Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-02-18

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The following Iowa postmasters
have been confirmed by the senate:
$.John, u, McAlpine at Belmond, r. G.
Smith at Burt, L. R, Wilson at Colo,
Joseph NJ. Kelly at Early, John S.
Darrah at Gilman, Adolph Meyer at
Hampton, Royal Mitchell at Manley
BENJAMIN Delaney at Marcus, Daniel
Fitzpatrick at Neville, John P. Kerr
at Pleasa ntville, George w. Jones at
Radcliff, Il. H. Stevenson at Shell
8 Rock. Fred w. Bulls at Tripoli, Harry
J. Hoeger at Waverly. IA = 81
NJ "A mad steer is reported running at
& large In the country east OF Boone and
! all efforts at capture have proved
.iruitiess. The animal became fright
ened while 1T was being weighed and
made a dash for liberty, breaking
y through fences and every other OBJ
\ strnction in its path until it reached
the limb 1t has been seen several
{ times but makes its escape before any
on 8 can shoot it. s3 n, 81. rs,
William H. Berry. chairman. and the
[ mem bers OF tile state board OF parole
were yaccinated SO they might 60 to
\ the Fort Madison penitentiary to in
5vest1gate cases of prisoners who have
applied for parole. Owing to Z the
4 smallpox scare at the penitentiary the
s state board OF health issued an order
that no one who has mot been 'vaccin-
4 ated shall be permitted to enter the
state prison. Il 81 III S I. =. &
II coal mine operators do not come
& to terms with the miners before April
H !, more than 100000 miners in the
Z bituminous coal field of the middle
west will 60 out on strike instead Of
merely permitting a suspension of
operations pending settlement, ac-
cording to John p White Of Des
d Moines, president OF the United Mine
Workers Union, fs n
The Denmark association OF, Con-
h grega tional churches held a confer
n eHce on evangelism at Mt. Pleasant
N last week. The G Congregational
4 hurches OF the United States held
simultaneously one hundred confer
ences at which the subject OF eyang-
H elism was the principal, topic for CON
" sideration and discussion V
5 Elmus Campbell, 33 years old, q
II farmer living near Muscatine, was
4 struck and Instantly killed by an in
sterurban car On the D.. & M. railway.
III "A blind crossing prevented the motor
Il man vie wing the approach Of the We
hicle in which Campbell was riding.
Bascom H. Robinson of Omaha,
q preside nt of the Bankers Reserve Life
1 assoc citation, has shown his confidence
& in Iowa farm land BY buying a $50
acre farm In Adams county near Pres
II colt for which he paid $65,525, and
which he will develop in to a fine stock
II farm and summer home. Z n 4 III
Jeremiah Gullion, the oldest Of the
III old pioneers in the southern part Of
q Marion county, was buried last week
Il Mt the Indiana Chapel cemetery near
II Attica. He had lived on one farm in
Liberty township, northwest Of Bus
sey, for the past seventy-three years.
Y His age was almost 80 years. Isl
Waterloo has unde rtaken to make
y good on its offer to build an Iowa
Z building at the Panama show 1t is
not going to be selfish about the mat
\. ter, however, and invites all Iowa
cities to join in the movement to see
II to It that Iowa is properly represent
4 ed "a @.a y 4
J. Erwin Evans, cashier of the
{ Citizens Savings bank and secretary
of Group Iowa Bankers associa-
v ton, is sending out invitations to #ev-
cry banker in; the district to attend
( the annual convention to be held at
Cedar Rapids, April Is. This district
4 comprises about two hundred banks
sS3$ The trial OF the Cox will case has
been finished in the district court at
4 Adel and the 100000 involved has
g been awarded to Mrs. Josephine
ii Burnham, who was named by William
Il Cox, as beneficiary ina will signed in
y, 1905. sg% Three groups of relatives were
II concerned in the action. a
The, biggest real estate deal con-
A ANIMATED in Perry in years was
closed when H. M and w. H. Pattee
Il sold the Hotel Pattee to C. E. and w.
K +. iBosse rman Of Murray, Ia, Tor s131,-
200. & +. MS "A g. y q. {
s5 Secretary Edwin W. Goodykoontz
of the Fireman's Mutual Insurance
company has been honored by being
4 elected a member of the board of d.
$rectors OF the German-American In
surance company Of Burlington.
Eleven thousand bushels of corn
were shelled on the farm of Pierce
X brothers near Lake City in Calhoun
county in three days. All of it was
sold in Lake City for So cents per
bushel. &;8As- r.
}f The board of education at Fort
Madison has ordered submitted at the
annual school election OF March the
d question of the building of new $685.
4 600 grade building to replace the
Richardson school, lately condemned.
Fire destroyed the Swift poultry
and egg plant at Onawa. About 400
head of live poultry was consumed.
! The largest real estate transaction
recently made in the vicinity Of Mar
! shalltown was consummpted when r.
s. Cartwright sold his $50 acre farm
near Luray for 100000. Mundy &
Scott real estate firm, are the buy
ers. They intend to divide the acre
age into smaller farms. The farm is
we'll improved and is adapted to stock
! raising and dairy purposes. ;.#
A record in the number of hogs sold
8 in Cedar Falls was established when
more than 800 head were brought to
market in one day. The stock yards
of all four railroads in the city were
taxed to their limit.
Beginning a year in advance, the
graduates Of the University of Iowa
medical college of the class of 1875
are planning to hold reunion during
the commencement season of 1915.
Letters are being sent out so that the