Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-30


lied by the insurance men of Fort
Dodge.
Oliver E. Reece has been appointed
postmaster at Abbot, vice j. c. Zoller
resigned.
Ottumwa is to have city laboratory
for the detection of germs Of infectious
diseases.
The present prison population at Fort
Madison is 1885, eighteen less than q
year ago.
Des Moines college is trying to raise
funds for the erection of needed new
buildings.
West Liberty citizens have raised
nearly $1,000 for the purchase of u
library site.
A saloon consent petition is in circu-
lation in Carroll County. A bitter fight
has developed.
Flower growers of Davenport, Rock
Island and Moline have formed the Tri-
City Florists Club
Sneak thieves have recently stolen
$500 worth OF goods from the Patterson
store at Muscatine.
Mayor Becker of Davenport says he
will veto the ordinance requiring steel
curtains in theaters.
The Des Moines park commission will
offer prizes in order to stimulate the
identifying of the city.
Iowa railroads are laying in n very
large supply of coal, fearing bitter min
ers' strike in the East.
Dubuque socialists named Ernest
Holtz for Mayor and also placed com
plcte ticket in the field.
John Sullivan, IS years old, of Du.
buque, has confessed to the burglary
of q saloon in that city.
An aptcsian WE'LL to be at least 1000
feet deep. is being sunk at West Lib
erty. 1t will cost neasly $1,000.
Iowa operators and miners laye post
poncd n decision on the wage scale,
awaiting decision in the East.
Morris Less, n Des Moines carpenter,
drew $3.50 from bank and in half an
hour had lost $500 on the street.
Three more worthless citizens of>Den:
ison5 have. left that city. tsHlcwiag the
| urgent invitation Of vigilance commit.
tee.
All telegraph and telephone wires in
the business district of Des Moines will
be placed under ground the coming sum-
mer.
A new bank has been organized by the
business men Of Garrison and prominent
farmers living in the vicinity of that
town.
Charles II. Dilworth, president of the
West Des Moines school board and n
prominent citizen and banker, died sud-
denly.
The Farmers Bank of Garden Grove.
with capital of 100000. and the Bank
of Coin, having assets of $4,000. have
assigned.
The Waterloo ministerial union has
appointed committee to revive, IL pos
sible, the ChautauQua in that city.
The club women and business men of
Marshalltown have united in guarantee
for that city.
4 number of G.. A. Il. posts through
| out the State have adopted resolutions
favoring the proposition for State park
| ut Davenport.
The management of the Burlington
Y. NJ. G.. A. is endeavoring to raise
| $4,000. payable within. five years, to
clear off its indebtedness.
| The creditors of the Pisgah bank,
which failed last July, have employed
counsel and will endeavor to force a
settlement of their claims.
Jos. Moore, prominent business man
of Onawa. is defendant in $4,000
breach of promise suit. brought by Luz
cinda Greek, Of the same place.
AT Des Moines. G. r. NIcSabb has
sued the Elliott Hotel Company for $40.
600 for false arrest. NIcNabb was
charged with trying to beat Il board bill
Il. T.. Pardee. rural mail carrier at
Walnut resigned and was re-appointed
and given $500 contribution by the
patrons of the route when no successor
could be found
The report of the superintendent to
the board Of control shows that the in.
dustrial school for girls at Mitchellvile
had 210 inmates Feb. 20, as compared
with POS OH Jan. 81.
| Gov. Cummins has named George
Blanch of Belle Plaine as member Of
the State board Of veterinary medical
examiners. He will succeed VIM. II.
Heck of Maquoketa.
Keokuk's water is not good, says the
State chemist, after examining samples
of water sent him. The report says the
people are drinking nine hundred col
onies of bacteria to the cubic centimeter.
The total cost of the North Sixth ave.
hue Melan arch bridge at Des Moines ID
now estimated at $145,5OO, more than
$4,000 above the original estimate made
three years ago, when the contract was
let.
Gov. Cummins has issued a procA-
nation setting aside Friday. April 90,
as Arbor day. He urges n general OBJ.
servance of the spirit of the day, and
recommends such exercises in the schools
of the State us will stimulate Il love of
nature. The planting of trees in prac-
ticable places. the original purpose of the
day, is given significant emphasis as M
important service to the public and to
future generations
The Supreme Court has sustained the
decision of Judge McVey in the Bon.
bright case from Polk Countn and up.
held the judgment of $15,615 against
the estate of John s. Bonbright in favo,
| of his widow OIL pre-nuptial contract
entered into at the time of his second
marriage in 1889. The heirs of the es
tate had sought to have the decree sci
aside on the statute Of limitations and
for other reasons.
Nearly all the stock necessary to built
ut Cambridge canning factory which
will employ about hundred men, WON
en- and boys and which will pack from
! thirty-fve to forty thousand cans Of corr
per day has been subscribed