Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-03-25

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in at the opening of the March term
of court, completed it's work on; N on q
day morning of this week, When
Judge Charles w. Mullan convened
court. A goodly amount Of business Us ness
was transacted by the grand jury,
ana q numbe Of matters were laid
before them, principal among which
were the cases OF the burglaries at
Sand Spring and Hopkfnton several
months ago. At the time the affair
took place at Sand Spring one Frank
Jones was captured, and suspicion
pointed strongly toward him that he
was also implicated in the burglary
of the Reeve meat market earlier IN
the winter. The; grand jury after con-
sidering much evidence, found two
true counts against Jones who b has
been in Jail since the attempted bur
glary at Sand Spring. The other
item of importance was the inspection
OF the county home at Delhi. The
grand jury found Mr.. Pierce, the
steward, an efficient Gus todian, and
spoke highly o. the manner in which
he manages ,1.ie affairs of the home.
The grand 3jury made a number Of
suggestions which no doubt Will be
gladly carried out in the future by
those who are in charge of the instl-
tuition. {5g ]. s /. N
b. On Monday morning the grand jury,
submitted the following report and
were ischarged: IA y, (. a l i-
n ~ That, we have to the best Of our
and ability performed the
duties incumbent upon US in accord
ance with law and the instructions
received from this court. That they
have sexamined d consid iderable number
.of witnesses and have found two In
.dictm ents, viii CHI ind time ents, to,
gether with the minutes of the Ttes-
.timony upon Mhi G chts they are based,
are herewith returned into court.
They would further state that they
have made "a careful insp ction Of
the county farm of Delaware county,
and found that in gen eral the present
manageme ment Of the same seems to
be worthy Of commenda and so
far. as this grand jury has been able
to ascertain the conduct of said coun-
ty home is now much more praise
worthy than it,zhas some times been
in the past. They would suggest,
that in some instances, for
example III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS d S1lOoI
covering of inlaid !inoleum would be
more sanitary and in the end more
economical than the present pra ctice
Of strip Of oil cloth in the middle
of the half.. If s9g y. y !.
sS$ That the grand jury is inclined to
believe that the annual feast at the
county farm held each year on March
18th, according to the provisions of
the will Of Grace Spangler is not car
.ried out in all res poets as the Will Of
the said testator provides. So far. as
this grand jury is able to ascertain
the; feast is not confined to the per-
sons designated by the. will and they
would suggest that hereafter a record
be kept of the persons invited to the
Feast and also a record of the per-
sons on whose invitation the guests
are present. This grand jury is also
inclined to think. that a somewhat
less expensive feast than has been
the Gus tom in the past would carry
out the desires Of the testator and
in that event more money would re-
main for the benefit Of the beneficiar-
les at other times Of the year.
grand jury would further
state that they have no other mat
ters to consider so far as is known
to them and they would therefore ask
to be discharged for the term. 4
DATED March 23rd, 1914.
- Charles A.. Swindell, Foreman"