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Special No. 1
100 pair of men's shoes and
ixfords, black and tan calf
skins, good styles. Values ui
to $10.00.
EXTRA SI'KCIAL
$5.00
Special No. 4
Men's and boys' good work
shoes, all sizes from 5 to 10.
Good solid oak sales, Values
$3.50 and $4.00.
VERY SI'KCIAL
$2.95
Special No*
FOR
Housecleaning.
I'd like to be an Eskimo and in
An igloo dwell, and eat fried ice
and scrambled snow, and go out
doors and yell. The humble Eskimo
is glad we see him dance and sing
iiis womenfolk don't drive him mad
3»jr cleaning house each spring. He
Isn't driven out of doors to hunt for
frozen grub while the women scrub
the floors—there are no floors to
scrub. He is not chased to beat
the hand, dames with brooms and
mops in hand—there are no mops or
brooms. Year after year he sits in
peace, or lies upon his back, clothed
in his wholesome film 'of grease,
and no one cleans the shack. His
treasured goods are not mislaid, as
mine are every year and he can
find his blubber spade, his cork
screw and his spear. And, if he
spills of ashes on the floor, .no
female heart is sore. I'll go to loin
the Eskimo when next a vessel
starts for I am tired of all the woe
that cleaning house imparts. I'm
lined of sitting on the stairs, op­
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Bib Overalls.
Maple Hickory Stripe
Attached Suspenders.
VERY Sl'KCUL
$1.50
Never mind how we do it.
the next three or four months
you will be spending a great deal
of time on your porch. Why not
furnish it attractively and make a
sort of second living-room of it, as
many people do in the summer?
We can help you with reed furniture,
grass rugs, swings, shades, and awn
ings. A Victrola will add to your
summer pleasure, too.
F. S. STEWART
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SPECIALS!
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
Special No. 2
50 men's and young men's
suits. All wool blue serge.
l"!lue. green and grey flannels.
Novelties. Values up to $1)0.
SPHCIAL
$35.00
Special No. 5
Men's and boys' fine caps, fan
ov and plain patterns worth
$1.50. $2.00 and $3.00. About
sixty in this lot.
vorit CHOICE—OMA*
$1.00
Special No. 81 Special No. 9
Hoys' overalls
Wabash Stripe, also plain blue.
Ages 3 to 10 worth $1.50 to
I $2.00
EXTRA SPECIAL.
$1.25
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You can't afford to miss these nine specials.
Grimes Clothing Co.
Leon, Iowa
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pressed by fantods three, because
the couches and the chairs are hung
upon a tree.—Walt Mason.
Land Values Increase.
Improved land in Iowa is worth
an average of $255 per acre now as
compared to $182 per acre in 1919,
according to the United States De
partment of Agriculture. Iowa has
.'•(•,000.000 acres of improved farm
land and this increase has increased
the capital wealth $1,500,000,000
the past year.
In 1880 farm land, improved, was
worth $23 per acre in 1900 it had
increased to $43 per acre and in
1910 it reached $96 per acre and in
1916 it was worth $153.
*As it now stands the overhead
price to raise a bushel of corn is 30c
a bushel for the average bushel
raised. This is one of the big items
now in raising corn.
According to teh underwear adver
tisements only thin yonng ladies un
dress in public.
E E O N S S O I A A 2 7 1 9 2 0
Special No. 3
Mini's fine dross shoes. Dark
tan and black calf-skins, black
kid and fine styles in English
walking shoes. Values §13.50
.'0 $15.00.
SPECIAL
$7.50
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Special No.
50-cent fou r-in-liand'work ties,
light and dark patterns.
SPECIAL.
:55c, for
$1.00
About 100 fine straw hats, all
sizes. While they last your
3 choice
Half Price
have the goods.
Primary Election Proclamation
County Auditor's Office, Decatur
County, Iowa.
Leon, Iowa, May 17, 1920.
Notice is hereby given to the quali
fied electors of Decatur County,
Iowa, that a Primary Election will
be held at the regular polling places
in the several election precincts in
Decatur County, Iowa, on Monday,
June" 7th, IK 20.
The polls will be open from nine
o'clock a. m. to eight o'clock p. m.
At this primary election candidates
are to be nominated by the Republi
can, Democratic and Socialist Parties
for the following offices:
Two Presidential Electors at large.
One United States Senator.
One Governor.
One Lieutenant Governor.
One Secretary of State.
One Auditor of State.
One Treasurer'of State.
One Attorney General.
One Railroad Commissioner.
O re id a E
Eighth District.
One Representative in Congress
for Eighth District.
One State Senator for the Fifth
District.
One State Representative for the
Sixth District.
COUNTY OFFICERS
One County Auditor.
One County Treasurer.
One Clerk of the District Court.
One Sheriff.
One County Recorder.
One County Attorney.
One Coroner.
One J1
ember of the Board of Sup
ervisors, term to begin January 2nd,
1921.
One Member of the Board of Sup
ervisors, term to begin January 2nd,
1922
TOWNSHIP OFFICES
One Trustee, term to begin Janu
ary 2nd. 1021.
One Trustee, term to begin Janu
ary 2nd, 1922.
Trustees to fill vacancy, if any.
One Township Clerk.
One Assessor.
Two Just ices of the Peace.
Two Constables.
One Republican Committeeman,
One Democratic Committeeman.
One Socialist Committeeman.
Delegates to the County Conven
tion of each of the above parties'as
per apportionment of the Central
Committee of each of said parties.
The Republican, Democratic and
Socialist County Conventions will
each be held on Saturday. July 3rd,
1920, at eleven o'clock a. m. (See
Sec. 1087 a25.l
In witness whereof. I have here
unto affixed my hand and the seal
of the County of Decatur, State of
Iowa, this 17th day of May. 1920.
G. A. MEEK.
County Auditor of Decatur County,
Iowa.
Where Farming is Profitable.
Farm lands in the South have not
been boosted by speculation. Why
buy a farm in a high-priced section
and cripple your future with debt
when you can buy a better farm in
the South for one-third the price.
Don't you want a farm where* dim
atic and soil conditions are unex
celled? It is our business to help
you find just what you want. We
know Southern lands and land
values and it is to our interest to
locate you where you will succeed
and ma*ke business for the railroad.
There is no charge for our service.
For full information call on, dr
write to, J. C. Williams, Manager,
Southern Railway Development
Service, Washington, D. C. 41-12t.
An Ohio clergyman says the needs
of this rapid age demand the ser
mons be cat to fifteen minutes. But
there are some in every congregation
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Farai Bureau Notes.
The past week we have held three
demonstrations on soil erosion work
in widely separated neighborhoods.
No work that the farm bureau has
taken up and fostered has met with
such success at the meetings or gives
promise of accomplishing so much
good. The rolling land of the county
is so subject to washing—that there
is no estimate in dollars and cents
v^ilue—can be put upon the possibil
ities of stopping all washing of De
catur county soils. On the farm of
•Dancer Brothers, west of Lainoni—
Prof. Sunderlin of the Agricultural
Engineering Department of the State
College, constructed a series of dams
out of material that usually goes to
waste on most farms. On the farm
ol' Claude Ramsey west of Van Wert,
he constructed another set of models
—and.on the l'arm of J. \V. Walton,
east of Leon a third series of model
dams. If you are interested in the
.,
There has been more calls for the
County Agent's time on this work
than we tan possiblv do. We must
arrange to work in groups
on instead of individuals,
membership is so large we cannot be
on everv member's farm. There has
been a "little trouble in getting lime
sulphur and lead arsenate on ac
count of the switchmen's strike tying
up the freight. Every striking
switch men ought to be forced to live
on windfalls and wormy apples this
winter and see how they like it. Now
is the time to apply the second spray.
Use six (marts of-lime' sulphur—one
ami one-half pounds lead arsenate
(powder)
or three nounds iead
arsenate (paste) and fifty gallons
water. Apply to all orchard trees
until tliev are dripping wet.
The first \V«ek and tins week will
see all the corn planted by the boy
corn club members. It lias been a
very strenuous time for the boys this
vear. but everything will come out
O. K„ in the end we hope. We have
a nice bunch of boys now in this
work and hope that thev carry it
thiouj? li to a successful conclusion.
Tlii? will fee about tli£ last veek
to enroll in the pig club work afid
hope to have a fine bunch of boys
and girls in this work. If you wish
to enroll in this club send your name
to the county agent at once before it
is too late.
We have superintended the plant
ing of the corn variety experimental
plots this last week and hope to be
able to have some valuable in for
mat-ion on this next fall. We have
also started two fields of corn treat
ed with 16 per cent acid phosphate
applied afc the rate of one hundred
and twenty-five pounds per acre and
are anxiously waiting results as to
whether it will rtnv \n increased
vicld. This is something that the
farmers should get a line on as some
time in the future we are going to
be forced to do it. If you have not
already done so better plant some
n"" for early hosr seed and a pate!
of mironkins for f«11 feed. Nothng
pays greater returns.
Fanner "Up Ag«iust It."
Farming was pictured as confront
ed with more serious difficulties
than any other American industry bv
Secretary Meredith of tlie depart
ment of agriculture, in an audress at
the annual meeting of tlie cnamber
of commerce of the United States.
"American farmers," the secre
tary said, "not only are in competi
tion with each other as producers,
but they are in competition with the
producers in other countries. Not
only that., but agriculture as an in
dustry is in direct competition with
other industries for capital and
especially'labor. Under present con
dii.ions tarniers are losing in com
petition for labor.
"Farmers hesitate to pay higher
wages because, unlike other indus
tries, there is no opportunity for a
ijuick turnover, or to pass the in
creased cost along to the consumers.
Not only are farm wages higher than
ever before." but farm hired labor is
scarce at any price, and, on the whole
is said to be relatively less efficient
than formerly.
Farmers now are faced with the
problem of deciding whether to pay
higher prices for all the tilings they
have to buy—farm labor, equipment,
seed fertilizer, clothing and supplies
—and the investment of a large part
of the cost oi production in the early
SD'ing months, with the prospect of
after the harvest vilien thev tome to
.• iket their crons. they will be com
pelled to accept lower prices for all
they have to seTi, or whether they
shall cut down the initial expense of
j.ioiiu-cnou by investing less capital
!n erniininent. reducing acrcage and
numbers of livestock. The latter
ooarse means rminller production.
The food situation in the next twelve
months will depend on what answer
the f. tiiers give to this- difficult
uestion»"
Jl'urtrat'ng the rower of the
Anteriian farmers, Secretary Mere
dith said '.lia: if tht-y^o all their
bel^ngi.igf, inch-din'- and. crops and
I've st».ek. they would be able to bay
all the railroads, all the manufactur
ing plants. all the mines and all the
quarries in the country.
Pccnl'ar Accident at Ose:l:i.
who coulda't even get to sleep in away as soon as she moves into the and start a .new hreed of chickens,
that time. ne*,ulttce.- a?^--Grrad River
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Willanl Wood, the fourteen year
Md roil of Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Wood residing in the Groveland
vicinity, while in Osceoia Sunday
night met with what proved to be
quite a serious accident. Shortly
after o'clock he in company wnn
four boy friends, Orvil .McLaughlin,
Lloyd IViiller, Art Millard and Edwin
Orr Mere walking along on Main
street on the cast side of where the
old Ettinger store once stood. Wil
lard happened to stub his foot, fac
ing on a piece of pipe standing in
the walk, it striking him in the
abdomen. He was picked up un
conscioTis by his companions but
through their efforts he was soon
brought too and was on his way
again with them, thinking nothing
serious had happened. He rode to
his home in one of the boys rigs that
night and soon after arriving was
taken suddenly ill. Dr. Hollenbeck
was summoned and found that he
had received inward injuries, but
was getting along alright until
yesterday morning when he was
taken worse and was brought to the
Harkeh hospital for further treat- egg. Mrs. Bryant was doing some
ment. 'It was a most unfortunate!cooking and on breaking one that,
and peculia- accident. The many she supposed to be a double-yplked
friends of Willard are honing that
nothing further will result and that
he will soon be well again.—Osceola
Tribune.
It takes two trucks to move the thought this too good to keep and
average household—one to carry the brought it down town. Mr. Hiiies
furniture, and the other to convey tested the egg and found it perfect.
the old clothes the housewife gives Jim i? going to out it
AIRS. O. E. MOORE GAINS, 20
POUNDS. V'"
Eats Anything, Recovers Strength
and Sleeps Soundly Since Tak
inn Tmilac.
"Since I began taking Tanlac I am
not only in perfect health, but have
gained twenty pounds in weight,"
said Mrs. O. E. Moore, 1515 Harris
son Street, Kansas City, Jlo., re
cently. Continuing, she said:
"Eighteen months ago I suffered a"
nervous breakdown and became so
weak I could not do my houesAvork
or even walk up or downstairs. 1 hau
severe headaches nearly all the time
and such awful dizzy spells it was
with difficulty I could keep from
falling, and on three occasions did
actually fall to the floor. I also had
sharp pains in the region of my heart
which were so bad they woukl fright-
en me.
4t
washing of soils, constructing dams, anything at all and could not digest
terracing lull-sides, or work ot t.iat,
nature, ask the County Agent, toi consequence I lost weight until I was
bulletins and instructions or, better
8( arCely
still, go see the work oil the above. became weaker and weaker every
mentioned 1 anus. 11 you do not ge^.jay. My nerves were in an awful
all. the mtorination there that you condition and it was almost impos
wisli-—ask the County Agent to stai
Sjbie
you in the proper way. was so restless. 1 would lie awake
Another pioject that, lias been ol italf the night everv ni^ht
tremendous importance to all 1'r uit ..j jiafj ta]cen many differen
growers is the siirnyirir, pioject.
My appetite was so poor it
was nearly" impossible for me to eat
eVen
the little I did eat, and as a
more than a frame and just
for me to get any sleep as I
monts amjmedicines"
rent treat­
for mv i.i
ments and medicines" for my troubles,
hut none of tliem did nie'any good,
and as I had read so much about
the good Tanlac was doing others I
„!,y.! decided to try it, and had not
as oui taken over half a bottle when I be
gan to feel better, my appetite im
proved and my nerves were in better
condition. 1 continued taking it un
til now 1 can eat anything I want
without having the slightest sign of
indigestion, my nervousness is all
gone and I can sleep as peaceful as
a child all night long. I never have
a headache now or those dizzy spells
and those pains in the region of my
heart have stopped completely. I
have regained my strength until I
can rlo all my own housework for my
house of six" rooms with the great
est ease, and, in fact, 1 don't remem
ber to have ever felt better in my
life. I look upon Tanlac as remark
able medicine and am more tnan glad
to say a good word for it."
Tanlac is sold in Leon by E. E.
Bell, in Lamoni by .1. F. Jones, in
Grand River by Fred Bone, in
Pleasanton and vicinity by C. A.
Craig.
GET TEN YEA US AT AXAMOSA.
Two Lads Plead Guilty and Judge
Hunter Fixes Sentence.
The two boys, Guy Miller, of Des
Moines,, ahd Doyle w'ren, of Van
Wert, who faced preliminary hear
ing last week on charge of entering
the Lucas postol'fice about two
weeks ago, and taking post cards,
stamps and some other supplies,
were given an indeterminate sen
tence Monday afternoon by Judge
Hunter for ten years each at
Anamosa.
Sheriff Lyman left Tuesday morn
ing with the boys for that place,
where they will begin to serve the
mandate of the court without de
lay.
The boys are both IS years old.
They told of a number of similar af
fairs in which they have been im
plicated, in the majority of cases
serving as tools to shield older and
more hardened criminals from the
arm of the law. In this particular
case, they claimed, their orders were
to come to Lucas and make a
general survey of the situation
there toward .he end of further de
velopments later on. But further
developments for these lads were
shaped by the hand of justice, and
stone walls and iron bars may per
haps be in time to affect the refin
ing process and make out of these
young would-be criminals two desir
able citizeas on whose minds there
has been impressed a well learned
jesson of respect for law and order,
and that there is no place in society
for that element. Our present
standards of civilization have been
achieved through the recognition of
established principles of justice and
all other that makes for a people
deserving of the rights of American
citizenship. The sooner there comes
or is developed in the youth of the
country a sufficient capacity to
fathom this fact, the sooner will the
menace of such outlawry be done
away with.
The sentence was fixed upon in
formation from the county attorney,
and no uncertain plea of guilty up
on the part of the two boys. Two
brothers of young Wren and one of
.Miller were here at the time of the
sentence.—Chariton Leader.
Print Paper Conditions.
The writer made a business trip
to Omaha last week to look up
nnoer stock to fill contracts of con
siderable size. We were unable to
u.et any of the stock scheduled for
these jobs and were glad to take
what we could get. The stock pur
chased menas a waste of twenty
ner cent on the original order, while
the price has doubled. We were un
able to get a single sheet of print
paper of the size used for the Tri
bune but we have the promise of
jiart of a ton about the firsr of the
.nth. While the newspapers are
all getting along in a hand-to
mouth style the condition will get
botte'- or worse. If the stringency
continues much longer, with the
corresponding advance in prices
many country newspapers in small
towns are going to be forced out of
business. It may not be very long
until the county seat newspapers
will be the only ones printed in each
county. Consolidation and extinc
tion are in progress. The national
newspaper association reports two
thousand newspaper plants went out
of business last year.
That the climax of this condition
may be a serious menace to bus
iness is expressed in the action of
foreign advertising firms with
whom we do business. We have
been advised' that to relieve the
condition so far as they may, we are
absolved from the condition in the
contract requiring the mailing of a
copy of the paper each week as
proof of the adv. has been inserted,
and that a certificate of publication
filed with bill be sufficient.—Har
lan Tribune.
Henry Bryant brought a freak
egg to the Hine8 feed store last Fri
day that is a most peculiar Happen
stance that has happened since Heck
was a pup. It was an egg within an
(egg.
Mrs. Jiryant was doing some
egg found to her surprise that ft
only contained the white portion
and no yolk at all, but, strange to
say when she came -to examine it,
I the other egg .remained Inside. Henry
under a
hen
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SCREEN TOUR I
PORCHES
You know and appreciate the
value of door screens and
window screens, but have
you considered how very
comfortable the porch would
be this summer if screened?
Call and let us explain the value
of the different kinds of screen
wire, such as the black, the.
galvanised, the bronzed.
By the way, bronze wire is be
coming mqre and more popu
lar. The price is lower than
evtr before by almost haJf.
The copper wire cloth lasts
indefinitely as it never rusts
under any circumstances,
Wm. Crichtcn & Son
We Must Have $5000
By Jane first it will be nec
essary for us to have $5,000
to pay bills. We must have
the money by that*time and
we must ask all owing us on
book accounts and past due
notes to make settlement by
that time. Don't put this off.
The settlements must be
made. We must settle our
bills and we must have the
money to do it.
Biddison Implement
Company
AFTER GRIP
WINTER COLDS—
BAD BLOOD
Yoti are pale, thin, weak—with
little vitality. Your liver is slug
gish and the bad blood causes your
stomach muscles to lose their elas
ticity and become flabby and weak
—then indigestion.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery, made from wild roots and
barks, and free from alcohol or
narcotics, is the great and powerful
blood purifier of to-day. Ingredi
ents printed on wrapper. This
tonic, in liquid or tablet form, is
just what you need to give you
vim vigor and vitality.
Take the 'Discovery' as directed
and it will search out impure and
poisonous matter throughout the
system and eliminate it through,
the natural channels.
You can procure a trial package
of the tablets by sending 10c. to
the Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y.
Eockford, HI.—"I was having troublo
with my liver. I would have se\er©
paiijs through my
back, sick-head
aches, and felt tired
all the time. My -l
mother lias always
been a strong
advocate of Dr-
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'Yi
4'"
ft
Piercers remedies
and it was on that
account that I tried
Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery.
One bottle restored'
me to a perfectly
healthy condition and I have had no
return of trouble.'*—MRS. ANNA yj?
BUSH AW, 1901 South Main St.
NERVOUS MOTHERS
Cumbered with aidless rounds
of duty, the tired, nervous
mother generally £nds in
Scott's Emulsion
tonic-help of rarest value.
A little of Scott'siiker meals
for a few days would do
a world of good. Try it IJ
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Tullis Bros.
Decatur, Iowa
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