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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-09-04
I)e1kalb.

Walter Cox called on Harry Wilson
Monday morning.
M. II. Fry called at the home Of
his sister, Mrs. Charley Wilson Fri
Mrs. Rose Wilson called at the
Dave Fry home Wednesday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Fry and daugh-
visited at the Charley Wilson home
Monday.
W. A. Reitveld has sold his farm
and is going to New York to make
that their future home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Fry and daugh-
ter, Vernie, Gladys Pickett, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charley Wilson and family and
Mike Fry called on their uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Fry, one day
last week.
Misses Ella and Nellie Bears and
brother, Will, visited at the Jink
Wells home Friday.
Delbert Wilson spent Saturday
night and Sunday with his friends,
Eddie, Cecil and Roscoe Wilson.
Clarence Anderson and George
Cox were business visitors in Grand
River Saturday evening.
Jack Young called on Harry Will
sons Monday.
John Minor visited Sunday at the
Harry Wilson home.
Miss Ruth Wilson spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wilson and
son, Delbert, were Leon visitors
Wednesday,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-09-04
Davis City.

Mrs. Arthur Venting, who wa:
called here by the serious illness o.
her son, Orville Venting, returned
| to her home at Ashland, Kansas, last
Thursday.
Miss Mary Henderson and hel
| friend Irene NILSSON returned to thell
home at Greybull, Wyoming the past
Mrs Nan Flora visited at the home
| of Mrs. Edna Cox last Thursday.
| Miss Birdie McClain, daughter OF
Joe McClain, is making her home
with her grandma Reed and attend
| ing school in this city.
Mrs. DR.. Merritt is slowly lmprov-
ing at this writing. She has peen
sick for over four months.
MRS. J. w. Wales and daughter,
Miss Helen, attended the Bethany
~ The remains of Lou Thompson
were brought to this city Sunday for
burial tie died in hospital at ON
aha, Neb. He had been in very poor
health for some years, and went 10
the hospital three weeks ago, put ne
soon became worse ana tne enu
thy of their friends in their bereaV-
Mr.. Carter Scott returned home
Sunday noon from Indiana, where
he had been visiting his old home
and friends and relatives the past
two weeks. 49,,
past week to Mo J ON MO- 70 to O T}S'f
Nebraska, to visit her daughter, !uiss
Christia, and then to Shenandoah, to
see her sister, Mrs: H. Lance. Mr..
Standifer left at the same time 70
resume his work at Greybull, Wyom-
ing ..,-.
his mother. Mrs: Alice Marble ana
ton Sunday to visit at the home of
Charles Gardner and family
Mrs. Kate Frazier: and Mrs. Carrie
Lee and their mother, Mrs. w. L.
Cartwright, went to Leon Friday.
Mrs. Mary Harmon was a Leon
Mrs, r. NJ: Kicks re, returned :c!s ! home IN.
Saturday from a, weeks visit at OK
lahoma City, Oklahoma.
Mr.. Arthur cummings and wife
arrived in this city Thursday to VISIT
home folks few days, leaving sun
day for Missouri to look for loca-
ton, as he has resigned his position
as brakeman on railroad at Grey
bull. Wyoming, ,
Mrs. w. L. Severe returned home
SATURDAY from dill cAtCAuCu v10AC az
State Center, Iowa, where she had
been visiting at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. w. L. Schmidt. Mrs.
Schmidt and two sons came home
with her.
Mrs. Veta Butterworth and son,
Scott, left for their new home at
Ithica. New York, Saturday. Her
husband, Mr.. Julius ButterWorth left
two weeks before, having fine posi-
iton as an instructor in Cornell uni
versity at lthica.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Roberts, of Den
yer, Mo-, are visiting in this cit" at
the home of Mrs. Roberts parents,
Mr.. and Mrs w. l.. Severe. From
here they will leave in their auto for
an extended visit in the west before
returning home.
Mr.: Ralph Gardner was visitor
in this city Wednesday.
Mrs. Ida Adkins is still very poor
ly, and is confined to her bed. She
was kicked by COW as she was pass
ing the COW in the milk yard, just as
she was going to milk the COW, her |
hip being fractured, and she has |
been unable to walk since. Her |
daughter, Mrs. Harold Rush, is car
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-09-04
FairVieW District No. 8.

Elmer Sans departed for Milo,
Iowa, Saturday morning, for a few
days visit with relatives, and return
ing he will bring his wife and child
rem home.
John CARRIER, wife and daughter,
Wilma, returned home Friday morn
ing from the west, where they have
been visiting thee past month.
Elsie and MAZDA Merrill have been
visiting in Leon with their grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Merrill.
Irwin Davis stayed a few days last
week at e. Nordyke's while his par
ents we're attending the state fair.
Several families in this vicinity
went to the state fair.
Mrs. Mary Buell. and son, Della,
called at H. E. Hughes Sunday.
Frank Lewis family spent Sunday
at Elmer Merrills.
Mrs. Ralph Herrold and children
are away on vacation for few
days.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-09-04
StringtoWn.

Mr. dnf he Mrs. ne Emery Gy his SrnSe
Lue Thompson, at Davis City Sun
day.
Mrs. Oral Wheeler and children
visited Sunday with her sister, Mrs.
Joe Hagan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herb Bartlett and
Mrs. Rosa McClain drove to Garden
Grove Sunday and visited with hi:
brother, Ed Bartlett.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Fox and family
visited Sunday with their son, Mr..
Everett, Fox in Davis City.
Mr.. and Mrs Will Lee were Davis
City callers Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Rex and fam
lily visited Sunday with their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Clarence Daniels.
School began Monday with Miss
DoOlittle as teacher.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-09-04
THE LEON REroRTER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1919

ing for her at this writing.
I9V pug u!IIeqlnS 1000 SSH
grandmother, Vina Ferguson, went
to Kansas City Thursday to visit a
few days with Cecil's brother, Roy
Sutherlin
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
Serbian Battalion
Has Been Fighting
Since August, 1914

Medveiia. Cora, Russian Lapland,
Aug. ga Serbian battalion which
has been fighting under one flag, or
another since August 1914, still is
fighting. up here in Karelian Russia
The role of these Serbs on the
North Russian front has been similar
to that of the Czecho-S&vaks in ST
IBERIA and reads like aNAunfinished
Had. They are big, stray ping, we'll
Disciplined soldiers. five Ears and
several thousand miles fr[n home,
and. Just now, when they Al in ac-
ton against the bolshevikNS>along
with their Russian. British, ha2ch
or until recently. American allS
they display the same dash and battle
enthus assn that characterized the
Serbs in the early days of the war.
One wav or another these Serb
ans reached Odessa. where they were
formed in battalion for service
against the central powers. They
want to get somewhere to fight
Austria so thew started for Arch
angel hoping eventually to join the
allies in France.
The Serbs seized a locomotive and
Suf1lclenJ DOX cars TO carry CHe Dal-
talon and after four months journey
arrived at Murmansk.
The allies landing at Murmansk in
the spring of 1918 found the Serbian
battlion there, ready to fight against
the bolsheviki. and. for the first few
months of the campaign, the Serbs
formed the backbone Of the force OPP
posing the reds. which speedily wrest-
ed several hundred miles of the
Murmansk railway from the commu-
nists.
Throughout the subsequent fight
ing on this front Serbs have distin-
guished themselves, and now they
are awaiting the day when they can
return to the new greater Serbia
which includes Bosnia and other ter
ritories where they lived when inn
pressed into the Austrian army.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
French Cross for
American Chaplain

Camp Funston, Kas., Sept. Elm
the closing days Of the war, when
American troops in the Puvenelle
sector were advancing on Metz under
terrific artillery bombardment, a
chaplain laid aside the rather advis-
ory duties of his rank and for two
days and nights helped in evacuat-
ing wounded men under a whitening
enemy fire, without regard for his
own safety.
The chaplain was Ora J. Cohee of
the 34th infantry, Seventh division.
and for the bravery he displayed
under fire the French government
has awarded him the croix de guerre
with gold star, which was presented
to the chaplain this week by Briga-
der General Wahl, commander of
Seventh division.
The commander Of the Seventh di-
vision proposes that all Kansas and
Missouri men receiving decorations
for his own government or from for
eign governments come to Camp
Funston for formal presentation
and has arranged for dinner by the
divisional staff and use Of the banc
and troops Of the division in the cere
mony.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
MOTHER BIG we'll
NEAR S. 0. GUSHER
IN HOMER field
to,v Producer in louisiana Ter
ritory Said to Be Making
1000 Barrels.

ponorts from the Louisiana FIELDS
~ Mo- IL the effect that another wen
r. NJ heen NJ completed near the Cakes
saIl of the Standard OIL company
gsil u came in several weeks ! ago. go
I sl,d' for between 5000 and S'ooo
|opres 81 The new well, which IS
Eat tI 1000 barrels from a sand at
| P1a feet, is farther out from the
slavery wells than is the Standard.
/ The Oaks we'll is producing from
hat .d is known as the Blossom sand
/ depth of 2,095 feet. The new
Eeli is in the upper sand. 1t is also also
|enorted that an offer of S1,500,0oo
Ea ps refused for the forty.acre tract
/ which the new we'll is located.
4 The Louisiana field is attracting
necial interest in Pine Bluff and
|puth Arkansas because of the drill
bg operations in the western part
/ Union county, just north Of the
Eaiborne parish field, as we'll as IN
kuachita county. Prospects in both
kpse territories are excellent, and
Nose interested are confident that
"a oil production will develon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
ives SOC to Church;
Gets S213 in Return

Some time last year before the oil
|eld came in at Desdemona Walter
|oel and associates in the little
hurch of which he was a member at
)esdemona, subscribed the money to
by lot for the church. The cost
las not very great and the necessary
mount was easily raised by dona-
|ons of so cents to 81 each from the
bale members. Mr.. Noel paid so
Ents as his pro-rata part of the cost.
lutte recently the lot was leased for
D and Wednesday Mr., Noel cashed
check in one of the local banks in
dublin for $6324, which was his part
the income from the lease, figured
BON his investment of so cents. In
Edition to this Mr.. Noel still retains
is royalty in the lot and he has
zen offered $3.50 for this. That it
Rys to give to the Lord was never
lore directly and visibly demonstrat-
! than is Illustrated in this remark
pie case.-Hamilton Record.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
LAST LARGE 6. 4. r.
ENCAMpMENT OPENS
At COLUMBUS today
But $4,000 Men of the Union
Armies of the Sixties
Are Left.

Columbus, O., Sept. G.-What IS
expected to be the last great national
encampment of the grand army of the
republic will open here tomorrow and
continue during the week.
The fact that the ranks of the old
veterans have dwindled to approx
mately $4,000 and that the Amerl-
can legion, veterans of the European
war. stands ready to take up the work
which the G. A R. has been doing for
tie last So years, leads members to
predict that within a few years, the
organization of civil war veterans
will be superseded by an organization
of their sons and grandsons.
A general order of Grand Com
mander Clarendon E. Adams Of
Omaha. inviting soldiers sailors and
marines of the recent war to partlcl-
pate in the parade Wednesday, is
pointed to as proof that the old vet
Grams are preparing to bequeath their
activities to a new organization COM
posed of those who fought IN the
World war
The encampment is scheduled to
open tomorrow afternoon with q
union religious service in memorial
hall at which ministers of all relgl-
Gus denominations will speak. In the
evening a musical service will be held
at the hall.
Tomorrow evening, Governor
James M. Cox and Mayor George j.
Karb will formally welcome the
members of the grand army Of the re-
republic and the seven affiliated
organizations: The woman's relief
corps ladies of the G. A. R., sons OF
veterans, sons of veterans auxiliary,
daughters of veterans, ex-prisoners
of war and civil war nurses. All
these organizations are holding their
annual camp fire will be held when
number of nationally known per-
sons will speak. Wednesday morn
ing. the Grand parade, narticipated
/ in by the G. A. R.. Spanish-American
wo~ veterans. Sons Of veterans and
soldiers Of the European war VIII be
held Thursday and Friday will be
| business sessions.
It was announced tonav bv former
| Governor James e. Camnhell, chair
man of the local committee NJ ar
rangements. that the widow Of Cen
c~a, George A Custer Of New York
city. viii he in attendance and that
she will hrino with her manv relics
gathered bv General Custer which she
ovrects to give to the state Of Ohio.
General Custer was born in Ohio ard
y is said Mrs. Cust"r is desirous that
thu state Of his birth shall rossess
and preserve many Of his priceless
relics.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
Gulf Company Leads
in Ranger District

Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 30.-The
Gulf Production company is leading
all other companies in daily average
production in the Ranger district of
the Fort Worth oil fields with an out
put of approximately $4,000 barrels
every "a hours. This TERRITORY in
c]udes production area in Eastland,
Stephens, Erath and Comanche coun-
ties.
The approximate figures on the
production furnished hv the laroe
comnanies are: Gulf Production 49,
900 barrels daily. The Texas COM
nary 1880 barrels, Texas and Pa
cific Coal and Oil "omnanv 10000
barrels MAGNOLIA Petroleum COM
ranv 1880 barrels. Humble Oil and
Refining company 10 600 barrels and
the Prairie Oil and Gas company g.
O0O The daily averages are subject
to weekly chances due to the extens-
i've drillino activity being carried on
by all of the large companies.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07

Sergeant William Norton, Arkan-
sas hero Of the world war, will visit
his sister-i n-law, Mrs j. H. Wilson,
in Pine Bluff soon. Sergeant Norton
has attained a number Of distinc-
tons. For one thing, re is over fifty
years of age. It is said a man is as
young as he feels, but at that, you
don't find many men feeling sprv
enough at the age of fifty to win two
medals for bravery on the battle
front, or to go through with the
hardships necessary before reach
ing the front.
However, that is not the chief of
Sergeant Nortons distinctions In a
chronological arrangement, they
would appear thusly native of Ar
kansas; in the army over thirty
years; one of the first American SOL
diers to reach the battle front; one
of the six American soldiers to first
receive the new American medal for
bravery: decorated by Premier Glenn
enreau for bravery.
Sergeant Norton IS 9 native of
Hardy, Arkansas. He is veteran
Of the Spanish-American war. and
took part in the battle Of Santiago
When the close of that war came, he
elected to remain in the service, and
has been stationed in the PHILIPPINES
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
Soldiers, Brother of Pine Bluff Woman,
SwOre Vengeance on Germans and Won
High Honor When the Opportunity Came

and was in Pershing's expedition in
to Mexico.
Vengeance on Germans.
Norton's wife was a sister of Mrs.
j. H. Wilson of Pine Bluff. In June,
1917, she was critically i'll III 4 hos
pital at Douglas, Ariz. AT the same
time, Norton was under orders to go
to France with the first American
contingent. Realizing MS wife's con-
dition. it nearly broke his heart to
part with her, but like the real sol
der he was, he put duty ahead of all
else. A month after he left, his wife
died
Norton swore personal vengeance
on the Germans whom he blamed for
having been forced to leave his dying
wife. In letter received by Mrs.
Wilson, he told her not to worry
about him. che, would get the first
German who tried to get HIM"
This proved true when not long
after German officer and squad
made raid on the American trench
es. Stopping at the mouth of dug
out in which Sergeant Norton and
other American soldiers were, the
Germans tauntingly invited them to
come out. Sergeant Norton person
ally accepted the invitation, and he
came out with an army AS in his
hand smoking.
1t was there, among other places
that the efficiency of the American
soldier and the army as pistol, was
demonstrated Norton killed the Of
ficer and his men killed two men of
the German squad.
PersE,ing's Praise.
The official citation by General
Pershing read as follows: Sergeant
| Norton. finding himself in a dugout
surrounded by the enemy into which
a grendate had lust been thrown. re-
fused to surrender and made bold
dash outside, killing one of his as
sailants. BY doing so, he saved the
companv's log book"
| In a letter received some DAYS ago.
Mrs. Wilson was advised that her
brother-i n-law would arrive in Pine
Bluff sometime soon, though the ex-
act date was not stated. Just what
Norton's plans are after his army
service is finished is not known, but
it is probable that he will spend some
time here with his relatives.
Mrs. Wilson is the wife of J. RI.
/ Wilson, proprietor Of the Ideal Meat
/ Market, 803 West Fifteenth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
Canada Will Have
Highest Paid Army

Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 6.-Official
received here from Of
tawa indicates that members of per-
lament from the western province
are supporting movement, recently
launched: to give Canada the HIGHEST
paid standing army in the world.
1t has been an open secret for some
time that the Dominion Government
was experiencing great difficulty in
reorpanizinp it's standing armv. Long
service in France has caused fight
ing men to decline various govern
ment offers for regular service and
the plan now under consideration is
to increase the nav for privates from
81 10 to about SO day.
Reports made public here show
that after nearly five months of re-
cruiting for the local comnanv of the
historic Princess Pat regiment. only
IA men have been enlisted. Military
men have declared however. that
thew anticipate brisker enlistments
during the winter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
"WILD CAT" SHOWS OIL.

Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. An
other Stenhers county, wildcat is
showing oil. 1t IS the Compton No.
I Of the Cosden Oil and Gas companv,
in the extreme southwestern part ot
the county and on'v about five miles
east If Moran. The depth is 2.49O
feet and the we'll is showing about
ten barrels dailv. the drill having
Just hit the top Of the sand.
Aside from the shallow pool at
Moran the nearest production g the
Thorn well of the Sammies Oil COR
pnration at Gunsieht, about ten
miles to the southeast. This well IS
also producino from shallow sand
at around 10000 to 1000 feet. The
Compton is twelve miles southwest
Of the bi" producers in the Brecken-
ridge pool.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
0KlAH0MA-KANShS
FIELDS SHOW Big
GAIN LAST WEEK
Oklahoma's Production In
creases 10000 Barrels, for
Total of 10000

Tulsa, Okla, Sept. 6-The produc-
ton of the observation-disclosures fields
for the week ending August %
shows total of 284,000 barrels, an
increase of 10000 barrels. Oklaho-
ma has an increase Of 10000 barrels
over last week and Kansas shows an
increase of 10000 barrels. Of this
amount Kansas produced $4,000 and
Oklahoma 100000 barrels.
The various fields in Kansas pro-
duced: Augusta, 10000 barrels;
Eldorado, $4,000; other fields, 49,
900 barrels. Oklahoma: Gushing,
41,000 barrels; Healdton, $4,000 bar
rels; Yale, 1900 barrels; Billings
CARRIER, $4,000 barrels; other fields
100000 barrels.
With the Healdton field averaging
5000 barrels and many wells drill
ing and dozens of others shut down
for lack of water, there was but one
big completion for the week, and that
is the Texas company's test on the
billiard farm, in section 27-4s-2w,
which is four feet in the sand, the top
of which was found at 1875 feet.
The we'll is making 300 barrels. 1t is
400 feet east of the original we'll
The latest good we'll is the test of
the Carter Oil company in section 49,
1911, which is on top of the sand
and is making 400 barrels as it
stands. 1t is an offset to the Atlantic
Petroleum company's original we'll
in this section. which had an initial
production of 1900 barrels.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
Krupps Will Build
Engines and Cars

Colopne, Sept. 6-The GREAT Kr'1pp
firm of armament manufacturers has
begun to center it's attention on pre-
narations for government contracts
for the construction of locomotives
and railway cars, according to Ger
man trade journals. The firm has
agreed to give the government nart
control of the experimenting. One
of the first contracts calls for 100 To-
comotives and 1000 cars. Directors
of the Krupp works are also endeav-
iring to obtain contracts in other
branches of iron construction in
order to bring all Of it's factories up
to at least a part of it's activities dur
ing the war
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
'rince is Found to
Be Real Democrat

-
Detroit, Mich, Sept. 6-The Prince
Wales, who tried out democracy in
be dances of the doughboys in the
lar zone and found it diverting,
ANTS more of it. and the hint has
pne out to the border cities which
is to visit, including Windsor
Eross the river from Detroit, Oct.
Many citizens Of Michigan as we'll
Of Ontario will attend the recep-
Pn to the prince in the Windsor
Fmory, and some of them were sur
Flsed, upon applying for reserva-
pms that the roval visitor opposed
zen that concession to formality,
Pd that all will have precisely the
me chance to see and hear the
ElAce, on basis of first come first
erved.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
Government Labor
To Seek Increase

San Francisco. Sept. 6-Represen-
tation of the National Federation of
federal employees in the work of re-
classifying wage scales of govern
ment employees is to be SOUGHT bv the
third convention of the organization
which opens here on Sentember 8,
according to secretary Alfred Ber-
ryessa.
The convention also will endeavor
to enlist public supnort for the bill,
introduced in congress- bv representa-
tive Nolan of California. to fix a
minimum wage of SO a dav for all
government workers, except postal
employees.