Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-02-26
Glare will build a school house.

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Two Fayette County boys captured a
silver fox.
The. Catholics will build fine church
! near Let's.
The Red Men have organized tribe
Mt Bussey.
ottumwa lost nearly $4,000 by FIRE dur.
ing January.
Harcourt will have a telephone line to
Fort Dodge.
A prohibition alliance will be organized
at Grinnel
George Belt pioneer resident of Col.
Inns, is dead.
A deposit of vermiIlion has been found
at Fort Dodge
The leading hotel at Grinnell has
changed hands.
Waterloo has secured new wood
working factory.
st. Mary's Church at Williamsburg
will be enlarged.
Clay County is planning for number
of rural telephones.
Oskaloosa raised $1,000 for the families
OF the mine Victims
A modern opera house will be built at
Creston this spring.
The police at Ottumwa made 294 ar
rests during January.
Phil. A. Boland has been appointed
postmaster at LeAlars.
The Lone Tree rural mail route has
commenced operations.
The Catholics at Ottumwa netted about
$4,000 by their bazaar.
The Bank of Elbcron will build large
two-story brick building.
A branch of the Y. w. G. A. has been
organized at Burlington.
A new street railway company wants
franchise at Des Moines.
Vincent Zengel, 1O-year-old Dubuque
boy, is missing from home.
Oskaloosa had two hold-ups in one
hight and the thugs escaped.
The new Rock Island depot at Gowrie
has been opened to the public.
Fire at Fairfield destroyed property
to the value of $1,000; insured.
Page County will cxpend $4,000 in i'm
provements on the county jail.
The State Association of Auctioneers
will meet in Waterloo in June.
The saloonkeepers at Waterloo have
ninety names on their blacklist
Citizens of Upton are protesting
against an extension of paving.
The Burlington road has completed a
new roundhouse at Shenandoah.
Foxes are said to be very numerous
in certain parts of Cedar County.
Ottumwa is making the effort to raise
a bonus for an automobile factory.
Ed. Rickauer of Dubuque had an arm
nearly torn off in turning lathe.
The postoflice at Mauch Chunk has
been discontinued; mail to Rosehill.
The Milwaukee denies that 1t has made
surveys in the vicinity of Frederika.
All the independent telephone lines
reaching Chelsea will be consolidated.
An organization of the Associated
Charities will be formed at Waterloo.
Rev. Foskett has accepted the pastor
ate of the Baptist Church at Creston.
The Mueller Lumber Company of Dav-
enport has Incorporated; capital $26S, 900.
The school children of Williamsburg
will be compelled to submit to vaccina-
ton.
Davenport people think the Santa Fe
will build into that city in the near fu-
ture.
Mrs. Veronica Lattner of Dubuque
t,, 1,,., 81, ~
birthday.
The farm house of Jacob Mosher, near
Waterloo, was nearly destroyed by fire.
Loss $500.
Upton settled damage case arising
from alleged injuries received on n side
walk for S25.
Fong Han, the Iowa City celestial who
tried to shoot fellow countryman, has
been held to the grand jury in bonds Of
81, 900.
Shenandoah people are disposed to close
up billiard halls and bowling alleys,
claiming they are immoral
The Lyon County grand jury has re-
turned numerous indictments against vic.
lators of the prohibitory law
Albert Smith has been held to the
Polk County grand jury for the murder
of Bruce Martin, at Dcs Moines.
Assays of the gold bearing quartz
found near McGregor show as much as
SIT to the ton, the average being IS.
The Iowa Master Plumbers Associa-
ton, in session at Davenport, elected A.
II. Walker of Des Moines president.
Alfred Anderson, a Rock Rapids youth,
was caught in railroad turntable, and
was so badly injured that Il leg had to
be amputated.
Arthur Taylor of Morgan Valley had
his foot crushed by being thrown under
a moving train by runaway horse. The
horse was killed.
George Snyder, well-known Buring-
ton character, was found dead in his
barn, whittier he had gone to harness his
team. Heart disease the cause.
The citizens of Toledo who advanced
money to care for the Muskwakis dur
ing the smallpox epidemic, are being re-
imbursed by the general government.
The sum of $4,000 has been raised for
the erection OF \. NJ. y. ~. building at
Oskaloosa, enough to purchase the site
and dedicate the building free of debt.
A Des Moines boy who sent Mrs. Nc
Kinley n bunch of wax flowers as a
Christmas present, has received in re-
turn a pair of slippers, knit by Mrs. Nc
Kinley herself.
]. S. Cook, Burlington pioneer mer-
chant, is dead, aged So. He was one of
the Oldest Odd Fellows in the State,
Dcs Moines will vote on the PROPOSE
ton to issue bonds to the amount Of
$125,O00 for the erection of new school
houses.
Rev. L. G. Smith, pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at Red Oak, has re-
signed to accept call to the church at
Newton.
Parties interested in the development
of the iron mines are prospecting for an
electric road to connect Waukon and
Lansing.
d. G. Jones, freight and passenger
agent of the Milwaukee road, committed
suicide Mt OttumWa III health is the