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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-04
ATTRACTIONS TONIGHT

COLISEUM-Louise Glaum i'll "The Wolf Woman" a Weekly and Keystone Com edy.
 PALACE-Alice Joyce and Harry Mercy in Richard Brazen"; Hank Mann in There's Many a Fool' and a Weekly. DREAM - Kathryn Williams and Thomas Holding in Re deming Love" and a Com edy.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-04
Pictures Taken from Hydro-aeroplane Seen in Weekly at Coliseum.

An interesting feature of the pro gram at the Coliseum last night ap peared in the Weekly when pictures taken from a hydro-aeroplane were shown Machines flying along the surface of the water at great speed, circiing overhead, landing again on times several machines in the air at one time.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-04

which will be repeated tonight. Hank Mann is billed in "There's Many a Fool" which is a take off and burlesque of the production of "A Fool There Was in which Theda Bara appeared in Juneau some time ago.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-04

by open cut in summer, the deeper spots. being worked in winter. Most of the mining is done on KIery Creek One outfit was prospecting on Ambler River and another on the Noatak. It is reported that a strike was made at Walker Lake during the summer and that or young men were rocking out s10 to $15 per day.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-04
kOBUk RIVER

During the year obout 20 men they took out grubstakes only. The production of the district was prob ably $25,000 The ground is worked
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
Gordon Farmers's Captain Writes
His Father About Accident.

The following letter has been re-
ceived by John Farmer, of near Wei
tain, commanding the U. S. S. Mich
igan, on which Gordon Farmer was
severely injured on Jan. 18th. 1t
man was dead, but he is far from it,
as the following letter shows:
U. S. S. Michigan,
Care Postmaster New York, N. Y.
January %, 1918.
Mr.. John Farmer,
Weldon, Iowa.
My Dear sir;-You have Of
injury to your Son, Gordon S. Far
mer, when the mast on board this
ship collapsed on the 18th inst. but
in the face of severe and un1ortun-
ate injury he showed such fine spirit
and courage that | am sure you will
be glad to know of it.
doubtless know. 1t was so terribly
crushed from the elbow to the end
that there was nothing to do but to
amputate it, His left arm was al
so broken above the elbow, but that
will become all right. He was al
so injured internally and for day
uneasy about him, but at last ac-
counts he was improving and l hope
that by this time he is we'll on the
road to recovery.
On the 10th inst, as soon as we
arrived in port, | transferred him
and two or three other injured men
to the hospital ship where he was
as comfortable and well taken care
of as he would have been in a hos
pital on shore On the 7th, l
went to see him and found him in
good spirits, but at that time the
doctors were uneasy. On the goth,
before leaving that vicinity, sig,
nailed to inquire how he was and
was informed that he was improving.
1t was very fortunate that he was
not killed, but Immediately after
the accident he was cheerful and
even joking and showed himself to
be right sort of a lad.
While he has lost his right arm,
he will under law recently passed
BY congress, receive quite consider
able monthly compensation for par
tial disability, and while this, OF
course, does not make up for his
loss, it will be very proper and de-
cided help to him.
Since he had to suffer severe in
juries, | am sure that it must be
some satisfaction to him and to you
ttat they were suffered while he was
patriotically serving his country in
time of war.
Very sincerely yours,
C. B. Britain,
Captain, u S. Navy, Commanding.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
ARE HERE TOMORROW
War Sneakers Direct from Europe
and Soldier Quartet from Camp
Dedoe Coming on Friday.

An annoying error was made last
week in announcing that the wal
speakers would be at Leon on Mon:
day Of this week, @ when when the %eh date stS q
btu that is not going to detract from
the meeting. Indications are that
big crowds are coming from all parts
of Decatur county to hear these
speakers tell of actual war conditions
in England, France and Italy. The
commissioner W. H. Shields, and he
is leaving nothing undone to make 1t
success.
Among other good things Mr..
Shields has arranged TOR q dandy dyy
Leon, and they will sing at all the
Major yis Hennessey se D0 gave permission
for the quartet to come to Leon, and
the boys who will come are among
the best singers at Camp Dodge, and
quartet is :, eomHpe9sed NJ 2, Of Serge Sergeant 1t
Ralph W. Douglass, Private Leland
M. Henry and Private Daniel j. kel-
ley, with Sergeant Carl j. Carrick,
of Co. B, .349th Infantry as accom-
pamst T This Rear alone Ta % onagtet be worth W
sing at all the places where meetings
are held.
This is not a money raising meet
ing, as there will be no admission
and you will not be asked to sub
scribe to any funds. Everybody is
welcome, and all that is desired is
that as many people as possible hear
these war speakers tell OF the actual
conditions of the war. 1t will be
first hand information too, for they
have just returned from Europe, and
Leon is one of the first places where
they will hold meetings. The speak
ers personally visited the trenches,
lived with the men, and know how
things are going over there and Will
tell it to you.
Meetings will be held afternoon
and evening at both the Presbyterian
and Methodist churches, and If
these will not accommodate all the
people, other places will be provided,
SO that all can. hear them, each
speaker appearing at each place, SO
it makes no difference where you go
to hear them. The afternoon meet
ing will be at $3.50 O'Clock, and the
evening meeting at 1880 o'clock.
Come out to one of these meetings,
and bring your neighbor with you:
We want as many of the citizens OF
Decatur county as possible to take ad-
vantage of this great opportunity to
learn something authentic. about war
conditions, and the food. problems
which confront the allies.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
The Great Chance.

To 20 to France. Ages must be
1871 and 31-4O inclusive You
must be skilled in one or more OF
the following trades: Auto and gas
m achine, machinist, chauffeur.
blacksmith forger, wheelwright, cab
inetmaker, sheet metal worker.
house and sign painter. harness
maker, acetylene welder.
The army is seeking to enlist
1000 skilled men for two motor
mechanic regiments for immediate
service at the aviation camps behind
period Of training at Fort Hancock,
at Augusta, Ga. More than half the
men taken will serve as non-com-
missioned officers. the others as
first class privates. Good pay for
men and dependents, for further in
formation see G.. r. Farquhar, en-
rollment agent, U. s. Public Service
Reserve, Leon, Iowa.
Other county papers please pub
1iah
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
Drafting Candidates.

In war time men are called upon
to make sacrifices for the general
welfare. Personal affairs must, be-
come secondary to the country's
needs And similarly, at a time
when the city is in need Of a better
administration and when the war has
nitude upon Davenport, the men who
are capable and who are needed for
public service must be drafted. 1t
is not sufficient excuse for man
who is asked to be candidate for
alderman or mayor on non-partisan
ticket that he doesn't wish to be a
candidate. Such men must remem-
Der that if they refuse to serve the
city they are forever stopped from
criticising whatever kind of city GOV
ernment may result from their fail
ure to respond to the call OF duty
Davenport Times.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
How to Buy Flour.

The following order has been re-
tceived by our grOcerymen relatlve 70
>sthe sale of flour, and this order
must be obeyed under heavy pen
atty: ,o,s
ther notice from the United States
Food Administration no retailer deal
ing in wheat flour shall, without the
written permission of the United
States Food Administrator, sell
wheat flour to any person unless
such person purchases from MN al
1he same time one pound OF wheat
flour substitutes for every pound or
wheat flour purchased.
Wheat flour substitutes for the
purpose of this rule shall include:
Corn flour, corn meal, edible corn
starch, hominy, corn grits, barley
flour, rolled oats, oat meal meal ndtsto tice
flour, buckwheat flour, cotton seed
flour, milo, kaffir and feterita flours
and meals, soya bean flour, peanut
flour, casava flour, taro flour, ban
ana other products OF similar ma
ture. (Note-Graham and rye flour
are not included as substitutes.)
In making any combination sales
under this rule, the dealer shall
name price for each of the articles
sold which shall not represent more
than a normal pre-war profit on any
one of such articles, without regard
to speculative profit or market con-
ditions. ,.
The dealer in food commodities,
III selling or delivering wheat flour
to any consumer thereof, must at the
same time sell to the purchaser an
equal quantity of wheat flour sub
stitutes, or he must satisfy himself
that the buyer has purchased one
pound of wheat flour substitutes for
every pound of wheat flour.
In all cases where the licensee de-
livers wheat flour without at the
same time delivering wheat flour
substitutes, pound for pound, the
dealer must secure written certifi-
cate from the purchaser, to the effect
that he has in his possession at that
time wheat flour substitutes, pound
for pound, equal to the quantity OF
wheat flour then purchased, and
that such substitutes are to be used
Tor human consumption.
These certificates must be for
warded to the County Food Admins,
traitor in each county every second
week for his inspection, or in case
there is no acting county food ad,
ministrator they may be forwarded
IS the office of the United States
Food Administrator at Burlington,
.Tn<yQ
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
c. NJ. Axes Makes Statement in Re
gard to Buying and Shipping
Hogs.

ing hogs in Leon for about thirty
years and have bought more than
half of the hogs shipped from here
for most of that time;
During all of this time | have al
ways tried to treat the farmers fair
and get them all that their hogs are
| worth. AS there is an organization
that seems to be working day and
night to get the farmers to ship
their own hogs feel that | would
like to give nd%ght then few bds pointers thnt
they sold them to me. A few peo-
pie think they are doing me a lot
of harm but l think. it is good
thing. 1 think everybody ought to
know what it costs to ship stock and
different kinds Of hogs. Now with
justice to me and yourselves l would
like to suggest few ideas. In the
first place hogs loaded by daylight
in the morning, in order to get here
for the morning train, won't weigh
as much as with their regular feed
later later, in the e day: "; , Remember r: men e, that t
rule it is not weighed on the same
kind of a shrink as it is when he
sells it at home. In other words
I'll give ten cents hundred more
for hogs hauled from a distance and
weighed before nine o'clock in the
morning than l will weighed be-
tween II and 12.. That is little
over a pound to the head on a 200
pound hog. Five pounds to the head
on 200 pound hog at 16 cents
pound is 40 cents hundred. Stop
and figure this for yourself.
One more thing is that you have
been asked not to price your hogs
at home. Stop and ask yourself,
why is this? Is it because they are
afraid YOU will be offered more at
home than when you ship the hogs
yourself?
You have been asked not to tell
what you get for your hogs: That
is, l mean your net price at home.
If this is a good thing why not let
everybody know it?
ship and if / wasn't l would quit
the business and l can make money
and pay you more than you can get
shipping to the open market. Ii
you don't want to price your hogs
ask your neighbor what he gets.
| don't want to be misunderstood
as | am making this statement in
a good friendly way but few peo-
Pile are taking an active part against
me and If they will come out in the
open l will tell the public their
reason for it.
/ make this claim, knowing what
these hogs and cattle that have been
shipped to the open market brought,
claim that the farmers Of this 10
cality have lost hundreds OF dollars:
home they will see that this is true.
c. M Axes
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
Tom Judd Accidentally Shot.

Word was received here last week
by relatives of Tom Judd, who is IN
q training camp near Seattle, WASH.
that he had been accidentally shot
in the arm the bullet going on
through into his side, infilctlng an
pened in the barracks and was caus-
ed by one of the sergeants in the
same room handling an automatic
"A calibre revolver, which in some
manner, was discharged. The bull,
let broke the bone in his arm and
it is thought quite badly shattered
was not considered serious. 1t is
very unfortunate indeed.-Garden
Grove Express.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
PRINCETON MAN IS A PRISONER
OF UNCLE SAM AT $18 A
DAY.
Warren Hubbell Engaged in Secret
Work for Government, Must Not
Leave House for Three
Months

Warren Hubbell, who closed up
his garage in Princeton couple of
weeks ago and went to Rock Island,
Illinois, to work in the arsenal, is
virtually prisoner in the big build
ing. it is said. But being prisoner
OF Uncle Sam-a voluntary prisoner,
as Hubbell isis not so bad. He is
an expert mechanic engaged in some
secrecya1d c he draws almost eiTht.
cen dollars day for being confined
in the governments big war house.
Hubbell's agreement with the gov
ernment is that he will work three
months in the arsenal, without go
ing outside of the building, says the
AllertOn News. For this three
months work he is to get $1,000,
with prospects of $1,000 for the fol-
lowing three months, the News fur
ther states. Hubbell was reared in
Allerton. His father, j. w. ,Hubbell,
now lives there.-Princeton Post
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14


day, Feb. IS.
Roscoe r. Mitchell, before leaving
for England and France as repre-
sentative of the United States Food
Administration, was actively connect
ed with the Liberty Loan campaign
as a speaker in the vicinity OF
Buffalo, N. Y, where he is vice presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce.
He was born at Cohoes,. N. ", in
1883, and is an attorney by profes-
Jams College in 1904, and Albany
Law School in 1907.
His trip through England and
France, under the auspices of the
Food Administration was for the
purpose of observing actual condi-
tions under which the civilian pop
ulation and the armies live, and
these actual conditions, with the
consequent obligations they impose
sent in his address.
European officials extended every
courtesy to Mr.. Mitchell and his as
sociates On the U. S. Food Admin
istration's Commission in order that
the survey might be accurate, and in
"a measure official.
Mr.. Mitchell was taken through
the army camps, English and French
spending days with the fighting men,
and living on the ration served the
soldiers.
Camp, and his talks with American
staff officers, will prove to be deep
ly interesting to Americans general
ly, who will also be interested in Mr..
MitchelPs report of agricultural con-
ditions in France and England.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
YEARS AGO
items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published Quarter
Of a Century Ago.

The Continental hotel at Center
vile 'burned last Thursday night, a
guest named Lewis from Greeley,
Iowa, burned to death in his room
and the landlady, Mrs. Mckee, jump:
was injured so badly that she died
eight hours later.
Clerk Gates has issued the follow
ing marriage licenses the past two
weeks:
3 H. Peck 26 to Ida Doan 81.
w. j. Adair 81 to Josie Adair 81.
Q; F. Chaplin 22 to Mary Rey-
George w. Hawk "a to Mary Tur-
w. Il. Euritt 81 to Cora B. Rob
bins %.
While he was at the Ft. Madison
penitentary with the highway rob-
Der Cross, sheriff G. W. LaFollette
perado, Polk Wells, who is serving
life sentence for murder The
cane is made of small pieces of sole
leather, mounted on steel rod, and
makes a beautiful cane which sheriff
LaFollette prizes very much.
G. w. Williams, of Lamont, father
Of 9ead ar1 last Fra9y po5t OF Te leon baaape dfGppea
load of posts, heart disease causing
leaves a wife and eight children.
working in the Gate City Office at
neokuk, for the past year, came in
Tuesday to visit his father and
friends in this city for a short time.
Ed is another of the good printers
who learned their trade in The Re-
porter office.
Mrs. Helen Ellinwood and son de-
parted Friday for their home in
Manitou, Colorado, after a pleasant
visit at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Wood, in this
city.
Miss Mary Varga went to Des
Moines Monday to visit several weeks
with friends.
75c, corn @ 43c" oats 31c. cattle $s.S5
to $500 and hogs $50 to $3.50.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14

The Reporter man stole away for
three days the past week and attend
ed the annual meeting of the Iowa
Press Associate held at Des Moines
on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
1t was the best meeting ever held by
attendance, and the three days were
most profitably spent. Prominent
speakers appeared on the program,
and the business matters connected
with the newspapers were discussed.
All over the state there is a great
shortage of help, and the publishers
are up against a proposition to secure
going. Col. Roosevelt was to have
spoken to the editors Monday night,
but his illness compelled him to can
eel all dates.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
Coming Attractions at the Idle HOur
Theatre

The eleventh episode of .'The
Fighting Trail will be shown at the
Idle Hour Theatre today. Matinee
at 3 o'clock First night show at
1870. Admission 5 and 10 cents
plus one cent war tax.
| Tomorrow is Paramount day.
The attraction will be announced by
advertising distributed on the day of
the performance.
. Saturday the third number of the.
wonderful war pictures showing
"The Retreat of the Germans at the
Battle of Arras'' will be shown.
Matinee at 3 O'Clock and first night
show at 1880. Admission and 10
cents plus one cent war tax.
Monday is Paramount day. The
attraction for that day will be an
nounced later. Watch for this an
tuesday, Feb. 10th, the attraction
is Earle Williams in the Vitagraph
Blue Ribbon production, "The Mael-
strom." A great picture with =
W. Wednesday, Feb. 2oth, Evart ov-
erton e. comes to e. the he Idle 5ifs Hour gr.1n p
Blue Ribbon picture Of high quality
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
Grain will be Handled.

The Biddison Grain and Coal Co.,
of Leon. have received the following
letter from The Grain Bulletin, at
Minneapolis, Mimi, IN regard to an
emergency order to supply cars for
shipping grain, and they are ready
to buy and ship grain of all kinds
for farmers, SO il you have any to
sell bring it in and do your bit.
Office of The Grain Bulletin, Min
neapolis, Mimi.
February 8. 1918.
The Director-General of Railroads
has issued a temporary emergency
order directing that all railroads per-
nit the loading of boxcar equipment
with grain in preference to all other
commodities.
Please, therefore, arrange to load
and bill cars furnished for grain
loading on the date furnished and al
SO notify Immediately all farmers
having stocks of grain that your ele.
vator will undertake to handle all
offerings of grain that are immedi-
ately rendered.
You should also urge upon the
farmers the advisability of moving
their grain Immediately, as it will
be very difficult, if not impossible,
for country elevators to handle much
of any grain after this order is can
celled.
Tho Grain pyl1otip
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
The New Ford Destroyers.

The sinking of the transport Tus-
cania by submarine heightens in
terest in the. new type destroyers
that, are to be produced by Henry
parativeIy short time The news
covering Mr.. Ford's latest venture
has been given the public through
the regular press dispatches, but the
aid he purposes giving is so timely
and important as to warrant enough
is expected to result from it. Naval
authorities, in this country, Great
Britain and France expect it is said,
that the carrying out of the Ford
program will result in greater de-
structiOn of submarines than at any
time during the war, and the conse-
chantmen. This is now the problem
The design of this new destroyer
was adopted at a conference of Brit
ish, Frence and American naval ex-
perts, who had just returned from
the restricted zone. and had ample
rine operations and the best meth
DDS of counteracting them. The
new boat will be about 200 feet long.
in size between the submarine chas-
er and the. destroyer. 1t will be
sturdy of build, braced, to weather
any oCSl clAu " oloAu SAO oIA Gill VI
high power engines and guns Of fair.
ly large caliber. 1t was found that
the chasers 100 feet long are not
sufficiently seaworthy and have too
little radius of action, and that it
took too long to build the destroy
ers. The experts agreed that q boat
of kind named, fitting in between
these two types, with plenty OF speed
and guns, and that could be built
speedily, would meet the need.
The destrOyers are most effective,
and have done excellent work, but 1t
takes a year to build them. The
Ford boat can be built in less than
half that time, and it is believed will
do substantially as good work.
This new Ford contract is evil
dence that the allied nations have
made up their minds that the best
way to get rid of the submarine is
to destroy it. Boats similar to those
that Ford is to build are to be turn
ed out also in England. BY midsum-
mer the restricted zone will be alive
with them, and meanwhile the caas-
ers and destroyers are to continue
the good work they have been doing
Three years ago the world was
laughing at Henry Ford's peace ex-
pedition. His first venture as a
peace captain was spectacular and
amusing, His second venture prom
ises better. The fame of the Cskar
III, bearing a cargo of olive branches,
is to be overshadowed by flock OF
chasers bearing guns and other fore
es of destruction. Here's luck to the
Lizzie of the sea.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
Not Selling His Hereford Herd.

we made a big mistake last week
when we announced that G. NJ. Axes
big sale the latter part of this month,
and he has been kept busy answering
phone calls in regard to. it. MIR.
Axes is not going out of the Here
ford business, and will not sell his
Hereford herd, but has seven extra
fine young Hereford bulls bred and
raised by him, which will be sold at
this sale, as he cannot use them, ano
they will be gold mines to Decatur
county breeders who buy them.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
Stacker is in Jail.

One of the men who registered In
Decatur county last June was Abe
Doss, and when he was notified to
appear for examination he failed to
unknown to the officers. But they
know where he is now, for last week
sheriff King, of Ringgold county ar
rested him at Beaconsfield on the
charge of receiving and concealing
stolen property, the grand Jury OF
Ringgold county having returned an
Indictment against Doss last Septen-
ber. but he disappeared and only re-
turned to Beaconsfield day or two
before his arrest.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
Locating = Lot Of Seed Corn.

County farm agent Fred Woolley
is working hard on the seed corn
proposition, and has located quite q
lot Of good seed corn. He has a list
of farmers in Decatur county who
have seed corn for sale, and parties
who desire to purchase seed corn
can secure the names of those hav-
ing seed corn for sale, by calling OF
Dhoning to the county agent at his
Office in the recorders Office in the
court house. Better look after your
.eed corn before it is all gone.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-14
Tax List Completed.

We this week publish the final in
stallment of the tax payers Of De-
more, BY townships and corpora.
tions. While the publication of
this list does not please Alex Miller
of the Washington Democrat, we
know that It pleases the subscribers
of The Reporter. 1t takes lots OF
work to compile and print the tax
list but we feel sure our readers ar-
preciate it.