Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-07-05
Davenport talks of holding a stree.

Davenport talks of holding street
fair.
Warren County has thirteen candidates
| for sheriff.
| Centerville has definitely decided to
| hold street fair.
The Modern Woodmen are erecting q
new hall at Stanley.
-Four new teachers have been added to
the list at Burlington.
Ants have destroyed large quantity
of corn in Grundy County.
Life-saving tenders are being tested on
the street cars in Davenport.
Fifty-two students were graduated
from the Council Bluffs high school.
a class of twenty-one has been gradu-
ated from the Dubuque high school.
Ten students composed the graduating
class at Simpson College, Indianola.
| Work has been commenced on the sup
erstructure of the opera house at Elgin.
The Farmers Savings Bank of Roland
has been incorporated. Capital $4,000.
There were 1913 deaths, 81 births and
The Citizens State Bank of Washing
| ton has increased its capital from 5000
to $50, 900.
The debt of Western College, Toledo,
has been reduced $4,000 during the past
school year.
The May enrolment Of the prison
school at the Anamosa penitentiary reach
ed l54 pupils.
Horace Bailey, a farmer living near
Delmar, was run down by Milwaukee
train and killed.
The colored Odd Fellows of Iowa will
hold their grand lodge meeting at Dav-
EXPORT July 1920.
For destroying flowers in the public
park at Burlington John Kline was given
thirty days in Jail.
Plymouth County does not owe dol
| lar and the treasurer has a cash balance
on hand Of $90,6T6.
| Memo Staufer of Dallas Center was Sc
verely scalded by the explosion of the
boiler of a traction engine.
The labor unions of Des Moines will so
licit subscriptions for the erection Of a
labor temple in that city.
|
| L. j. Wilcox Of Des Moines to be build
ing and loan commissioner.
Seventy-three applicants for embalm-
ers certificates were recently examined
at Des Moines and all passed.
Rural mail carriers have been selected
in Marshall County and the service will
be inaugurated about July 10.
State Auditor Merriam has been ap-
pointed a committee to look after the vex-
ed question of statehouse towels.
Albert Morgansen, a 9-year-old boy,
living near Grundy Center, had his left
hand crushed in feed grinder.
Herman Demft, Dubuque merchant,
while riding bicycle, collided with o..
street car and was instantly killed.
The Postal Telegraph Company is TO
build line into Burlington, with Q
branch of Keokuk and Fort Madison.
Tor the fourteen events at the Dubuque
race meet there are ga entries, or an av-
erage of about thirty-nine to each race.
Charles Schoening of Durant was
struck by train and instantly killed. His
wagon was smashed and one horse killed.
Herman Dement,, II years old, was
struck and thrown beneath the wheels
of street car at Dubuque and instantly
killed.
| 1t is thought that the Fourteenth
Street Church and the First Methodist
Church of Davenport will be CONSOLE
dated.
| Worth County will issue $4,000 in
bonds for the purpose of taking up and
paying off all the county's outstanding
warrants.
Mrs. Geo. S. Campbell, the first white
child born within the limits Of what is
now Des Moines, is still living in New
York City.
The Davenport health authorities have
not relaxed their vigilance in watching
for smallpox, though no new cases have
appeared.
of the Mississippi Valley Spiritualists'
Association will be held at Clinton July
30-Aug. 81.
Preparations are being made for the
erection of several additional handsome
monuments in Chickamauga Park by the
State of Iowa.
Alarmed by the frequency Of severe
storms people in the vicinity Of Clarion
are generally arranging for the construc-
ton of cyclone caves.
The Board of Supervisors of Clinton
County has ordered remission Of taxes
of those persons who suffered damage by
the cyclone of May 10, 1898.
The Auditor of Grundy County has
been authorized to issue warrants for
bounty of 10 cents each for scalp and
tail of pocket gophers killed in that coun-
ty.
Belknap has been the scene of another
suicide. Jesse l.. Mccormick ended his
life at his home by sending a 32-calber
revolver bullet through his heart, dying
instantly. The cause of the rash deed is
unknown.
The Mayor of Dubuque has been in
structed by the Council to sign no con-
tract for street or other improvement
; unless there be first written agreement
; on the part of capitalists to take the
bonds issued therefor.
A son of William Teeters of Monda-
min was drowned in the Soldier river
while spearng fish. The father, two
sons and another youth were out on the
5 stream in cattle feed trough. The boy
caught in an oyerhanging limb and was
pulled overheard.
] Three little girls were driving near OK
ford, when a young man by the name Of
Newkirk passed them in rig, soaring
| their horse, which was blind, and caus-
ing it to run away. 1t plunged into the
timber, throwing them out and breaking
the neck of the 14-year-old daughter Of
| Eanrpa Cook Of Oxford