Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-14
Brief State happenings.
A saloon has been opened at Hull.
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Spencer is enjoying building boom.
There were only eleven births in Grundy
Center in 1898.
Crawford County paid out S6S during
April for wolf scalps.
The city Of Muscatine has a balance in
the treasury of $49,S06.14.
Hog cholera is epidemic in the country
surrounding College Springs.
Cedar Valley Seminary at West Union
has received an endowment of $4,000.
Real estate within the corporate limits
of Shenandoah is valued at S1,0SO,7 1872.
A company of the Union Veterans
Union has been mustered in at Glenwood.
1t is estimated that % per cent more
fax is being put in this year than for
merly.
The station which the c., II. 1. e. P.
road is building at Council Bluffs will cost
$4,000.
The First Congregational Church in Du-
buque has just celebrated its sixtieth an
niversary.
Iowa Falls is delighted at the prospect
of telephone war and consequent cheap
er service.
Thirty thousand dollars has thus far
this season been spent on new buildings
at Ida Grove.
John Holler, Jr., of Monticello has been
indicted by the grand jury for attempting
to poison horse.
The members of the Congregational
Church at Algona Clipped in for funds to
put in electric lights.
The ladies of the First Congregations
Church ut Muscatine have just paid off
$625 of the church debt.
The old gas company at Burlington.
which has had control of the gas plant
over twenty years, has been absorbed by
new company.
The 2-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Paul Radloff of Dillon was standing on a
porch when a window sash fell, striking
her on the back of the neck, killing her
instantly.
The contract has been let for the super.
structure of the new auditorium building
at Des Moines for S22.777. 1t is required
that the building be ready for occupancy
Aug. 1.
| Philip Ball has been awarded $4,000
in District Court a. Des Moines. This
! was secured on his suit for damages
against r. w. Marquis for alienation OF
his wife's affections.
| A new town has been plated in Craw
ford County named Schleswig, and mum
Der of lots have been sold.
| The postoffice at Almra has been dis
continued. Mail will so to Hazel Green
The Office at Bradford has also been dis
continued, and mail will go to Nashua.
The Davenport Business Mems Associa
ton refuses to take any part in the quar-
rel between employees and the arsenal au
thorities.
! Mayor McVicar of Des Moines has pre-
| pared message vetoing the action of tn,
Council levying 3-mill tax for erection
of library building, but has withheld i
until the city solicitor can investigate tn,
matter.
About $4,000 has been subscribe,
around Rock Valley for the organization
of fair association in Lyon County.
Andrew Leffelman, farmer living pea
Dunlap, while respondent over none,
matters, committed suicide by drownin,
himself in the Boyer river.
A movement is on foot at Iowa City I,
incorporate a company capitalized witt
S17,50o, to establish the largest cracker
biscuit and bread bakeries in the Stat
| there.
George Davis of Waterloo, in attempt
ing to swim after his floating boat, be
came exhausted and but for the promp
assistance Of a friend. would undoubted
" have been drowned.