Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-07-23

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The biggest rural school conference
4 ever held in Iowa will take place at
Teachers college, Cedar Falls. this
week With more than 1900 teachers
n attending summer school, and fully
IS, 900 more from all parts of the state
expected for this forward movement
3 An rural education, there will be a
breaking gathering.
elizabeth, the 14-year-old daughter
II Sof Arthur Mitchell, Of Boone. was
drowned while in wading near Oak
IL park. Wanita West, a companion,
/; and the girl stepped OF sandbar In
70 deep water. The West girl was
rescued. The body Of the Mitchell
girl was found mile from the
scene OF the drowning /.
The Friends church at Des M oines
has just been completed at a cost
ss0f $40. 900 and was dedicated Sunday.
An elaborate program. for both morn
Ming and AeYening had been arranged.
~ d 15ReyaH. 4 RI eates, uperintendent Of
the pastoral and evangelistic work
81 at Penn college, read the dedicatory
service. M VT Il
Capt. Frank 1.Acron Of Keokuk has
issued an order enforcing military
B law on the members OF Company i
$l$who have not been excused from at
~ tending the state ancampment at
q Washington. N Ell who fail TO report
u for the encamphent Will be subject
to heavy fines. ..3 az II
Emmett Purdy, II years old, was
probably fatally injured while riding
down one Of the steep hills between
Guthrie Center and Panora when his
II bicycle struck a stone and pitched
4 him Sheadlong into q culyert, piercing
the skull and breaking other bones
L In the head. sS
Announcement has been made ut
Marshalltown Of the building of a
new $50 900 plant for the sLennox
Furnace & Quick Action Range COM
A panies. The companies purchased
a twenty-seven acres OF land as a fac
II tory site, and will erect q modern
sssSolant. .ss h A. 5l52.s
The annual reunion OF the veter-
Y ans 5and Sons Of Veterans OF Ere
4 mont county will be held II: Sidney
Aug. " 9-22. The officers Of the or
sganization are: Colonel, George
q Gould adjutant, ]. d. Lankton;
q squartermaster, w. A. Forbes.
A free trip to the state fair Is the
prize won by Herbert Buck, g years
old, of Mount Pleasant. for writing
4 the best essay on the subject of farm
ing as an occupation in the contest
i started by state fair au thorities.
"a hip fractured in three places, the
collar bone torn from Its fastenings
d and other serious injuries resulted
i when Mrs. 7. j. Bartch of Mason City
was thrown from an auto on which
il the brakes had suddenly set. /. u.
st. Mays church at Riverside has
been rededicated to celebrate extern.
sixe remodeling of the interior. The
& parish also has built new house for.
the pastor and put up new school
y building during the year al 0
The board Of supervisors at Web
Il ster City has let the contract for two
drainage bitches The Knudson ditch,
II the estimated cost Of which is $131,
4 600, will be one OF the largest in the
county 4: 3
Guy Hotz was badly burned as the
81 result Of falling from a scanolding
n into an open furnace beside one of
the new Quaker Oats buildings, now
being constructed at Cedar Rapids.
Jess Schoonmaker, a farm hand
near DEBORAH came near losing his
d life when a team OF horses ran away
with a mower. He was severely cut
up by the sickle %@$ i
Frederick Lantau, sc. wealthy
farmer of Bluegrass, was killed when
he was thrown from load of hay
( as HIS horses became frightened at an
interurban car.
The contracts for the new Method
list church at Marathon. have been
II let The entire cost of the struc-
4 ture. including site, will be $4,000.
Fifty-four hundred pounds OF coal
fell on Ben Spearing when his wagon
broke down at Newton and he is in
critical condition.
Country fires did nearly $1,000 dam.
age last week in Johnson county.
Myron Stoutfer OF Melbourne lost his
home worth $780, At Albion John
Augustine's home was burned to the
ground, causing $500 loss. The
uildings on the Michael CLEAR farm
{ were totally destroyed.
There is mystery in the finding OF
fifty-six sticks of dynamite in the
Z bridge material yards of the Mime
apolis & ST. Louis railroad at Marsh.
alltown. Workmen uncovered the ex-
y plosive lille getting out some bridge
timbers.
Oscar Stevens, one of the earliest
residents Of Clear Lake. the builder of
the first saw mill in the county and
from whom Stevens Point is named,
i is dead, due to stroke Of paralysis.
For years he has been a familiar fig
ure about Clear Lake. He owned a
line Of boats in the old days. .,E
At the special election held by ten
members of Company D, Iowa Nation
al Guard at Knoxville, Ed Dawson was
elected first lieutenant and Oliver
Wall second lieutenant in place of
Noel D. Shinp and R. S. Mentzer, who
recently resigned. %sa
Andrew bowling, farmer living
near Denison, Ia, was taken to Coun-
ell Bluffs for preliminary hearing be-
fore United States Commi ssfoner Sapp
son the charge of sending threatening
letters 70 George Naeve. vice-presi
dent OF the Crawford County bank at
Denison.
Make the best OF our new road
laws. even though we think they were
hastily thrust upon u.s., is the senti-
ment of auditors trustees and town
ship officia,s of ninth congressional
district who held q two days road
meeting at Atlantic recently.