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The best answer those who could
not fight can make as to their part
in the war is that they worked be-
hind the lines and were enrolled in
the Red Gross army Of mercy.
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Immigrant Inspector Martin Turn
bull visited New Orleans on official
business Saturday last.
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.W.S.S

The Red Cross in your window
shows that you are behind the home
service work for the family of every
soldier.
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W.S.S..

Your Red Cross membership helps
you to insure that our returning
troops will find canteen service. hot
food and comforts all along their
journey from the front to their door
steps.
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Mr.. Foster Hughes returned home
Tuesday from S, A. 7. c. at Spring Hill
college.
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A Red Cross membership means
that you will do your share to lessen
the human cost of victory.
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Mrs. J, w. Frellsen and Miss Alice
Frellsen visited friends in New Or
leans Friday and Saturday.
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Let the Red Cross answer the
Christmas Star from every window.
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An opportunity-not a request or
solicitltion-the Red Cross Christ,
mas Roll Call.
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Misses Ida Meriwether and Natalie
Shelton spent Saturday in Mobile.
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.W.SS-

Mr.. V. ]. DeJean spent several days
in New Orleans this week on bus
mess.
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Let the Red Cross indicate that
your home welcomes our returning
heroes.
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W.S.S..

MFR. and Mrs. A. B. Brondon return
ed Saturday from a short visit TO
Norfolk, Va
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Mrs. r. A Bowers requests the
Chronicle to announce that no work
has been assigned the local Red Cross
Chapter for the month of December.
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membership in this
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} is visiting relatives
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
FAY Hatch Writes From France.

Camp - France, April II, 1918.
To the Decatur County Papers:
Dear Editor and Friends OF Deca,-
tur County: After six months and
a half of army life | am going 0ans to to
county that l am unable to reach in
another manner. i will give you
some of my experiences such as
have permission to tell.
From the time was enlisted, un-
til Thanksgiving last, ! was with
the s1Sth aG Engneers5, ktatGned ime at
/ had the opportunity to transfer to
the oath Engineers, then stationed
at Camp Dix, New Jersey. Am still
with that regiment and haye been
here in France over month.
We enjoyed very fine a, 10 voyage &c
one Of the lookout watches. three
hours every day, all the way over;
That is, was the non-commissioned
officer in charge of the seventh re-
| lief on the port" side OF the snip.
It gave me something to do so the
trip did not get SO tiresome. -
On our arrival here we went into
camp where he landed for a few
days rest. Then we took train
ride of two days duration at which
time we passed through some very
, beautiful country. When l get back
| will tell you lully OF the peop!e' "
their ways and manners 1or l am
We are treated very. nice and the
! American soldier is welcome in most
any home and place. The weather
here has been very nice except for
about a week OF rainy weather: ,dn; BE
nMaaa mental 'cS Chaplain in we We are ful,y looked
/ out for in the manner of amusements.
! Thanks for both-they mean SO
much-the boys could not get along
| without them. The Red Cross has
also been very good to us in many
i ways. Many thanks for the favors
that organization has given us.
| There is so much more | would
like to write. but cannot, as it is al
most time for taps. =,
! My regards and best wishes to all
in Leon and Decatur county.
Sergeant E. F. Hatch.
Co. D., oath Engineers, A. e. F.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
TWENTYFIVf YEARS Ago
items Taken from the Tiles of The
Reporter Published a Quarter
OF q Century AGO.

Lamont was visited by a gang of
safe blowers last Wednesday night.
At Hudson & Co.'s store they blew
the safe and secured about $500,
safe but were, evidently frightened
away before they SECURED the con-
tents and at B. b. Fleets store they
secured three suits of clothes, a
watch and lot of watch chains and
rings.
f. G: Knapp died at the home Of
1880 O'Clock Funeral services will
be held Thursday afternoon at 3
O'Clock.
The commencement exercises of
the Leon High School were held at
the opera house last Thursday even
ing. The graduates were Misses
sankey, Kate Perdew, Margaret
Hurst, Cora Biggs and Bessie Read
and Mr.. Frank Lands.
John Wilantt has been appointed
postmaster at Fierce vice w. d.
Fierce, resigned.
proud possessor OF. fine new safet,
bicycle, and has already mastered it
so as to ride gracefully.
Jonas hoffhines received by ex-
press from New York last Thursday
/ a bar of aluminium a half inch
square and eight feet long. The bar
weighed just two pounds and many
they were asked to try and see il
they could hold it out at arms
length. 1t was purchased to MAXI
track shoes for his famous pacer
Blue Sign 2:0SA, and Greed Bob
bitt made set of shoes for him,
the total weight being just thirteen
ounces. Driver Daugherty thinks
they are just what were needed, as
Blue Sign has no use for weights.
Mrs. w. P. Clark. and Mrs. }; P.
Hall went to Excelsior Springs, Mo,
Dr.. and Mrs. McClelland, who are
spending the summer at the Mineral
Springs.
Add Ausman and family, of Line
Vile, are here visiting Mrs. Aus
mans. parents. They will leave the
last of next week for Gainesville
where Mr.. Ausman will work in a
harness shop.
Aunt Jane Miller went to Beth
days with the parents of Ed Fl.
groceryman eryy Hos Isited Had popaa' over sgnda
wi with his best girl in Mt. Ayr.
Mrs. Emma Gatchell and baby
went to Chicago Monday to join her
husband who is engaged in the
grocery business in that city.
Mrs. VIM. .Asbach. of near, Davis
City, was quite badly injured by
when W the COW suddenly turned,
knocked her down, and jumping on
her with both feet. She is doing as
we'll as could be expected.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
Republican Ticket for the June Pri-
marieS

The following is the complete list
of candidates whose names will ap-
pear on the Republican Primary
Ticket for nomination at the Juno
Representative, H. B. Murray,
Bloomington township; w. S. Nc
Caull, Garden Grove.
Auditor, No candidate.
Treasurer, J. Wesley Chew, Eden
Clerk Of the Courts, Ira B. Officer
Leon.
Recorder, Matte Burchett Greoa-
ey. Grand River; Mrs. Jeannetts.
Aten Bruce, Garden Grove.
County Attorney, VIM. ]. Spring
er, Leon.
Board of Supervisors, term BE-
ginning Jan. 1, 1919, e. j. Blair.
Long Creek township.
Board of Supervisors. term b.
ginning Jan. 1, 1920, Y. B. WaSaon.
Morgan township.
Coroner, No candidate.
This is the complete list as fled
with the County Auditor.
j. A. Mcintosh,
County Chairman.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
CAPTURED Booze but Owner Escaped.

Last Thursday morning about l
O'Clock deputy Sheriff John Osborn
and nightwatch Frank Smith were
watching for booze cars at the bridge
at the end of the paving on south
Main street when a big car with
two occupants, man and woman
drove up When they turned on
their flashlights and ordered the
driver to stop, he did, but only to
start backing up to the Pleasanton1 q
cutoff where he turned around and
beat it back on the Davis City road.
AS the officers had no car with
them they could not follow; ABOUT
phoned p in to sheriff John Fulton
that a car had hidden lot OF booze
in a field near his home southwest
of Leon, and he started out, meet
ing a car coming into Leon Whlch
he stopped and searched but no
iiauor was found There was moth
inc to do but allow them to proceed;
and the sheriff then went out and
found the booze which had been un-
loaded and carried into a pasture,
there being in the neighborhood OF
800 pints of whiskey, which was
brought to Leon and safely stored
in the county Jail, waiting for the
owner to claim it, but it is sa1e
bet that he will never appear, ana
is we'll satisfied to get away with
his car and escape arrest.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
to cemetery.
Electric Service is Rotten.

If the service which Leon has re-
ceived since the juice is being fur-
of what we are going to have, it is
not going to be very satisfactory to
the patrons. The lights and power
have been on again and off again the
past week, greatly mountaineering
parties depending on them for pow
er. The Reporter is gotten out un. q.
der difficulties, as the power was off
most of the afternoon Tuesday, just
when we needed it most to run our
linotype and presses, and it, was a
question whether we would be able
to get the paper out on. time at all:
as when electric power is turned on
these days printing office is COM
pletely tied up.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
Electric Light Co. Gives Notict
Tbey Will Provide No More
Steam Heat.

All users of steam for heating
purposes from the electric ilght
plant received notice Tuesday from
the Iowa Southern Utilities Co.,
which now own the electric light
plant and franchise, that they, would
no longer provide any steam heat in
Leon: The franchise granteidd ardeides to tine ne
the contract that they shall supply
patrons with electric light, power
and steam heat. and the patrons OF
the plant have gone to consld-
erable expense in Installing steam
heating fixtures are left LET bSat with II them IN
smpplied M next winter. AS the fran
chise provides for furnishing steam
heat, it is thought the company can
not refuse to supply heat any more
than they can refuse to supply cleo
trio lights in business houses or Tor i,s
tne street lights, and dlt the steam e;anroas uss
objection to being cut off and resort
to the courts if necessary to compel
the company to live up to their con-
tract
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
PRIMARY NEXT MONDAY
Little Interest Taken in Politics
This Year, and Indications are
d liQht Vote will be Cast.

Next Monday is primary election
day, and less interest is being taken
than we ever saw at primary cleo
tion, in Decatur county, and ii 1t is
good day for farmers to work in
the field there will be hundreds OF
ng to vote, there being very little
interest taken in politics this year
and but very few contests for nomi-
nations on either of the. tickets.
This year there will only be. two
tickets in the field, the republicans
and democrats being the only par
ties who cast sufficient votes at the
places on the ballot. On the demo
cratic county ticket there. are only
two contests, these being for county
recorder and member Of the board
of supervisors for the term COM
mencing January 1. 1919. For the
democratic nomination for recorder
of Leon, and vern E. Kier, of Rich
land township, both good men, we'll
qualified for the office they seek, !,
and it will be merely a question of
which one of them gets the greatest
number of votes out. They, are both
sterling good democrats and no miss
take would be made in in : nominating 1nna! TIM
test is for the office of member of
the board Of supervisors for the
term beginning January 4, 1919,
the candidates being l.. P. Hastings,
of Long Creek township, the present
encumbent, who seeks second
term, and the other man being Mil
ton Manchester, Of Eden township,
who was pushed into the race by
his friends, as that part of the
county thought they were entitled
to a member of the board and no
better man could be found than
Milt Manchester. 1t is merely a
question of which is the strongest
candidate, and this question will be
decided by their friends at the polls
next Monday.
On the republican ticket there
are also but two contests, there be-
ing two candidates for representa-
tive, w. S. McCaull, OF Garden
Grove township, and H. B. Murray.
of Bloomington township, while two
ladies, Mrs. jeanette Aten Bruce, of
Garden Grove, and Mrs. Matte
Burchett Greeley, of Richland town
ship, are contesting for the repub-
lican. nomination for county record
er.
No candidate appears on the, re
publican ticket for county auditor
or coroner, and on the democratic
ticket there are no candidates for
county attorney or coroner.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
Was Not the Stolen Car.

Cotton" Albee, who was arrest.
ed and taken to Omaha on Sunday OF
last week, being charged with steal
ing a Ford auto, returned to Leon
with his car Wednesday, having no
Council Bluffs from whom he pur,,
chased the car, and the car proved
not tc be the one stolen, his. arrest
being caused from the fact that the
number of the engine on his car
was :he same as the engine on the
which Albee purchased was 1917
model, while the stolen car was a
1918 model, on which the engine
numbers had been changed, and by
strange coincidence, the numbers
we're changed to the same numbe, OF
tie engine in the car which Albee
bought, and he had no trouble in
securing his release upon teaching
Omaha
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
Rarry-Barrett.

A pretty wedding was solemnized
at St. Brendan's church. Leon,
Thursday morning ct $50. the
contracting Darties being Mr. S. w.
Barry and Miss Helen Barrett, both
of Leon.
Lohengrin's wedding march was
played by Miss Julia Mullins, a
cousin of the bride. The wedding
ceremony was performed by Rev.
Father J. c.. Maher, pastor of the
church. The attendants were the
brides sister, Miss Grace Barrett,
and the gfoom's brother, Mr.. James
Barry. The bride was attired in a
beautiful gown of white taffetta and
Georgette with bead trimmings and
wore veil Of silk net caught with
maid wore dress of blue taffetta.
After the ceremony dinner was serv-
ed to number of guests at the home
of the brides parents.
The bride is the daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. R. j.. Barrett of near
Leon, and is charming and refined
Young lady She graduated from
the Leon High School in 1914 and
for the past four years has been one
of Decatur county's most successful
teachers.
The groom is "a ssoaag man of
sterling qualities and one of Decatur
county's prosperous farmers.
The happy couple departed on the
afternoon train for short wedding
trip, after which they will reside on
the groom's farm southeast of Leon:
A large number of friends extend
congratulations and wish them many
years Of happiness and prosperity.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
~ MUST WORK OR FIGHT.
Drastic Change in Rules Ordered by
CrOW(ler

Provost Marshal General Crow
der's new work or fight regula-
tions will require professional base
ball players either to engage i'll some
Not only idlers, but all draft reg
istrants engaged in what are held to
be non-useful occupations are. to be
hauled before local boards and given
the choice of a new job or the army.
Gamblers, race track and bucket
shop attendants and fortune tellers
head the list, but those who. will be
reached by. the new regulation also a,
include walters and bartenders, the
ater ushers and attendants, passen-
ger elevator operators and other at
PENDANTS Of clubs, hotels, stores,
etc. domestics and clerks in stores.
Glasses Affected.
(A)-Persons engaged in the
serving of food and drink. or either,
in public places including hotels and
social clubs.
(B)-Passenger elevator operat-
ors and attendants; doormen, foot
men and other attendants OF clubs,
hotels, stores, apartment houses, Of
flee buildings and bath houses.
(C)-Persons, including usherss
and other attendants, engaged and
occupied in, and in connection with
games, sports and amusementS, eA-
CGDLluS LlOSc dCLudAls Sh6oSSU ~
legitimate concerts and theaters..
lD)-Persons employed in do
mestic service.
(E)-Sales clerks and other
clerks employed in stores and other
mercantile establishments.
Number to Relief.
''Men who are engaged as above
or who are idlers will not be per-
mitted to seek relief because of the
fact that they have drawn a late or
der number, or because they have
been placed in class 2, 3 or on the
grounds Of dependency. The fact
that he is not usefully employed Will
outweigh both of the above condl-
tons.
ut is expected that the .list of
non-useful occupations. will be ex-
tended from time to time as neces-
sity will require so as to include
persons in other employments.
Temporary absences from regu-
lar employment not to exceed one
sences are habitual and frequent,
shall not be considered as idleness.
Regular vacations will not be con-
sidered as absences in this connec-
ton.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
DO You Miss the Money?

Did you miss the money we gave
the Red Cross on the last drives Ao.'
a war fund? AS we look back at, II
isn't it the most satisfactory contrl-
button we ever made?
Did it hurt? 1t did not. on the
contrary it has been source OF
qualification and self graduation
What does it cost US? Actually
nothing of necessity or of luxury.
What will this fund we are to raise
next week cost us in actual sacrifice?
Is there any reason to be gwen Wn!
every man of us shouldn't come
across for his rs s snare are % % IL without
nrse Is anyeGIdy meaIs g1gg gda2 Mfa1yt IS any table he
short of good, nourishing food and
plenty of It? Is any one going with
out gasoline for business or JOY rid
ing? Is there lack Of room in the
hospitals or is any sick or, injured
person lying waiting for tor days ho,so tor
hold where the family is scattered
and broken up each member un-
Knowing where another is? Who is
shoeless, ragged, hungry? What
school houses lie in ruins with
mangled bodies of little children in
their debris? What fields are fur
rOWed by any IOrce Dut tHe ploW
DO you miss the money we gave
to the Red Cross war fund last time!
Shall we miss the money we shall
give this time?
There is and ought to be no need
of professions and impassioned. ora
tory to raise this fund. 1t ought to
be paid in as quietly and as promptly
as the grocery bills. It is as much
an obligation as any debt. II any
man can avoid, eyade or deny 1T ne
has something essentially wrong
with his soul. :,
1t is comparatively such small
sum. 1t means so much in results.
Visualize what your dollars mean
across the water, follow your money
as it goes with its burden of blessing
and life and hope from the wounded
men in the first aid dressing station
on through the hospitals, follow II
to the starving little children o1
France and Italy, tag after your Ut
tie contribution with your eyes open
Then refuse or evade or give un-
willingly if you. can.
! Did you miss your gift to the hco
Cross war fund? Will you miss this
contribution? If so you are to DC
pitied more than blamed. There;
something radically wrong with
your soul.-Marshallto Times
Republican
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
Passenger and Freight Rates Will
Be Increased.

If you are going to do any trav-
cling you had better do it before
June 10th, or pay considerable more
for your ticket. An order was is
sued Monday, providing for an in
crease of all passenger rates to three
cents per mile if you ride in an or
binary coach, 3A cents per mile if
you ride in a tourist sleeper, and
31a cents in regular Pullman
sleeping car, and the regular war
tax on top of this. These rates 90
into effect on June 10th. There is
dered on freight rates, which goes
into effect on, June 25th.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
Gcing Over the Top on Red Cross
Drive.

Owing to the rains and the fact
the War Savings drive was extend
ed two days, all of the townships in
Decatur county have not yet COM
pleted their Red Cross work for the
drive, and we will be unable to give
a complete report of each township
until next week, but most of the
townships have gone over the top on
their quota, and it is hoped there
will not be single Stacker township
in Decatur county.
most II per cent, the total quota
for the three wards being $l.076,
and total of $1,709.7O has been
reported. The first wards quota
was 1884 and they have reported
$367.5O. In the second ward the
quota was $310, and they report
$5O7.7O. The third ward more than
doubled their quota of $412, report
ing S834.50.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
OFF TO CAMP DODGE
.35 Soldier Boys Left Saturday on
a Special Train with Several
Quotas from Missouri.

Thirty-fve soldier boys went to
Camp Dodge last Saturday in re-
sponse to the draft call. The orig
inal call was for thirty-four men,
but later it was changed to thirty
five, as Monroe county had no men
which had to be apportioned, out to
various other counties. Maurice
Ernest Snider, of Weldon, was the
extra man called. In the list as
published last week, Leland Stan
ford Hebener, was transferred ans ere to
there, and Bert Feight, who was in
Montana, started for Leon, but did
not reach Leon in time to accom-
pany the boys from here. Elmer
Norris, who registered in Story
county,, and David Jones, who regis
had moved to this county, were in
cluded in the quota on orders from
their local boards.
There was an immense crowd of
people in Leon Saturday to bid fare
we'll to the soldier boys, and the
by the ladies of the Red Cross in the
basement of the M. p. church Then
everybody accompanied them to the
depot, and the streets for blocks
around we're filled with autos, it be
ing estimated that more, than five
hundred autos a were PAR Rarked eava in wenf tnf
from Leon to Des Moines on special
Bethany. as from Albany and II
from Grant City, Mo-, joining them
at Leon. A dining car was attach
ed to the special train, from which
the boys were served VIII sa1estad snpper as
leader, and was assisted by squad
leaders Floyd Thompson, John
Armstrong Hamilton, Raymond Clay
Campbell and Benton Cortez keoWn.
The following is the list OF those
who left Saturday afternoon from
this station:
Floyd Poush.
Clyde Hopkins.
William Raymond Bunch.
Lacey Lafayette Barnett.
Raymond Cleo Curry.
Floyd Thompson
George Carl Mcdaniel.
Oscar Guy Martin.
George William Smith,:
John Armstrong Hamilton.
Viggo Christian Rasmussen.
Frank Brant.
William Leroy Epperly
Homer Dale.
Arthur Earl Phelps
William Joseph Winner.
Harry H. Finkbone..
Harry Jennings Carl Bass.
James C. Could.
Everett Franklin Millstead
Raymond Clay Campbell.
Harry Guy Phelps.
Loren Wilson Vandal.
Ariel Fayette Knapp.
John Bason.
Benton Cortez Keown.
Boyd Asa Richardson.
Earl Granville Clark.
Floyd Virgil Hinebaugh.
Carroll NJ. Camp.
Michael Horner Fry.
Maurice Ernest Snider.
Elmer Norris.
David Jones.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
Former Leon Girl. Becomes Soldiers
Bride.

The following account of the we'd
ding of Miss Gertrude McCaull,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred w.
McCaull, former well known resi-
dents of Leon,. is taken from the
Des Moines Tribune:
Miss Gertrude McCaull, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. f. w. McCaull, of
3411 First street, is the bride OF
Maj. J. E. Cloud, of San Francisco.
They were married Saturday, May
IL, at O'Clock at the brides home,
Rev. w. S. Harries of Highland
Park Presbyterian church officiat--
ing. They were attended by Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Caldwell of this city.
The bride and bridegroom are
making their home for the present
at SAIL First street while Sergeant
Major Cloud is stationed with the
First battalion of the headquarters
troop of the depot brigade at Camp
Dodge.
The bride has been a resident OF
the Christensen school of popular
music the last year. She is a gradu-
ate of North High school,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-30
To the Republican Voters at the
Primary Election.

Owing to the rains and sickness
my plans for visiting the voters has
been seriously interferred with, and
mart of the county, so take this
method to solicit your support at the
polls next Monday If you can sup
port me for the nomination for
county recorder l will appreciate it,
and If nominated and elected will do
nv utmost to conduct the office to
the satisfaction of everyone.
Mrs. jeanette Aten Bruce,
Garden Grove Township.