Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-10-08

rails. county superintendent from
Black Hawk, Bremen. Cerro Gordo,
Butler and Franklin met at the State
Teachers college. Officers of the an.
ISOLATION are: President, CT Bason
OF Mason City; vice-president, Miss
Margaret Myers of Waterloo; score
tary, Miss Mary Cretzmeyer Of Wav-
erly; treasurer, !. H. Hart Of Allison.
The 'meanest man" in Iowa has
been found to live at Marshalltown.
One morning recently when the fam
lily of George Patton. poor teamster,
arose there were found lying in the
front yard the heads and carcasses OF
thirty-two out of thirty-ive young
chickens the family had cared for dur
ing the long hot summer, planning on
having meat for Sunday dinners
through the winter. #55l '4Es fl 81
The miners at the big works Of the
Consolidated Coal Company at Dallas
have been out on a strike for over
a week. The trouble is over; a propo,
sition OF the operators to put two men
in each entry during the work of de.
velopment and to work the entries
night and day. s "a
After bidding his wife good bye and
going to work, Dan Henry. a black
smith at the Santa Fe shops at Fort
Madison, received a telephone call
from his neighbor's informing him
that his wife had just been found
dead, suspended with a clothes line.
Ambrose sayles, alleged box car
thief, was not sentenced by Judge Nc
Pherson at Council Bluffs Leslie
Thomas and Henry Gonzolleys. who
were convicted with Sayles, admit
their guilt, but declared Sayles was
not concerned in the thefts.
Clarence and John Gill. two Des
Moines orphan boys, were found at
Durant, where they had walked since
disappearing from Davenport. They
were taken back to be placed in the
Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home in the
latter city. Il n b, Il; 81
M Leroy r. Tillotson and Howard "A.
Written, aged respectively. iS5 and 26
years, were skilleq when a buggy in
which they were riding plunged over
a 50.foot embankment in Des Moines.
Both men were stereotypers and leave
families. "A: N j5S. ,!.
1t cost Roy. ,Wyant, Dave Lawrence
and Lyles Altman at Logan about
$116 to shoot seven squirrels Wyant
and Lawrence couldn't stand all Of
their shares of the assessments and
are serving out $25 fines in the county
Jail. l3s /, sy.s u. .;35t 4, e
Fire in the Purity, Oats company
plant at EKeokuk entailed loss of
100000, according to estimates placed
by officials. It started in the grad
ing room when dust exploded. Fire
doors kept the blaze from spreading.
Marjorie Saver. three-year-old
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Sar-
yer, is dying at the hospital in Oska-
loosa victim Of strange accident.
She fell on a broken fruit jar, which
cut like knife into the abdomen.
s. Elsie Bastese, is, waitress In the
Clayton hotel at Nora Springs. was
fatally burned when she saturated her
clothing with IA gallon Of kerosene
and locked herself In closet after
setting her lclothing on fire.
Claude and Maude Blakely were
divorced in the district court at Coun-
ell Bluffs but found they could not
bear life separately and we're remar-
ried by Justice Of the Peace ]. X.
Cooper the next day. ID; gs Is
A skeleton found on the bluffs elev-
en- miles north OF Dubuque was posi-
lively identified as that OF Fred Eel
baum, IS years old. He disappeared
June 9. NJ rusty revolver was found
near the skeleton. Il II; Y 4 is
4 Albert Clarke, a pioneer farmer OF
near Perry, committed suicide By cut
ting his thoat with a razor. Clarke
was about 20 years old. For nifty
years he lived on farm seven miles
north of that city. sis5 u. "A 4 4 Il
The grand jury for. the Monroe
county district court adjourned after
a weeks session at Abba. They re-
turned fifteen indictments, which In
clude those from murder down to
.bootlegging. s. Il +. r. "
Five country life institutes WILL be
held in Jones county during the month
Of December, under the direction Of
the department OF church and country
life OF the Presbyterian church.
H. b. Morgan Of Des Dimes has
bought the Baxter New Era from H.
Hazlett. who at 81. after forty-eight
years work in a3neWspaper office. Will
retire from business.
81 Ira Nash and wife Of Postville have
Just celebrated their sixtieth wedding
anniversary. They are among the
pioneers Of the state and have hosts
OF friends. :;555, 5is
4 ~ The N. Chapman store at Center
vile, was entered by burglars and
several hundred dollars worth Of
clothing and shoes carried away In a
wagon.
The body Of an unidentified man
was found on the Minneapolis & st.
Louis tracks south Of Northwood. It
is supposed he was struck by a train.
The Catholic Order of Foresters at
Oxford initiated a class of twenty-five
candidates. One hundred Foresters
from eastern Iowa saw the work
& Champ Clark will lecture at Cedar
Rapids this winter under the auspices
OF the Epworth league. /.
Branch army recruiting stations VIII
be established at Clinton, Dubuque
and Cedar Rapids. Capt. Carroll D.
Power, in charge of the Davenport
station, will have charge Of the three
branches.
The Rev. w. B. Crewdson. pastor OF
the Christian church at Logan, has
rendered his resignation and accept.
ed call at Elliott, Ia, where he will
go about Nov. 1. IA
Frank Smith, James Sorenson and
Edward McGraw are under arrest at
LIE Mars charged with burglary and
beating F. C. Mote, a farmer.
Molten metal seeping through sand
IN tho yno)dipp hoY and setting 4A the