Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-14

HiuSS Nis ~. koOSlGtS MdllSOu WILL
build church to cost $4,000.
A council of Ladies of the G. A. R.
has been organized in Waterloo.
A wind and hail storm has done much
damage in the vicinity of Leon.
The corner stone for the new st. Paul's
Church at Harlan has been laid.
The Thirty third Iowa will hold its an
nual reunion at Pella Sept. 1921.
AT last work has commenced on the
walls Of the Des Moines auditorium.
Rev. Thomas Brande, a well-known and
pioneer preacher of Grinnell, is dead.
Iowa Falls has granted franchise to
the Cedar Valley Telephone Company.
Anew church is being erected at Key
stone, the first in the history of the town.
A Muscatine woman gained husband
from Kansas by means of matrimonial
bureau.
In Henry County during 1898 there
were 166 marriages, 800 births and 215
deaths.
A large box factory from st. Louis has
located at Muscatine and will be in opera.
ton soon.
A system of alarm has been arranged
for in Waterloo to be used WHEN children
are lost.
After all the talk of big brewery at
Des Moines the negotiations have fallen
through. ~
Burlington complains Of vandals who
rob the public parks Of flowers and grow
ing plants.
A watch has just been unearthed by
blowing near Clinton, which was lost nine
years ago.
There now seems to be tendency to
compromise in the court house fight at
Des Moines.
The eighth annual meeting Of the Inter.
state Sheriffs' Association convened at
Burlington.
While Frederick Burns was working on
the Northwestern cutoff at Boone he
dropped dead.
An order has been issued in Brooklyn
that every resident over / year Of age
must be vaccinated.
Farmers in the vicinity of Ashton are
replanting corn. Poor seed and cold, wet
weather the cause.
The Presbyterians at Williams have
purchased site and will erect new
church to cost $1,000.
Clinton is sanguine that the Milwaukee
will build their line from Savanna to OF
tumwa through that city.
The baby of Mr.. and Mrs. Rynson of
Des Moines fell out of third-story win
dow, but was not injured.
The contract has been let for the super
structure Of the new auditorium building
at Des Moines for S22,717.
Nine babies born in Louisa County dur
ing 1908 were named Dewey. Henry
County follows with eight.
A company with capital stock of S10,-
600 has been formed at Waterloo to push
the butter making business.
There is a famine for brick at Shenan-
doah and several blocks being erected are
standing still for want of brick.
The Adjutant General now has the re.
ports of the Forty-ninth Iowa, receiving
them from the War Department.
Congressman Hull has formally pre-
sented two brass cannon used in the civil
war to Simpson College, Indianola.
%. B. Palmer of Yankton, S. D., i.
probably the first white child born in Du
buque County, the date being 1886.
Under the new assessment law the prop
erty valuation Of Dallas County has de.
creased nearly S1,O0O,6OO this year.
Burglars entered the home of Mrs. j. C.
Corey at Hudson and stole $40 in cash
a draft for $500 and note for 500.
Peter 7. Bowen of Dubuque had his
head badly bruised by the falling of fue
cover while he was examining boiler.
Two burglars made their escape from
Green County jail by tearing up the floor
and digging hole through the brick wall
Seven Des Moines County boys are al
ready named Dewey. Six are of German
parentage and one of Swedish extraction
There have been twenty-five deaths dur
ing the past month from diphtheria in
the northwestern part of Hamilton Coun
ty.
Morning Sun schools first graduated
pupils in 1888, and since that time 1879
have passed through the local educational
mill.
C. Ruffner of Calamus alleges that be
sustained personal injuries on defective
sidewalk in Clinton and sues for $4,000
damages.
The Woman's Home Missionary Soce
ty closed its State meeting at Fort Dodge
Mrs. n. S. Brush of Ottumwa was elect
ed president.
| In raising barn on Mr. Kallem's farm
near Ellsworth, brace broke and sec
ton of the barn fell on Mr.. Kallem ant
perhaps fatally injured him.
| A workman at Davenport found a sacl
containing the body of an infant floating
on the Mississippi. but threw it back agar
| without notifying the coroner.
| The little town of Princeton is torn III
| over the trial of teacher in the publ,
schools on n charge of assault and batter,
| on the person of one of his pupils.
While two men were repairing tele
| graph line at Boone pole broke and the,
were thrown to the ground distance OF
| twenty-five feet and severely injured
Harry f. Booker of Fairfield died at til,
| Chicago Homeopathic hospital after al
operation for appendicitis.
Taxes to the amount of S1,53S.67 wer,
collected in Des AIoines last year on cigar
cites, according to the treasurer's report
The Farmers Cooperative Lumber So
ciety at Logan have declared dividend
of % per cent on the years business jus
closed.
A special stock train on the Chicag,
and Northwestern went through tn,
bridge over Prairie creek, two miles ives
of Otis. Two tramps were killed and 16t
head of cattle persisted.
The Oldest inmate in the Iowa Soldiers
Home is Jesse Bracken. just admitte,
from Mason City. He is 30 years old an,
is veteran of the Blackhawk and Mex
lean wars.
Eighteen bidders competed for an ssu
of Sac County refunding bonds in the sun
of $4,000. The purchaser got the bond
at par, paying all exchange and expens
of Issue. The rate of interest is 31a pc
cent.
Andrew Henge, aged 40. an Illinoi
Central baggage checker at Dubuque, die,
Of hydrophoba. He was bitten durin
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