The Leon reporter., September 29, 1910, Image 12

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ing the town, on the north are willing
to lease their lands, prospecting will
begin withing 90 days for another
coal mine.
It will be remembered that we
mentioned some time ago that a
strong company headed by Mr. Z.
T. Evans, President of the Smoky
Hollow Coal Company, would like
to lease a block near town and open
a mine. Their representative, Mr.
J. A. Evans, of Des Moines, met
with our citizens interested at the
time and submitted a form of lease
which has since been under consid
eration by the landowners.
By this lease the Company offers
cents royalty, mine run.. They
*7agree to pay landowners 50 cents
per acre rental per month, after 4
years, until they begin taking out
coal from under each man's land.
This rental will be deducted from
.each man's royalty as they come to
liim.
By this clause the landowner
1-3 vwould realize something out of his
'.fo lease before the company began tak
•ing coal from his land. The company
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block, to complete prospecting with
2?in 121 months and to begin perma
nent developments within 2 years.
sproposes to begin prospecting within ing hours. A delightful reception
90 days from the completion of the had been planned by their daughters,
At first one or two parties in the
block objected to some of these terms
land nothing was done for some time
iand it began to look as though it
would fail, but those in favor of leas
ing have been making converts
-among the objectors and the chance
now appears better than ever that
the block will be secured.
.Mr. J. A. 'Evans, the Company's
representative, was here a day or
two last week again conferring with
the landowners and the first ac
tual steps were taken in leasing.
Some leases were taken, others are
ready to sign up, and the block
should be completed before the end
of the present year.
The Evans people are strong finan
cially and amply abe to make good
any contract into which they may
enter. They are practical opera
tors, operating mines at Smoky Hol
low, Iowa Novinger, Connelsville,
and other points in Missouri. They
are not coming with a view of specu
lation, but are here for the purpose
of opening and operating the mine.
The location of another strong
The Road to Success
has many obstructions, but none so
desperate as poor health. Success to
day demands health, but Electric Bit
ters is the greatest health builder the
t*-* world has ever known. It compels
^'perfect action of stomach, liver, kitf
,neys, bowels, purifies and enriches
"the blood, and tones and invigorates
7 the whole system. Vigorous body
^and keen brain follow their use. You
can't afford to slight Electric Bitters
rif weak, run down or sickly. Only
50c. Guaranteed by Van Werden
& Kopp.
To the Farmers of Iowa.
"J"4 Let us not forget the condition
that so many of our farmers experi
enced last fall by having Jack Frost
seriously visiting the seed corn be
fore we had secured that for next
year's planting. Every farmer knows
that low degrees of temperature
will seriously injure his seed corn,
especially when the corn contains
a large amount of moisture. If
we go out into our corn fields right
now it will be found that in the same
hill for example, you will find two
stalks of corn each bearing an ear,
each ear about the same size, and
possibly with the exception of matur
ity they will be practically equal,
7 'and yet one of them will have the
husk turning brown, the corn well
7 into the dent, matured sufficiently
to pick for seed, while the other ear,
although growing on a stalk in the
same hill, it will be found to be very
Unmatured, containing a high per
cc-ntage of moisture, and unfit for
seed purposes.
V" Now if you were to pick your seed
'*"Corn today what would you do?
Why of course you would pick the
^-well matured ear, and discard the rent
•pother but suppose you Mo not get
very
seei c°™
v*r yields per acre to the state of Iowa of the District court of the above
if her farmers would go right out named county and state, a petition of
into the field this month (the month C. P. Shaffner claiming that Wilson
of September) and pick well ma- Shaffner, the defendant, has absent-:
tured ears right off the stalk. ed himself from Decatur county and
It will not be necessary to take the state of Iowa, and concealed his
small, inferior ears. It will be found whereabouts from his family, rela
that there are plenty of large ma-itives and friends. That ho has been
ture ears, if we but look for them. absent and his whereabouts un
When^ we stop to consider the fact known for a period of about twenty
that it on.y takes twelve ears of five years. The plaintiff believes de
corn to plant an acre, it indeed is a 'fendant, Wilson Shaffner dead. That
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October. The large, well matured
ears are 'there in your field, and
whenever you select twelve of them
you have enough to plant an acre.
It will not be necessary to run
Seed Corn Special trains next spring
to illustrate the poor condition of
the seed corn if our farmers will
sfelect their seed corn before the
cold weather, and hang it up in a
proper place for storage.
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next December. Over ?20,'000 in
premiums will be given away at
this time, including $1,000 in cash
for the best oats, offered by the
Quaker Oat Company-.
Let us pick our seed' corn early
this year, and at the same time
watch for the very best ears, and
bring them to Iowa's great Corn
Exposition and Contest.
M. L. BOWMAN, lYY
Secretary Iowa Corn Growers As
sociation. Ai.
P. S. Send for complete premium
list and information.
Golden Wedding Celebrated.
Monday was a day of unusual pleas-! J,
ure and happiness to Mr. and Mrs.
Perry Wolverton, of Humeston, the'
occasion commemorating their golden
wedding anniversary, fifty years of
weathering life's sunshine and shad
ows together, and the day found
them hale and hearty surrounded
with all the comforts and joys that
should attend the twilight' of life,
before the lengthening of the even-
Mesdames Frank McKibben and Can
field and in the morning of the
eventful day the guests numbering
about sixty-five, gathered at the
pleasant Wolverton home to extend
congratulations to the happy couple
and enjoy a genuine old-time visit
together, recalling reminiscences and
half-forgotten events of the past
and such a day of unalloyed pleas
ure as it was to the excellent host
and hostess and their guests.
At the noon hour the guests all
repaired to the handsome home of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank McKibben
where the sumptuous course dinner
was served by Mesdames McKibben
and Canfield and Mrs. Wolverton's
sister, Mrs. Kate Brown, of Leon,
and her daughter, Mrs. Will Brown,
of Lincoln, Neb. As the guests took
their places at dinner, a pretty wed
ding march was played by Miss Har
riett McKibben, their granddaugh
ter. Three spacious rooms were
thrown into one large dinning room,
with artistic decorations of yellow
crepe festoons extending from the
ceiling to the four corners of each
of the three daintly appointed tables,
with beautiful yellow cut roses as
younger gufests gracefully assisted
company near town would be of in- in serving the dinner.
estimable value to the city and sur- Many elegant gifts were showered
rounding country for a dozen miles.. upon the worthy couple, choice pieces
It would double our mining popula-
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tion thus furnishing a better market silver ware. The guests were from
for farm products and thus increase, High Point, Humeston and Garden
the price of land. With two such Grove and numbered among them
powerful allies Cainsville could se-1 old friends and acquaintances of
cure railroad extension, induce fac-j"auld lang syne." Mr. and Mrs.
tories and other business enterprises, Wolverton were former residents of
to locate here, and all in all, make .High Point township, the latter hav
taer the best town in the county.
Cainsville News
cut glass, china, and gold and
ing lived there since a little girl of
eleven, until their removal some
eight years ago to Humeston. Mr.
Wolverton enlisted in the army at
the breaking out of the war, leav
ing his young wife and baby, while
he responded to his country's call,
but the passing years have brought
peace and plenty to them and they
have indeed been fortunate for fifty
years of wedded life is not a common
occurence.
Perr-y Wolverton was born in.
Wyando'tte county, Ohio, December
5, 1836 and come to Iowa in 1857.
Caroline Miller was born in Crawford
county, Ohio, in 1844 and came to
Iowa In 1855. On September 19,
1860, they were married at High
Point, where they resided until
about eight years ago when they
moved to Humeston.
serious matter to leave this! he has property in Decatur countv,
of. ours out in the field on Iowa. That Wilson Shaffner was
the stalk, where Jack Frost is li-| never married. That his only heirs
v, able to beat us to it. Let. us not, are his mother, or his brothers and
forget the experience of last year. sisters and children of deceased sis-
It is just good business that every ter. Plaintiff asks that Wilson SHaff
ear of corn we use for seed be pick- ner be declared legally dead, §jid that
,, ed between now and the first of S. Varga be appointed administrator
of the estate of Wilson Shaffner as
though he were known to be dead.
When selecting your corn for seed
do not forget the Eighth Annual Ex- 6-fct
Now unless you appear thereto, and
defend on or before noon of the sec
ond day of the next term of said court
to be held at Leon, in said county,
commencing on the 16th day of Jan
uary, 1911, default will be entered
against you and judgment rendered
thereon in accordance with the pray
er of said petition.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wolverton were
highly esteemed by their many High
Point friends and neighbors during
their long residence in their midst,
and they proved themselves worthy
of that friendship by their sterling
integrity and worth and their value
as loyal citizens and on their remov-1
al to Humeston they have drawn yy
about them an ever-widening circle
of warm friends. We wish to add
our heartiest congratulations to
those of their many other friends
and wish that the sunset of life may
be rich in the best blessing man
can know, health, with its attendant
joys. May they live to enjoy many, $
many more years of wedded happi-,
ness, is the wish of all who know
them. Garden Grove friends who
were invited to share their hospi-,
A good modern, refitted house to
J. R. Bowsher.
your seed corn now. and leave it un-1 Original Notice.
til it is time .to fill the crib, and you! In the District Court of Iowa, in
come to this same hill containing aftd for Decatur county, January term
these two stalks with the same two 1911.
ears. It will be impossible to tell C. P. Shaifnei* Plaintiff,
which of the two ears matured be-1 vs.
fore the other one, and what will Wilson Shaffner, Defendant.
you do? Why naturally take them! To Wilson Shaffner:
both for seed. It would mean mil-1 You are hereby notified that there JJLJIL
lions of bushels of corn in increased, is now on file in the office of the Clerk
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tality were Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Hoadley, Miss Harriett Swope, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Warrington and Mr.
and Mrs. "Dug Roberts.—Garden
Grove Express. I J7X.
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C. W. Hoffman,
Attorney for Plaintiff."
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