Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-06-10

The Farmers State Bank of Jesup has
Incorporated: capital $4,000.
Next weeks State high school field
meet will be held at Iowa City.
An independent professional ball team
Is being organized Mt Burling on.
A floating button factory that will
employ fifty men is being built at Mus
catine.
Another $1,000 pearl is reported to
have been found i'll the Mississippi at
Lansing.
Council Bluffs Catholics are opposed
to the rumored division of the Davenport
diocese.
Fort Dodge is having a bread war,
and the price has dropped to two loaves
for cents.
The lama Paper Mill Company has
been reorganized and the plant will again
be operated.
The city water works and lighting
plants at Atlantic have been merged, as
matter of economy.
Waterloo will have carnival July 6
to ID. The promoters announce that it
will be strictly moral affair.
The management of the Mercy hospital
at Burlington announces that it will soon
open up an old peoples home.
State Dairy Commissioner Wright has
been figuring it up and finds there are
FOG dealers in olecmargnrine in Iowa.
A campaign is on in Des Moines for
the formation of an association of en-
plOyers to checkmate the strength of the
unions.
Mrs. Joseph l.. Musselman of Des
Moines secured divorce md fifteen
minutes later married the brother of her
former husband.
The Governor has issued requisition
for Earl II. Cozad. wanted in Lee County
on the charge Of bigamy and under ar
rest in Arkansas.
4 Stratford man drew off some alco-
hol from barrel while smoking cigar.
He survived. hut it took him several
days to cool off
Lytton NJ. founker, one of the pioneer
dry goods men of Des Moines, is dead
in New York, to which city he removed
few months ago.
Postofiicc Inspector Mahin has been
investigating the mysterious death Of
Postmaster Hedges of Kossuth. Mahin
says the books were SO badly burned that
1t was impossible to arrive Mt definite
conclusion regarding the alleged robbery
of the Office previous to his accidental or
intentional death.
William johnson was drowned in the
canal at Keokuk. A workman on the
dock dropped hammer in the water and
johnson Owed for 1t. He never came up.
Iowa Prohibitionists In convention at
Marshalltown nominated ]. +. Hanson
of Mahaska County for Governor. The
platform demands discontinuance of man
ufacture and sale of liquor.
Thousands of acres Of rich farm lands
in northwestern Iowa were flooded us a
result of the recent heavy rains. and
will not be cultivated this year. All the
small streams We're out of their banks
and the bottom lands We're overtlowed.
David FarQuhar, Garden Grove me.
chanic, Is missing. He left home several
weeks ago. ostensibly in search of work
but his family has heard nothing from
him since that time.
The 4year-old son of j. Il. Leach, one
of the contractors on the new works or
the c., B. & Q. Railroad at Glenwood
was leaning on the railing of the bridge
watching the flood. He lost his balance
fell into the stream and was drowned.
A double-header freight on the Grea
Western was wrecked near Baxter. The
two engines and dozen cars were bad
ly demoralzed, traffic was delayed sew
eral hours, aud the track was torn vi
for considerable distance.
DIR. Hoffman, the Des Moines scient
ist, has been employed to investigate til,
Marshalltown wafer supply and deter
mine the question of Its purity or i'm
purity.
Thomas Kelly, one of the oldest sec
ton foremen on the Great Western, wa
instantly killed Mt Lamont He was sdt
ting on the track when struck by trail
and ground to pieces.
The fine barn of j. Il. Arnold, 81.
miles northwest of Goodell, was destroy
ed by fire caused by lightning. Mr.. Ar
mold was injured while endeavoring t
save the horses. He succeeded in rescu
Ing one, but eleven horses were burne'
TO death.