Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-02-04
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Unknown students at Iowa Wesley
an in Mount Pleasant forced their
way into the editorial rooms of the
Junior class, which has charge of the
college annual, the Croaker, and stole
all the material that has been gather
ed during the year. including type.
writer's, pictures, cameras. contracts
for the printing and engraving, adver-
Using contracts. cuts, editorials and
cartoons. The theft is the outgrowth
Of long standing feud between the
classes. E-..@ a.
A transaction which will mean the
Identification of another
southern Iowa steam line has been
consummated at Centerville. The
Light and Traction COM
pany has purchased the entire inter-
est of the. Southern Iowa Traction
in the steam line now oper'
ating between Centerville and Abba,
a distance Of thirty miles. Extensions
by the company are
south to Cincinnati Ia, and southwest
to Seymour.
The mystery which has surrounded
the finding at Keokuk of the body OF
Mrs. Inez O'Donnell, naked and bruis-
ed and with life almost extinct, has
not been cleared Mrs. O;Donnell died
without being able to make any state
ment, and although her husband is
bound over to the grand jury charged
with killing his wife, he has main
tanned doggedly that he did not touch
her, but that she fell down stairs.
The team which will represent Iowa
State college in triangular fruit
judging contest among Ames. Kansas
university and Nebraska university
horticulture students, to be contested
at Lincoln this week is as follows:
Robert Clark OF Des Motnes, r. l..
Kirkpatrick OF South English, F. D.
Miller Of Muscatine and P. C. Tomlin-
son Of Marshalltown.
The Silas Hall family Of Toledo,
Ia, INDUCED in a $500 oyster stew.
Mrs. Hall found fourteen pearls av-
eraging from the size Of number six
shot to the size Of a pea in one OF the
bivalves. AS pearls are worthless aft
er they have been boiled, jewelers. es-
innate that the Halls reached the top
In the cost Of living. B Il 1Et
Orders amounting to $426,415 from
foreign lands were received in one
day recently by gasoline engine
factory at Waterloo for 500 tractors,
1000 gasoline engines and a%number
OF cream separators. spreaders and
pump jacks, all to be delivered in 1914.
Charles c.. Urine, for twenty-eight
years an employe Of the Marshalltown
State bank, and since 1898 assistant
cashier, has been elected cashier to
succeed the late Phineas S. Balch. Mr..
Urine entered the bank as boy OF
Is, as collector and janitor. y. Il
8 The Larsen & Peterson store at
Winfield was entered by burglars and
an unsuccessful attempt made to rob
the safe. The thieves secured sever
al dollars from the cash drawer, but
did not modest the drawer at the
cashiers desk. .i III Z.
George and John Hendricsmeier,
aged IA and 10 respectively, are seri.
ously i'll with trichiniasis at their
home on Honey Creek near Bonaparte.
When they butchered hogs the boys
partook quite literally Of raw pork.
Three lectures will feature the pro-
gram for municipal lighting day."
Feb. 4, when the new extension divi-
sion Of the University OF Iowa will
entertain Iowa City officials OF tho
state. @ z.
The Grand Lodge School Of lnstruc-
ton of the Masonic lodge will be held
in Manchester Jan. % to 80. The Of
ficers of the grand lodge will be pres
emit with a number Of district lectur'
ers. {Zi2 5
Despondent over the death OF his
wife and child. Andrew d. Garnett, "a
years old, wealthy farmer living
near Fairfax, was found dead in no
tel at Cedar Rapids. He had shot him
self. 5s
Acting under legal advice the police
OF Mason City has sdecid.
ed to- consider the Webb-Kenyon act
good law and raided every express
office in Mason City and seized al
liquors found.
Il To replace the present structure at
Fort Dodge built in 1897, the parish OF
Sacred Heart, the Rev. Edmund Heel.
an in charge, has decided to build a
new Catholic church to cost between
5000 and 100000. sS
Miss Adelaide Hupp, a graduate of
the Chicago school Of physical educa-
ton, has been appointed assistant in
the department Of physical training
at the university of Iowa. Il bill.
At Collins, Iva Parmalee. whose
home is at Campbell Hill. was struck
by an eastbound train as he was rid.
ing a horse across the tracks
The unwritten law governed a YER
dict of not guilty in the case OF .Joda
Mosley, accused of numbering John
Schrum at Mosley's home in Center
Vile on last Thanksgiving night. 4
The English department. Teachers
college, is sending out invitations to
every English teacher in Iowa to come
into the organization. which was
launched at Des Moines Jan. 7. 1t is
the intention of the organization to
make a thorough investigation of the
conditions under which English is
taught in Iowa. .&s.,
A s15-year-old school boy. Dewey
Gibson, figured prominently IN the sale
Of registered Duroc-Jersey swine held
at West Liberty by David Nauman &
Son. Young Gibson was responsible
in sending the price for the top hog
to $1O6. D us
The senate at Washington has con-
firmed the following Iowa postoffice
nominations; James S. Webster O..
Carlisle, George A. Crane of Dexter,
A. Sweigart OF Garner, John
J. Dunlevy of Lansing, Laura H. Fig.
ert of Marathon, Weston Ralston OF
Paullina. n-E -
By refusing to allow a bill for the
support of an orphan in a sectarian
institution, the county board of Black