Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-01-30
Algona has new savings bank.
Avoca now has telephone system.
The town of Sully has voted to incorE


Fort Dodge now has thirteen saloons
in operation.
There is talk of a farmers cooperative
creamery Mt Searsboro.
A camp of the Sons of Veterans is be-
ing organized in Clinton.
The permanent school fund of Iowa has
decreased to $4.54G, G32.S5.
A new bank with capital of S2o'oV
has been started Mt Stanwood.
The. farmers of Scott County are peu'
tie.ing for niacadamized roads.
The new $4,000 opera house at Spen-
Ger has been formally opened.
Des Moines spent $S,S6S.14 in combat
ing the smallpox scourge last winter.
The c., NJ. Is st. p. is hunting for coal
lands in the vicinity of Dies Moincs.
The Kossutll County poor farm sold
S1,27T.01 worth of produce the past year.
Belle Plaine has not been troubled with
tramps since it established n stone pile.
A telephone company has been organ
lied Mt Keokuk. 1t has capital of $Io,-
600.
new Jail and sheriff's residence to
cost about $4,000 is to be erected Mt Bed
ford.
Hog thieves were discovered at work
near Randolph, but they made their es-
cape.
The board of control is insisting on
night watchmen Mt all the State institu-
tions.'
Creston has $500 damage suit on
its hands on account of defective side
walk.
The new Rock Island passenger depot
at Des AIoincs will not he opened until
March 1.
One hundred and seventy -nine persons
served time in, the prison at Jefferson
last year.
A new electric lighting plant is being
installed at the Soldiers Home in Mar
shalltown.
During the Inst twelve months $4,000
was expended in building improvements
in Newton.
The big drainage ditch to be construct
ed in Woodbury. County will cost that
county $1O,472.
So far the tax ferrcts at work in Powe-
dej;n,nont toYos
M.
Inc receipts OF .he pos'once AZ .n
ssue SHOW u s't'siae'ors 'n'ie"se easn
Oskaloosa is to have n new Episcopal
church building to cost in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000.
Two hu'iarea anu seren.s.Wo mal,
.ms., neelses - '"spe' N'oun's 'esoA"
iot .iic p"se year
Ray Thomas, lad near Guthrie Cen
ter, was shot in the face by m old mus
het III t'e hahas OIL cohipah'on.
The Glendon Creamery Company Of
| Guthrie County has filed articles OF In
corporation, with capital of $1,000.
| Dump cars left the track on n trestle,
near Murray md two of the workmep
were thrown and very severely injured.
III. h,.,s ,a ,,,.,. ~, ..;.
| grounds mt Grinnell DESTROYED by fire
will be rebuilt and fair will be held
this fall.
w ~ I,oo,, o,a, IN a, Altoona a..
tomnted sn;c;da ,,r e,.t;n, h;s throat r;th
n nnolot,mifa an5 ra;,;sn l. M. sha.
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cus.r D.i',ser vi Os N, was Dad-
y s,seu ~ .ne iae ... Win u iazor M .ne
MINUS VI u nun WIN whom ne nad a
,i'eu's .Ass'e
WIN, Bockman, brakeman. on the
Iowa Central, slipped and fell off a tres.
tie near Eddyvilie, distance OF twenty
feet, and was severely bruised.
The compositors, job men and press
men in the Times Herald and Globe Ga.
zette printing offices in Mason City
struck. The union demanded an increase
IN wnges, which was refused.
The long talked of cutoff oil the MIL
waukee road, to be built from Green Isl.
and to Browns Station, ON the Council
Bluffs division of the Milwaukee. IL
about to become n reality, ms active work
has commenced on the fifteen miles Of
roadbed between Green Island AMI
Browns Station.
Otic;nls md detest;ye. oro ,,r,.,o&.,,
ovor the murder az W;,,;on If;,,,;,,ss,.
who was fatnlJy stobho,, ou,.;,i" ~
loon in Cedar Honids Georya raat,
c.sh;cr for NJ 70 M;ncr 10 occ,,.o,i ~,
Charles johnson toomstcr ~ b,,,n,
/ struck tho foto, blow p..otz,. i.n;to ,,, re'
not be found. Johnson,s kn;rc wi,;cS ha
exhibited Mt n soloon ortar Tho n,,,r,a,
IL covered with hloo, Inf r. 4, .i,o,..,,
that he killed chicken with ii. Two
young men who were involved in the n (.
4 fair state that Pcetz ran away inter Zig
ginson fell, but neither of them saw tho
blow struck 1t is n somewhat ren,arka-
bic fact that this is the first murder com.
mittcd in Lynn County in six years in
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