The Leona Sun from Leona, Kansas • 1

TIE LEON A SUN PUBLISHED WEEKLY. THE SUN SHINES FOR ALL. $1.00 A Year. Vol. 1.

Lcona, Doniphan County, Kansas, March 1, 1895. No. II Ca.kEakjkdfrrA mt af iLflfrW i rat 'Ji Y'r Men's $3.25 shoes for $4.00 Women $3.50 $2.39 $3.00 $2.61 $1.60 $2.29, ii (( (( All of this space to tell you about our shoe iepartment the best in th county. Where thg magnetic power of our current bargains is vital in every pair. "Where the feet of men, women and boys trip to the merry jingle of cheapness.

We're going to have a special shoe sale for a week. $2.00 00 r3 Rabbit hunting is; about finished for this winter. M. Finley will move to Hiawatha next February. "Dad" Rogers has began to take out rock for parties in Leoua.

Last Monday night we were gifted with a regular April shower. Committing suicide is the pasttiine with the Chinaman now-a-days. Rickenbach is showing the people a thing or two in low prices. Your harness can be oiled In tne best shape for one dollar by E. Oldt.

Everybody must be getting good at Robinson, 125 convertions In one week. Pen is at his old game again of riding his wheel to Severance every Sunday night. Lconhard Pro's, can make you happy by selling you the best 5 cent cigar for a nickel. weight" has proved himself a sprinter, he made the quickost time from the ware house to town ever known. The Leona Sun, as a tiewipaper, is quite a credit to Leona and the well filled pages of advertising Is a credit, and speaks well for the enterprise of the town.

Morrill News. We have some sympathy for a man that goes to sleep while bailing hay, but We dont know what to do with a man that is so proud of beina a irrand- fatlier that he sits up all night and rocks the baby, and forgets to take the harness off his horses. Colonel Lyman tells of a corn crib down in Doniphan county that is a novelty Its capacity Is 80,000 bushels and it is built up on a steep hill. When they get ready to shell they set the sheller at the lower end. knock off a Iward and the entire 80,000 bushels runs through the machine without requiring any shoveling at all.

It is a great labor saving device and should be adopted by all farmer. Morrill News. The St. Joseph Grand Island rail-road has ou sale at all tickets to all points at lowest rates: Direct connection at Grand Island for all western points and at St. Joseph union depot with all diverging lines for north east, and south.

For rates and other information, call on or address nearest local agent cr S. M. Adsit; Gen PasgengerABt.St.J&G.I.RR. fit Joseph, Ma tij 31 I Eft 6 f.4 4 Era Mrs.G. W.

Ktrahatt was in Hiawatha yesterday. C. K. Finley was in Hiawatha last Wednesday. Spring is wanted as bad now-a-days as snow was two months ago.

A dance at Kd. Northern's last Wednesday evening was a success The bill that prohibited base ball playing in Missouri did not become law. A couple of servant maids contem plate going out on a strik tomorrow morning. Norton Courier A wonderful book might be written on the Ho-bo's that pass in the night. There isa lady in Hiawatha who would not wear a watch in her boson because It had hands.

Govt Morrill is the thirteenth gover. nor of Kansas, Massachusetts has had thirty-five and Virginia thirty-eight. 1). Dyer, a traveling representa tive of the Topeka Capital was In towfta few minutes Wednesday on business. Tom Allen, of Missouri, the man who used to bo the "sharpest liar" In the county, was In town the first of the week; lVonlp arp rnnnincr frnm tha pox at Hot Springs Arkansas, there js about seventy-five cases In that neighborhood, The Severance News said that the.

Bank of Leona would occupy a portion of D. Moyer's hardware store until their building was completed. We suppose that they mean well enough, but they arc mistaken, as no business will be transacted until they get into their own building, Mr. and Mrs. Jas.

Jenson gave a social and oyster supper last Friday evening, complimentary to Misn Following Is a list of those present: Mr. and Mrs. Hasting, Mr. and Mrs. T.

M. Harper, Mr. and. Mrs Ed. Fisher, Misses Etla and Doshia Edwards, Mary and Jennie Hull, Lillie Lewis, Lila Gentzler, Mrs.

F. J. Wallace; Mr. U. Harmr.

C. Finley, Jere Kimtnel and II C. Mailk-r. At II o'jlock the doors were opened intothelihnhig r'Hirn where oysters Were served in various styles. Aft-r supper a number of plates of the most uVlicious taffy was brought in.

Various games were indulged Ii for past-time. Every one had a fine time and went hoHiC rejoicing. $3 1 SCHOOL NOTES. Lena Libel Is in Kansas City this week. Mamie Gougler and Jessie Chllds can play ball as well as sonic of tin noys.

Cop pistols will not be seen on the school grounds hereafter among the cniKlrcn. Recesses and noons are now spent In drilling the children for tho enter talnment. Matldie Childs. Rav 1 lamer and Tnrt Brownell have the best record for good attendance. If parents wants children nromoted at the end of term they must see that they attend school regularly.

Carrie Hottlirer was rank one In third grade last month. Maudlc Childs tn second and Ray Nlgus In first grade, -If you want to fonret the clnomv weather outside, Just step inside the school room and find went of sunshinp in the faces of tho bright eyed boys and girls, Washington's birthday was not for gotten by the children, each one when called on would tell something about our first president. One little boy when asked tho date of his Wrt.h replied, "eighteen hundred and eighty-five." THE DESTRUCTIVE TOEEDO. There are over one thousand de vices recorded in the United States patent office for protection against that sea-plague the toredo. The toredo is a mere mass of slime, a bit of gelatine without huat or limbs.

It measures all the way from a trans parent blot two or three Inches long, which slips through the lingers like so much boiled starch, to a mucilagi nous lump four feet in length, which could scarcely be caught In a net, so flaccid li Its substance; yet this creature for it Is a living organism- Is provided with a mechanism which enables It to bore Into the hardest wood, to so honeycomb the hulls of wooden vessels, when hot protected by metal sheating, as to render them utterly unseaworthy, In tropic and semi-tropic waters, in a single year, and, In a proportionate time, in more temperate seas. The toredo is also fatally active about all ocean and harbor piers, sapping the timbers so that In a comparatively short period the structures becomes Insecure and liable to be carried away by a storm or an extra high tide. Prude carbolic Bicycles are now being manufactured in Hiawatha, Kan. Jack the Ripper is a church member at the present time. It beats a dime novel to read tho "Ging" murder trial.

The ice in Wolf river lias broken up for the first time this winter. Preparations are being made for building a couple of residences. It don't look as though Sol. Miller's Ground hog was onto his Job this year. A man that gambles bets his money and a man that don't gamble is no "better." The ducks have began to fly north once more, that is a sure sign that spring is near.

They that contemplate changing their location could not want more favorable weather. Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Heaston were sent to Lawrence as deligates from the W.

R. Cj of Severance; Kan. The only thing that keeps Dee from marrying his best girl is that he wont agree to turn the washing machine. The members of the Leona Social Dancing Club will continue their meetings every Friday evening for sometime. A citizen of Hiawatha who has been a traveling man, an Insurance man, a butcher and a nurse, will try farming this spring.

A Seneca woman's mind is afflicted with coal oil insanity: She belives everything poisonous unless cooked or seasoned with coal oil. Starving Kebraskans are sending to Kansas for aid. Eastern Kansas will do well if they keep the people in western Kansas from suffering let alone Kebrakas. A contribution box should be nailed to the town pump and spare pennies dropped therein so that a new cup could be bought about every day, as some half witted fool goes there to drink he then throws the cup in the middle of the street. The St.

Joseph Grand Island railroad has on sale at all points, tourist tickets to resoris in Texas, New Mexico, Mexico; Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and South Carolina, at greatly reduced rates. All tickets good for return until May 31, 1895. For information call on or address nearest local agent or S. M. Geh''lPawngeAgt.

ft. St Mo. Leona has her share of tatlb-tales. a portion of the wheat is said to have been killed. Willie McOauley Htartod for lielveu, this morning.

The hardware porch is being used asaprizc-flb'htingring. I). Moyer has all of his men busy setting up implements. Once more thfi. children are to be seen playing ou green grass The Harvard faculty has voted to abolish intcr-collegate foot ball.

Clean your alleys a nd main streets if you want to prevent sickness. TnE Son had the pleasure of entertaining a number of ladies yesterday. The boys are leaving the town one by one, they are going to work on the farms. i. It is time that that notorious liar "Walt Johnson" Is coming to Leona again.

It is about time that Lcona is organizing her base ball club for the season of 1895. Anybody wishing to purchase rocks should see Dad Rogers as he hn9 a fine lot of them, G. W. Strahan, our county trustee, contemplates commencing to assess the county next week. More real estate has changed hands in the past month than at any time within the past five years; There is more people in Leona that can tell smutty stories than in anV other ordinary place of twice its size.

There is a couple in this town doing a little too much meddling for. their own good and it should be stopped immediately. Albert Rogers was busy all of yesterday moving a wood pile fcituated on the lot that is to be occupied by thd lianKor Leona. Jf yoii think there is un In Doniphan county just come to Iona a fid talie .1 look at the crows, tlx; heaven look Mack at times. Dave Ancrtf ead and Jako ICcr-rli into a play the otfitr and tl.is i what iid: "By dam I'll kill if lie monkey mitj nte." I The Christian hurch are gMting up a drama entitle! "The Grand" which thry will present t'j our in the nearfutuv.

Lonnaran gtup as good an ariiHtur drama) 1c company any town in te county a thry have plenty of talent n-i acid, a solution of chloride of mercuryt and many other powerful and polson- ous preventives have been found to brt utterly worthless as opposing the Indefatigable toredo, but now comes a plain mechanic with his pot of thick red lead. He smears tho vessel's timbers, or the piles and stringers of the wharf, and the voracious toredo turns away disgusted and feels that be has no use for ligneous food served up with such an Icing. At all events, experiments made with this simplest of mediums, Upon timbers In waters where commonly the toredo de everything bearing tho vegetable tex turo and fibre, have demonstrated thus far that the destructive creat ure Will not attack wood that is HhprnlW coated witli red lead and oil. Whether this will ultimately answer the much desired end, of course remains to bd seen; but it is known from human ex-perlenceas old as human existence itself, that a cure for a treat evlh sought for in vain upon the mountain tops, was often discovered, after all ai ine aoor. IIO.MESEEKER'S EXCURSION.

ST. JOSErH 4 GRAND ISLAND RAILROAD'. Round trin tickets win ii points in southwest Missouri, to all points In Texas (excent El to Lake Charles, on March 5t h. at ONE LOWEST KlTST LASS FAIiU. plus 12.

Tickets will bo tmod Until 25, for return and stopovers allowed at pleasure on both going and returning trip For rates, time or anv Irifnrmat iom call on or address nearest agent, O. G. 1 i.urrows; T. V. St.

Joseph, mo. S. M. A DMT, G. P.

St. J. G. I. K.

St. Joseph, Mo: The Leona Darn meets tonight, every mcmlir 'uinuM be present. The Congregational nars.m.-urf. been sold. It will probably be fwn- pied by a newly hurried ample'.

Several little Javh already nut In the our community, and spring has hardly oegun. An excursion train coniinir into the city of Mexico met with a terrible accident yesterday afternoon, while running around a curve on the side of a mountain five coaches jumped the track and went down the -anon! Fourty-two people were killed thirty or more seriously injurr. LEONA, MAR. 1, 1895. B.

PUBLISHER Entered in the postofflce at Leona( Kansas, for transmission through the mails as second-class matter. ST. J. G. I.

It R. TIME TABLE. TRAINS GOING WEST. No. 1 Mixed ....8:41 p.

in. 3 Mail Ex. 10:40 a. m. 13-Local 8:15 a.

ni. TRAINS GOING EAST. No. 2 Mixed Ar. 6:10 a.

m. 4 Mall Ex 4:21 p. m. 14-Local 3:20 p. m.

All trains daily. Mail is exchanged oil Nos. 1, 3 and 4. I. O.

O. F. Lodge No. 178, meets every Saturday evening. Following are the officers: (1, V.

Secretary, Treasurer, I). D. G.M., 1). Kercher; F. Van Bebber; C.

L. Weidensaul; L. Rickenbach; G. W. Strahan.

Visiting brothers cordially invited. Leona Lodge No.208. Knights Ladies of Security meets the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of each month. Following are the officers: Hiram Hickman Jennie Hull Sarah Lavering Rev. Sutton C.

L. Weidensaul Mary Hull James Harper Mrs. A. Corbet Fred Kayser President, Vice Pres, Frelate, Financial Sec, Recording Sec Conductor, Guard, Sentinal. It Is time to trim your grapes.

Buy a broom r( Mr1, Nelson( bis brooms are all right. There were twelve convertions in the meetings at Highland last week. Preaching at the Congregational tUurch next Sunday morning and eve-hing. Fisher and Morgan harness makers Denton, Kan. favored us with some ob work last week.

The entertainnlent at the Pleasant rove school house was a success. The receiptsat tlw dor were large. Rev. Sutton's future home will be in Highland, Kan- We will hate to fee him leave us as he has been a com-'de to the young as well' a the Old..