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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-09-06
LOok-A Bargain.

On account of having to spend nine
months of my time in the northwest,
l offer my residence and adjoining
acreage for sale. New nine room
house, good barn and garage, and
other good improvements. This prop
erty is located one block south of the
beautiful Harvey park on Main street.
Will give time to right parties. If
you want a good home with an acre
age, don't fail to see this bargain
51-2t- ga Will McKern.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-09-06
Red Cross Organized at Woodland

A Red Cross branch was organiz-
ed at Woodland Saturday evening,
with the following officers: Gideon
Broline chairman; Mrs. G. c.. Dye,
vice chairman; Grace Rayn, secre-
tary, and Mrs. A. F. Richardson
treasurer. Hon. V. R. McGinnis was
unable to be present at this meeting,
but expects to be present at a meet
ing in the near future The next
meeting will be held at Woodland on
Saturday evening, Sept 18th.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-09-06
Third Iowa Cavalry Reunion at Leon
Sept. 10th and Goth.

The annual reunion of the gallant
Third Iowa Cavalry will be held at
Leon on Wednesday and Thursday,
Sept. 18th and 10th, and arrange
ments should be made to entertain
these old veterans in a fitting man
ner during the two days they are in
Leon.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-09-06
Iowa County Picnic.

The former residents of Iowa
county who now make their home in
Decatur county, will hold their 14th
annual picnic at David Owens place
In Franklin township on Saturday,
Sept. 18th. A big day is being plan
ned and all former residents OF Iowa
county are requested to be in attend
ancp
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-09-06
The Peacock.

The first firing shows the proud
bird, with trailing tail, suddenly the
tail spreads to it's full size, disclos-
ing to view a gorgeous, bewildering
pattern of feathery scintillating fires
one of the most beautiful of fire.
works devices and never fails to
please the spectators.
At the Harrison County Feir. at
Bethany, Mo-, Sept. II to Is, 1917.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-09-06
Marriage Licenses.
sheep For Sale.

We offer for sale 240 good breed
ing ewes, also 40 lambs and seven
~ good bucks as you will find in the
county. No better breeding stock to
be found. VIII sell any number and
1Sya terms. Come and see the stock.
Z Bowsher & Shields.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-09-06

Read Will McKern's bargain sale
adv. 51-2t-4-5
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Arch Mackrell, former legisla-
tor and now one of the city officials
of Pittsburgh, was among those who
came to attend the opening of the
Legislature.
Congressman S. Taylor North, of
the Jefferson district, looked about
the headquarters yesterday and talked
of the days when he used to 'insurge."
Congressman Edgar r. Kiess, who
got the Legislature of 1903 to fix the
date of adjournment the day it met,
was in the city for the doings at the
Capitol.
Senator McNichol said to-day that
the speakership contest took him back
to the Marshall fight of sixteen years
ago.
Elk Senator e. f. James, of Hazle-
ton, was here looking over the Cap
itol and recalling old days In the upper
house.
Robert w. Herbert, the Green's
burg editor. was here deing yeoman
work as of yore at legislative corres-
pondent desks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
USING CITY As A BILLBOARD

NHIEF WETZEL was justified in
" warning politicians that he will
stand for no more such con-
duct as the indiscriminate posting of
the huge bills that marked the cul-
mination of the speakership contest.
He would have done an even more
commendable thing had he caused
the arrest of the guilty persons.
1t is to be hoped that some of the
owners of property whose premises
were used as billboards will take
proper steps to protect their interests
against a repetition of the outrage.
The people of Harrisburg will approve
whatever drastic action may be taken
looking toward the punishment of the
guilty persons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
Five-Centers Bite Dust

Cleveland, Ohio.-Diamond Dick is
dead.
And Fred Fearnaught, Buffalo Bill,
the James boys and all the rest of that
highly entertaining blood-and- thunder
crew are singing their swan songs.
Those red-blooded heroes of our own
youth will be unknown figures to our
children.
For the five-cent weeklies, with the
slashy covers and exhilarating con-
tents, are doomed. Within year, say
publishers and magazine distributors,
they shall have disappeared from the
newsstands.
No more will Fred Fearnaught
make a flying catch of Nellie, the
cloak model, as she goes hurting over
the edge of a 10,000-ft. precipice, pro-
PEELED by Death-Dealing Archie. the
villain. No more will the James boys
dash into the western mining town,
send everyone quickly to cover with
fusillade of shots and dash madly
away again, their horses weighted
down with the bags of gold that were
monthly payroll. Ne'er again shall
Buffalo Bill and his gallant band sur
| prise the Indian camp and compel the
startled redskins to bite the dust.
Likewise. no more will startled par
ents surprise Johnny out behind the
/
ears in the daring exploits of his
heroes and allowing his youthful fancy
to wander to other adventures even
more thrilling. No longer will 1t be
necessary for the said fond parent to
effect a capture by a quick flank
movement and participate in an en-
suing woodshed tragedy.
The five-cent weeklies, like Custer,
are making their last stand. To use
one of their own famous expressions
their doom is sealed" Eastern pub
fishers have just announced that they
| will discontinue shortly publications OF
this class, because of the increased
cost of white paper. Cleveland pub
fishers, however, insist paper has not
yet gone so high as to seriously affect
the profit il the circulation had re-
mained what 1t was a few years back.
It's really a big falling off in the
circulation that is sealing the doom
of the weeklies, they claim. In Cleve-
land and vicinity less than ne-third
the number of copies are being sold
to-day as two years ago. This loss
OF circulation is attributed to two
things-the movies and the fact that
the young idea is being taught along
different literary lines.
| Newsdealers point out that their
sales are no longer to small boys, but
to "old- timers" who started reading
them back in the sos and 9Os and
have not outgrown the habit. Public
libraries and Boy Scout organizations
are given credit for diverting the small
! boys literary taste.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
HARRISBURG'S POPULATION
TIME Federal census estimate fo


the year ending July 1 last/gives
Harrisburg a population of 72,015
and is doubtless as nearly accurate as
It is possible for such figures to be.
This Is equivalent to an increase of
1899 in the six years between the date
of last census and the time of esti-
mate, or an average yearly gain of a
trifie more than 1900. which is q good,
conservative growth for a city of this
size 1t is substantial and with no
trace of the municipal mushroom
about it.
Growth of the kind Harrisburg has
enjoyed since tho taking of the last
census is the best kind. Cities, like
business enterprises. can go too fast.
Then one of two things happens
either there is a corresponding shrink
age. with its losses and discourage
ments, or there arise the difficulties
of financing an enterprise that has
outgrown its capital. In other words.
It often happens that in q very RAPIDLY
growing city the demands for changes
and enlargements and improvements
come too fast to be easily met. This
has not happened in Harrisburg. We
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02

such as marked the campaign waged
by his managers against Baldwin. Mr..
Baldwin was also given many kind
words by Cox legislators for his stand.
Emphatic denunciation of the
posters plastered over the city by the
Cox managers was heard and she is
suance of statements was generally
regretted. incidentally, there was
some criticism of the removal of
Baldwin cards from Capitol trees and
the replacement of them by Cox
cards. The whole placard campaign
has left bad memory and recalled
the days OF 1895 which most Re-
publicans have been trying to forget.
The victory of Baldwin caused
some nervousness among people at
the Capitol who feared that there
would be something doing because
members from tkeir counties had re-
fused to vote with the State admins
tration and the big building was buzz
ing with comments to-day.
Some of the biggest men in Penn
sylvania politics were here last night
and leaders of wide influence stood
around in corridors waiting for re-
suits. Some growled because they
were barred out of the caucus, but
the plan of keeping it free was gen.
orally approved. The result was that
it was the best conducted caucus in
many years
The Allegheny delegation voted
16 for Baldwin and for Cox which
was about as predicted by the Penrose
men, while Philadelphia voted Cox 23
and Baldwin is, Cox voting for Bald
win and the claims being all borne
out. Luzerne broke even and Lacka-
wanna gave Cox 3 and Baldwin 2.
Chester, Dauphin and Fayette went
solid for Baldwin and the Cox people
got one in Northumberland.
The Eby speech naming Ehrhardt
was one of the surprises of last eve-
ming.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
URGES CITY MANAGER PLAN

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Sir: My attention has been called to
a recent article which appeared in the
Telegraph in reference. to the employ
ment of experts in city government
under the Clark act in the cities of the
third class.
Permit me to call attention to the
provisions of the Clark act which ad-
NIT of the employment of experts If
desired and also for the proper adjust
ment of the salaries of the mayor and
councilmen.
Article 8, Section 13. corporate
Powers). ITO create any office, public
board. or department which they. the
council, may deem necessary for the
good government and interest of the
city; to prescribe the powers thereof,
and to regulate and prescribe the
terms, duties and compensation of all
such officers and of all officers who are
members of any public board of any
department as created" etc.
Article Z. Section /. THE council
shall determine the powers and du-
ties to be performed by and assign
them to, the appropriate department;
shall prescribe the powers and duties
of officers and employees and may
make such other rules and regulations
as may be necessary or proper for the
efficient and economical conduct of the
business of the city"
Regarding compensation to members
of council Article 7, Section Is, pro-
vides as follows: THE first council
elected under the provisions of this
act, shall, by ordinance, fix the salary
to be paid to the mayor in said cities
for succeeding terms. Succeeding coun-
ellis may change the amount of such
compensation"
Article 6, Section 8 provides as fol-
lows: "The first council elected un-
der the provisions of this act shall, by
ordinance, determine the amount OF
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
TWO NEW YEAR PARADEs

HARRISBURG enjoyed the unpre-
cedented event of two New
Year parades yesterday, and
both of them were worth while. That
of organized labor in the interests of
an eight-hour day was as large as
many of the Labor Day demonstra-
tions of the past and the floats were
interesting and were worked out in
great detail. Unquestionably, the
eight-hour day is the big considera-
ton in labor circles at this time, fol-
lowing the lead of the printing trades
and some others which have enjoyed
it for many years, and yesterdays
demonstration showed how much in
terest there is in the subject locally.
The Mummers' parade attracted
thousands to the heart. of town and
the spectacle was we'll worth witness
ing. The mummers made good their
promise to give the city the most
elaborate display in their history. The
big show they staged with all out
doors as their theater, was a very
bright spot in an otherwise drab day,
the brilliant colors and the fanciful
costumes contrasting sharply with the
dull gray of TIE winter landscape.
The Mummers' Association and
those who helped make the parade a
success deserve the thanks of the
community. They worked hard and
long under the handicap of lack of
funds and carried their program to a
very successful conclusion. They
should have more help next year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02

have been able for the most part to fit
our revenues fairly we'll to our in
creasing needs.
However. it is scarcely fair to let
the impression so abroad that Harris
burg has a population of only 1900
when in all truth the figures ought
to be nearly twice that number if all
contiguous suburban territory were in
side the city limits. as it should be-
Steelton with it's $1,000, Highspire,
which adjoins Steelton to the south,
Progress, Penbrook, PaXtang and
Riverside at least ought to be included
in Harrisburg proper, not to mention
some of the cross river towns They
are parts of Harrisburg in everything
save name. Some time the people of
both city and suburbs will awake to
the mutual advantages of q Greater
Harrisburg.
The Mexican situation persists in re-
fusing to remain in status quo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
By B RIGGS

salaries to be paid councilmen in said
cities"
| Under the provisions of the Clark
act above cited, it would seem possible
not only to provide for expert service
but to reduce the salaries of the mayor
and councilmen to meet the additional
expense. If council should be unfa-
vorable to a reduction of salaries, the
citizens, by petition and the use of the
initiative, could enact such an ordi-
nance as is necessary to accomplish
| it.
1t is urgently recommended that all
of the cities of the third class, espe-
cially those having a population ex-
ceeding thirty thousand, reduce the
salaries provided in the Clark act for
councilmen, the mayors salary is not
in any case excessive, and adopt the
city manager plan in administering
the executive duties of council.
Over forty cities throughout the
country have adopted 1t and fully one
half of the cities now adopting COM
mission government provide in their
charters for the city manager plan.
We need it in every act of the third
class to make the Clark act properly
efficient.
The adoption of the city manager
plan will not only add greatly to the
efficiency of government, it will tend
to secure the most capable citizens as
councilmen and is In keeping with the
conduct of all successful business en-
terprises.
The fact that had much to do with
the framing of the Clark act and my
interest in the subject of good city
government must be my apology for
commenting on your eXcellect sugges-
tion.
Yours very truly.
| A. w. FULLER,
Pres. Allied Civic Bodies Organization.
| Meadville, Pa, Dec. 20, 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02

suggests, some of II honest, but in a
very large measure dictated by the
seltishness and greed of landlords bent
upon the largest returns from the
smallest investment.
The Governors stand in behalf of
more money for schools and good
roads will be generally approved. Nine
millions yearly is a large sum, but 1t
is not more than the needs of the
school system demand. AS to the
automobile license fund being given
to the State Highway Department in
addition to specific appropriation for
road purposes, that is beyond question
the view of every good roads advocate.
The Legislature of 1915 was guilty of
sharp practice, not to be repeated,
when 1t constituted the license fees a
part of the appropriation it set aside
for highway purposes.
The several paragraphs relating to
finances, charities and agriculture are
timely and worth the attention of every
legislator. Those who are interested
In good government for cities will
agree with the Governor that an extern
sion of the home rule principle to
municipalities would be a step in the
right direction. Such commission as
is suggested would doubtless find
wide room for improvement in the
laws regulating cities in this Common
wealth and an urgent demand for
change.
The Governor sums up his message
In a paragraph the truth of which is
SELF evident and in which lies the
opportunity for all Republicans to join
In a service to the State in line with
the best traditions of the party. He
says:
No other State has had to con-
slider such complex problems as
confront us in this State Here we
nave nave welcomed all the peoples of
great Penn this has been the home
ana maven of all who choose to
ST9me: Th These are now a part of us
rare. Their education, their employ
ment, their health, their happiness,
Se tneIr economic and social WELL
est moment. If ever a government
needs to demonstrate its wisdom
anTs ana humanity that government is
sacred. Their destiny is ours.
Every consideration makes their
cause the cause of our people at
have long lived for PENNSYLVANIA
alike demand clean. capable and
conscientious government. 1t is
ment of the Assembly should have
as its ultimate purpose equal JUS
tice to all and wise provision for
the welfare and advancement of all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE

TOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH'S mes
NJ sage to the Legislature is a high
minded and statesmanlike docu-
ment to which even his bitterest
political opponents will be able to find
very few reasonable objections 1t is
at once conservative and progressive.
Regardless of personal differences, the
Legislature could not go far wrong in
basing it's entire program of legislation
upon it.
OF intense local interest is the Gov
ernor's hearty endorsement of the
Capitol Park extension development
plans; views which are held also by
State Treasurer Young and Auditor
General Powell, who are members with
the Governor of the State Board of
Public Grounds and Buildings. This
Is a matter of importance to the whole
State and the Legislature will do no
more than meet popular demand in
appropriating to the project the larg-
est sum available for the purpose.
There never has been written a more
comprehensive review of the needs of
the State with respect to conservation
and development of its water supply
and waterways than that to which the
Governor devotes one of the most i'm
portant parts of his message. Too
many sources of water supply and
water power have fallen into the hands
of private interests. To its mag
nihcent streams Pennsylvania must
look for its heat. light and power when
the vast coal mines now in operation
shall have been exhausted and our oil
wells pumped dry 1t is vital that the
State should take steps while yet there
Is time to insure the people that their
interests shall be safeguarded along
this line.
The Governor renews his plea for a
county unit local option law and how
ever a majority of the Legislators may
feel on this subject there is a popular
sentiment in favor of restrictive liquor
laws in PENNSYLVANIA that will gain
rather than diminish by legislative
repression. The likelihood is that.
desirable though many believe a local
option law to be, the day of pro-
hibition in Pennsylvania would be ad-
vanced materially by a refusal of
the Legislature to give the people the
right to vote locally on the LIQUOR
question. This. however, will not serve
as an excuse for failure to support a
local option measure at this time
There is common sense in the sug-
gestion that the workmen's compen
sation and other labor laws enacted in
1915 be left without radical change
until their virtues and their faults can
be fully demonstrated by practice, as
there is in the opinion expressed that
industry should not be harassed or
burdened beyond it's capacity to bear.
The recommendation for a housing
code is in accord with the findings of
experts and the belief of people in
general that the sIum and the unsani-
tary dwelling should have no place in
modern life. There will be opposition
to such a measure as the Governor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
Successful Married Men
american Magazine. ]

Show me one middle-aged bachelor
who has made a success of his life,
and I'll show you 26 married men who
have. Probably the ratio is even
greater than this, but prefer to base
my contention on demonstrable fact
or the 81 presidents of the United States
only one lived and died a bachelor
Nineteen of them married before they
were 80, Ave before they were 40. ant
two after 40. Yet, according to the cen
sus returns, taking the entire popula'
ton of the country, the proportion o.
single men to those married, Widowed
or divorced, is about 40 to 60.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
NOW LET US HAVE PEACE
TINE speakership contest having

ME- SpedheTSEhp COHleSI HdNinB
been very definitely settled it is
the hope of the rank and file
OF the Republican party that peace
will prevail during the session of the
Legislature; or, If that is impossible,
at least a truce be declared that will
enable the lawmakers to perform
their duties without thought of fac
tional differences. Further displays
of bitterness by Republicans would be
applauded only by Democrats. This
applies to one side quite as much as
to the other.
The Republicans of this State voted
for senators and representatives with
the very distinct understanding that
they should devote themselves to legis-
lating in the interests of the people,
and the voters will resent vehemently
any attempt to divert their attention
from their very plain duty in this
respect by injecting into the proceed
ings of the Legislature factional feel
ing and differences.
The rank and file of the party is not
interested nearly so much in the pet
ty chickering's of Philadelphia politi-
clans as it is in the enactment of a
legislative program that will fairly
represent the will of the people. The
speakership fight will have little
weight in the next State elections if
the Republicans in House and Senate
now join hands to the end that the
coming session of the Legislature shall
be short business-like and marked
only by the passage of such bills as
are worthy and the rejection of every
thing that is not in the interests of the
people as a whole. Any other course
will steer the party ship perilously
near, If not directly upon, the shoals
of defeat in 1918.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
The Sword the Arbiter
[From the Washington Post

IFIUNI IHt WdsHIHBIUH FUst' ]
The Allies will fight on. They will
listen to Germany when she Is ready
to yield, and not before. Rumania &
downfall is a mere incident in this
death struggle of Europe. The issue
is not the gain or loss of pieces of ter
ritory. II Is not the crushing of the
German people. 1t is the annihilation
OF Germany's ambition to tyrannize
over Europe and the world by sys-
tematized brute force. In trying to
achieve that ambition Germany has
appealed to the sword. The decision
will be made by the sword.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
Military Training

There is just about as much danger
of the United States becoming mill
.s.ristic'' by giving few months train
ing to all its young men as there Is for
an office clerk to get the bug of being
prize fighter by taking fifteen min
utes' systematic exercise every day
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02

Theodore Marburg, ex-Minister to
Belgium, should attract a large number
of Chamber of Commerce members to
the luncheon tomorrow, when he will
speak on the subject. Toward a Better
International Organization"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
Meals, Famous and Infamous

Dewey's breakfast in Manila Bay,
Thomas Jefferson's saucer of tay,
Winfield Scott's "hasty plate of SOUP"
Burchard's rum, mournful stoup -
Each doubtless has it's advocates
AS the meal most famous in the
States.
But you'll find agreement in New
York
On what the most infamous niche
will fill,
It's the stomach turning mess OF
pork
In the current public buildings bill!
Maurice Morris in N. Y. Sun.