Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-02-27
Local and heIghborhood News

An artificial ice plants being
built in Waterloo at cost of about
S35. 900, and will be completed and
commence the manufacture of ice on
or before April 10. The capacity of
the plant will be 80 tons day.
Heretofore the residents Of Waterloo
have been using ice taken from the
river. Distilled water only will be
used in manufacturing the product.
Chas. Mills, Jas. Patton, G. Knox,
Elmer Fay, Thos. Main, Merit Main,
Thos. Reilly, John Shelly, Tadc
Main, Thos. Henderson, and Oney
Woods attendened the combination
sale at Manchester Tuesday. Chas.
Mills sold 10 head of fine Dnroc
Jersey hogs at an average Of $4,000
per head. Thos. Main and Sons sold
. head Of Angus cattle for $6l9.O0
Merit Main purchased two stock hogs
and Elmer Fay purchased one.
d. W. Miller, the owner Of an so.
acre farm in Westburg township,
buchanan county, has brought suit
to recover damages against A. G.
Young and wife, to whom the
property was leased for the year
1906. Mr.. Miller claims that the
property was in good condition at
the time possession was given, with
all buildings and fences in good re-
pair and trees growing thrifty. BY
the terms of the lease Mr.. Young
was to keep the property in repair.
1t is alleged that instead of fulfilling
his part of the agreement defendant
has caused lumber, fences and trees
to be damaged and destroyed and
the farm is in worse condition than
when rented. Timothy seed and
lumber are claimed to have been
converted to defendant use without
authority. Damages in the sum of
Sl36 are asked Waterloo Re.
porter.
The World has compiled list of
forth-nine railroad wrecks during
the last six months exclusive of the
New York Central disaster, in which
35l persons were killed and 474 in
jured. The New York Central
wreck increases the total number of
dead to about 375 and the total
number of injured to more than GOO.
There can be neither defense nor ex-
cuse for such a record of homicidal
negligence and incompetency, yet
the list of killed and wounded is
certain to grow by leaps and bounds
as long as the American captain of
industry" is allowed to regard the
American railroad as merely pawn
in the game of high finance. No
other comment on the Wall street
conception of a railroads functions
is SO damning as this blood-stained
record of the dead and maimed.-
New York World.
At hearing before the Iowa rail
road commissioners held at Des
Noines last Friday, the application
of the Beatrice Creamery company
for the lower rate ON milk and cream
was denied. This action by the
was largely the re-
suit OF the opposition by State Dairy
Commissioner Wright. He gave the
creamery company an unexpected
jolt. 1t had been getting along
switnmingly up to the time of his
Its witnesses stated
that the rate on ten gallon can
of milk or cream in Iowa was from
% to 80 pei cent higher than in ad-
jacent states.
When Commissioner Wright took
the stand, however, he developed
the fact that the Beatrice Creamery
company is a Nebraska company
and had but one branch in Iowa,
that it wss Centralized institu-
ton and since its coming into this
field $50 Iowa creameries, had been
compelled to go out of business.
He said Of the 577 Iowa creamer-
les 400 were operated by farmers
companies, and that a
reduction of rates would tend to
build up the big centralized" COM
panies, to the detriment CT the
smaller institutions. He said sol
per cent OF butter manufact-
ured in Iowa was made by these
cooperative companies He pro.
d.ced letters from fifty Iowa cream
cries and only one asked for a re-
duction Of rates The commission
agreed with the dairy commissioner
and denied the application OF the
Beatrice company.-1 Independence
Bulletin Journal.
A feather bed cleaner has been
doing land Office business in west
ern Iowa. He is not as Green as
his name indicates. His mode of
operation is thus told by a Sioux
City dispatch, which says: Green
has taken away about $4,000 from
farmers near Whiting and Sloan, it
is alleged. According to them, he
went to the residents of the COM
munities who slept on feathers, and
told them that their beds were un-
clean, and that they had moths in
them. If they weren't Immediately
convinced, he showed them three
bottles, one containing uncleaned
feathers from the bed of neighbor,