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:tr ij si •YS l-.j,l--^ i* s? in touch With MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMtftMMMMMMMMiMl Davis City Roller Big Slump Flour Prices High Patent per sack, 48 lbs., none better $1.19 King of Iowa, per sack, 48 lbs., warranted 1.09 Plainsifter, per sack, 48 lbs., warranted .99 Climax, per sack, 48 lbs., low grade .79 Flour delivered at Depot Davis City, la in 5oo pounds lots or more free of charge. Now is the time to lay in your supply of flour for summer at a saving of 25 cents per sack. We went your Flour Trade Davis City Roller Mills, "Oft The Burlington" The new lines of railroad now under construction in Wyom ing offer great opportunities for farmers and others for home building. The conditions and surroundings are very favorable for a new country and the new railroad brings transportation to the very doors of the new settler. How To Get Land You can buy deeded land, homestead Government irrigated homesteads, or file on land under the Carey Act, getting de sirable irrigated land on very easy payments at from $45.00 to 150.00 per acre or you can homestead free lands that cannot be irrigated, in 320-acre tracts. Send For Literature. Send for our free literature with large maps, telling all about these lands. Let me known what par ticular class of lands you are interested in. Write today. 1 4 Davis City,la D. CLEM DEAVER, General Agent LANDSEEKERS' INFORMATION BUREAU 1004 Fa uam Street, Omaha, Neb. OlIR SPRING OPENING 17 and 18 As we have moved to our new location and have our new spring goods all in we have decided to have an opening March 17th and 18th or this coming Friday and Saturday. We have a full line of John Deere goods. Deere No. 9 planters and disc harrows, Studebaker buggies and wagons, Superior drills and seeders, a good line of harness and col lars, Kemp's 20th Century and Success spreaders and many other articles too numerous to mention. We will give away several very useful ar ticles on Saturday at 5 o'clock prompt. One of our prizes for Satur day will be a set of buggy harness to the farmer bringing the largest load of men and women to our store before 2 o'clock. Everybody come and bring your neighbor* tndwe will shotor you that Wright'* is the right place to trade. Tw^ire-rn^ww,' (T gRgp-t Orphan Ridge. C. A. Hatfield and E. Merryman each built a new smoke house the past. week. A. J. Butts was confined to the house the past week with lumbago, it being necessary to call Dr. Mitch ell, of Leon. W. M. Barlean spent Sunday at the home of Will Campbell. Lee Davis, George Barlean and G. W. Gravatte were poisoned last week by eating wild turnips. Pat Leahy is off on a visit to Illinois. A. S. Gardner and wife spent Fri day at the E. Merryman home. L. A. Durell was hauling lumber from Blockley Saturday. We were sorry to hear of the death of Abe Hatfield, as he was a highly respected citizen, and had lived here all his life. Funeral ser vices were held Friday afternoon at the BaptiBt church, interment being in the Bethel cemetery. Harve Piper and family, Fred Jones and family, Wid Jones and Miss Sarah Truitt spent Sunday at the home of A. J. Piper. Jack McNelly and family spent Sunday at the home of C. A. Hat field. Charley Hatfield was elected sub director at Hoop Pole, Charley Mc Kern at Welcome and Mr. Horney at Center. George Barlean is working for A. Brazelton. Get your road drag out and put it in the proper place, on the road, and what a change it will make. Eden. Miss Lelah Marvin spent Saturday night and Sunday at J. A. Marvin's. Miss Ana McDaniel is visiting with friends in Leon. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Townsley called at Wm. Smith's Sunday even ing. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Marvin visited at H. E. Horney's Sunday evening. Charles Finkbone spent Saturday night and Sunday in this vicinity. •Nellie and Christina Fitch spent Sunday at H. E. Horney's. Mrs. Ingram called on Mrs. Or field Monday afternoon. Mrs. A. E. Poole and children vis ited at H. E. Horney's Saturday. Bert Ingram and Harley Fitch re returned home Saturday after visit ing a week in Ringgold county. Grace Campbell and Julia Horney visited High Briar school Friday af ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ingram spent Sunday at John Fitch's. ix-Si i', fti 1 & THE LEON REPORTER, THURSDAY, MARCH 16,1911, Three Dozen Chickens To Be Given Away From each store's opening to the best looking ladies. One chicken to each of the 36 prettiest ladies. Don't fail to attend these openings as we will sure interest you. Will have six traveling men who will show you their goods and they will act as the judges on the chicken distribution at LEON, SATURDAY, MARCH 25. BOWSHER & BOWSHER Yi TT^f wy^. •.•*.. V*. .\ .»• Merryville. The farmers in this vicinity have spent considerable time the past week, dragging the roads and get ting ready for the Waubonsie Trail. Mrs. M. J. Porter returned Sat urday from St. Charles, having been called there by the illness of her brother. Misses Grace and Laui^a Buck ingham spent Thursday evening at John Hanner's. Miss Bess Porter spent Saturday and Sunday with home folks. Misses Blanche and Nan Hanner are visiting with relatives and friends In Van Wert and Grand Riv er this week. Clifford Woodard entered school at the Woodmansee Monday. Mr. and Mrs. I. F. Fitzwater spent Sunday at the Ertz home, north of town. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hanner and daughter, Louva, visited Sunday at George Woodmansee'a. Grace Buckingham spent the first of the week with her aunt Rose Neg ley. Mattie and Leonard Alexander, of near Grand River, visited at the I. F. Fitzwater home Sunday. David Millsap and John Hanner delivered hogs at Decatur Monday. Will Woodard passed through these parts Monday. Cull Euritt and Howard Bennett had important business in Merry ville Friday. A goodly number was in attend ance at the school meeting Monday Geo. Buckingham and R. E. Case were elected directors. Louva Hanner spent Saturday af ternoon with her cousin, -Hazel Col tier. John Woodard and family have moved back to their farm near Grand River bridge. Ralph Tenney commenced work ing at M. J. Porter's Monday. Walter Buckingham spent Wed nesday night with Earl and Clarence Shambo. Quite a number from this vicinity attended the funeral of Grandpa Bruner, at Decatur, Friday. Ralph Shelton, who is teacnlng East Elk, passed through Merryville Friday evening, on the way to his home, at Decatur. Horace Millsap made a flying trip to Decatur Saturday morning. Little River. Some snow in this section Satur day night. Grace and Beulah Drury spent Sunday afternoon with the Stover girls. Jasper Spargur called at the Will Henderson home last Sunday. James Davis, wife and mother had business in Pleasanton last Satur day. Mrs. LaFollette and children re turned this week from a short visit with her parents. Mae Spargur spent Monday night and Tuesday with Beulah Drury. Elba Dale called at Sam Dales last Saturday. Grace and Jewel Drury and Hazel Graham were the gueslt of Edith Spargur and May Henderson Satur day. Johnnie Drury and Ralph Moore were seen going south last Sunday evening. Mrs. George Davis has been on the sick list. Edith Spargur and May Hender son called on Fern and Hazel Gra ham Wednesday afternoon, Miss Grace Drury came home Sat urday from Art Griffin's, where she had assisted her sister through the week with her work. Fern Graham was the guest of Irene Mc Williams Monday after noon. Fern and Esther Graham, Mae and Edith Spargur and Mary Hen derson railed on the Drury children Thursday afternoon. Those from here who attended the sale at Aunt Jane Hall's were A. W. Spargur and wife, Jasper Spargur, Beulah Drury and Fern Graham. Mrs. Hall and Doll in tends to go to Dakota to spend the summer. They will leave Tuesday. Garden Grove. Mrs. Joe Jones, wife of the veter an auctioneer, died at her home north of town, the latter part of last week and was buried Monday. J. S. Brown and L. J. Ede were at Weldon the latter part of last week assisting to Invoice the stock of merchandise E. O. Lovett traded for owned by W. F. Monroe. Miss Wiggins, of Des Moines, was here the latter pArt of last week vis iting her friend, Miss Harriett Clarki Gilbert Gjarton, of Leon, was here tlie latter flart of list week hip %unt, iHls# Clarkv TltovS&MMd stock dlse "was sold last Thursday by trustee in bsnkrt^pt^y, J-. --!*-Stilt auction, to lilr. Detorliog, of Queen City, Mo., (or a little £te faittfc. eh' It to not known wfeetfcer $69* CKfist .. F.dBll Mrs. AIM •w r«- T»*r" .^...4^ ,-• A* Mrs. Boeger was called to Palmy ra, Mo., Monday, by the illness of her daughter. Albert McCleary, of Akron, Mo., was here over Sunday visiting with several relatives. J. E. Jaquis and wife moved to their future home near Corydon the latter part of last week. A meeting was held at the town hall last Thursday evening to con fer with the trustees of the south route of the Waubonsie trail asso ciation looking to getting the road to pass through Garden Grove in place of straight east of Leon, which would misB some very bad roads south of here. Quite a sum of money was raised. Wesley. Hez Petty made a business trip to Leon Monday. The item in last week's paper should have read W. E. Dillon lost a calf from black leg Instead of W. H. Dillon. Charley Richardson, of Missouri, came up Wednesday and vaccinated Mr. Dillon's bunch of calves. On Friday another one died, but it is to be hoped he will not lose any more. Charley Browning and wife, of Lineville, came out to spend the day last Monday at Wm. Lowrance's. Mr. Browning purchased a R. I. Red cockerel of Will for his brother, Fletch Browning, of Lineville. Herbert Cozad went to Leon to help his father move to the Bradley property on south Main street. John Hinds and family visited at Wm. Lowance's last Monday. H. R. Perking and faniily were trading at Lineville Saturday. Henry Dillon made a business trip to Lineville Saturday. F. M. Lowrance and his nephew, Chester Carmine, and two neices, Mrs. Ressie Browning and Bessie Hinds, went to Leon last Tuesday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Claire Snyder. Mr. Carmine left Friday for his home at Aberdeen, S. D., and the ladies returned to their home at Lineville by railroad. O. L. Peck and wife spent Sunday at the home of Henry Perkins. •Willis Dillon and family spent Sun day with his brother's family at Morgan. Salem. H. R. Stover and mother were trading in Pleasanton Saturday. A. C. Brown and wife were called to Garden Grove Saturday on ac count of the death of her mother, Mrs. Jones. The sale of Mrs. Hall's was well attended and everything sold well. Miss Verna Linden went to Leon Saturday, where she will begin a spring term of school. Beulah and Gtface Drury called on Pearl and Mabelle Stover Sunday evening. Steve Marble and Alice Still call ed on Nellie Woolsey Sunday even ing. M. Linden was a Leon caller Sat urday. J. N. Painter, of Pleasanton, was in these parts Saturday. Myrle Dale, Nona Still and Pearl Blakesley accompanied by their friends called on Mr. and Mrs. S. Hullinger Sunday evening. H. R. Stover helped his uncle J. J. Hill, move Monday. Quite a number of people attend ed the oyster supper at Oda Dale's Saturday night and all report a good time. Jim Moore and son, Claude were Pleasanton callers Saturday. Willard Stover is assisting David Turpin with his work. Verley Brown and mother return ed home from Garden Grove Friday where they had been visiting rela tives and friends. New Buda. Mr. and Mrs. O. Wislhon spent Saturday with Mrs. Wishon's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Latta. J. F. Hagen shipped a car load of fine corn fed steers to St Joe last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Hagen are the proud parents of a boy. L. B. Fetty is building a neat little cottage. His two brothers are doing the work for him. Mr. Jehu McDaniel is able to be out to work again, after hip injuries received from falling from a wagon load of wood. C. B. Boeger lost his fine gray driving horse last week. Miss Anna* Flora visited a few days with her cousin, Miss Norma Snethen. Edd Flora and wife visited Sun day with his brother, Guy Flora. 'Nice little snow last Saturday night, but did, not last hardly lonij enough for old Sol to get a proper, look at \%r .Every ^tody in our^ viclnity recovered fr6m th» tne—lea. Jfttfea 'Wait*. ~?wfiD '-llfrea a 'fe' latlia Mnllh Of 'our vicfWty, lyi very lew with tihe '4*e«iies. ^N^ws trtj is' iftaree tits week. •m. 4. Sntidi Wltk fcer slaiw-^Mfrs.^' "1 •%. *"T 4 rA ,*T rV- -"^1 f. S. STEWART Licensed Undertaker lowa License No. 48. LEOltl IOWA Pleasant Valley. John Benton was elected school director at the Valley Monday. Julia Virden spent Saturday night and Sunday at heme. Mrs. Landis was visiting with her daughter, Mrs. T. R. Roberts, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Quigley were Davis City visitors Monday. Charley Daughton was visiting with Levi and Rollie Verdin Satur day night and Sunday. James Young delivered hogs at Davis City Monday. Charley Mattlson was elected school director at Jack Oak .Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Art Scott were vis iting, with her mother, at Davis City Saturday and Sunday. It Costs Money. Every line in a newspaper costs the proprietor something. If it Is for the benefit of the individual it should be paid for. If the grocer were asked to contribute groceries to one abund antly able to pay for them, he would refuse. 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