The Leon Reporter Leon, Decatur County, Iowa Thursday, October 30, 1919, Page 1 TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO. Items Taken From The Files of The Reporter Published a Quarter of a Century Ago [1894]. The first snow for this winter fell in this locality Monday morning. Yesterday about noon A. J. Warner met with a serious accident while working at C. W. Hoffman's home. He was driving a nail, which flew up and struck him in the left eye, bursting the ball and of course destroying the sight. While loading a piano at the depot Friday Hammy Tullis had a narrow escape from death, when the heavy instrument fell over and caught him under it and he is compelled to walk on crutches, one of his legs being badly sprained and bruised. While digging a well at the E. W. Curry residence last Friday a whole brick fell from the top of the well, striking Wall Adair who was working at the bottom, 27 feet deep, square on the head. Wall says it was a pretty hard rap and his head bears ample proof of his assertion. Capt. J. D. Brown left Saturday for Chicago to take up his work as a member of the live stock commission firm of T. H. & J. D. Brown, where Tom Brown has been engaged in business for many years, and is said to be the best hog buyer at the Union stock yards. E. B. McClelland and Geo. E. Hurst have purchased a large amount of machinery and in a couple of weeks will have their pipe factory in operation in the building formerly used as a cheese factory. They will manufacture all kinds of pipes from the corn crib meerschaum to the finest briar wood, and will employ ten hands to commence with, and expect to increase this number later. Will Cochran and wife, who have been living at Burlington, Colorado, came in yesterday. They have shipped their effects back and will again become residents of Decatur county. One of the largest loans ever made in Decatur county has been placed by the Darrow Investment Co., of Corning, on the 1,400 acres of land owned by W. F. Craig and sons, the amount of the loan being $15,000. This will relieve Mr. Craig of a large number of judgments which have been hanging against him, and the interest on them was considerable. The worst part of it is that almost the entire amount of the judgments is for surety debts which Uncle Bill has paid for friends who he accommodated by going their security, and then he was left to pay it. Uncle Bill Craig has paid more security debts than any man living in Decatur county, having paid no less that $25,000 in the last eighteen years. Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, August 2015

News Index   ***   Decatur County IAGenWeb