The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-06-24
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
Items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published ] Quarter
Of a Century Aoo.

The following marriage 1;oensos
We're issued the past week. ncehses
Richard S. Salyards 38 tn Cbr;s-
tina Stedman "a, ~ Vii i'-
Gould 18. ~ ence
lightning played some curious
pnrt, pranhs at Falrvlew church, six miles
inn Hurta OF town, Sunday evening. Dur
ing the storm about half past nine
a young man named Alvin Arnav
stepped outside the church. He had
on ruDDer coat and Just raised his
umbrella when binding flash of
l,ghtnlng came. He did not feel the
sae6ck, but found that all the ribs
etrmnI 81 ms umDrelia 1h were melted. The bolt
north of the church and ran aions
the wire until it jumped to the UNI um !.
breila. It is supposed that the gum
coat saved the man. At the same
tlme inside the church Mrs. Grant
'ohn was knocked down, but was not
injured Mrs John was in the buggy
,";1ia1, Mnea f;s her father. Mr.. CARRIER, was
that time being easily affected bv
lightning. o'
:, Mr.. Clinton Strong and Miss
Florence Gould were married bv
Squire John 5. Parrish at his off;ce
IN this city Tuesday afternoon II
was Squire Parrishs first ma trimon-
lal experience, but he performed the
ceremony with great dignity.
Mrs. Enos Davis, of Garden Grove,
fa,ne fs;anda d3Wn env : Monday Non to visit Leon
visit the normal. Mrs. Davis is the
pioneer teacher of Decatur county.
having taught the first school in the
winter of 184S, when there were oniv
three families settled in the county,
and u was also the first school for
a Instance of several counties, east,
,ieSts MeSt and nf north. north They borrowed four
who was taking them to Salt Lake
Glty, made a puncheon floor, stuck
legs into split logs for seats, made a
stick and mud chimney, and thus
made made schoo! house in their prim-
tive western home. In 1853 the
flrst school district was formed at
time being taug ght in private house.
and some of the scholars came a
distance of four miles to attend. Mrs.
Davis drew the first money, S94
from the. school fund of Decatur
county, for teaching the Garden
Grove school, What a wonderful
change III the educational facilities
since that time. Although now over
seventy years old, Mrs. Davis is hale
and hearty and takes an active in
terest in teachers and their work.
. DR.: A. Brown received notice
last Thursday that Rudolph Hill
flicker, had died at the, New York is..-
sane asylum on Wards Island, on
Sunday evening, June 18th. Our
readers will remember that Mr.. Hill
flicker left his home on Grand River
in this county about two years ago
to return to his old home in Switzer-
land to be married. but became in
sane at New York and was placed in
the insane asylum.
Billy Coffin, of Wymore, Neb., is
in the city, visiting his parents. He
will return home today accompanied
by his mother, who has not been
out Of this county for nearly thirty
years.
p: W. Curry and Dr.. A. Brown are
at Red Oak this week attending the
big race meeting at that place.
S. J. Fluke, the horseshoer at Bob
bitt & Fluke's shop had little ex-
perience the other day with a horse
belonging to Tart Fulton which
did not want to be shod, and kicked
over about all the men in the shop.
It then ran at full speed four miles
in the country where it was caught.
1t made Fluke. rather mad and he
followed the horse to the country,
brought him back. and then after
tying i he shod it while four men
held tho ropes. He says it could do
more kicking than any horse that
was ever in the shop.
The Hardness reunion will be held
at Garden Grove August 14th.