Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-11-15

Elberon has two cases u diphtheria.
Persia has let the contract for water
system.
A new elevator is to be erected at
Thornton.
Ames will vote on granting telephone
franchise.
There is scarcity of dwelling houses
at lama.
A Presbyterian church is being erected
at Ntonka.
The water works plant at Clayton win
be improved.
The surplus of the State fair; is given
out us $16,549.
Additional sewerage is to be construct
ed at Burlington.
A $500 Methodist Church is to be
erected near Creston.
The contract has been let for new
school house at Baxter.
Hamilton's foundry, recently burned at
Algona, is to be rebuilt.
Edward l.. Hawk has been commission
ed postmaster at Nugent.
A $4,000 depot will be built by the ILL.,:
nois Central at Fort Dodge.
The first snow of the season in this
State is reported from Dysart.
The Burlington road will erect two
stall engine house at Dubuque.
The postoftice at Atwood has been dis
continued. Mail:will go to Delta.
The creamery at Crystal has. been clos
ed on account Of scarcity of milk.
The Congregationalists at, Burlington
may rebuild their place Of woeship. IS
Davenport butchers complain Of
scarcity OF cattle for slaughtering.
There arc now about sixty rural mail
delivery routes throughout the State.
The city library at Grinneil has been
offered quarters rent free for FIVE years.
The corner stone Of the new Methodist
Church at Floris was laid the other day.
Constable Moss of Loveland was shot
in the back while trying to arrest a horse
thief.
j. II. jackson has been appointed post
master at Ortonville and w. L. Lenty at
Percy.
There is an epidemic of jaundice It
ported.
There IRE twenty-six divorce cases On
the docket for this term OF court at Du-
buque.
Potatoes in the country near Perry 60
begging for purchasers at 10 cents a
bushel.
Marshalltown now has stone pile for
buns and Migrants to work out their sen-
tences on.
Dubuque is to have a hospital for con-
tagious diseases. to be erected at cost
of $4,000.
The store of y. ]. Cooper at Abba was
entered by burglars and $50 worth OF
goods taken.
w. L. Buell. has been appointed post
master at Nevinsyille, and Addie Fleming
at Woodland
There is case of smallpox at Wash
ington, but strict quarantine measures
have been taken.
The Council at Dysart has proposed to
bond the town for 5000 for the erection
of the gas plant.
The Farmers cooperative creamery at
Dinsdale has been sold, as 1t did not
prove success.
The new St Clement Church at Bank
ston was dedicated in the presence of 5
large assemblage.
The authorities at Muscatine are en-
deavoring to clear the town of all dis
reputable persons.
The 3-year-old daughter of win Park
house, near Tama, was kicked BY horse,
and her thigh broken.
A. L. Wood, postmaster at Winterset,
has been sentenced to two and one-half
years in the penitentiary.
II. r. Whitehouse, one of the best
known merchants of Clinton, Is dead
from stroke of apoplexy.
Hardin County proposes to ittingly
celebrate the semi-centennia3 anniversary
of its settlement next year.
Marshantown has purchased new
pump for Its water extension with a daily
capacity of ,225 900 gallons.
So far nothing has been heard Of Bag
ley, the student who disappe recently
from Iowa College at Grinnell.
The town council of Oxford Junction
will hereafter prosecute anyone keeping
place of business open on Sunday:
On account Of the heavy increase in
the levy Dies Moines will gain over $780,
coo in taxes during the coming year.
The street fair at Muscatine was q sue
cess and after everything is.spah for
there remains $210.5Olin the treasury.
Attorney General Remley has given out
that all slot machines are gambling de-
vices, and are amenable to the gambling
laws.
A new steamboat company has been
formed at Clinton. 1t is believed 1t will
prove formidable rival to the Diamond
10 line.
A strong protest is being made against
the board of control placing button maxi
ing machines in the Fort Madison pe1ii-
Tertiary.
Rev. Abrams has filed four petitions
against four saloons in Marsha lltown,
asking injunctions for alleged Illegal sales
Of liquors.
Some miscreent at Waterloo has seri-
ously damaged several y,-,rahle plate
glass windows BY drawing diamond
across them.
NJ. Mcdonald, an aged man from sIiin-
ton, attempted suicide twice Mt Water
loo by jumping off bridge, but: was
caught each time.
An unknown man drove team q
horses into Coon Rapids and deserted
them, and so far nothing has been heard
as to their owners.
George johnson, a 18-year-old boy Of
Fort Dodge, was swept off a horses hac
by the branch of tree and sustain
injuries from which he died.
Powesheik farmers this year put I'M
harvested about one thousand acre.
suniowers and find the seed profita
A hard fight is being made at d
Moines for and against the liquor mar
featuring consent petition, now being
culated.
The total weight of mail sent out fro
the Tama postoftice during two week
aggregated 2,449 pounds, comprising