Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-08-29
Local and Aeighborhood News

llrst election and by nearly four
years service in the Union army
Central City News Letter.
The Iowa City Republican will
continue to give Cummins the same
measure of support he has been get
ting from that paper all through the
campaign. David Brant, the editor
of the Republican, is good fighter
and does not intend to stultify him
self by supporting candidate now
whom few days ago he thought
full of guile Will the Cedar Ra-
pids Republican and the Des Moines
Capital do likewise? Or will they
turn to and feast on their own vom-
Williamsburg Journal Tribune.
When at Anamosa last week G..
w. Sites visited the state prison
and saw the cond, m1ed murderer,
W. S. McWilliams. He is in the
insane ward, and is pronounced by
the prison physicians hopelessly in
sane. lie was for a time violent,
and in his rawlings said that he had
sent his wife and children to heaven,
and that he intended to have sent
his father and mother there, but
that his plans were frustrated. He
is now quiet and easily controlled,
but takes no notice of anything 60
ing on around him. When taken in
to the corridor for exercise he PAGES
rapidly back and forth with his eyes
fixed upon the floor. He is greatly
emaciatsd, the muscles of his neck
from which the: flesh has shrunken
stand out prominently, and his tall,
gaunt form and maniacal eyes pre-
sent an almost startling appearance.
The prison officials do not think he
will live until the date of his execu-
ton, December l2.-1ndependence
Bulletin journal.
1t may be of interest to the tax
pagers to know what the cost of the
new cement culvert at the foot of the
Deshaw hill is. The opening is Ia
feet wide by 5 feet high, and the
wing walls are twenty feet by
eleven feet on hight the walls
three feet o II the bottom, taper
ing t o one foot a t the top.
The orr .inal contract was for $3.50
for the dimensions as named above,
but after the work was started it was
considered best to extend the wing
walls 10 feet on each corner, which
made the entire cost 5000. There
are IS yards of cement work in the
job. The contract was done by
James Burton of Dslhi, who is an
expert at that kind of work. Other
counties claim that Delaware is get
ting cement culverts built cheeper
than they are able to do it. This
Job makes permanent improve
ment at a place where bridge has
to be maintained. While it is dry
run, the gulch drains long distance
back in the hill country and at
times there is a great volume OF
water pouring down it.-Hopkinton
Leader.
Assistant State Dairy Commission
err johnson is after the creameries
that have failed to comply with the
recent law compelling them to pas
teurize all skinned milk before de-
1livering it to their patrons. Dick
kBeatty. President Of the Cascade
creamery, was arrested and fined
last week. This week, Clarence
Simpson, the manager Of the Dia-
mond Creamery Company was ar
rested because the man who operates
u skimming station. in Oxford
Junction returned the milk to the
farmers in the same condition they
had delivered it to him a few
moments before. On Saturday,
Rudolph Jacobs, of Scotch Grove,
and Peter Peterson, of Amber, were
arrested because the creamery com
panies of which they are officers
committed like offences. The law
is strict in demanding that after the
cream is taken from the milk by
creamery, the skinned milk must
be heated to a temperature of at
least one-hundred eighty-fve de-
grees Fahrenheit before being de-
livered to any person. 1t matters
not that milk delivered to the cream
cry. is pure and healthful and the
product is likewise free from in
furious bacteria. The skinned
milk may be free from all germs Of
disease but the law is designed to
allow no unhealthy food to be fed to
the coming generation OF cows. The
children will continue to drink in
fected milk, but the calves, from
now on, will have nothing but pure
food. Monticello Express.
Jones County Times: For the
past several years it has been re-
ported that Frank Beckwith and his
son Grant, of Clay township, have
been using seine for taking fish
from the waters of the Maquoketa
river, in the vicinity of Supplies
bridge. Deputy Fish Warden Green,
of Sioux City, was informed of tie
violation of the law in that section
and decided to investigate the truth
Of the report and in company with
Marshall Reddin Of Cascade went tc
the Beckwith residence Sunday tc
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