Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-23
Colo is to have another hotel.
Grand junction has new city jail.

j. w. Richards, n pioneer business
man of Osceola, is dead, aged II.
A receiver has been appointed for the
| Corning Electric Light Company.
DIR. Enoch Lewis, pioneer physician
Of central Iowa, is dead at Oskaloosa.
| Walcott is to have another financial
institution, the Farmers Savings Bank.
The stock men of Grand Junction are
clamoring for better shipping facilities.
The contract has been let for the new
library building Mt Grinnell; price $42,-
900.
A non-partisan ticket for municipal
officers will be placed in the field Mt Gin.
ton.
II. G. Curtis, for several years treas
urer of Lucas County, is dead at Chair
ton.
Centerville has new brick and tile
factory that will start up early this
spring.
Students of the State university will
hold mock Republican national con-
vention.
1t is estimated that one-fourth of the
| Keokuk high school boys smoke pipes OF
cigarets.
Davenport BARRIERS voted down prop
osition to increase the price of shavcs to
10 cents.
The Davenport board of health has ap-
pealed to the Council to establish city
laboratory.
Twenty schools in Dubuque County
are closed because of nm epidemic of
| scarlet fever
There nre 2,s73 pupils enrolled in Clin-
ton schools. The average daily attend
ance is 2,531.
lie Mars Congregationalists have ex-
tended call to Rev. ]. L. Blanchard, of
New Hampton.
Workmen for the Tri-City electric rail-
way decided to stand by their agreement
for another year.
NJ. ID. Wisegraver has been appointed
postmaster Mt Dedham, vice G. j. Nc
Master, resigned.
The Seventh district Republican con-
gressional convention will be held at
Des Moines May II.
The State University Of Iowa will de-
bate in May with Nebraska University
| students at Lincoln.
]. Il. Jones, the mine paymaster shot
by youthful bandits near Centerville,
will probably recover.
Harry Miller. manager of the Keokuk
Baseball Club in the new Iowa league,
is dead OF pneumonia
The House appropriation committee
voted to kill the bill providing for u
State humane bureau.
Mrs. Moses Snow, full cousin of
President Willard Fillmore, is dead at
Webster City, aged 50.
The German Baptist Brethren have
formally opened their new home for the
aged, near Marshalltown.
Mrs. Henry Cooper, Hardin County
pioneer, is dead. She had resided on
one farm for fifty years.
The Nevada Business Mems League
has established a monthly market day
for the benefit of farmers.
Miss Claude Fox of Dubuque, an in
mate of n tough resort tried to kill her
self by drinking carbolic acid.
The Des Moines Woman's Club has
$4,000 on hand. 1t is proposed to build
club house Mt some future date.
Stephen Kupferer had one foot cut
off by an engine in the yards in Burling
ton. He slipped on the icy track.
Mrs. Hubert Fessenkemper of West
Point was seriously burned rs re t of
her clothing catching fire from u stove.
The plant of the Milford Milling Com
pany has been sold at sheriff's sale. 1t
may be turned into canning factory.
At least lialf dozen Dubuque saloon
men have been fieeced with spurious 81
bills within the last three or four days.
The Iowa City Council has asked the
Rock Island Railway Company to place
t1ggmen at q number of crossings in that
city.
II. T. Walker, of Iowa Falls, has Of
fered his services to the japanese gov
eminent, as nm attache OF the medical
corps.
Two Des Moincs women, Mesdames
Hamilton and Fowler, have announced
themselves as candidates for membership
on tile school board of that sity.
Two hundred Keokuk citizens have
employed an attorney and will resist pay
ment Of their water bills, alleging the
water company is not living up to their
contract.
Tilted by his sweetheart and believing
there was no other girl in the world for
him, Peter Joliansen, n young farmer,
near Oakland, suicided, taking the shot
gun route.
Plans have been drawn up by the ar
chitects for the proposed new dairy build
ing mt the Iowa State college, for which
bill has been introduced in the Legis-
lature. The proposed dairy building is
to cost $4,000.
BY the largest vote for president in
the history of the association John p.
White. a young labor leader from Os-
kaloosa, captured that office and placed
himself Mt the head of the United Mine
Workers of Iowa.
A young man who has beefr-in the en-
ploy of u large Dubuque concern for the
past four or FIVE years is missing, and
SO is about $1,000 of the FIRMS money.
Ills whereabouts are unknown at the
present time, but an effort will be made
TO locate him. 1t is the old story of
gambling with other peoples money.
\ ".Iack- the-Peeper'' is making life
miserable for many Of the residents of
Washington. He has been prowIing
around the homes and has been the tar
get for pistol practice several times.
John Lynhart, Jr., son of well-to-do
farmer living three md one-half miles
south of Tama, was instantly killed by
being struck in the breast by the tum-
bling rod of buzz saw, which broke
while the rapidly revolving saw was in
motion. Young Lynhart was driving the
team that furnished the horse power.
The steel rod struck him directly over
the heart, and death was instantaneous.
Representatives of Iowa independent
telephone companies, in convention at
Des Moines, adopted resolutions critics.
ing the Postmaster General for issuing
nm order which they claim permits one
company to monopolize the telephone
business in postoffices.
AS result Of the discovery of ashes