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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
Study Center.

The last Study Center will be held
at the Leon High School, Saturday,
April 18th. The program as planned
will be very helpful. The instructors
are Miss Ida Fesenbeck and DR.. E.
J, Cable, of Iowa State Teachers
College. A large attendance is de-
sired.
PROGRAM
damental Principles of Language
Teaching" Miss Fesenbeck. Rural
feachers-"The Teacher, The Text
book and Aids in Geography Teach
ing" DR.. Gable.
Teacher, The Textbook and Aids in
Geography Teaching" DR.. Cable: Ru-
raj teachers Fundamental Prin-
ciples of Language Teaching Miss
Fesenbeck.
1920 a. m, town teachers Fun
damental Principles Of Language
Teaching Miss Fesenbeck. Rural
teachers-"SOme Problems in GeOg-
raphy,' DR.. Cable.
11:15 a. M, town teachers
Some Problems in Geography, Br.
Gable. Rural teachers Language
Teaching" Miss Fesenbeck.
NOON INTERMISSION
1:15 p. M, general session-C0n-
structiya aliericanisM Through sh4
Schools DR.. Cable.
From the titles of the lectures it
appears that they are the same but
such is not the case; there are no
repetitions.
Kate L. Hull,
County Superintendent.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
State DeclamatOry Contest at Abba
Friday Evening.

The state high school declamatory
contest will be held at Abba Friday
evening of this week, and the Leon
High School will be represented by
Donald McGinnis, who won out in
the humorous class in the sub
district and district contests. In
this contest the twelve best high
three classes, and win or lose they
have already won high honors for
more than 5000 students have been
in training for this contest, but
through the local, subdistrict and
district contest all have been elm
mated. except twelve, and these
meet in the final contest tomorrow
best contests ever held during the
forty-two years of the existence OF
the organization.
The following are the contestants:
ORATORICAL CLASS
Flag Day Address" Alfred AL
bett of Ankeny.
"a Stirring Appeal" George But
Ter of Estherville.
"A, Stirring Appeal" Leo Potter
''The Spirit of America Earl
Thompson of Lyons.
DRAMATIC CLASS
''The American Citizen" Beatrice
Banker of Valley Junction.
How the LaRue Stakes Were
Lost" Pauline Fenton of Bloomfield.
"a Daughter of the South" Adela
Hensen of Forest City.
How the LaRue Stakes Were
Lost" Mary White of Eldora.-
HUMOROUS CLASS
AOver the Banister," l. a h o r
Holmes of Keota.
"a Tragedy in Millinery" Kath-
ryn Jones of Sac City.
Saunders McGlasahns Court
ship" Elsie Koberg of Reinbeck.
Johnny Gets Ready for Com
pany," Donald McGinnis of Leon.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
Makes Record Express Shipment of
FOr(lSOn Discs.

Milo Moore, former resident of
Leon, who-has been in the auto busi-
ness at Gregory, S. D., for several
years, being the Ford and Fordson
agent. for that section, broke rec.
ord last week in having a car load
of tandem discs shipped from Oma-
ha, Neb., to Gregory. In speaking
of the shipment the Gregory Times
Advocate says:
Milo Moore received TUESDAY, the
largest express Shipment that ever
left Omaha over the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad. The ship
ment consisted of carload of tan
dem discs for Fordson tractors. The
discs were late in leaving the fac
tory and as Mr.. Moore had a number
of customers ;.anxiOusly waiting for
their discs in order to prepare the
ground for the spring crop, he order
ed that carload he shipped by ex-
press from the Omaha distributing
point as soon as they arrived from
the factory, SO as not to, disappoint
his customers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
New Court Gases.

Ethel Banta DurboraW VS.. New
England Mutual Life Insurance Co
and Mrs. Katherine Reid. Suit is tc
recover on life insurance policy
for $4,000 which plaintiffs husband
Raymond H. DurboraW took gut on
July 81, 1915, naming his. sister
Mrs. Katherine Reid as beneficiary
Mr.. Durboraw notified the company
to change the beneficiary to his wife
Ethel Banta Durboraw,. and thai
prior to his death he signed a sec.
ond notice to the company naming
his wife as beneficiary. The, insur'
ance company on account or con.
flicting claims has refused to pay
the policy to plaintiff, the defendan1
Mrs: Reid claiming an a,.ay interest IN N
sum Of 5000: G: W. Hoffman at:
IA a. o. II Dale R','iI vs. F. Riley Hurst
Plaintiff alleges that at public
sale which he held on February 1S
1918, he sold to defendant a crib
of corn at $ .16 per bushel, the
number of bushels to be determined
by crib measurement That imme. :.
dfately after the sale the plaintiff
and defendant arranged for the
measurement of the crib and it was
found to contain 1860 bushels, the
corn being delivered to defendant
That shortly afterwards plalntlfi
found there had been mutual mis-.
take made in the measurement and
that the crib contained 1880 bush
els of corn. That he Immediately
notified defendant and requested
him to assist in remeasuring the
crib, which ne refused to do, and
plaintiff notified the clerk OF. the. sale
of the mistake, and the clerk direct
ed him to have it remeasured which
he did, and it was found to contain
1880 bushels. That after said re-
measurement defendant went to the
clerk and paid for 1860 bushels, but
refused to pay for the. additional
ITO bushels. Plaintiff asks for
judgment in the sum of $l97: ~.
Amos P. Olsen attorney for plaintiff
Outcault Advertising CO. vs.: Ex.
an account for an advertising: serv-
ice for one year which contained a
clause extending the contract for a
period of three additional years on
which plaintiff claims the sum OF
S461.5O, alleging the defendant fail
ed and refused to comply with the
contract. Marion Woodard attorney
for plaintiff.
F. M. Roberts VS.. E. N. Hedlund
Suit is to recover a real estate com
mission of $3.50 and 500 cash ad-
wanced to defendant on the purchase
of farm. S. H. Amos attorney fol
plaintiff.
Thomas Teale VS.. Catherine .and
S. C. Bradford, Clarence and Edna
Hedges. Suit is : to foreclose 9
mortgage on a farm given to secure
notes for $4,000. S. A.. Gates at
torney for plaintiff.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
TWENTY-FIVE YFARS,AG0|
Items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published Quarter
Of a Century Ago.

Miss Nellie Varga received let
ter yesterday stating that DR.. A..
Hildreth. died last Friday morning
at his home in Columbus, Ohio. Dr..
Hildreth was an old resident Of
Leon and has many friends in this
vicinity.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Will Gardner on April 7th.
The following marriage licenses
were issued the past week:
Thomas C. Gray 26 to Rosa
Fletcher 19.
usSXa! W%; i i; erindstaff 80 to Lucy
Howard Moore, who was on trial
in the district court was found guilty
of tresspass and fined 500 and
costs, the trouble growing out of
the famous state line between Iowa
and Missouri farmers.
G. NJ Keller returned from Illi-
nois last week where he has been
selling organs .the past year, and
line with ". A. Alexander, of Leon.
F. j. McNutt and family, of
Troy, Kansas, are here for few
days visit with relatives and friends.
J. Carmean was elected city
marshal and street commissioner at
the meeting of the city council
Thursday evening.
"lllldlu SlclSHIOu ItLul uSu odI
urday from an extended visit at the
home of his daughter in Des Moines.
James Outhier while engaged
last week in digging we'll on the
Jones farm north of Grand River,
met with what came near being a
fatal accident to him. He had
drilled down with a fourteen inch
auguf to a depth of about lao feet,
when something happened to the
machine and he went in the we'll to
see where the trouble was. Before
reaching the bottom he signaled to
be taken up, and on reaching the
top he was more dead than alive,
having turned as black as a darky,
by damps. After boring a few feet
further down water commenced to
rise, and presently it commenced to
fizzle and bubble like escaping gas
was passing up from below. Mr..
Outhier says he cannot account. for
the strange sound which can plain
ly be heard from the top. of the
we'll, unless it is the escaping of gas
through water.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
JACKIE BAND COMING
Great Lakes Naval Training Drill
Squad and Band will Visit Leon
Next Tuesday, April 18th.

The crack drill squad from the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station,
accompanied by a Bluejacket band OF
thirty pieces which is touring Iowa
in the interest of the Victory Li6er-
ty Loan, will visit Leon on Tuesday,
April 18th, arriving at 80 a. M,
and remaining here until 1880 p. m.
They will also. be at Lamont the
and leaving at 10:40 a: M. The
drill squad is composed of twenty
four bluejackets who will go through
the regular drill in practice at the
naval station, and n, the ne band band " viii Il
special train and will be accompan-
led by several prominent speakers,
who will make addresses for the
Victory Liberty Loan campaign;
The sending. of the drill squad
through the state is a new feature
of the publicity campaign of the
War Loan Organization, and will be
an interesting demonstration of the
work at the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station, the greatest naval
training school in the world.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
Bread and Butter Sandwiches
N,a,,, CupaY
Freight Wreck at the Depot.

While long south bound freight
train was backing out from the
house track about half past one Fri
day afternoon, brake beam on
car of merchandise came down east
of the freight house. The car was
in the middle of the train, one brake
man being on the rear end and the
other one up at the front, SO they
could not see the car had left the
track, and the engineer kept right
on backing up The car scraped
against the freight depot platform
and splintered up the heavy planks,
and then kept getting little furth>
er off the track until it was clear up
on the brick platform at the passen-
ger depot, where it tore up about
fifteen feet of the platform, and the
car was nearly standing on end
when the train stopped. Curtis
Bennett, -Chum Beardsley and Otis
truck M standing on the brick platform
and they did some tall moving get
ting out of the way, the truck hav-
ing one wheel demolished when the
car struck it. Fred Bigley had one
of the Leon Transfer Co.'S auto
trucks backed up to the platform
but he managed to get the truck
away before it was struck. The
track was torn up for a considerable
distance and freight traffic tied up
for several hours.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
The. Draft Board Quits.

The Decatur county draft board.
so far as an organization pertaining
to the late war is no more. Last
Saturday J. S. Parrish shipped the
last records of the board to WASH
ington. The Decatur county board
was composed of Walter Osborn, J:
S. Parrish and DR.: B. L. Eiker, and
since their appointment they have
worked diligently, and the Decatur
county board made an enviable rep
utation for the accuracy of their
work. The members were often put
in some delicate positions in, pass
ing on young men who came before
them for examination, and while all
Of their rulings may not have pleas,
they did their work in a thorough
and conscientious manner. endeay-
oring to comply strictly with their
instructions. The members served
on the board at great personal
after most people were asleep, and
they are entitled to the commenda-
ton of everyone for the faithful
manner in which they discharged
their arduous duties.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
Some Difference in Amount of Taxes
Collected.

In looking over the files of The
Reporter twenty-five years ago. we
noticed that during the month OF
March treasurer Edwards made out
over 5000 tax receipts, the total
collections for the month being
$38,S3S.69, which would be an aver,
age of less than eleven dollars for
each receipt. In talking to treasur-
er J. Wesley Chew, he told US that
during the month of March Of this
year he collected little over $2O1,-
900, nearly six times as much as-
was collected twenty-five years ago:
This year railroads alone paid
over $4,000 as the first half Of
their taxes, which is three-fourths.
as much as the total collections
twenty-five years ago. But then
while taxes have greatly increased
you must remember that land
values have also increased, and old
timers can remember that twenty
five years ago, there was a. lot of
land in Decatur county selling for
from $40 to $40 an acre.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
VOLUME LXv, NO. IS.
AT THE THEATRES.
Program for Coming Week. Special
Sunday Show at The Idle Hour.

Commencing next Sunday the
Idle Hour theatre will present sun
day shows until further notice. a.
change is also made commencing
next week when the Idle Hour will
be operated every day, in. the week,
and the New Theatre on Friday and
Saturday. The following is the pro-
gram for the coming week:
Thursday, April 10th. Shirley Mason
and Ernest Truck in Come On In,'
Fatty Arbuckle in "The Bell Boy"
and Current Events
At the New Theatre Friday, April
18th, Captain Warwick in The
Mad Lover" and the Ford Weekly.
At the New Theatre Saturday,
April 18th, Captain Robert War
wick in THE Mad Lover" and Bray
At the idle Hour Friday, April
l1th, Rex Beach's TOO Fat to
Fight with Frank Mcintyre.
At the Idle Hour Saturday, April
18th, Rex Beach's ""Too Fat to
Fight" with Frank Mcintyre.
At the Idle Hour Sunday, April
18th, Pauline Frederick in "A
Daughter of the Old South
At the Idle Hour Monday, April
] 4th, Mae Marsh in The Racing
Strain" and Vod-A-Vil Movies. i,
At the Idle Hour Tuesday, April
18th, harry Carey in "Roped'', and
international News. ~
April 18th, Constance Talmadge IN
"A Lady's Name" and burton
Holmes Travelogue.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
Mrs. John p. Horton Narrowly Es-
capen Death.

Mrs. John P. Horton, of Dubuque,
wife of prominent dentist of that
city, had narrow escape from death
on Tuesday of last week, when she
was overcome by gas in their home.
Mrs. Horton, dizzy and faint, made
her way to the open air with diff
Guilty, but collapsed upon reaching
the yard, where she was discovered a
half hour later by an icenan, who
unconscious for several hours, but
will recover. DIR. and Mrs. Horton
were both former residents of Deca-
tur county, Mrs. Horton being a
sister of Mrs. Perry Barr, of Morgan
township, and they spent several
weeks visiting at the Barr home last
summer.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
Leon to Secure Gasoline Filling
Stations.

The matter of securing gasoline
filling stations for Leon was recently
taken up by the Chamber of Com
merce committee, who have receiv-
ed assurance from both the Collins
that they would very shortly estab-
lish filling stations in this city,
which will be good news to users Of
gasoline, as it will enable them to
purchase gas at two cents per gal
Ion less than they have been paying.
A representative of the Collins Oil
Co., was in Leon yesterday. negotiat-
ing for a site, it being their inten-
ton to commence the erection of a
regular filling station building as
soon as the weather will permit
Several locations are under consid-
Grafton bY this company.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
Attention.! Soldiers, Sailors and Ma
rines OF Decatur County.

On Saturday, April Y, 1919, at
Q p. m. sharp, at the Presbyterian
church, Leon, Iowa there will be a
meeting to form the first organiza-
ton Of soldiers, sailors and marines
of Decatur county. A permanent
organization will be formed at that
time. Immediately following the
by the band, and program, the
feature of, which will be an address
by Hon. Nate Kendall, of Abba.
Immediately after the program, a
big basket dinner will be served by
the people of Decatur county 1T is
of vital Importance that all men dis
charged from the service should at
tend Saturday This is your day,
and the organization which will be
formed will be your organization.
This is an all-county day and the
business houses of Leon will close
from 3 p. m. to 6 p. m. Cards have
been sent out, but the list, of return
ed men is incomplete, and if you
have not received a card, this will
serve as notice to you to attend.
Yours truly,
Ralph l.. Rumley,.
sRalph A. McGinnis,
Olin B. Monroe,
Temporary Organization Com.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
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SATURDAY. ALTERING
A Bio Soldiers and Sailors Picnic at
Harvey Park. Big Parade and
Address by Nate Kendall.

On April 18th. Decatur county is
to have a big program at Leon 10
welcome the returned soldiers, sali-
ors and marine. Hon. Nate Kendall,
of Abba, is to be the speaker, and
the address will be the opening gun
in the coming Victory Loan drive.
The purpose of this occasion Is IN
the first place to show our apprecla-
ton to those who have served in
the war and second to form perm
anent organization of soldiers, sail
ors and marines At o'clock p: m.
the soldiers, sailors and marines
are to meet at the Presbyterian
church to form their organization
and elect their officers.
At 1880 p. m. there is to be a pig
parade. The line will form at the
north school house and will consist
of those who served in any branch
of the service and will be headed
with a band This parade will
march to the Harvey Park on south
Main street and at o'clock the pro-
gram will be had there, Hon. Nate
Kendall making the principal 'ad-
dress.
Following the program at the park
there will be basket supper serv-
ed at 6 p. M on the park grounds.
Each and every soldier, sailor or
marine is especially invited to at
tend this supper.
1t is the intention and plan OF the
business men of Leon to close their
business houses from 3 to p. m.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
Chamber of Commerce Held Splen'
did Meeting.

held one Of the best Meetings in
1heir existence on Monday evening
following a dandy good chicken
dinner served by the ladies of the
Civic Club at the Civic club rooms.
tendance, and five new members
We're voted in at this meeting, Rev.
c. H. Hitler, Fred Marvin, Ralph
Petty, Erwin Miner and E. l.. Hutch
.inSOn.
John Orth. of Des Moines, state
organizer of ~the Victory Liberty
Loan, was present and made a
get behind the, Victory Loan. Mr.;
is in this work, although he was
born in Germany and came to
America when he was eighteen years
old, but he is a loyal American, and
has two sons now in the U. S. service
at Coblenz. His talk was real
treat.
the committee reporting they were
unable to raise the $1,000 required
for series of twenty concerts by a
band led by Chet Jenkins, of Gar
den Grove, most of the members to
be outside men, as goodly num-
ber of citizens think it would be bet
ter to- employ an instructor who
would locate in Leon, use what band
men we have here at home, and
commence teaching new band
which would be in good shape by
next season. and it is thought this
plan will be worked out and the
band concerts will yet be arranged
for this season.
Various committees reported pro-
gress on several projects, the pur-
chase of an auto truck for the fire
department now being assured, the
starting Of some more paving, the
cleaning Of the streets, and other
matters of Importance to the COM
munity, including the report of the
committee appointed to secure a new
ice plant which has been accomplish
ed.
The question of organizing De-
catur county fair association was
discussed, and everybody seemed to
favor the idea of having a Decatur
county fair. The old county fairs
are coming back, Decatur county has
hundreds of breeders of pure bred
stock, and the farmers are interested
in having a fair. The matter was
set as a special subject for the next
meeting of the Chamber of Com
merCe.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
soldiers and Sailors Picnic Saturday,

There will be county picnic held
in honor of our returned soldiers,
sailor and marine boys at Harvey
Park, Leon, Iowa, Saturday, April
18th, 6 o'clock.
Every resident of the county is
invited and asked to prepare food
for family and three extra, also to
bring plates, cups, knives and forks
to serve this number. All who can,
bring baked chicken. Following is
menu, all are requested to bring:
Baked Chicken Baked Beans
Potatoe Salad
PIE
Bread and Butter Sandwiches
Cream Sugar
Coffee will be served
Should weather be bad a suitable
building will be provided. Every
soldier, sailor and marine of Deca-
tur county is invited and earnestly
requested to attend This picnic is
for Won
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
Mrs. Lillian Craig Clark Soon Leaves
for Siberia.

Sundays Des Moines Register con-
tanned the following good feature
story sent from Leon regarding
Mrs. Lillian Craig Clark. who is
now visiting the home of her father,
W: W: Craig, in Leon, the story be- be
|CiarK, little Rosena Doyichi and q
scene in the Eli Bates Settlement
playground in Chicago. Mrs. Clark
has received notice ito report at San
Francisco to sail on May 1st:
Mrs. Lillian Craig Clark, Italian
settlement worker in Chicago, is an
other one of, Iowa daughters who
to the Red Cross for nurses in ST.
IBERIA, Soon she will sail from San
Francisco, Cal, to take up duties
with the Czecho-Slovak nurse corps,
a unit composed of forty nurses.
This young woman was reared in
Leon, although her chosen profess
sion keeps her from her native
at the old homestead, being daugh-
ter of W. w. Craig, an old resident
of Leon.
She has been very successful in
settlement work, endearing herself
to the little Italian children in the
Eli Bates settlement house OF Chi
cago, where she has held the posi-
the last two and one-half years. a
work exclusively among the Italian
people, This has been the happiest
part of her life, and she only resign
ed her position because she felt the
call from Siberia to be more urgent
None will miss her more than
the beautiful little Rosena Maria
charges ever since three months Of
age. being now nearly three years
old, whose childish glee was at it's
height when she accompanied Mrs.
Clark to her home at Leon, where
the little brunei romped on the vel
vety green grass lawn to her heart S
content and played hide-and-seek in
turned .t6 Chicago she had won the
heart OF everyone who had seen her.
Mrs. Clark is graduate OF the
Burlington hospital and was con-
nected with that institution for some
time prior to her settlement work.
She is postgraduate of the Illinois
Training School for. Nurses, Chica=
go, knSwn as one of the largest es-
tablishments of its kind in the
world.
During the rage for the soldier
comfort kits, Mrs. Clark was the
originator, of one of the most com
plete and conveniently arranged kits
introduced; it held thirty-two
articles.
The contract for the Czecho- -slovak
nurse corps calls for one, years work,
much longer should it become nee
Before embarkation at San Fran
cisco, the nurses will be equipped
with the very heaviest of clothing,
including fur-lined coats.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
Elected County Board of Education.

Under the, provisions of the new
law which was recently passed by
the legislature convention OF
school district presidents was held
at the court house Monday for the
purpose of electing six members OF
the county board of education. J. A.
Mcintosh, president of the Leon
school board was chosen as chair
man of the meeting, and the result
of the election was that ]. e. Prath-
er of Long Greek, Mrs: B. Q. Spring.
er of Leon and Geo. w. Blair OF
Fayette, were elected as members
for the five. year term and M. E.
Boatman OF Decatur, Herbert Cozad
of Morgan, and E. P. Morland Of
Garden Grove, were chosen for the
two year term. Under the provisions
of the law county superintendent
Miss Kate Hull is ex-officio mem
Der of the boaru and she was elected
president of the board.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-04-10
Bought Another Little Farm of 24O
Acres.

Buying farms has got to be such
an every day occurrence with G.. M.
Axes, that he can invest in 24O acres
of high priced Decatur county land
without ever batting an eye. Last
week, he secured price from W..
H. Darner on his 240 acre farm just
southwest of Leon, known as the
Elec Housh farm, occupied by Mr..
Darner's nephew, Roy Hines, and it
did not take him but few minutes
to close the deal, but he does not get
possession of the farm until March
i, 1920. This gives Mr. Axes 44O
acres in body, as the Darner farm
joins his home place on the west.