Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-11-14

An elevator is being erected Oh farm
near Luton.
A steam heating plant is being installed
at Danbury.
The Baptist State convention was held
at Muscatine.
A new Danish church building is be-
ing erected ut Thornton.
Iowa has 99I creameries, an increase
over last year of forty-siS.
The Grinncll water works plant is to
be improved and enlarged.
The proposed postotlce building at
Waterloo will cost S1O,500.
Iowa is credited with ex cities with
a population of over 25,000.
Several nursery FRAUDS are reported
from around Dallas Center.
So far Iowa has contributed $6,1GS.44
to the Texas storm sufferers.
A school for the teaching of Hebrew
has been started at Dubuque.
A big creamery and Ice cream plant
is to be erected at Fort Dodge.
The government census bureau has re-
fused recount for Burlington.
Des Moines has to raise $500 more be-
fore it can secure the army post.
Rural mail delivery service has been
commenced at Tama and Dysart.
The brick work on the new NJ. q.
Church at Toledo has been completed.
Work has commenced on the foundation
for the new Catholic church at Titonka.
1t is estimated that sixty new build
ings were erected this year in Newton.
Anton Fialka of Marshalltown blew
off two Of his fingers while out hunting.
The postofiices at Stiles and Ravan-
nah are to be supplied by rural carriers.
The paving of the public square at
Abba has been completed, and is now in
use.
Regular freight service has been inau-
gurated on the rapid transit line at Wat
erloo.
Z. P. Murphy of Kamrar was badly
burned by the explosion of carbide
tank.
Farmers around Lineville have organ
lied telephone company to connect with
Adair.
Des Moines will collect nearly $4,000
revenue annually from nickel-in-the-slot
machines.
Smallpox has broken out in northwest
Iowa, and SO far about twenty cases have
developed.
Real estate transfers in Woodbury.
County>so far this year aggregate nearly
$2,5OO,OOO.
| A 14-year-old lad named Scott near
Danbury drove off culvert and had his
leg broken.
| Thomas A. Sentcr, the swindler under
arrest at Council Bluffs, is badly wanted
in Minnesota.
A thief entered the residence Of ]. W.
Shaw at Colo and stole gold watch and
$l5 in money.
Farmers in Hardin County will realize
as high as $40 an acre on their sugar
beet experiments.
William Ring of Kellogg was robbed
of roll of bills amounting to $11O in a
house in Des Moines.
1t is estimated that GO per cent of all
the hogs and cattle delivered in Chicago
come from this State.
2. q. Randall, member of bridge
gang at Marshalltown, was struck by a
derrick and badly injured.
An effort will be made in Waterloo
to organize the different unions into a
central labor association.
Albert Stoutenberg of Des Moines, a
victim of consumption, dropped dead on
| tho Strent near his home
The ministerial union at Des Moines is
attacking the police there for their policy
in regard to gambling houses.
| The epidemic Of typhoid at the college
at Ames is being thoroughly investigated
by the State Board Of Health.
Mrs. Lou Vader, near Glidden, was
thrown from wagon, breaking one arm
and severely bruising the other.
Twenty-nine foreign born residents
We're made citizens of the United States
at this term of court at Waterloo.
The Epworth League in session at Des
Moines decided to make no change from
annual to biennial State conventions.
Joseph O'Malley, while drunk, fell
asleep on the railroad tracks at Fort
Dodge and was run over and instantly
killed.
s. S. Lingo, wealthy farmer residing
near Shenandoah, has been sued by Mrs
/ Addie Iynett for $4,000 damaged fol
breach Of promise.
The water i'll the Mississippi has moi
been so high for twenty years as il is
now, and it is retarding the fish distri
button in this State.
Silas Wright of BOWS, who weighs
about 300 pounds. fell off an S0-foot
windmill, lit in tree and escaped will
only few scratches.
The 1G-months- child of Mrs. l.
Hansen OF Davenport fell off third
story porch, distance of twenty-five
feet, but escaped with few Sigh
bruises.
Ed Booker. colored, was arrested II,
Abba, charged with attacking Saral
Hovel, widow. Booker was taken be
fore the grand jury and late in the af
turned. Sheriff John Doner was compel
ell 10 get his prisoner out Of town to pre-
vent lynching by crowd which gathered
in the court house.
Miss Catherine Emerson of Cedar Rap
ids. her father. Coils Pearson Emerson
and the Rev. DR.. Thomas Green, rector
of Grace Church. Cedar Rapids, passed
through wreck at Slater, We're delayed
in their arrival at Des Moines until af
ter midnight, hired a deputy county cIerl
and witnesses to secure marriage Ii
censc and at . o'clock Il. IN. arrived Al
the room of Joseph Vanderbilt East il
the Slavery Hotel where DR.. Green mar
ricd Miss Emerson to East, who was ONLY
able to sit up in bed on account of i'll
ness which may result fatally.
Robert Brown and Rccce Hoyt of Cum
bcrland, indicted for murder in the sec
ond degree. were sentenced TO eight ant
six years respectively.
Il Al s4on slI.n for. A,;.