Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-01-02

The new elevator at Colo will soon be
in operation.
The medical society at Keokuk has
been recognized.
The Jail building at Hornick destroyed
by fire has been rebuilt.
A company of the National Guard Is
being organized at Abba.
The postotfice at Maxfeld has been dis.
continued; mailto Denver.
Five rural mail routes are under con.
sideration out of Creston.
The little town of Grant City is being
scourged by typhoid fever.
The new NJ. e. Church at Toledo viii
soon be ready for occupancy.
The underground telephone system at
Dubuque has been completed.
A system of water works is being com
pleted at the town of Kirkman.
The Council at Kalona has passed an
ordinance prohibiting pool tables.
The farmers around Bows are. agitat.
ing for rural mail delivery routes.
Plans have been submitted for the Car.
negie library building at Davenport.
The improvements during the past year
| at Nodaway aggregate about $4,000.
The army post site at Des Moines has
| been found to meet all requirements.
A petition is being circulated asking
| for rural mail route out Of Grinnell.
During the past eight months 1856 build
ing permits We're issued in Des Moines.
Des A1oines is making an effort to Sc
cure the State poultry show next year.
The NJ. q. congregation at Chillicothe
has just dedicated its fine new church.
Farmers in Tama County are losing
large numbers of chickens by diphtheria
\ Fifty per cent of the hogs raised in
Grundy County this year died of cholera.
The farmers around Woodbine are pc
titioning for rural mail delivery route.
The Progressive Brethren at Waterloo
| have just dedicated new house of wor
ship.
| The new hospital building at the State
institution at Glenwood is almost COM
4 rleted.
/ hS tOtul NatiuG VI luTIH
Iowa this year is estimated at $780,
$685. 5S.
Petitions have been filed for two more
rural mail delivery routes in Decatur
County.
So far nothing has been heard Of e.
Larson, who left his home recently at
Creston.
! II 10 ocf sv,1nf tod hat fN, ~k1 oP tl.1
corn crop in Decatur County is still un-
gathered.
A special train of seventeen cars of
live stock were shipped recently from
| NodawaY.
Slot machines are no more at Otto, just
because the Council levied tax of 81
n month.
Mason City claims to have 200 inhab-
itants that were not counted in the re.
cent census.
tits estimated that 6 100000 bushels Of
corn were grown in Woodbury. County
this season.
Bert Thomas. brakeman of Creston,
had hand badly mashed while making
coupling
The New Sharon high school has sew
enty-two pupils enrolled, the largest num-
Der in its history.
Thomas H. Johns of Marshalltown
struck his foot OH sidewalk, apoplexy
set in and death cnsued.
Mrs. George Bartholomew, MARSHALL
town lady, was thrown from her buggy
in a runaway and sustained serious in
| juries.
j. G. Butt,-a farmer near Fort Dodge,
was attacked by an angry bull and
would have been gored to death but for
the intervention OF lad with pitch
fork.
The Citizens State Bank at Elgin was
broken into by burglars. About SIS in
money and some valuable papers were
taken. They were not able to open n
large safe.
The grand jury of Howard County,
which has been investigating the Eide
shooting affair, has returned an indict-
ment against Lewis Eide, aged IL years.
charging him with the crime of man
slaughter.
George Kittleson was killed by nm cleo
trio car near Emery. He had started for
home while intoxicated and went to sleep
on the track. He was run over and in
stantly killed. He was 80 years of age
| and unmarried.
Remandis Snyder, one of the Oldest res
idents of Muscatine, is dead as the re-
suit of'injuries sustained by falling down
n stairway. Mr.. Snyder was IS years of
age and resided at the home of his daugh-
| for Mrs William yVhic1ar
John Dole. brakeman on the new
railroad grade near Murray, was killed
and four other men were badly injured.
A dirt train jumped the track. DoAe
was riding on the front dump car and
the men were working at the side Of the
grade.
A Mr.. Stark, living few miles south
of Hartley, was seriously if not fatally
injured in preparing dynamite for use in
blasting rock. He was trying to break
the stick in two when it was set off. His
legs and one arm were badly mangled and
| his eyes severely injured. The doctors
say his recovery is impossible.
Noah Brockway Bacon of Des Moines
celebrated the one hundred and first an
niversary of his birth the other day. He
did not hold reunion, us do the majority
of aged people, sitting up in bed, but re-
ceived his visitors-and there were
scores of them-dressed for the occasion.
Considerable alarm has been aroused
at the rapid spread of contagious dis
eases. There is scarlet fever epidemic
at Badger, just north of Fort Dodge and
n number are sick with scarlet fever in
that city. AT Homer, just south, there
are three cases of smallpox and one case
was reported in Fort Dodge.
John Kullmer, Jr., has sent his resigna-
ton to Washington as postmaster of Dy-
snrt. Accompanying it was n petition,
signed by every business man in the
town, asking the appointment of his
brother, Albert, rs his successor.
Fred Mintel of Glenwood and his
brother went out hunting and he met
with an accident that came near proving
| fatal. He received n charge of No. q;