The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-05-27
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Items Taken from the Files of The
Reporter Published a Quarter
Of a Century Ago.

Flour has advanced forty cents in
the last two weeks.
Mrs. Eliza Snavely died at her
home north Of Decatur last Friday,
At the annual meeing of the Iowa
Funeral Directors held at Burling-
ton last week, James Grandstaff, OF
Leon, was selected as one of the five
delegates to attend the national con-
yention to be held at Atlanta,
Georgia.
Iowa City, won the 100 and 200 yard
foot race at the Inter-Collegiate
Athletic games at Berkley Oval, New
York, last Saturday. defeating
the crack runners of Princeton, Yale
and Harvard.
~ Ms Henry Often mtn received tds :,
msxSagf neWs ha her mSother wh urs e Anna an
Reuter-, died Tuesday at Napoleon,
Ohio, where she was visiting mar
ried daughter. The funeral will be
held at Napoleon today.
This is the regular year for the
seventeen year, locusts, and we are
informed they have appeared in this
day the ground in the vicinity of L.
P: Sigler's residence in Leon was
literally alive with them. They have
the letter ''w' on their wings.
DR.. Layton is the proud owner of
a new Victor bicycle which she re-
ceived yesterday.
Mrs. D: f: Avery yesterday.
DR.. Layton claims to have estab-
lished record by riding on his
wheel from Blockley to Leon Tues
day in 20 minutes. OF course the
wind assisted him but he came in a
flying.
The following prices were realiz-
sale at Cleveland, Ohio. Blue Sign g
Hazel $5O5 and Gray Sign $135.
Durand was sick and was not sold.
All of the horses at the sale sold
very low Blue Sign was purchased
by e. De Gernea, of New York, and
Anheusel by Thomas Gallagher, OF
Mrs. Minnie Brady departed for
her home in Salt Lake City, Utah,
yesterday morning, after visiting
for six weeks with her many friends
in this city. She was accompanied
home by her mother, Mrs. Charles
Carroll, who will spend year or
more in Utah.
Allen departed yesterday for their
old home at Farmville, Virginia,
where they will visit for some time
with relatives.
Oregon, arrived in Leon Thursday
for a visit with her mother, Mrs.
Dilsayer, and other relatives.
Thomas Nlalr, Of Woedla14o, Is
suffering from badly bruised and
sprained leg and ankle the result
of an accident one day last week. He
had started down in a we'll which he
was boring, expecting to go down 30
feet in the S3 foot we'll, to fasten a
rope around some rods which were
in the well, and had onlv gone about
IS feet when he realized there. were
damps in the we'll, and had just
time to speak to the men above when
he became unconscious, and the men
could tell he had loosened his hold
on the rope. and they saw the only
way to get him out was TO draw him
out by the one foot which was, in
It was at first thought he was dead,
hut the parties worked with him,
and were soon overjoyed to hee him
breathing. and he will recover from
the experience in time.
The commencement exercises OF
the Leon High School We're held last
Thursday and Friday, there being
21 members in the class. VIII j..
Springer, Halle Moore, Hattie Has
kett, Grace Albaugh, Henry S.
Arnold, Stella Allen. Mary. Springer,
John Ogden, Minnie Smith, James
Conwell, Edith Johnson, Maude
Schenck, Orville Hamilton, Pearl
Osborn, Mamie Paris, Edward o.
Moore. Ethel Bowman, Ernest Horner
| and Frank Jackson.