom was over the entire audience
knowing that parting words were be-
ing spoken. but what is our loss is
some one else's gain as they will
leave scores of friends, all wishing
them good luck wherever they locate.
Joe l.. Warner and Arden Warner
of Stockton, California, visited the
formers sister, Mrs. Huston last
week.
Mrs. Cozad visited the Chautauqua
at Leon last week and with DR.. Max
we'll and daughter Madge.
Miss Lois Moore visited her grand
parents, Nh. and Mrs. Rufus Still last
Saturday and Sunday.
We understand that Gene Franklin
departed Monday for Des Moines to
enlist in the army. He will be in the
musical division. He has instructed
several bands in Decatur county.
Swift's tankage for sale by the Bid
d;cop Cool and Grain Co
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-24

Swift's tankage for sale by the Bid
olson Coal and Grain Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-24
Why You Must Act Quickly

$4,000 Hoosier Cabinets were sold in only
As days this spring, when it was announced
that prices were destined to increase. Hun
dreds of Hoosier agents all over the country
ordered all the cabinets they could possibly
get. Many shipments that were received one
day were entirely sold out the next
Hosts of women who failed to get the
Hooser are Fastening to take advantage of
the Hoosier Club Plan Sale and the last Of
the old-time prices.
This means that the small number Of
cabinets we have left will not go round.
Make up your mind you are going
to see these farewell Hoosier values
in our store. Decide while you still
have the chance not after it is too
late. This is our last announcement.
Let everything else go and see us
at once.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-24
CONVENIENCES
That Save Steps


Here are few of the convenience
es that save miles of steps-con-
veniences that save time and hours
of extra work.
If for no other reason than to
satisfy yourself, come and see
how they save time. Actually
use them in our store tomor-
row.
Mrs. Christine Frederick's Food
Guide and Salad Chart.
Large sanitary, self-cleaning flour
bin, with glass front.
Flour sitter that shakes out the
flour four times faster than the
ordinary sitter that grinds. Grit
can't pass through sieve, and 1t
won't wear out.
The removable metal bin, auto
matte feed. The only bin made
from which you can scoop sugar
out at the top as easily as you
can take it out at the bottom.
Simple system of household ac-
counting.
The Hoosier exclusive revolving
spice rack that brings all spices
to your-angers' ends instantly.
There are 80 other features Just
as important that you must see to
appreciate.
You incur no obligation to
buy unless you wish. We sim.
ply want to give you this
chance to decide now before
prices advance.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-24

For Sale-On the Stone farm 61a
miles northwest of leon, native lum-
Der, wood and posts. Lumber 4 to
10 feet, $1.50 per 100. Lumber IL
to 16 feet, $500 per 100. Fencing
posts to 20 cents piece. Wood,
stove length, $1.25 and $3.50 load.
Long wood, foot load Is cents
Come and see w. W. Fulton.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-24

Collections and adjustments OF ev.
cry description handled by bonded
attorneys on strict commission basis.
We start in where collection agencies
leave off and can positively collect
your outstanding accounts If there is
the remotest chance. References and
particulars upon request. CONNER
cial Reliance Association. Kansas
City, Missouri. 47-tf
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-24
WAIST PRESSING is A SPECIALITY

with us. We do not permit the young
men to have q monopoly of this bust
ness They press them out of shape,
but we press them back again to
their original form. We solicit the
patronage of ladies who desire to
have their waists and other garments
always look fresh and new. We
give such excellent results in our
cleaning and pressing that first GUS
toners always remain our patrons.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-08-24

Mrs. George Evans spent one af-
ternoon last week with her sister,
Mrs. e. j. Evans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Ward and
children of near Beaconsfield visited
over Sunday with relatives in this
vicinity.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
STOCK MARKET

New York. April 10--Opening-N lteria1 advances over the weeks clos ing quotations were registered in spec ialties at today's opening of the stock exchange, mercantile Marines, Cruel b1e Steel, Industrial Alcohol and Mex ican Petroleum soon rising two points or over, while American Zinc, Butte & Superior, Westinghouse, Studebaker and Goodrich improved a point or more. Marine common featured the early dealings with an initial sale of six thousand shares at 22A to 22
 against last Saturdays final price of 2OA The preferred opened with three thousand share atA75 1s to 76. a maximum gain of 2 ss: There was heavy trading also in other active specialties.
 Noon-The active trading of the first hour was made up of the usual favorites,x Marines leading the list to an overwhelming degree with exten- sive dealings in ,CFucibIe. Internation- tl Nickel and Zinc. The latter rose 1 3s to the new record of 961k with further gains in the motor group. Willys- Overland advancing to 23s. United States Steel was active and strong. rising almost a point, but re- ceding later with other speculative tissues. Rails suffered from the usual neglect except Reading, Norfolk & Western and Rock Island, which were in moderate demand Bonds were steady
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

them better educational opportunities than a country school in a district of bod roads.
 ''Consequently, it would be of great value in our contest to have photo graphs giving a picture lesson to the eyes of our law makers of what it means to children in our rural dis trfcts to have their school house To- cated on good roads. This is only one idea that has come to me. There are hundreds of such lessons on the value of good roads which can be taught by photographs.
 Perhaps the best way to doe this is through photographs contrasting good. and bad road conditions. We will arrange our exhibit to do that but in order to allow individual competi- tors to take advantage of some such striking contrast as may have come to their attention the association has not limited competitors to one pho tograph, or to one prize. Each compe- titor can send in as many photographs as he wishes, and he will get as many prizes as his work deserves.
 Photographs will be judged first upon their merit in strikingly empha- sizing road conditions (good or bad) second in their pictorial interest, and third in their photographic excel lence.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
 ON ccoNTEs X

Washington, April 107-A nation wide photographic contest in the in. terest of the Good Roads Every where movement, with cash prizes of s2,6oo open to. everybody. was an nounced at the. National Highways As sociation headquarters here today. < e Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the two well known writers, Miss Ida Tar belN and MT. Mark Sullivan, will serve as judges in the contest.
 Purpose of the Contest. The photographs . selected in the com petition will be used to establish in Washington a national exhibit on the good roads problem designed pri- marily to pfomote 3 nationally con ceived scheme of highways
 In connection with the pending leg isIation in Congress to have the fed eral government sh oulder a part of the task of good roads construction, the National Highways Association, it is explained, desires to have adopted a plan for a, system of national high ways, surveyed and located by expert l engineers. so that federal funds will not be spent in hit miss pork barreP' fashion, but in accordance with a scientific plan as any railroad 1 is built or as the government itself did in the case of the Panama Canal. BN means of the photographic con test 1t is proposed to gather a com i p1ete picture of the good and bad road problem as it exists in every. section l of the. country, and this the associa- tion will use in it's effort to obtain scientific ''non-pork'' legislation from Congress
 | Prizes to be Awarded.
 The cash prizes of $2,6OO were sub scribed by General Coleman du Pont, Chairman of the Board of National 1 Councillors and Charles Henry Davis, i President of the National Highways association. The competition will be i known as the du Pont-Davis Road l Photograph Prize Contest,
 The first prize, to be given for the most striking (good or bad) road photograph, will be a $500 cash | award. In all there will be 166 /cash
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
NOTICE.

SPECIAL MEETING OF ELECTORS
 WARNING is hereby given to the electors of the City of 4 Bridgeport, that a special meeting of the electors of said city will be held on Saturday, April 15, 1916, for the purpose of voting on the following questions, which shall be separately answered YES, or 'tNO'' to witt
 Shall an issue of Bonds be authoriz- ed to be known as School Bonds to an amount not exceeding $3Oo,OO0.0O under a resolution of the Common Council adopted February T, 1S162
 Shall an issue of bonds be auth orized to be known as Sewer Bonds 0O0.00 under a. resolution of the Com mon Council adopted February T, 1916?
 Shall an issue of bonds be auth orized to be known as Pavement Bonds" to an amount not exceeding Common Council adopted February T., 1916? ,. Shall an issue of bonds be author ized to be known as Bridge Bonds (Stratford Ave; East Washington Ave, and. Grand St., bridge approach es), to an amount not1exceeding $25O,- 0O0.0O under a resolution of the Com mon Council adopted February 2, 1916?
 Shall an issue of bonds be authoriz- ed to be known as Police and Fire Department Bonds to an amount not exceeding $125,00o under a reso- | lution of the Common Council adopt ed February T, 1916? Shall an issue of bonds be authoriz- ed to be known as Public Clinic Bonds to an amount not exceeding l $75,oO0.0O under a resolution of the Common Council adopted February 7th, 1916?
 Shall an issue of\bonds be authoriz- ed to be known as Park Bonds" to an amount not. exceeding $275,000.OO l under a resolution of the Common ! Council adopted February T, 1918? Shall an issue of bonds be authoriz- ed to be known as Street Extension Bonds to an amount not exceeding I$25O, 100000 under a resolution of the | Common Council adopted February 2 1916?
 | Voting machines will. be open from 1 6 o'clock a. m. to 5 o'clock p. n1., for I the registration of the votes of the electors of, said city entitled to vote at said meeting, at the following 1 places, to wit: FIRST. DISTRICT i34 Court Street. >t l SECOND DISTRICT | 62 Kiefer Street. l THIRD DISTRICT l 620 Bostwick Ave, (Rakoczy Ha1l)
 FOURTH DISTRICT lZ51 state street. | FIFTH DISTRICT E 611 Norman Street.
 SIXTH DISTRICT l. 1173 North Avenue | SEVENTH DISTRICT I 1878 Main Street. l EIGHTH DISTRICT l ! 2032 Main Street. I NINTH DISTRICT I Corner of East Main and SheltoT Streets.
 TENTH DISTRICT
 42 Beach Street. l ELEVENTH DISTRICT
 416- East Main Street. TWELFTH DISTRICT
 1536 Seaview Ave, s(F'irst Pyecinct]
 289 Central Ave. (Second Precinct 5 Given under my hand this Sth day of April, A. D., 1916. I CLIFFORD B. WILSON,
 Mayor. ] II z de
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
TAXES, 1915

Notice is hereby given to the tax payers of the City of Bridgeport that the taxes on the grand list of 1915 are now due and payable at the Tax Col lector's Office, Room 6, City Hall. The undersigned will be at the Collectors 8 Office. as above, on May 1, 1916, and daily thereafter, Sunday excepted, from sNa. m. to p. n1-, and Saturday s from a. m. to 12 m., for the purpose of collecting said taxes. After June Is as required by law, interest at the rate of three-quarters of one per cent: will be Added to all unpaid taxes, and the same on the first of each suc- ceedinsS month.
 HOWARD F. SMITH.
 ITS buM Collector.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
Over s4.ooo, 900 am Hour.

It is estimated that the war is cost ing about $10O, 100000 a dayb or over $4,O0O.090 every hour. Of Great Brit tain's loans approximately $2,5O0,o0O 900 have gone to her allies. Assum- ing that the war will last another year, additional, loans Of over $35,- 000,000,000 will be required, which will bring the grand total of debts of the belligerent powers to the astound- ing total of $92,0O0,00O,ooO as against $27, 27S. 100000 previous to the war. The estimated population of the sever powers is 417,OO0,00O hence if the war lasts another year, the total debts will exceed $220 per capita. The in terest bearing debt of the United States isS1ess than $1D per capita
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

prizes of $10O.
 There will be five second prizes of $10O eachs 20 third prizes of $25 each, 40 fourth prizes of SIS each. and 100 fifth prizes of $5 each, making 166 chances in all for each person en- teringath the contest.
 The competition will be kept open for eight months, closing at noon, Tuesday Novembe 7th. All photo graphs should be addressed, to Good Roads Everywhere" Photograph Con- test, National Highways Association, Washington, D. c.
 Discusses Photographs Desired.
 Discussing the photographic contest on Good Roads, General du Pont of | the National Highways Association said today;
 ftThe purpose of our association in this matter is to see to it that, when I Uncle Sam enters upon this work of road buflding, he starts off .on the right road. The good roads issue is a national problem as well as 3 state and county problem. Whatever 1 the federal government does in this matter, should be done on a national basis plan nationally con I ceived.
 'eEvery member of Congress knows the good roads problem in his dis trict or state, of course, but we want to have him know it nationally.
 We have inaugurated this photo graphic contest as a first step in this i direction and we believe that with the assistance of all Americans inter ested in the good roads problem we can make it a very important step. An exhibit of photographs. picturing the good roads problem as it exists in every section of the country will make a most graphic and, forcefu1 lesson
 We want the subjects of the photo graphs in this contest to demonstrate not 1on1y:J how bad roads are, and how 1 good they can be made, but also what 1t means to the welfare of every man, l woman and child in the United States 1 to have good roads. For instance we all know that a country school house located in a district of good l roads has a far better attendance ot pupils and for that reason can offer
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
Loans to Germanv,s -AIlies.-

A war loan to Turkey was reported on Nov. 21.f1914, of $50.oOO, 900. Jan. 31, 1915, it was reported that Germany had sent Turkey, in. gold, sums amounting to about $l5,OOO,OOo. A loan of $126.O00, ,0O0 to Austria was reported July 10, 1915, and in Octol Der, 1915, a despatch from Rome stated that Germany had lent the Bull gars $12,5O0,O 900 for. the families of reservists, to a1lay dissatisfac ction among the Bulgarian troops.
 The war debt of Germany is, in round figures. about $s, 915, ,0Oo,00
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
New Haven Financing

It is understood that the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.,. will pay off a portion of It's $27,O0o,- poo per cent. gold notes due on May : other year. The indications are that, In view of the increased earnings of the company. the improved invest- naent demand, and the fact that the collateral behind the notes is excellent the company hopes to extend these notes are 9 lower interest rate than that which they now bear.
 Loans to Nicaragua.
 The New York banking firm, of J. & ". Selignan and Brown Brothers own fifty per cent. of the stock of the Mi caragua National Railway. They also own 1fty-one per cent. of the stock of the Nicaragua National Bank. Through this bank they have given Nicaragua a. currency which can safe Iy be accepted by all traders. They have also made loan to the Nicara- guam agpyernrn ent. This loan amounts to more than million dollars The Nicaraguan government had already borrowed considerable sum of money from Europe It had contracted to pay six per. cent. tos it's European creditors J. & W. SeIigman and Brown Brothers arranged a reduction of that interest from six per cent. to
 
 taken, a first lien on the. customs-re- ceipts. The American creditors took second lien. They then asked our State Department to appoint a col lector-general. Our State Depart n1ent appointed Ham, and he has doubled the revenues by the device of actually collecting them. But there were arrears of interest To meet this demand, our governn ent gives three million dollars. In theory we give Nicaragua. this money in re- turn for three naval bases on Great Corn Island. Little Corn Island. and the Gulf of Fonseca- and also in re- turn for the exclusive right to build an ihteroceanic canal across Nicara- guam territory.
 Substitute for QuicksHver.
 The d1 Pont Powder Go. has discov- cred substitute which will reduce by 50 per cent. the consumption of quicksilver for all explosives. This means that the companYbWilI be able to i'll $160, 100000 in war contracts on time, which, without it, would be an impossible undertaking. Quicksil- yer is the essence of rnercuric fulTnin- ate, or illuminate of mercury. most common of many highly explosive salts. A month ago estimates of amount of quicksilver output of the world for 1914. United States pro- duced 11,303 hasks in 1914 and &C., 681 in 1915. Output this year is esti-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
Texas Onion Cron.

The Texas onion crop Of 1916 is es- timated to cover 1OsO57 acres, as com pared with S,943 acres in 1915, an in crease of about 2 per cent. The con dition of the crop on April 1 is esti- mated as 55 per cent. of normal
 which forecasts a. yield of about 1925 bushels per acre, or total produc- tion of 1,9S5.e72 bushels. the equiva- lent of 4,200 cars of 46O bushels each
 In 1915 the shipments amounted, to about 4 6O7 cars
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
BRIEF NEWS NOTES.

David R. Francis, newly appointed ambassador to Russia, sailed from New York on the steamer Oscar IT to take up his post at Petrograd.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
U. s. STEEL REPORT

statement of unified orders of the United States Steel Corporation, issued today. again broke all records The orders stood, on March 31, at g, ,3a1, ,oOe1 tons, an increase of TSP e35 tons over Feb. 29 when there were 8, ,56s ,966 tons. the previous high record.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

President and Mrs. Wilson abandon ed their proposed weekend cruise on the yacht Mayfower because of a heavy. storm on Chesapeake bay.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

Hundreds of American automobiles mostly for use with the army ir France. are stacked up in piles ten fec high along the Thames in I40ndon.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

The fist birthday of King Albert of Belgium was celebrated with an im= pressive ceremony at the Belgian ministry of war at Havre. King Albert remained at the front.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
Exchange seats soId.

Last week three New York Stock Exchange seats were sold for $61, 900 each. Two seats on the Philadelphia Exchange sold for $3,70O each.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

Thirteen water carrying auto trucks have been purchased in New York and shipped to the border for use with the expeditionary forces.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

It pays to trade at E. H. Dillon s. Co.'S, 1,10E Main street. Here you will find the choicest creations of the worlds greatest modistes. with hun dreds of beautiful hats from our own work room.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

Traffic on the Washington and ola Dominion railroad lines, operating be- tween Washington and B1uemont, Va, was tied up by. a strike of the em- pIoyes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

Niney men who are signed up to go to the army training camp at Platts- burg this summer were drilled for the first time in the open at Governors Island. !
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
|, Millions From Tourists.

A recent estimate of the money ex- pended by Italy by the thousands of foreign tourists who have annually visited that country places the sum each year at $10O,0OO,OOO. At present, however, just when Italy most needs money this golden stream is cut off.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
@ of Finance finance:

mated at 20, 900 hasks. At beginning g of war quicksilver was $38 a, flash. It crossed $500 this year and is now down to $20O,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

SPRING PIONEERING
 PLANTS. JOHN fsECK & SON.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

Louis B. Fulton, widely known as an inventor, and president of the Cap lin Fulton Manufacturing Co.,, died at Pi1+sburgh.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10
New York Stock.
 Exchange Quotations

Reported over the private wires of I. L. Watson & Co., Bankers and Brokers. Corner Main and John Sts., Bridgeport, Conn Members of New
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

The crews of the Ho1Iand-America liners recently arrived at Rotterdam
 have joined the ranks oN the. striking seamen. E
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

:. Plans are being made to reorganize the hospital at Sing Sing prison and establish a clinic and medical research bureau
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

A bill stopping-the Importation of 1uxuries into France was submitted to Parliament by Minister of Finance Rlpot. l-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-10

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