The Leon reporter., December 02, 1909, Image 4

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Christmas Hints
You should begin early this year to select your
Christmas presents as nearly all the factories are
advancing the prices from 10 to 15 per cent on al
most all lines and we have taken advantage of
this and have bought heavy in order to give our
customers the very best that can be had for the
money and at the old prices.
We Want Your Holiday Trade.
We invite you to call early and make your
selections and we will hold them until you are
ready to receive the goods. Our new line of chairs
and rockers contains some excellent patterns for
holiday trade and you will find just the kind you
want from the cheap ones to the best and in the
very latest styles. Also Music cabinets, Library
tables. Parlor suits, Davenports and a complete
stock in all lines.
C. F. MILLER
LEON IOWA
Furniture andZUndertaking. All calls at
tended to day or night.
Gin
& J. W. ROWELL
•vnmn. au work-***
LI tMd. OffloetatoofHoot
Jewelry for Xmas Presents.
A Pleasure to Show Goods.
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McCORKLE & ALLEN
Successors to Gee. A. Coe
DR. W- V. ELLIS.
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VBTHBINA.RIA.N. Office «nd rwl-
daaoe 2 blo»ks north ol pnbllo square in the Dr.
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STORE.!
Many gift seekers
during the holiday
season are not decid
ed just what to buy.
If you will come into
our store and give us
a little of your time,
we will gladly show
you our hew lines.
Every thing is of the
latest and newest de
signs, and if quality
is what you are
looking for we have
it.
Any piece of jew
elry that you may
decide upon and
want it laid away
till later, we will
take great pleasure
in doing so.
$
IOWA
THE SECRET OUT.
What made my lovely complexion I do not
like to tell, (or It wag medicine, but the nicest a
woman ever took. It wag Lane's Family Medicine
that did It" This is a pleasant herb tea which acts
favorably on the stomach and bowels, purifying the
blood and cleansing the skin like magic. It cures
headache and backache. Druggist* and dealers sell
li,85c. .... .. .. ... ..
THIS JLEOJV KEPORTEK, THOHSDAI. DECEMBER 2
CHINCH BUGS DUE AGAIN NEXT
YEAH.
Iowa Farmers' Warned to be R«Ady
to Fight the Greatest Pest the
Farmer Ever Knew.
The department of agriculture has
just issued a bulletin warning the
farmers of the middle west that an
other serious outbreak of the chinch
bug is likely to occur the coming
year. Iowa is one of the states in
which the chinch bug has been most
destructive in years past and the
warning particularly concerns that
state, as .well as Nebraska, Kansas,
Missouri, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio
and Texas.
According to F. M. Webster, who
has charge of cereals and forage in
sect investigations for the govern
ment, no other insect native of the
western hemisphere has spread its
devastating hordes over a wider
area of country with more fatal ef
fect to the staple grains of North
America than has the chinch bug.
It is estimated that in the last sixty
years the chinch bug has caused a
loss exceeding $35,000,000 in the
middle western states alone. Iowa
has suffered greatly from this pest.
During its ravages in 1871, the
farmers of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois,
Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin and
Indiana sustained a loss of |30',
000,000. Again in 1887, Iowa was
one of the nine middle western
states that lost $60,000,000 worth
of crops due to the outbreak of
chinch bugs in that year. There was
another serious loss from chinch
bugs in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota
and Illinois in 1892.
For several years past these states
have been practically 'immune from
attacks of the chinch bug, but now
government experts declare that an
other outbreak is about due and the
department of agriculture is seeking
to instruct the farmers of the mid
dle west as to the precaution they
should take to minimize the loss
threatening them.
The dry seasons that have pre
vailed throughout the middle west
during the last two years are said to
have permitted the chinch bug to
gain another foothold in that sec
tion of the country which now seems
to be on the threshhold of a series
of years of crop abundance and de
struction owing to this pest.
Drenching rains are the greatest fac
tor in exterminating the chinch bug.
In fact, government experts believe
that if it were not for the generally
heavy rains, the practice of raising
grain year after year on the same
areas would become altogether un
profitable in the United States, ow
ing to the chinch bugs.
With the weather bureau failing
to provide sufficient rains the past
few seasons to drown out the pest,
it is up to the farmers now to take
measures suggested by the govern
ment experts for the control of the
rapidly advancing hordes of chinch
bugs. The fact that each female
chinch bug is capable of laying from
one to 500 eggs a season shows the
rapidity with which these crop de
stroyers spread over the country. In
the middle west, where the insect
does its greatest injury, the crops
suffer from two attacks annually.
Chinch bugs hibernate to a large
extent in old corn shocks, brush and
dead leaves, therefore one of the
principal measures urged for their
destruction is for the farmers to
burn all such rubbish in the fall of
the year. The chinch bugs can be
destroyed also while migrating from
one field to another by tarred bar
riers of deep furrows and by bury
ing them with the plow and harrow.
Other ways of combatting the pest
are suggested in a bulletin on the
chinch bug, which the department of
agriculture has ready for distribu
tion among the farmers of the mid
dle west who make application for
it.
The common quail, or bobwhite,
is the only bird known to devour
the chinch bugs in considerable
numbers and the department of ag
riculture urges that the farmers of
the middle west see to it that quails
are protected in the states and that
the laws guarding these birds are
enforced stringently. In Iowa the
killing of quail is prohibited from
December loth to November 1st.
Nebraska forbids the killing of quail
at any time during the year.
It is said that if the farmers
would but watch the seasons, he
need not be taken unawares by
chinch bug outbreaks, as dry wea
ther during the two breeding sea
sons is usually sufficient to precipi
tate an invasion the following year,
provided that, at the critical period
or time of hatching, rains do not de
stroy the young. The general state
ment may be made that throughout
the middle west, a dry June, fol
lowed by a dry August, is favorable
for the development of chinch bugs.
Rich Men's Gifts are Poor
besides this: "I want to go on rec
ord as saying that I regard Electric
Bitters as one of the greatest gifts
that God has made to woman,"
writes Mrs. O. Rhinevault, of Vestal
Center, N. Y., "I can never forget
what it has done for me." This
glorious medicine gives a woman
buoyant spirits, vigor of body and
jubilant health. It quickly cured
nervousness, sleeplessness, melnn
choly, headache, backache, fainting
aqd dizzy spells soon builds up the
weak, ailing and sickly. Try them
at L. P. Van Werden's.
Don't let the baby suffer from
eczema, sores or any itching of the
skin. Doan's Ointment gives instant
relief, cures quickly. Perfectly safe
for children. All druggists sell it.
Health depends,
as
nature
showB,
More on the interior than most
suppose.
Keep your system from impurities
free,
By using Hollister's Rocky
Mountain Tea.
W. C. Stempel A: Co.
There is no place in any well kept
pantry for family jars.
This is Worth Remembering.
Whenever you have a cough or
cold just remember that Foley's
Honey and Tar will cure it. Remem
ber the name, Foley's Honey and
Tar, and refuse substitutes. Bell &
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SCHOOL NOTES.
i4 Raymond Jenkins
caKor»
Minnie Harris.
Life's fairest things are those which seem,
The best is that of which we dream.
—Whittier.
The school enjoyed a two days' va
cation last week. All report having
had a good time.
The Leon foot ball team did not
go to Knoxville Thanksgiving. The
Knoxville team phoned down that
they were in such bad shape as not
to be able to play. Our boys were
greatly disappointed. Leon secured
a game with Union Ridge and won
by a score of 17 to 0. The Union
Ridge boys have a heavy team and
with a good coach no doubt could
play a good game.
Both school buildings were thor
oughly fumigated during vacation.
Prevention is better than cure.
A debate was held in the 8th grade
Wednesday afternoon. The subject
was "Resolved, That Free Trade is
More Beneficial to the American Citi
zen than Protective Tariff." The
negative side won.
The third number of the enter
tainment course is Totten, the ma
gician and impersonator. fie will
be at tue opera house this (Wednes
day) evening. Scholars 15 cents,
adults 35 cents.
Buster Brown and his dog Tige en
tertained the boys and girls of both
schools last Wednesday afternoon.
The visitors for the past week
were: Arthur Cave, who will enter
the eighth grade, Miss Haskell, a
Latin student at Drake and Misses
Ruth and Mabel Chase and Himena
Hoffman.
Miss Nanyne Campbell and Miss
Camillis Shuttleworth, of Nauvoo,
111., visited the school Monday after
noon.
A number of the teachers spent
vacation in other towns.
Miss Fern Pryor spent Thanks
giving at Chariton with Miss Kriddle
baugli.
Miss Moorhead spent Thanksgiv
ing with relatives at Humeston and
Prof. Weisley at Burlington.
The December number of the Iowa
Health Bulletin which comes to the
High School reading table, contains
an interesting article on "Observa
tions of Public Health," written by
Dr. B. L. Eiker, of Leon.
More Danville Proof.
Jacob Schrall, 432 South St., Dan
ville, 111., writes: "For over eigh
teen months I was a sufferer from
kidney and bladder trouble. Dur
ing the whole time I was treated by
several doctor and tried several dif
ferent kidney pills. Seven weeks ago
I commenced taking Foley's Kidney
Pills, and am feeling better every
day and will be glad to tell anyone
interested just what Foley's Kidney
Pills did for me." Bell & Robinson.
Some big farms are run by awful
ly little men.
Scrub yourself daily, you are not
clean inside. This means clean stom
ach, bowels, blood, liver, clean,
healthy tissue in every organ. Moral,
Take Hollister's Rocky Mountain
T-ea, a thorough cleanser. Try it
tonight W. C. Stempel & Co."
A man who is a skinflint certain
ly belongs to the stone age.
After exposure, and when you feel
a cold coming on, take Foley's Hon
ey and Tar, the great throat and
lung remedy. It stops the cough,
relieves the congestion, and expels
the cold from your system. It is
mildly laxative. Bell & Robnson.
lOWd
Steam Laundry Co.
Anything from finest sill
ibre to heavy wool curtains.
Dye Works in connection
Send Basket Monday and Wednesday
J. A. CASTER, Agent.
OFFICERS
J. P. HAMILTON,
President
HENRY J. VOGT,
First Ground for Shaft Broken.
Condensed Statement
Last week the first ground was
broken for the sinking of a shaft,
when the contractors began leveling
for the erection of their engine
house and the placing of the big
boilers which will furnish the steam
for the business. We understand
that A1 Dobbins has the contract for
the erection of the engine house and
that he expects to begin work at
once:
Material is still coming in some 13
cars haying arrived up to date. The
material consists largely of lumber
together with lime, cement, brick,
contractors' equipment, etc., and the
entire hillside over there seems to
be pretty well covered with stuff,
and from a distance looks like a big
lumber yard.
We understand that the ground
will be broken for the shaft proper
in a few days, perhaps before our
next issue, and when once begun
there will be no. let up, day or night,
until it is completed.
Keep your eye on us we're goin'
some.—Cainsville News.
During an altercation Saturday
evening between Ben Stuteville and
Chick Varney in front of the latter's
grocery, Scott Varney struck Stute
ville a "powerful blow on the side of
the head knocking him down. In fall
ing Ben's head struck the cement
pavement with great force rendering
him unconscious. He was taken to
the home of his mother in a convey
ance and has since been in a very
dangerous and critical condition,
either from concussion of the brain
or blood clot, although his condition
was reported somewhat better Wed
nesday morning. Stuteville is unmar
ried and makes his home with his
mother, who is a widow. He was
somewhat under the influence of
liquor at the time the affair oc
curred.—Lineville Tribune.
Cement blocks are cheaper and
better than brick for foundations.
See Roe Caster, jr., for anything in
this line.
as made to the Comptroller of the Currency, at the
close of business, Nov. 16, 1909,
Jj Capital $ 35,000.00
Net Earnings .... 3,111.15
Call Deposits 66.478.44
j| Time Deposits 77,646 67
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telephone or wire for dates
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RESOURCES:
Loans $134,104 76
United States Bonds. 37,627.50
School Bonds 1,400.00
Furniture and Fixtures 2,500.00
Cash and Exchange 41,604.00
j| Total $217,236.26
LIABILITIES:
Circulation 35,000 00
Total $217,236.26
Vice-President
A. L. ACKERLEY,
Cashier
S. G. MITCHELL,
Assistant Cashier
CARL MONROE,
Assistant Cashier
DIRECTORS
J. P. HAMILTON
H. J. VOGT
J. W. WAILES
STEPHEN VARGA
A. L. ACKERLEY
C. W. HOFFMAN
E. G. MONROE
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Many people who are otherwise
healthy suffer from indigestion, or
dyspepsia. When you consider that
the stomach and allied digestive or
gans are the most important organs
Of the body, it would seem that a dis
order there is to be taken very ser
iously.
Dyspeptics cannot eat the things they
like food sours in the stomach then
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But there Is no use letting Indigestion
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Thompson, of Shenandoah, la., who ac
tually considers that It saved his life.
You can obtain a 50-cent or $1 bottle of
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isfaction Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Is
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digestion. When once you use this grand
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jflyK answer you fully. There Is
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•HR^i The address Is Dr. ,W. B.
HBDKM Caldwell, BOO Caldwell bldg-,
•HBaHBH Montlcello, III.
D. A. DALE
Optometrist
Office North Side Square
Eyes Scientifically Fitted. Latest
Improved Methods lor Ex
amining the Eyes.
Office Hours: 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. every
day except Sunday and Monday. 1st
and 3rd Mondays each month I am in
Davis City, at Cooper Hotel. 2nd and
4th Mondays each month at Van Wert,
at Palace Hotel.
Park Hotel
C. T. PACE, Prop.
N. E. Cor. Square LEON, IOWA
Rates $1.00 per day
Everything neat and clean.
Special attention is called to
our Sunday dinners.
Best meal in Leon.
Chas.Penisten
Shoe Shop!
West of Exchange National
Bank.
I do all kinds of repair
and custom work in a work
manship manner
Is J. R. BASHAW
Jeweler and Bookseller
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HEADQUARTERS
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Silverware
Watches
Clocks
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Books
Stationery
Toys, Etc.
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OTTUMWA, IOWA
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If there is anything about
your ailment that-you don't
O understand, or If you want
W any medical advice, write
jy to the doctor, and he will
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