Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-18

1911 80. 80 e
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George i. Snyder. owner Of IA hard
ware store at Charle ston, Lee county.
has fled al petition for writ Of habeas
corpus in the superior court at Keo.,
Sknk and will light for his liberty from
the state inebriate, hospital at Knox
,yille Snider went to Knoxville and
applied for Omission voluntarily. He,
claims he was put to work at manual
labor, and charges that he was forced
to dig trenches In which there was
water, in December, without being
given boots. 81 4. S4 ss 81
Ten members were elected to the.
State ID Historic cal n society at the last
meeting Of the board OF curators. Fol-
lowing lis the 1 list: Jacob Sachs and
!; Charles F. Wennerstrum of Des
&Moines; Glenn N Merry, John E..
Briggs, Miss Frances Moon and o. X
4 Patton OF Iowa City, Seine B. DePree
2of Sioux Center.SJ, W. Myers OF South
I Bent. Wash; Bernard Murphy OF Vim
ton. and Leight H. Wallace OF Wash.
5ington. 5 IS Z. i5ss5E II
George !. Long, one OF the best
known editors in Iowa. has passed
away after a lingering illness. Mr..
1 Long had been senior editor OF the
Manson Journal for thirty years, and
he had made his paper such a reputa.
I ton that It was one {of the most wide
~ quoted OF smaller Iowa newspapers.
A MI. Long served Manson as mayor
for nine years and was postmaster
four years. Ss
Frederick "a. Timble, q farmer, who
made voluntary appearance In
bankruptcy Il proceed ings in federal.
court at Creston, made the unusual
claim that, in edition to being bank.
rupt with debts OF nearly $40 900. he.
4 has no money to buy feed for his cat.
I tles and asks that q trustee be APP.
I pointed 1t once, In order that tho
cattle and hogs may not zstarve.
\ n the custer proceed ings against
Justice Herring AZ Iowa City the de-
Tense conhned Ats attention to h the
specific instances when the state
L charged Herring was "a ntoxicased.
4 Herring.s famous @wobbly chair" was
introduced in evidence. No one dared
cit I'M It. Herring took the stand. ties;
Fl tifying his intoxicated appearance was
due to the wob bling OF the chair.
10 electrify IS the question Just
nov mp Is the management OF the
Il Crooked Creek railroad. running from
Webster City to sLehig The road Is
only eighteen miles long and was or.
iginally built to make an outlet for the
\ bigScoal beds OF Lehigh. Il The owners
of the road have made 4 proposition
to electrify the line provided bonus
of $50. 900 can be raised IBi35
Word comes from New Sharon that
another paper, democratic IN faith, Is
I TO be started IN that city The pro
&&1prietors will be ( the Eaton brothers,
who are both prac tical newspaper
ssmen. N. NJ. Eaton Is q clerk IN the
Z postoffice and his brother has been
4 foreman Of the New; Sharon Star Of
4 nee sst .s53s "a
The senate has confirmed the fol.
lowing Iowa postmaster nominations:
n. +. Douglas. Dysart; J. W. Cannon,
Elma; u P. II. W. Schippman, Holstein;
John r. Mates. Odebolt; Henry 9.
Rosecrans. Oskalcosa:: Jacob II.
Il Bahne. sibley w lillian "A. r Kiethley.
Springville I: Arthur o. Reinhart, Van
Horn !; Charles 2. Lynch. :yaucoma.
Iowa pensions recently granted are
& as follows: Lucia slagl. Martelle,
y 412; Luella Thomas, Dunlap. 312: An
ma NJ Timonds, Allerton, 312:: Oinstra
1mmel, Charles City, 81 !; Margaret AZ
Z Lee. Moulton, 81 2; Mary a. Okell.
Lewis; 312 I; Anna NJ. Smith, Conrad,
B 1926; Corinda Sutton, Cromwell, 312. i
On account Of poor health, Judge
4 Charles =. sAlbrook has decided not to
be Il candidate to succeed himself as.
Judge in the Eleventh judicial dis
] trict. ssl Attorney T. Z: M. Williams Of
Iowa Falls has been urged o3announce
his candidacy to succeed Judge AL
brook and he may accept. Il n:
Fitty-one students. out Of more than
$500 regularly enrolled at Iowa State
college, dropped out at the close OF
the past semester because Of failures
TO pass their. examinations. Most OF
the failures each year are freshmen
who have come to college with INSULT
Client preparation. ,s55 III ssS. i
sS q. Peterson has bought F.. S.
Townsend s interest in the Globe Post
newspaper plant at LeMars. These
men purch ased the paper from w. F.
{ Miller in Decembe Mr.. Miller has
Just purchased the Independence Con-
sentative. y; a i Il,
Ed Cook has been convicted at Win
terset OF the killing of Charles Dris-
coll and punishment was recommend
led at life imprisonment, by a verdict
returned by the jury in the sensational
& murder case. Cook was found guilty
3 Of murder in the first degree. Mt
SSs Swallowing some ,strychnine tablets
used BY his mother for medicine, Erie
Padgett, five years old. died within two
hours at Florios. The mother was at
the home OF a neighbor when the child
took the poison. y# 81 fa;,.
Discouraged with life because she
had been arrested, Olive Spencer,
I daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Elias Spen-5
Ger Of Missouri Valley, swallowed the
contents OF a three ounce bottle Of
indelible ink.
Joseph H. Anderson. who lives on
a farm near Thompson, has announc-
4 ed he is a candidate for representa-
tive from Winnebago county on the
republican ticket. Y Il, i rs. p Z; z, {
4s Thomas A. Buckley, aged 26, was
buried twenty feet under ground by
cave.in, while digging well near Ok
ford Rescuers dug through fourteen
feet OF dirt to recover the dead body.
u The most remarkable revival meet.
ing in the history ~of Belmond has
: just closed There were seventy-fve
Z conversions The Rev. Charles F.
Barrett of Delaware, Ia, had charge
! of the meetings. r. i ~