Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
Within Our Border,.

Two socialists were elected to the
City Council at Webster City.
The President has appointed Lon Bry.
son postmaster at Davenport.
An otter weighing twenty pounds was
recently killed near jefferson.
4 large swan measuring six feet from
tip to tip of its wings was shot near
Kingsley.
The depot at Jewell was partially de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is several hun
dred dollars.
President Stickney announces that
Clarion will be made division point on
the c. G. w.
The c., Nj. 4 st. r. will install a new
power plant III its Dubuque shops ut n
cost of $4,000.
Rufus G. O'Hecht of Ames has been
appointed farmer at Tomah Indian
school, Wisconsin.
The Des Moines Driving Park Associa.
ton has been organized to conduct an
annual race meeting.
The improvements projected for Des
Aloines the coming season represent an
expenditure of $3.OOOOOO.
Captain j. n. Milliken, postmaster at
Pulaski, and prominent veteran, is
critically i'll of paralysis.
Edgar j. Slocum, n former resident of
Bridgewater, was run over and killed
by the cars at Brush, Colo.
Just now there is an urgent demand
for capable machnists in every railroad
machine shop in the State.
Burglars entered tile hardware store
of Schneider 4 Klein at Dubuque and
departed with $3.50 in cash.
a factory for the making of brick
making machines and capitalized at $780,
GOO, is being built at Keokuk.
Greene has citizen 50 years old who
sawed ten cords of wood the past win
ter. His name is Joel Doore.
Council Bluffs school teachers are adj
yocating the lcngthening of the school
year from nine to ten months.
The Oldest settlers say the country
roads are in II worse condition this spring
than they have been for forty years.
There are thirty three divorce eases
pending for hearing in the present term
of the Scott County District Court
The Muskwakis. Mt Tama, have just
received their regular annuity from the
government. 1t amounted to $S,57I5.
The eleven clerks employed in the
Waterloo postotiice have each received
an increase in salary of 500 per year.
Chas. Anhley, a c. & n. w. brakeman,
Ia dead at Clinton rs the result of in
juries received by falling from n box
car.
Miss Clara Tilton of Buffalo. \. v.
has been elected physical director of the
woman's department of the Iowa State
Normal school, to succeed Miss Stella
Satterthwait, who retires the first of
June.
+. I. Orvis, well-known travelling
man, residing in Appleton, Wis, and rep.
resenting the Milwaukee LithoSraphing
and instantly killed by n Burlington pas.
seLger train.
The residence of Mrs. Patrick Car,
roll near McGregor, was totally destroy.
ed by fire, together with it's contents.
Several horses in Crawford County
found to be afflicted with CHAMBERS, nave
been ordered killed by the State veteri.
marian.
The Methodists of I.aurens will build
$4,000 church. Six lots have been
purchased and the plans for the new
building accepted.
Joseph Wilhelm of Muscatine has been
notified he is heir to Il tract of fifty acres
in the heart of Philadelphia. A ninety.
nine-year lease figures in the case.
In runaway accident at Marshall.
town Miss Cora Holloway received seri
Gus injuries. She was rendered uncon
scious for several hours.
At special election Glare voted So.
600 bonds for school building. This
Is the village near Fort Dodge that has
been without school house.
The high schools of Gladbrook, Grun.
dy Center and Reinbeck have formed
an inter high school athletic association
the object being purer athletics.
]. b. Cason of Ottumwa has been
chosen grand chancellor of Iowa colorel
X. of P.'s, succeeding c. L. Washing.
ton of Cleveland, who resigned to leave
the State.
The State board of control has recent.
ly come into possession of a number of
counterfeits of bank notes which were
executed by G. w. Tateman, now an in
mate of the insane asylum at Clarinda
The counterfeits are not especially good
copies of the bills they are intended tc
represent and We're never intended fol
circulation. Thir remarkableness exists
in the fact that NIL Tateman had to WORK
with in making the plates was section
Of boiler iron and piece of steel wire.
The body of H. g. Hayes. who disap
peared mysteriously, was found b,
searcllers in wooded gully mile from
Fort Dodge. He had committed sui
eide by drinking wood alcohol,