Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-03-26
State Item. of Interest.

Pocahontas has cornet band.
The Grinnell city we'll is now down SOC
feet.
A new creamery will be built at Grin
nell
There is much sickness in the neigh
borhood of Stockport.
The home Of j. r. Rose at Boone was
burned to the ground.
Pocahontas will dig deep we'll to-se
cure an adequate water supply.
A farm of forty acres near Fairfield
sold recently for S125 per acre.
A trapper at Lovillia has cleaned and
disposed of over 300 pelts this winter.
DR.. H. w. Sigworth has been appoint.
ed pension examining surgeon at Ana.
mosa.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Leisure of Grin
nell have celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary.
Clinton expects to secure carriage
factory that will give employment Il
sixty persons.
DIR. I. B. Lacey of Council Bluffs has
been appointed division surgeon Of The
Illinois Central.
Jacob Pilger, a leading wholesale bust
ness man of Burlington, Is dead at his
home in that city.
\ movement is on foot at Waterloo
looking to the purchase of the local Gem
etery by the city.
Christian Bohning, aged 30, of Coun
Gil Bluffs, committed suicide while in q
fit of dependency.
The Iowa Welsh Eistcddefod are ar.
ranging to hold singing jubilee at Des
Moines Jan. /, 1903.
Thieves looted Dennis Ragan's salo<,
at Oskaloosa, securing some cash and,
large number of cigars.
Charles Pearce was struck and killed
by bolt of lightning. He was work.
ing near New Hartford.
Hiram Moore, for over sixty years 4
resident of Union County, is dead at
Charlton, aged So years.
About twenty families from the vicin.
ity of Brighton have left for Oregon and
Idaho, where they will find homes.
The home for released convicts, being
built near Fort Dodge by Hon. l.. s
Coffin, will be completed about June l.
The master builders Of Burlington have
decided to have their own union and have
incorporated the Builders Association.
A handcar, on which We're several men,
was struck by an engine near Waylaml.
The section men escaped serious injury.
w. S. Read one of the most popular
engineers on the Iowa branch of the Chi
cago and Northwestern. is dead at Boone
Woodbury. County boasts of family
in which there are fourteen children, all
of whom are yet under the parental roof
John Byrne, a Clinton mechanic, was
accidentally drowned at Davenport
where he had been employed for some
time.
AT the Dysart school election a tax
of 10 mills was voted. insuring the cree
tion the coming summer of handsome
new school building.
The home of Mrs. Caroline Loomis at
Mason City was entered by burglars. She
was beaten into insensibility and the
house robbed of 500.
The Oskaloosu school election was the
most exciting in the history of that town.
The contest was between two ladies and
two men for school directors. The ladies
We're defeated.
The village of LeGrand is stirred III,
over the arrest of ten young men on
the serious charge of breaking and en-.
tering Chicago and Northwestern
freight car and taking therefrom ten OF
twelve dozen bottles of beer.
Rev. William j. Salmon of New Ha-
ven, Conn. has been elected president of
Tabor College. Mr.. Salmon is at present
pastor of IL Congregational church at
Bridgeport. Conn.
Edwin X. Brown of Scion won the Uni.
versity of Iowa oratorical contest, and
with w. III. Anderson of Baskerville and
III. Il. Hadley of Webster City will rep
resent the State in the Northern League
contest at Chicago in May.
Kent Strain, a machinist employed in
an Oskaloosa machine shop. was caught
in belt and whirled fifty or more times
about the shafting before the machinery
could be stopped. Many bones were
broken and he was internally injured.
Louis Waggoner, a stock drover from
Mediapolis, was seriously injured by be-
ing struck by n switch train in the yards
of the c., B. q Q. in Galesburg, Ill.
The authorities at Keokuk have given
up all hope of finding any trace Of the
slayer of William Alilliken, who was shot
through the back of the head while seat
ed in his home near there not long ago.
Grace Huff attempted suicide at OF
tumwa by jumping into eight feet of
water in the Dies Moines river. The
woman did not sink and after floating
down stream for 100 yards was rescued
by men along the bank who saw the act.
The woman claims she was tired Of
life.