The Journal Leon, Iowa May 22, 1883 A large number of Quakers from abroad came by rail to Leroy on Friday to attend the quarterly meeting at Smyrna, and were met by the brethren. DAN NORTHRUP, wife and boy, with his sister, Mrs. WM. BRANCH, and her little girl were visitors at C.A. DAVIS' while Mrs. L.H. NORTHRUP was there. Leroy scholars have been disturbed on their play ground by rattle snakes, and a little daughter of Mr. SAVELY's was bitten. The one injured by lightning is recovering. Rev. BRENGLE will preach next Sabbath morning and every two weeks, Rev. BRADY in the evenings of intervening Sabbaths, at Leroy. They have a flourishing Sunday school. Earnest workers are there. It is told that a human skeleton was found under the Mormon cabin, when G.W. SHAW moved it to his land, said to be that of a man supposed to have been murdered in some mysterious way, by his family. Legend or not, it has cast an unlucky spell over those who have occupied it the last twenty-three years and who part from it with regrets. BANCROFT CURRY and two sisters accompanied his aunt home from Franklin. BAN is a very good brother, but begins to look at other boys' sisters a little. HENRY CHASE bought 200 acres or more in Dakota, and pays CHADWICK & BROWN $4 per acre to break 40 acres. He finds the country all and more than he expected. The train bearing JAY GOULD and party made quite a show the little time it was in sight. Would he not step outside, and give these benighted beings a glimpse at royalty? Mr. And Mrs. JAMES BURNS took dinner with her grandma the other day. If there is a double wedding, or even one young gentleman taking a wife from among our estimable marriageable ladies, numerous predictions will be fulfilled. Some of the men are blue because the corn planting is so late, other with cold, because the heating stoves are in summer quarters, and too little room around the kitchen fires. Miss MOLLIE BAKER is at home, and likes Iowa better than Kansas. 29th -- Mr. MITCHELL has lost a horse. ED BAY and party were seven days and nights on cars, cattle looked hard, were stopped near Ft. Pierce, recruiting. The weather, common winter. They had some horses stolen, but by offering $25, they were brought in, perhaps by the thieves themselves. Mrs. J.W. LILLARD, Miss VADA, and several of the small children came to his mother's on Sunday. Miss MARY BROWN was seventeen years old yesterday, and some of her girl friends went to quilt a birthday quilt for her. --------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert December 31, 2009 [email protected]