Leon Reporter Leon, Decatur County, Iowa Thursday, January 18, 1917, Page 1 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (1892) _________ Items Taken from the Files of The Reporter Published a Quarter of A Century Ago. _________ Tuesday evening about seven o'clock word was brought up town that Timothy Moore had killed his wife at their home down in Grassy Hollow near the Q depot. Andrew Bright and Grant Dorsey called at the Moore home to see him about doing some work, and getting no response one of them looked in the window, and saw Moore who finally came and unbolted the door, and said he was just thinking of going out and arousing some of the neighbors as some one had been there and hurt his wife. The woman was lying in a pool of blood on the floor with several frightful gashes on her head and one ear almost cut off. Physicians were summoned, and Wednesday morning she regained consciousness and said her husband had attacked her with an axe when she told him she was going to leave him. Moore was arrested by marshal Henry Bright and placed in jail. He is an old man 74 years of age, and his wife is only 23 years old. They were married in Morgan township. The couple had quarreled frequently since they lived in Leon. The old man insisted he was innocent and said he left the house about 6 o'clock and started up town but met a man who told him all the stores were closed and he returned home to find his wife lying on the floor, and told a story about two tramps being at his house that afternoon, and he believed they were the ones who did the deed. Transcription by Sharon R. Becker

The Leon Reporter Leon, Decatur County, Iowa Thursday, January 18, 1917, Page 1 TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO [1892] _________ Items Taken from the Files of The Reporter Published a Quarter of a Century Ago. _________ 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 2015

The Leon Reporter Leon, Decatur County, Iowa Thursday, January 27, 1917, Page 1 TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO [1892] _________ Items Taken from the Files of The Reporter Published a Quarter of a Century Ago. _________ The building formerly occupied by Acton's restaurant is being remodeled, and next week Fuller Avery and Arthur Tharp will open a new cafe in the building. Frank Clark went to Des Moines last Thursday and may conclude to locate in that city. Frank is one of Leon's best boys and the firm that secures his services will be in luck. Mrs. Timothy Moore, who was thought last week to be fatally injured, is recovering rapidly from her wounds. Fourteen wounds were inflicted on her head and face. The old man is in jail and trying to play crazy. J. G. Early and son, T. R. Early, have purchased R. W. McConn's lumber yard and his residence and Tom Early will run the McConn yard while John Wood will manage the old Early yard. Mr. McConn will start a new lumber yard at Harvey, a suburb of Chicago. Sherman Heydt, a boy fifteen years old, but small for his age, walked from Davis City to Leon Tuesday and tells a pathetic story. He formerly lived at Lawrence, Kansas, where his father was a butcher. His father died about a year ago, leaving the family in destitute circumstances. The little fellow rustled around and supported his mother and himself by working at anything he could do, but in a few months his mother also died. He met a man who was shipping his stock back to Illinois, and hired him to work on his farm. When they reached Davis City the man wanted him to steal corn to feed the stock, and upon his refusing put him off the cars and left him. Then he hired to a man near Davis City who kept running horses, and has been working for him since last September, but has never received any pay except his board. He left the place Monday and went to Davis City, but as he could not get work there he walked to Leon, stopping at farm houses on the way, inquiring for work. Mike Mayer heard his story and sent him to Fred Niece's restaurant to stay at his expense until he could get work. He seems to be a good boy, very anxious to work, and would make a splendid hand for some of our farmers. Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March 2015

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