Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-07

| them.
n nurscryman at Fairfield suffered a
loss of $4,000 trees by the cold of the past
winter.
The Business Mems Club of Burlington
is raising money for Fourth of July cele-
bration.
AN elevator and l0O-barrel flour mill
will be erected ut Atlantic by Nebraska
parties.
Hudson will vote June IL on the ques-
ton of rnising $4,000 for water works
system.
The Clear Like Independent Telephone
Company has incorporated with capital
of $1,000.
The electric line at Clear Lake will be
extended to Kanawha via Klemme and
West Lake.
The number of convicts in the two State
penitentiaries have gradually decreased
since jam /.
The Des Moines Edison Electric Light
Company will spend $780, 900 in improving
its local plant.
The congregation of the Universalist
Church ut Waterloo has decided to erect
fine parsonage.
The humane society will look after the
| registration and taxing Of dogs in Des
Moines hereafter.
The Catholic parish at st. Ambrose will
build mission church in South Des
Mones this year.
Des Moines jobbcrs will make their next
excursion over the Burlington to Abba,
| Charlton and Leon.
Mrs. Kaemms, aged 90 years, of Du-
buque, was found dead In bed. A post
mortem examination showed heart dis
ease.
Charles Oberg, bridge foreman, was
struck by Il falling derrick at Jordan and
so severely injured that he died shortly
| after.
The electric light and power company
Mt Lyons is soliciting subscribers and pro-
poses to buy the local plant and i'm
prove it.
The forty-live German societies of Dav.
export have now formed German Amer
| lean bund. 1t includes several thousand
members.
One of the most important musical
events in the history of Iowa closed at
Mount Vernon recently. For three days
succession of recitals and concerts was
listened to by crowded aud enthusiastic
audiences. The following eminent artists
from outside the State took part: Mrs.
Gcnevieye Clark Wilson, soprano, Chi
cago; j. III. Mckinley, tenor New York;
Leopold Godowsky, pianist, Chicago;
Bicknell Young, baritone, and Arthur
Durham, organist, Chicago. AT the final
concert the oratoriO society Of Cornell Col
lege of 100 voices rendered GOring Thorn
u.s. cantata, 1.-THE Swan and the Skylark,'
with Prof. Charles ii. Adams, director
of the Cornell Conservatory of Music, as
conductor.
Telegraphic reports from every station
on the Iowa division Of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railway from Daven-
port to Council Bluffs with the branches,
and ON the Des Moines Valley division
from Keokuk to Ruthven, show the
amount of corn in cribs to be $780,, 500
bushels. A conservative estimate of
farmers holdings tributary to these sta
tons is 3,S01 900 bushels. The farmers
are waiting for higher values before sell
ing. The amount of oats in store at the
same stations is 1,O50,5OO bushels and
farmers are holding 952. 300 bushels, the
total being: Corn, 7,793, 900 bushels; oats,
100000 bushels. Another thing shown
by these division reports is that there are
more hogs along these lines than ever be-
fore.
Nominations in the State prohibition
convention ut Des Moines resulted In the
selection of w. Atwood of Baskerville for
Governor. George Pugsley of Harrison
County for Lieutenant Governor. d. S.
Dunlevy of Jasper for Superintendent of
Public Instruction md A. B. Wray of
Creston for Railroad Commissioner. Res.
olutions were adopted acknowledging AL
mighty God as the dispenser of all that is
good; demanding the entire suppression of
the alcoholic liquor traffic: favoring wom-
an suffrage and the election of Senators
by ballot; commenting Secretary Long in
suppressing the cantcen on board Amcri-
can warships; demanding one days rest
in seven by all corporations, and COM
mendng the Gar of Russia for his peace
proposals.
Simpson College, Indianola, has secured
two cannon used in the civil war to be
mounted on their campus.
Knut johnson of Slater has returned
from several months visit with his par.
ents in Norway. One of his sisters return
ed with him.
Fort Dodge capitalists, interested in an
addition to the town, offer ten acres for
public park il the city will make neces-
sary improvements.
Former Vermonters residing in Iowa
will form State organization to raise
funds for the monument to Dewey pro-
posed to be erected In his native State.
The discovery has been made that the
Legislature in 1897, in revising the Iowa
code unintpntionally proyided thot horo