The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-08
ESTABLISHED 1854.
a SPLENDID MEETING
-Of the Leon Chamber Of Commerce
Held Monday Evening. Plan
for a BIG Fourth of July.

= There was a splendid attendance
the Leon Chamber of Commerce
held at the Civic Club rooms Mon
day evening, over eighty members
being served at the excellent chlck.
en- dinner prepared, by, the ladles n; oi OF
transacted including the election OF
four new members, A. g. wilson,
George Kindblade, C. F.. Wright ana
r. r. Wilcox.
The band committee reported they
had met with a liberal response by
the citizens of Leon and that SUI
ficient funds were in sight to pro-
Vide for band concerts at Leon on
Saturday nights during the coming
summer. The committee has con.
tracted with Mr.. Ola Thompson, of
Lenox, who came to Leon yesterday
and his family will follow in rev
days. Mr.. Thompson is an expert
enced band man. playing several s; IN IN,
struments and his entire family are
good orchestra. Mr.. Thompson will
sepnd all of his time in Leon, con
ducting band .rehearsals and giving
instructions on musical instruments,
and in a few weeks we will have a
band to be proud Of. Until new e,
members UoCOLlc lJlOllClCAI A.AH
Der of. the old band men will assist.
A committee was named to CO.
operate with a committee from west
of Leon in an effort to secure a new
road between Leon and Decatur
around the Palestine hill which mas
been hard problem for many years,
but prospects are bright to 40 away
with this bad hill.
Arrangements were made to nave
Joe L. Long, of Davenport, the pest
posted man in Iowa on the new road
law. hold a meeting in Leon in the
near future to answer all questlons
in regard to the provisions OF the
road law, and how to go ahead ana
secure the federal and state aid for
pense of this meeting will he 500,
and after a number of the members
had guaranteed the expense, Mr.. 5.
G. Bradford, of Des Moines, who
was a guest at the meeting, and
who owns a number OF Decatur
county farms, asked that he pc a.
lowed to pay the the xpta expense Els OF cbecE ecf
Mr.. Bradford had been called up,
on for a few remarks, and he told
of his experience with the roads all
over Iowa, and stated that nothing
would enhance the value Of Decatur
county farm lands as much as good
roads. and he knows for he has in
vested hundreds of thousands, OF
dollars in Decatur county farm
lands. He said gravel roads are a
failure unless they are drained prop
.erly, and told of what a great I'M
provement had been made her IN
Decatur county since he became IN
terested in this county some 1our
years ago.
The matter of organizing a Deca,,
tur county fair was discussed. and
committee appointed to push the
matter. 1t is not proposed to make
it a Leon fair, but Decatur county
fair in which the people. of every
township and town Will be enite interest9 ISL
coming back. The people want
them, the live stock breeders want
a fair, and Decatur county can nave
Just as good a fair as any county IN
the state. Another meeting will be
called in the near future on the 1alr
proposition. -.
The question of Fourth Of July
soldiers and sailors was settled by
war is over, there should be a
county wide Fourth of July celebra-
ton, participated in by every town
!" and community in Decatur county,
and a committee consisting OF V. T..
McGinnis, Rev. G.. T. Ronk w. F.
Lindsey, j. 7. Harris and G. A. Meek
was appointed to arrange for JOINT
meeting of all organizations, towns
and rural districts which has been
called for May 26th to arrange for
the biggest celebration ever held in
Decatur county.
The paving comimttee reported
things we're moving and that at the
inc
steps would y be taken for consider
able additional paving in Leon in
the near future.
A special committee was also ap.-
pointed to visit the city council and
urge that the streets of Leon be put
in good condition at once, SO that
people coming from the country can
not complain of the streets leading
into Leon being impossible.