January 18, 1892 News

MCVEY, HOLMES, NEICE, MILLER, PRYOR

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/12/2015 at 03:50:09

The Leon Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
Thursday, January 18, 1917, Page 1

TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO [1892]
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Items Taken from the Files of The Reporter Published a Quarter of a Century Ago.
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The thermometer registered 31 degrees below zero Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock.

J. H. McVey, the bright young attorney of Lamoni, is attending court this week, being interested in several cases.

A bridge on the Q road two miles southwest of Garden Grove, was badly burned Monday afternoon and the passenger train did not reach Leon until six o'clock in the evening.

Frank Holmes, of Hepner, Oregon, is here visiting with his parents and old friends. He formerly ran a tinship at Decatur City, but has been farming in Oregon for the past six years.

Fred Neice and two others have purchased a steam riding gallery like the one which was here last fall, and will start on the road with it about the middle of April. It is a fine one and cost $2,700. Fred will retire from the bakery and restaurant and Aunt Jane Miller will again take charge of it.

Guy Pryor is not going to let any one get ahead of him when it comes to telling stories. One evening last week several gentlemen were sitting around the stove in Neice's bakery, among them being two horse buyers from the east and Gus Pryor. Fred Neice made some remark about a hog he had which ate up all the hay he gave it for bedding. One of the horse buyers remarked he had never heard of a hog eating hay before in his life, and said this country must produce wonderfully good hay if a hog would eat it. Gus spoke up and said, why of course hogs would eat hay; that only last week he sold two which weighed 1,290 pounds and they had not had anything to eat all winter except second crop blue grass. Gus has such an earnest way of telling his stories that the horse men took it all in, and left town the next day remarking that if blue grass was that rich out here, it was too rich a country for them to try and buy horses in.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2015