Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa Thursday, August l8, l904 MRS. HARVE STRALEY and son, of Thayer, came Saturday for a visit with relatives. The Osceola ball team came Sunday and played with our boys. The game scored l5 to 4 in favor of our boys. GYPSY and BONNIE BENEFIEL, of King City, Mo., visited Saturday with their cousins, MEDA and CLELLA THOMPSON. They were on their way home from Nevada, Iowa, where they had been visiting relatives. MR. REED, of Illinois, came Tuesday for a visit with his son, PROF. REED and wife. The basket meeting will be held Sunday August 28. It was to be last Sunday but was postponed as REV. PRICE could not be with us at that date. A farewell party was given at the home of ED HOLT and wife Monday evening in honor of the latter's sister, LULU DANIELS, of Piedmont, Mo. Games were played and a jolly good time was enjoyed by all. Those present were: MISSES MARY RHODES, EFFIE CRESWELL, CARNEILLA and ARNEILLA MCNEFF, GERTIE WALKER, MEDA and CLELLA THOMPSON, ELSIE HALL, DULLA FULLER, LULU BLADES and LULU DANIELS. MESSRS. CLYDE SAYLOR, GUSS RHODES, ERVIN STROHM, WILL POWERS, CARL BROWN, CLAUD COLLINS, ERNIE SAYLOR, ERNEST JONES, LORAN THOMPSON, RAYMOND ALLISON, BEN EASTER and LIGE FULTON. Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert August l9, 2003

Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa Thursday, August l8, l904 ED FEST and family Sundayed with GEORGE SMITH and wife. JOHN WION, wife and sons, visited at HENRY WION's Sunday. CLARA GENTRY and JOHN ZIMMERMAN were Lamoni callers Thursday. NOLA STRAIGHT is working for MRS. HARL SCOTT. BELLE, LESTER, SOLOMON and ARTHUR SMITH and EVE WION called on MRS. ED FEST Saturday. ED THUMMEL was seen in this vicinity Sunday. NELSON SMITH called on JOHN WION Sunday. PEARL BARNES visited her cousin, MRS. EMMETT PATRICK, this week. EFFIE GENTRY called at J.W. WION's one day last week. ROY STRAIGHT met with an accident last week by falling and hurting his wrist badly. NOLA STRAIGHT and EVE WION called on JENNIE RYAN Sunday evening. ROY NAYLOR and family were in this vicinity Sunday. GEORGE and JOHNNY SMITH called at D. GENTRY's Sunday. EVE WION spent Sunday with BELLE SMITH. Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert August l9, 2003

Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa Thursday, August l8, l904 WM. GRAY, of Leon, came down to visit his daughters, Mesdames FINCH and QUICK and old neighbors this week. WM. CARROLL had business at SQUIRE FINCH's Monday. F.W. SELLERS was a Davis City caller Monday. GEORGE GORE had business at SQUIRE WOOD's, at Davis City, Monday. JOHN SELLERS is threshing his timothy. F.W. SELLERS was a Decatur caller Tuesday. THOMAS QUICK was a Decatur caller Wednesday. A.E. FINCH and wife, and WM. GRAY visited at J.W. MULLINS Wednesday, MESSRS. GRAY and MULLINS going to Davis city in the evening. ABBY SMITH is working for L. GIBBONS at present. MRS. L. PULLEN and daughter, MRS. EDE MCDOWELL, visited MRS. VERA MCGAHUEY Wednesday. LON FULTON and wife, from Leon, visited at A.E. FINCH's Thursday and Friday. MRS. I.N. BROWN and MRS. QUICK went to Davis City Friday evening to take the train to Leon to attend the Wallace Show Saturday. MRS. M. MULLINS was a Decatur caller Thursday. GEORGE MCGAHUEY and family passed through our berg Sunday after visiting Saturday with his brother, ED, at Decatur. JOHN MCCLARAN and wife passed through our berg Sunday. DON SLAUGHTER and wife are the proud parents of a fine son arriving Friday. MRS. J.N. BROWN and aunt and uncle, MR. SWITZER and wife, of Lamoni, visited here Saturday and Sunday. MRS. D. MCDOWELL visited MRS. MULLEN Friday. MRS. JAY SELLERS and J. MILLER and wife, visited MRS. M. MILLER Sunday. A.E. FINCH and wife, MRS. MULLINS and MRS. PEARL QUICK visited at T.M. QUICK's Sunday. BILLY SMITH and mother visited ED MCGAHUEY's west of Decatur Sunday. MR. VAN WINKLE and wife visited at D. SLATER's Sunday. FLAVY and WALTER HOFFMAN attended the ball game at Terre Haute Sunday. JOHN SELLERS, wife and daughter, visited at WM. CASH's Sunday. Copied by Nancee (McMurtrey) Seifert August l9, 2003

Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa August 25, l904 MRS. J.B. HATCHER was painfully injured in a frightful runaway Monday evening. She and her daughter BLANCHE were out driving, having come from their home southeast of town, and upon reaching the Hopkins corner, BLANCHE suggested that they turn east, fearing they might meet an automobile. Just as they were opposite the Abbott place, WILL SMITH, returning from Davis city, shot over the hill ahead of them in his automobile, blowing the horn to give warning to any approaching driver. The old family horse, always gentle before, became frightened at the horn and lights of the machine, and turned squarely around in the road, coming back to town at break-neck speed. The frightened animal turned south at the Newberry residence, west at the Rauch residence and south again at the Newcomb residence, where he broke loose from the buggy and ran on home. As the horse broke away one of the thrills of the buggy, which had been broken when the animal first became frightened, stuck into the ground and stopped the vehicle, not upsetting it, however. The suddenness with which the rig stopped threw MRS. HATCHER forward and she fell across the wheel, seriously bruising her chest. MISS BLANCHE was not hurt in the least. MRS. HATCHER's condition is painful but not dangerous; had the drivers not kept their presence of mind and held the horse in the road it might have been much worse. --LAMONI CHRONICLE. Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert July 17, 2003

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