Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-01
Grip Is still raging at Elbcron.


Des Moines will he connected by tcle-
phone with Marysville. Mo.
Red Oak has new commercial club to
better the interests of the town.
Several houses at Chatsworth are quar-
antined owing to scarlet fever.
The Iowa Central has declared semi
annual dividend of ~ per cent.
There is some talk of erecting new
$4,000 opera house in Waterloo.
The schools at Sergeant Bluffs were
closed recently on account of diphtheria.
The first company of the new National
Guard has been mustered In at Center
vile.
The Home for the Aged will erect a new
building in Des Moincs that will cost $780,
600.
The Ideal Steam Heater Company of
Oskaloosa will remove its plant to Des
Moines.
A postoffice has been established at
Yampa, with Charles L. Walter as post
master.
The Great Western proposes to remodel
and greatly enlarge its stock yards at
Waterloo.
A camera club is being organized in
Charlton by the amateur photographers
of that city.
After having been twice reelected May
or Groat of Waterloo declines to again be
candidate.
The doctor of the Dubuque County poor
farm reports having treated 1,764 patients
during 1893.
The organizing of the company for the
National Guard at Mason City is proceed
ing satisfactorily.
The people Of Creston arc clatcd over
the prospect of securing a $4,000 Gov
eminent building.
A couple Of Hartley citizens paid ST.
600 each for the right to sell patent
washing machine.
Ottumwa increased its postoflice re-
ceipts last year 10 per cent and Fort
Dodge 10 per cent.
Some gentlemen of Iowa Falls are con-
templating the erection of commercial
steam heating system.
The canning factory at Wavcrly has
changed hands, and it will be greatly i'm
proved by its new owners.
The Congrcgationalists ut Cresco have
raised half of the amount to build the
proposed $4,000 church.
Hans Schurman, residing near Dcnison,
was adjudged insane and taken to the
hospital ut Clarinda for treatment.
The annual joint encampment of the G.
n. r., w. Il. C. and the S. of " will be
held in Waterloo June IA and 10.
A 81 n,., H., "a,
asking the school board to submit the free
text book proposition to the voters.
The citizens of Leeds are making an
effort to raise enough money to furnish
the school house with new bell.
Articles of incorporation of the Ottum.
wa and Western Railroad Company have
been filed with the Secretary of State.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Boswith of
Washington County have just celebrated
the siXtieth anniversary Of their mar.
riage.
A train on the Iowa Central jumped
the track few miles from Newton and
seven passengers were injured, none of
them seriously.
The Commercial National Bank of
Waterloo has been selected MS deposi-
tory for the moneys of the United States
in that vicinity.
The farm house of George Barnes, near
Bedford, together with contcnss, was to-
tally destroyed by fire, which caught from
a defective tluc.
Des Moines will put in IL heating plant
to warm the municipal buildings. being
unable to keep warm with the heating
company's steam.
The City Council of Creston will serve
notices on the gas and water companies
there that they must obey the ordinance
in regard to prices.
Miss Jessie V. Shcarer of Des Moincs
has been appointed teacher in the Oma-
ha and Winnebago Indian school, Ne
braska, at 5000 year.
Harry Robinson of Toledo left his wife
and family and cloped with Mamie IRE
Bile, Il young girl of that place. The couple
were arrested at Clinton.
The G. a. II. and w. II. c. of Belle
Plaine are working for the erection of Il
monument to the unknown soldier dead
buried in the local cemetery.
The family of j. c. Bunger of Fort
Dodge had n narrow escape from their
burning home. The water pipes were
frozen and the fremen helpless.
The 1I-year-old daughter of NJ. Glccs-
ing of Denison struck match which
came i'll contact with some powder and
exploded, and she wn2 severely injured
The Unitarians of the State will here
after aid the congregation at Iowa City,
it being the desire to maintain an organ
nj hn S.nN 81 tIn t,tD
sty.
James Daniels and j. Il. Greenwood
made their escape ut Burlington Willie
being conveyed to the penitentiary at TT.
Madison to serve II four years sentence
for a hold-up.
Petitions bearing $500 signatures were
filed with the Board of Education ut Dcs
Moincs, thus securing the submission of
the question of free text books for the
schools in that city. But 1000 were re-
quired.
1t was said that the Burlington road
has bought the Kcokuk and Western.
Burlington officials have recently made
several tours of inspection of the road.
Traffic relations between the Burlington
and the Kcokuk and Western have been
close for some time.
james HOLMAN, who lives eight miles
west of Dunlap, drove his wife scantily
clad and in her bare feet, from home. The
mercury at the time was nearly 30 de-
grees below zero and the poor womSn was
terribly frozen before she reached the
nearest ncghbor, half mile distant. Mrs.
HOLMAN is very ill from the exposure.
Jude Terrill prominent lumbcrman
of Sac County, killed himself at New
Providence. He was wealthy md UNI
married. No cause is assigned for the
deed.
Reports from western Iowa indicate an
increasing alarm over the rapid spread
Of smallpox. The infection was first
brought from Nebraska town. which
did not enforce the quarantine. A total
of forty cases is on record