Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-07
Stevens Bros, Bocr., srocers, have as,

Bell telephone girls, Des Moines, have
returned to work. More money.
John Narenkamp has been appointed
AT n sale of Short Horn cattle Mt Al
bion, forty-five head sold for over So
600
Willis Anibal, aged -, was drowned
while skating OH the Cedar river at Wat
crloo.
j. o. Wade has been appointed post
master at Elwood, vice w. s. Hill, re-
signed.
j. II. Leavitt of Waterloo is the pos
SCISSOR of clock that has kept time for
142 years.
Fort Dodge is after Michigan
health food company that employs sevo1l-
ty-fve men.
Fire in one of the show windows Of
Beno & Co. at Council Bluffs caused
$500 damage.
The Hotel Downing at Oskaloosa will
be rebuilt into a modern hostelry, at Il
cost of $4,000.
\ Frank Il. Porter has been appointed
POSTMASTER at Van Vert, vice A. T..
Rome, removed.
| Apumber of Iowa City factories are
running on short time on account of the
scarcity Of coal. '----->----
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Hatton of Clinton
have just celebrated their sixty-frst we'd
ding anniversary.
j. s. Wright, one of the oldest dent
lists in Clinton. dropped dead of heart
disease in his office.
| Davenport savings banks have raised
the rate of interest paid to depositors
from 31a TO per cent.
Charles Seimer. aged II, of Nora
| Springs. is minus one foot as the result
of hunting accident.
1t is estimated that the creditors of
the defunct Otto bank will get about 10
| per cent of their claims.
]. b. johnson, postmaster Mt Bancroft
and president of the First National
Bank at that place, is dead
The postofiice at Parkersburg was rob-
bed of stamps and money to the amount
of $500. There is no clew.
| The dedication of the new Drake free
public library at Centervile las been
definitely fixed for Jan. 10.
The Union Electric Company OF Du-
buque is planning to build 100000
power plant the coming summer.
Woodson Reagan was sentenced at
| Centerville to fifteen yenrs in the peni-
Tertiary for the murder of his sweet
heart, Ella Clark.
The State horticultural Society has
naugurated movement to secure the
building of $500 conservatory on the
State fair grounds.
Charles A. Gilbert, one of the oldest
conductors on the Illinois Central, was
run down by switch engine at Waterloo
and instantly killed.
| Dubuque authorities have adopted the
plan of fencing in sidewalks in the bust
Hess part of town which the owners neg
lect to keep free from snow.
Rev. Herman Forester, Il member of
the Simpson College. Indianola, class
of 1893, has been chosen pastor of the
only American church In Rome.
Government architects are now MT
work on plans and specifications for Mar
shalltown's new federal building. The
contract will be let in the spring
Harvey st. Clair, aged 20, young
farmer of Vienna township, was kicked
by horse and lived five hours. He was
married less than three weeks ago.
| Workmen on the Masonic Temple at
Harlan let fall a heavy plate glass which
was being unloaded. The glass, which
cost 5000, was broken into fragments.
Thomas Meredith. wealthy philan-
| thropist of Cass County, is dead. One
of his last acts was gift of $1,000 and
n site for u NJ. c. A. building in At
| lantic.
The attempt to establish saloons in
Hancock County has failed Although
81 per cent of the voters signed the
paper, yet many names We're signed that
We're not on the poll books.
In head-on collision on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific at Oskaloosa
| between work and freight trains, four
section men We're injured, two locolno-
tives demolished, and number Of
freight cars reduced to kindling wood
Judge Mcpherson of the federal court
in Keokuk has handed down an opinion
in the case of the United States VS.. the
Adams Express Company, in which the
corporation was indicted for carrying on
the business of retail liquor dealer with
out having paid the special tax MS re-
quired by law. The federal court, in its
opinion, holds that the express company
is only an agent of the vendors in carry
ing liquors and collecting and returning
money. AS the express company did not
sell liquors it was not engaged in the
business of a liquor dealer. The court,
in this opinion, has overridden the decis-
ion of the Supreme Court of Iowa.
A scheme has been sprung at Ottumwa
| which has for its object the organization
of new water company for the purpose
of circumventing the recent decision of
the United States Circuit Court at St.
Louis. The point raised against the
water lcvies is that they are uncon-
stitutional because the city of Ottum-
wa is already in debt up to the full limit
allowed by law. The scheme now en-
foot is the organization of a mammoth
water company which will include every
citizen of Ottumwa, so that the inlebt-
etlness is against the taxpayers person.
ally rather than against the city. The
plan has been tried successfully in but
one instance. Under the scheme ever.i
citizen would be stakeholder in the
water company.
At George August Bunge shot and
MORALLY wounded Helmer Deboor as Il
result of a quarrel over rent of land.
Bunge is under arrest. Both men are
farmers.
Mrs. Eta Kitchen, fashionably
dressed young woman, was arrested while
trying to steal valuable furs in depart
| nant ctnra at nttuuwo Sha confessed