Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-06-04

day schools OF HaWkeyedOm VIII gain
er at Burlington June 8, 4 and 5 for
the 4sth Annual Convention Of the
Iowa Sunday School association.
Thousands Of teachers. superintend-
ents, pastors, township and county Of
ficers and delegates-at-large are ex-
pected. Black Hawk, Polk and Ma
haska counties are arranging for spe-5
cial trains which will carry their
delegates. 4 ( i, n II /; INA ( E3
Determined not to permit the ex.
penditure Of the 100000 in bonds au-
thorized by the county for the con-:
struction OF a general and tuberculo-
sis hospital, the county supervisors or
Woodbury. county In session at Sioux
City announced their intention to re.
fuse to appoint the board Of trustees;
into w hose charge would come the
and management Of such
q hospital. The money was voted last
fall. ivy 5j@3. 4
& Ottumwa's expert switchman" may.
or, Pat Leeny, made new claim for
space in the public prints hen he
arrested his divorced wife. Minnie
iLeeny, on the charge Of intoxication.
Mayor, Leeny has been aiding the po-
lice force Of his city occasionally
since his Inauguration, April Z, hut
the arrest of his former wife was the
least expected OF any action OF his
spectacular career. .$S n
Iowa State college at Ames has
made plans to help public schools Of
the state obey. the new law requiring
them to teach agriculture, home eco
nomics and manual training. begin
ming in 49, 5. It has put into Its six
weeks summer session a course espe-
3cially designed to help teachers who
must carry on this new work.
Following the State Sunday School
convention to be held June 3.5 at
Burlington several Of the speakers
and more than a$score Of the dele
gates will leave for Zurich, switzer-
land, to represent Iowa at the Seventh
Worlds Sunday. School convention,
July S-15, 1918. u
Albert Thompson has been taken to
the insane asylum by the sheriff OF
sCerro Gordo county. Thompson is a
socialist leader and told the sheriff
q he had been reading 30 much in the
Appeal to Reason, that he thought
his mind was affected and asked the
sheriff to. take him to the asylum.
George Switzer, the tramp from Ko.
okuk, who cut the throat Of Chief OF
Police Watkins at Fort Madison, was
tarraigned in justice court and waived
preliminary examination on charge
4 Of assault with intent to commit MUIR
der. It Is believed w atkins will re
cover. 4! Il. A /; .s
Jack Rasmussen and John Borres-
en-, owners and publishers OF the Ce.
Fdar Falls Weekly Gazette, have dis
solved partnership The latter will
continue the publication. The Gazette
lis the Oldest newspaper in Black Hawk
county. Il. n II. y y AZ
Hugo Menschel, ,a farmer, living
north Of Hastings, committed suicide
while Temporarily insane. His body
was found about fifty rods from the
house. Lying close to the body was
his automatic shotgun s.5 53
Fifty friends and relatives helped
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Lars Larsen, residents
81 Ruthven since i Sss. celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary. Mr.. and
Mrs. Larsen were married in Norway.
4 The Rev. A. j. Tritt, who for. sew.
seral years has been pastor Of the
Methodist church at swea City, has
been appointed to the $pastorate of the
Methodist church in Luverne. !t
The Gideons, Christian Commercial
Travellers society, has been reorgan-
lied at Davenport. It will prepare
for the state convention to be held
in that city this summer.
Within an hour after the death Of
his daughter, Miss Bertha Taylor, A.
G. Taylor, a pioneer jeweler, died at
his home In Cedar Rapids. He has
been. Ill for three weeks. 4
Dispatching trains by telephone has
begun at Creston on the main line OF
the Burlington. The key system 10
being used for the branch lines yet
and for all messages.
While working on the new opera
house at Orient, A. Hartman, 70 years
old, fell eighteen feet, on his head. A
nail was found to have penetrated his,
skull. 4as4,,s n. isz u
Mrs. Fred. Miller is in a serious con-
dition from injuries received when
she was struck by Burlington train
at the crossing in Abba.
John Gilman, 23 years old, line
man on the Burlington railroad at
East Dubuque, was cut In two by a
passenger train.
e Albert Powley, farmer, living near
Woodbine, lost five horses, struck by
lightning in the recent storm.
Frank Stumps, IL, and Ralph Hatch,
10 years old, were run over and killed
by Great Western passenger train at
Council Bluffs. The boys became abb
sorbed in watching some young men
wrestling and walked slowly back
wards, reaching the track as the train
came py. M
Commencement week plans Of the
Iowa State college have been complet-
ed. The 1913 class, numbering more
than 2so. is the largest ever gradual
ed. Graduation week begins with the
senior promenade in state gymnasium
on the evening Of May 81.
The $4,000 bond furnished by Hen
~ Knott. city marshal Of Gravity, in
dicted at Bedford on a charge of muir
der, will stand, according to deci-
sion Of the supreme court following
an application for a writ of certiorari.
Badly bruised and suffering from
conclusion of the brain, NJ. V. Sun
derlin, a prominent farmer, near Co.
dar Falls, lies at his home on the
verge OF death, the result of a fall.
Webster county hens last year laid
51,054.777 dozen eggs, according to the
figures compiled from the assessors
books.
While engaged in track inspection,
near Haverhill, Marshall county, Cas-
per Rickett, Sc years old, for twenty
five years employed by the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railway, was in