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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
The School Teacher.

A school teacher is a person who
are young. The teacher comes TO
school at $3.50 O'Clock and when she
has gotten enough children for a
mess in her room she teaches them
reading, writing, geography, gram
mar, arithmetic. music, drawing;
fancy crocheting, deep. breathing,
bird calls, scientific eating, patriot
ism, plain and fancy bathing, fores-
try. civics, and other sciences too
numerous to mention. When school
is out, she stays behind with five or
six of her worst scholars and tries to
save the state the job Of reforming
them later on. After that,she hurrles
home to make herself a new dress
and snatch a hastY supper, before
going back to attend a lecture by an
imported specialist on the history of
tribal law in Patagonia, which may
lie useful in her school work some
day. A great many lecturers roam
the country, preylng on school teach
ers, and some Of them are very cruel,
taking them SO long that the poor
when they get home to get their
daily test papers corrected.
School teachers salaries range
from $50 a month up-but not far
enough up to make them dizzy,
say an authority. On her salary,
the teacher must dress nicely, buy
herself things for her work which
the district is too poor or too stingy
to provide her with, to go to twenty
nine lectures and concerts a year,
buy helpful book on pedagogy, pay
her way to district, county and state
institutes. and enjoys herself during
a three months vacation which her
salary takes each year: In addition
the teacher is supposed to hoard up
she becomes too nervous and cross
to teach. at the age of so or there
abouts. she can retire and live hap
pity ever afterwards on her income.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
OUR HOG-T1ED LEGISLATORS.

After two sessions in the Iowa leg
islature we are convinced that the
game of logrolling is the source or
more bad legislation than all other
sources combined. The member who
desires to secure the passage Of GER
tain measures is inclined to support
bills that do not harmonic with his
conscience nor with the wishes OF
his constituents. We have heard
men ridicule a member OF the iegls-
lature because hes did not secure the
passage of a bill bearing his name,
but in our opinion it would be a
splendid thing for the state II more
men would go to the legislature un-
der the pledge not to introduce a
single bill. They would then be
free to fight a lot of bills, especially
AUTHORIZATION bills, that should not
be passed. 1t would tend to MAKE
voting more independent, and there
is no greater need in the Iowa legls-
!lature. Another thing that hamper
ed the work of the senate was the
ambition of at least six members OF
that body to be elected to state
office. We saw repeated ducking to
avoid roll call and other attempts to
smear over their legislative recoras
that would be laughable if it wasn't
really a serious business. When a
man begins to aspire to I'LL a state
office his usefulness to the state as
a legislator is badly damaged. There
are a few exceptions, but TINS rule
holds good nine times out OF ten
Senator Ed Smith, Winterset.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
Maple Grove.

Church and Sunday school wee
Just fine at the Maple Grove church
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tim Beck last Thurs
day night.
tied home folks THURSDAY: $50
George Fesier called on Mr.. and
Mrs. j. G.. Fesler Wednesday night.
The fields are drying now and
the farmers a pillow and get ready
for farming.
Miss Pearl and Dwight Fesler
called on Mrs. Parson Wednesday.
Charley Fesler was a caller at
Grand River Wednesday.
Miss Mary Parson visited her
sister Mrs. Parson from Monday un-
til Thursday morning.
Mrs. Tom Parson, son Rex, daugh-
ter Lorraine, and Anna Fesler re-
turned home Monday from Cambria.
They had been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Miller.
Charley Edwards was a caller at
Grand River one day last week.
Miss Tressa Edwards has been
visiting at Grand River a few days
the past week.
Mr., and Mrs. J. G. Fesler were
Grand River callers Saturday after
Frank Green was a caller at the
Fesler home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Miller and
daughter Frances, OF Cambria,
came Sunday to visit her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.. Fesler-
Mrs. Tom Parson and family were
callers at the Fesler home Sunday.
Miss Anna Fesler has been stay
ing with her sister a few days.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
LAST RECRUITS OF SLAVERY
Remnants Of Cargo Brought to Amer.
lea In 1889 Make Up Interesting
Colony Near Mobile.

PERHAPS the most interesting colony
of negroes in America today is to be
found in Alabama, about three miles
from the heart Of Mobile. Here in q
little town called Plateau lives a group
of nine weather-beaten, grizzled old
men and women, the remnant Of the
last cargo of slaves brought to Ameri-
can soil from the coast of Africa, says
the Southern Workman. The youngest
is entering on his sixty-sixth year; the
oldest is not less than n hundred and
ten; while just a few years ago m of
their number died who had seen more
than one hundred and forty years.
They were brought to America in the
summer of 1859. In 1865 their emanci-
patton came. For the next few years
they were buffeted about by changing
fortunes without any settled home.
One among them, wiser than the
rest, saw the dangers of their unset
tied condition. Not owning their homes
they could be turned out at any time,
and, hiring themselves to strange mas
tiers in search Of laborers, they might
some day be carried off again into
slavery, perhaps to, Cuba or Porto Rico,
for they learned that slavery still ex-
listed there. With such incentive be-
hind them they selected attract Of
land just outside Mobile, on Three
Mile creek, and began the purchase of
homes.
AS one goes over and about Pla-
teau, he is struck with the. appropri-
ateness of the setting in which this
African colony is to be found. About
one-half the town is owned by negroes,
and of the property occupied by them
at least rs per cent is owned by their
own people. The largest single hold
ing Of land among them is between 80
and 60 acres. Another negro land
lord owns and rents about 20 houses.
There are nine stores, of which seven
are owned and operated by colored
men. The largest of them all is one
Of these seven and represents a vol
ume of business amounting to more
than $1,000 annually.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
SOFT COLLAR NOW IN STYLE
Starch Is a Food and Its Use in Cloth.
ing Has Been Put Under Ban
in Great Britain.

Starch has gone out Of fashion in
England except in the backbones Of
the people. A man who enters a draw
ing room in q h%ard-boiled shirt and
high collar is apt to find himself out
of tune with the surroundings, which
are more than likely to be khaki or
norfolk jackets and soft collars.
Starch is a food. and the question
Of what an Engllishman eats comes be-
fore what he wears. The food con-
troller is inexorable. 1T is thought"
he says in answer to the Launderers'
association, that potential food should
be employed nowadays for internal
rather than external use."
Housewives are urged to do without
starch in table linen, blouses and
other things. Starch in clothing, in
the eyes of the government, is an
.anachronism. Consequently licenses
for the manufacture Of the product
have been cut down until there are
only a few such factories, each with a
limited output.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
MODEL DOG LAW COMPILED
BY u. S.,
Agricultural Department Gathers
Best from all the States. Would
TAG Every Dog.

The United States Department OF
Agriculture has collected all OF tne
clauses in all the state laws that
have proved their merit under the
test of time and has formulated
| them into a model do. law, which II
recommends to the consideration OF
all true friends of the dog-frienuS
who believe in perpetuating the good
that is in dogs and in eradi9ating the
This model law embodies the idea
that the tax assessor should list the
| dogs; that unspayed females should
! be subject to a high tax; that all
| dogs should be required to wear col.
lars and tags bearing the names OF
under leash or reasonable control OF
from sunset to sunrise; that sheep
| killing dogs may be killed by any
one, without liability to owner; n a
any dog running at large upon the
enclosed lands, of a person other
than the owner of the Q may De
the owner Of the land, his agent,
tenant, or employee; that dog own
ers Shall be liable to the county for
all money paid out for damages
done by their dogs; that sheep own
ers may set out poison on their
farms after public notice or sucn IN
tention.
Such a law aims as much at the
protection Of the dog that is entitled
to a good name, and has an owner
who knows and lives up to his re-
sponsibilities, as it is for the pro,
lection of the community itself. 1t
espouses the cause of the good dog
against the homeless, ill-kept
wretches that ire as much misery
to themselves as they are evil to the
The law has regard for every
right of every owner of a dog who
respects his neighbors' rights and
seeks only to curb the carelessness
of that owner who has a dog
hat is allowed out of bounds. And,
in passing. it must not be forgotten
THAN, the only thing worse than a
mongrel out of bounds is a pedi-
greed animal running amuck; fo1
blooded dogs are more intense in
their. makeup than the mongrel, and
therefore more destructive when
they Ego off the reservation
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
Boys All to I've Home by August.

Washington, May Secretary
Baker announced today that by
August the last mar Of the Ameri-
can expeditionary forces will have
been withdrawn from France. He
said that this was estimated on the
basis of the movement of 100000
men a month to the United States.
Already, Mr.. Baker said, the
Amerisan forces in France have
been divorced from the army Of oc-
cupation. Plans have been complet-
ed to supply the force in Germany
through the ports Of Antwerp and
Rotterdam, removing the necessity
of maintaining the 700-mile line of
communication from Brest. The
French ports will be maintained,
however, for the withdrawal of the
American expenditionary forces.
More than half of the expedition
airy force has now left France, Mr..
Baker said, and as the withdrawal
progresses the facilities which were
used for those forces are being
turned back to their private owners
or the municipalities to which they
ha1onp
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
Roll a VELVET Cigarette
Hazel College.

Mrs. Wesley Steen vas calling on
Mrs. N. G. Spencer Monday after
noon.
Mrs. Elmer Lee and children, of
Huemston, were visiting Mrs. Lees
sister Mrs. Cain Hall and family
last week.
Joe Warrick was visiting his sister
Mrs. Cain Hall Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. -!Claud Wilkie and
children were visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Dave Fry Sunday.
Irene Gill was visiting Velma
Spencer Saturday night and Sunday.
A number from this neighbOrhood
attended the pie supper at Spring
Valley Thursday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horny Redman and
children and.Mr and Mrs. Will He'd
rick were visiting Mr.. and Mrs. N.
G.. Spencer and family Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Ramsey and
boys we're calling on Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Caster and family Saturday ev-
\ Cliff Smith, of Oklahoma, is visit
ing his friends and relatives at
Carroll Spencer, Cliff Smith and
Charley Fry were calling on Willie
Steen Monday evening.
Mrs. Wesley Steen was calling on
Mrs. Aaron Fry Monday afternoon.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
Pleasanton.

Mr.. and Mrs. o. c.. Clampitt spent
Sunday at the ]. H. Parsons home
S. c.. Davis and daughter Geral.
dine returned home "wednesday
from Waterloo.
w. F. Horn was a business visitor
in Des Moines a few days list week
Misses Edna Huston, Gladys
Young and Helen Putnam spent
Sunday with Delana and Geraldine
Davis.
F.. A. Townsend, of Leon, was a
caller here Friday.
Rev. Mann, Of sWinterset, filled his
regular appointment both Sunday
morning and evening at the C. U,
church. He was the guest OF Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Overton.
Mrs. w. r. Clampitt left Saturday
for st. Joseph, Mo-, where she went
tc visit relatives q few days.
Mrs. T. e. Mcmillan returned
home Wednesday from q weeks Wis.
it with relatives in Omaha.
f. r. Killilay had business In
Nj. and Mi. Bert Chew and chill.
dren spent Sunday with relative.
$3.50
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
Rauch No. z.

Jennie CLANCY came home Monda!
after a visit at Van Vert: :,
Uncle Tom Williams and wife took
dinner at Chaney's Friday.
Mr.. Williams, of Gravity, \ ano
Fred Woodland, Of Decatur, were
callers at Chaney's Friday. -,
Mrs. john Blodget and Mrs. Ali
Miller were Decatur visitors Satur'
day; H., ro.ds oro f;ne and tho neon,e
took advantage of them and went
to town Saturday.
Rosa and Eliza Reed spent Sun
day with home folks.
Roushes, >,Thompsons, Stella and
Marie Norman, Mrs, Edith Carroll
Robert Reeds and Dell Euritts were
Decatur visitors Saturday.
Arthur Orfield and family spent
Sunday at Harrison Orfield's:
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Orfield. were
seen in this vicinity, Sunday.
CLANCY Sunday.
Lindsey Roush, Mr.. and Mrs:
Roush and Rosa Reed attended
church at Palestine.
Joe Deemer and family visited at
Robert Reeds Sunday evening.
Ray, Fred and Arthur Young were
in this vicinity Sunday looking after
their cattle.
Lelah Dobson visited over Sunday
at Charley Orfield's.
Mabel Orfield came Saturday
evening for an over Sunday visit
with Ruth DObsOn..
Jessie Reed went to Joe Deemer's
Saturday evening, returning . home
Sunday evening.
Dannie Williams and family spent
Sunday at Ike Robbins.
Vera and Ernest Sellers visited at
Grandpa Sellers Sunday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
Methodist Church.

Hours of services-On Sunday at
9:45, Sunday school, and at IL
morning worship. Epworth League
at 7 and evening service at 8: On
Wednesday evening, tprayer meetlns
at 1880 and choir practice at s.
All departments Of the SUNDAY
school we're very we'll attended last
Sunday, as the other services OF the
church. Quite a number Of dozens
of eggs we're brought in for the nos,
Ditai. The commentator OF the
bows for the evening service was very
we'll deserved.
The new Sunday school class Will
hold another social in the church on
Thursday evening of. this week. All
the members and those Interested IN
the class are especially invited. oome
business to transact and a good time
is assured.
Mrs. Hansell leads prayer meeting
this week.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
Must Have Dealers License.

After May 23rd it Unnecessary that
all dealers engaged in the business
of buying, selling, dealing in or
trading in eggs, except those retail
ers who buy direct for dealers haE-
ing an Iowa license and who do not
sell in lots greater than one case, 90
tain an egg dealers license.
u The license fee is $1.00 for the
period ending March LIST, each year.
A separate license must be OBJ
tanned for each place of business
where eggs are bought. {.
Buying, selling, dealing in or trad
ing in eggs in. violation of the egg
law, by any person, firm or corpora
ton is an offense and renders the
offender subject to. a fine Of not less
than SO nor more than $50.
Farmers and other producers Of
eggs are not required to secure q IL
.censo for the purpoee OF selling Of
ttA1ln9. 80 peedeeee ~ TIN,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
; Skidding.

k;adi is a blood-curdling per
rnnanra On the part of a tive-pas-
sanger touring car while IN an III,
toXicated condition. A new, snlhy
automobile in the hands OF a 9lac n
slidden Kelley graduate Is naa or colt
keen in the road than a tWo-yeai ou5
nursing. an attack OF ga Snr tSan a
f fst nartv shooting the chutes IN, a
one-piece bathing suit. 4o+,, lock
Skidding is caused by a total lach
of front teeth in the rear tires. Al
Nc fires come equipped with sharp
prying teeth which sink into every
rut, rock and thank-you-ma'am IN
the road, preventing side sway and
producing a great variety OF dull
red Commissions on the occupants.
After having been run for a few
thousand miles, however these teeth
disappear entirely, leaving a smooth,
rounded surface which will not eaten
nails. This enables the car to skid
with passionate energy toward a
twelve-foot embankment, without
any more sense of direction than a
stout girl on a new pair of roller
skates.
For the benefit of new automobile
owners, who have lever .encOuDtered
a genuine, hand-buffed skid we
would say that it can be recognized
without difficulty by a depressed
sensation in the stomach, similar to
the sensation enjoyed by an ocean
tourist on the second day out. In
order to skim the cream Of this ser
sation, the automobile should be
driven around a sharp corner at
forty miles an hour Immediately af-
ter a sleet storm. An expert driver
ian skid for a block and a half in
this fashion by usinp only two legs
of the automobile, with the iOther
two pointing aimlessly toward the
North star and not connecting with
anything except the atmosphere
Skidding has come to be consid-
cred a dangerous pastime, having
talities and sending hundreds of in
trepid skidders home for the pur-
pose of having a few bones restored
to their original location. The best
method of preventing skidding is to
allow the machine to crawl along on
it's hands and knees, but most peo-
pie prefer to wrap ropes, discarded
underwear and steel chains around
the hind tires. Chains are the best
preventative, and when attached so
that they can slap the fender in the
face at every revolution it adds a
spicy musical accompaniment to the
conversation.
If you are skidding on your New
Years resolution, slowsup at the
corners and examine your brake lin
ings.-HOward Ram.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
SUNDAY with her father, j. M. VIII

Sunday With her father, j. M. VIII
e. J. Teale and family moH H9;,d nat =
urday from the old ho.el Duiiu'ns
to a farm near Saline. home
sunday from St. Louis where he had
gone to attend an auto truck DEM
OnstratiOn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pierce Miller spent
Sunday at the J.. Swift home:
Miss Wilma Landphair visited ov,,
ser Sunday with her little friend
Ferna ,Drury east of town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry. Slower spent
Sunday with her mother Mrs. 5.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. H.. Bowsher, of
Leon, called Sunday. at the Charles
ICornett home.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
PRESBYTERIAN Church.

The sermon subject next Sunday
morning will be 1.-The Sea of Life.
You viii enjoy hearing This sermon.
IN The evening an evangelistic SER
mon and a service of song: o
Should not miss either. service.
Last Sunday the primary, class,
taught by Miss Florence Gates, was
the banner class, with a remarkaDle
fine showing. The other classes VIII
have to hustle to beat the~tlny tots,
but they are all working.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
brethren Church.

Sunday services will be as USUAL =.
Sunday school at 9:45. G. E. at
1880, followed by preaching se1vi ice
at $40 There was a !splendld al
tendance at all the services SUNDAY
We invite any who are not attend-
ing elsewhere to worship WIN u US;
ages in the Sunday school.
PRAYER meeting and Bible study at
9 o'cI0ck on Thursday evening.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
FairVieW.

Buthford Hollinger and family,
Riley Hatfield and wife spent Sunday
at the Harry Hollinger home.
Don Moore and family spent Sun
day at the P. A. Bright home.
John Haddle and wife called at
the Ernest Keaton home Sunday.
Sam S%tuteville and family spent
Sunday at Willis Dillon's.
Quite a number attended Sunday
school at Morgan Sunday.
Russell Warnock and wife spent
Sunday at ALI Warnock's.
Henry Petty and wife spent Sun
day at his parents Dide Petty.
Lee Spencer and family spent Sun
day at the Orville Moore home.
We hear people say that there are
those who have Eied SO hard to en-
ploy them, but nobody ever tried
hard to employ US.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
Tuskeego Baptist Church.

Gospel meetings at Tuskeego
Baptist church Saturday evening,
May 18th. May 1Sth-sunday school
at 10 a. M; preaching at IL a; m;
and 1880 in the evening. Coca
music. New song books. Come 10
the meetings. WE
Evangelist Armstrong and Wife.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
Christian Church.

Services next Sunday as usual
preaching at II, and 1880.
We wish 10 make a correction IN
the dates of the district G. b. con-
vention at Pleasanton. The correct
dates are Friday, Saturday and sum
day Nav %, "a, 25.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15
THE CHURCHES.
Union Chapel.

Preaching service at u o'clock
next Sunday morning by the pastor,
G T. Ronk. Sunday school at IL
O'Clock. A cordial welcome is ex-
tended to all in the n~eighborhood 10
offan1 -.T r~- |.3 ... "
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15

Teach your child to hold his ton
que; he'll learn fast enough to
sneak.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15

There have been as great SOILS
unknown to fame as any of the most
famous.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15

If some people were to think twice
before speaking they would never Say
anything.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15

Twenty-six states have woman
suffrage in presidential election;
which means 100000 female
votes at the next election.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-15

a lot Of things come from ! bad
Z l1lless
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-16
METHODISTS START
REVIVAL SUNDAY
MUCH WORK DONE TO ASSURE A
SUCCESSFUL MEETING FOR
ALL

The pastor and official board of the
Methodist church have been diligent
IN an effort to advertise the revival
meetings that begin Sunday. Letters
have been mailed to the membership
and these members have been in
turn urged to invite all people to at
tend.
The pastors o fother churches will
announce the meeting from their pull
pits Sunday morning and everybody
is urged to attend. DR.. Frazer will
reach Cordele early Mondoy morning
and will preach twice each day.
Members of other chruches who are
willing to help with the song cervi-
ces are invited to come and take part.
The Methodists express the hope
that this revival will help all the
churches in the city.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-16
DEWEY COLLIER
IS BACK HOME NOW
CRISP COUNTY BOY SEVEN TIMES
WOUNDED LIVES TO TELL
OF 1T

Dewey Collier Crisp county boy
who was seven times wounded in
battle in France is home again, with
a smile and the assurance that he
had nothing to regret but that he got
wounded before the job was finished.
He has been in the hospital several
months. He was literally shot to
pieces with high explosive shells, the
sharpnel being rained upon him.
From the time that information
&irst came of his desperate wounds,
his father, Mr.. w. f. Collier, a promi
nent Crisp county farmer, and the
family have been deeply concerned
about his recovery, but he is back
home and there is a rejoicing sell
dom possible in solder boys home
like this.
Dewey Collier was in the thick of
the fight, every inch of the ground
he travelled over being Dloughed to
p great depth with heavy shells from
Vnemy guns.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-16
SALOON FIGHT AT
PEACE CONFERENCE
LEAGUE SENDS DELEGATION TO
ASK PROTECTION HERE

Washington, Feb Irrational
headquarters of the Anti-SaIoon
League here today announced that
the League had sent delegation to
the Peace Conference at Paris to
ask that the United States be pro-
tected in its prohibition by such trade
agreements as would not embarrass
it when it puts prohibition into effect"
The League officials also announced
that the work Of the League will lbe
extended to all the larger countries
of the world. A huge convention will
be held in Washington May % which
will be attened by delegates of every
civilized nation. These later will be
taken on tours to the large cities of
the United States.