Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-09-17

m6LnOO Oh S60Q1uS out descriptive ClT
culars, after bloodhounds had follow
ed their trail to the Iowa banks Of
the Mississippi river. The men were
Harry Scanlon, sent up from Jefferson
for manslaughter, and James Gleason
committed from Emmetsburg for bur
glary. & 5.& Ms L " {, 8,,} s$s
The trial OF the two $4,000 damage
suits for alleged defamation Of char
acter instituted against two Illinois
Methodist ministers by the Rev. c., s
Lyles. former pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Logan, and now
connected with the agricultural extern
sion department of the. state college
at Ames, may be taken up at the pres
ent term of the federal court In Coun
Gil Bluffs. X y Il n
The old Langan farm, two miles
south of West Side, was sold at pub
lie auction recently. The farm con
sists of $40 acres and sold at an ay
erage price of $161 an acre. Three
quarter sections, without buildings
sold for $3.50, 1854 and sl6O an acre
respectively. The homestead with the
buildings sold for $3.50 an acre and
the forty sold for $3.50. IS y 5. 81
# Otto Peterson, q years old, was
shot and killed near Delmar. He was
with James Burns, and was returning
to a railway construction camp, where
they worked. Burns reported to the
police that stranger accosted them
and asked for a drink of some liquor
they had, and when Peterson refused
to give it to him, the stranger shot
him and ran away III a. .5.
Is When officers searched the trunk
OF Gust Panos, a Greek Ice house
foreman at ,Marshalltown, for tools
that had disappeared simultaneously
with Panos' resignation, they were
surprised to find 1900 in cash and
certificates OF deposit. Panos, know
ing that he was suspected Of the
theft, has disappeared without tax
ing his savings. Il 4 3.ssS
ss9 Paul c. Cassat left Birming CHAM, la.
recently for San FRANCISCO. from which
place he will sail for work in China
He goes as an educational missionary
having the principalship. Of the new
Boys high school at Using Tau,
prominent port city Of Shantung pro
vince. Mr.. Cassat is a graduate Of
Park college. 4 as5* q IS. 81
Posing as an unmarried man and
paying attention to several Of New
$Hampton's young women while .
wife and child are said to be living
in Montezuma, is the story brought
out by the arrest Of F. D. Kelly, who
had been employed as an undertaken
and emil almer in the first named city
The secondlbig fire at treston with
in a short time has induced the coun
ell toltake precautions against anoth
.er catastrophe. The council will buy
1000; feet of new hose. and also place
at the city stand pipe a pump that
will double the efficiency OF the de
ipartment. II q S5.t SS
Boone county has voted 100000
bond issue for new court house BY
a majority OF about 1000 votes. The
voters refused to vote for q new site
in Boone, preferring to permit thu
court house to remain in Boonsboro, q
mile and a half from the business
center. u
Dr.. James 81. Wagner, formerly pas
tor at Manchester, now at Saratoga
Springs, NJ Y, has been extended Z
call to the pastorate of the Metho dis
church Of Mason City to succeed Di
Clark, who has accepted call to .
Washington, 3. c., church. \. 81 81 vi
Charles City's new public school 81
perintendent, Fred T. Vasey. says tina
the high school frat there mus
go. He believes that the high schoo
students have no business TO organ
ize and that fraternities are detri
ment to any school. s
"A special election on October I'll
will decide whether the supervisor
will construct new bridge over tn,
Des Moines river at Estherville. Fiji
teen thousand dollars Is asked for t,
complete the work.
Miss Anna Howard OF Tabor wa
elected general secretary of the Mas
on City Y w c. a. b, the directors
Miss Margaret Rohn Of Ottumwa wa
chosen matron Of the Y! w. c. "A
home recently purchased. S55
The body Of J. Leonard, bnttol
cutter, was found in the river at Dav
EXPORT. He came there from New
Baden, Ill. about three months ago
No explanation OF his death can b
learned. y. II "a III *
81 Clear Lake is justly proud Of 4,
modern school building Just complet
ed which cost $4,000. The buildinl
is 100 feet by LAB feet, three storie
high; and is divided into twenty-eigh
rooms 5 AZ 53 !. 5SSs83 n N Ri
The baby show Of the Humbold
county fair promises to exceed tn
expectations Of the management Il
the number Of entrants. There ar.
nearly a hundred applications.
Contracts for the new $4,000 hos
pital building, to be erected by til,
Kings Daughters society at PER-!
has been awards ed. Work will com
mence at once. &
R. E. Woods. was hit by Milwaukee,
passenger train while walking alon,
the tracks at Charles City. receivini
serious injuries. IL
a A. S. Garretson, capitalist. has de
rclined the opportunity to run for may
or of Sioux City in the spring cleo
TONS In a public statement, Mr.. Gar
retson, who was one Of the big figure
in the boom days. says he cannot al
ford to run on account Of his business
interests or to serve If elected.
Last week work begun on the. ney
Catholic church to be erected II
iMaquoketa. One thousand loads o
dirt will be hauled from the groun'
before carpenters can begin work. Th'
church building and parsonage will b.
made Of pressed brick.
John A. Goetz, the wealthy banke
who was killed in a runaway las
week, once saved the lives Of tire,
women, endangered by a runaway, q
%J,1 en0% u,ha Ia Of q nuyr1 do ~,