Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-01-28
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Interesting Items Of News Xxx
Gathered From all Parts Of Iowa

Because several young men at Wat
erloo have become physical wrecks
through addiction to the use Of NOR.
phine and similar. preparations, two
of whom having been sent to the hos.
pital for inebriates at Knoxville, .
crusade has been started against the
sale OF ,habit-forming drugs. One OF
the victims has confessed that the
use of drugs among boys Is alarming
in it's extent and that a travelling man
from another state makes two visits
weekly to Waterloo to sell "snow"
directly to the users. 49, E.
Col. Edward G. Pratt was chosen
president Of the Hawkeye Fellowship
club for his fourth successive term
in the annual meeting in the Auditor
ium hotel at Chicago. Guy Guernsey
was chosen first vice president and
chairman of the body. Horace G.
Lozier was elected secretary and Hem
~ Meyer, treasurer. 3 Thirty vice.
presidents will be chosen by the
board of directors at a later meeting.
The society is composed Of natives
or former residents ofsIowa who now.
live in the big city by the lake.
Ed Cook, % years old, is in jail at
Winterset charged with killing.
Charles Driscoll, 81 years old. The
shooting took place in Jefferson town,
ship. Driscoll had gone to Van Meter.
When he returned he found Cook at
his house. Driscoll seized small
caliber shotgun and attacked Cook.
The latter, who was the stronger,
wrested the gun from Driscoll and
shot him with 1t. Mrs. Driscoll wit.
messed the shooting.
His lantern burning brightly on the
pilot OF an east bound Burlington
train, when it arrived at Council
Bluffs was the evidence that called
the attention OF trainmen to the fact
that Head Brakeman o. H. Rockwell
Of Creston was missing. A hurried
call from the main yards to the night
yardmaster sent out a special switch.
ling crew to look for the missing man.
They found his body cut In two.
Senator Kenyon. Lafayette Young,
d. P. Hogan, Thomas McHanus, E. W.
Van Duyn, and other well known
Iowans will deliver addresses before
the annual convention of Farmers
Grain Dealers association, TO be held
at Waterloo, Feb. 1912. Fifteen hun.
dred delegates and visitors are ex-
pected. 17 u 4 Il. II,
Dr.. M m. Evans, postmaster at Le-
grand, has resigned, and the civil
service commission has fixed Satur-
day, Feb. z, as the date for the hold
ing OF an examination to determine a
successor. 4 Is: = VS.
The city Of MarshalNown@ will en-.
terrain the 1915 annual meeting of
the Hawkeye Commercial Mems as.
sociation as the result Of the vote at
the recent annual meeting in Du-
buque. 5s Il ,4s.3i35
Two men were injured, one fatally,
when an automobile overturned near
Grundy Center Joe Cults probably
will die and Emerson Buckan is seri-
ously hurt. q Y II Il.
Isaac Cook. 102 years old, died at
his home near Salem. Mr.. Cook ,cele-
brated his one hundred and second
birthday last October. He moved to
Henry county Ia 1855. e Il
The board OF supervisors OF Ala
makee county has concluded plans for
additions to the present court house.
| The improvement will cost several
thousand dollars. IA 4. ~
Judge J. H. Apologize Of Adel has
announced that he will not be a can
didate for a seat on the supreme
bench. but will ask reelection to his
present position as district Judge.
Charles Swan, aged 76, pioneer
OF Henry county and a veteran of
the famous Fourth Iowa cavalry, died
last week at the home OF his sister,
Mrs. John Neal, in Mount Pleasant.
The top price for, farm land in west
ern5 Iowa was reached when the six
ty-six acres OF land near Hamburg
belonging to Dick Brown was sold to
George Good for 5000 an acre.
"A large barn belonging to Frank
Hodges, ten miles south OF Perry, was
burned, together with great deal Of
fine stock and farm machinery. The
loss is $4,000.
Nine contestants are entered in the
annual home declamatory contest Of
the Waukon High school. The win
ners will represent the local school at
the district contest at lPostville.
An unusual number of foxes have
been trapped in the vicinity Of New
Hampton recently. Claude Falls, who
lives near Chickasaw, has caught five
red foxes and one silver fox.
An automobile belonging to Sam
France Of Blanchard became overhead
ed on the road near Coin and was en-
tirely destroyed by fire. u II
The postoffice at Wfghtman, Cal.
houn county. has been discontinued.
Mail goes to Lohrville. EG
In the case at Logan of Luella Mar
tin. VS.. George Frazier, an action to
establish the boundary lines between
the two contestants, Judge Arthur de-
cided that the boundary line, between
the respective land owners to be in
OF the Boyer river. ia
A booster meeting was held at Elma
TO welcome the workers interested in
extending the Charles City Western
railway toward Elma.
II The farm house on the E.. s. King
place, six miles south OF Grundy Cen
ter, was entirely destroyed by fire.
The loss amounted to about $4,000. =
The defense in the case Of the
Farmers Savings bank Of Morrison
against W. R. Jameson Of Waterloo
in which the jury returned verdict
for $4,000 because the defendant
wrote letter of Introduction to the
bank for E. A, Boggs, president Of the
Central Iowa Granite company. which
later failed, will appeal to the SUI
preme court.
William Phelps, prominent stock.
man, died at his home near Spring.
:dale Of apoplexy. Mr.. Phelps owned
about 500 acres Of land in Cedar coun-
ty and was one Of the most promin-
ent stock raisers in that part Of Iowa.