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?S&m® i* my «f#7 S '-vv.-' km 4mwrmm Roberts Bros, Garden Grove Beavers & Lane, Woodland Claude Snider, Weldon I. C. Duling, High Point Phone or write for dates. Milt Manchester Ida, l«wt. Now 1-4 .. EPHYR FL®UR J. A. CASTER H. L. McClaran, Davis City B. F. Manley, Van Wert Overton & Davis, Pleasanton Reynolds & Teale, Tuskeego Riley Bochanan, Leon C. F. McWhinney, Lamoni Auctioneers Will work together this year. Two of the best auc tioneers in Decatur county. We make a full team, and work good together. You can't but help have a good sale, because we know how. Don't fool your property away, but let us have your sale. Our dates our kept at The Leon Reporter office. Buchanan & McWhinney ®®€Xs£SXS®(!XS®®(!^^ J. GOODING "The Lfve Auctioneer." The man who will get you the most money for your stuff and who always makes a sale a success. He knows the value of stock. Has cried more sales than any auctioneer in this section. Write or phone for dates. Kellerton, Iowa. Big Type Poland China Male Pigs for Sale. Sired by the following boars: King of Wonders Big Ben, Col ossal and A Big Orange. Will sell them worth the change less public sale expenses GEO, GRIFFIN, Pleasanton, Iowa. Highest cash market price paid for Poultry, Eggs, Hides and Cream sv Frank G. ColemanRear#f J. V. Steninger, Violinist HUMESTON, IOWA. Instructions given in all grades of the violin for beginners and advanced students. Have organized a class at Leon. See me about terms. Graduate of the Arno-Whaectler School of Music, St. Louis, Mo. Claude C. Cornman -rb. Milt Manchester I ^flhe live Auctioneer- I'll cry your sales, get you good prices and guarantee satisfaction.^ F31|C.Cry ^PHONe and Always RAWLEIGH PRODUCTS You t0rC E. 0. WILLS Auctioneer Van Wert, Iowa Will give special atten tion to your sale I guar antee satisfaction. I Foi terms and dates address me atVan Wert, Iowa THE LEON REPORTER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1916. Business Partnership on a Farm. Thj Times-Republican's Mr. C. E. Wilson, who has traveled from farm to farm in central Iowa for twelvo years or more, has discovered a new farm lease in northern Iowa which is a real partnership in all the profitB a.s well as in the labor of the farm. may be the harbinger of better times upon the tenant farms of Iowa. It spells co-operation of the corpora tion type in big business. It recog nizes the rise in value of land as one of the profits in farming and divides it e'iualJy between the partners. This lease is simple enough, too, to be popular. It starts with an agreed value upon the farm of $13 5 per acre It could just as well have been had that been a fair value for the land. At $135 the landlord invested in the partnership his quarter section of land or $21,600 less a mortgage of $5,000 or $16,000 net. The taxes and the interest on the mortgage are considered as part of the expenses of farming and are deducted before profits are figured. All live stock, machinery and seed are invested in equal shares by landlord and tenant. Improvements are paid for out of profits and ap praised in the value of the land. The tenant invests his labor and the land lord his equity. In everything else they share alike. If the equity or $16,000 is worth 6 per cent interest the landlord has invested $996 per annum against the tenant's labor or $83 per month. That is what the landlord allows the tenant a3 a valu ation of his labor and it is a good sum as wages go for farm managers with house rents thrown in. Equal partners in all property, upon the farm with improvements, costs of operation, taxes and interest upon $5,000 paid out ot the business the land is then appraised at the end of the lease and the rise in value di vided equally or by the land sold and the increase above $1^0 di vided. Tenants who are to share in tne rise in farm values are going to put more fertilizer back into the farm, more fertilizer back into• ine c^re.f"]Jy be mogt when decided upon will be.most contribute to the farm is to be divid- out_ o^ ed equally at the end of the lease. only 5 per cent per annum in the rise of the land owners of farms would be assured of better farming with pos sibly 6 per cent upon their land equities and half the increment of in creased value. It is as simple and just as the habit of corporations in employing managers upon guaran teed salary and a percentage of prof its. It breeds longer leases. It in troduces business methods into the farm partnership in the hope that business efficiency will invide the farm.—Marshalltown Times-Republi can. Test It Now. Get ready for spring. When Feb. 1 arrives March is but four weeks away and four weeks however cold and disagreeable they may prove to be are but four weeks. Of course spring doesn't arrive with March but very often it acts like it and some times it keeps the fiction up through the whole month. Anyhow when March arrives it is as the immediate herald of spring and the advance agent of garden truck and green grass and seeding and corn planting and golf and the fish biting and a lot of other things that we miss and await eagerly through the long win ter while we stand off the coal man and save gasoline. First of all test the seed corn. For get about politics and play and oth er things less important and set about getting percentages of the 100 kernels taken here and there from the seed ears. That's the big thing we have to face in Iowa this year. Ev- erythmg else is going on fine The prospects everywhere are for a big, rseason.„ rset this L,et ?5 7 7 said day for voting on the following public measure: Shall the following Public meas ure, Ordinance No. 18, be approved and adopted by the City of Leon, Iowa: (Notice to voter: For an affirma tive vote upon the following ques tion make an "X" in the square op posite the word "YES", and for a negative vote make a similar mark in the square opposite the word "NO.") alleys and pullic grounds of the said problem is the set- supplying of the citizens of Leon, ting of the goal posts. What shall the said municipality and all the equity in the farm be and if it is porate or private customers wit more than $16,000, what then shall said commodities and to erect and the landlord contribute as his offset maintain on said streets, alleys and to the tenant's labor? There is the public grounds, transmission lines subject for negotiation. If 6 per cent through the city of Leon to supply upon the landlord's real equity in the individuals and communities outside land is more than a fair wage for the of said town with light, power and farm manager let the lease then pro- heat. vide that after all the above named Whereas the Franchise grant expenses have been paid the tenant ed shall be paid a salary of for his owners of the Electric light plant, services that the landlord shall be has become in effect obsolete, inop paid 6 per cent interest upon his erative and not sufficient for present equity in the farm "hereby, agreed by needs, therefore the following fran and between the parties to be $ chise is proposed in its stead: and both parties can then divide all ue jt Enacted by tlie City Council of other proiits equally including the tjie increased value of the farm. SECTION I. Instead of heing content with a 4 fhTdty SECTION II. The grantee herein in considera tion of this franchise, shall furnish rrr---.T-.-~ Pour Hundred (400) watt lamps at Fiye Dollars an(j one_third centg plT overnowUwithaprosperity if we Watt ^QTJ®r?sollcaernSt8and( I?". aDout per lamp Twb Hundred (200) A S S assu Hundred (100) Watt lamps at One SeeTcorn is scarce and much of it Dollar thirty-three and one-third is mighty''MoVDon't g« w'iti.' cents »r the poor stuff. Every man who is lamp, Sixty Watt lamps at Eighty looking forward to a good year is de- Ave (85) cents per month per lamp, pending upon you who plant and .Watt ^nT1fr! own and sell the crop. Really it is ($.60) centsiper month per lamp. only partly yours. So many per- The said One Hundred and^ ^e found to be slow or cor sons depend upon it. Make absolute- teen (117) street are now ly certain that the seed is good. It is in operaticn, and in event that th •. the difference between a good bank uity Council desires to cvanges the account, and borrowing money for Jocation-of any of said Limps, ex :ept the grower. It is the difference be- as to the change and re-location of ing sucn tween an increase of business, and a such lamps as are provided for in tne decrease for the merchant, it means Contract with said Leon Electric much to all of us who live in this Co. under seperate contract of date agricultural state. Don't let us down. Januory 10th, 1916, the gran- There's a certain way to know, a tee shall make such changes way that beats anybody's personal ,and the City shall pay for such j.~ A __J J' __ changes at the actual co bor performed and the material fur nished, but in no event shall the number of 'treet lamps and the con- i-uc v/4uj guaranty—the guaranty that nature changes at the actual cost of the^la puts upon a fertile seed. She tests it. Get ready for spring. Test the seed corn. Make dead sure of it. That's nected load he reduced. the way and place to find the 25 per cent we lost on last year's crop. it you have any or our tee cream ed out or defective, or to make any Mayor's Proclamation. placed, or said lines repaired, and PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given,'to charge the actual cost thereof to that inpursuanco to an ordinance the company. passed by the City Council of Leon, All street lamps, including any Iowa, on the 10th day of January, that may be hereafter installed, are 1916, authorizing the Mayor to call to be turned on Two Thousand a special election for the purpose of Hours (2000) per annum as direct voting on the question of issuing to ed by the City Council. A daily the Leon Electric Company a fran-' record in duplicate of the turned on chise for the purpose of operating hours is to be kept by the City and and maintaining an electric and by the grantee and duplicates are steam heating system in the City of to be exchanged and checked as mu- Leon, Iowa, and to use the streets,'tually agreed. alleys, and public grounds of said Said street lamps ere to be paid for City for said systems an to supply on the above schedule in twelve equal said City and inhabitants with light, monthly payments, and an adjust heat, and power (both electric and meat based on the actual number of steam) for a period of Twenty-five hours turned on shall be made at years, and to use said streets, alleys, Ulie end of each Twelve Month peri and public grounds of said City for 'od, it being however mutually the purpose of carrying of transmis-1 agreed that the minimum number sion lines for the supplyin of said of hours paid for by the City shall commodities to parties outside of the 'not be less than Eighteen Hundred limits of said City. I, Geo. R. Far-1 Hours per lamp per year unless quhar, as Mayor of the City of Leon, :through the fault of the Electric do hero set Friday, February the I Co. a less number of hours are lltli, 1910, as the date for holding burned and that all hours turned said Municipal election from 8:00 :on in excess of Two Thousand o'clock a. m. to 7 p. m. o'clock of Yes No GEO. R. FARQUHAR, Mayor of the City of Leon, Iowa. Ordinance Xo. 18. An ordinance granting to the Leon Electric Company, its succes- sors and they are going to put paint on maintain and operate they are going to put paint on struct assigns the right to con- erect( stead of ripping boards off from the Leon, Decatur Coun buildings. Repairs and '"P™"®™®1ty, Iowa, plants and works for tlie which are somg to production, transmission and sale of partnership funds minimum cost and will partners but and steam,) and to use the streets, most maintain and operate and heat iboth e]ectric or hereafter laid equally at the end of the lease. tion of ^jjht,^ P°wer by%verhead°or new lamps installed to be determin underground conductors, for the ed by the ditterence in ratin, teed farming. The t'—J It is further provided that if the said company fails to replace any of its lamps that become broken, bum- packer. at your home please tele- -necessary repairs in its Unes, that same, or •OOM u» «»d «. will oil and set Jlter w. telegraph, telephone or elec- v' .* /.iS£3 7 1 'H 'V' c:.. y-Jfr-j TI cor- in 1904 to Curtis and Chase, then city of Leon, Io'.va. ri,at per cent return upon farm invest- hereby granted to the Leon Elec ments from indifferent tenants and ^rjC Company, its successors and as rely upon an unearned increment of 8ignS( the right and franchise is to construct, erect, maintain and operate catur in the City of Leon, De- County, Iowa, plants and works for the production, transmis sion and sale of light, power and heat (both electric and steam,) and to use the streets, alleys and public grounds of the said City of Leon now or hereafter laid out or con structed, for the distribution of light, power and heat (both electric and steam,) by overhead or under ground conductors, for the supply ing of the citizens of Leon, the said municipality and all corporate or private customers with said commo dities and to erect and maintain on said streets, alleys and public grounds transmission lines through (2000) Hours per year shall be paid for by the City on a pro rata basis. In the event that the number of hours turned on is less that 2000 hours per lamp per year and more that 1800 hours per lamp per year, then the grantee shall reimburse the city on a pro rata basis. SECTION ill. The price for the service of street lamps as hereinbefore provided shall remain in full force and effect for the period of five (5) years, and the price for the service of such street lamps is to be fixed and determined each five (5) years to the end of this Franchise. SECTION IV. It is provided however, that if at any time, a type of electric lamp more modern, efficient and economical than the Tungsten Lamp should come into use, upon notice from the city the Company shall install such lamp in place of the tungsten lamp, and should the cost of installation and maintenance of said lamp be greater than the tungsten lamp, then such sum as may represent the difference shall be added to the amount due or to become due paid company and should the cost and maintenance of said lamp be less than the tungsten lamp, then such sum as represents the difference in cost shall be subtracted from the amount due, or to become due, said company. The difference in maintenance of such by the manufacturers of such lamps. All lamps now installed are Tung sten Lamps, except 3-750 Watt, and 4-200 Watt Nitrogens. The grantee shall furnish to any person or persons along its line of wires making application therefore, electric current for incandescent lighting and shall also furnish a standard electric meter for the measurement of the electric cur rent so furnished, and shall bo entitled to charge each cus tomer for such electric current consumed not to exceed the sum of Twelve and one-half (12^) cents per kilowatt. Said grantee is here by authorized to charge each custo mer for such service a minimum charge of One Dollar ($1.00) per month. The grantee herein con sents to an adjustment of the rate to private consumers every Five (5) years. Nothing contained in this or dinance shall be construed to modifv or waive -he right of the City now existing under the laws or hereafter created by law, to regulate and fix just and reasonable rates and charges for the services rendered by the company including electric currcnt and steam heating. SECTION Y. Whenever the City of Leon or^any private consumer of the Leon Klec tric Company upon metered service, shall complain that any meter used in supplying such City or private customer is not correctly measuring the amount of current supplied, such issss- ipti g^frtiriitvi.sr 3? w^h'hghTCer0"^ he°'tS?" 5 oU.cr offlcial to Ue dMiknated„S a period of twenty-five years from the date of the passage and accept ance of this ordinance. tion of this francinse, snan lurms.i the'person desig to the city of Leon, and the city of jing Leon agress to take, use, and P^y ina,®(l. the City Clerk or for one hundred seventeen (117) jshall be made ta" Sec'tlof r-rfTh'jB Ordinance: !P°ina„t H=ct r.c Company Thirty-three and (55.33%) per month the Electric Committee of the City Council, provided that the following conditions are complied wiih. 'I he complainant shall deposit One and Fifty-One hurdreds Dollars (?l.oJ) which sum shall be the fee for mak- i(-n ies\ Snc.i, tfae allowance test tl found to be fast or slow to the ex tent of over two per cent (2%) said Leon Electric Company shall install a correct meter in place of said meter. In event that the test shows the meter to be more than two per-cent (2%) fast, then the Leon Electric Company shall pay to said City Clerk, or other person conducting such test, the sum of One and 50-100 ($1.50) Dollars anl the fee already, received from such com plainant shall thereupon be return ed. If however, such meter so test- the id the compiainant Clerk or other to the person conduct- be retained by Proper allowance as shown by the test to be necessary shall be made to the party entitled thereto, but not for a longer period than sixty (60) days prior to the date of the last meter reading. SECTION VI. That said grantee shall do no per manent injury to any street, side walk or alley, or pavement thereon, nor trim any shade trees along the streets and alleys of the City with out first notifying the owner there of or some person having control of a ny "manner unnecessari- any^ water pipe) hereafter be made by the City of Leon, and that during the progress of the work of said grantee it shall not unnecessarily obstruct the streets, alleys or public places, and shall complete each part of the work commenced as speedily as practica ble, and restore all streets, alleys and public places to as good and like conditions as before said work was begun. No paved street to be disturbed or torn up l'or laying, re laying, or repairing of steam pipes or laying of wires except with the ap proval of the City Council. SECTION VII. All poles which may in the future be erected by the Company shall be shapely and the erection and location of poles and placing of wires there on shall be subject to the regulation of the City Council. All service wires shalll be carried by the Company to the outside of the building sup plied, provided the customer shall carry his wires to a point on or in the said building which the company may designate. SECTION VIII. That whenever the City shall be sued on account of any injury to any person or property caused by the negligence or fault of the company, in its use of the streets, alleys, high ways, bridges and public grounds of the City, the company shall up on notice, appear in and defend such action ,at its own expense, and shall without more be bound by any judgment rendered against the City, but the Company shall not be re quired to appear in or defend any action by the City wherein it is not alleged in the pleadings that the in jury was caused by the negligence or unlawful act of the Company. Provided further that in any case tlie failure of the City to require the Company to appear in and de fend any suit shall not release the Company from liability to the City that would otherwise exist. .SECTION IX. In case of fire or other emergen cies, the poles, wires and street fix tures of the said company may be cut and removed by order of the Mayor or the Chief of the Fire De partment, without liability on the part of the said City or such officers. SECTION X. That said grantee herein shall have a reasonable length of time to repair said system in case of break age or destruction by storm or other casualty. SECTION XI. The city of Leon shall have the right to install such additional street lights from time to time as it may desire, but said grantee shall not be obliged to extend its poles and wire lines for a distance of more than Four hundred (400) feet from its lines as then constructed, to supply one (1) additional lamp for street lighting. SECTION XII. The rights herein granted are given by said City Council of the City of Leon and accepted by said Leon Electric Company upon the express condition that this Ordinance shall not become effective or binding un til it shall have been submitted to and approved by a majority of the electors of the said City of Leon casting their votes upon the follow ing proposition: "Shall the Leon Electric Company be given the right, privilege and franchise to operate and maintain in the City of Leon, Decatur Coun ty, Iowa, plants or wo ks for the production, transmission and sale of light, power and heat, and to use the streets, alleys and public grounds of said City for the distri bution of said commodities, and to supply the said City and citizens [thereof with light, power and heat land to use the streets, alleys and !public grounds of said city for the carrying of transmission lines for [supplying said commodities to par ties outside of the limits of said !City, for Twenty-Five Years, in ac cordance with a certain Ordinance passed by the City Council of the City of Leon on the 10th day of January, 1916, and approv ed bv the Mayor of said City. Said proposition shall be submit ted to the legal voters of said city at a special election to be held on the 11th day of February ID 16 under a Proclamation to be is sued by the Mayor and to be pub lished in two (2) newspapers pub lished in said City of Leon once each week for at least four (4) consecu tive weeks before the date of said election. SECTION XIII. This ordinance shall take effect and be inforce, only upon the filing in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Leon, after said ordinance has been submitted to a vote of the people, a written acceptance thereof by said Leon Electric Company, and thereupon, from and after the filing of said Acceptance all rights, privi leges and franchises of every kind held by said Leon Electric Company under any ordinances heretofore (granted, shall at once cease and ter minate and said Company shall pos sess and exercise only the rights, privileges and franchises herein contained and granted to said Com pany. SECTION XIV. That the said Leon Electric Com pany shall within Thirty (30) day3 from the approval of this Ordinance by the voters of the said City of Leon, as provided in Section XII. hereof, file with the City Clerk of the City of Leon an instrument in writing accepting the terms and con ditions of this ordinance, and upon the filing of said instrument within such time by said company, this or dinance shall take effect and be in force from such date and not other' wise. APPROVED GEO. R. FARQUHAR, Mayor. Attest: S. G. MITCHELL, I 1 rl City Clerk. Rags Wanted—Thu Reporter of fice wants to huv a rmantltv of clean cotton rags. Must not be leas than 12 inches sauare. and larster prefer red. Will nav 2 cents per pniinri. We cannot use heavv woolen ra*«. Bring in your raes and get