The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-06-03
TWfNTYfIyflYfARS AGO
Items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published a Quarter
Of a Century Ago.

The following marriage licenses
were issued the past week
r., J1hn }1dn1oI IB.931Wilson:24 to Mary E.
Sanford F. Reed "a, to sallie
Roland Elmer Marvin q to
Amanda NJ. Simpson II. I
The infant son of'Mr. and Mrs. U.
G. Benefiel was seriously injured one
day last week by a playmate punch
ing a lead pencil in its eye, and it is
feared it may lose the sight.
Mr.. Lee Marvin ana Miss Amanda
Simpson were married yesterday ev-
Rock, west of Leon.
Dan Bright, the veteran steam
thresherman yesterday received a
new Richmond separator, the very
latest improved. He will give a free
exhibition of it and the new wind
stacker on the streets of Leon next
Saturday especially for the farmers.
letter from Polk Wells, the noted
desperado under life sentence in
the >Ft. Madison penitentiary. Ac-
companying the letter were three
photographs, Polk Wells the des-
perado, Polk Wells the convict and
Charles Polk Wells, the reformed
prisoner at work in his cell, writing
nAo oHh h'olo!y y. Tr'1A We!lS IS per-
haps the most noted convict in the
United States, and is now under life
sentence for killing a guard with
chloroform few years ago, while
making his escape from prison. He
has become converted, and is now a
model prisoner. Atpetition will be
presented to the next legislature ask
ing pardon for him. Many news
papers and prominent men are TAX
n II &c
pardon.
The balloon made a splendid as
cension last Saturday about four
O'Clock. The balloonist moved the
place down in Daugherty's barn lot,
where the buildings protected the
balloon from the wind, so it could be
inflated. Quite a hard wind was
ed that, they could go UP at all. What
might have been serious accident
occurred just as the balloon started
up. A young fellow named Lyss
Downey. from near Van Vert, had
been drinking red pop or something
else, and Prof. Lane had told him to
keep away from the balloon. But he
way. and just as the balloon started
up he stepped across the parachute
ropes. His foot caught is them and
he went up with the big bag about
twenty feet. and then fell to the
ground. 1t knocked the wind out of
him and brought him to his senses
Of Of his Injuries 'B But "Ss we '4S think ek'eh he
will steer clear of balloons in the
future. Had he gone up few feet
higher and fell, it would have killed
him.
Mr.. Sanford F. Reed, of King City,
Mo-, and Miss Sallie Rauch. of De-
catur, were married at the home of
7. H. Schenck on Sunday evening by
Mrs T E: NJ NJ: SANFORD, of Des Moines,
is expected in Leon today for short
visit. From here she will go to
EmpOria, Kansas, for a short visit,
and then to California where she
will spend a year or more in hope of
the climate benefitting the health of
her daughter Stella.
Tuesday to be present at the COM
mencement of Parsons College, his
daughter, Miss Clella, being one of
the graduates.
Ed K. Pitman Jr. returned from
Knoxville Sunday where he had been
working in a printing office for
several weeks.
Ignace Hainer, of Davis City,
visited over Sunday in Leon with his
friend Francis Varga.
Ira B. Ryan and John Coover left
Tuesday for visit of several weeks
with relatives at Anamosa..
At the regular meeting OF the
school board Monday evening the
following were elected as teachers
in the Leon schools for next year:
Principal---Prof. S. L. Darrah.
Assistant Principal-MIss Hattie
Drake.
1st Primaries H. A. Lind
|sey and Mrs. B. o. Springer.
End Grade-Mrs. Jennie Haskett.
3rd Grade-Mrs. Henrietta Vogt.
4th Grade-Miss Mate Parrish.
5th Grade-Miss Eva Kirkpatrick.
9Th Grade--Miss Emma Cash.
7th Grade-Mrs. Esther Stewart.
Miss Mayme Peniwell was elected
music instructor at salary of $40
per month.