The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-02-22
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
items Takepfrom the files of The
Reporter Published a Quarter
of q Century Ago.

Marriage licenses were issued the
Phillip j., Meek "a to Dora B..
Allen Il.
E. G. Marshall 27 to Linnie Rem
ner 20.
j. W. Asher s5 to Ida B. Gray 1s.
Ira Kelley % to Lum Fletcher 23.
Robert Burns has been appointed
postmaster at Crown.
north of Leon was sold last week to
Frank Goodson, OF Douglas county,
Illinois, for S6,4OO.
Laura Stock, young lady from
Putnam county, Mo-, who had been
living with her grandmother, Mrs.
VIM. Lemmax, IN this city, and at
tending the Leon school, died Thurs
day evening. Her remains were TAX
en- to Princeton, Mo-, for burial.
Phillip Meek and Dora Allen were
married at the home OF George Meek
in Eden township on last Sunday.
Frank Jenree, who is switching in
the Rock Island yards at Des Moines,
came in last week to visit his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. w. Jenree for
few days.
George Traupel, of High Point,
was in Leon Friday, coming as far
as Leon with his brother, Nose
Traupel, who was going to, Cloud
county, Kansas, to make his home.
Mrs. DR.. Will VanWerden left
Monday for visit with relatives at
Jacksonville, Illinois.
Ed H. Sharp, of Bethany, Mo-,
came rolling in yesterday to visit "a
Otis Green came from Corydon yes
terday, where he had been working
for some time in hotel.
Bert Holland was indicted by the
| i f~,, 1,r holm q
claimed he stole a COW from S. p.
Mcneil, at Garden Grove. He was
arrested Thursday and brought to
Leon, and gave bond for his appear
ance at the next term OF court.
Gus Pryor is generally the fellow
who gets the joke on the other 1el-
low, put Tuesday the boys roped in
Gus in great shape with one OF the
little toy money making machines.
Fred Close had one of the machines,
which looks like little toy clothes
wringer, except that the rubber rolls
are black instead of white. A piece or
blank paper is cut just the size OF
bill and the operator starts 1T in pc
tween the rollers. 1t rolls up INSIDE
of them and when the crank IS turn.
ed again, five. ten OF twenty dollar
bill is turned out, just to suit the
owner. OF course the money is gen
uine, for the bills are rolled up in
side one of the little hollow tubes
made to represent the rollers before
hand, while the blank paper stays
there while the money is turned out.
Several fellows were let lnto the
secret, and Gus was called in and
shown the machine, and how easy
money could be made. A ten dollar
bill was turned out and some one
proposed that Gus take it and work
joke on Mike Mayer by having him
change it. Gus took the bill and
sauntered into the clothing, store
and when Mike came up, asked MN MN
to change it. Mike uld SO, and Gus
started down the street. When he
had gone little ways Mike, who was
posted, started after him and told
Gus he had given him bad Dill, ana
raised a racket about 1t. They talk,
ed the matter over and finally, went
to county attorney G. W. Hoffman,s S
office to settle the matter, and 1t was
there agreed that if Gus would BUY
dollars worth ofFcigars and take
the hill back the matter would be
dropped, otherwise ne would be ar
rested for passing counterfeit money;
Gus sent out and got the cigars and
then the boys opened up and snow
ed him that the money was really a
genuine bill. and that he had been
| the sucker instead of Mike. But then
Gus took the joke all right and SAID
| it was worth all the boys got out
of if