Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-27
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ously disappeared from Lamont.
Temporary injunctions have been -
sued against all the Abba saloons.
Nashua's pickle establishment has been
turned into wheelbarrow factory.
Denison Ia short of COAL The electric
hight plant shuts down at midnight.
Stephen A. Foulke, pioneer Musea-
tine business man. is dead, aged "a.
The Des Moines City Hall is declared
to DO unsafe and may be condemned.
Iowa egg shippers declare the prices
of the product are too high for profit.
Jacob Born, prominent Colfax BUSH
ness man, died suddenly Of apoplexy.
A charter has been issued to the Wal
colt sayinsS Bank; capital stock $685.
John Flitchcroft, aged SO of Blencos.
was run down by train and Instantly
killed.
Keefe's shoe store at Clinton was bad
ly damaged by fire. Loss between $500
sand $1,000.
A new 5000 bridge is to be built
across the Iowa river near Iowa City
this summer.
Polk County oficlals will buy pack
Of trained bloodhounds for use in track
ing criminals.
Mrs. Anna Tucker has been appoint
ed postmaster at Clemens, vice Calvin
Dickson, resigned.
The Forest Avenue Baptist congrega-
ton at Des Moines has decided to build
$4,000 church.
The Council Bluffs Commercial Club
will cooperate with that city's Council
for cleaner city.
Cherokee County will issue bonds In
the sum Of $4,000 to replace the deficit
in the bridge fund.
The Supreme Court has decided that
possession Of stolen goods 10 evidence
presumptive of guilt.
Charles Hickenlooper, an Abba pion-
eer and prominent citizen, died sudden
II, at the age of 70.
Dumont will soon vote on the question
Of erecting a $4,000 school house. The
building is badly needed.
The Burlington Business Mems Club
~ advocating the establishment Of a
regular market sales day.
During fire drill one of the Council
Bluffs schools was emptied of 100 pupils
in one minute and fifty seconds. 3
Members of the Dubuque Y. W. c. A.
have started fund for the construction
of building for the association.
The Wapsie Valley OIL Company, or
ganized to drill for oil. in the vicinity
of Frederika, will go out Of business.
Taylor Purcell, aged 40 and unmar-
ried, committed suicide by taking strych-
nine at Woodbine Ill health was the
cause.
Reforms are being instituted at Hor-
nick. Slot machines must 60. and sa-
looms and pool rooms obey the Law TO the
letter.
William r. Guile, one Of the proprie-
tors of the Iowa Hotel at Des MOines,
is dead after a short illness of pneu-
monia.
Rev. N. s. Stephens has reconsidered
his resignation of the rectorship OF Grace
Cathedral at Davenport and will remain
with the church.
The business firms who recently suf-
fered loss BY fire at Abba will erect mod
ern structures at once on the ruins Of
the burned buildings.
An investigation of Iowa City's milk
supply disproyes the allegation that EN-
balming fluid is being used by the deal
ers as preservatiye.
The statement is made that Des
NIoines gamblers secretly contribute from
500 to $500 every Sunday to the
churches of that city.
Pottawattamie County has a new
town. Its name is Gilliat and it is locat-
ed on the Great Western Railway. 1t
has Just been plated.
There is shortage of country school
teachers in Washington County. Other
| counties in southeastern Iowa report a
like condition of affairs.
Delegates from each county in the
Third Congressional District have been
appointed to the national good roads con-
yention at st. Louis next month.
Miss Mary Bell, aged 40. employed
as domestic in Des Moines home.
was fatally burned by her clothing
catching fire from burning leaves. !
Gov. cummins has gone to French
Lick Springs on the advice of his physi.
| clans. who think lie should recuperate
from his recent illness more rapidly.
Rev. William Tilley, pioneer Baptist
minister is dead at Des Moines. He
came to Iowa fifty years ago and had
filed various pulpits throughout the
State.
keokuk County supervisors will again
/ submit to n popular vote the proposition
to build a 100000 court house at Sigour
ney. The proposition has been twice de.
feated.
The total receipts ut the Dayenpor,
| postoffice for the year ending March 81
were $11O.444.I3. The postmaster's sal
airy will be increased 500, to So, 400 an
nually.
With the opening of spring hundred.
of men and teams will resume work alonl
line Of the Illinois Central for distance
of fifty miles east and west Of lows
Falls, Iowa.
The case of Gertie Trusty against hel
husband, John A. Leeper. was finished
in the District Court in Washington
when Judge Scott annulled the marriage
and set the 11-year-old child wife free.
Il 81 "A Irdlue church ludt WIS UNllI III lSt
In Warren township, Bremen County
has just been torn down. The corner
stone was ,,nsealed, and in 1t was Bill.
that had become petrifed. The Other
papers crumbled to ashes as soon us ex
posed to the air.
i Patrick Henly is dead IN Cosgrove
and his death is due to the bite of &
horse The animal sank its teeth in his
arm recently. and blood poisoning en-
sued. The Inflated man was taken tc
an Iowa City hospital, and his arm wa,
amputated. in desperate, but futile
effort to save his life.
! Cyrus kidler. who was arrested il
Des Moines Oh the charge Of stealing
four sets Of harness from farmer neal
Green Mountain. was bound over to til,
grand jury in Marshalltown.
4. Fire. believed to have been caused b,
the explosion of n lamp in the hank a,
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