The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-01-18
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published Quarter
of a Century Ago.

of a Century Ago.
The thermometer registered 3 l de-.
grees below zero Tuesday morning
Mrs. A. D. Sears died at her home
in Center, township. on Jan. 18th, at
the age of 33 years.
A. G. Buffum died at his home in
Garden Grove township on January
/ 4th, at the age of 83 years.
7. H. McVey, the bright young at
torney of Lamont, is attending court
this week, being interested in several
cases.
F. x. Eaton died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. J.. w. Harvey, in
this citv, on Jan. 18th, at the age of
sc years and months.
A bridge on the @ road two miles
southwest of Garden Grove, was
badly burned Monday afternoon and
the passenger train did not reach
Leon until six o'clock in the evening.
Frank Holmes, of, Hepner, Ore
gon, is here visiting with his parents
and old friends. He formerly ran a
tinshop at Decatur City, but has been
farming in Oregon for the past six
years.
The following marriage licenses
were issued the past week:
E. Spencer 20 to Sarah b. Bold
James Marion Mace 35 to Nancy
J. Hurley 81.
. c. w. Riggs 26 to Rachel Davis
26.
Fred Neice and two others have
purchased steam riding gallery
like the one which was here last fall,
about the middle of April. 1t is a
fine one and cost $2,700. Fred will
retire from the bakery and restaur-
ant and Aunt Jane Miller will again
take charge Of it.
Mrs. u. G. Gibson died at her
home at New Hampton, Mo-, on Jan.
18th, after an illness Of only two
were brought to Leon Tuesday after
noon, funeral services being held at
the M. E. church. interment being in
the Leon cemetery. Mrs. Gibson was
formerly Miss Lou Ballard of this
city.
Gus Pryor is not going to let any
one get ahead of him when it comes
week several gentlemen were sitting
around the stove in Neice's bakery,
among them being two horse buyers
from the east and Gus Pryor. Fred
Neice made some remark about a
hog he had which ate up all the hay
he gave it for bedding. One Of the
horse buyers remarked he had never
his life, and said this country must
produce wonderfully good hay il a
hog would eat it. Gus spoke up and
said, why of course hogs would eat
hay; that only last week he sold tW0
which weighed 1890 pounds and they
had Ia had anything to eat all win
ter except second crop blue grass.
hn
ing his stories that the horse men
took it all iEx and left town the next
day remarking that If blue grass was
that rich out here, it was too rich a
country for them to try and buy
horses in.
ha %S1d Moore %ad killed he
wife at their home down in Grassy
Hollow near the @ depot. Andrew
Bright and Grant Dorsey called at
the Moore home to see him about do
ing some work, and getting no re-
sponse one of them looked in the
window, and saw Moore who finally
came and unbolIed the door, and
out and arousing some of the neigh
bors as some one had been there and
hurt his WIFE The woman was lying
in a pool of blood on the floor with
several frightful gashes on her head
and one ear almost cut off. Physi-
clans were summoned, and Wednes-
ness and said her husband had at
tackled her with an axe when she
told him she was going to leave him.
Moore was arrested by marshal Hen
ry Bright and placed in jail He is
an old man "A years of age, and his
wife is only 23 years old. They were
couple had quarreled frequently
since they lived in Leon. The old
man insisted he was innocent, and
said he left the house about o'clock
and started up town but met man
who told him all the stores were
closed and he returned home to find
his wife lying on the floor, and told
story about two tramps being at
his house that afternoon, and he be-
lieved they were the ones who did