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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07
Hazel College.

This neighborhood was visited by
quite little snow Wednesday even
Miss Gertrude warrenner visited
Tuesday night in town with her
Mrs. Alex Ramsey and sons spent
Friday evening with Mrs. &. W.
\ Daugherty and children.
Mr.. Housh, from near Weldon
has moved to the farm vacated by
Miss Velma Spencer visited in
Mr.. Gardner, from southeast OF
Van Vert, has moved to the farm
vacated by Homer Richardson.
Mrs. Irwin Brenneman and little
daughter, OF near Grand liver, Wis
Mrs. Brenneman's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Jack Edwards.
John Shriver has moved to the
farm. recently vacated by Luke Col
Inns.
Mr.. and Mrs: Elmer Lee end chill
Lees sister, Mrs. A. c. Hall and
Homer Richardson has moved to
a farm near Weldon.
Luke Collins has moved to the
Tom Edwards farm in the Tennessee
neighborhoo
j Mrs. John Shriver and little son
are visiting in Van Vert with Mrs.
Shriyer's parents, Mr.. and Mrs C..
A. Walker.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Hall spent Sat
urday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Frey and
children, MIR. and Mrs. Aaron Frey
and children and Mr.. and Mrs, Ell
mer Lee and children spent Thurs
day evening with Mr.. and Mrs. L..
III. Warrenner and daughters.
George Jones was assisting Luke
Collins move last week so.
last week in the Tennessee neigh
borhood with relatives and friends.
Wesley Collins has moved into
the house vacated by Jim Hopkins:
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Hedrick and
Mrs; Lae luz Davis Msss spent .r sunday an N
Myrtle Edwards.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jase Smith have
moved in with Mrs. Smiths father,
Warren Rush.
Elmer Lee moved into the house
in Van Vert vacated by Ben Grimm.
days last week with Mrs. Roy Hawk
ms assisting her get ready to move.
Roy Blades has moved to the
farm vacated by John Shriver.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G.. Hall and chill
dren spent Sunday with Mr.. Hail S
sister, Mrs. George Frey and fam
Mr.. and Mrs. jim CHAIR spent
Sunday with Mrs. Chairs sister,
Mrs Elias Cross and family.
Ben Grimm, of Van Vert, moved
Saturday to the house on the Hep
burn farm vacated by Roy Blades.
A. c. Hall and daughter, Wilma,
returned home Wednesday evening
from short visit with Mr.. Hall S
sister, Mrs. Will Palmer and family,
of Clarke coutny.
Mrs. Belle Kanode and daughters
Eta and Villa, spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. H. Warrenner and
Clyde Blade sawed wood for Clark
Daugherty. Alex Ramsey and Will
Hedrick, Monday.
Misses Wilma, Olive and Irene
Hall visited with Misses Martha and
Ruby Frey Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. II. Warrennerr
spent Tuesday in town with Mr.. and
Mrs. G. w. Johnson.
MIR. and Mrs. Jack Edwards spent
Sunday in town with their ddaugh-
tiers, Misses Margaret and Myrtle
Edwards.
We certainly hate to have our old
neighbOrS move away and leave us,
but extend a hearty welcome to our
new neighbors and ask them to help
us keep Hazel College neighborhood
one of the very best in the county.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07
! WOMAN'S WAR
>. Time DUTY

Every woman in Iowa should help
with bandages, socks or "kits for the
soldiers who are our defense on the
firing line. But many women are not
strong enough to carry on their ordin-
airy household duties. You get strong,
if you're a tired-out or rundown"
woman, with DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription. And, if you suffer from any
~womanly complaint" or disorder, you
get we'll. For these two things to
build up women's strength, and to cure
women's ailments this is the best
medicine to benefit or cure
Send DR.. v. M. Pierce. Buffalo. N. Y,
10 cents for trial package of tablets.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa. -~ Through
over work | developed woman's weak
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07

Dobson. from Sunday evening until
Monday evening.
Robert Pickens and family will
move to Davis City the coming week.
His two sons Robert and William
ture to say they will be, ready to
move back on their farm before the
first of next March.
Mrs. Joe Dobson has been quite
poorly the last couple of weeks.
Mrs. Dow Parker has been quite
poorly with rheumatism the last 3
or weeks.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07

about four or five
years. / took Doctor
Pierce's Golden Med
tcal Discovery for
about one and one
half years when |
stopped taking it be-
cause l was about
we'll. | took no
other medicine so it
must have cured me.
/ have taken it
several times since
for other ailments,
and b We always
been benefited by it.
/ think it saved my
OWENS, 40 e. Fourt
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07
Bethel.

Moving seems to be the order of
the day but they are not having
such good roads as week ago.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07

ness. l became all
run down, weak,
nervous, could not
eat nor sleep, suf-
fered with severe
pains in my back
and side and bear
ing-down pains.
For my ailment l
took DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescrip-
ton and it was the
means of restoring
me to health and
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07

strength. 1t is a fine medicine. Mrs.
MARY Yum, 36l9 Avenue A.
OTTUMwA, IOwA-wI had bad case
OF nervous prostration. | was that way
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-03-07

think it saved my life Mrs. S. Z.
OWENS, 40 e. Fourth Street.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
BROWNING GUN WINS TESTS
Best in the World" Officer in Charge
Of Demonstration Tells Con-
gressmen.

Washington, Feb. 2S.- Members of
the senate and house military affairs
committees. high army and navy Off
GERS, representatives of the allied mis-
sions in Washington and large num-
Der of civilians witnessed the first
demonstration of the Browning ma
chine gun.
1t was staged under the auspices
Of the ordnance department The new
weapon met every test. Senators and
representatives took turns ION the fir
Ing line" and expressed themselves as
favorably impressed.
The highest praise came from the
20 men of the detachment brought
here from the machine gun school at
Springfield, Mass. to demonstrate the
gun.
Sergeant Clayton T. Rogers said:
1T is the best gun in the world, both
types. We were asked to form an
honest opinion after these tests. and
this conclusion was reached with that
admonition in mind.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
70 REDUCE AIR MlsHAPs
Steps Are Taken to Make the Train
ing Areas More commodious-
Another Flyer Dies.

Washington, Feb. 2S.-Immediate
steps to reduce the number of colli-
sions by student aviators by spreading
out the training areas are about to be
taken by the war department. 1t is
planned to lay out flying fields In vari-
Gus directions from the training camps,
TO which the student aviators would fly
each day In previously arranged
schedule. 1t is believed this win elimi-
nate the erowding in the air which has
resulted in mary tight places in
which young avitaors have not heen
able to maneuver safely.
Houston. Tex, Feb. %. -Hammitt X.
Elliott, who enlisted as flying cadet at
MADDEN Heights, n j., last October,
was killed at Ellington field He failed
to right his airship when essaying a
tail spin.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
RESPITE FOR FIVE SOLDIERS
President Wilson Grants Stay for Me-
groes Sentenced to Hang for
Houston Riots.

Washington Feb. 2S.-An indefinite
respite has been granted five negro SOL
diers of the Twenty-fourth infantry,
sentenced by court-martial to be hang
ed for participation in the Houston
riots. Appeals for elemency reaching
the president for clergymen and negro
organizations were the cause. The
president has notified the war depart
ment that he will suspend action on
the cases until he has received the rec
ord of the court-martial proceedings in
the cases of 80 other members of the
regiment, now being tried at San An
tonic. Thirteen Of the rioters already
have been hanged and large number
are serving heavy prison terms.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
135 DIE ON HOSPITAL SHIP
Survivors From the Glenart Castle
Landed by an America Tor
pedo-Boat Destroyer.

London, Feb. 2S-One hundred and
sixty-fonr persons are missing as a
result of the sinking of the British
hospital ship Glenart Castle IN the
Bristol channel.
There were no patients on board.
Survivors We're landed by an Amer
lean torpedo-boat destroyer.
Eight boats are still adrift.
The official report follows:
''The British hospital ship Glenart
Castle was sunk In the Bristol cham
mel at 4 a. m. Tuesday. She was OUT
ward bound and had all her lights
burning. There were no patients on
board.
Survivors have been landed by an
American tcrpedo-boat destroyer.
Eight boats are still adrift Further
information win be published as re-
ceived."
Swansea. Wales, Feb. 2S.- Thirty
four survivors of the GIenart Castle
have been landed here.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
GERMANS REACH LUCIA
TEuToNs ARE NOW WITHIN IS
MILES OF PETRocRAD.
General Hoffman Tells BoisheviiSs.
Drive Will Continue Until Peace
Is Signed.

London, Feb. 2S.--Luga, half way
between Pskov and Petrograd. and
about IS miles from the capital, has
been occupied by the Germans, accord
ing to an unconirmed rumor, Reuter-
dispatch from Petrograd says.
Petrograd, Feb. 2S.-General Hoff-
man, commander Of the German army
invading Russia. has replied to a
communication from Ensign Kry-
Ienko, bolsheviki commander in chief,
inauiring If an armistice would be
declared, by saying that the Teuton
advance would be continued until a
treaty of peace was signed and car
ried out along lines laid down in the
German peace terms.
Novo Tcherkask, capital of the ter
.ritory of the Don Cossaeks, has been
Mnptnred by the revolutionary troops.
This announcement was made official
ly Novo Tcherkask is located %
miles northeast of Rostoy
Berlin, Feb. 2S.-German troops adj
yancing north of Dorpat, Livonia, cap
tured two Russian regiments as they
were retreating, the German general
staff announced.
The boisheviki have not yet re-
ceiyed reply from the Germans to the
message of Ensign Krylenko asking
whether Russia's acceptance on Ger
many's peace terms renewed the previ-
Gus armistice.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
U. 5. NAVY TUG
SINKS; 90 PERISH
Cherokee Goes Down During
Storm Off Delaware capes.
TEN OF CREW ARE RESCUED
Bodies of Some Of Dead Picked Up
by British vesseI--Boats An
swer Gail. But Arrive
Too Late.

Washington, Feb. 2S.-Thirsy officers
and enlisted men of the naval tug
Cherokee are believed to have been
lost when the vessel foundered in a
fierce gale off Fenwick island light
ship, % miles from the Delaware
capes.
Ten survivors who got away on the
first life raft were safely landed; four
other men got away on another raft,
but two were washed overheard and
drowned and the other two died prob
ably of exposure. The survivors and
the four dead were taken into Phila-
delphia.
The Cherokee formerly was a tug of
the Lrekenbach Steamship line and
not iopg ago was requisitioned by the
government
Told by Navy Department.
The navy Department made this an
nouncement:
''The navy department is advised
that the U. 5. S. Cherokee, navy Tug,
foundered of the Atlantic coast. OF
the crew of As officers and 35 enlisted
men--ten had been landed at last ac-
counts, these having been taken to
Philadelphia. Fours men were picked
ZIP by steamships.
"The ten known survivors got away
In the first life raft. -Four got away
on the second life raft, but two more
were washed9serboard and the other
two were dAad when picked up by a
British steaLisr."
Names of Known Survivors.
Following are the names of the ten
known survivors
Boatswain f. NJ Sennott. Boston.
Mass. z. p. Alderman, seaman; II.
p. POINTER, fireman: r. J. Hall, sea-
man; G. f. Barker, chief machinist's
mate; II. A. Kczeck. fireman; P. III.
Marmack, fireman; A. A. Watlim.
oiler; G. L. Cudgel. fireman: b. r.
Brumfield. radio electrician.
Brings Survivors and Dead.
Philadelphia, Feb. 2S.-A British
steamship anchored In the Delaware
early in the morning. III state quar-
antine station at Marcus Hook. Pa. II
miles below Philadelphia. reported
over the telephone that 1t had signaled
as ii passed up that 1t had on board
ten survivors and the bodies of ten
Of the crew of the Cherokee.
Search for Ship in Storm.
A wireless station on the coast
picked up cali for help from the
Cherokee. After an aIl-day hunt the
crew returned and reported that moth
ing had been found. According to the
captain of the rescue ship, the loss Of
the Cherokee was due to a broken
steering gear The waves hit her
broadslde and broke III the matches.
After this the Cherokee remained
aiioat only a short time. Members of
the crew took TO the life RATS, and the
rescue ship sighted one of these TO
which II men wele lashed. All but
two were saved. brother ship. the
captain reported. picked up raft with
six men GU it. All were dead. he said
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
laps ASK U. S. AID
WANT AMERICAN TROOPS TO
HELP IN SIBERIAN CAMPAIGN.
Foreign Minister Declares Japan VIII
Take Decided Steps If Slavs Sign
Peace With Kaiser.

Washington. Feb. 2S.--Japan has
directed inquiries TO the entente pow
ers and the United States government
to test their feeling toward a proposal
to institute joint military operations
in Siberia to save the war supplies
stored at Vladivostok and along the
Siberian railroad Criticism at home
of the failure of Japan to play
larger part in the war is said to have
been influential in bringing about the
Negotiations.
Officials here refuse to discuss this
subject for publication, but it is I'M
derstood that so far as america is con-
cerned the proposition. when first
preached. was not wholly acceptable,
though the exchanges on the subject,
which are still in progress, may re-
suit in modifying the governments at
titude.
Accumulated AT Vladivostok are mill
itary supplies of all kinds, much OF
American manufacture, and even
greater quantities Of japanese origin,
which were delivered long before the
bolsheviki assumed control of the
Russian government. The Stevens
commission of American engineers
made extraordinary efforts to improve
the facilities of the Siberian railroad
so that these stores could be trans
ported for the use of the Russian army
on the German and Austrian fronts.
good deal of accumulation was re-
moved, but great quantities remain on
the docks and In warehouses and even
in the open, both at Yladivostok and at
points westerly.
London, Feb, % Should the Russo
German peace actually be concluded, 1t
goes without saying that Japan will
take the most decided steps," Foreign
Minister Motono is credited with say
ing before the japanese house of repre-
sentatives, in a dispatch received here
1.-THE fullest understanding exists with
Great Britain, America and the other
allies, he declared.
San Francisco, Feb. 2S.-A cable
gram from former German Ambassador
Won Bernstorff to Berlin, puporting to
reveal that certain Japanese factions
were cooperating with German plot
tiers in the United States, was read by
United States District Attorney Pres
ton in the trial here of Hindu revolt
plotters.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
MAIL BY AIRsHIP APRIL IS
Army Plans to Garry Pouches Be
tween New York and Wash
ington.

Washington, Feb. 2S.-AirpIane mail
service between New York and Wash
ington viii be In daily operation be-
ginning April Is. the post Office depart
ment announced, Eight machines will
be furnished by the war department.
BY arrangement between Postmas-
ter General Burleson and Secretary
Baker the aerial postal service will be
conducted for one year as part of the
aviation training system of the army.
The machines will be plotted bs army
flyers.
One trip each way viii be made
daily except sunday. The flying time
between New York and Washington
is estimated at less than three hours
including a stopover TO deliver mail at
Philadelphia.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
GERMANS FAIL TO
REGAIN TRENCHES
French and Americans Halt Foe
at Butte Du Mensii.
u. S. MEN SUFFER FROM GAS
Five Lose Lives and Fifty Are Taken
TO Hospitals-Every Effort Be-
ing Made to Relieve Pa
tients.

Paris, Feb. 2S.-After day Of heavy
Commandment German troops in the
Champagne at night attempted to re-
capture the positions recently taken
by the F~ench at Butte du Mesnil. The
official report says the Germans were
halted by the French and American
fire.
Raids Northwest of ST. Quentin.
London. Feb. 2S.-"H Hostile raids were
repnlsed during the night northwest Of
st. Quentin in the neighborhood of
Bulleeourt and east of Vermelles," says
the war Office report 1.-THE artillery
was active on both sides early in the
morning northeast and east of Ypres- :"
U. S. Men Killed by Gas.
With the American Army in France,
Feb. 2S.-Five American soldiers were
killed and fifty. suffering terrible ago
MES, sent to hospitals in the first Ger
man gas attack on the American sec
tor.
Those were the casualties up to the
hour Of cabling this dispatch.
The first victims included boys from
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania. North
Carolina, Indiana, Kentucky, New
Jersey. Tennessee, Rhode Island. Ohio,
New York, Washington and Arkansas.
1t would stir the fighting blood of
every American to view the hospital
where lay the victims Of the first
German gas attack. At the hour of
cabling Eve We're dead and twenty
were In hospital struggling like drown
ing men for breath. Word came that
thirty additional were en- route to the
hospitals.
Doctors Stirred by Hatred
AT the field hospital where the first
twenty victims of German gas fright
fulness were taken. the doctors were
stirred to the deepest haired toward
the Roches after having seen the suf-
fering. The struggles of victims for
life could be heard a hundred feet
away.
With closed eyes and blue faces,
these American boys gasped and strug-
gled for every breath, while the at
tchuuhlSt III SAdIS S VI cdpJiuD,
worked tireiessly. Among the doctors
was one from Waco. Tex, and one
from Milford, Pa.
Every effort to relieve the sufferers
was reshrted to. Blood-lettings and
the giving of oxygen We're tried. Ev-
cry breath was groan. The Aneri-
cans eager drawing in of the God
given air sounded like bellows, so
nearly were the lungs closed.
AS the sufferings became worse, the
mems hands were oufstretched as
though they were drowning. Their
fingers distended, they stiffened !:
there was sudden foaming at the
mouth, then-the end.
The doctors cursed the Boches for
very minute the men suffered.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
FAILS TO BLOW UP PLANT
Plotter conceaIs Bomb in Ship Fac
tory-Guard Huris Missile Cut
of Danger.

Newburgh. \. Y, Feb. 2S.--An at
tempt to blow up machinery in the
plant of the Newburgh Shipyards COM
pany here was frustrated. but only
after guard had picked up a bomb
and hurled it out OF danger. 1t ex-
ploded and did some damage, but not
enough to delay work at the plant.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
RAID PASTOR RUSSELL HOME
Federal Agents Seize Papers in Brook
Iyn Headquarters-Book Called
SedItious.

New York. Feb. 2S.-Federal agents
raided the headquarters in Brooklyn
of the Pastor Russell foundation and
seized books and papers. The raid
was made in connection with the mr.
rest of followers of the Russell sect
in Toronto, Ont. where five persons
are charged with publishing book
called 1.-THE Finnish Mystery" alleged
to be seditious.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
GERMANS LAUNCH BIG VESSEL
Cargo Ship Rheiniand, of 10000 Tons
Register. Takes the Water at
Veuesaek.

Amsterdam. Feb. 2S.--The largest.
German cargo steamer atioat. the
Rheinland. has been launched 1t the
Vulcan shipysris at yegesack. on the
Weser, ten miles northwest of Bremen.
The Rheinland registers 10000 tons.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
Worth While Quotation

Some people seem to take up all
the sorrows Of the past; to them they
add the burdens of the present: then
they look ahead and anticipate great
many more trials than they will ever
experience in the future
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01

Atlanta, Ga, keb. Isl ". Cook.
charged With attempting 10 blackmail
Asa c. Caadler. millionaire mayor of
Atlanta. was found guilty by jury.
He was sentenced to one year IN the
penltentlary and to pay ! fine of ST.
00o, the lGaxilsan penalty, COR misde-
mcanor.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
Old Christmas pav

Old Christmas day is. according to
the Julian calendar, observed by Rus
STA and the Greek church. and differs
from the Gregorian calendar by IS
days and is celebrated on January 6
and New Years day ON January IS.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
8 BRITISH SHIPS SUNK
Fourteen Vessels Of More Than 1900
Tons Destroyed During the
Past Week.

London. Feb. IS. Eighteen British
merchantmen were sunk BY mine or
submarine In the last week. according
70 the British admiralty report. OF
these. ia were vessels of 600 tons or
over and four were under that tom
nage. Seven fshing vessels also we're
sunk.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
Kindly nisnensatInn-

One of Providence's kindest dispen-
sations is hxing it so that man can
be just as happy over feeling impor-
tant as really being. Ohio State
Journal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
Mrs. a. 8. cummins i pead.

Washington. Feb. 2S.--Afrs. Albert p.
Cummins, wife of the senior senator
from Iowa, died here after an ilInesr
Of three days.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-01
Get > Maonet.

A magnet win attract a hook and
eye which is liable to rust, while it
rejects the nonliable ones. So mag
net is handy tool fes the sewing
basket.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-18
Serbia Ready
To Thr0zU Big
Force At Foe
~ Assnciatad Prass

!
San Francisco. CAL. Oct. iS,-ser-
bia. with well equipped army of
1000 men, expects soon to face
Austria and Germany on her line she
occupied in August, 1914, known as
the "Sava-Danube line, Capt. S. Mi
| lutinovich, head of a Serbian recruit
| ing mission to the United States. de-
clarei here today.
Since Serbia became active in re-
cruiting her nationals in this country,
over $4,000 have left these shores for
the Macedonian campaign. the officer
said, adding that $4,000 of these, 500
of them from California, participated
in the sharpN decisive campaigns in
the territory behind the Vrania-Nish
line, which resulted in the Bulgarian
debacle and the clearing OF Albania
OF Austrian troops
Thousands of Serbian soldiers who
fed to the mountains of their coun--
try when the Austro-German flood
poured over their land, rejoined Their
fellows and again took up arms in
their country's defense when that
food was swept back by the serbo-
men lived primitively in the mountain
| Businesses, too few to check the i'm
vaiers, but hoping and praying for
the time when they might again join
the army of their country. They were
frenzied with JOY, Captain Milutino-
of Serbia sweeping through the land.
Since Bulgaria's plea for peace,
Macedonian ressrYists forced to serve
In the Bulgarian army find themselves
free to cast in their lot with Serbia
and the Jugo-Slav detachments from
coast. Captain Milutinoyich said
These men. all trained to the minute,
are adding heavily to the weight of
the Slav forces, in his opinion.