The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-05-27
100000 FOR HOSPITAL
Mrs. R. D. Gardner Leaves 100000
Toward the Erection of Hos
pital to Cost 100000.

By the death Of Decatur coqnty's
b,ghest beth GaNdner WIr last 's' week, e Decatur
county is to receive a bequest of
100000 toward the erection and
maintenance of a Decatur County
hospital, at Leon, on condition that a
tax be levied SO as to raise a total
sum of 100000 for erecting, equip
ping and maintaining county hospii-
urgent need. Mrs. Gardner also be.
queathed an additional sum OF
$4,000 to equip and maintain free
ward in the hospital to be known as
the "Gardner ward where persons
who are unable to pay for medical
or surgical attendance, Will be cared
for free. The will provides that IN
and levied that the 100000 shall be-
come trust fund and be held by her
trustee Fred E. Teale, until such
time as it accumulates to the total
sum of 100000.
This is most charitable and
worthy bequest, and here is an OPP
portunity for the people OF Decatur
pital, not for Leon, but for all the
people of Decatur county, and-there
should be no time lost in submitting
the question of voting tax for
hospital. 1t would not amount to
very much to any one person, pelng
divided up among all the, taxpayers
in the county, and the railroads ana
one-fifth of the total amount, and
this would leave only few thousand
dollars to be voted and paid for by
the taxpayers in each OF the sixteen
other townships.
Mrs. Gardner also made several
other charitable, bequest. one, OF
$4,000 to the Home Of the Aged at
Sightless Women at Des Moines,
$4,000 for chapel in the Leon
Mrs. Gardner's estate will run
close to a quarter of million dol,
lars, as she owns between 1900 and
400 acres Of Decatur county. land,
which has doubled O., in ,yanat,a value IN {he {he
balance of her large estate in equal
portions to relatives, with few be-
quests to personal friends.
AS the public is vitality lnterested
in this big estate, we PRINT the Will
containing all the bequests and dis
posal of her property in full, as fol-
1st, 1t is my will and desire and
7 hereby direct that all Of my just
debts shall be first paid out OF my
estate as soon as may be after my
decease.
I'd. it is my will and desire and
therefor direct that my, executor,
hereinafter named, shall have erect
ed at my grave on the X. u. Gardner
stone the same in quality and size,
with appropriate inscription there
on. as the one now standing. at the
grave of my deceased husband, R. D.
Gardner.
3rd. 1t is my will and desire and
therefor direct that as soon as may
be after my decease, without mater lI+
nv executor hereinafter named shall
sell and dispose of all the. real estate
of which l may die seized, wherever
the same may be situated, together
with all personal property, OF every
kind and character, except such as
may be otherwise hereinafter dlspos-
ed of, and convert the same INTO
money or available secHpltle;;, ,idad anu
distributed dis and held in the manner
hereinafter provided.
tn nv beloved sister, Miriam Sin
clair, the sum of $3.50.
5th. / give, devise and bequeath
to my neices and nepheWs, whose
names are as lOllOWS, lo-"AC' .~AAt
Sinclair, Wickliff Sinolairr, F.; AVN M
Millard Gardner, Scott Gardner,
Ross Gardner, Myra Barrett. Ella
Gbormlev. tsb Charles Combs, Robert
Combs. Lewis Combs, Rinaldc Sim
clair, Jesse Sinclair, Anna Jenks,
Francis jerks. Robert Shearer, Har-
ry Shearer, Flora utz, Ella Axe, tS's
George Gardner and Ar curry. the
lGn porb and in case OIL
fhe death of any of them prior. to my
death. then his or her share shall 60
to his or her children then living. 10
be equally divided among them
share and share alike.
9Th. ] hereby give. devise ana pc
qneath to the children .od Q. NV 1melv nepTlv
ew. Frank Gardner deceased, nancy nancy
Gardner. The, sum of $1,000 to be
divided equally between them; TO
the children of my nephew, Emmett
Gardner. now deceased, namely;
Bert Gardner, Roy Gardner Ethel
Gardner Lee, and Blanche Gardner,
the sum OF $1,000. to be divided
equally among them, snare anu o,
nenheW. Will Gardner, now deceas-
ed. namely. Earl Gardner, Lester
Gardner, Ruby Gardner HUTCHINSON,
I,ynn Gardner and Arthur Gardner,
the sum of $1,000, to be equally dl-
yided among them, share and share
alike: to Francis jerks, the son OF
INV nephew, Francis Ienks ana ms
former wife, Lillian jerks Saddler'
the sum Of $500; to Hugh Ghorm
lev, son of my neice Ella GardneI
Ghormley. the sum of $500; 70
Brown Caster, the son Of my cousin
olive Brown Caster, the sum OF
$500. ,,a
beaueath to John Morris Gardner
and Sarah Alice Gardner, nephew
and neice of my deceased husband; l
r. D, Gardner, the sum of $2oV
each. and in case of the death OF
either of them prior to my death.
said bequest to go to his or her nelrs
Sth hereby give, devise. and be
uueath to Camille Hamilton, daughter
OF John Hamilton, should she sur
yive me. the sum of $500, and IN
case Of her death prior to my own,
the said sum of $500 to go to and be
divided equally between her two
sisters now living.
9Th. 1 give, devise and bequeath
to Mrs. Helen DeKalb yanWerden:
should she. survive me, the sum OF
S50O and in case Of her death prior
fn INV own, then that said sum OF