Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-16
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A postonice has been established At
| Velmar.
The mslet petition failed in osceola
| County.
A postoffice his been established at
Northam.
A water works plant is being advocated
Mt Dumont.
A new savings bank has been organ
lied at Waterloo.
p. A. AIullin has been appointed post
master at Warsaw.
Springville is free of debt and has
$500 in the treasury.
i Mason City is now estimated to have
a population Of 5000.
The Rock Island Railroad is building a
mile track at Grinnell
| The anti-bill board crusade has been
started in Fort Dodge.
TIE eighth stucco factory is to be es-
tablished ut Fort Dodge.
An emergency hospital has Just been
completed at Fort Dodge.
The authorities at. Des Moines are
wedding out liquor joints.
The postoflce at Solomon has been dis
continued; mail to Strahan.
Nearly FIVE tons of dead fish was taken
from the reservoir at Tama.
Valley Junction has voted in favor Of
erecting new school house.
There is talk at Des Moines of estab-
| fishing stock exchange building.
Charles Ellis Of Corning was instantly
killed by flying rock while blasting.
A creamery company with capital of
| $500 has been organized at Halbur.
Two store buildings on the public
square at Algona were destroyed by fire.
A movement has been started at Coun-
Gil Bluffs to close all the gambling dens.
Hon. Welcome Mowry of Tama is suf-
fering from severe attack of heart dis
ease.
Peter Mohler of Kirkville dropped dead
in his home, though apparently in good
health.
L The Graves livery barn at Des Mones
was partly destroyed by fire. Loss about
| $1,000.
A strong effort will be made to lift the
debt hanging over Western College at
Toledo.
Ehe Kcokuk and Western Railroad has
Moines.
In Dubuque Jacob Grill, Respondent
from chronic illness, cut his throat with
| a razor.
The smallpox scare at Oskaloosa is
over, and quarantine has been lifted from
the hotel.
Council Bluffs is being ovcrrun by
tranips, between 400 and 500 visiting the
city daily.
The City Council of Algona raised the
assessment on one estate from $4,000
to $4,000.
The Northwestern road will lay 90
pound steel rails between Bertram and
Mt. Vernon.
Rev. Odds has rendered his resignation
as pastor OF the Christian Church at
New Sharon.
DR.. e. g. Bliss Of Grinnell was thrown
from his buggy in runaway and se-
yerely injured.
n. D. Boynott, a resident of Maxwell,
has disappeared from his home in mys-
FERROUS manner.
The State Auditor has chartered the
Waukee Savings Bank, which has a cap
ital of $4,000.
James King, farmer residing near
Tama, fell dead while In the act of un-
hitching his team.
Farmers in the vicinity of Nodawa3 arc
losing stock by disease which takes eff
feet in the throat.
The 1-year-old son Of William Metcak
of Morningside fell into tub Of water
and was drowned.
The Northwestern Iowa Veterans As
ISOLATION Withhold reunion at Rock
Rapids June 10 to 81.
The store building of Levi Helm, at
Rock Falls, together with its contents,
| was destroyed by fire.
The treasurer OF Jefferson County will
further reduce the bonded Indebtedness
of the county this spring.
Iowa's coal output last year was s, 1885,
| $50 tons, an increase of JACOBS tons over
/ sAAuL Va tuV pACN'ous
About forty game law vioiators were
| arrested Mt Dickens by the fish commits
! sioner, and every one fined.
w. ID. Powers of West Bend has been
| secretary of the township school board
| for thirty-two consecutive years.
The residence of B. +. Mcclellan, at
| Vincent was destroyed by fire. The fire
| originated from defective fue.
Butler County has over one hundred
miles of railroad, which will be assessed
next year at about $500 mile.
A company has been organized at Hite-
man for the purpose of promoting musi-
| cal and literary culture in Iowa.
Fred Fisher of Waterloo, brakeman
on the Illinois Central, is in jail charged
with attempting to murder his wife.
The eleventh annual convention of
Hardin Countys Sunday schools will be
4 held at New Providence May 10 and 10.
The comptroller has approved the APP
plication to organize the First National
Bank of Chelsea, with capital of $780,
600.
Five hundred and seventy-fve cars of
stock passed through Clinton one night
recently, going east over the Northwest.
ern.
w. o. Ransom, wel!-known young
man of Burlington, surprised friends by
volunteering to nurse negro quarantined
! for smallpox.
The young son Of John Byers, who re-
sides between Williams and Bows, was
accidentally shot through the hand, the
bullet lodging in the thiga.
Mrs. j. P. Hooks and little daughter es-
capped from death by poisoning through
eating castor bean.
The Northwestern has commenced i'm
provements at Ames and has about six
hundred men employed in and around
that town.