The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-04-05
YEARS AGO
Items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published q Quarter
Of a Century Ago.

Only one marriage license issued
this week, that being Isaac II. Riley
IL to Etheleen kimberlin 19.
Mrs. George Foreman died at her
home in this city last Friday morn
ing after an illness of several weeks.
day afternoon, conducted by Elder
Ebert OF the Christian church.
The Leon Cigar Factory shipped
over 10000 cigars to towns outside
OF Leon last Monday, besides filling
several orders for Leon merchants
The factory is crowded to its utmost
capacity.
Little Harry Mayer met with a
painful accident last Sunday, the
MARKS of which he will carry through
life. Harry and Charley Kline were
at W.. r., kline's barn, and had a
rope on his COW with. the end passed
over joist. The Kline boy was pre-
pairing to ride the COW and Harry
cows head would be tied close to the
joist and she could not hook, when
Sne gave a sudden lurch and pulled
the rope and Harry's fingers over the
rough timger, tearing all the muscles
and flesh from the end of the first
finger of his left hand, leaving the
amnutate it at the first joint.
Last Friday U. S. secret service Of
ficers" arrested Seth Dearley, farm
er living in Mercer county, Mo-,
short distance southeast of Pleasan-
ton for passing counterfeit silver
dollars. Lately a number of these
coins have appeared at all the towns
south south OF here ;l, h on the Marrow Gauge,
gainesville. The dollars were dated
1891, and look all right, but have no
ring to them, and have peculiar
Shiny or slippery feeling, 1t is
thought there is a band of counter
feiters making their headquarters in
the rough country along Little River,
but they have not been located: This
man Dearley is in good circumstance
es, owning farm OF 24O acres, al
though few years ago he had moth
ing, ana his arrest may show how he
has been accumulating his money.
The accused man was taken to ST..
Joe, Mo, anu number OF witnesses
from Gainesville passed through
here Monday to testify in the case.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Hoffhines celebrat-
eu their silver wedding anniversary
at their spacious home last Friday
They were the recipients of many
costly gifts OF silver to commemorate
the happy event.
During the hardest part of the ter
rifle wind storm last Friday evening,
tlc IOOl Ol llle COURT muse WdS ulS-
covered to be on fire. John Penni-
well at the risk of being blown from
the roof, went up through the attic
and crawled down on the roof and
extinguished the fire. 1t was a cour-
ageous act, for the wind was strong
enough to blow man off the roof
and not many persons would have
taken the chance Mr.. PenniWell did.
A few minutes more and nothing
could have saved the building. The
wind during the afternoon had blown
a limb from one of the trees in the
court house yard across the electric
light wires, pushing them down on
the tin roof, and the wind caused the
insulation to wear off the wires and
coming in contact with the tin roof,
caused short circuit and started the
tlre.
The trial of the old man Timothy
Moore in the district court resulted
in a verdict convicting him of at
tempt to commit manslaughter. His
wife testified they had been quarrel
ing and when she threatened to leave
him he attacked her with an axe:
The old man. stuck to his story that
he did not attack his wife, but the
jury throught different.