Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-11-22
Brief state happenings.

A new creamery is being erected at
Crystal Lake.
Des Moines estimates it now has par,-
ulation of $4,000.
A large number of horses near Kso-
kuk are suffering from influenza.
O. A. Kinney has been appointed post
master at Belinda, and W. S. G. Nye at
Glen Ellen.
@. A. Anderson, an Emmett County
fifteen days, or over eighty bushels por
day.
Chesterfield Young of Burlington was
sentenced to four years In the AnamoAa
penitentiary for attempting to pass coun-
forfeit money.
Fort Dodge is experiencing an ice fam
inc, the local stock being exhausted. asd
on account of lack Of cars SUFFICIENT car
not be shipped in.
Vim. Blasdell, an employe in a Dig
goods store at Des Moines, fell down an
elevator shaft three stories and sustained
several severe bruises.
A monument will be erected in tile
cemetery at Fort Dodge, to the unknown
soldiers buried there, by the post Of the
g. A. r. at that place.
1t y reported that w. l. Allen, until
recently assistant manager of the Rock
Island, will be appointed general manager
Of the Iowa Central.
Material has arrived for the installs-
ton Of the interlocking switch and cros,,-
ing Of the @. & N. w. and G., NJ. & St.
p. railways at Tama.
The Cedar County Anti-Saloon League
will publish the names Of all signers of
the county mulct petition il any be filed,
30 that Illegal signers may be detected.
The Commercial Exchange at Des
MONIES has appointed committee to
formulate plans looking toward the put
ting in operation the packing plant there.
Isaac Holt, colored lad of Keokuk,
attempted to pass through an opening
in wall used as an elevator shaft at the
Hotel Keokuk and was crushed to death.
Cass County farmers are Offering 8
cents per bushel to corn huskers, togeth-
er with teams, mittens and board, and
even at those terms are unable to get all
the men they want.
While some boys were tunpeling
through clay bank at McCausland 1t
caved in, resulting in the death Of Eddie
Stahl, a 9-year-old boy, and severe in
juries to two others.
The manufacturing consent petition at
Des Moines has secured the necessary
number of names, but the canvass will
be continued to avoid all future trouble
when the lists are checked over.
A carload of melon seeds was loaded at
Fruitland the other day, the product of
the Muscatine island melon fields. This
is the first shipment of the kind to be
made from that locality.
]. r. Sage, of the Iowa weather and
crop service, says the farmers have felt
the shortage of labor this year more than
any other class Of employers. Mr.. SAGE
estimates that the Iowa corn crop will
approximate 30O,O00,00O bushels. y
Miss Mary G. Collins was ordained a
minister in the Congregationalist church
at Keokuk. Miss Collins has spent
twenty-four years in missionary work
among the Indians Of the Northwest, md
her work has borne magnificent results.
William Fitzsimmons, section hand
on the G. & N. W., was run down by a
train near Luray and fatally injured.
John P. Reed, of Iowa, has been pro,
noted from 81, 400 to $1,000 in the office
of the Auditor of the Interior Depart
ment, and Edwin G. Ford, another Iowa
man, from 1920 to 81 400 per annum "a
the office of the Auditor for the Treasury
Department.
Mrs. Dorothy Derbits, an inmate of
the Cook home at Davenport, is brought
forth as the Oldest German woman in
the State. She was born In Holsteip in
1902. aud is in the latter half OF her 0sth
year. Mrs. Derbits has been III but three
days In the last eight years,