The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-07-24
Davis City.


Des Moines this week.
j. N. Gates is rusticating at the
Bethany mineral springs for the past
week.
Rev. Shugg has gone to Des
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Snethen, Of
near Akron, were trading in our vii
lage last aSturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fairbanks and twin
babies, of Independence, Mo-, are
visiting and oid time
home. She will be remembered as
Miss Vera Hartshorn by many OF
Mrs. ". H. Weller, of Katy, Tex
as, spent a few days last week with
her neice Mrs. 0. L. Frazier, and
then left uf for pes IS M hes Mones was
caller in Davis City last week.
Mrs. Mabel Welcher, spent the
past Sunday in Pleasant Valley, the
guest of Mrs. Doss HILL.
G. w. Henderson and wife, Mr.:
and Mrs. Fairbanks were kamonl
callers last Sunday evening" Rennaft snent
last Sunday with Ridgeway friends:
Mrs. Mary Still, who lives north of
town, has been at the home OF her
parents Mr. and Mrs. J. NJ, Parker
for the past two weeks, bringing
her little five year old daughter to
treatment as she was in a very pre-
carious condition and her life was
dispared of. However she is re-
ported some better at present writ
ing
Mrs. Dave Downey spent Sunday
in Pleasant Valley at the home OF
her daughter Mrs, Edith Hill;
home of her sister Mrs. J. w. WALES
of Davis City the past week.
George Henderson and wife,. Mr..
and Mrs. Fairbanks made trip. to
Des Moines the past week, returning
home Saturday.
Jim and Oscar Bennett arrived
home from overseas last week and
Edgar Freeman last Sunday. With
the exception of about three our Da-
Wis City soldier boys have all re-
turned and those three are Grover
and Tom Davis and Will Marble;
they are alive and we'll and are ex3 tx,
our town as a community should be
for out of somewhere between 25 or
more our soldiers have all been
spared to return home and also are
we'll and no cripples among them:
Can another Iowa town say as much?
Let all give thanks to our Heavenly
Father for the great blessing be-
slowed upon us for the same.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cy Patterson, of
Oklahoma, were guests of Mrs. Nan
Flora of Davis City, last THURSDAY.
. After a few days visit at home
Paul Radnich again returned to st.
Joseph, Mo-, last Thursday.
friends in Billings, Mont, last Mon
Mrs. Lloyd Severe left last Tues
day for trip to Spirit Lake, Dixon,
ILL.,, and Chicago last Monday.
S. D. Leachman, wife and two
sons were guests at the f. M. Free
man home last Sunday.
were calling on Ridgeway relatives
last Sunday.
James Parker has been improving
his home residence and out buildings
with new coat of paint
Mrs Ida Adkins has been repair
ing her home with new porches,
paint, new windows and additions
and convenience of her home resi-
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Buell., Mr.. and
Mrs. E. Buell. of Mt Ayr, were
guests at the Lon Buell. home last
Saturday.
Vi. w. henderson udu' DuSlleSS DIT
Lamont last Monday.
Mrs. Maggie Lutz, of Billings,
Mont, and Mrs. Mary Grandstatf, OF
Leon, were visiting relatives and old
time friends in Davis City last week.
Well after about nine weeks sill
ence we once more hear the chime
of the church bells the last two Sun
days, as our smallpox epidemic
seems to have at last been extin-
guished and all are truly glad, al
though there was so far as known,
only one fatal case, that of Isaac
Toney, but many were very SICK
while others scarcely went to bed
on account of it, some 20 or 80
families were enclosed in the list
and were under quarantine but now
all are released and all are accord
ingly happy.
Mrs. j. E. Ownby. of Decatur, Wis
Laney of Davis City.
mail men, last week sold his fine
farm lying two miles west of Davis
City. We did not obtain the price
per acre but hear it was top notch.
Please let us correct an errone-
Gus statement that is in circulation
here among the many friends OF
Mrs. Hiram Ewing, of Chanute,
Kansas, to the effect that. she was
dead, as We correspondent had let
ter from her a short time ago. The
family were all in their usual health
with the exception of uncle Hy who
has about lost his eyesight from cat
eracts. How the report got started
M one seems to know and all will