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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-01

DIR. STOCKDALE wants every
person who suffers from chronic
disease-it makes no difference how
bad the case, or how long they have
suffered-to call and consult him.
He will make an examination, tell
exactly what can be done, whether
durable or not, how long It will re-
quire and all about it. He treats
only chronic diseases. He has de-
voted over twenty years OF his life
to the study and treatment OF
Chronic Diseases Of the Eye,
Ear, Nose, Throat, Lungs. Stom-
a aGh Ly Gafa g1He'S a Gons kana
Rheumatism, Blood and Skin
Diseases; Piles and all Rectal
DIR. STOCKDALE has a system of
treatment which he believes is the
best known for chronic diseases. He
is able to relieve many cases that
have resisted other treatments. He
wants it distinctly understood that
he does not undertake any case that
he believes can not be helped and
will tell the patient candidly.
HE HAS A SPECIAL TREAT
MENT FOR NERVOUS AND PHYS
ICAL WEAKNESS, CALL AND
GET HIS OPINION AND ADVICE
FREE OF CHARGE.
If you cannot visit him personally
write him at his home office.
Address
DIR. Il. A. STOCKDALE -"
Utica Building, Des Moines, Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-01
SCHOOL NOTES
ANNA MERRIFIELD
MARION SLADE
Editors

X X j: 4 i: X X j: X X X X X x
The noble mind has no resent
ments.
Several high school graduates Wis
tied the various classes recently.
The new semester's work is now
going on. smoothly and everyone is
enjoying his work.
Miss LiOnberger's room was visit
ed by LYDIA Stephens Thursday morn
ing.
The sixth grade had geographical
lantern pictures Friday afternoon
which were enjoyed by all.
Mrs. Berry and Mrs. Elwell were
visitors in the third grade and in
Miss Marks room.
Miss Moore has been sick the past
week.
The Sth grade are getting ready
for the state examinations.
At the south school Mrs. Tansey
and Mrs. Pullen visited Miss Men,
Ough's room Wednesday.
Many of the scholars who have
been absent are again in school.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-01
Presbyterian Church Notes.

Presbyterian services to be held at
the Baptist church are Sunday school
at 10, preaching at II. Morning
theme will be Marriage" Immedi-
ately after the morning service the
annual meeting of the congregation
will be held. Evening services at
1880. We very earnestly solicit a
full attendance of the membership
and invite all others to be present
and enjoy the services with us.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-01
Pleasant Valley Baptist Church.

Revival meetings will commence
at the Pleasant Valley Baptist church
on Monday, Feb. 5th. conducted by
Rev. E. G. Vanderpool as pastor and
assisted by Rev. v. F.. Walker OF
Princeton, Mo. Let all make ar
rangements to attend every service
and give your most earnest prayer
For the success of the meetings.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-01

which time the said creditors may
attend, prove their claims, appoint q
transact such other business as may
properly come before said meeting.
Dated this 31st day of January,
1917.
j. w. KRIDELBAUGH,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
. Office at Charlton Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-01
MONEY!!

The Mint makes 1t and under the
terms of the Continental Mortgage
Company you can secure 1t ct So
for any purpose on approved real e.
tate. Terms easy. tell us your wants
and we will cooperate with you.
Petty & Company,
141s Lytton Bldg. Chicago, Ill
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-01

Collections and adjustments OF ev--
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 Att
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-01
watch Grand River Grow

DR.. Carr reports a boy born to
Brit Edwards and wife Sunday, 21st.
To Elma Brand and wife a girl, Sun
day, 14th. To Pat Carr and wife
boy, Saturday, 18th. To Walter .Ov-
erholtzer and wife, girl, Tuesday,
16th.-Grand River Local
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-01

For sale-on the Stone farm. s.s
northeast of Decatur, native lumber
of all kinds, fence posts, split or
sawed and stove wood. w. w. Full
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-01

Order cut flowers and floral de-
signs from o. e. Hull, local agent of
Lozier, of Des Moines, at The Re-
porter office. Orders sent by phone
or mail, but order as early as pos
sible
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-01

1t might be remarked that men
are about as successful as husbands
as women are as wives. regardless OF
the superior air assumed by the
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-01

Don't forget the Saturday after
noon matinee at the Idle Hour
theatre at 3 o'clock. Admission s
and 10 cents. {,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
KEEPING NAvY's SECRETS

.TTAVE you noticed how carefully
the newspapers of the country
have followed the suggestion OF
Secretary Daniels that they make no
mention of the movements of the
United States Navy that might en-
barrass the government in its prepar-
ations for war? Not word has crept
into the pages of even the yellowest
of journals that might give aid or
comfort to an enemy power since that
request for silence went forth.
This much is apparent, but 1t is not
generally known that for some weeks
in advance of that date, the Associated
Press, the greatest news gathering or
ganization in the world, voluntarily
had ceased to carry dispatches relat-
ing to the movement of American ves-
sells of war or navy yard activities.
The Telegraph is proud to be the
only evening newspaper in the Cen
trail Pennsylvania field to be served
by the Associated Press-an associa-
ton that places patriotic motives and
service to country before even its own
great business of keeping the public
informed concerning the progress of
the great world drama now being en-
acted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
GARDENING TALKS

TARDENING talks will be daily
~ feature of the Telegraph be-
ginning to-day. These little talks have
been prepared by experts in the De-
partment of Agriculture at Washing
ton. They are intended for the man
or woman who desires to start a
backyard garden, but does not know
Just how to go about it. There are
hundreds of such in Harrisburg. By
following closely the instructions given
in these articles there will be no rea-
son why they should not have success
full gardens and thereby materially
reduce the high cost of living as well
as add chapter of outdoor enjoy
ment to their summer recreations,
DO not experiment in gardening. Read
the Telegraph's little talks and make
success certain.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
Ye Winds of March

O, blow and blow, We March winds
blow,
My heart is glad, for we'll I know,
What friends you are:
Then let your loudest trumpets blare,
Peal after peal upon the air,
And sound afar.
The Ship of Winter anchored here,
Shall break her chains and disappear
Before your blast
Then blow and blow again, we pray,
Till snow and ice have passed away,
They cannot last.
The task fulfilled, thy softer note,
Shall penetrate the wales remote,
That dream to-day;
Then pussy willows shall appear,
And all the flowers we love So dear,
In glad array.
The green creeps back into the trees,
And bird-song laden every breeze,
And all be glad;
So blow and blow ye March winds
blow,
And thou shalt win, full well We know
Thou art not mad,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
Dress Not Enough

Whv don't the women stand
straight, hold up their heads, throw
their shoulders back and look at you
as the queens that they are? AS a rule
they depend upon their dress, their
hats gloves, shoes, waists to make
them look attractive and neglect that
feature of their appearance that is
most important - their carriage and
their bodily form. There are too many
hollow chests aud stoop shoulders go
ing about We think that Columbus
has the finest looking women i'm the
world, and yet our faith is sometimes
shattered by some pale, fragile forms
and bony bosoms that appear on the
trolley and other public places The
women should think more of them
selves than of the fashions and thus
make womanhood appear at its very
best. 1t is not the finest dresser who
is the most beautiful woman.-From
the Ohio State Journal,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
A Lesson of 1861

The influential and highly honor
able part taken by American citizens
of German birth i'm maintaining the
Union and in overthrowing slavery
is one of the most precious heritages
of German -Americanism. The men
who had left Germany following 1S4S
were militantly loyal to Abraham
Lincoln and ardently sympathetic
toward democratic liberty. No taint
OF Hohenzollern political principles
attached to them. In New York they
organized six volunteer regiments in
the first half of 1861, and it is not too
much to say that they saved Missouri
to the Union when the political for
bears of such men as william Joel
Stone were trying to take it out,
But among every considerable body
of men are black sheep. In 1861, as
now, there were men of German birth
disloyal to the country of their adop-
tion. Locally they belonged to a po-
lltlcal organization that declared.
among other palpable perversions of
fact, that the war had been forced"
upon the country by the Lincoln ad-
ministration. They sympathized with
Jefferson Davis and his cause. They
upheld the right of secession, and
there was evidence that they We're
in traitorous communication with the
enemy. Some of them went TO Rich
mond even as now men are going to
Mexico.
Their fellow Germans took note of
these activities in a way that, as 1t
seems to us, is full of instruction for
the present generation. They did not
seek to protect or to excuse the Ger
man eopperheads, They denounced
them and exposed them. They said:
1T is our special business to put in
order disloyal German Americans"
on August 2, 1861, the organization
that represented the German -Ameri-
cans of New York unanimously pass
ed resolutions dissociating themselves
from all of their former land who put
any allegiance above that of their
citizenship. A committee consisting
of Henry Richard Adam Roediger
and Joseph Weyand was appointed
to present the resolution to the Presi-
dent. 1t was particularly requested
that nest of German copperheads in
the New York custom house. surViV-
ors of the Buchanan administration,
should be broken up, The National
Zeitung, a newspaper that attacked
the administration, was condemned
and disavowed. Abraham Lincoln
referred this memorial to General
Barney, the then collector of the port,
and the document is a priced pos
session of the family of General
Barney.
The great body of German-Ameri-
cans are heartily loyal, The bowling
katser-lovers are in a minority. 1t
should not be necessary for outsiders
to point to the duty resting ON the
majority. The men of 1851 did not
need prompting, They acted with
energy on their own aecord.-New
York Globe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
SUGGESTION TO ENGLAND

WYE have before us a copy of a
wv publication entitled German
Prisoners i'm Great Britain" It
is profusely illustrated and tells it's
story in picture form. German pris-
oners, we gather from it,. have every
thing worth while in England except
liberty: The camps are beautifully To-
Gated, they have well-appointed DOR
mitories and dining halls and recrea-
ton apienty under delightful sur
roundings. They have their gardens.
their pets and their visiting days. The
book might be named why You
Should Become a German. Prisoner in
England' and not go far astray. We
suggest that Great Britain quietly dis
tribute about 100000 of them along
the German front In France. But be-
fore doing that 1t might be just as
well for them to provide a lot more
room in the prison camps.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
PENSIONS FOR PREACHERS

T>HH success of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in its effort to
raise $1,000, zoe for She endow-
ment of pension fund for aged or
disabled ministers ought to encourage
the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the
Baptists and the Congregationalists
who have similar movements under
way. The ease with which the Epis-
eopal campaign was carried to a tri-
pmphant conclusion reflects great
credit upon the business judg-
pent of those who originated and di-
Fected 1t, They got the project under
way in period of unprecedented ma
tional prosperity and conducted it in
a~thoroughly systematic manner.
What the Episcopal Church has
done, every church can do. 1t is a
notorious fact that preachers are the
most poorly paid professional men in
the world. They share very little in
pur material prosperity, but no ad-
vance in the cost of living ever over
looks them. Unquestionably, many
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
More About Ashes
% the Editor of the Telegraph,

To the Editor Of the Telegraph:
Harrisburg, Pa, March 13, 1917.
The ash situation in certain parts
of the city is in such a state of af
fairs that some drastic action should
be taken by the voters and taxpayers
to bring this important matter to a
focus and cut out this foolishness.
Just who is to blame, no one knows,
but it is high time some definite action
be taken. Several weeks ago seven
inspectors were appointed to see that
these collections were made regular
ly, but up to the present time both
the inspectors and collectors have
failed to put in their appearance at
some of the residences located in the
central part of Harrisburg If man
fails to keep his back yard clean as
which he owns and holds the deed for,
paying heavy taxes each year, the
city health department in some un-
known way gets wind of the case and
notifies the property holder unless he
cleans up his premises legal action
will be taken against him. But these
same officials, whom we depend on to
see that these laws are carried out,
refuse to employ idle men who are
begging for work to remove these
ashes. 1t is a disgrace to our pro-
gressive city that these conditions
exist and shame that we must say
we elect and appoint men with brains
to see that such things may not occur.
You call up the Public Safety De-
partment and make inquiry as to when
your ashes will be removed, you are
referred to the city Health Depart
ment. And there is one thing settled,
you cannot sit in your office nowadays
smoking cigarets when you know
your place is out helping the taXpay-
er make the city clean.
TAXPAYER
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
Appeals to. Pennsylvania
he Editor of the Telegraph:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
The time has come when the Penn
sylVania Committee must appeal to
the State, as a whole, for renewed
interest in the welfare of the Belgian
people. This time it is the welfare of
the children.
The babies of Belgium are well
cared for and thriving, and while the
older people have been on very short
rations, still they do not show to any
appreciable extent the results of un-
der-feeding. The story is entirely
different where it relates to the
children. Owing to under-feeding
and consequent malnutrition, the
children of Belgium are falling easy
victims to the various diseases of
childhood, tuberculosis, rickets, and
other diseases based upon loss of
physical vitality are rampant in Bel
GUM.
Herbert c. Hoover, the man who
has done most to keep the name of
the United States proudly before the
eyes of the belligerent nations OF
Europe, is making "A special, personal
appeal for the support of his country
men.
il there is any one reading this let
ter in your paper who feels willing to
make another effort to help save the
children of Belgium and, incidentally,
to support the greatest American en-
terprise which has been put before
the world in the last hundred years,
will he or she write to the Pennsyl-
vania Committee of the Commission
for Relief in Belgium, 1924 Walnut
street, Philadelphia?
PENNSYLVANIA COMMITTEE,
RELIEF OF BELGIUM,
1924 Walnut Street,
PHILADELPHIA
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
Haroun Al RaschId

one day Haroun al Raschid read
A book wherein the poet saidl
where are the kings, and where the
rest
OF those who once the world possess
ed?
They're gone with all their pomp and
showi
They're gone the way that thou shalt
go.
80 thou who choosest for thy share
The world, and what the world calls
fair. ~
Take all that it can give or lend,
But know that death is at the end"
Haroun al Raschid bowed his head
Tears fell upon the page he read,
-Longfellow
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
READ! READ! READl

MAXWELL has writ
Wv ten for Golfers Weekly an
article on reading that ought
to be in the hands of every man. We
almost said every young man. for the
author directs his remarks especially
to the young, but what he says ap-
plies to the mature in years quite
as much as to the boy or girl just
starting out in life, except that the
reading habit, like any other, is more
easily cultivated in youth. Says he:
If were 21 again should read
many books, l should read the
standard novels to get a good way
of expressing my thoughts. l should
study the great philosophers, but
with the temper of an iconoclast.
The study of philosophy is a Won
derful stimulus to the intellect, but 3
must be undertaken with a mind
alert to fallacy, Then there are
books which present actualities in
statistical form and couple such
statistics with authoritative eX-
planatory comment. l refer to the
various Government reports on
various subjects that engage the
interest of the man who wishes to
be well informed, Our Government
wastes thousands of dollars prints
ing these reports, which need not
would read,
Six hours a day of reading may
make the difference between a $780,
600 a year man or $25 week clerk,
Mr., Maxwell. says, and that is true.
No learning can be acquired without
reading and there is little reading
that is not beneficial, A thorough
course in carefully selected reading is
almost, If not quite, the equivalent of
a college education and any man with
a common school training who reads
persistently and wisely will overtop in
long-ruh accomplishment the college
student who leaves books behind him
when campus days are over,
Benjamin Franklin said that he
gathered his knowledge of English
composition from a careful perusal
of The Spectator, trying to remem-
ber what he read and then reproduc-
ing it from memory, improving where
he thought possible. Now, improving
upon The Spectator is not one of the
lightest tasks in the world and any
young man who sets out to follow the
example of Franklin will have his
work cut out for him, but whether
he succeeds or not, he will be greatly
benefited thereby and will be repaid
for his effort.
Read Readl Read But don't stop
there. Apply the knowledge thus ac-
quired, The hidden talent earns no
dividends,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Willing Spencer, the diplomat who
has been transferred to Toxic, is a
Philadelphia attorney.
DR.. p. M. Sexias, the Pittsburgh
athlete, is urging larger appropriations
for Fairgrounds as the best means of
training boys.
Col. Asher Miner, commander of
the Third artillery, is closing thirty
years in the National Guard
X-Representative J. r. Jones is
mentioned as a possible appointee for
Judge in SchuyllSill county to succeed
Judge Brumm.
-Ex-Lieutenant Governor L. A.
Watres, of Scranton, formerly colonel
of the Thirteenth regiment, still main
tains his interest in National Guard
matters.
III. TT. Robertson, Pittsburgh
manufactures, has been chosen to
head the safety council in that city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
THE PEOPLES FORUM
By BRIGGS

tional anthem do we find whose
broad stripes and bright stars through
the periods night Ger the ramparts
we watched We're so gallantly stream<
ing?" In the Civil War l marched
at night with it flying.
w. A. COTTER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
FLYING the Flag

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Under the heading Rules for Fly
ing the Flag" Harry Lee King, depu-
ty commissioner Boy Scouts of
spect to fly the flag at night Why,
then, in what is taken to be the ma
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
This What ]. r. Meant7

"Let the old die first Colonel
Roosevelt says in urging that the
young and unmarried should not 20
to the front until after the aged and
married have succumbed. There is a
suspicion that what he meant to write
was, Let the old guard die frst."--
New York Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
HUMPS AND MUMPS.
When Willie saw a camel
He marveled at the humps
1T is" he said TO Saml,
"A funny place for humps"

Arthur Ito his best girls sister):
Your sister let's me kiss her. Won't
Fou let me kiss you?
Little Sister (haughtily): No! I
don't allow all the gentlemen to kiss
ne that sister does.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH is

Say not ye, There are get four
months, and then cometh the harvest!
behold, say unto you, Lift up your
eyes, and look on the fields, that they
are tohite and already unto hdrUest.-
JOHN 4:35.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15

bright and efficient young men are
kept out of the ministry by fear of
poverty-stricken old age, 1t follows
then that the pension fund universal
would encourage boys to study for the
ministry who now take up other lines
of work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
An Apprehension

$50 you are learning. at your time
of life, to shoot and riden' 1
"Yes, SIR" the cautious man re-
piled. 'T don't want any war. But If
one should accidentally break out. I
desire to be able to do something be-
sides hang around camp and wash
dishes, ,"--Washington Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-15
In the Silent Onera

what do YOU think of my daugh-
ter's voice? Do you think she would
make a success on the stage?"
She might - in the movies De-
troit Free Press.