Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-09
There is a scarcity Of laborers at was.

A 41a-foot vein Of coal has been dis
covered near Fort Dodge.
The Macedonia N. E. Church has been
remodeled and rededicated.
A Marshalltown citizen has freak
COW, the possessor of five legs.
It Is proposed to hold running meet
at Davenport early in October.
John Kinney, Mexican. war veteran,
10 dead at -Four Corners, aged 70.
/ The Columbus Junction Chautauqua
Association cleared $1,000 this year.
The working force in the Great West
ern shops at Clarion will be doubled.
William Droullard Of Dubuque Is
missdng and hfs relatives fear foul play.
The Clinton packing plant is being
overhauled and will be operated this win
ter.
o. N. Jorgenson has been appointed
postmaster at Peiro, vice o. P. Wendt,
resigned.
Samuel P. Russell Of Clinton, father
Of City Auditor Russell of Clinton, Is
dead, aged 90.
Timothy Fainhild, near Iowa City, Is
the owner Of a Tamsworth hog which
weighs 1000 pounds.
| II. Showalter was fined $50 at Dies
Moinee for using less than dozen swear
words on street car.
The glucose factory at Marshaliown Is
being repaired and will probably be op-
Grated again this winter.
An exploding gasoline stove caused
fire which destroyed the home Of T.
j. Mnrsden, at Fairfield.
BUD Pierson of Delmar has been
bound over to the federal grand Jury on
the charge of bootlegging
The reunion of the Wilson family was
held at Earlham and was attended by
over one hundred relatives.
Muscatine business men have entered
protest against the curtailmsnt Of train
service by the Rock Island.
The Blackhawk County physicians Of
the regular and homeopathic schools have
united in one medical society.
Supposed whitecaps have posted mo-
tices at Olive warning the colored popu-
lation to leave the community.
About 1000 people went from Musca-
tine to Davenport on one of the big river
steamers on the Baptist excursion.
Bids have been received at Council
Bluffs for 300, square feet of cement
and brick sidewalk to be laid in that city.
Miss Olive Chase of Waterloo has
been honored by q free scholarship In
the Dread Institute of Worcester, Mass.
The Council Bluffs school board has
postponed for one year the introduction
OF manual training into the city schools.
The new Baptist Church at Fort
Dodge. to cost $50, 900 and have a capac-
ity Of 1000 people, will be dedicated Oct.
IL.
Regular train 5ervice on the d. NJ,
l. F. & N. w. Railway, between Iowa
Falls and Des Moines. has been estab-
lished
Des Moines bakers, owing to the in
creasing cost Of -four, have advanced the
price Of bread and pastry goods to re-
tailers.
Julius Larson of Burlington was slug
ged by hod-up man, but the latter was
frightened away before he could secure
any money.
Unknown parties left a babe on the
doorstep of =. r. Clapp, Des Moines
banker. The child was sent to chill
dren's home.
The bill Of the Council Bluffs Water
Company against that city for half the
year amounts to $13,262.5O, or nearly
Sz1,UUo II year TOR warer service.
Two young ladies Of Fort Dodge, one
school teacher and the other a stenos-
rapher, have gone to North Dakota to
take up claims on government land.
The Dodge street viaduct at Iowa City
was badly damaged by wrecking train
passing under 1t without lowering the
derrick. The heavy iron crane smashed
into the viaduct and did the damage.
An elevator in the Morrell lard refinery
at Ottumwa fell from the third floor to
the bottom, painfully and possibly seri-
ously injuring Hallck L. Griswold, an
employe, who was passenger on the
elevator when 1t fell.
George Mangrum, 2O-year-old color
ed youth at Keokuk, has a crushed foot
as the result of fall under a train. The
brakeman threw a handful of liquid ex-
celsior In his eyes. causing him to lose
his hold, and his foot went under the
wheels.
The large factory of Parsons, Rich &
Co., manufacturers of gasoline engines
and self-feeders for thrashing machines
at Newton, was destroyed by fire. Loss
10000, with insurance Of 1900. The
factory will be rebuilt.
w. 8. Golden, former manager of the
Pecos Valley Standard Oil Company,
now known as the Calumet Mining Com
pany, operating at Carlsbad, N. NJ, COM
nitted suicide at Cedar Rapids. He was
manager for nine months last year
30 4 . ri
that he owed the company SIS. He came
to Cedar Rapids to attend the annual
meeting Of the stockholders and direct.
ors. The auditing committee found a
shortage in his accounts of several hun
dred dollars. Golden was informed, how
ever, he could have ample time to make
the shortage good.
The Rev. Charles Fl. Marsh has re-
fused to play season. with an eastern
baseball team and has accepted the pas
toratc of the Baptist Church at Rock
well, at an annual salary of 5000. Mr..
Marsh is well known In educational and
church circles. He came west from -Hol-
yoke, Mass, where he was educated for
the ministry. A great admirer of tile
national game, he became an expert
player, and when the time came to enter
on his Ministerial duties he was confront
ed with the choice of life as ball
player ut large salary or beginning life
as country minister with a email sal
airy in western town. He chose the
latter and has been successful.
A fireman in the Waterloo yards acct
dentally started an engine while the en-
gineer was away, and was unable to stop
it.. It ran over several closed switches
and as far as Raymond, where the steani
gave out, without doing any damage.
Two cloudbursts flooded many of the
streets Of Council Bluffs, drove hundreds
of families from their homes, ruined
many stocks and altogether did half
million dollars of damage in the imme-
diate vicinity. Railroad and street car
traffic was suspended. Much damage is
also reported from nearby towns and
the surrounding country.
A young married man, about 80 years