The Journal Leon, Iowa May 22, 1883 FRANK MCKEEHAN has been sick several days. The CLARK family vault is finished. It is a fine looking structure. Dr. HORNER starts Thursday to the Masonic Grand Lodge which is to be held at Cedar Rapids. Miss ANNA HOVER starts for her home in Freeport, Ill., next week. She is the youngest sister of Mrs. J.E. TEALE and came out to see her while she was so very sick last fall. Thus early are we reminded of the county fair. SCOTT ROBINSON, a representative of the Journal office was in town on Wednesday soliciting advertising for the premium list. The Commercial suggested last week that our people hold a meeting on Monday night to arrange for decorating the graves of soldiers buried in our cemetery, and nothing was done. Another and timely suggestion was that the day be devoted to cleaning up the cemetery and putting it in some kind of order. This was also neglected. The condition of the place is such that a very sensitive corpse would want to emigrate if he should get above ground and see how it looks. JOHN ARNOLD is having a cave constructed for safety in case of a cyclone, and to have a good place to step in and cool off after playing foot ball. It is built of brick with the top arched with "the same." The subject of prospecting for coal is engaging the attention of our citizens at present, though it seems to be all talk, and as there is so much of that it is feared the entire force will be expected before anything will be done. It would not seem right to say anything disparaging of the enterprise of this place, but it is a fact that a committee was recently sent to Des Moines to look after the narrow gauge railroad and had to pay a good share of their expense. A case or two like this might account for the fact that we lost the road and might also cause the coal prospects to vanish into air. There is a great tendency here, as well as in many other places, to take things just as they are. Some of the leading men of a place can cause a coldness to develop any public enterprise by withholding their support, or by giving it such a small share of interest that others hesitate about pushing on in any good work. ----------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert December 31, 2009 [email protected]