Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-07-12
Glare is to have an oper. house.

company.
A $4,000 sewer systemiis projected At
| Williams
The court house at Mt. Ayr is to be
remodeled.
Fayette has voted to erect $1,000
| high school.
There is talk of new opera house at
Iowa Falls.
| A new school buildingis being erected
| at Unionyille.
The United Brethren of Des Moines
may build soon.
The water and light station at Newton
is being enlarged.
William d. Jackson has been appointed
postmaster at Lyons.
| Work will be commenced on the new
church at Geneva soon.
| A horseless carriage line is to be es-
tablished in Des Mones.
| The Congregational Church at Silver
S.dke has been dedicated.
a new iron bridge is being built over
Deep creek, near Quigley.
The Presbyterian Church at Denison
now has new pipe organ.
A good roads convention will be held
at Muscatine in September.
| Harvey Richards of Geneva had his leg
broken by the kick Of colt.
The Presbyteriaps of Williams will
build $4,000 church this summer.
The postofice at Folger will be discon-
tinued and mail will so to Osceola.
The Palo Alto Mining Company of
Emmetsburg has been Incorporated.
| a. ]. Bruckner of Highland Center was
struck by train and badly injured.
The Presbyterians at Indianola contem-
plate erecting church to cost $13, 600.
Work has been commenced on the new
| public library building at Des Moines.
The Good Templars are preparing for
their first summer assembly at Humboldt.
Washington and johnson counties viii
jointly build bridge over the Iowa river.
The machinery of the rolling mill at
Muscatine will be removed to Springfield,
| Ill.
The Catholic Church at Ruthven was
struck by lightning and somewhat dam
aged.
| A municipal electric light plant has
been erected at Algona at a cost Of SILL
| T6O.
Sixteen bankruptcy petitions have been
| filed with the referee at Ottumwa to
date.
The Postoff1ce Department will give
| free rural delivery q trial In Marshall
County.
| The proposition to erect IN addition to
| the school house at Valley Junction was
| defeated.
Louis A. Enginoire of Thayer has been
admitted to practice before the Interior
Department..
The girls in the Industrial school at
Mitchellville will organize q brass band
and orchestra.
Appanoose County has decided that
hereafter prisoners in the jail must work
at rock breaking.
j. ]. Keesan of Springdale had his
shoulder blade broken while coupling
cars at Riverside.
The corner stone of the new Y. NJ. O.
A. building at Keokuk has been laid with
| imposing ceremonies.
The 12-year-old son of William Bates
of Coon Rapids was drowned in the river
there while bathing.
| For the year ending June the auditor
of Wright County reports over 10000
acres of real estate sold.
| There are fifty-one inmates in the JEFF
ferson County home at Fairfield, twenty
six of them being insane.
| Apd.rsor ne r1;o4a~
from a wagon in runaway and sustain
ed several severe injuries.
The board of control Is considering the
| advisability of abolishing the tobacco ra-
| ton in the State penitentiaries.
A man supposed to be Samuel Smart
of Carl was found dead by the roadside
short distance from Creston.
Mrs. w. II. Stone of Creston suddenly
expired from apoplexy while on an err
rand at the home of a neighbor.
Mike Feeley, half-witted person Of
Mason City, is suffering from several Sc
we're wounds on his body, probably self
| inflicted.
G. II. Joseph of Humboldt, Neb., at
tempted to board train at Creston and
fell beneath the wheels, sustaining In
juries that will prove fatal.
John Kerwin, youth of Audubon,
some time ago jumped off load of hay
and injured his foot. 1ockjaw has set
in and may result fatally.
In Morgan township cyclone cave has
| been provided at every school house, and
the directors Of Danbury district have
advertised for the construction Of caves
at the five school houses within Its Dor
ders.
The railway commissioners decided an
important question in an appeal from the
| town of Arlington, which wanted the ILL
nois Central to stop its fast trains there.
The commissioners hold that they have
/ no right to stop interstate trains.
A fatal railway accident occurred at
Birmingham on a railway crossing, as the
passenger train from Ottumwa pulled out
| for Fort Madison, resulting in the death
of Hiram Barnes, one of the Oldest and
most respected citizens, and in the seri-
Gus, if not fatal, injury Of his wife and
two grandchildren. The four persons
named had gone out riding in a one-horse
| buggy in the evening and were returning
to town from the east when they We're
struck by the engine of the train going
east, at the highway crossing, with the
above results, the buggy In which they
We're riding being completely torn to
pieces and strewn along the track, the
horse escaping uninjured.
The town council of Valley Junction
has approved the proposal of Chicago
firm to put in n combination water and
electric light plant.
The board of control has decided, con-
trary to past custom, that the support
funds of State institutions cannot be used
for miscellaneous purposes.
Frank Howard of Des Moines climbed
on pilot of an engine of freight train
| Mt Grinnnu to sfnnl n rida Naan Rrna1.