Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-04
.LeNIars will have a street fair in An.

The Davenport Turner Society has
passed the 500 mark in membership.
Keokuk County will vote on a $780,
QUO court house proposition on June I.
Hon. N. +. Kendall of Abba will be
the Memorial day orator at Des Moines.
The new Bettendorf Catholic Church
will be formally dedicated Sunday, May
15.
The Frost Concrete Stone Company
will probably remove from BOWS to Wat.
erloo.
The Dubuque Boating Association will
send crews to the Olympic regatta at st.
Louis.
pes Moines proposes to expend S5O,O
for the erection of levees to prevent
floods.
The Waterloo electric line will be ex-
tended to Westfeld, that city's factory
suburb.
The order for machinery for the can
ming company at. Monticello has been
placed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra Koontz of Albion
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary.
The Swedish Lutherans of Fort Dodge
have decided to erect n $1,000 house of
worship.
Mrs. Saul Epson, who disappeared
from her home near Lewis, was found
near Dexter.
Eldridge will vote May 1G on the ques-
ton of establishing a municipal water
works system.
Webster County farmers will under
take chicken raising on an extensive
scale this year.
Rev. A. o. Stevens has accepted a
call to tile pnstorate of the Anamosa
Congregational Church.
-Four Fort Madison boys, from Is to
IL years of age, have been arrested on
the charge of burglarizing stores.
The dog poisoner is busy at Burling-
ton. Nearly a score of CANNES have
recently been put out OF the way.
Workers remodeling barn near Au-
gnsta uncovered huge nest of rats, and
in short time killed 343 rodents.
The old Anamosa Congregational
Church is being torn down preparatory
to the erection of n fine new editice.
The home of Edward Harris, living
near Hillman, was burned and his g.
year-old child persisted in the flames.
Medford is short of dwelling houses
and company has been organized with
a capital of $4,000 to build residences.
Rev. NJ. \. Breed of Brockton, Mass,
has been extended temporary call by
the Congregational Church of Month
cello.
motion for a rchearing has been
filed in the Supreme Court in the Dav-
enport gas case, recently decided against
the city.
Farmers of Gencseo township will
build another telephone line to Dysart,
where it will be connected with the ex-.
change.
The prompt Imprisonment of the hen
is the leading issue in the smaller towns
where the gardens reach clear up to the
postoilces.
L.. j. Young of,-Ionia. who lived in
RChickasaw County half century, Is
dead. He was very prominent and re-
spected citizen.
When the present term of District
Court opened at Avoca, there We're found
TO he no jury trial cases. and the jury
was discharged.
The contract for building the Chicago.
Anamosa and Northern Railway from
.Anamosa to Prairieburg has been award
cd to an Anamosa firm.
David Elijah. elected Mayor of Clar-
encc at the recent election. refuses to
qualify. and tile Council will fill the
vacancy by appointment.
The Clarion and Northwestern Tee-
phone Company proposes to put its wires
underground. as n protection against fires
and other causes of loss.
Rev. Father Giglnger has informed
the Davenport authorities that unless the
saloons obey the midnight closing ordi-
nance prosecutions will he begun.
The Fort Dodge Commercial Club
turned down proposition for the estab-
lishment OF Il watch factory. The pro-
motcrs' demands were considered too
great.
Tax fcrrcts have instituted suits
against Il number of Henry County
banks for the collection of taxes on
property alleged to have been withheld
from the assessor 4 fine legal battle
is in prospect.
The numerous mysterious robtrries OF
the I.itzrodt drug store ut Burlington
have been solved. 4 young man promi.
nent socially, who has been frcqucnter
of the store. has confessed to the rob-
berries and will make restitution.
Clarence Anderson. aged 81. stran-
ger. refusing to give his home. shot him
self just below the heart. in the Great
Western depot at Fort Dodge. He said
he wanted to die. He would give no
reasons. He will probable recover.
The jury in the case of the State
against Martin Wcscott. the Fertile
blacksmith for the killing of George
Logue. a barber Mt Hanlontown, on Dec.
II last, returned Il verdict of man
slaughter after being out seven hours.
Thirteen new rural routes have been
ordered established in Marshall County
and when they are in operation that
county will be completely covered by
rural routes
Oil has been discovered on two farms
near Fairfield, and the residents of the
vicinity arc badly excited. A stock com
pany will be organized to sink wells and
incidentally some money.
Louis Messmcr has been elected CHIEF
of the Iowa City fire department for the
fourth consecutive time. This is his ninth
year as chief of the department and the
eleventh in tue service of the company
OF the sixty-two seniors who are can
didates for graduation from the Yves,
Des Moincs high school this year, TWEEN
ty-seven are boys. This is the largest
percentage the school has ever known
the girls heretofore having predominated
by large majority.
There are now sG2 convicts In the
State prisons A year ago there wer.
900. There is no explanation for thi.
decrease of SO in n year. But the irebri
ates have made n better record. The,
have decreased 125 in year. so Far n.
the number who are confined in the Stat,
insane asylums is concerned. The MN
Der of insane has increased LOG durn.
the year.
The 19-months-old child of Mr. an,
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