Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-01
College Springs is to have brick

st. Charles by Des Moines capitalists.
A class of thirty-nine will graduate
from the Clinton high school June 8.
The Nora Springs driving pnrk
grounds are to be sold at auction sale.
! L. E. Welsh of Davenport has fallen
; heir to fortune of $14SO0O in Phila-
i delphia.
A 5O-acre addition to Shambaugh has
been plated, and the lots were sold at
auction.
Charles Jones, farmer near Hast
ings was fatally injured by being kicked
by horse.
Rev. H. g. Rogers of Chicago has ac-
cepted call to the Fort Madison Pres
byterian Church.
Yetter Bros shoe store at West
Branch was burglarized of $100 worth
Of shoes. No clue.
A postofice has been established at
Roslyn. Webster County, with Hill Thor
son as postmaster.
Charles Giesman, section foreman at
Hastings, has disappeared, leaving wife
and three children.
Mrs. Mary H. Boicort of Fort Dodge
| SSiSUlultu ueT Oue uuiluEeulu DlIlNudy
anniversary recently.
Sheriff Caldwell, at Waterloo, has We
toed the sending of candy to prisoners
by sentimental women.
Charles A. Stevens has been appointed
postmaster at Salem, to succeed A. s.
Crew, who has resigned.
| The Iowa Railway Club, at its last
meeting at Des Moines. voted to admit
shippers to membership.
The Waterloo City Council is investi-
| eating the cost Of city crematory for
the disposal of its garbage
The temperance people at Dixie have
| started crusade against parties want
ing to open saloon there.
The Dubuque County grand jury re-
turned but one ndictment-against one
| George Edwards for larceny.
Frank Gaul, a prominent merchant Of
Extra, was found dead in his room ut a
Colfax hotel. Heart disease the cause.
By feign:ng illness. Frank Williams,
charged with forging pay checks of the
Rock Island, and wanted at Des Moines.
succeeded in eluding officers and has left
the State.
Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight Hills has
agreed to place two memorial windows
in the new Congregational Church at An
amosa. in memory of his parents. His
father was the first deacon of the church,
in 1S48
The semi-centennial celebration of the
founding of Grinnell will be held on
June TO- Among the speakers of post
prahdial programs are Gov. Cummins.
Senator Allison and others. Rosewater
Of Omaha and others.
The federal grand jury in Des Moines
has indicted Thomas Fuller, fullback on
last years football team, for attempting
to e1tort $500 from H. w. spaulding, a
Grinnell business man. Fuller confessed
to writing letter demanding the moIey
under penalty of burning Spauluding's
| home.
Refusing to disclose his true identity,
gray-haired soldier stood in the fed
eral court In Des Moines and pleaded
guilty to making false affldayits for the
purpose of securing pension not lawful
" his. He was an inmate of the Iowa
| soldiers home at Marshalltown, who had
claimed to be Thomas Kelley. By his
| side was an old colored man, charged
| with the same offense. He also pleaded
guilty and each was sentenced to serve
a term of one year at hard labor in the
State penitentiary at Fort Madison.
Some months ago the men made applica-
tions for pensions, but it was discovered
pensions had been granted to men Of the
| names they claimed. 1t Ia believed the
| colored man was merely camp follow
\ er and that the white man was really at
Lvar hut has souz-eood -feaspp for hiding
his identity.
The Following changes in salaries of
presidential postmasters will be made
July 1: Davenport, from 5000 to 49,
400; Guthrie Center, from $1,000 to ST.
700; Harlan, from $500 to $1,000;
Humeston, from 81 800 to $1,000; Knox
VILE, from $500 to $1,000; Lisbon,
from $1,000 to 1880; Lorimer, from
81, 800 to $1,4OO; Manchester, from 3d.
100 to $1,000; Maquoketa, from 81. 100
to $1,000; Maxwell, from $1,000 to ST.
400; Milton. from $1,000 to SLIGO; Mus
catine, from $2,7OO to $500; Nevada,
from 1880 to $1,7OO; New London,
| from $1,000 to $1,4OO; Oelwein, from
1920 to S2,1OO; Pella, from $1,TOO to
$500; Gowrie, from S1,1OO to $1,000;
Gutenberg, from 81, 100 to 81 200; Hum
bard, from $1,1OO to $1,000; Iowa City,
from $500 to $1,000; Lansing, from
81, 400 to 1850; Logan. from S1,7OO to
$1,000; Malvern, from $1,4OO to $1,000;
Manila, from $1,4OO to $1,000: MARSHALL
town. from aa sl'sW 10, 70 S5,otV; Mediapolls'
from ~. lo 10 ~ ,5U; MT. vernon. from ON
$Lsn 70 %l'V"; Mystlc' from si'doo
70 $i'zO; new hampton from Sl,ooO
TO Si''oV' ocheyedah' from Saooo 10
dour1h ciass' ohaWa, from NJ 500 10 sd,-
w; Preston, from si'Vu TO si,i'o;
He,npeck' from Si'ooV 70 Si'ooo: ROCK
weii' from $l'ao 10 Si'vvV' echai ae
nom $i,z ~ 10 g.! w ssneldoh, from ~ oo
w 70 SS'io' splrit hake: from Sl.t no
10 Stouo' stuart, from Sl, oo TO Si'oo'
van. from Si'V0 10 l,ioV, Anamosa'
from $i'ovv 70 SL,iuV' ROCKFORD from ON
$i'4v 10 70 slow nu.hNen. IRON on 9i'svV
y, 10 si; s;S..n eno',, e. 400 a. onn,
~ un d. go, 100 SI
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