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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-09
Myrtle Graves Simpson,
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Myrtle Graves simpson,
Defendant
To Myrtle Graves Simpson,:
You are hereby notified that there
is now on file in the office OF the
Clerk of the District Court of the
above named County and State. pc
tition of the plaintiff claiming of
you divorce from the bonds of mat
rimony, and asking that the mar
riage contract existing between you
plaintiff be restored to all the
rights, benefits and immunities OF
an unmarried person, on the grounds
that since you have been married to
the plaintiff you have been guilty OF
the crime of adultery. Plaintiff for
first count of his petition asks that
the marriage contract be set aside
for the reason that at the time you
and plaintiff were married you were
already married woman and had
no legal right to enter into mar
riage contract with the plaintiff
herein. Plaintiff asks that he be re-
stored to all the rights, benefits, and
immunities of an unmarried person.
have such other and further relief
as equity and good conscience may
suggest;
Now. unless you appear therete
the second day of the next term OF
said court to be held at :, leon ass on Iowa.
July 18th, 1918, default will be en-
tered against you and Judgment
rendered thereon in accordance with
the prayer of said petition:
3S-4t Attorney for Plaintiff.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-09

General Haig is reported to have
said to his critics in England that
he was sent to France to kill Ger
mans and not to acquire territory.
This may account for his tactics in
trading territory TOR dead Germans ms
that the German army is actually
superior in numbers and must be
worn down by the killing process be-
fore the allies dare to attack.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-09

LEON CHAPTER No. 352 0. e. o.
Meets regularly End Monday each
0enth. Visiting members cordial,
l1vited.
Mrs. Rozet Cash, w. M.
Mrs. Ora Gardner, Sec.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-09

Because of his refusal to surren-
der the gavel at this critical time in
the history of the country for a seat
in the senate, Speaker Clark is re-
people and the press of all political
parties.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-09

League has gained $4,000 members
in Minnesota, taking SIC from each
member. If that is true, there is
$6S8,0Oe of Minnesota's money that
will not help float liberty loans,
that will not go to support the Red
Cross or the war work of the Y. M.
C. A., the Knights of Columbus or
the Salvation Army.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-09
Advertising Rates.

Advertising Rates.
Display Advertising, special Sec
vice, per inch -. ........ 15c
Reading notices, per line ...:.:,. &C
Cards Of Thanks, cash with
Resolutions of Respect =. 81 90
Church, school and society no.
tees, where admission or en-.
tertainment fee is charged
per line -. &c
We are glad to publish any and
al church or society notices, but
please don't confound news notices
with advertising locals. Correspon-
dents are cautioned not to include
said notices with their items unless
they are authorized and paid for, and
IL possible remittance for same
should accompany the notice.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-05-09

II ever there was a year in which
to plant pumpkins in the corn this
is it with hogs selling close to SIS
per hundred weight.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-25

among the fiers as to who should wear
them. All are unanimous regarding
Lieutenant stephen Noyes. Of Connectl-
cut, squadron commander. who vas
ordered to send one OF mis- men out in
raging rainstorm the other night
20 pick up information. The order
came over the telephone from head
quarters.
81 won't send q singlc one of my
men out into this stcrm," were Noyes's
words to the officer on the other end
do it myself, but | can't give the order
to another 1t is suicide even to try
to ascend or land later"
The man on the other end was firm,
and though every pilot who heard the
telephone parley volunteered to go.
Noyes went himself lie got off the
field and into the storm just six inches
over n clump of trees, and imme ediateiy
every pilot who saw him disappear
into the rain gave him up for lost. He
did not return that night. They were
sure they would never see him again,
and they said hard things about men
who give orders over telephone wires
from offices, where. in this case,
neither respect for weather or human
life seemed to have been considered.
But the following day Noyes returned
in an auto bile from point forty
kilometres away. He had accomplished
his mission, crashed his machine in
trying to see the ground, then crawled
from the wreckage and walked several
kilometres to the headquarters cf a
division, whose officers had urgently
requested knowledge of the where
abouts of their line. That Noyes
wasn't killed was a miracle, and that
bis machine was stong enough to sta q
the strain of rain and wind and a
pitch dark landing without crushing
him under it was perhaps because it
was a strongly built Liberty plane.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-25
Gen. Rhodes, Hurt in Fall
OF plane at Paris, Better

PARIS, Dec. 24.-The condition of
Major General Charles d. Rhodes, who
was injured in the fall of an airplane
at Louvres, northeast of Paris, Mon
day afternoon, showed great improve
ment during the night. In the ac-
cident the pilot of the machine who
was a British officer, was killed.
The pilot, hampered by the dense fog,
lost his bearings and was trying to
avoid landing in the heart of the
city when his machine was hurled
down heavily. General Rhodes was
taken to the hospital at Louvres and
is now in the American hospital in
Paris.
The British aviator who was act
ing as pilot for Major General Rhodes.
and who was killed, was Lieutenant
Gilpin They were flying from Treves,
Germany, to Calais. The machine fell
1900 feet.
Major General Rhodes is head of
the American Armstice Commission
and was the first American general
officer to enter the German lines af-
ter the armistice He formerly COM
manded the Forty-second or Rainbow
Division
New-York tribune., 1918-12-25
Fleet Due
Before Da1Un
Tomorrow
Continued from page |


tion is in the hands Of the Navy De-
partment The Mayor was invited to go
aboard the Aztec, upon which naval
attaches of Allied nations, diplomats
and Congressman will be entertained
Mr.. Hylan's advisers said he would re-
main on the municipal boat Patrol,
however.
The guests of the Mayor, as given
tee yesterday, will consist of the fol-
lowing:
Board of Estimate-Mr. and Mrs.
John F. Hylan, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
L. Craig, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred E. Smith,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank L. Bowling. Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Bruckner, Mr.. and Mrs.
Calvin D. Van Name, Edward Riegel-
mann and Maurice E. Connolly.
Daniels Coming Tonight
Executive Committee Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel G. Reid, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul w.
Bartlett, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Chalhn,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Randolph Hearst.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Harriss, Mr.. and
Mrs. George w. Loft, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred j. Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs Daniel
l. Ryan, Mr.. and Mrs. Rodman Wana-
maker, Mr.. and Mrs. Otto B. Shulhof,
MIR. and Mrs. John L. Golden, Mr.. and
Mrs. Michael Friedsam, Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas Hastings
MIR. and Mrs. E. H. Gary. Mr.. and
Mrs. H. T. Sinclair, Mr.. and Mrs. Grover
A Whalen, Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Nc
Cooey. Mr. and Mrs Charles F.. Murphy,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coyle, Miss Virgin
ia Hylan, Miss Mabel Murphy, John
Sinnott and Thomas Garrety.
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Dan
O q
this afternoon. On their arrival here
tonight they will go aboard the May
flower, where they will occupy the
Presidential cabin. At s O'Clock to-
morrow morning the yacht will move
down the river and cast anchor off the
Statue of Liberty, where it will be
joined by the other reviewing craft,
British Admiral to Be Guest
The official list of guests of the Sec
retary of the Navy on board the May
flower follows:
Members of the Cabinet, Admiral
British naval forces in the Western
Atlantic; senior naval attaches of the
Allied nations, members of the War
Council: Bernard NJ. Baruch, chairman
of the War Trade Board; A Mitchell
uel Gompers; Vice-Admiral Albert
Gleaves, u. s. n, commanding cruiser
and transport force; Mrs Gleaves !;
Rear Admiral N. r. Usher. U. S. NJ,
commandant of the Sd Naval District;
Mrs. Usher; General March. Chief OF
Staff, U. S. A; Major General ]. Frank
lin Bell, U. S. A. commanding Depart
ment of the East; Major General David
F. Shanks, commanding Port of En-
barkation; the Mayor of New York,
DR.. j ohm A. Harrss, chairman of the
Naval Committee of Mayors Committee
on National Defense: former Ambas-
sador James w. Gerard; former Am
bassador Henry Morgenthau, former
Ambassador Abram I. Elkus, Or. and
Mrs. Henry Van Dyke.
Fifteen Governors Expected
1t Is expected that at least fifteen
AGopaxnors will ba present. New Xork
New-York tribune., 1918-12-25

we We're still over the German lines.
20 we flew as fast as we could for the
nearest French hospital.
nnaliy sighted one and we de-
ssended. | had lost some blood from
'he mouth and had sharp pain around
my shoulders, but apart from that. |
WASH t out of commission. | walked
III ana asked for treatment and they
never would let me fly again. have
~, pseo on the hospital list ever since.
: ne surgeons couldn't understand how
Nou'u possibly keep conscius or why
was able to walk in on them. sup
pose 1T was up to my tough resistance
"no the merciful. though circuitous
course that machine gun bullet took.
California Man Honorcd
"lt went into my neck, scraped my
"'hoplpe,. cracked my jaw. and then
over my LETT chest around the back of
my neck. and lodged Just under the
SKIN OF my right side few inches be
low the armpit. 1t had beautiful
ehance to do damage to arteries and
'hc backbone, but it didn't"
, another wounded fighter on the
france who came home with the Dis
tingu'shed Service Cross, the Croix dc
Suerre and other decorations, was
lieutenant Harry c. Sessions, of Oak
land, Cal, who was with the 373d In
tantry. tie was in charge of the can
teen trucks, but volunteered to go out
IN NO Mans Land near Busy, under
iincessant machine gune fire, and cut
hls way through four barbed wire bar
racades about five hundred yards deep
Twelve men were killed around him
After he had cut the wires of the last
ENHANCEMENT the German machine
guns, sweeping hail of bullets from
lhree TO five inches above the ground
opened up on him and two bullets shat
tered his left shoulder and lodged in
his right side He had covered the
distance on his back as he cut the wires
and was five hours on the field before
he was taken to the rear.
Lieutenant Nathan C. Post. of Cleve-
land. an American aviator who fell to
eartn with his disabled plane from a
helght OF $4,000 feet on September %
came back with citation and the Croix
oe Guere with palms. While fighting
IN the air at Toul he was attacked by
German planes, and his pilot was rid
died with bullets. His plane was dis
abled. but he managed to shift his dead
partner from his seat, and brought the
plane down within the Allied lines. A
bullet pierced his chm, a fractured rib
punctured his right lung. and his right
leg was crushed. He lost conscious
ness after his disabled plane struck the
ground: Those who found him said he
lay with his arm around his dead pilot
Company Saved by Professor
Lieutenant Robert w. Hall. pro
fessor of chemistry at the University
of Minnesota, who was with the 18th
Infantry. returned with four woupc
stripes and three divisional citations
One Of these was for rescuing q com
pany that had been pocketed in Pt
cardy and was in danger of extinction
from German gas shells. Lieutenant
Hall said the Germans dropped 10000
shells in twenty-four hours.
General Goethals came from Wash
lngton to meet his son. DR.. Thomas R
Goethals, who went abroad with the
Harvard medical unit in June. 1917.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-25
Italian King Thanks
Poincare for Hosnitality

PARIS, Dec. 24.-King' Victor EN-
manuel of Italy on the occasion of his
leaving French soil after his visit to
Paris, telegraphed President Poincare
his warm attitude for the greeting
he received. He renewed his wishes
for the prosperity of France and ex-
pressed hope that the cooperation of
France and Italy always would be
most cordial.
In reply the President said that
Paris would never forget the visit Of
the Italian King. His sojourn in France
had contributed to the strengthening
of the bonds of friendship between
France and Italy.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-25
THE COST OF LIVING

THE COST OF LIVING
What is called the high cost
Of living is often only the high
cost of luxury. Take, for in-
stance, the matter of food.
AL that is necessary is that
the food be wholesome and
that it be properly cooked
and served in a sanitary way,
Al else is luxury.
CHGLDS serves more than
100000 such meals a year
at an average cost to the
public Of only a little over 80
cents, and that too in spite
OF the present high cost of
Commodities.
irerhaps that is why CHILDS
mas been called a national
institution
After all, everybody HIess
simple, hou,ey dishes best.
Corned beef hash. for ia
stance. 6vownsd IN fAs pan.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-25
Baker Approves Reenlistment

ALBANY, Dec. 24-New York State
authorities will hold out every induce
ment to their former National Guards
men, who are in Federal service, to re-
turn to military service in the state,
Lieutenant Colonel Westcott, acting
adjutant general of the State Guard,
said TODAY
New-York tribune., 1918-12-25
Rome TO Bestow Freedom
OF City Upon President

ROME, Dec. 24-The freedom of the
City of Rome will be bestowed upon
President Wilson on his visit here
The City Council yesterday voted
to take such action, as proposed by
Prince Colonna, the' Mayor of Rome.
The resolution was adopted by accla-
nation
New-York tribune., 1918-12-25
lnUeSf xour
Christmas
Gift Money
in
Dian ond
.Jeu,eIry

There's all the differ
ence in the world be-
tween spending and
investing, you know,
and as the donor of
that Christmas Gift
Money would prob
ably like to have the
sentiment w h c h
prompted the gift per-
petuated, why not in
vest the money!
The transitory enjoy
ment gathered from
money spent is hardly
worth the spending.
But when one invests
in Diamond Jewelry,
the acquisition is one
of permanent beauty
and permanent worth.
Surely a fitting use
for the gift of money.
AlsUays Ready
to meet the demands
Of any occasion the
Diamond Jewelry De-
partment takes par
ticular pains to have
on hand a complete
stock of desirable
Rings, Pins. Bracelets,
Earrings, La Nallieres,
etc, that the after
Christmas purchaser
may have a full and
varied selection.
Our well known pol
icy of cash buying and
cash selling makes the
prices here in our Jew
elry Department con-
sistent with those else
where in the store
Lowest-in -the-City."
nAAeNss Main Floor. s4th St.
R'uaH
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
Lieut.. T. Fl. Lee
Wounded at Front
Young Lawyer Injured After
Being in Trenches for
Three Months

First Lieutenant Thomas H. Lee, re-
ported in yesterdays casualty list as
having been severely wounded, is
twenty-seven years old and a native
of this city. According to his father,
Thomas j. Lee, the wound is slight. A
letter written by a friend of his son
tells how the lieutenant, after being in
the first line trenches for ninety days,
was struck by a piece of shrapnel.
Lieutenant Lee is graduate of Ford
ham University and practised law at
commission at Plattsburg last Deccm-
ber His parents live at 116 West 121st
Street.
Hugh Murtha, listed as being severe
ly wounded, is twenty three years old
and Brooklyn boy. He enlisted in
the marines about year ago. He has
brother, James, in the 309th Infantry,
overseas. His mother resides at ATS
Jackson Avenue, Jersey City.
Joseph Anconvi, reported missing in
action, whose address in the casualty
list was given as 262 North Sixth
Street, Brooklyn, is son of Mr.. and
Leonard Street. He enlisted in the Esd
Regiment of infantry two years ago
when only eighteen years old. He saw
service on the Mexican border and has
been in France eleven months. There
are two other brothers in the service
Jeremiah Sheehan, reported to be
seriously wounded. formerly lived with
his father at 344 West Eighteenth
Street. With his younger brother he
joined the Goth Regiment shortly be-
fore its departure for France He was
shipping clerk before he enlisted.
John j. Sheridan, reported to be
killed in action, was twenty-four years
old when he was drafted He sailed
for France in April and, according to a
telegram to his parents, was killed
June 6. His sister lives at 1913 Walnut
Street, Newark.
Louis Winters, listed as being Sc
verely wounded, is twenty three years
old and was drafted last March, Win
ters was a gardener. His parents live
at Oceanside, L. I.
David Doctor, listed as killed in ac-
tion, was thirty years old and native
of Russia. He lived with his sister at
276 Vermont Street Brooklyn
Lieutenant Joseph A. Synnott. of
Montclair. reported killed in action,
was thirtyfve years old. ard was with
che Marine Corps for seventeen years
A telegram from the War Department
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08

ncsscd the wonderful exhibition. which
laatod nearly an hour, he decided TO
chow the astonishing virtues Of an
Italian scouting plane the Spa sim
eater, fitted with the Spa engine.
eos horsepower. Such machine is
deservedly known all over Europe for
it's tremendous speed and its long
raids at the front, among which was
the raid to Fredcrckshafen from the
Italian front and the bombardmont OF
Innsbruck. carried on In daytime.
MIsjudged Distance
"pilot Gno for half an hour amazed
the witnesses with the daring eXpl olts
he was performing in the air, such as
numberless loops, exhibitions Of high
and exceptionally low speed all de-
monstratcd 81 few yards above the
ground.
"Unluckily, after that he started in
a terrible nose dive from less than 300
feet from the ground. probably through
mistake in the Judgment Of the
height from the ground. Pilot Gino
was driven to about twenty yards from
the ground before he was aware Of the
danger, and tried to assume the nor
nal flying position, but it was evil
IDENTIFY too late. The machine came
crashing to the earth, killing instantly
the marvellous and unlucky pilot, who
served his country up to his last
breath, up to his last sacrifice, lavishly
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
Specially Devised Rifle Dis
tributes Many Tracts
and Pamphlets
--
May Sail to Berlin
German Privates Kept In
formed About True Condi-
tions i'm Own Country

PARIS, July 7.-Thousands Of spe-
clally devised rifles for sending propa-
ganda over the enemy lines are now
being used by the Allied armies, ac-
cording to James Kerney, director of
the Franco American Committee on
Public Information. From these rifles
grenades are discharged by means Of
which tracts and pamphlets may be
scattered along enemy trenches with
considerable exacttude at a range of
more than 200 yards.
For greater distances small balloons
made of cloth are used. Each of these
lifts twenty pounds of propaganda
literature, and by means of a mechani-
cal device drops quarter pound of
documents at fifteen minute intervals.
The radius of action of these balloons
in a twenty y~five-mile wind would be
Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna and Triest.
The balloons travel at a height Of
from 5000 to 5000 feet.
Yankees Using Paper Balloons
Paper balloons capable of lifting
four pounds are also used by the
American army for the purpose of dis
tributing literature in trenches and
enemy billets for distances up to 100
miles from the starting point, the di-
rector said. These balloons drop a
half pound of material at five minute
intervals. They use a fuse release,
consisting of slow-burning match,
inch every five minutes. The first re-
lease is effected five minutes after
starting to make sure of compensating
the balloon for the loss of gas.
The latest devices are planned to en-
ploy clockwork. for their releasing
mechanism, and the use of trench NOR
tars, with a cardboard projectile con-
tanning literature, is being considered
for the future.
this purpose, but there are many OBJ
jettions to their employment.
May Employ Big Guns
The director AIDED that steps were
now under consideration for the use
of French 75-millimetre guns for the
diffusion of propaganda in the enemy
lines.
An opportunc time for employing
the grenades and balloons, it was
stated was found to be from 8 to 5
o'clock in the morning, when the Ger
man soldiers are not being watched by
their officers. 1t is deemed unwise to
attempt to distribute propaganda dur
ing stiff fighting, or when the enemy
soldiers arc otherwise occupied. Eff
forts are made to catch them in re-
pose. Many bits of propaganda have
already been found in the pockets of
German prisoners taken by the British,
! French and Americans.
] The nature of the propaganda dis
trbuted depends upon the German
units in the vicinity, the purpose being
always to supply matter that will ap-
peal to the troops from the various
PARTS of Germany Recent distribu-
tions over the lines have included the
disclosures of Prince Lichnowsky, the
! German Ambassador at London at the
outbreak of the war; the letters of
DR.. Won Muehlon, the former Krupp
director; figures showing the German
losses, and facts about food conditions
in the interior of Germany.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-08

IL the air, because distance is needed
for the aviator to make his recovery
and prevent crash to eartn The SER
geant turned the nose of his plane
downward when only 800 feet above
earth. Some officers believe he mis-
calculated the distance
There was fiutter among aviators
on the ground when it was seen that
Sergeant Gino had begun a feat more
daring than any Heretofore witnessed
at MIneOla.
Falls Near General Kenly
Down shot the machine, closer
and closer to ground, but stfll the pilot
apparently made no move toward re-
covery. Army officers avoluntarily
cried out instructions to the flier when
he was yet 100 feet in the air. Women
spectators screamed. Twenty yards
from earth, he was seen to attempt
to right his machine, but it was too
late
Sergeant Gine's last flight ended
within $50 feet of where Major General
kenly stood. The machine struck the
earth with such force it bounced back
twenty feet into the air. 1t came to
the ground again in pieces.
The sergeant was pinned under the
engine. His body was taken to the
base hospital at Field No. |.
The sergeant was thirty-two years
old He soon was to have been pro-
NOTED to a lieutenancy in the italian
Royal Flying Corps in recognition of
his unusual service to the Allied cause
Glowing Tribute to Gino
In his official report of Scrpsant
Gino's death. Giuseppe Bedione. chief
OF the Italian Aeronautics Mission,
paid glowing tribute to the Italian
pilots skill and daring. This report
will go to the Italian government r.
follows: -
This morning in the Aviation Field
No. l of Mineola, in the presence Of
General Kenly, chief of the Depart-
ment of Military Aeronautics; Colonel
Arnold, Colonel Beeds, Colonel Wal
don, Lieutenant Colonel Hornea. the
commanding officer of the Mineola
held; several officers of the air ser
wee, II. +. Coffin, General Cormack.
head of the British Aviation Mission:
Colonel Semphill, pilot of the Handley-
Page machine; Lieutenant Marouisan.
of the French Aviation Mission and
several Italian officers, Pilot Gino left
the ground for the third trial fight of
the first American built Caproni. fitted
with three Liberty engines.
He carried as passengers General
kenly, Captain Ugo d'Annunzo and
Lieutenant Testoni, of the Royal Ital-
ian Flying Corps.
Congratulated by Kenly
All the witnesses were thrilled with
enthusiasm for the easiness, the sure
ty, agility of the flight and for the
speed of the machine and its ability in
climbing. That makes of this machine
an extraordinarily successful type. IA
nous all The world around.
.After Pilot Gino had been warmly
congratulated by General Kenly and
all Inc other officials who had wit