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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-12
Garden Grove.

Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Culver left
last week for visit with relatives
and friends at Charlton and Des
Moines.
The Jenkins family went to Des
Moines Sunday to visit. with their
son Raymond who is in the eng eng nee f.
ing department at Highland Park
'o Mr.: kegg, of the High Point
neighborlood. left the last of the
week for visit at Los Angeles, Cal.
Ed Gaunt returned last week. from
visit with relatives in ILLINOIS.
Mrs. Majors, of Eureka. Ill, came
last week for, visit at the nome 9 o.
her sisters, Mrs. Gaunt and Mrs. 3.
F. Aten.
Carl Kendall has bought the VIM.
Gibson farm between here and Leon.
Harl Warrington has bought the
VIM. Smith farm between here and
High Point. ISIS
tives at Panora last week and Mr..
Seitz visited with relatives at Victor,
Sam Brown returned last week
from visit with his brother at
Sioux Falls, S. D.
Thos. Churchill Jr.. of Trenton,
Mo-, was here last week visiting with
friends.
Mr.. Hanson, WHO mas peeh Nlell
ing with his son Carl the past sum
mer left the last of the, week tor
Oklahoma to spend the winter with
Gerald Lillard went to Kansas
CITY last week to attend school.
John Barbour went to Cherokee,
Okla. last week to look after farm
he has there.
Willie Evans. of Cedar Rapids, was
here last week visiting relatives and
old friends
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-12
Decatur X. +. ID. No. 2.

Mrs. Harriet Carroll visited Sat
urday night and Sunday with her
daughter Mrs. Harold Hagen near
Davis City.
Mrs. Jennie Norman was Leon
caller Friday
Mr.. and Mrs Pete Ellars and son
Clarence spent Sunday at the j. W..
Mullin home near Leon.
Our school begins Monday With
George 0. Johnston as teacher.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Butcher and
daughter were Davis City callers Sat
urday.
Dennis Williams is on the sick
list.
T. w. Akers and family. of Grand
River, visited Sunday with Reese Ell
lars and wife.
Several from this vicinity went to
Leon Friday to see the soldier boys
off for Camp Dodge. Isaac Norman,
Jr. and Dutch Carroll were two call
ed from this vicinity Friday.
Milton Williams and son Frank
visited at the Isaac Robbins home
Sunday
Will Norman was Davis City
visitor Saturday.
Claude Butcher has been assisting
Orestes Ellers with his farm WORK
the past week.
Miss Nellie Norman attended
church at Pleasant View Sunday
evening
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-12
Route No. 1.
(Delayed.)

Mrs. Christina Still and daughters
Viola and Velma, and Mrs: Mona
Craig and son Claude spent Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. Nell Still:
Ferna Drury called on Thelma
Mcdaniel Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Ross Dale and children spent
che day last week at Sam Dale,s.
John Drury and family spent We'd
nesday night at Jack Woolsey's.
Mrs. Andy Brown spent one after
noon last week with Mrs. Ross Dale;
Mrs. Earl Still and Mrs. Nell Still
spent Thursday afternoon at David
Hubbard's.
Mrs. Kate Dale and son Basil
spent Thursday night at Jim Stills.
Jim Osborn, wife and baby spent
Sunday at Rollie Craig's.
Earl Still and wife spent Sunday
at AL Sprague's.
A. L. Craig, wife and son Hubert
and Oma Craig and family spent
Monday at Rollie Craig's.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-12
Bethel.

Threshing grain is almost thlng
of the past for the year 1918, ana
corn cutting seems to be the order
of he day. There will be, lots Of
corn cut on account of the light
crop of hay. ,, nv
Parker helped Mrs. Joe Dobson COOK
i tpr threshers last Monday.
Miss Cecil Baker called on MIS-
Toe Dobson last Monday afternoon
Frank Turpin, of Tuskeego, yls-
tied his grandparents Mr. and MRS
Dow Parker last Saturday ana sun
day; o; poas,o,, wont ont 70
Tuskeego to visit with Miss Esther
Turpin a few days last Saturday.
I Mrs. Bert Adams went to Decatur
Civ for a few days visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Cochran.
! Everett Dale has a very SICK chlld
! with stomach and bowel troupe
, Dr.. Wales was called Sunday night:
+, The child was some better Monday
~ Mrs. Joe Dobson accompanied her
neice and nephew. Mr. and Mrs.
| Harley Ellis to Leon last SATURDAY
evening and visited with her sister
Mrs. A. e. Ellis and her daughter
Miss Nora Dobson. r w..
Mrs. Elizabeth shaffer,. Of New "
to Visit with her brother Mr.. and
Mrs. Dow Parker a few days.
Mrs Dow Parker and son, AVA
were Leon visitors last Mondav
The funeral of Thomas Cox at
Bethel, was attended by a large
crowd of sorrowing friends. Not
near all were able to get into the
church. Revs. Elba Dale and Chas.
Reeder of Leon officiated. =
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Gray north OF
Leon, attended Apostolic meeting at
Davis City last Sunday night,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Baker, OF
Leon, visited his parents. MT. ana
Mrs. Tom Baker, last Sunday.
Mrs Barton Burrell has been qulte
poorly for a few days but is some
Bert Dobson, of Davis City, help
ed his father Joe Dobson, thresh last
" Mack Baker and family north, of
Leon, visited his brother Tom Baker
last Sunday.
Leo Dobson. of south of Decatur;
called on his grandparents, MI. and
Mrs. Joe Dobson, last Thursday
Mrs. Oscar Rex visited Mrs. Tom
Baker one day last week.
Lew Dobson was a business visit
or at Davis City last Monday
Harve Morgan was a business Wis
itor at Davis City last Saturday
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-12

Many of the brave women who attend
our wounded heroes in this war are
women who have used Doctor Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, or who recon-
mend it. The hospital, with its work
and long hours, imposes extreme hard
ship on a woman's strength. Every
woman should make herself fit for wars
call at home or abroad. She should
obtain a book called the " Medical
Adviser" either at her nearest drug
store or by sending so one-cent stamps
to Invalids' Hotel and Surgical 1nsti-
tute, Buffalo, N. Y, for book which
tells about Nursing, Bandaging, Anat-
omy, Physiology, the Marriage Relation,
knowledge of Sex.
Thousands of women in the United
States have overcome their sufferings,
and have been cured OF woman's ills, by
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. So
too, for liver and bowel troubles,
nothing is so effective or pleasant as
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
Sioux CITY, IowA.-cFor the young
EIi ueVelOplhS lntO wouianlioou Doe0oi
Fierce's Favorite Prescription is Won
derful tonic and builder. When l was
sixteen years old l used to suffer in
tensely and was very frail and delicate.
Two bottles of the Prescription cured
me of my pains and built me up into
strong and healthy womanhood. | am,
therefore, very glad to recommend it to
my friends who have daughters suffer-
ing as l did "-MRs. j. w. SCHMIDT,
400 West 4th Street.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-12
Welcome Ridge.

Fall blowing is the order of the
day. uo
Monday were Jim Woodmansee and
Jim Stephens and wife and daughter
Iva.
w. B. Stanley was seen in this
vicinity Tuesday.
Horace Millsap and wife called on
w. B. Stanley and family Wednes-
day.
Will Gibson was seen in this vicin-
ity Thursday.
son Jim Thursday
Several from this vicinity attended
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-12

the Chautauqua at Decatur this
week. -,
Stephens Thursday.
Fred Fowler was seen In TINS.
Charles Mills, wife and children
were Leon callers Saturday.
Granville Ryan was seen in this
vicinity Sunday.
Carrie Stephens came home Sun
day after visiting week with her
sister Mrs. Aldus Payton OF near
kellerton.
SAINT McGahuey and wife and Dick
Board and wife were seen in this
vicinity Sunday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-12

When you have backache the liver
or kidneys are sure to be out of
gear. Try Sanol, it does wonders for
the liver, kidneys and bladder. A
trial soc bottle will convince you.
Get it at E. E. Bells drug store.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-12
ADENOIDS

The most common cause of deaf
ness in children.
DR.. A. H. Weber has new meth
od-no chloroform or ether used.
Adenoids are in the throat just at
the edges of the posterior nasal pas
sages-not in the nose.
Great Improvement follows their
cure
The little daughter of Nels John
son, mail carrier of Radcliffe, was
getting deaf She had adenoids and
catarrh and DR.. Weber cured her so
she now hears we'll.
A. Bash, Stuart; George Hoheman,
Ackley; John Bollock, Hardy; c..
Reagan, Winterset, and many others.
DR.. A. II. Weber
DISEASES OF THE EYE, EAR,
NOSE AND THROAT
TREATED
GLASSES PERFECTLY FITTED
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-12

His santanic majesty acts as re-
ceiver for moral bankrupts.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Unlirnitedness

Nothing will bring more encouragement
to the British, French and Italians than
to know that the American army is to
be without limit to size, and that there
is to be no quibbling about the number of
troops that the United States will put in
to win the war.-Nea0 York World.
But more than a year ago we pledged
"our lives, our fortunes, everything that
we are and everything we have" Those
were the Presidents words on April 2,
1917. There are many things that would
encourage the British, French and Italians
more than the news that the American
army is to be without limit" One would
be 100000 men in training. An "army
without limit" adds "The World" "is
true index to the sentiment of the Amer
lean people in this war" An army with
out limit is not sentimental matter. 1t
is practical undertaking of heroic pro.
portions, presenting enormous technical
difficulties. We might use up some of our
sentiment in learning to call the British,
French and Italians oar allies, instead of
the Allies,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

discover, neither its president, vice-pres-
ident nor any of the three gentlemen who
signed this report is technical expert"
HI aeronautics or an aeroplane or auto
mobile engineer or production expert.
SO much for it's value.
So much for this "highly technical and
skilled association" For the rest, this
report was given out at public meeting
at the Engineering Building in New
York, on April 5, and published at length
in The Tribune and other papers on the
following morning. 1t has taken "The
Times" and all these distinguished SEN
ators this length of time to discover it's
existence and its Importance.
1t is on this basis, at this late day,
that "The Times" flames with charges
of Gigantic conspiracy" and these
high-minded United States Senators hint
at Gigantic graft We hope the public
will soon know what truth there is in all
this shameless rumor-mongering, and
whether we have here another such
"scandaW as that which was charged
upon the work at Hog Island.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
The Feet of an Army
To the Editor of The Trihnna

10 the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The government ought to appoint
chlropodlsts for the army. In my expert
ence OF giving voluntary service to those
VINO have been drafted and to the boys of
the 23d Regiment when they were at camp
at Van Cortlardt Park last summer l found
that the efficiency of the soldier does not
wholly depend upon his stomach, but that
MS feet have a lot to do with it.
The government is making ARRANGEMENTS
to draft an additional million or more men.
VINO, II the war continues, are to battle
for the nations rights I cannot under
stand why it is that the medical authori-
ties of the army and navy do not utilize
the services of members of my profession.
we have the knowledge and the experience
winch mt US to care for the human foot
IN health and in disease. This work is q
special branch of medicine and is not
taught to any extent in the medical schools.
inns treatment is now scientific basis.
Under the new draft regulations men are
taken into the service regardless of the
condition of their feet. In consequence
men with all sorts of foot impairments.
including fatfoot, weakfoot, hammertoe
excrescences of all kinds, and even claw
loot, are 1nducted into the service These
men will need an abundance of treatment
before they can be considered competent
TO DO the ordinary, much less the extraor-
binary, work which falls to the lot of a
soldier Just how the army surgeons are
gong to care for these men without the
ala OF the chlropodist is a question which
must be agitating the minds of the CIV
geon generals staff. If they suppose that
men in the hospital corps enlisted as nr;-
Yates who have no knowledge of the anat-
omy and the physiology Of these parts
can be taught by a manual in a few days
or IN lew months, or even in few wears
TO be of practical and scientific service to
the foot cripples mentioned thew certainlv
are building up false hopes as to results
Why should not a soldier be made nhva-
lcally fit in the most important orpan If
his body, the feet?
Urgent Need of Chiropodists
The committee of doctors in the armv
VINO had this matter under adyisement con-
ciuded that there was urgent need of the
chlropodlsts services, but they refrained
from making recommendation that pro-
vision should be made whereby chiropodsts
should be appointed as commissioned Off
GERS. bill is shortly to be introduced
IN congress for the purpose of having
cnlropodists recognized by the medical au-
'nor!tles OF the army and asks for a COM
mission as second lieutenant for members
II our profession serving in the armv This
is certainly modest enough when it is CON
sidered that other men without profess
sional education in other branches of the
service may reach the highest military Of
nee In the gift of the government If they
Will but give US chance as second lieu
tenants we will ask for nothing more. he
cause we know that they will recognize our
merit and ability and will accord us our
due. NJ ErNvrY
New York, May /. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
The Kaiser's Posy

Somebody, some day, will do justice to
the German, his heart and soul and mind.
1t is study for a great psychologist and
a great writer-a Freud and a Balzac.
There is much for the alienist to ex-
anime. There is more for the best pen
of the ages. Meantime, the record is
charging; he is writing and acting him
self down, line by line, incident by Incl
dent; and in that record which future
historians will ponder and digest there
have been few sweeter tyifles than the
latest visit of the all-wise and good and
tender Kaiser to the front.
The Kaiser has often wept before. He
weeps whenever he thinks how he labored
to avoid the war and how the wicked
English brought all this horror on
the world. But this time he in addition
picked a posy of violets. 1t was on
blood-stained field near St. Quentins And
the violets were to go home to the
Kaiserin, one of the very few mothers
in Germany who might have no un-
pleasant associations with such a field.
All Of which is faithfully set down by
the official chronicle of imperial tears
for the edification of great people.
1t is funny and it is grim, it is farce
and it infuriates. What the ANALYST of
the future will be fascinated by is the
perfect fashion in which the episode, the
violets and the tears, carries on the Ger
man character of old Here is senti-
mentalism soldering over field of blood.
Werther at shambles. We are revolted
at the apparent hypocrisy of the scene.
Yet I'VE shall be taking too obvious an
explanation of German character if we
dismiss it all as play-acting 1t is rather
sentimentalism gone mad, conventional
lied emotions functioning in face of the
most extraordinary obstacles. All
through the German record of the war
runs this sloppy emotionalism.
The Kaiser and his posy will bear
thought and remembrance. In dealing
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
An Anti-Hearst Candidate

1t is evident that the upstate Demo-
Gratis whose recent conference at Syra-
cuse resolved itself into an anti-Hearst
experience meeting are alive to the age
long political truth that you can't de-
feat somebody with nobody. So, casting
about to discover candidate whom they
can back against the erstwhile proprietor
of the "Deutsches Journal" they seem to
have settled on Mr.. Alfred E. Smith,
President Of the Board of Aldermen
and one of Mr.. Murphy's few conf
dants. Moreover, couple of them came
to New York to discuss the matter with
their prospective candidate and his
political patron.
In this are TO be observed two items
of interest: First, that the upstate
movement is not an anti-Tammany cru
sade, as so many other similar affairs
mostly abortive-have been; and, Sec
ond that upstate" has no idea of
monopolizing the place at the head of the
ticket if good material may be found
elsewhere. Politically this is good STRAIT
egy for the anti-Hearst men. If they
can enlist the support Of Tammany they
can control the Democratic primaries
against Mr.. Hearst. If they take can
didate from Tammany's own ranks they
can control the primaries and still have
fair chance in the election even if Mr.,
Hearst runs third ticket, as there has
been talk Of doing if he fails to win the
Democratic nomination.
"Al" Smith is beyond peradventure
the most popular young man in Tam
many; he has large acquaintance up
state because of his years of service in
the Legislature, and his ability is un-
questionable. He would make a formi-
dable candidate, either in primaries or in
the election fighting. A bitter opponent
of Hearst and what he stands for, Mr..
Smith could unite upstate" and "down-
state" on that issue as perhaps no other
Democrat could.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

of mothers and infants. Centres will. be
established in ten different zones thro,oh
out the city and will be the clearing
houses for every effort to reduce the death
rate by reducing prenatal and congenital
risks Weli-known obstetricians are CO.
operating with group of social workers
and society women known for their inter
est in children's welfare.
We sincerely desire the cooperation Of
your readers CYNTHIA RIIRDFN
(Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden).
New York, May l, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Enemies Had the Jump

At every stage of this great struggle,
sir, our enemies have had the jump on the
Allies. If they get it again in Siberia, in
Armenia, what will happen to the book Fate
keeps? You have chance now to send the
gallant soldiers of Japan on their way to
Moscow to meet the Germans You have
the opportunity to put the Armenian on his
feet, with arms in his hand to fight for you.
But gentlemen, in sixty days the knell may
have struck upon that golden opportunity.
Shall democracy or autocracy rise to the
occasion? All the men in Europe who were
in the lead when the war began have prac-
tically disappeared from leadership Any
body can get into this war, but they will be
giants who fight it through and come out
on top. Democracy must defeat autocracy
before this conflict terminates, and where
is there a better opportunity to set our
selves for the final thrust? Ten million
dollars advanced to Ti1is, 100000 more SOL
diers landed at Bagdad or Suez, reason
ably free hand to Japan might turn the tide
of war;
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Saving Infant Lives
the Editor of The Tribune.

4O VIC GultOI u he 1IlDune.
Sir: Mr.. Morris Swift, of Boston. in
your issue of April "a calls attention to
very grave wartime problem, namely.
how to upbuild our own race and insure
to this country new generation which
is healthy and able to carry on the bur-
den of our national life
One way certainly is to be sure that none
Of the children who come to birth in this
critical time are lost through any prevent
able cause. The Maternity Centre Associ-
alton recently mas been organized to pre-
vent the needless waste of young life which
comes about because thousands of mothers
are not given proper care and advice before
the birth Of their children Forty per cent
OF all the infant deaths are among babies
under one month old. 1t is in these cases
under one month that such large proper
tion of the deaths are due to causes which
are prenatal in their origin and which are
nearly always preventable.
The Maternity Centre Association pro-
poses to place every expectant mother in
New York City under medical care before
the birth, and at the time of birth, in order
to prevent the shocking loss Of life, both
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
lhe Trees of Northern France

hREAMlNG through the winter weather,
Stirring, waking all together
AT the call of spring,
Gay our burgeoning.
huseling through the heats of June,
Bearing summers golden rune
Into autumn's glory,
Splendid was our story.
Now again bluing sky,
AS of old the clouds go by.
AS OF old the earth gods sing
f@ans of our blossoming;
But no answering of green
On our broken limbs is seen.
Waves of brutal gray
Washed our joys away.
Only when the land is shriven
Shall our trunks and branches rven,
After cruel wrong,
Burst again in song.
DYSART M'MULLEN.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
with the modern German this strain of
cheap emotion will need careful atten-
ton
The RIGHT Wax

Whether the suspension of DR.. Brown,
head Of the Health DEPARTMENTS Bureau
OF Foods and Drugs, was due to Mayor
Hyan's initiative or to Health Commits
sloner Copeland's, it is the direct way to
clear up situation which must be set
tied promptly Between the charges
fathered by Mr.. MacBride, president of
the Civil Service Commission, and DIR.
Browns reply there is vast gulf. The
sooner there is fair and complete trial
OF the issue the sooner the public will
know the truth about the allegations of
graft and inefficency which have been
so rife lately.
. Fortunately for all concerned, includ
ing the public, which is so fundamentally
interested in efficient conduct of the
Health Department. this will be no star
chamber proceeding, as the Civil Service
Commissions investigation" was at
first. Evidence will have to be presented
against DR.. Brown on duly formulated
charges. lnsinuations about the ''food
trust" and kindred matter will not do.
DR.. Brown will be entitled to the recula-
tion safeguarding of his interests by
counsel
This is the proper way to go about the
matter If DR.. Brown is responsible for
improper conditions within his bureau.
such trial should disclose the fact If
ne IS not, and the charges against him
fall, he will receive a public vindication
winch will leave his future usefulness
to the city unimpaired
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Nothing Beneath Notice

He had also travelled all over Europe,
always with his eyes wide open. Of course,
he spoke French and English almost per-
fectly, and he had also acquired some
knowledge Of various other European Ian
guages, and he never let chance 20 by
to increase his knowledge of them. 1t
was due to the fact that almost all our
passengers were English, so that he talked
English almost all day, that he allowed
himself the relaxation of talking German
to me, and never day passed that he did
not spend hour or so talking French
with our not very attractive stewardess.
He had friends in every country and
among the officers of almost every army
and navy in Europe, and had visited them
and nothing had escaped his notice. He
had both relatives and friends in Eng
land, and had visited them there in coun-
try houses and in the camp at Aldershot;
and he had great liking for the English
officers as good fellows" but hearty
contempt for them as soldiers. He con-
sidered them destitute of professional
ambition and knowledge, not interested in
the intellectual problems of their profess
sion, and much more devoted to sport than
to preparation for future warfare. He
accused them of not even knowing how to