Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-23
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Odd Fellows have organized an ell
campment at Pennington.
Davenport Turner's will spend $1,000
remo1eling their building.
A saloon consent petition is to be cir.
culated In Hamilton County.
Dubuque socialists have nominated
two candidates for school directors.
Mayor Marquardt of Burlington de
clines to be a candidate for reelection.
a number of farmers near Sigourney
are planning 10 raise popcorn on an ex-
tensive scale.
Frank Nelson, the Dcnison firebug, has
been bound over TO the Crawford Coun.
ty grand jury.
Scandal will petition in the near flu
ture to have the towns name changed
to West Madrid
Albert II. McRonc has been appointed
postmaster at Brownville, vice L. G.
Reeve, resigned.
A 4-yenr-old Burlington boy ate JOG
strychnine pills. Heroic work By ply
sicians saved his life.
The will of Jeremiah Slade, late
citizen of Rock Rapids, gives 500 to
Methodist benevolences.
Marshall County farmers are agitat-
ing the question of establishing n dis
trict fair at Marshalltown.
The fourth annual convention of the
Iowa Electrical Association will be held
at Des Moihes April 10 and a.
The Iowa Library Association has an
nounced the dates of its annual meeting
at st. Louis rs Oct. 10 and 20.
A gas company is ready to begin the
erection of a plant and laying of pipes
at Knoxville, franchise having been
voted.
Two hundred and fifty united with the
various churches of Creston through the
influence Of the Wharton cvangelistic
meetings.
'Marshalltown's million gallon city
water reservoir is nearing completion and
the contractor thinks it will be done in
thirty days.
10. Il. Patten, Young man who blew
into Red Oak recently, is under. arrest
on charge Of attempting to pass a
forged check.
Injunction proceedings have been en-
ployed to stop the proposed paving of
Washington streets. Illegality of the
contract is alleged.
Mrs. Harriet l. Barnhill, the woman
who, while temporarily deranged, left
her home in Marshalltown, was found
near Quarry. She will be sent to a hos
pital for treatment.
Rev. II. e. Marshall. superintendent
of the Woodbury. County Anti-Saloon
League, announces that he is tired of
being called CRATER and blackmailer and
will bring libel suits If the action is not
stopped.
George O'Neill. aged 10. died in hos
pital at Council Bluffs from wounds re-
ceired oil the head. Policeman Moore
clubbed him in saloon and the case has
become All exceedingly critical one for
the officer.
Thieves entered the store house of
Contractor Jolly, of the Illinois Central
at Ackley, and stole clothing. shoes and
wearing apparel valued at $40
Mrs. A. ]. Reber of Waterloo was
rendered unconscious by an electric
shock. She had touched stove with
one hand while the other held swinging
electric light
Mrs. Fannie V. Paine, who brought
suit at Davenport against the Woodmell
of the World for $1,000 and interest, OH
the policy of her husband, who disap-
peared in 1896, was awarded the full
amount asked for-S2,S70.
Clinton is after all kinds of factories
to take the place of the big saw mills
dat have moved. The latest acdusi-
ton is the American Wire Cloth plant.
Printers employed on Davenport news
papers have been granted an eight-hour
day. They also ask an increase in wages
Oh 81 per week, effective March i, 1905.
:>r the first time in the history of the
Iowa State college Mt Ames, fraterni-
ties have been permitted to be organized
among the students of that institution.
Fraternities have been debarred in the
past on tie ground that that induced fac
tionalsm among the student body and
the formation of cliques, thing that
was considered very undesirable.
Because it is claimed that they are
bad characters, Rufus Anderson, colored,
and Lon Balm, white, have been noti-
fled by citizens. committee to leave
Denison. Tile letter was written in red
ink. The matter Inns caused sensation
there. as the determination is freely ex-
pressed among the citizens to rid the
town of those whom they characterize as
Objectionable residents.
Clinton is making ready for big
hotel that is to be erected by business
men, 1t will have auto livery, and will
be especially for the travelling public.
Waterloo is after the big packing
plant which the Meat Producers Asso-
citation talked about in Des Moines.