The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-07-12
Had q Fine Time on Their Missouri
Fishing Trip.

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Fishing Trip.
The canning party composed of Ed
H. Sharp and wife J. X: BoWsher
and wife, Robert BoWsher, Vogt bow Y,
sher,, j. e. Vail and wife, John s;
Vail c. w. Hoffman and wife, (and
George Battle and wife in charge OF
the commissary and sanitary depart
ments OF the camp returned from
Glasgow, Missouri on July Bird. that
is ali but Sharp and Hoffman, who
did not reach Leon until couple OF
clocks on the morning OF July fth,
and report very pleasant trip, es-
had a devil Of time on the home
trip: j.
Glasgow, his son Sam and wife liv-
ing on a fine farm of about 1890
acres, owned by the Covingtons, just
north of Glasgow. The club house
on the farm was all that could be
desired, furnished with beds and
bedding, gasoline stove. cooking
utensils, and everything in abund-
ance. On account of the high waters
the fishing was not very good. yet
the party managed to obtain from
ten to twenty pounds of dressed fish
per day, (probably bought from the
Missouri fishermen) and had all the
fish they cOulQ use.
Ed Sharp, J. E. and John S. Vail
boss Of the Job and kept John Vail
busy rowing the boat and doing some
manual labor all the time. After
two or three days of strenuous work
John Vail was asked the question,
as he started out again, if he was in
fact a good fisherman John an
nounced in his droll wav, Il am not
a fisherman, | am Ed Sharp's slave. :
A remark which caused great ap-
plause, and from that time on he was
called the slave
On one Of the numerous trips from
camp to Glasgow some little repair
was necessary on Wallis car and he
remarked he would trade the car for
a dog. 1t was not long afterwards
until a long, lank Missourian came
around and wanted to trade pair
of hound pups for the auto, and in
sisted on entering into negotiations,
much to Johns discontinue, as quite
a crowd had gathered to see the
trade.
Charlton and Howard counties,
Missouri appear to be in very pros
porous condition. The wheat crop is
excellent, was just being harvested
and promised to yield from so to 40
bushels per acre. All the crops are
in fine condition with the exception
of the lowest bottom lands that We're
Missouri river backing out over the
lands. S. Fl. Covington lost about
200 acres of very fine wheat, but all
this land is now in corn.
On the return trip Jim Bowsher
left his vest, watch and few other
articles in a garage at brunswick.
otherwise he arrived home intact,
thanks to the watchfulness OF Uncle
Bob. Ed Sharp was the champion
Hoffman left camp with their car
loaded with all the camping junk,
which they carried in preference to
having any women in their car, Ed
found he was without cylinder oil,
and after getting his engine hot, and
himself also, tire went down and
his starter refused to start He had
lost his wrench, his pump was worth
less, and he was without - 2 ASK, 50
was compelled to fof some time
getting him started. From that
!. tllnl!ls time On -laIESS luck followed him be-
tween Every town. He either had a
.puncture, blowout or got stuck in
the mud After having one tire go
down seven times, and with no one
to helD him change except Cal. who
Ed said knew as much about an auto
as one of the hounds he used to own
when he went coon hunting, he met
his Waterloo south of Modena, when
he tried to destroy a Missouri corner
stone, but only succeeded in break
ing every leaf of a front spring on
his car. He had stood grief all day
and when Cal steered Inn off on a
byroad which was no road at all, Ed
bucked and from that time on Cal
had to so up to every house and wake
the farmer up and ask him where
they were, and this was continued
until they were inside the city limits
OF Leon and he woke a man up to
ask him how to get up town without
getting lost. Cal insists that Ed is a
safe driver and slows down at nearly
all the corners, and at no time en-
dangers life or limb. After chang
ing steen tires Cal says no man on
earth. can take an auto trip with Ed
Sharp and maintain his standing in
the Methodist church.
/ S. H. Covington and Sam Coying--
ton jr. and wife certainly did all
within their power to make the visit
of their old Iowa friends pleasant,
and the party surely appreciates the
courtesies extended to them.