The Leon reporter., May 13, 1920, Image 2

About The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930

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Complains of Treatment at Insane
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Albert N. Hazelton, of Lamoni,
who spe»t several nioatlis in the in
sane hospital at Clarinda, the past
winter, complains of the treatment
Teceived at the hands of somp of the
attendants, the following dispatch
from Lamoni appearing in Monday
Des Moines Register:
liAMONI, la, May 9—Perhaps
every inmate and former inmate ot
hospitals for the insane had at one
time or other concocted schemes for
-'getting even" with those who were
responsible for their incarceration,
their poor food, and ill treatment,
hut Albert N. Hazelton, who spent a
term of four months in Clarnula
hospital this winter is getting at the
root of the thing.
He has spent over $100 for cop
ies of a book entitled, "The Mind
That Found Itself," a work recog
nized as authoritative, written by a
Yale man who alter a serious ex
perience recovered the use of his
faculties and in the process of re
covery deliberately had unset
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committed to the violent wards tor
the personal experiences to be had
there.
Hazelton complains of some nns
treatment from attendants but feels
the whole subject is worthy popu
lar attention, so he is sending cop
ies of his book to various local and
state officials, with the intention ot
opening their eyes to the evils still
•persisting in our methods of hand
ling the mentally afflicted.
He claims that if local authori
ties had onlv understood more about
mental hygiene, he would not have
been compelled to spend four months
under guard, working for nothing, a
atate charge. He also insists that he
was only deranged about mental
hygiene, he would returned to nor
mal if put under the care of a phy
sician for a few days at home.
At the time of his arrest f?r in
sanity, he was in a state of religious
exaltation, pouring coal oil on the
fire in the cookstove.
He is a successful gardener, per
haps 30 years of age, living peace
fully with his mother town, and
has the respect of all his neighbors.
See Smith & DeKalb who sell or
fwV Red River Valley lands. One
fan for the round trip every Satur
ate*. Call or write us at either Van
Wert or DeKalb, Iowa- Smith &
DeKalb. 13-tf.
tCarlUtnm
Sfroheim's
Plajj,
The
Most Enthralling
Photo- drama that the
Art
has
Ever
Produced
LONE with tie tempter
on the summit of a
mighty Alpine peak, she
listened to his pleadings:
"Your husband does not love
jrou why should you love him?"
j* What did this lonely, on
luppy, neglected wife do? Did
die rebuke him for his daring—
tut did she acknowledge that it
was true- Or did she find away
to win back her husband's lofre?
Most of all, what did the hus
I band do when he and the other g.
*ian were at last alone?
See "BLIND HUSBANDS"
and you won't be able to take
your eyes for one second from
die screen while you watch this
tremendous human drama un
fold in the midst of the most
wonderful outdoor settings.
Now playing. Don't miss it.
IDLE HOUR
Sunday and Monday
May 16 and 17.
Farm Bureau Kotos.
The past week we put on the first
spray at the orchard of iNlr. Al. J*
Porter at Van Wert. This sprayiag
demonstration is under the super
vision of Mr. Newton L. Partridge
of the State College, and this orchard
will be sprayed four times during
the summer. The past few warm
days has crowded the apple blos
soms out very fast and it will in all
probability be too late to apply the
first or cluster bud spray when this
article gets into print. It should be
put on before blossoms open up and
not sprayed until blossoms have fall
en off. "Many orchards are affected
by the spring tanker worms and care
should be taken *o make a heavy ap
plication of lead arsenate where
tliey have appeared in previous
years. If you do not have the lime
sulphur to add to the lead arsenate—
by all means spray with the lead
alone—if your orchard is badlv in
fested with the spring canker worms.
If you cannot obtain the material
for spray solution for the» first time,
be sure and apply the other three ac
cording to spray schedule for 3rd.
and 4th. spray and use 6 quarts lime
sulphur instead of five quarts on
calyx or 2nd. spray. Be sure and
have foliage dripping wet.
This week will witness the plant
ing of soy beans and corn variety
plots. We are hoping to get some
valuable information from these ex
periments.
We are unloading two cars of lime
stone this week and hope to unload
many more before the season is
over. If you would obtain a suc
cessful stand of clover or alfalfa,
you should apply lime as most all of
soils are acid.
The boys' corn club will get un
der way this week and a nice bunch
of boys have enrolled for the pro
ject. There will be some hot com
petition among the boys.
We would like to start a men
acre contest, but guess there are no
good growers in the county, or at
least it appears that way—as none
have shown a disposition to enroll
in such contest.
The Decatur County Bee-keepers
Association will hold a county wide
picnic sometime in June at the farm
of Mr. S. H. Duffield, where a fine
program will be given and an address
by Prof. F. B. Paddock, also one
by Prof. E. W. Atkins. Mr. Pad
dock is the state apiarist and no man
or woman interested in bees should
miss his address, as some practical
lessons in bee-keeping will be given
by actual demonstrations on the
hives of Mr. Duffield. Mr. Atkins,
the field specialist, will also give
some practical hints on bees amd
their care and you should plan to
attend. Bring your lunch basket
and the whole family and stay all
da^4t
the meeting of the Fleece Wool
Growers held at the Court House on
last Friday evening, it was decided
to pool and ship wool of all mem
bers same as we did last year. The
State Bankers Association has rec
ommended to all county hanks that
they advance from 75 per cent up
on all wool consigned by growers at
the current rate of interest lor this
locality. This money will be ad
vanced upon certificates of the one
who is in charge of the loading of
wool, said certificate to show the
number of pounds of wool consigned
and actually billed out to the bond
ed wool warehouse. The wool so
consigned and drawn upon is to be
held as collateral by the banker who
advances the money. Some may
object to paving interest on the
money so advanced, but we would
have you remember that if you are
taking over the dealers business
you must assume some of Ms risks
as well. It makes no difference
either for if he buys your wool with
borrowed capital—he just pays you
that much less per pound, and you
had just as "^1 pav it out of one
pocket as the other—it won't hurt
anv worse.
The washing of the top layers ot
the soil from our hillsides and the
cutting of ditches that divide our
fields into small irregular nieces
constitute the most serious menace
to our agricultural land. Sometime
ago the United States Department of
Agriculture made an estimate that
a cubic mile of soil eroded from the
farms of the United States reaches
the Gulf and the Oceans each year.
]f our state loses 1-48 of it and De
catur county 1-99 of that it will mean
a six inch layer off of 1420 acres
each year. This does not take into
account the soil that does not reach
the Gulf—that which washes off our
fields onto our neigbors.
The problem of holding onto our
soil and of stopping the ditches is
one that requires care and watch
fulness. The cost of controlling soil
erosion can no longer be charged
against the soil or the field but sub
tracted from the high labor cost of
cultivating badly eroded areas.
The results obtained in many
parts of the state, even in soils that
are harder to hold than ours, where
notable pieces of work are being
done with but small expenditure of
money and labor leads us to the con
clusion that erosion can be controll
ed on Decatur county farms.
A series of meetings have been
called for May 17, 18, and 19, in De
catur county at which time Prof. H.
H. Sunderlin of the Extension De
partment at Ames will explain the
methods of checking erosion that
have proved successful on Iowa
farms. Mr. Sunderlin has been
working on this problem with a
large number of farmers for a good
many years and he can tell us what
is beiqg done. The meetings will
be held at the following places,
Claude Ramsey farm, one mile west
of Van Wert on May 18th, and at
the J. W. Walton farm—five miles
south-east of Leon on Biay ISth.
Everyone who is interested is invit
ed.
Oil clothes are about the only bad
habits some women have.
THEiiE0fr BCYO&TKK, TEV&SDAY, MAY 13,.1920
fallowed Their Authority—But Ex
pensive.
The States Highway Commission
recently turned down the bids the
Board of Supervisors accepted when
bids were asked for furnishiug ma
terial for county work last January.
As far as known locally the bids
were bo«a fide in every respect and
as for their being low and reason
able as prices are today, they were
exceptional bargains for the county.
The contracts ror furnishing the
material was given the Hayes Lum
ber Co. of this city, and other bid
ders claimed the prioes were so low
that no profit could be ihade. But in
due time the State Highway Com
mission sent word that the bide had
been rejected, and called for new
ones. The prnper advertising was
done bv the cotmty auditor, the date
set being Monday of this week, and
there was but one bid entered, that
of the same company which luid had
their bid rejected, but this time the
prices were considerably higher on
the material. The scarcity of
material caused other nearby firms
to not submit any prices.
Whether or not the. second bid of
the local company will be rejected,
of course is not known, and every
additional delay is costing the tax
payers of the county more money,
for the material must be secured
from some source and a certain
amount of road, bridge and other
countv work done this year.
The State Highway Commission
has the final say in such matters, and
it looks like they are keeping up
with the other state officials in
making this administration, by their
mismanagement, the most expensive
and inefficient administration in the
history of this or any other state.—
Corydon Democrat.
'Uprisings' reported all over
Europe. Most riotous ones in this
country are the uprisings from the
desks that occur when the teacher
says school is dismissed.
We understand that H. L. Ot
ipliant is in communication with a
large prospecting and oil producing
Oil Company of the Texas field* who
have indicated that they would be
willing to drill two holes in this ter
ritory provided a sufficiently large
acreage could he secured.
Definite propositions as to the
amount of acreage or terms of leas
ing have not yet been received but
Mr. Oliphant is expecting them soon
and will then take up the matter
with landowners of this vicinity. The
company proposes to make a
thorough test of this territory by
sinking two holes 3,00 feet deep
without financial help from the com
munity.
The deep hole at the mine was
only about 800 feet deep, as we
remember it, and the impression has
alwavs prevailed here that there was
a strong showing of oil, but the drill
ing was stopped when the big vein
of coal was struck, and the Company
changed their plans from oil to coal
production.
In case the proposition of these
people is a liberal one we have no
doubt but that they will be able to
secure all the leases necessary to
justify a thorough testing or this
part of the country.—Gainsville
News.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas
^Frank J* Cheney makes oath that he la
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney
ft Co., doing business In the City ot To
ledo, County and State aforesaid, and that
said firm will pay the lum of ONE HUN
DRED DOLLARS for any caae of Catarrh
that cannot be
cured
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30x3% Goodyear Single-Cure $'
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Dodge Brothers and
Buick Cars
Smld by
J. R. BOWSHER
by the use ot
HALLS CATABBHBMEDIcmSi,Nri.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, tills 6th day of December,
ifieal) A. W. Gfeaaon. Notary Public.
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is tak
en Internally and acta through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the Syatera.
Druggists, 75c. Teatlmonlala free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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This purpose is expressed by the enormous
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The effect of this endeavor is noted in the
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were factory-equipped with Goodyear Tires
than with any other kind*
It is also noted in the fact that if you own a
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requiring one of the sizes mentioned, you
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