Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-08-26
A bank will be established at Leeds.

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4. Grand Junction merchants will organ
ize commercial club.
Two more miles of asphalt paving are
planned for Des Moines.
A matrimonial insurance company has
been organized at Hudson.
4 Des Moines firemen who become intox-
icated will lose their jobs.
| Twenty-Five business changes were re-
corded at Waterloo in July.
A four-room brick school building is
being erected at Duncombe.5
| Another floating pearl button factory
Is being built at Muscatine.
Ballasting work on the Omaha extern
sion of the @. G. w. has been complet-
ed.
/. Davenport reports the quarantine rails
ed on the last case Of smallpox in the
city.
Two street cars collided IN Waterloo,
painfully injuring Motorman G.. O. Skill
Nngs.
| ]. H. Louthan, veteran. pioneer and
prominent resident Of Coon Rapids, is
dead.
There are only six men among the 200
teachers enrolled at the Polk County In
stitute.
The Iowa Telephone Company will
build line direct from Burlington to
Omaha.
The floating debt of Burlington has In
creased $4,000 in the past twelve
months.
1 DR.. Lewis Schooler has resigned from
the chair Of surgery Of Drake Medical
College.
| Ell Farrard, Keb miner, was run
down BY a mine car and possibly fatally
injured.
| Chas. Proudfoot was struck by street
car at Des Moines and suffered the loss
Of a hand.
/ Damage suits involving nearly $780,
600 have been filed in District Court at
Ottumwa.
Dubuque is endeavoring to secure the
location In that city of several additional
factories.
John G. Zoller has been appointed
postmaster at Abbott, vice John T. WIKI
ert, resigned. 81
Sneak thieves robbed the Sexton resi-
dence at Ames of gold watch and a
sum of money.
Greene will have big race meet Aug.
| Is, 20 and II, and carnival Sept. "a,
IS, 20 and "a.
|. Fort Dodge business men have petit
toned the City Council for several blocks
Of asphalt paving.
The State of Iowa has between 5000
and 5000 head of hogs at the various
State institutions.
| Fireman ]. ]. Howe of Creston fell
from his engine in such a manner as to
break his right arm.
1t will be necessary for Blackhawk
County farmers to import corn for feed
ing purposes this year.
4 Fire destroyed large barn at Brigh-
ton belonging to T. L. Emry. Loss 81
600, insurance one-half.
The Iowa veterans badge for the San
Francisco encampment bears the like
ness Of Gov. Cummins.
Secretary Shaw will he selected as a
lay delegate from Iowa to the next Meth
odist general conference.
The divorce record for the September
term of court in Polk County promises to
break all previous records.
4 James Case Of Waterloo, while riding
a bicycle collided with delivery. wagon
and received painful injuries.
The Burlington fast mail killed eigh-
teen head of cattle for Charles Lessenger
Il In one night at New London.
Fire destroyed sheds, crops and ma
i chlnery valued at 81 GOO for Charles Nee
ley Of Kamrar. No insurance.
The Dcs Moines Mutual Telephone
Company directors have decided to pur-
chase switchboard costing $95, 600.
The Dubuque Boating Association has
fixed the date for its annual regatta OH
the Mississippi, Thursday, Aug. 81.
Jesse Levi, aged 20, son Of we'll.
known Dubuque merchant, was drowned
in the Mississippi while in swimming.
The new high school building at lows
City, which with the furnishings will cost
$65 600, will be completed this week.
Charles Smith, an educated Chinaman,
was held up and robbed Of his watch and
$32 in money recently in Des Moines.
Il A petition has been filed in United
States Court to have a receiver appoint
ed for the Normandy business block at
Des Moines.
A travelling salesman named Carcek
was overcome by sewer gas In Fort
Dodge school building and narrowly es.
capped death.
A fire in Keokuk entirely destroyed a
small residence. together with most OF
the contents. The explosion Of lamp
caused the blaze.
Jacob Jounkcr. aged %. wns drowned
while bathing in creek near Maurice
He Is the third member of the family tc
die by drowning.
A barn on j. w. Pritcharl's farm al
Mitchellville was struck by lightning and
burned, together with twenty-five tons OF
hay and one horse.
Miss Carrie Knapp of Leclaire met
death ut church. A hanging lamp fell In
her lap. set fire to her clothes and burned
her body to crisp.
Manager Will Henly of the Fort Dodge
Light and Power Co. was seriously burn
ed by an explosion of gas. He carelessly
lighted match while searching for q
leak in a gas main.
Charles Laing shot and killed an ALI
gator in the Mississippi river Mt Gin
ton. The alligator was nine feet long
and is supposed to be the same one that
, was seen on two previous occasions this
summer.
!. Bert Sheppard of Oskaloosa, Iowa, sor
of w. N. Sheppard, one of the wealthiest
coal operators of the State, is under ar
rest charged with the murder of Arthur
Meade in restaurant hold-up at West