Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-08
burlington is having an epidemic I

| $3.50 80 81 F'duiIS
Marshalltown is planning to have a
| Chautauqua next year.
The number of persons of school age
| in Fort Dodge is 1907.
Some shipments of Arkansas hard coal
are being received in Iowa.
Joseph d. Robins has been commits
stoned postmaster at Sylvia.
The postofice at Lyman has been dis.
continued; mail to Griswold
The postot,icc Mt K!ondike has been
| discontinued: mail to Canton, s, ID.
The new $1,000 Congregational chur IN
ut ierri was dedicated free of debt
| i. j. Fox is appointed postmaster Mt
Hanna, vice E. l.. johnson. resigned
The next biennial reunion of the Third
| Iowa will he held at West Union in 1904.
Next years Fort Dodge ball team will
| be placed in the hands OF stock com
| pany.
The enrolment in the Council Bluffs
schools is 1857. gain of 552 over lest
ycnr
Des MONIES milkmen will advance the
price of the tactical fluid to I cents n
quart.
Two tax ferrets have been employed
TO 90 after Woodbury. County's delin-
guents.
Rev. G. 7. Wilson, pioneer Chris.
tian minister, is dead at Des Moincs.
aged TO.
Rev. ]. II. Wright. Christian preach
or Of Shenandoah will retire from the
ministry.
The Iowa Telephone Company is con-
structing new line from Marengo to
Sigourney.
A postoffice has been established at
Garden City, with John e. Johnson as
postmaster.
The biennial reunion of the Fourteenth
Iowa infantry will be held at Anamosa
Oct. 22 and %.
Many sections of the State report that
tlocks of blackbirds are working havoc
with the corn fields.
Mrs. Louisa Leinbrecht has been APP
pointed postmaster at Buffalo, vice A.
III. Dorman, resigned.
President Bookwalter of Western Col
lege, Toledo, announces that the debt
of $4,000 has been wiped out.
Boone wants the German Lutheran or
phans' home now located at Fort Dodge
and offers an attractive bonus.
Dallas County was awarded the prize
for having the largest number of Odd
Fellows in the parade at Des Moines.
Recent frosts have helped the tomato
crop in southern Iowa, but it is announced
"a fha nj. IL, 50, h.,It l.,,,,
Twelve new rural mail routes have
been established in Butler County. They
will serve population of nearly 5000.
Plans are being made for new city
hall at Fort Dodge. 1t is proposed to
build handsome and commodious struc-
ture.
a company, with capital stock of
100000, has been formed in Davenport
for the manufacture of folding baby car
riages.
The contract for Benefits new water
works system has been awarded to G..
ii. Meredith of Cedar Rapids for So
Hip.
A[arshalltown has fifteen women's
clubs that are affiliated with the State
federation, and number of others of
lesser note.
Audubon County will vote at the next
election on a proposition to bond the
county for $4,000 for the erection of a
court house.
y telegram announces the death at
l H9s Angeles, CAL Of former paSw,9}r qf
Williams, D. " 3.
AT beef dressing contest at Des
AIoines for 500 and the championship
of the world, NJ. Z. Mullen Won in g
minutes and 20 seconds.
The Farmers State Bank at Farming
ton has gone into voluntary liquidation.
All depositors will receive the full
of their deposits.
Director Sage of the Iowa crop ser
vice says reports are so conflicting that it
is impossible to give an estimate on the
yield of Iowa corn this year.
The Iowa City Country Club has been
organized. The club starts out with a
charter membership of eighty-four, and
the number is limited to 100.
Burlington is anxious to have pro-
fessional baseball team next year and
INV sl'pits VI iHat WY ulc
the formation of an Iowa league.
Work has begun at Dubuque on the
addition to Mercy hospital.
The foundation will be laid this fall and
then work suspended until next spring.
Sophia, the 12-year-od daughter of II.
living FIVE miles west o.
Nashua, was fatally burned and died.
The girl was alone at the time the acci-
dent occurred. Preparatory to baking
bread she attempted to rekindle the fire
by the use of u gallon can Of kerosene
oil. An explosion followed. The girl,
with clothing on fire. jumped through Il
yard, plunged into n tank of water. AZ
ter eAtinguishing the flames she return
ed to the house, and by carrying water
from a washing machine standing nest
the house. managed to put out the flames
in the interior of the home. The father
returning from town some twenty min
utcs later, found his daughter standing
in the yard with nearly all of her cloth
ing burned from her body and frightfully
burned. She was burned principally
about the chest, abdomen and face, and
her eye brows and hair Were burned
completely. She died early the next
having experienced no pain, cX-
ccptins when first burned.
Mrs. George Claflin hanged herself at
Kcosauqua while her husband, who had
been watching her to prevent the deed,
was asleep.
1t is expected that the glucose plant at
Marshalltown. which has been idle for
several months, will be again operated in
the near future.
The board. of trustees of Upper Iowa
University, at Fayette, received from
Andrew Carnegie letter inclosing
check for $500, which will provide for
the completion of the David b. Hen
derson Library, presented by Mr.. Car
negie last year. "a.
A great pottery plant, to employ in the
ncishborhood OF 100 hands and costing
many thousands of dollars, is contemplate
ed at Marshalltown.