| Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa Thursday, February 2l, l924 We are reliably informed that on March first, MISS JESS PRYOR will assume the management of J.W. HURST & COMPANY. This will be good news to the people of Decatur County for two reasons. First, MISS PRYOR has a host of friends in this locality who will be glad to welcome her back home. Second, MISS PRYOR will undoubtedly give the women here an opportunity to secure the most attractive and stylish things that the big city markets offer. MISS PRYOR, who was born in Decatur County, is an experienced business woman. Some years ago she was head saleslady for J.W. HURST & COMPANY. Later she and her sister organized and operated the KELLER & PRYOR MILLINERY STORE at Leon. For the past two years, MISS PRYOR has been located in Des Moines, where she has held a very important sales and executive position with the largest department store in Iowa. Younker Brother were loath to lose MISS PRYOR, offering her added inducements to remain with them. She felt however, that she would be making a mistake to remain at Des Moines when she had such an unusual opportunity at home. She feels that in operating a woman's store like J.W. HURST & COMPANY, a woman manager should have an advantage. MISS PRYOR will immediately go to market and make selections from the stocks of leading Chicago and New York manufacturers. She says that Des Moines may have bigger stores than Leon, but that she will set them a pace when it comes to up-to-date merchandise and fair prices. The HURST Store is one of the oldest in this section of the State, being founded in l859. At that time there were no railroads in Decatur County. Goods were hauled by teams from Ottumwa. It is a far cry from our present-day railroad and motor car speed. The HURST Store has kept pace with the times, being always one of the best in southern Iowa. We are glad to see MISS PRYOR given an opportunity to make an already good store a better one. Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert |
| Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa Thursday, February 2l, l924 'New Canning Factory Will be Erected This Spring by Edgar Caster. Now Contracting for Corn and Tomatoes.' Among the items which got crowded out of last week's Reporter was one in regard to the new canning factory which will be erected this spring by EDGAR CASTER on his father's farm a few miles northeast of Leon. Last year EDGAR packed several thousand cans of tomatoes and corn, and he found a ready sale for them, for they were extra fine quality, and out of all the goods he put up last year, not a single spoiled can has been reported. This year canning operations will be carried on a larger scale, lumber now being on the ground for the erection of a building for the factory, which will have l500 feet of floor space, and additions will be made as the business increases. The only thing is whether he can secure enough tomatoes and corn to supply the demand. A short time ago, a meeting was held at the Crown School House and quite a number of farmers signed contracts to furnish tomatoes and corn, and last Saturday MR. CASTER was at the Exchange Bank to make contracts, but the severe sleet storm prevented many from coming in, so he will be at the Exchange Bank again on Saturday afternoon of this week. He has already secured contracts for about one-half the tomatoes and corn he expects to can this season, and is anxious to close up the contracts at once. He has sold one wholesale company two full car loads of tomatoes which will be packed under the firm's own labels, and the balance of his pack will go to market with his own label. This is an enterprise which should receive the hearty support of our farmers. It will give employment to a number of people during the canning season, and our farmers will receive good pay for their crop of tomatoes and sweet corn. Don't put the matter off, but come in next Saturday and sign up your contract with MR. CASTER, so he can complete his arrangements for handling them. A small tract of ground on any farm planted in tomatoes will bring you a nice sum of money, and it comes just at a time when you can use it to good advantage. Get behind the canning factory proposition, and MR. CASTER will make a big success of it. Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert |
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Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa Mr. E. Wright, of Chicago, who was to bring a number of asylum children to Leon last Friday, disappointed a number of people who called to adopt children, owing to the fact that scarlet fever had broken out at the asylum and the children, of course, could not be brought here. Mr. Wright was here and made arrangements for homes for a number of children who will be brought here after all danger from scarlet fever is over. Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert |
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