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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
Crown.

We sure do appreciate the fine
rain of the last few days.
c. NJ. Axes took in cattle at Crown
Saturday.
The Crown school commenced
Monday with Miss Myrl Stephens, of
Leon, as teacher.
Ralph Ridgeway returned last
Friday from Dakota where he went
to look at the country.
NJ. P. CARRIER and family. of Des
MOines, were down last Sunday to at
tend the CARRIER reunion.
G. a. Long and family of Leon.
called at the home of F. D.. Long
asst Sunday.
Calvin Ryan purchased Duroc
Jersey male hog at the state fair, to
improve mis- already splendid herd.
People around Crown are imprcv-
ing their splendid time doing their
sam Eshelman and family, OF Da-
tavIa, :. Iowa, have been visiting IN
the vicinity of Crown. ,-~-z-.
The annual CARRIER reunion was
held last Sunday in Z beautiful grove
on the L. D. CARRIER farm. There
were 76 in attendance. A. good
sized delegation came from Jener-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
THE CHURCHES.
Methodist Church.

Next Sunday is the day that you
are especially asked to be present in
the morning service, and at home
all the afternoon. There will be
teams go out in the afternoon to
visit all the homes of our member
ship to ask for pledges toward the
local and benevolent budgets for
the ensuing. year. This is one very
phase of our church work
and one without which the work
cannot be maintained: so we are
asking your cooperation with the
canYassers by staying home on next
Sunday afternoon, and meeting
erai pledge for work of the King
dom for next year.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. M;
preaching service at II a. M. and
Epworth League at p. m. There
The League will have charge cf the
evening service.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05

son county to enjoy the day, and one
family from Missouri was in attend
ance. At noon long table that had
been previously arranged, was load
ed to its capacity with all that goes
to make tempting meal during
these conservation times. However,
the Hoover rules were plainly Wis
ible in the makeup of the repast.
After dinner the Jefferson county
delegation treated the crowd to ice
cream which was sure appreciated
by all, after which all retreated to
the seats on the hillside where they
enjoyed short program. The fam
lily honorsroll consisting of the
names of the young men called into
the service of our country was read.
It contained thirteen names, some of
which are already overseas, and in
the trenches, and If the war contin-
ues next year will see as many more,
defending the honor of our flag and
helping to establish worldwide
democracy.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
A Farewell Dinner.

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Frost enter
tanned about 40 relatives and friends
at a farewell dinner Sunday IN honor
of Mrs Frost's brother Clarence
Hubbard who leaves Friday 1or
Camp Dodge for military training.
Everybody brought we'll filed bask.
cts and at noon the table dion. !
look like sugar and flour were
scarce but why should we not FEED
the soldier boys while we can.
Clarence sure thought Decatur
county has lots of good COOKS the
way he felt when he left the din,
ner table Sunday. The HubDaru
family feels proud to say they nave
four boys that were ready to- %
when Uncle Sam needed them
none of the four boys asking for g
deferred classification. Not many
families in Decatur county with 1ouI
bows in the service. Those presen'
J. N. Still and wife, J.. W. Hub;
bard and wife, of May, Okla; Davlg
and family, Clyde Waller, and ram
Nv. Steve Latta and family, M. L
Dale and family, John Minor ano
family and Mrs. D. Hubbard and son
Clarence, and daughters Annie anu
Rel11ah
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
Christian Church.

Services next Sunday as follows:
Bible school 10 a. m. Remember
everyone is to boost for the Sunday
school for next Sunday Call your
ter yet, call on them. Boost! Boost!
Boost! Sermon by pastor at II a.
m. Evening services: Christian
Endeavor at p. m. Election of
new officers for coming year. A
full attendance of Endeavor mem
bers are requested. Don't forget.
Sermon 8 p. m. We plan to begin
a meeting in the near future;
at church.
Prayermeeting each Wednesday
evening.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
New Buda.

returned Saturday from Des Moines
where they had been visiting and
attending the fair.
Miles Boeger and family returned
one day last week from the fair at
Des MOines.
A number of the people from this
|neighborhood were Davis City callers
Saturday.
Mrs. J G, Mcdaniel and children
spent Sunday at the B. F. Mcdaniel
home.
Roscoe Mcdaniel and family spent
Sunday at the J. C. Hagen home.
Mrs. Mart Robbins was called to
Davis City Saturday on account OF
the illness of her father.
Leone Robbins and mother visit
ed Thursday with Mrs. Harold
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
Miss Susan Parrish Weds Lafayette
Higgins, Jr.

The home of Judge and Mrs. Rob
ert l.. Parrish, 11O5 Oak Park ave,
nue., Des Moines, was the scene OF
an interesting wedding Saturday
Susan, was united in marria =" to
Lafayette Higgins, Jr.,, son Of M.
and Mrs L. Higgins, 1144 Twenty
fifth street, in the presence OF 100
guests,
A large number OF relatives were were
present for the nuptials. the brides isa,, $
Cartagena, Columbia, South Ameri-
Chicago. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Par
IRISH Of St. Louis, Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Parrish Of Denver, Mr.. and 4lrs.
John Parrish of Leon, Mr.. @. G..
Saunders of Council Bluffs, Lieut..
Ia. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry ]; yogt OF
Lauder Of Alton, Mrs. r. A. Hark-
ness of Fairfield. Mr.. and Mrs. l.. B;
Jackson of Sapulpa, Okla, Mr.: and
Mrs. c. W: Hoffman and daughters,
Himena, Martha and Ma NO II:
F. Harvey, all Of Leon; Dr.. and Mrs:
r. J. Brown and son, Richard OF
Panora, Miss Mary Hardness of New
Orleans, Mrs. Robert Lyle Finch and
son. Robert, of Kansas City, were
At S O'clock the hour set for the
ring service, Mrs. Robert Lyle Finch
sang 81 Love You Truly and play
ed Mendelssohn's wedding march.
The bridal couple, attended bv the
ring service. Jane Parrish of Chicago,
took their places at the improvised
altar of palms, ferns and pedestal
baskets OF pink asters and roses.
The Rev. Frank Chalmers Mexican
of the Central Presbyterian church
read the service, while Mrs. rlnch
played Simple Confession.
The bride, who was given IN mar.
riage by her father, wore a gown OF
white crepe de chine. hand embrold-
cred A cOrsage bouquet OF roses
and valley lilies completed her cos
tune.
During the evening refreshments
were served in the dining room,
which was in charge of Mrs. E.. E.
Thomas and Miss Lottie Higgins,
sister of the bridegroom. They
we're assisted by the Misses Martha,
Himena and Marjorie Hoffman, Mate
Parrish and Anne Pierce.
Mr.. and Mrs. Higgins left Satur-
day evening for Chicago, where they
will spend their honeymoon. and af-
ter Sept. 5 they will be at home in
Ames. The bridegroom will conclude
his civil engineering course at the
Iowa State college and the bride Will
take up the home economics course.
this winter. Mr.. Higgins has joined
the engineers reserve corps.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
Elm.

Miss Ida Hamilton is visiting rela-
tives and friends in Ottumwa this
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Bright and
children spent Sunday at the Curren
Bright home.
Miss Ethel Moore spent last week
with her friends Lola and Ruth Nc
Dowell.
Several from this vicinity attend
ed the fair at Des Moines last week.
on Mrs. Doug Moore Monday.
Little Maxine and Laurel oWrk-
man ~nent Saturday with their grand
ma Workman, Of Lineville.
Ar,o Cox snent Saturday with his
friend Ivan Moore.
virgil bright spent Saturday night
and Sunday with his friends, Emmett
and Flute Moore.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
Davis City.

After several weeks absence we
| will once, more note few of the
many happenings of our little city
First, our oath annual reunion
has come and gone. We had only
| a fair sized crowd. The order was
Of an average and for most of the
time, good. The speaking on all
three days was excellent. The music
good but one thing was missing, the
usual crowd of our young men was
not seen in our midst and when we
stop to think of the cause of their
| absence and where they were gone,
many of them perhaps even then
facing danger and hardship. it caus-
ed many heartaches and many d
crowd of jewellers for the blessings
and protection for our noble men
now on the battle front.
Rev. Shugg had quite sad ex-
perience in returning from his meet
ing at Lamont last Saturday. He
ran into a ditch and stuck, but for
tune always favors the BRAY, as a
their car and brought the Rev. and
Mrs. Shugg home, leaving his car
until the next day. AS there were
several car loads of Lamont ~~le
down to attend church at the l.. d.
S. chapel in our city. we expect to
near VI more cars SLfduucu III Tie
mud besides Rev. Shugg.
Prof. Lair had business in our
city last week. The Professor tells
us he has a fine situation and thinks
he will like it fine especially as he
has an increase in salary.
Mr.. Mcdaniel. our bridge superin-
tendent, has been rebuilding the
railroad pad sire street sidewalk wall crossing
steps near the Union church. A
great improvement over the old
walk.
All are rejoiced to think there is
slight let up on flour substitutes
as SO much had to De bought that
spoiled before using it u
Judd Maxwell has been enjoying
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Fulton, who
have been engaged in Chautauqua
! work the past season, came in the
, past week for a visit with relatives
in our city. Mr.. Fulton left last
Saturday for his home in Pennsyl-
vania. Mrs. Fulton remained for a
longer stay with her parents, Mr..
In response to the call to have all
children under. five wears old
brought for medical examination last
saturday, resulted in the namber of
100 being examined. Some were
pronounced almost perfect and ~
ers diseased. Some who were sup
posed to be always we'll, wero bodily
diseased, others only needed a
slight treatment.
Mrs. Willard JeEries and children,
of Chicago, are visiting her mother
Mrs. Belle Cummings and other
relatives in our city.
Frank Hullinger and wife, OF
Humeston, are visiting his mother,
Mrs. LYDIA Hullinger. Frank has to
answer the call Of his country and
will go to Camp Dodon next Friday.
Mrs. John Archey and neice Mrs.
Ruby Fisby. of Leon were over Sun
day visitors in our city. Mrs. Frisby
was a daughter of the late Refine
Harvey and has returned from the
| west to again make her home in this
her childhood home. Her husband
| has to answer the call for his coun-
try. Her many old friends and form
er playmates are glad to extend her
the glad hand of welcome.
Walter Flora aftefaa several
weeks visit with relatives in this
his childhood home. returned 70
saltwater, Oklahoma. last Wednes-
day. .,
days last week with her son G. G.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
Monday, tuesday and Wednesday
September Is, IL, and Is
BLAIR s. PRATHER
Van Vert, Iowa
Grimes, and other old friends in our

J. N. Williams and wife. returned
Lee Flora, wife and daughter Cecil
returned the past week from their
extended trip to the Yellowstone
Park and other points of interest in
the west but all voted it was nice
to be home again and that they are
before.
to their home in Illman, Mo-. last
Sunday, having been here visiting
their daughter and taking in the re-
union.
Mrs. Elizabeth Goble, J. K. Beas,
ley and Mr.. Bailey are all reported
on the sick list.
ter up near Shenandoah over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Poush and
Emory Thompson received cards last
Saturday stating their sons had ar
rived safely overseas. Mr.. and Mrs.
Bailey also received a letter from
their son Ensign Ralph Bailev that
he had since his return to service
made a voyage to Italy and return
to New York in last month, and en-
joyed pleasant and successful trip
and did not even see submarine on
the entire voyage.
1t would be useless to try to name
the many of our townspeople who
were in attendance at the Des Moines
fair last week.
The voyage of air ships that pass
ed over our city last Thursday was
viewed with interest by both old and
young for with few exceptions
were the first flying machines that
many of us had ever seen.
Carter Scott has been giving the
finishing coat, of paint to his new
home residence, and Jode Smith has
been having his house occupied by
Luther Bason, reprinted the past
week.
Grant Mallory made a short call
at our annual reunion the first of
last week. Mr.. Mallory is now To-
Gated at Savanna, ILL.,, in job print
ing office and says he has more
work than he can handle.
Miss Vivian Lanning and neice, of
Charlton, were in our city one day
last week.
Harvey Post is home on short
furlough. He looks well and says
army life is fine.
Mrs. Lille Cox and little daugh-
ter, of MarshalltOwn, are visiting
relatives and old time friends in our
city. She will be remembered by
many as Miss Lille Harrison, daugh-
ter of the late Henry Harrison, form
err residents of our city
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Hull and
children were Sunday guests at the
c. s. Evans home.
Mrs. Marcia Curry was visiting
the last of the week with relatives in
Leon.
Mrs. Ed Morgan, who has been
quite sick the past week, is some
better at this writing.
Amos Chambers and daughters
olive and Gladys, of.Leon, were Sun
day guests at the Will Scott home.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05

Smoke Havana Spikes cigar.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
Free! Free!! FreeM!!!

You invited attend this joint sale by ourselves and the
mentioned below An elegant of pure Aluminium given
free with each Coles Range purchased during the Sale only
"a REMEMBER THE DATES
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
Union No. 1.

Roy Brown and family returned
from Des Moines where they attend
ed the fair.
Mrs. Ira Mckee and children and
her mother Mrs. Walter Venn, of
Colorado, have been In these parts
the past week.
Mrs. OIL McGahuey and daughter
Reta took dinner at G. r.. Piercy's
Sunday.
Several people In this vicinity saw
the aerOplanes 90 over Thursday en%
route to Des MOines from KansaA
City. yss ss'ss
Robert Jones spent Saturday
night and Sunday with his ftienu1
Golden MCGahuey. -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
Big Type Poland Chinas.

We have for sale limited num-
her Of spring and yearling poars,
spring gifts and brood soWs. 81 0ur
famous Big Type breed. Manehestut 81
Bros, Leon, Iowa. 4ti
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05

:. Mrs. Ora Gardner returned to her
home In Leon Monday after a few
days visit at the home OF Mrs. Mar
cia Curry.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05

Rawleigh products are scientifical-
ly and accurately made and, are there
fore the most dependable.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-09-05
Page EIGHT
FARM BUREAU NOTES.
Sowing for the Liberty Harves,

oONAHSS AVA CAAC ~ AAssA SSSss
With the beautiful rain that fell
day. there is nothing to prevent
fall seeding of wheat that will SO
far surpass all the previous records
of Decatur county that they will sink
into insigniticance in comparison.
The response has been reassuring,
sometimes expressed in report
like came from one small school dis
trict, Burrell No. 4 800 bushels.
Prompt preparation of seed bed
is the thing in order now. 1t is to
be pointed with pride that wheat as
profitable crop is more more valuable a,t e
great end of work comes in fall
when manpower and horsepower is
more available than in spring time.
l have reports from about sixty
co-operators showing approximate
ly 10000 acres We e VIII have e. our our
operators will only report and we
will then go over the top.
One man in Decatur county grew
40 bushels per acre, on land that he
purchased for $50 per acre. Can you
Did you ever stop to think that an
ordinary grain wagon load OF wheat
would bring from $40 to $115?
A Word in Regard to Seed Corn
Campaign.
a Select your tS seed early from nT@ne ths
stored. These are the all important
points in the campaign. With State
Council of Defense and all other
patriotic bodies and private citizens
working for a bountiful supply to - pc ;ts
stored there is very optimistic
next spring. The gravity Of the sit
uation when the seed corn supply is
threatened is fresh in the mind OF
many a man in Decatur county who
became frightened. with his seed last
spring (and justly 500 and paid
enormous prices for seed that ne
knew would grow.
The crop Of corn that the county
would have grown had drought not
hit us, would have paid all bills, for
Seed with margin profit, for stand
was never better, owing partly to
dry spring at seeding, time. The
stand is a tribute to the painsstakins
who picked and tested this corn.
Farmers who stood the loss result;
ing from planting poor seed will
scarcely need admonition at this
time. but memory is short, and the
practice of waiting or putting it of
for another day may cost you the
difference between good crop and
a poor crop next year. Be ready be-
fore killing frost comes this year and
do not squander your profits by pay
ing exhorbitant prices for the other
fellows seed next spring.
Wish to say that the Farm Bureau
has some new bulletins on grasshop--
per pests, new canning bulletins and
few on growing of broom corn:
They are for free distribution, if
you are interested call.
Evening star., 1918-06-02

sugar from the West Indies during
the efforts of another aspirant for the
scepter OF the world. one Napoleon.
was in a dilemma. Cane sugar was
selling for a dollar the pound. 1t was
with the encouragement of the Cor
sican that beet sugar raising started
to flourish. Before the present war
began. Germany was first and the
United States fifth in the production
of this kind of sugar. Beet sugar pro-
for obvious reasons. is slightly in
creasing in this country, but only
slightly. as price regulations now are
a big factor in the game.
The beet is the chief source of su-
gar in northern Europe. The indus
try sprang from the working of
German mind. about the middle OF
the eighteenth century. AS an in
dustry. the making of beet sugar be-
gan near Breszau. Silesia somewhat
later AT the time that the several
nations of Europe began their at
tempt to exterminate one another
they were giving the world a large
percentage Of the beet sugar util-
ized.
An expert on sugar beets astonished
the writer by saying that twelve men
in Saxony held the only known supply
OF seed when war broke out in 1914.
America hastened to get all she could,
since an extraordinary time must be
allowed for the maturing of the plant.
Before relations with Germany were
broken. in April. 1917. our manufac-
turers Of beet sugar learned that the
rare seed so long monopolized by the
kaiser might be found in measured
quantities in Russia. clever buyer
was sent there, but sugar beet seed
had risen from cents pound to
S5 cents, with all sorts of hedges red
taped round and round about Docu-
ments hithered and thithered across
the Atlantic, bearing agreements sig
natures and seals. etc. all hinged
around the determination of the Slavs
Evening star., 1918-06-02

molasses and cane sugar in tho
United States proper are. with very
few exceptions. all located in Louisi-
ana. The census bureau reports that
in 1909 there were only ten factories
making the above products outside
Louisiana. The city of New York is
the greatest ref1ner Of sugar. almost
80 per cent refined in the United
States being produced there.
1t takes from twelve to fourteen
tons of cane to produce one ton of
sugar ready for the table. and the
bntricate processes involved are In
teresting. 1t is hard to realize that
there are several hundred classes Of
sugar.
The layman. ON the face of it. thinks
beet sugar comes from the regulation
beets. the sort one eats with butter
when hot and vinegar when cold, but
the Department of Commerce, putting
away such ignorance. says that the
beet from which beet sugar is ex-
tracted is quite a different PROPOSE
tion. Another great war brought
about the popularity of beet sugar
France, not being able to secure
Evening star., 1918-06-02
The German Spirit.

e6 n NY restitution that Germany offers
~ to the allies will be offered, you
may be sure. in the spirit of Griggs''
The speaker was Edward Hunger-
ford, the advertising expert.
"Griggs and Miggs," he went on,
were kitnaped by bandits and shut
up in a cave.
They'll take every cent we've got
on u.s. moaned Miggs. Every blessed
cent
They will, eh? said Griggs,
thoughtfully.
"'They sure will
Griggs peeled a ten-spot from his
roll.
Here, Miggs.' he said, here is
that ten dollars I've been OWN you
for SO long,"
Evening star., 1918-06-02

to Domingo supply much for Eng
lands provinces. India importing her
needs from Java. Australia and New
Zealand depend upon the Malaysian
peninsula for sugar. Since the war
began and England proper has had
German and Austrian n sugar importa-
tions stopped. unrefned sugar from
our colonies and from Peru have
made up in part for the missing re-
fined product of the central powers
Cane sugar production almost dou-
bled in the years between 1904 and
1917. Many romances have been
woven around the cane fields. The
glamour of color and southern suns,
the picturesque, old-time black. with
his songs and superstitions. the un-
doubted lack of haste and the gentle
quality of leisure-these run through
the wide-spreading weave of the
sugar industry in the United States
as the woof Cane fields and negroes,
"colonels" and cool piazzas. and then
gradually machinery. the business
acumen OF the north and increased
production keeping pace with in
creased demand.
Hawaii. more than the land OF the
rkelele. is the place where the latest,
machinery produced for cane sugar
cultivation is used. 1t is a science
though now and then in the more
remote districts OF the islands only
primitive methouS are known. Cut
ting is done by hand in all fields
That Cuba is first in the world in
sugar production is pretty generally
understood. The Philippines produce
about three-fourths as much az Porto
Rico and she about two-thirds as
much as Hawaii: Louisiana and
Texas. about two-thirds as much as
the Philippines. Very little cane
sugar is refined at the same place it
grows. as the refining is a matter for
experts and science and elaborate
equipment. Granulated sugar is now
the commonest form OF refined sugar
Establishments manufacturing sirup,
Evening star., 1918-06-02

before the war was about three-quar-
ters of a million tons. Patron of the
boulevard or poilu of the field. each
Frenchman consumed about forty
three pounds of sugar annually.
France is now short about 100000
tons OF sugar.
Russia is not a nation of sugar buy
ers. standing next to the country be-
tween Calabria and the Apennines in
this. and eating on the average.
whether bolshevik or monarchist.
twenty-four pounds of sugar every
365 days. In normal times the Brit
ish empire uses more sugar than we
do. consuming more than it pro-
duces.
The vast supply for the empire on
which the sun never sets comes from
several sources. India. long the great
est in the world among cane-growing
lands. does not now have enough for
herself. Canada. Australia and New
Zealand import large amounts. A lit
tie of this comes from the United
States. but the Dutch and British
West Indies. British Guiana and San