Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-14
State New. In Brief.

\ cooperative creamery association
has been formed Mt Victor.
Forty-threc inquests have been held in
Clinton County the past year.
Woodbury. County will this month pay
off $4,000 of its Indebtedness.
Mrs. r. o. Morgan of Hamburg, rcput-
ed to be worth S350,OO0, is dead
ance Company has been organized at De-
Witt.
DR.. ID. ID. Davidson, the oldest prac-
titioner Of Madison County, is dead Mt
Winterset.
Leslie j. Ainey has been appointed
postmaster at Lee, vice Richard Elmer
son, resigned.
Council bluffs saloonkeepers have been
notified that they must close their places
of business ut midnight.
The johnson County Teachers Asso-
citation will hold meeting at Scion on
Saturday, Jan. II, 1908.
Henry Carson of North Liberty is
minus portion of one hand as the result
of contact with buzz saw.
Many Iowa cities are passing stringent
ordinances aimed Mt property owners who
Tail to remove snow from their walks.
w. Il. Sullivan, paymaster for the
Bussey coal mine, near Bussey. was held
up by three men and robbed of $500.
The horticultural department at Iowa
State College is arranging for series
of spraying experiments to be tried in
the spring.
DR. |. n. McCash, pastor of the Uni
yersity Church Of Christ, Des Moines.
las declined thc-eall to a wealthy Chi
cago church.
Fire at Underwood destroyed Currie's
hardware store, Fisher 6 Aney's nipple
ment house and Christianson's shoe
store. Loss $4,000; partially insured.
DIR. Ludwig Holmes has resigned the
pnstorate of the Messiah Lutheran
Church Mt Burlington and will remove to
Portland, Conn.
James Officer, convicted at Burlington
of burglary, was sentenced to seven years
in the penitentiary. He will appeal to
the Supreme Court.
Daniel Brewer, one of the few, per-
haps the only, survivor of the Iowa terri
torial legislature of 1888. is dead at Wau-
kegan, ILL.,, aged So. He came to Iowa
at the nge of % and year later was
chosen to the Legislature from the dis
trict in which was his home, Wapello.
The Prohibition party will raise fund
of 5000 to be used in perfecting the
organization in the State and pushing the
cause of temperance,
The lighting and heating plants in
many Iowa towns are seriously handicap.
ped by the scarcity of fuel. Many may
have to shut down altogether.
L. IL. Baker. foreman of n coustruc-
ton company. died at Dies Moines from
injuries received by falling under Il
freight train. Both legs were crushed.
The University of Iowa has secured
n large hall in which to train the track
men this winter. A large number of
men are to try out for the spring atll-
letics.
The Great Western has completed
plans for passenger depot. freight
depot aud a twenty-stall roundhouse to
he built Mt Council Bluffs the comm.
summer.
All arrangements are being made for
an early beginning oil tile erection of the
new Parsons College buildings at Fair
field. The board of trustees has ap-
pointed n building committee, at the head
of which is President Hinitt.
Rex Stubs, 15-year-old boy. is I'M
der arrest at Fairfield, on the charge Of
firing double-barrcled shotgun into u
seighing party when two girls were
seriously injured. He was held to an
swcr to the charge Of intended murder.