Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-03-12
Brief State Bappenin~..

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Mason City wants new city hall.
The town Of Denver has a new hotel.
The Iowa Central depot at Laurel has
been rebuilt.
The st. James Hotel at Davenport has
changed hands.
Avoca Congregationalists will build u
new parsonage.
A $4,000 business block is contemplate
ed at Mason City.
]. D. Cuddick has been commissioned
postmaster at Pekin.
A lodge of the NJ. B. A. has been or
ganized at Hanlontown.
The Tama County fair will be held
Sept. % to 20, at Toledo.
Short change artists have been work
Ing their graft in Ottumwa.
Chicken thieves are doing wholesale
business at Missouri Valley.
The Overturf sawmill. near Village
Creek, burned to the ground.
A gambling joint at Boone was raided
and seven of the inmates arrested.
The Oskaloosa Saddlery Company will
erect three-story brick building.
Fire destroyed the residence of William
Phipps, near Boone; no insurance.
Rev. +. II. York is the new pastor of
the Universalist Church at Waterloo.
Council Bluffs business men are agitat-
ing the formation Of a commercial club
w. A. Forty, Waterloo wholesale
druggist, has been adjudged insolvent.
A State bank has been organized at
McCallsbury, with capital Of $4,000.
The home of Eugene Draper Of Water
loo was burglarized of n sum of money.
Burlington has installed large amount
of new and modern fire-fighting appara-
tus.
A bank with capital of $4,000 has
been authorized to begin business at An
keny.
The home of John Roberts, mine
owner near Oskaloosa, was destroyed by
fire.
The work of the tax ferrets in Du,
buque County has resulted in adding to
the funds of the county treasurer the sum
Of $4,000.
B. j. Woody has been appointed post
master at Cedar, vice Il. G. Lyon, resign
ed.
Boone capitalists are talking of build
ing an electric line from that city to
Ames.
Ottumwa is still making desperate
effort to secure the projected automobile
factory.
Ottumwa is agitating the question of
organizing an Illinois Iowa Missouri base
ball league.
Sunday passenger trains will hereafter
be run on the Kansas City division of the
Rock Island.
Ed. Brainard, a farmer living near
Preparation, was murdered in Harrison
County while on the way to Woodbine to
buy a farm. He had about $1,000 on his
person.
VIM. Evans. while saving buttons in
Muscatine button factory few days
ago, accidentally came across very val
liable pearl. He cleaned it up and after
being tested it was found to be worth
$3.50.
Ottumwa people are signing petition
to the Legislature asking the passage OF
law allowing an increase in the limit Of
Indebtedness of cities. 1t is In the inter.
est of municipal ownership Of water
works.
Clyde Kirk, son of Joseph Kirk. a
priminent farmer and stock raiser Of
Winterset, died as the result of injuries
received by being kicked in the head by
horse few days ago.
1t is expected that at an early date
two important murder trials will come
to the Iowa Supreme Court on appeal.
One is the Linhoff case from Mason
City and the other the Hunter case from
Ringgold County.
Burglars broke into the general store
of G. Il. Larson at Cambridge, blew omen
the safe with dynamite, rihed it and es-
capped with a stolen team. About 500,
with quantity of stamps, checks and
drafts, was secured.