Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-02
SHORT srATE IrEMs

~ ne new mason City ElkS nome Will
be completed in March. The fixtures
and furnishings will cost $4,000.
Edgar McLain, well known young
man of Upton. is under Indictment
for passing forged checks. He is out
on bonds
T C. C. Fell, city assessor, committed
suicide in Charles City by drinking
carbolic acid. Financial troubles are
the supposed cause.
Syrus Igo, of Palmyra was elected
president of the State Aberdeen-Angus
Association to succeed c. ]. Martin Of
Churdan at Des Moines.
I The Roland Bros, who have con-
Quoted the Leader store in Adel for
some years, sold out the business to
Silvers & Co., of Corning.
Attorney General H w. Byers and
Governor B. F. Carroll will address
the big good roads convention to be
held in the Des Moines auditorium ON
March s.
A number of cattle feeders in the
vicinity of Walnut have been trying
for two months to secure cars to ship
their cattle, but have SO far been I'M
able to do so.
One of the difficulties in the i'm
provement of the Des Moines river is
that there are thirty-three bridges
without draws to them between Des
Moines and Keokuk.
B. Kemper Sons. growers of Mus
catine Island. have on. exhibition a
lemon that weighs three pounds and
two ounces and which was grown in
one of their hothouses.
Mrs. Charles Copeland, aged 40, wife
of the city marshal of Batavia, commit
ted suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
She leaves husband and six daugh-
tiers. There is no known cause for the
act.
The joint boards of supervisors OF
Story and Boone counties have set
March 81 as the day for hearing
amendments and objections to assess
ments in the Goose Lake drainage
case.
OAAICu 0tdtCo IAl6 lAOCi "A. ". 1SOuSk5
has been appointed by the War Depart
ment to take charge of the work OF
deepening the Des Moines river from
Keokuk to Des Moines and preparing
1t for navigation.
The grain dealers of Akron are de-,
handing that the State railroad COM
mission place corn in the perishable
| freight class for the balance of the
winter. They ask this in order to Sc
cure a quicker movement of corn than
the railroads are now willing to give.
G. H. Albers. leading struble mer-
chant, is seriously Ill in LeMars hos
pital. He must undergo another oper-
alton and it is feared he has not sum
cient strength to survive.
Guy Rowley lies at his home at Ls-
high recovering from a wound in his
side, and John Potter. an 18-year-old
Lehigh boy, is now out on bond. as the
result of dispute about wages.
For the first time in years a CLEO
club has been organized at the State
University of Iowa to give a series OF
concerts. similar to those given by
musical organizations of other schools.
The will of the late VIM. Foster,
theatrical manager. was filed in Des
Moines. He gives his wife $4,000, his
aged mother $500 year and former
wife $1,000 a year. Fosters opera
house is to be sold.
Roy Besco, aged 20. is said to have
confessed to United States Marshal
Clark the writing of black hand'
letter to F. NJ. Epperson, an Eddyville
banker and former State legislator, in
which $4,000 was demanded. The let.
ter contained threat to dynamite the
bank and the bankers home If the de-
mand was refused.