Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-09-26

The name of the postoffice at Grove
has been changed to Arnold.
Sheep feeders around Correctionvills
are being annoyed by wolves.
The new Presbyterian church at Dows
will soon be ready for dedication.
Andrew Swanson of Farragut was
knocked down and gored by bull.
The tax ferrets hired by Floyd Coun-
ty have about completed their labors.
| The Baptists, Mt Newton have com.
menced the erection of new church.
The new historical building In Des
Moines is rapidly nearing completion.
Correctionville boasts that man there
raised 214 chickens with twelve hens.
The station ut Diagonal was broken
into and small sum of money taksu.
A savings bank with capital of $685..
900 has been Incorporated at Lowden.
Hog cholera is raging at Curlew and
seme farmers have lost their entire herds.
The Congregationalists at Shenandoah
are raising funds to purchase pipe or
gan.
The enrolment in the public schools
at Des Moines this year will almost reach
| 10000.
| The electric light wires are being plac-
ed in underground conduits in 'Des
Moines.
Douglas Smith, an aged man at Cedar
Falls, has fallen heir to a large estate
in Canada.
A flock of pelicans settled on lake
1 near Milo and ten were killed after
lively battle.
The contract has been let for the clock
Price $1,000.
Considerable paving and permanent
sidewalks have been laid this year at
Battle Creek.
/ Charles w. Files of North Bend lost
n fine horse which was disemboweled by
some vandal.
The endowment fund Of Cornell Col
lege has now almost reached the half
million mark.
A petition has been circulated at
Greene asking for new bridge over the
Shellrock river.
Abba has passed an ordinance permit
ting billiard halls to open with license
of 500 attached
The grape yield in Des Moines County
this year will exceed that Of last year by
nearly % per cent.
Five persons were more or less Sc
verely poisoned at Ames as the result Of
eating pressed beef.
Matthias Hauser, farmer near Al
bion. was thrown from his horse and had
a limb badly fractured.
G. Dennis of Red Oak shipped twelve
cars Of cattle of his own feeding recently.
They sold for $13,355.
The affairs of the deceased Oxford Fair
Association will be sold at auction for
the benefit of creditors.
Dubuque has two damage suits against
it arising from injuries Sustained by fall
ing on defective sidewalks.
Trolley day in Des Moines proved
financial success and $043.SO was taken
in by the lady conductors.
John Mann, farmer near Swaledale,
fell in front Of a heavily loaded wagon
and was seriously injured.
Fort Dodge's new water pump has
4 been officially accepted. It has capac-
ity Of 10000 gallons daily.
Jim Lahey, ronstnbout, fell ont Of
a barn at Davenport and fractured his
skull. The injury proved fatal.
The next annual meeting Of the Iowa
Implement Dealers Association will b
held in Des Moines next January.
Myrtle Hand of Des Moines hasssued
three of her relatives for So, 900 damages
for interfering in her family affairs.
4 The S-year-old son of Engineer West
ling of Oskaloosa was kicked in the face
by a horse and his nose almost severed,
i Part of the Peoria extension of the D.
r. I. & N. w. will be built this year, and
the contract will probably be let next
month.
The issue of 100000 bonds for the
erection of new court house in Des
Moines County has been purchased by
Des Moines bank.
r. Il. LIGHT of Des Moines has sued
Marin Hairless and NJ. Younker for So
i 600 damages for injuries received in an
elevator accident.
\ The 5-year-old son of w. r. Nelson
of Eddyville swallowed sand burr
which has lodged in his throat and he
has lost the power Of speech.
i VIM. H. Brown of Mason City, while
engaged in helping hoist a 3,OOO-pound
motor, was struck down and probably
fatally injured by the hosting apparatus
giving way.
\ August, the son of August Schney of
Dubuque, was sent on an errand, but
stopped to play and while doing SO fell
from the sidewalk to the gutter, breaking
his neck and killing him instantly.
News has been received from Syracuse
i to the effect that the National Military
College will be located at Mason City.
The college is to be n memorial to SOL
diers and sailors and is to be run by
their endowments. Two million dollars
has already been pledged to the school.
4 Mason City donated the location and
gave 100000.
II The census bureau announces that the
population of Cedar Rapids is 25,856, as
against 1920 in 1890. This is an in
crease of 1886, or 42.3S per cent.
The east window to the office Of the
Rock Island depot at Minden was broken
open by thieves and number of tickets.
keys and about 100 pennies were taken.
i Thieves entered the Larson Dry Goods
Company's store at Fort Dodge and
made away with almost the entire stock
Of fine silks and satins. Entrance to the
store was gained through window in
the rear, which was pried open with
jimmy.
j There is an epidemic of insanity in the
State just now, and on an average six
cases are examined every week in Des
NIoines.
/ At the preliminary examination in An.
amosa of young Wood for the murder Of
A h;s IA fher tho dafendanf vae ooo,;ttsS
by Justice Rhinehart.
The Friends Yearly Meeting Of lows
in annual session has completed raising
$4,000 new endowment for Penn Col
lege. The Oskaloosa endowment carries
gift of fifty acres of land adjacent to
the present college campus. presented BY
Charles and Albert johnson of Oska-
loosa. Plans for new college building
are in preparation.
Ellsworth Elliott, young farmer re-