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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-10-25
Five More Exemptions Granted.

ceived notice from the district ap-
peal board at Des Moines, that five
more Decatur county men have been
exempted upon reconsideration OF
their claims, the list being as fol-
Ora Amos Grenawalt, Lamont.
Lee Bevins Horney, Leon.
Halle Rauch, Grand River.
Orva Clyde Baker, Leon.
John VIM. Drury, Pleasanton.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-10-25
Chance to Make Extra Money.

You can add $4,000. to $4,000 a
month to your income in your spare
time. Our money-making plan is
winner for either men or women. We
furnish outfit free and teach you
how to use it. Send postal at once
for particulars of the Money-Mak-
ing Plan" Act promptly before the
vacancy is filed in your territory.
Address Publisher, Box l55 N.
Times Square Station, New York
City 10-2t
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-10-25
.Cl,smber Of Commerce Meets Nom
day Evening.

The October meeting of the Leon
Chamber of Commerce will be held
in the basement of the M. E. church
Monday evening, Oct. 29th, the
ladies' of the Civic League providing
.onc of their famous dinners which
will be served promptly at $3.50
O'Clock. General Manager j. D.
Clarksen, of the Jefferson Highway,
will be in ATTENDANCE and will tell
about what has been accomplished on
this great auto trail this year. A
number of other matters of import
ance will be taken up. and it is de-
sired that every member be in at
tom a nco
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-10-25

AT 2 p. nj. on Saturday. Graceland
College plays Leon High ct basket
ball on the school grounds. At 8
%. m. Creston football team meets
Leon on Warner field.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-10-25
Heath of Mrs. Robert McCaull.

Mrs. Robert McCaull, one of the
p;oneers of the Garden Grove neigh
borhood, passed away on "Wednesday
morning of last week, and was bur
led by the side of her husband on
Friday, the funeral being held AZ
fhe Garden Grove NJ. e. church. An
obituary will be printed next week.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-10-25
Foot Ball.

Humeston High School visited
Leon in force Friday afternoon to
see their team meat defeat. In the
first half honors We're about oven.
the half ending with the score IL to
10 in favor OF Leon.
In the first quarter Leon fumbled
on bad toss by the center, Humes
ton grabbed the ball and went over
for touchdown. They kicked goal.
In a few more minutes the visitors
kicked goal from the 80 yard line.
These n ee ten e%rs points ended % the
made two touchdowrs, both by for
ward passes to Werden. thinner
man failed to kick goal both times.
4Jeither side scored in the second
quarter. In the third quarter Card
ner counted . , for i Leon, e BY means hls,,sd of
goal. Also in the fourth Gardner
went over the line on line punch
for the last score of the game. The
final count was % to 10 in favor OF
Leon.
The visitors. played a snappy clean
for a team and will no doubt make
good record from now on. Leon has
green team, there being but four
veterans on the squad They have
been practicing faithfully end from
now on can be expected to give a
good account of themselves. Creston
plays here this week and on the week
following Charlton will visit us.
Below is the lineup for the Hum
estOn game:
LE-Gittinger.
LT-Gray.
LG--Elwell.
C-Officer.
RG--Hagan.
RT-Merwin.
Werden
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-10-25

Sweaters for the whole family at
G. B. Prices. -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-10-25

Store your fodstuffs-but not by
eating them.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-10-25
Marriage Licenses.

John L. Axes, Leon .......... /.
Irene G. Reynolds, Leon
Benz. w. Hooker, PleasantOn i.
Bernice /. Moore, Pleasanton.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-10-25

Ball Band overshoes are best by
test. G.. B. Price.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-10-25

Wanted-A quantity OF sprinS
wheat for seed. Biddison Coai
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-10-25

Sub.-DOdge for MefWln.
Officials: Referee, Dillon of Gar
den Grove. Umpire, Gardner of HUM
eston. Head linesman, Grimes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22

state league and recently elected a director of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
 The entire programme was made with reference to the particular bear ing of tuberculosis on the special problems and responsibilities created by the war" On the opening day Dr. Eaves will discuss factss and figures about tuberculosis as war prob lem and on the following day hospital and sanatorium provisions.
 In the general medical session pr. Charles L. Minor of Asheville, N. C., will read paper on What Consti- tutes a Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Suf- ficient for Rejection From the Army"
 Every physician in Alabama who can spare the time should plan to at tend the conference.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22

between the spells of wakefulness. But even if he was wakeful, 1t Is nothing to be alarmed about. Especially 10 1t nothing to warrant taking medicine.
 The way to get over insomnia Is to pay1no attention to 1t and not to talk about it. sleep is largely | matter of habit. It depends on living nationally and going to bed It regular time. You are likely. 10 bs waksful if you stir yourself up In the evening. If you work at night or get deeply intsrestsd in anything. you Ind is difficult to re- lax. That is the chief reason for wake fuIness after .. party. The excitement of the crowd interferes with sleep. The ideal way Is to taper of the days activities as evening comes.
 "The quality of the night" pr. R. Fl: Cabot says. depends on the quail ty of the day. Routine. peaceful acts tivity of mind and body. outdoor air and exercise make for good sleep. Daily emotional straius. such as wor- ny, discomfort. remorae, fear, anger. excitement. upset the night as well" That Is. if you havo . had day you are likely to have a bad night. Control tho day. and the night is likely to take care of itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22
preters, carpenters, blacksmiths,

lpreters, carpenters, blacksmiths,
 boiler-makers, plumbers and chaut- feurs are wanted.
 Loyal Americans between the ages of eighteen and forty, who have not been drafted and have the necessary qualifications, may join the "gas and flame" service by going to the near est recruiting station or the United
 States district engineering office, where they will be examined and II accepted will be sent immediately to the headquarters of the Thirtieth regl- ment of engineers at Camp American University, D. c.
 Here is a chance to serve Uncle Sam that no red -blooded man with the necessary qualifications can afford to miss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22
WASHINGTON IN WAR TIME

army so ignorant and so careless of it's high calling.
 Last week I again went to Washing ton. The place had greatly changed. The capitol is finished, and 1t has many splendid, businesslike looking sister buildings to keep it company on att tractive avenues radiating in many di- rections These avenues and cross streets were alive with multitudes coming and going, happy colored folk seemingly the only idle inhabitantss Women appeared to be as busy as tho men. Again many soldiers about as in 1861, but they were on the move. They were in no way conspicuous, beyond the fact that they impressed one as being busily in earnest with no time to drink or spit in public They be- longed to both the water and the land, and looked as though they had no in tention of being driven from the one or the other. Tn the offices there was everywhere quiet organization and polite and prompt attention to the business in hand. Northing seems to ness in hand. There is no slogan. no aCn to Richmond" cry. Our destiny surely is. for a while at least, in the hands of soldiers. gentlemen and pa triots. It was noteworthy. too, as sug gestive, that you could catch no man smillh; the social spirit of 1861 had vanished. Have we not, possibly, got back to the spirit of '76, and is that not a subject of congratulation?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22

Observer" in the New York Sun. N\ and this world war started up,
 c = am induced to make com parison which may be of interest. In 1861, then 16. I visited Washington
 with brother who was IS. The whole
 way from Philadelphia the railroad was
 guarded by sentries, making great
 impression on our youthful minds. We
 attended White House reception and shook hands with President Lincoln on
 one of his public bath" days. as he
 styled them. We hired a buggy and drove across the long bridge into vir- ginia, where we inspected General Me-
 Clellan's Notifications. Taking our lunch along, we shared 1t with a sol
 dier from Maine who was posted at
 the wayside.
 In Washington all the hotels were
 jammed with excited and noisy people. Soldiers were everywhere, Tot of them rushing about mounted on horses. |lounging around bars and other public places, splitting over everything in reach. sitting with heels up in hotel corridors. and most of them apparently had nothing in particular to do. Look ing back on this trip it quite makes one shudder to contemplate Abraham Lincoln wasting his time receiving such a crowd as we helped to form and his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22
NO MoNoToNY IN NATURE

NO MONOTONY IN NATURE Gavid Grayson, in the November Am
 erican Magazine.
 factory work. and with much city work of all kinds is It's interminable no- notony: the sams process repeated hour after hour and day after day. In the country there is indeed nonotonous work. but rarely monotony. No task continues very long: everything changes infinitely with the seasons. Processes are not rspetitive but creative. Nature hates monotony. Is ever changing and restless. brings up storm to drive the haymakers from their hurried work in the fields, sends rain to stop the plow- ing. or a frost to hurry the apple har- vest. Everything is full. of adventure and vicissitude! A man who has been a farmer for two hours at the moving. must suddenly turn blacksmith when hts machine breaks down. and tinker with wrench and hammer; and later in the day he becomes dairyman. farrier. har- nessmaker. merchant. No kind of wheat but grist to his mill. no knowledge that he cannot use! And who is freer to be a citizen than he? Freer to take his part in town meeting and serve hts state lin someone of the innumerable small offices which form the solid blocks or organization beneath our common wealth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22
Entire State Shocked
 By Assault on Doty

E DWARD DOTY, editor of the 'Tus-
 NA caloosa News and president of the Alabama Press association, a pop ular and widely known newspaper man, was assaulted in the office of the News and so badly beaten that herwas taken to an infrmary in a serious con- dition. The persons charged with. at Itacking Mir. Doty behind locked doors are directors and employees of the News. They were arrested on war rants charging assault with intent to murder.
 According to the statement dictated by Mir. Doty, the assault was a most outrageous affair in which at least four men took part. The trouble rel suited from disagreement over own- ership of stock and control of the News. MT. Doty's adversaries say they will give out a statement at the proper time.
 Whatever explanation may be of lered, there is no getting around the fact that MT. Doty was severely beat en, as his present condition shows, and the entire state is incensed by an attack on a defenseless man that was both cowardly and brutal. The affair is most shocking and dis graceful. It is serious reflec- ton on Tuscaloosa, delightful old town, noted for it's culture and re- finement. It fact, Tuscaloosa is about the last place in the world where anyone familiar with it's history and environment would expect the gang ingn of one of it's prominent citizens by his associates in business.
 MT. Doty took charge of moribund in Tuscaloosa and soon made it one of the best small dailies in the south and something the Druid City had never had before-a real daily newspaper. The sensational af- fair of Saturday should be given thorough airing in court and the good name of Tuscaloosa vindicated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22
Caught in the Draft

''The draft is taking many of the well known figures in and around Birmingham,' said Hardie Brown. the latest being Robert Kyle, the genial day clerk at the Morris hotel, who will leave on an early train this morning for Cleveland, O., where he was living at the time he registered MT. Kyle is we'll known here, having been con nected with the Hillman hotel mum. Der of years and lately, since his re- turn from Cleveland, has been with the Morris hotel He will join the Ohio troops in their training camp"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22
INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH
nx HOLLAND

New York, October 21.-Special) Several years ago a convention was held at Atlanta, Ga, whose member ship was made up of representative business men of the south. The con- vention listened with much interest to
 several addresses delivered by men who had achieved greatly in business, industry and finance in the north. Two of the addresses commanded espe- cial attention and have become tra- ditional. One was delivered by George Westinghouse. It was in fact the last of Mir. Westinghouse infrequent ad- dresses. He was much interested in the inexhaustible natural resources which the south possesses in its water powers He asserted that through the utilization of these powers converted by modern apparatus into electrical energy, the south could in a com paratively short time match if not surpass any other section of the coun- try with respect to industries and could at the same time secure abun- dant energy for the operation of rail- roads, highway trolleys and for light ing purposes.
 George w. Perkins also delivered an address in which he called the at tention of the business men of ths south to the fact that the econom- ically sound principle upon which suc- fessful industry is based Is repre-
 sented by co-operation, coordination and new and satisfactory co-opera- with their hands and those who work
 with their heads.
 Partly as result of the suggestions which were made at this business con-
 gress of the men of the south. re- markable advances in industrial &C.,
 tivity have been made especially in the utilization of the water power of the south. This inexhaustible resource has made it possible to establish long chain of cotton manufacturing plants which, as a whole. bisect North Caro- lima and penetrate South Carolina and Georgia.
 Now the government is to establish in the south great plant which will reflect the achievements of men of science and research who have at last taught the lesson whereby nitrogen in vast quantities may be taken from the atmosphere.
 It was thought expedient by those who have the interests of the south constantly in mind that there should
 be held in New York in this month of
 October 8 convention entitled The Southern Commercial Congress-" 1t may seem strange that the great forces which are now in cooperation working out the possibilities of the south so that in due time that section may become as pre- eminent from an industrial point of view as it has been from an agricultural point of view, at least in the production of cotton and sugar, should have made choice of New York as a. place for holding a commercial congress devoted to the interests of the south.
 Nevertheless it has been well known to southern leaders that New York capital has been furnished in almost
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22

unlimited amounts to hid in southern development. There is no section in the country whose industrial advance has been more closely watched or more encouragingly stimulated by men the ease of the south.
 One of the foremost bankers of New York when speaking some weeks ago of the amazing advance of the south. an advance which began q little over 90 years ago-said that the time was not distant when by reason of her in dustrial development which was pro gressing alphabetically with her az ricultural development the south will have secured, through the new wealth which she has created, all the capital needed for the advancement of her in dustries and agriculture. That has been to some extent an experience of the farmers in many parts of the west and especially in the northwest. Not withstanding the magnitude of the crops this year, much less money has been sought by borrowing from the banks for financing the crops from the harvest fields to the markets than was formerly the case. The farmers are beginning to finance with their own accumulations from their industry.
 Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers Record at Baltimore. who Is recognized as perhaps the lead ing authority upon industrial and az ricultural conditions of the south, re- gently stated that tho money value of the agricultural products harvested in the south in the year 1917 is approxi- rnately s6,O00,o0o00o and that is nearly $1, SOC. 100000 greater than the money value of the crops harvested last year.
 If this estimate is correct, and there is no doubt of it's accuracy. then the money value of tho harveste of the south this year is fully equal to the money value of the crops harvested in the northwest and in the great grain producing states
 MT. Edmonds says that this agricul- tura1 activity is well balanced by the industrial and railroad advances which have been made in the south during the year. lC WAS eApeCtcu tlidt tHlS would be special feature of tho ad- dresses and discussions at the South ern Commercial Congress in New York city.
 Mobilizing industry and infusing en- ergy into industry so that it is put to it's proper speed has been in this year of 1917 especially conspicuous of the south. Every mining enterprise, every furnace, every steel plant, and almost every cotton mill in the south is crowded to the limit of it's capacity and its ability to obtain needed la bor, while lumber interests are hav- ing an increased call for their output and shipbuilding which is running far into the hundreds of millions of dol lars is in progress. From one point of view there is no longer any exclu- sive or purely local industrial sec ton in the United States. Every in dustry whether upon the Atlantic, upon the Pacific, in the valley of the Mississippi or in the south is, under the stimulus and leadership of the fed eral government, rapidly becoming mobiiized and in a sense centralized.N <
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22
Had Pleasant Hour

We are more than pleased with the outcome of the luncheon held Friday, said R. l.. Sparkman, president of the Furniture Dealers association. Every one had very pleasant hour and it re- suited in a better understanding be- tween not only members of the associa- tion, but between the association and the city commission-elect. Talks of CO., operation were the features of the meet ing, being given not only to the encour- agement of the individuals, but to the organization as well, to cooperate and strengthen each other with their ideas and suggestions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22
ON X CHiLD's PORTRAIT

By Arthur gtringer.
 Deep in the fluted hollow of It's shells. pimly some echo of the ocean dweiis. stii in septsmber's fruitage. mellow The altered sweets of rolden moons arc And shimmerins on | bluebird.s migrant
 wings NY Some So!.nant touch of Juns's lost ssur. stili in the rustlins shsas today there The lingering sold Of Aprirs vsn,sn1d
 droama M still in the cell of one autumnal bee I find iost summer in epitoms. And All that hstter life that ! would Wt's f;ss s'ae'' Y sals ssa sA'|s|sA <, 6ssA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22
IF YOU DON'T SLEEP
From the Kansas City Times.

From the kAh6HS CIty 1Ih1eH'
 If you don't sleep well. don't worry about 1t. Tour lack of sleep isn't going to kill you or drive you insane. That is the substance of the advice given by doctor writing in the American Mag azine.
 It is advice that good many nsrv- ous people need. How often do you hear someone apprehensiveiy complain ing that he lies awake "all night" Tho chancss srs that he only thinks h6 VIII ewake, III night, md that in resifty hs sot aevsfsl hours q asssp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22
Leaders of Music

The concert at Loew's Bijou yes- terday was very enjoyable to those who like music, not only of classic na- ture. but also the good. old songs that we all know and love-" said w. F. Bedding, who was stopping at the Tutwiler yesterday. Robert Lawrence oli. conductor of the Philharmonic or chestra. is a real musician. These two artists can do much for Birmingham along this line if the people will get behind them and give them the proper support"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-22
Recruits Wanted for
 ''Gas and Flame" Service


 X SPLENDID opportunity to see E active service in France is off, fered expert mechanics and chemical
 workers in the "Gas and Flame" serv- ice of army engineers. Major Atkis- son of the Thirtieth engineers has au- thorized The Age-H Herald to urge en- listments in this regiment, which IS now being recruited and will be sent abroad by Thanksgiving Day. Any man who is accepted may rest assured that he will soon be in France and engaged in a service calling for the highest, qualities of skill in his pro- fession, as well as personal pluck and energy.
 Men who are skilled and practical are wanted-the sort of men who have had experience, are physically fit and
 will be able to give good account of themselves. The regiment will super wise in the field the "gas and flame" work of the American offensive which starts next spring. They will be used as instructors along the front and will perform a very important and pa triotic work, service by many deemed the most exciting and pie turesque of modern warfare.
 As the Thirtieth is the pioneer American organization in "gas and flame" service, men who enlist now will play an important part in Gen. eral Haig's operations. All recruits
 will have to enlist as privates with pay of s33 per month and expenses, but they will have chance for rapid
 advancement to noncommissioned and
 commissioned grades. Men who have
 had the necessary experience may be
 assigned to special duty and given
 nonconmissioned .ank, with pay ranging from S4o.2o to $s6 per month
 and all expenses. Ability will gain immediate promotion.
 Chemists, analytical, research and ! manufacturing; chemical workers,
 powdermen, men experienced in gas manufacture, machinists, automobile irepair men, men able to operate and lrepair gas and steam engines, pipe
 filters, electricians, designers, inter-