Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa Thursday, February l6, l922 CLARENCE MCHARNESS, who was engaged in cutting wood for RALPH SHELTON on a farm near Decatur, met with a bad accident, Tuesday when he struck his right instep with the axe cutting a deep gash. He was brought to Leon to have a physician dress the wound, and will have a pretty sore foot for some time. H.L. POUSH, of Pleasanton, was a business visitor in Leon last Friday. For the past year MR. POUSH has been manager of the Farmers Store at Pleasanton, but has resigned on account of having to devote his time to his extensive farming interests. He is succeeded by O.E. SEYMOUR, who has been Assistant Manager of the store. HENRY FORD last week bought the big auto factory making the Lincoln cars, paying $8,000,000 cash for the plant, and when his bid was accepted, he wrote his check for the full amount. The first thing he did after securing the plant was to make a big reduction in the price of Lincoln autos. The Estes Motor Co. have been appointed agents for the Lincoln at Leon. I have just returned from Chicago. Our goods are arriving daily and in a few days we will have the most complete stock of millinery we have ever had since we have been in Leon. We will have exclusive pattern hats from the leading houses in Chicago, and cordially invite the ladies of Leon and vicinity to call and see this wonderful display of millinery. --MRS. L.E. BRIGHAM. Say Man!--If you have $2,000 cash I will sell you my improved 80 acres at $70 per acre. $3,200 encumbrance, 5 years' time. Good house, barn, 2 chicken houses, garage, cement cave, 70 fruit trees. There are 25 acres bottom ground, place seeded except l5 acres, plenty of water. Farming tools with place if taken soon. Don't write, come and see. --EARLY DAY, R.F.D. l, phone 3504 Grand River, Iowa. MISS MABEL MCCLUNG and MISS AGNES BURNS returned from St. Joe, Mo., the first of the week where they were called by the serious illnes of MRS. ROBERT BURNS, a former resident of Garden Grove. JAMES BURNS, one of the sons lives in St. Joe but FRANK lives in Dakota and could not come, smallpox being prevalent there and he was unable to get his stock taken care of, and then too they had just had a big snow up there, the snow being drifted about the house so FRANK had to get out an upstairs window one morning. --Garden Grove Express. Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert

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