Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-23
The O., B. & Q. roundhouse at, Ores.

The O., B. & @. roundhouse at, Ores.
ton will DO enlarged.
| The Rathbone Sisters lodge at Hub
bard has been disbanded.
Hamilton Brownell, prominent Keo-
kuk business man, is dead.
Highland Park Odd Fellows will erect
a $4,000 temple at Des Moines.
The A. O. u. w. lodge at Muscatine
expects to have 1000 members by Jan. /.
Promoters are figuring on building an
electric line from Mason City to Mime
apolis.
The Waterloo Water Company pump
ed 35,94SO32 gallons OF water during
November.
An order has been issued granting
street car employees at Des Moines
shorter hours.
The entire family of Mr.. Wartnaby at
Sheffield was made seriously Ill by eating
canned sardines.
Two companies Of colored troops have
been transferred to the new army post
at Des Moines.
Despondent because Of i'll health, Hen
ry Lippe, aged 73, of near Lansing, COM
mitted suicide by shooting.
George Cortright, farmer near New
Hartford, was seriously, If not fatally,
hurt in runaway accident.
Waterloo travelling men are raising a
fund to assist in the completion Of the
new hospital building in that city.
Fire destroyed the lumber yards Of
j. H. Queal & Co. at Titonka. The
loss is partly covered by insurance.
Frank Powers pleaded guilty at Des
Moines to the forgery of SIS check and
was sent to prison for eighteen months.
Two mysterious fires have occurred
Mt Weldon, empty houses being destroy
cd. 1t is supposedly the work of an in
cendiary.
NJ. j. Gregg Of Wapello, John w.
| Cleckner of Toledo and Wilmer Jones Of
Center Point have been appointed rail-
way mail clerks.
The Offices of division roadmaster of
the Chicago Great Western will be re-
moved from Marshalltown to Des Moines
in the near future.
Centerville has opened her public hos
pital. The building and furniture cost
$4,000, which was paid by the subscrip-
tons of 200 citizens
| w. II. Hartford of Des Moines has
been appointed member of the board
of appraisers of the port of New York,
at salary of $1,000.
The Cherokee County grand jury found
no truth in the charges that County
Treasurer McClintock had misapplied
the funds of the county.
Officials are again on the trail of Ed
| Corns, the murderer of Sheriff Strain Of
Monona County. Corns is believed to be
in hiding in South Dakota.
Detectives are trying to figure out that
the Chicago bandits were the perpetra-
tors Of the hold-up on the Rock Island
near Davenport year ago.
| There Is scarcity Of steam coal at
Mason City and other points In northern
Iowa and number of industries have
been compelled to shut down.
The improvement of the Greene Coun-
ty poor farm is agitating the people Of
that county again. The institution is
said to be in a disgraceful condition.
Fire destroyed the car barn of the
Citizens Railway and Light Company in
Muscatine. Twenty-seven street cars
were consumed. Loss $4,000, fully in
sured.
DR.. G. ]. Hagan, prominent physi-
clan and capitalist of Keokuk, is dead,
of dropsy. He was q surgeon in the
Northern army during the war of the
rebellion.
Ex-Game Warden Frank johnson shot
Sewer Commissioner Eugene Boyle in
n saloon row in Burlington, inAicting a
serious wound in the stomach. johnson
is in jail.
The jury in the Trotter murder case
in Des Moines failed TO ngree. Trottel
under ffetaasaaes sor-sk Clio t.,pls5er OF
Cora Lacey, daughter of prominent
Mitclyille resident.
The Iowa Society for Suppression of
Disease and Degeneracy has prepared a
bill to be introduced in the coming AS.
sembly providing for physicians GER
tificate of examination before marriage
license can be issued.
| Within three weeks the Macarthur
Bros. will have finished their big grad
ing job near Webster City, and the ILL
nois Central's big million and half
dollar job of track grading and cutting
between Fort Dodge and Iowa Falls will
be done.
The body of Dick Robson, 10 years
old, was found in weed patch near
Extra. He had been missing from home
four weeks and 1t was supposed he had
ran away. Around the lads neck when
found was strap. Foul play is sus-
pected and an investigation is being
made.
Wesley Greene, secretary of the State
Horticultural Society, in his annual re-
port, shows Iowa ranks as the eleventh
State in the Union. Vegetables consti-
tute half of the horticultural products
of the State and are valued at $780,
600. Orchards and small fruits are val
ued at about $2,0OO,00O; forests, exclud-
ing lumber, 100000; floral gardens
about one-third Of million, and nut
bearing trees, $1,000. The grape yield
was 100000 pounds of fruit and the
State ranks twelfth in the Union. The
blackberry output was 100000 quarts,
raspberries S,50O,0O0 quarts. Iowa pro-
duces more gooseberries than any other
State and ranks third in currant produc-
ton. Iowa ranks thirty-first in pear pro-
duction, twenty-eighth In peaches, fifth
in cherries, fourth in plums and thir-
teenth i'll apples. Pottawatamie County
leads In grape production, Des Moines in
blackberries, Polk in raspberries, Lee in
Strawberries, Polk County in goose
berries, Lee County in pears, Fremont
County in peaches, Pottawattamie in
cherries and plnms and Mills County in
apples.
President Roosevelt's big family idea
is given a severe setback in the report
of State Superintendent Barrett, which
shows decrease of 10000 school chill
dren in Iowa since 1902. The enrolment
records show the 1908 enrolment to be
4 $50 ,O22, as against 560, 172 for 1902. The
high mark was reached in 1900, when
566, 900 pupils were enrolled in the Iowa
schools. State Superintendent Barrett
explains the decrease by holding that
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