Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-01-20
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all Des Moines schools.
The Clinton theater is to be equipped
with n steel drop curtain.
S. I. Fields, leading merchant and ex-
Mayor of Mitchellville, is dead.
A hog bit off the thumb of d. II.
Baker, farmer near State Center.
Des AIoines Unitarians are planning
the erection of an elaborate sanctuary.
Mrs. John Hodgdon, well-known pio-
ncer of Butler County, is dead at Clarks-
vile.
Andrew Brown, aged IS, was drowned
ut Mondamin by skating through an air
hole in the ice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Lamson of Fair
field recently celebrated their golden we'd
ling anniversary.
Charles White, one of, the Quinby bank
robbers, is wanted in Dakota for several
postoflce burglaries.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the
home of G. w. Corey, at Fort Dodge.
Loss $4,000; no insurance.
Fred w. Lerch, pioneer business
man Of Des Moines, dropped dead at
his home in that city.
n tramp printer named Ferguson pass.
ed two forged checks on Muscatine bust
ness men, securing about $50. Efe has
disappeared.
The water pressure ut Fort Dodge is
inadequate for proper fire protection, and
the city authorities will attempt to rem
edy the matter.
A genuine reform wave has struck OF
tumwa. All gambling houses have been
closed and slot machines have been or
dered on the retired list.
The careless handling of shotgun in
dry goods store in Waterloo was the
cause of its accidental explosion, break
ing out large plate in the front of the
store. Luckily no one was injured.
Five hundred dollars reward and no
questions asked is the substance of a
circular sent ont by o. Cohen. victim of
the diamond robbery Mt Des Moines.
The Arlington hotel building ut Stuart,
an unoccupied structure, WAS DESTROYED
by fire, supposedly of incendiary origin.
The flames for a time threatened the de-
struction of number of other buildings.
Numerous Jasper County farmers have
signed an appeal to the Legislature ask
ing the repeal of the present road law
and the enactment in its stead Of the old
system of one supervisor for each road
district.
Three hundred and eleven fire calls,
with losses aggregating nearly 100000,
is the fire record in Des AIones last
year.
Five hundred and sixty-two marriages
We're solemnized in Woodbury. County
in 1903. The divorces granted numbered
nincty-five
Rev. Tibbets, IN aged minister of Du-
mont. was thrown from his buggy by
his horse running away and quite seri-
ously injured.
Hon. B. A. Haycock of Richland, Keo
kuk County. died in Colorado recently
He represented Keokuk County in the
Legislature in 1876
The Iowa City Council is investigating
the public buildings in that city with a
view to requiring more exits and fire es.
capes where needed.
VIM. Siberall, Des Moines carpenter
fell from scaffold distance of eigh
teen feet. sustaining crushed skull
from which he died.
Webster City Sunday school officials
allege that collections are falling off as d
result of the children dropping their cop
pers into penny-in- the-slot machines.
The question of better fire protection
is being agitated at Des Moines. The lin
provements suggested include extension
Of mains and the purchase Of fire en-
glnes,