Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-05-27
Vera Mayfeld. aged 49,. Of Fort

when she thought she was locked In
the car. She had gone to Burlington
to visit a little friend and was return,
ing alone. BY mistake she boarded
an empty baggage car. After the
train started. thinking someone had
locked her in, she forced open a side
door and sprang out. w. T. @#T&l
The Farmers bank, private insti'
tuition at Radcliffe, Of which H. D.
Himmell is president and J. E. Hin.
nell Is cashier has filed petition in
voluntary bankruptcy with Referee in
Bankruptcy N. s.. Carpenter at Eldora,
which shows assets amounting to $780,
600, nearly all real estate, and liabil.
tiles Of $254,O00 Of which .s135, 900 was
| deposits. Between $4,000 and $50.
| 600 worth Of notes, which ARE said to
be bogus, are reported to have been
| discovered since the banks failure. RI
After having been idle for year
and a half. the big brick and tile
plant at Webster City has resumed op.
erations under the management OF its
new owners, the Webster City Clay
Products company. The plant starts
of with a force OF thirty-hve men and
seven kilns. Its resumption of work
Isl also a boom to the Crooked Creek
railroad, running from Webster City
to the coal fields and clay beds at Ls-
high. ~ -5sE4.r: .5s ,s ID
The entire stan of officers of the
Iowa State Eclectic Medical society
was reelected at the recent meeting
in Des Moines making third con-
secutive term OF service. The officers
are Drs. l.. T. Eslick of Rockwell
City, president: M B. Slime Of Des
Moines, vice president: B. c.. Minkler;
of Des Moines, recording secretary:
P. F. Price OF Milo, corresponding
secretary; and w. W. Maple. treas
urer. Ill En- 81, r 4 55,
George H. York, former .CoKax gro
Ger and chief witness in, the inquiry
into the death of the late M. B. Whee-
lock, cashier OF the Citizens State
bank at Colfax, was indicted by the
federal grand jury. on a. charge OF
white slavery The government ac-
cuses York of having transported
Mrs. O.. E.. Jackson, d d-essmaker,
from Kansas City to Des Moines for
immoral purposes. E.q rs NJ f53 US
3 Guinea pigs is pigs" was the de-;
cision OF Judge Howell at Iowa City
in the case OF Anderson VS.. the Do
nestle Animal Fund Of Iowa. Ander-
son sought to recover SIPS damages
for guinea pigs killed BY dogs. County
Attorney Hart filed a demurrer. alleg-i
ing that Anderson could not recover
from this fund for the reason that
guinea pigs were not domestic ami
mals.S 2s + i3sS * " u a S3S
Z Inquest jury at Charles City in the
case Of L. j.. Kessler found that he l
died from rupture of q blood vessel
in the heart. Kesslerswas found dead !;
In a box car some time as and it
was thought had met foul play
At the last meeting Of the board Of
education OF Dubuque it was decided 4
to open vocational schools IN that
city. 5.s n 53$&55 ~ ..s Y. y
Russell Odds. a Charles City boy, IS 4
the recipient of notable honor that
Of two months tour OF Europe, He {
has been chosen one OF ten boys from
St. Johns Military school, at Delaield,
Wis, who will make upsa party of
over one qlundred-ten students being
chosen from each Of tens repres enta-
tive American schoo obs t% III 81
Howard A.. Walters. national score
tary Of the Y. NJ. c. "A. work in India,
writes from that country that Joseph
J. Nice Council, Jr., of y. Cedar Rapids, n
Iowa universty's ~" representative
In India, is doing great work at La.
hore. give years more and you 4
won't know the place. writes Mr.. *
Walters enthusiastically Il 5
The semi-annual meeting Of the
Boone district conference OF the
Methodist churchsis to be held at Colo
IN Monday and Tuesday. June Is and
L6,7 Rev. r. E. Shaw, Of Indianola, dis
lrict superintendent, presiding. G. Il. III
Johnson Of the Colo church Is the 4
y NJ n
3 Following the campaign made by the
-enteryille board of health to clear
he city Of all breeding places for flies II
md, contagion. the Ladies' Improve
nent association will have cleanup,
continuing all this week. Saturday 4
will be flower day, when the ladies' q
carnations on the streets.
Z Gov. Major Of Missouri, Mayor Kiel, N
St. Louis and 24S others will visit
xeokuk and be guests OF the Industrial \
association and the power com pany 4
IN May %, when the Missouri Elec- h
rio, Gas, Street; Railway and Water
works association arrives on the
,teamer Quincy. ~ A =. N II III.
A Holstein COW owned by Peder Pc
Iersen & Sons near Cedar Falls dur
ng the past month produced exactly
,274 pounds OF milk, which turned Il
ut 1928 pounds of butter. They
hallenge'another COW in Iowa to equal
his record. {,t r535 Il n {:y
Nevada defeated Ames High school
y the score of 6 to 2. Batteries Ne
ada, Kinsey and Kimsey; Ames.
Iichols and Britnell. Tx, x. K:
The farm house OF U. S. Butler near 4
burned to the ground.
furniture and clothing COM
lete loss, estimated at $4,000. 4 III:
Four thousand fans saw Muscatine
eat Cedar Rapids 3 to 2 in the open
1g game Of the season at the latter.
ity. Mayor Tourswith officially de-
Jared the baseball season opened in
speech to the rooters.
Fifty pupils will graduate from the
q Mars High school at the close Of
1e school year the last week in this
lonth. The activities in connection
18th graduation week will be held out
doors in Cleveland park.
Storm Lake High school will gradu-
to a class Of thirty-two this year,
ne Of the largestin the history Of the
,hool. a.
At the ninth annual Spaulding ora
'rical contest, held at Grinnell, Joe
arter Of 5Grinnell took the tlrst prize
$50. Hoyt Lark Of Onawa took the
.cond prize Of $50. and the third prize