Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-02-23
STATE NEWS N BRrEr.
Luther NJ. Walker, for many year
a prominent merchant ne AFtov,, 4

dead.
DR.. Charles T. Shelton, for seven
years president of Simpson College at
Indianola. has resigned.
As a result of the recent fight at
Hanlontown, three men concerned
have all paid fines amounting in all
to $3.50.
| The Des Moines City Council came
to the rescue of baseball and by vote
of 4 to l remitted the taxes on the
baseball property.
l. w. Clements, chairman of the
State Pharmacy Board, is a candidate
for reappointment. He is finishing out
an unexpired term. j.
The death of the infant son of Will
bur F. Baker at Glenwood, is the
fourth one in nine msnhs, represent.
ing four generations. M
Sam McAllister's barn burned at
Farragut. The fire is supposed to
have been started by someone steal
ing corn or chickens.
Records in the Ida county clerks
office show that during the past year
l15 marriage licenses were granted
and only five divorces.
Ed. Shorten delivered to the Prairie
City Grain company one wagon load
of hogs that brought s182.40. Ten OF
the hogs weighed $3.50 pounds.
The store owned by 1. Harris. and
located on the South Side of Spencer.
known as Harrisburg, was completely
destroyed by fire of unknown origin.
Knute Klear has sold his eighty
acre farm north of Jewell to Henry
Mcdonald at $125 per acre. Mr.. Klear
owned the place two years, paying $50
for it.
Judge H. NJ. Towner, republican, OF
Corning, announced his candidacy for
congress in the Eight district, now
represented by William Jamison, dem
ocrat.
James Thompson, of Des Moines. IL
years old, had both eyes gouged out
while coasting. The accident occurred
while scholars were sliding on a hill
on school grounds.
Orlando Rupe, of Bloomfield, aged
ID, claims to be the champion flap
Jack eater of Iowa. He eats from ten
to fifteen every morning. All of them
are the size Of plate.
The stockholders of the wrecked
Chautauqua auditorium at Creston
have decided to rebuild at once. The
building collapsed some time ago un-
der the weight of snow.
Mrs. George Kroger, a former prom
tnent woman of Marshalltown, and
la; member of one of the Oldest fami-
lies of the city, died in Chicago Of
paralysis. aged so years.
F. H. Blumer. Of saltwater, MINI,
who has extensive business interests
in several cities of the northwest, has
decided to establish large clothing
store at Columbus Junction.
The allied temperance committee
will hold a convention in Des Moines
March and 9. These are the same
dates on which the stupendous good
roads convention will be held.
H. S. Turner. a prominent resident
of Gilman, died of heart failure at his
home. aged n. Mr.. Turner came to
Gilman in 1874, and for many years
was practicing veterinary surgeon.
The Oldest triplets in Iowa have
celebrated their fifty-second birthday
anniversary in Clinton. They are
Clinton Burlingame. Of Fulton, ILL.,,
Mrs. Ida Hartzen and Mrs. Ida Golden
of Clinton.
Alleging that he induced two boys
to steal coal from a Burlington coal
car and sell 1t to him, Shook Davis,
of Creston. was brought up in justice
court and fined $50 and costs for buy
ing the coal.
Samuel T. Barnhill, aged 60, a
prominent Odd Fellow of MARSHALL
town and an old Iowa Central engi-
neer, died after long illness OF heart
disease and dropsy. He began work.
ing for the Central in 1881.
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Howard Foutch, aged 16, is suffer-
ing from fractured skull and will
die, and Henry Wilharm, aged IL, is
seriously hurt as a result of runa-
way accident in Waterloo. Foutch
was hurled with great force against a
telephone pole.
Twenty-three hundred volts of cleo
tricity from a live wire passed through
the body of Ralph Pepper, lineman
of the Peoples Electric Company, at
Mason City. He fell twenty feet to
the ground. When found his flesh was
turned black. He is still living.
The Bankers Association of Sidney
have decided to pay $3.50 reward to
the captors of Aniel Walla, the Imo-
gene bank robber, who was captured
in a cornfield after running fight.
The robbery was almost year ago,
and Walla is now doing time at Ana
mosa.
Detectives from Chicago have been
in Eddyy!lle trying to locate the man
who wrote a BLACK Hand" letter to
F. NJ. Epperson, cashier of the Man
ming 6 Epperson State Bank, demand,
ing that $4,000 be deposited at Ger
tain place for the writer under threat
that If 1t Was not done the bank build
ing would lie blown up with dynamite
| Directly upon finishing his work in
Iowa State College, Ames, Edward S,