Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-06-20

luis are peINS prepared IOt new
$4,000 hospital building at Glenwood.
| A company has been organized to op-
crate the packing plant of Emmetsburg
Two hundred and ninety-six undertake
ers in Iowa hold State embalming IL
censes.
The church census just taken shows
Washington to have a population of
4.137.
Henry Tardy of Waterloo was sentenc-
ed to fifteen days in Jail for cruelty to
horse.
The valuation of personal property this
year in Greene County aggregates 49,
O50,GS4.
An effort is being made ut Mason City
to raise $4,000 to erect new Catholic
Church.
Henry Landt, an old settler near Gar
win. died suddenly at his home of heart
disease.
Jefferson is sanguine that the c., NJ. s.
st. P. intends erecting new depot there
this year.
The Odd Fellows at Liscomb have laid
the corner stone for their new lodge
building.
A burglar entered house in Washing
ton and made off with gold watch and
$50 in cash.
DIR. Lewis Schooler has been appointed
deputy surgeon general of the Iowa Ma
tional Guard.
VIM. H. Davenport was sentenced at
Des Moines to one year in the peniten-
tiary for bigamy.
The plans have been accepted for the
new $150,O00 engineering building for the
college at Ames.
The First National Bank of Clutter
has been authorized to do business with
capital Of $4,000.
The G., B. & O. depot at Abba was
partl y destroyed by fire, started by
spark from an engine.
The residence of B. +. Parker in Des
Moines was burglarizcd and about $500
worth Of jewelry stolen.
The First NATIONAL Bank of Dixie has
been authorized to commence business
with capital of $4,000.
The board Of control is preparing to
install State owned telephone systems in
ell the State institutions.
| A fruit grower ut Fort Dodge has dis
covered new insect on trees that prom
ises to be great menace.
H. L. Spencer of Oskaloosa lost
fine riding horse of lung fever, which re-
Gently cost him about $500.
A company has been organized with
capital of $4,000 to prospect for and
open coal mines near Avon.
The Odd Fellows of Delaware County
have organized an association and will
hold their first picnic at Manchester,
July 4.
The independent school district at At
lantic will vote on the proposition of
erecting suitable and modern school
building.
The gardeners at Griswold have dis
covered Il new pest in the form of
small green worm that devours strawber-
ry plants.
| Work has been commenced on the driy-
ing park at Buffalo Center. The land
has been tiled and three hundred trees
have been planted.
E. McCarpy, member of the North
western steel gang at State Ctster, had
all arm broken while defending himself
from three highwaymen.
j. A. Jaque has been arrested at va
kima. Wash. and will be returned to
| Fayette County. where he will be tried
on the charge of bigamy.
The board of control is in receipt of re-
ports from the penitcntiarics indicating
that the new system of grading convicts
| is giving great satisfaction.
John E. Bosserman, aged about G5
years, a well-known bachelor of Weldon,
dropped dead in the field while replant-
ing corn OH Ira Gresgs' farm.
The authorities at Des Moines are en-
forcing the building permit ordinance and
prominent resident there was arrested
and fined 50 for refusing to comply
| with it.
| VIM. A. Morrison, eX-AIayor of Iowa
City and n retired capitalist, died in that
city. He was one of the early settlers
of the city and had for years been idcnti-
| fed with its business interests.
Lee Winpigler of Colfax. a young man,
is recovering from a case of disappoint-
ment in love, complicated by dose Of
| Rough on Rats, administered by his own
hand as an antidttc for grief over the
Inconsistency of frail dansel. When the
poison began to work he sought medical
| relief.
Fred Smith, 15-yenr-old lad near Nor
walk, was dragged to death by his horse.
The general store of +. Buchanan st
Nora Springs was entered by burglars
and 1925 worth of goods stolen.
| On account of the destruction of the
| horse and cattle sheds by fire at the fair
grounds at Grinnell. no fair will be held
| this year.
The decision of the lower court in the
case of w. n. Hall of Grinncll VS.. the
Iowa Central has been affirmed and
Hall stands loser, taxed with the costs.
| He sued the company for $1,000 alleged
to be due for damages for injuries receiy-
| ed while he was in the employment of
| the road as brakeman.
Authority has been granted to organ
ize the First National Bank of Garden
Grove with capital of $4,000.
| Atlantic is making strong effort to
secure the encampment of the Fifty-first
| Iowa, and believes that it will succeed.
| At the session in Cedar Rapids of the
grand lodge of Iowa Masons it was de-
cided to hold the next annual ccmmunca-
| ton at Davenport. Officers We're select
ed as follows: Grand master, William l..
| Eaton of Usage; senior grand warden,
Sumner Miller of Gutenberg; junior
grand warden, James Il. Bruce of Anita;
| grand secretary, T. S. Parvin of Cedar
Rapids: grand treasurer, NJ. p. Miller
of Washington.
Burglars entered the tailor shop of
| Samuel Kntz in Des Moines and carried
off practically the entire outfit.
Charles d. Reinhart, large property
owner of Sioux City, shot his wife and
then put two bullets into his lungs. He
and his wife had some angry words and
he started to take her to relatives near
Lake View. When about half way on
the road he committed the crime. The
horse was stopped Il few minutes later.
Mrs. lteinhart was dead and her hus-
band set in the buggy with his arm