Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-13
Danbury is to have second meat mar

A municipal light plant is being talked
of at Holsteiu.
Smallpox has broken out in the Polk
County jail.
Dubuque has citizen who is now los
years of age.
The Mills County jail has no occu-
pants at present.
A corps of railroad surveyors are at
work around Hartley.
Davenport hopes TO secure new Y.
NJ. G. A. building this year.
The Danbury creamery has been sold
to w. q. Hayden for $500.
Threshermen around Grinnell have or
ganized for mutual protection.
So far site has not been secured for
the proposed hospital at Grinnell.
The new chapel of the Orphans Home
at Davenport is about completed.
Fred Bagley of Hiteman has been ar
rested for passing, counterfeit coins.
The new c., NJ. & st. P. depot at Spen-
Ger will soon be ready for occupancy.
Fire at Shenandoah destroyed Pavey's
drug store and damaged other buildings.
The packing house plant in Des Moines,
it is announced, will be opened in April.
Subscriptions are being solicited at
Greston for the erection of n new opera
house.
The Northwestern's new interlocking
switch system at Ames is now in opera
ton.
Group of Iowa bankers, have just
closed their fourth annual meeting at
Keokuk.
F. G. Blackman of Correctionville has
sold his implement business to r. G. Sell
man & Bro.
Chariton's new $4,000 high school
building has been accepted and school
| has commenced.
Iowa City is to. have new postoffice
building, the cost OF which is not to ex-
coed $4,000.
Rev. X. Il. Oberman of Muscatine is
dead, the result of an unsuccessful ssurgi-
cal operation.
1t is estimated that over $1,OOO,OOO in
real estate changed hands in Greene
County March 1.
1t is expected that the tax ferret Mt
600 in back taxes.
There have been two suicides of con-
| victs in the Fort Madison penitentiary
the past few weeks.
| A burglar entered the residence of
| Chris Larson ut Spencer and rifled his
| clothes of about $50.
The residence of Captain ]. Il. Wilkins
in Des Moines was damaged by fire to
the extent Of $780,
The farm house of Howard Shumway,
between LaMoille and Marietta, was to-
tally destroyed by fire.
A company has been organized to in
stall water works plant Mt Charlton if
the people will vote for it.
S. II. Barker, indicted Mt Marshalltown
for larceny, has been sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary.
The First Baptist Church Mt Charlton
| is now free of debt, and celebrated the
event by burning the mortgage.
| Alex. Shannon of Mason City was
knocked from the tender of an engine and
seriously injured about the head.
Mrs. Anna Ress who just died Mt AL
gona, would have been 100 years of age
if she had lived until next August.
George Paul of Hudson has sued the
G. G. w. for $122.91 damages for negli.
gehce in forwarding car of hogs
James Woomer of Grinnell had his
head caught in a powerful punching ma
chine and the injury may prove fatal.
The town of Nordland is no more, the
last of the buildings having been removed
| to Hanlontown, distance of four miles,
| Neville furnished an audience of only
half dozen for moving picture and
| ,phonograph exhibition which struck the
town.
b. j. Broderson, a farmer near Mid
way, constructed an artificial pond on his
premises, from which he has filled his ice
house.
plant, as one-half of the necessary
amount of stock has thus far been sub
scribed.
The Council at Grinnell will present
to the voters proposition to expend
$4,000 in securing good supply of soft
| water.
The seventeen promoters of the lecture
course at Gushing made the enterprise so
profitable that each secured season
| ticket free.
The town of Pierson has damage
suit Of 5000 on its hands through a citi-
4 zen falling into an excavation under n
sidewalk.
Thomas Burke of Clinton, who was
injured while being initiated in lodge
of the NJ. w. A., has been awarded ST.
600 damages.
!. The report of the Auditor of State of
collections from building and loan as.
sOciations last year shows decrease
from former years.
Il. p. Adams of Council Bluffs has sued
Herman Goldstein for $4,000 damages,
claiming that through him he was wrong
| fully imprisoned.
The Sergeant Bluffs camp of the Mod.
ern Woodmen of America now has n
membership of 100. Since July / the in
crease has been 30.
Engineer Frank Kelly of the North
western was seized with paralysis and his
fireman had to run the engine to Mason
City as hest he could.
| The 3-year-old child of James White,
at New Sharon, was playing with
matches and set fire to lrapery and nm
11-months-old child was burned to death.
Robbers sandbagged james Berry at
Iowa City, robbed him of $40 and some
jewelry and then bound him and threw
him under box car, but he managed to
crawl out before the car moved.
| Albert Rekenthaler, the village black
smith at Gushing, was thrown to the floor
of his shop by n horse he was shoeing,
and the animal fell on top of him, break
ing one of his legs.
Rev. +. A. Beyl, who for some time has
been pastor of the Baptist Church at
Correctionville, has gone to South Bend
4 Ind, where he will be assistant pastor
and also will attend college.
Information reached Salem that one of
the bodies recovered from the wreck OF
the Rio de Janeiro at San Francisco has
been identified as that of William Wood
worth, formerly of Salem.
Members of the Cedar Rapids Ministc-
1 rial Union will refuse to marry divorced