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pj /'JsLr if«,Sv :'Hc V' I A 4^-WW^wi' i«* •vfe:. -i Ci I Ife- f:.••!)• fSm wM- 'V •v '. -v A I i. 1 -•t: ir 'H"H',|.ft 'H ^g£SMi Leave your call for your family Dr. at our Drug Store. WAIST PRESSING IS A SPECIALTY with us.. We do not permit the young men to have a monopoly of this busi ness. They press them out of shape, but we press them back again to their original form. \ye solicit the patronage of ladies who desire to have their waists and other garments always look fresh and new. We give such excellent results in our cleaning and pressing that first cus tomers always remain our patrons. G. W. COINIMOR MERCHANT TAILOR. Otw Penniwell's Meat Market. Get your wall paper at the Rexall store. ___________ 37-tf Money to loan on Bome good farms. Loon Savings Bank. Get our prices on timothy seed J fore selling. Biddison Grain Co. The Leon Savings uank is prepar ed to make some good farm loans at reasonable rates. For Sale or Trade—120 acres wun good improvements, 5 miles north west of Davis City. E. Poush, Da vis City, Iowa. 4-4t P. B. Walker, wife and children autoed to St. Joe, Mo., Sunday, but were caught by rain down there and Mrs. Walker and Mildred returned Tuesday on the train and P. B. and son Gletin remained there to bring the car home. Delos Ackerley, who is a student at the State University at Iowa City, where he attended Summer School this year, came in Saturday morning to visit a few .days with his parents 1H before taking up his studies for the coming year. Ail Miss Maud McKensie, of Phillips buiT, ivansas, who had been a guest for a few days at the- Wm. Langreder home in this city, departed Friday for Des Moines. Miss Irene Henry c companied fyer to Des Moines for a few days visit in that city. Iff?!-, flffllf: For Sale—Residence property in |pf Leon, one block from paving, |p block of ground, 6 room house and other good out buildings, lots of fruit, fine location, price very reasonable. H. S. Jenkins, Leon, Iowa. 48- John Powers, general superintend ent of everything connected with the Burlington railroad at Van Wert, passed through Leon last Thursday, on his annual vacation trip to St. Joe, Mo. John is seldom off duty and is entitled to his yearly vacation. •'.Hi James tfirk sr., who has been vis iting for some time at the home of his neice, Mrs. Ella Hamilton in this city, departed Saturday, in company with his son, James Kirk jr., for Gentryville, Mo., where he will visit for a time at the home of his son. 1 Do you know that the muscles that move the eye around in its socket are some times the cause of as much eye strain as faulty vision. This is known as muscular asthenopia. But ler, the Jeweler and optometrist, al ways tests the muscles as well as the vision. Examination free. Jtar* WHEN YOU ARE UNABLE TO PHONE YOUR FAMILY DOCTOR DIRECT, TRY OUR DRUG STORE WHICH IS PHYSICIANS' HEADQUARTERS. WE ARE ALWAYS GLAD TO ACCOMMODATE YOU. AND WHEN YOU GET YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS BRING THEM TO US AND HAVE THEM FILLED CAREFULLY W IT E S E N S W E N O WANT RUBBER GOODS, TOILET ARTICLES, SOAPS,PER FUMES, HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES OR ANY OTHER "DRUG STORE THING" COME TO US AND GET IT, BECAUSE YOU CAN "RELY" ON WHAT YOU BUY. The Store BELL & PAWTER, £cott 2cnua li"i"i"f"3"8' |Mh3^M"8''8"S"8"S"S' "S*1}1*£*$* *$* *5h£**?|*'I**3**Sm'**...*.*•»•***2**.*•?•*•?*•!**** 4 'fr'H' 4"S"i"S"3"3"{' *1' Dressmaking—At the home of Rev. u. T. Ronk. Clara Caster. Swift's tankage for sale by the Bid dison Coal and Grain Co. Lost—CTank for Studebaker auto. Please return to Reporter office. Get prices on timothy seed from the elevator. Biddison Grain Co. We have some 5 per cent money for choice farm loans. Farmers & Trad ers State Bank. For Rent—5 room house on Main street, first door north of W. VV. Craig's. Mrs. C. M. Akes. Lost—Glass front and rim of auto light between Leon and E. H. Sharp's residence. Finder please return to The Reporter office. Seed Wheat—I have extra good New Marvelous seed wheat- for sale at 12.00 per bushel. Takes only Ms bushel to the acre. D. P. Leahy, R. F. D. 3, Leon, Iowa. 5-3t Are your eyes co-operating or op posing each other? Dr. Weber will make them co-operate. See Dr. Web er on Wednesday, Sept. 27, from 7 a. m. to -2 p. m., at New Hotel Leon. Examination free. 5-21 Mrs. C. M. Deemer, of St. Charles, who was recently operated upon in a Leon hospital, is getting along very nicely and will probably be able to return to her home before long. Mrs. Deemer formerly resided near Deca tur City. Mrs. B. O. Meadows, of Chariton, and sister, Mrs. Ed Moore, of Pleas anton, who had been visiting af the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Elliott, south of Leon, return ed Friday from a few days visit with a sister near Cainesville, Mo. Miss Margaret McKlveen departed Monday afternoon for Rockford, Illi nois, to resume her studies at the Rockford Young Ladies Seminary having spent the summer vacation at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed H. Sharp in this city. Carl Sankey and wife drove in Saturday in their auto from Detroit, Michigan, for a visit with relatives in this city and at Davis City. Carl has been working insurance very success fully in Michigan the past summer and they expect to go to California again to spend the winter. F. J. McNutt and wife and their daughter, Mrs. L. Herzing, and son Hugh McNutt, of St. Joe, Mo., return ed home Sunday, having motored to this city for a visit with old friends. Mr. McNutt was employed for several years at the Clark mill in this city, and is now city salesman for the Aunt Jemima Flour Co., at St. Joe. Hugh is leader of a big band in St. Joe. .. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Griffin and daughters, Misses Helene and Gussie, returned to their home at CreBton Friday, having been visiting for a few days with relatives and friends in this vicinity. .You can Just take it as a tip from us that some of these days the Griffin family are going to move back from CreBton and locate at Leon, and we will be mighty glad to have them. C. P. Brant, of near Garden Grove, was in Leon Saturday, and told us he became interested in our query as to how fast corn grows and also as to whether it grows only at night He made some measurements with his corn, and found that it grew 24 inches in six days, growing 5% inches in 23 hours during one day. He says the corn grows much faster at night, but that it does grow in the iay time. He also told us of measur ing a pumpkin^ vine on his farm which grew more than four feet in on* night. r!W T^gf: THE LION REPORTER, THURSDAY, For Rent—7 room house. See Mn. M. C. Mullen. Wanted—School girl to work for her board. Apply to Mrs. G. W. Con nor. Pease & Pease write all kinds of insurance, and protect their policy holders. We can use some choice first mort gage farm loans. Farniers & Trad ers State Bank, Leon. If you want good insurance and fair treatment in case of loss, have Pease & Pease write your insurance. For Sale—On account of moving away, my Leon residence property on north Main street. W. C. Stempel, 2621 Santa Fe Avenue, Ft*. Madison, Iowa. Assistant state accountants A. D. Nye and J. I. Israel last week began the annual examination of the books in the county offices at the court house. Notice—1 have recently bought the barber shop in Pieasanton, Iowa, and am prepared to do first-class work. Call on us when in town. 3-4t S. A. Mitchell, proprietor. Don't use common drop cords for your electric lights. Select an at tractive fixture from the many dis played in the special fixture room at t1 .Leon Electric Company's office. 1- "The Birth of a Nation" will be sho^n at Touet's opera house at Os ceola on Thursday, Friday and Satur day of this week, and many Decatur county people will auto there to see it. For Sale—Residence property on south Main street, six room hojf&e in good repair. City water and elec tric lights.. Address J. B. McEndree, 213 Market street, Marshalltown, Iowa. 47-tf The Leon Electric Company has the finest display room in this part of the state for showing electric light fixtures. The fixtures are beauties and are priced very low. It would pay you to see them. Lost—Somewhere on the road, to Levett Cozad's funeral, my purse containing a $10 bill and some small change. Finder please notify Mrs. Oscar Peck, Lineville, Iowa, R. F. D. 3, and receive reward. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Rowell and Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Stewart and Mrs. Ada line Curry and Edgar Rowell, all of Leon, motored to Afton Sunday and were guests for a couple of days at the home of Mrs. Anna Rowell.—Af ton Star-Enterprise. Mrs. C. R. Hodgdon and son Dick, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, who are vis iting at the home of her sister, Mrs. W. C. Owen, at Garden Grove, were in Leon Friday enroute for Grand River to visit at the home of her aunt, Mrs. J. F. Hines. With his new instruments and up to-date methods and the training nec essary to pass the Iowa state board examination, Butler, the optometrist, is prepared to take away that cloudi ness of vision, and those headaches due to eye strain. Examination free. William Jennings Bryan will speak at the Garden Grove Corn Club Picnic at the Davis Park, three miles northwest of Garden Grove, on Wed nesday, Sept. 27th, at 1:30 o'clock. You'll want to hear the peerless Ne braskaa, the greatest speaker in the world. Don't forget that the tenth installs ment of "Peg O'the Ring will be shown at the Idle Hour theatre this afternoon and evening. This thrill ing serial is drawing to a close, and you should not miss any of it. Mati nee at 3 o'clock, first evening show at 7:15. Prices 5 and 10 cents. Ed W. Farquhar took a jolly party of ladies to Des Moines in his auto Sunday to spend the day, Misses Amy and Fay Benefiel, Florence Coffin and Mrs. Gertrude Berryman, but the rain fit Des Moines spoiled their plans and they returned home on the train Monday morning. Ed went back after his car Tuesday. There was a mighty happy bunch of boosters from Garden-Orove when they went home last Saturday, after securing the assignment of W. J. Bryan for his one speech in Decatur county for their big Corn Picnic at the Davis Park, three miles north west of Garden Grove for Wednes day, bept. 27th. In ihe bunch were J. S. Brown, J. F. Gill, W. H. Raleigh, C. E. Stuber and several others, and they worked like Trojans to land Mr. Bryan. State highway commissioner H. C. Beard, of Mt. Ayr, was in Leon last Friday, coming here to meet with the railroad officials and county board in regard to several railroad crossings which it was desired to change, one of them being on the N. C. Rasmus sen farm west of Van Wert, and two or three others being on the & W. branch between Leon and Decatur. The railroad officials agreed to make the changes which will be a great improvement and the work will be done this fall. The Shannon City Messenger has been'sold by C. A. Snyder to Miss Vera M. Jacobson, who assumed charge last week. Miss Jacobson is a graduate of the Dallas County Rec ord, having served her apprentice ship as devil, compositor and report er, and judging from the first issue of her paper is going to give the peo ple of SVannon City a real newspaper. We welcome her to the newspaper ranks of southern Iowa, and trust she will meet with the best of suc cess. •Ralph McGitfhis, who has spent the summer traveling with the Lin coln Chautauqua System in Pennsyl vania and other eastern states, came in Sunday to join his wife and little son, who spent the summer at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs'. V. R. McGinnis in this city. Ralph will leave the latter part of thi3 week to resume his studies in the law depart ment at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and will also be employ ed as coach of the second foot ball team. -Mi, 1* '•w -v.'. r*"'-wmwwp» SEPTEMBER 14,1916. For Sale—Three or four good buck lambs. Aaron Goodman, R. 1, Leon. Milt and Dillon Manchester autoed to Clarinda yesterday to attend a big sale of Poland-China hogs held at tiiat place. L. B. Jac kson and family departed Sunday morning in their auto for their home at Sapulpa, Oklahoma, after visiting for a couple of weeks witli relatives and many old friends in this city and vicinity. Mr. Jack son is one of the big oil operators of that country and last Saturday re ceived word from his lease man that he had purchased another 40 acre tract of oil land for him, on which Mr. Jackson will at once drill a num ber of wells. Held Civil Service Kvamination. J. G. Larson, a clerk from the Chariton post office was in Leon last Saturday, conducting a civil service examination for two new clerkships in the Leon post office. There were eleven persons who took the examin ation, and two of them will recive appointments as soon as the papers reach Washington and are passed upon. Won Prize for Prettiest iiaby Picture. iMrs. Carl Monroe, of Leon, was the winner of the $5.00 prize offered by Cherrington for the prettiest baby picture submitted in his annual baby kodak contest, the picture being that of Mary Jane, the little daughter of i\lr. and Mrs. George W. Penniwell. There were a large number of pic tures entered in the contest and Mrs. .Monroe feels quite flattered over be ing the winner. You Must Turn Corners Right. The city council has ordered turn ing posts placed at eleven of the busiest street intersections in Leon and hereafter auto drivers must drive in the proper side of these turning posts, keeping to the right of them at all times.' This is something which has been needed and the careful drivers will welcome them. Others who refuse to obey must take the consequences. Signs were also order ed placed on the streets adjacent to the High School building ordering autos to slow down on account of the danger to school children. Improving Garage. Estes & Co. are making some big improvements at their garage, hav ing enclosed the two mammoth dis play windows for office and show rooms,"covering the floor with lino leum and painting it up in nice shape. They will also cover the ceiling of the entire garage with beaver board which will add greatly to its appear ance. Their repair department has also been overhauled, new fixtures being installed and they carry the largest line of Ford repairs and auto accessories to be found in this part of the state. Mr.. Estes proposes to have the finest garage in southern Iowa before he gets through with the new improvements. They expected to receive their first car load of the new style Fords yesterday, and sev eral more care are to follow at once. ft The same prices and the same values. $10.00 $12.00 FL0RSHEIM SHOES Our stock of shoes for men and boys is complete for the fall and winter and we can give you the best value for your dollar at all times. $5.00 $5.50 $6.00 ^^pTf' Federated Clubs Meeting. The following is the program for the meeting of the City Federation of Women's Clubs which meets in the library assembly room Friday, Sept. 15, at 2:o0 p. m. •Music, Unity Club. President's address. Routine business. Paper, What will the City Federa tion do to benefit the Leon Public Schools for the year 1910-17, Mrs. Patsy Baker. Paper, Some things the Federated Clubs can do to help the Leon Pub lic Schools, Miss Horner. Discussion, led by Mrs. Addie Crawford Cliamoers. -Music, Unity Club. Social hour with refreshments, Swift's tankage for sale by the Bid- Swift's tankage for sal? by the Bid dison Coal and Grain Co. The season for colds is upon us and you should be prepared with a box of Nyal's Laxacold. It relieves a cold in the shortest possible time. 35 doses 25c. OF COURSE Langreder, The Tailor Suits made from 912.00 op to $40.00 Overcoats made from $15.00 op Pants made from $4.00 up to $10.00 All Goods of the Latest Pattern. SUITS CLEANED AND PRESSED. Suits pressed while you wait Special Attention Paid to Alterations and Repairing. A N E E a or O IN Our new and complete stock of clothing for fall and winter is here for your inspection and we want you to come in and see the new and beautiful styles and patterns for fall and winter wear. We can show as good bargains as ever and at the same prices as heretofore. $15.00 $17.00 Sweater Coats Bradley Jumbo stitch coats in the finest colors and ut prices that surprise you for the values shown. Come in and see them. You will need a sweater coat for these cooler mornings we are having now. $4.50 $5.00 $6.00 J. A. MCINTOSH "The Square Dealer" LEON CLOTHING CO. Tent Meetings. A goodly number of men greeted J. W. Dawson, the blacksmith evan gelist of Des Moines, in the Christian church Sunday afternoon, and listen ed with interest to the story of his conversion. At the close of the ser vices fifty men moved forward and gave their hand to Mr. Dawson pledg ing themselves to live a better chris tian life. In the evening the tent would not hold the crowd. Mr. Daw son again presented the gospel truth. At tue close there must have been a nundred who went forward giving Mr. Dawson their hand saying they desired to live nearer to their Master and to be used in His service. Ser vices each evening. 1 dlEon Coal an1 I Have You a Cold Grain Co. $20.00 $25.00 i* Ml *:|ll :4f A »i« »t»» '4- A 'I ill ,50c V- ity- 4