Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-06-24


held at Burlington June 25 and 26.
has been announced. The convention
opens with an address of welcome by
w. e. Blake. president Of the Des
Moines County Bar association. The
response will be made by Judge Jesse
A. Miller of Des Moines. The report
of the delegates to the American Bar
association will be presented by l. N.
Flickinger OF Council Bluffs. A paper
will be read on The Torrens Land
Title System" by O.P. Myers of New
ton. -
The election of officers Of the Iowa
district of the Evangelical Church OF
North America resulted as follows:
District president, Rev. J.. Ernest
Birkner of 4Remsen; vice president,
Rev. G. Meinzer Of Ackley secretary.
Rev. H. Fauth of West Side; treasur.
err, John Blaul OF Burlington; judiciary
OF the district Rev. J.. Erdmann of
Burlington, Rev. C. H. Frarke of Ell
'kader, Rev. M. Resented of Sigour-
ney.
DR.. Harry D. Kelley Of Council
Bluffs will be given a new trial ON
June % for the murder in Des Moines
Of Edmund STERLING, a bartender, and
Clarence Woolman, a deputy sheriff Of
Council Bluffs, or April /, 1911. AZ
yet the state has not determined up
on which charge Kelley will be tried.
In December, 1911, he was convicted
Of granddaughter for the killing OF
Sterling and given eight years in the
reformatory at Anamosa. V
A loss Of about $4,000 was sustain
ed at Fairfield in a fire which started
in tha: l.. T. Wisecare feed and sales
barn. The buildings destroyed were
the barn, the I. T. Wisecarver resi-
dence, the Congregational church and
the a1rdome. The cause Of the fire Is
unknown. The loss distributed as
follows: Congregational Church. S.
900; airdome, 1900; Wisecarver barn
and residence, $11, 500. &
Railroad men of Iowa are much
concerned over q rumor that the Grand
Trunk may soon take over the control
of the Great Western, which is being
circulated in New York and Chicago.
The only thing which gives credence
to the report is the fact that the vot-
ing trust which, has been in control Of
that company will be dissolved June
80. This, of course, makes many
changes possible. +
3 The president has nominated the
Devin, Livermore; Jacob B. Powers,
Murray; Cora A. H%ildlebaugh, Bagley:
Edmund A. Hart, Dow City. George
w. Newcorn is appointed rural letter
carrier at Boyer. Gertrude M. Mitch
ell is appointed postmaster at Calf.
ornia, Harrison county, vice Isaac N.
Warrick, removed.
Iowa pensions granted Of recent
date: Adelia White, Green Mountain,
$12; Martha A. Chrismere, Columbia.
$12; Elizabeth W. Townsend, Des
Moines, s12; Mary M. j. Walrad, JEFF
ferson, $12. /.
Arvid Peterson, the 15-year.old son
OF Charles Peterson, an Albert City
farmer. was kicked in the stomach
by a horse he vas leading to water
and died after several hours Of intense
agony. ,,sG ~ " g&s
; Another high mark for Ida Grove
real estate was hung up when D. E.
5uss seq a tract Of eighty acres in
Logan township to H. ]. Huse for'S175
per acre. The farm was without any
improvements except the fence. 5#s{
The Registered Nurse association OF
Des Moines will have entire charge OF
the day nursery at the Iowa State
fair this year. The nursery will be
located in the new Women's and
Children's building.
Work on Sibley's municipal, electric
light plant is progressing nicely and
it will probably be completed by Oc-
ytober. Houses are being wired and
the plant will carry . good load from
the start.
J. Ross Mickey Of Macomb, ILL.,, was
reelected supreme master OF the 'Mys.
tic Workers of the World by an over.
whelming majority at the eleventh b.
ennial convention recently held at
Cedar Rapids.
Albert J.. Christensen, aged %. com.
mitted suicide bydtaking poison at. the
st. Elmo hotel In Kansas City. In .
note he asked that his parents at
Waterloo, Iowa, be notified. No rea-
son for his act was given.
Without a dissenting vote, delegates
to the national convention of the De-
gree Cd Honor at Sioux City carried
through their election program by
choosing the same corps Of officers to
head the organization another term.
After making an unsuccessful at
tempt to shoot her husband,S Mrs. AL
bert Franks Of Cedar Rapids placed
a revolver to her side and killed her.
self. She and Franks had been mar
ried and divorced twice. ny E.
While respondent, Mrs. John Duck
EFT, residing three miles south of Lee
high, shot and killed herself in the
presence OF her eight children. Mrs.
Duckett had been IN poor health for
some time.
Lawrence Myers, aged $16, was
drowned while bathing at the new
bathing beach at Ottumwa. The body
was recovered in half an hour and
the pulmotor used without effect.
Architects have been chosen to draw
plans for the new 500. 900 church that
will be built next year by the Sacred
Heart parish of Fort Dodge.
Vic T. Sweeley has resigned his
position as deputy county auditor of
Dallas county and assumed control Of
the Dallas County Record, of which
paper MI. Sweeley was formerly edi-
tor and part owner.
Every one of the thirty-six Iowa
plumbers indicted by the federal grand
jury on charges of violating the Sher-
man antitrust law will be ,arraigned
In Des Moines on July 7. Their bonds
will be fixed at $4,000 each. ~.
On Sunday, June %, the corner
stone Of the new Y. M. C. A. building
at Marshalltown will be laid with ap-