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a 1 h. |r 1 il 1 I II M" I I tf 1 5BIJ JiAnw «j- Summer Health Suggestions Keep Cool. Eat only such foods as agree with you. Keep on hand a good remedy to combat sudden attacks of cholera morbus, etc. Use insectides to destroy germ-carrying in sects such as flies and mosquitoes. Drink cooling and satisfying beverages at our fountain. Use our excellent ice cream for dessert. Hang a hammock in some inviting spot around your home. Don't worry about shopping—just phone us for things you'll need. I Wm. Langreder 1 The Only Tailor Try Havana Spikes cigars. in L«oh 1 in L«oi\ The greatest of all patriotic pic tures, "Ambassador Gerard's "My Four Years in Germany is to be shown at both the Idle Hour and New Theatres in Leon on Monday and Tuesday, July 29 and 30. This is a picturization of Air. Gerard's famous book, '"My Four Years in Germany." It is a page from American history. It is fact, not fiction, and every man, woman and child should see it. It is an official ly authorized production of Ambas sador Gerard's book and embodies strikingly the case of the Jnited States against Germany—why we are fighting Germany. It shows the Wait for the Rawleigh wagon. You get more for your money. Ladies summer underwear at money saving prices. Hansell's. When you want a real smoke, one you know will satisfy yourself and friends, call for the Havana Spike, always dependable. Miss Edith Eiker returned last week from Cedar Falls, where she had been for several weeks attend ing a summer school for children. Miss Barbara Penniwell entertain ed a number of young friends at her home list Friday evening in honor of Florizel Kemp, who was here from Camp Riley, Kansas, oit a visit to his "parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Kemp. Alby Carttthers, who is engaged in the music publishing business at Kansas City, and is also dong'spec ial work in the navy, came up Thurs day and visited until the following day Carrithertv of nearOrcWifc ~/3sV A •'••I* W "My Four Years in Germany" Kr.iser as he really is—a paranoic and a degenerate. It gives an au thentic insight into the conferences of t^e Kaiser and the ring of mili tary butchers that set the war ma chine in motion from Potsdam on July 5. 1914. In order to accommo date the crowds that will want to see this production it will be shown in both the Idle Hour and New The atres. Matinees will be given each of the two days at the Idle Hour Theatre only. At niglit the first r.how wili start at the Idle Hour at 8 o'clock and the first show will start at the New Theatre at S:30. For Sale—Daisy cultivator, 14 inch plow and one harrow. See J. M. Caster. We have some 5 per cent money for choice farm loans. Farmers & Traders State Bank. Rawleigh products are scientifical ly and accurately made and are there fore the most dependable. For Rent—A 6 room house two blocks northeast of the court house. Phone Mack Cox, Leon, Iowa. Oharlqg Bullard, one of the truck drvers for the Leon Bus and. Trans fer Co.. is off duty with a mighty sore eve. While driving one day recentlv a bug flew into his eye and poisone'd it, and he is having quite a serious time with it. .... We want men and women/to per mit us top care for their clothes. -We don't -scorch, burn or gloss any garments while pressing them. In stead we make them look like new. THE LEON KEPOBTER, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1918. p^Qat Bowsher's. House for Rent—Inquire at S. E. Benefiel's store. 48-iJt See the bargains in summer hats at Mrs. L. E. Brigham's. Lot of Ladies', Misses and Chil dren's Oxfords at give away prices. Hansell's. Reward for Return—$35 lost on stairway leading to my shop. G. W. Connor, tailor The Leou Savings Bank is prepar ed to make some ^cd farm loans at reasonable rates. We can use some enoice first mort gage farm loans. Farmers & Trad er# State Bank, Leon. For Rent—A three room house and ten lots in Smith adidtion. Phone Mack Cox, Leon. Have your old well cleaned or a new one dug. Call Vein Boughton, Van Wert, Iowa. Phone 68H. It Lost—Iowa auto license No. S0G49 and tail light. The finder is requested to return to The Reporter office. Donate your old auto tires to the Red Cross. Just leave them with Jay Colby at the Willard Service Station and the entire proceeds of their sale wili be turned over to the Red Ciofas. Do you want ice? If you do, buy it of Geo. Gray. He is selling the finest ice in town. He sells it at a very reasonable price of 30c. and 3 5c. per hundred. Prompt truck de livery at any time. Mrs. George Myers,-of Leon, was operated upon at the Leon hospital yesterday morning, and at the time The Reporter went to press the in dications were that the operation had been a success. Alva Rake, of Gainesville, Mo., was operated upon at the Leon hos pital last week for appendicitis, and is making a verv fine recovery, ex pecting to be able to return home within a short time. The general talk in Leon and sur rounding (ountiy is how cheap goods tan be bought at Grimes' big price wrecking Kale. The people of Leon and vicinity are quick to realize that a dollar saved is a dollar earned. N. It.' .Miller, traveling salesman for the Hammond Packing Co., tak ing Joe Gulp's place, has moved his family to Leon from King City. .Mo., and will occupy the cottage recent ly vacated by Floyd C'o/.ad in east i',eon. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are fine young people and we welcome them Its citizens of Leon. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Akes, who have been living on a big ranch out in California, are expecting back in the near future for a visit and mav de •ide to lcniain here. Earl has at tained the heighth of his ambition, iiaving recently killed a big bear, tnd lias now accomplished some thing which Commodore will have to some to equal. J. R. Bowsher is hobbling around with a pretty sore foot. Last Satur day while working at Bowsher & Bowsher's store, a bundle of pitch forks fell from the ceiling, and al 'hough Jim did some tall stepping getting out of the way one stray ork caught him. and a tine of the fork ran into the top of his foot, making- a-bad wound. Prof. S. A. Lahr, of Davis City, was in At'ton Saturday conferring wit the school board regarding mat ters of interest to the school. Prof. Lahr has been elected superintend ent of the Afton schools for the coming year, lie was on his way to Ames where he is taking a course in agriculture and thus better pre paring himself for his school duties. —Afton Star-Enterprise. The bill car of the Sells-Floto cir cus was in Leon last Wednesday billing the town for the appearance of the circus in this city on next Wednesday, July 31st. It has been reported that it s\vas this circus which was in the big railroad wreck a few weeks ago in Indiana, but. this is incorrect. The Sells-Floto circus has been in no wreck this year, and it will be the only big circus to visit Leon this year. Walter Evans, of Eden township, while dragging the roads near his home last Thursday, struck a big rock with the drag, and was thrown off, striking o«i the back of his head, and was unconscious for some time, neighbors finding him lying in the road. He had no recollection of striking the rock, but was able to be in Leon Friday although he was mighty sore, and had a big bruise on the back of his head. J. L. rvey has received word that Mrs. Harvey who went to Den ver, Colorado, a couple of weeks a?o to visit at the home of her son, Harrv Harvev, is considerably im proved, and is gaining right along. The letter also conveyed the infor mation that Mrs. Harvey lost her trained nurse, Miss Ethel Kelley, ot Lamoni, who accompanied her to Denver, as she was married to a railroad man in Denver a few days ago. The regular uniform county teach ers' examinations will be held July 24. 2 5 and 20 at tne Leon High School buildinsr. Those who have had either twelve weeks or normal training or six months teaching ex perience are eligible to take these examinations. Special eighth grade and normal training examinatons will be held at the same time for those who failed to make their grades bv a few points. Mabel Horner Jacobs, County Superintendent. Assistant county engineer Fred J. Ehrhardt Saturday received orders to report at a training school of the coast artillery, having volunteered and secured his release by the local board, but when he took the medical examination he was turned down on a couple of counts, and is therefore un in the air. In company with Mrs. Ehrhardt they left Monday for a three weeks visit with relatives at Elkader, Iowa, awaiting final dis position of his case. W. H. Colter drove them to Des Moines Monday evening in his auto. There ws a small fire at the b-~ie of L. Christy on south Main street about six o'clock Sunday evening. The children in plaving around the house had scraped with a hoe on an electric light connection to see the sparks, and the result was tnere was a short circuit created and a good sized fire would soon have been in progress but the alarm was given and a little work soon had the fire out. the damage being slight, caus ed by cutting a couple of hvfis in the roof and siding. Th" house is by Mrs. C. M. Akes and ijrered" the repairs. r.."* f* Smoke Havana Spikes cigar* See the line of early fall hats at Mrs. L. E. Brigham's. Advance fall showing in Queen Quality shoes. Hansell's. A man never looks really dressed up in :i light colored suit. Store open evenings during the big price wrecking sale at Grimes' Clothing Store. Henry Escta THE RAWLEIGH MAN Decatur, Iowa. For Rent—The Bradley cottage east of Baptist church. P. F. Brad ley. All summer hats at greatly reduc ed prices at the Brigham Millinery Store. Mrs. L. E. Brigham. Lost—Smull leather purse, some change and aluminum drinking cup. Please return to The Keporter. Father T. P. .uurnhy, of Guthrie Center, autoed to Leon Saturday evening and was an over Sunday guest of Father J. Malier. Be on the safe side and have the children's eyes examined. it costs you nothing and may save you much. C. E. Butler is a safe and careful man to consult Don't let anyone experiment on your eyes, but see Dr. Weber, the eye and ear doctor on Wednesday, Aug. 7th, from 7 a. m. to 2 p. m. at Hotel Leon. Examination free. 2t Mrs. G. \v. Clampitt, of northeast of Leon, was called to Algona, Iowa, Tuesday to attend the funeral of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. C. L. Clam pitt, who died at her home in Mitch ell, S. D., after an illness of many months. __________ Another deep cut in prices is made at Grimes Clothing Store, and manv goods are sold at less than whole sale price to reduce the stock 'n a very low point. Come everbody to Leon if you want real bargains. Don't miss it. II. A. Wright, the Leon Overland agent, has delivered three fine cars the tast week, Aaron Goodman get ting a Willys-Knight, and J. A. Keeran and Boyd Craig each a new Overland. Pleasure cars are going to be siarce soon. Thursday night about 25 neigh bors met at the home of Mr. and .Mrs. Walter Bassett in Somersett township, and gave a farewell party for their son, Lyman, who left Tues day for the Great Lakes training station to enter army service.— Princeton Post. We learn that Leonard Still a former resident of this city, now of Des Moines, has sold out his insur ance business there and is going to France in Y. M. A. work. Leon ard will make a good man in tins line of work and his many friends here wish him well.—-Garden Grove Express. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hell went to Des Moines Tuesday to see IJr. Ely, the specialist who was called to Leou to see Mrs. Bell when she was critically in. Lr. Ely was greatly surprised to see Mrs. Bell looking so well, and was more than satisfied with the result of the treatment given her. Everybody is interested in know ing what the wheat and oats crop will make this year. E. 11. Sharp threshed last week on his farm and his wheat made a little better tuan 2 5 bushels per acre. He hauled it direct from the machine to the ele vator, getting $2.05 for his winter wheat and $2.00 for the spring wheat. _____________ Father J. C. Maher returned Fri day evening from a few days visit at Excelsior Springs, Mo., making the trip in company with Father Troy, of Weller, Iowa, and Father Cullin an, of Lovilia. They made the trip in an auto and had a fine time, but cannot say very much for the roads down in Missouri as compared with our Iowa roads. The American Scout, which has been published in this city by Vaughn Smvthe, Marion Mcintosh and Frank Coleman, this week issu ed their last edition, having sold the American Scout to the Lone Scout Junior, published at Washington. D. ('., ancl subscribers to The American Scout will in the future receive the Lone Scout Junior. Last '1 hursday's Des Moines Cap ital contained the names of Lloyd S. Raynor, of New .Market and Mrs. Goidie Pickering, of Leon, as among those to whom marriage licenses had been issued the previous day. We understand the groom is a soldier stationed at Camp Dodge. Mrs. Pickering was formerly a resident of Leon, but has been living in Des Moines for some months. Mrs. C. Akes. Mrs. Rob Akes, Mrs. A. E. Ellis, E. D. Tuller and wife and Rav Ellis and wife motor ed to Des Moines last Thursday, and visited a couple of days. While in Des Moines a reckless driver crash ed into Ray Ellis' car and smashed it up considerably, and made his get away, but they secured his number and are in hopes he will be located and made to settle. Leo Snetlien, who volunteered in the navy some time ago, and is sta tioned on the dreadnaught Nevada, one of the largest vessels owned by the United States, arrived Monday morning from an eastern port for a visit with his mother and other rela tives in this city. Leo says it is a great life, and it evident!" agrees with Jiim for he has gained twenty five uonds since going into the navy. He has thirteen days leave of ab sence. ____________ W. Ivan Coontz, of Cherokee, Oklahoma, who was here attending a family leunion at the home of his parents, Mr and Mrs. A. P. Coontz, of Woodland township, was visiting with friends in Leon last Friday. Since going to Oklahoma a few years ago Mr. Coontz has been engaged in school work in which he has been very successful, but is going on a farm now. He told us all the Deca tur county people down there were prospering, and that Jake Lentz had the best wheat crop in that cot.ntv. and the wheat crop in general is ex tra good there. Ivan returned home Monday. ___________ Walter Smith, of east of Leon, last week received a fine souvenir from his son, Mark Smith, who is at Camp Dix. New Jersey, it being a photograph of the human Liberty Bell, which was recently staged at Camp Dix, under command of Gen eral Hugh L. Scott, in which more than 25,000 officers and men partic ipated. Lines of the bell were marked out even showing the big crack in the bell* and the officers End men were grouped to make the per fect bell. It is a remarkable photo graph and Mr. Smith has had it ap proximately framed, as Mark ap pear in the picture^ Smoke the dependable cigar. Ha vana Spikes, always good. The more of your needs you buy now the more you will save. Han sell's. For Rent—8 room house, 2 blocks from Presbyterian church, furnished or unfurnished. No children. O. Springer. 50-2t. The approach of circus day finds boys growing increasingly anx ious to help with mother's fuel sup ply and dad's slippers. For Sale—On account of moving away, my Leon residence property on north Main street.. W. C. Stempel, 2621 Santa Fe Ave., Ft. Madison, Iowa. tf Ackerley & Shields threshed and sold over 17 01) bushels of wheat from their big farm over near El ston the past week, receiving about $3,500 for thei" wheat crop. Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Lewis, of north of Leon, last week received word that their .son Raymond had arrived safely overseas. Raymond is only is years old, but volunteer ed as soon as lie was eighteen. It's a pleasure to see a man with well pressed clothes. It means much to him and more to us to be able to press them better than they were ever pressed before. You can prove his statement to your own satisfaction by letting us show you. G. W. Connor. money later. Be well supplied with plenty of Eastman Film. And to be sure of getting the best possible results from each exposure you should have your developing done in our finishing department. OF COURSE We Do first Class Hand Tailoring Hats Reblocked and Trimmed Piece Goods Carried in Stock Suits Dyed Cleaning, Pressing and Alterations 0. W. CONNOR MERCHANT TAILOIl. Over Penniwell's Meat Market. Repair Your Stove, Range and Page SEVEN Tennis shoes at G. B. Price's. A mail who a hard dealer, pres ently gets a hard face. Miss Iris Smith, of Pleasanton, was operated upon at the Leon hos pital Sunday to relieve an injury to her neck sustained some years ago, and the operation promises to be an entire success. E. -I. Sankey buys and sells land on commission, makes farm loans on apiproved security at the lest rates, ancl does a general real estate busi ness. Has had 120 years' e.vperieuce in the business. Office upstairs at northwest corner of Main and Com mercial streets. Leon. Iowa. Mr. and .Mrs. John W. Wasson of northeast of Leon and Mr. and Mrs. .Marion E. Wasson, of Des Moines, started on Tuesday of last week in Marion's auto for a trip to Duluth, Minn., and other points in the north, where they expect to have some fine fishing* A card from them written at Minneapolis, says they are having a great trip, and enjoying it immensely. Leon Laundry -Quick and Good Work D. M. JUNG When the Circus Comes to Town KODAK On the street, at the grounds, even inside the tent, there will be many chances lor out of the ordinary pic tures. Make our store your headquarters for Circus Day. Furnace NOW! A Stove, Range or Furnace with a broken grate or a leaky fire-box will waste fuel enough in one winter to pay for the needed repairs several times. The Stove Manufacturers are advising us that their inability to obtain experienced labor scarcity of ma terials, particularly pig iron and poor transportation facilities will all make it difficult to obtain prompt ship ments of repair parts this fall and winter. Furthermore, the prices will in all probabilities have to advance. Place your orders now so we can save you worry and Farauhar 8b Sons Leon SKSS Iowa