Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-08-11
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j. ton & Holt company of Chicago fol
4 $500 with interest and costs in &C
cordance with the Judgment rendered
in federal court in June. A warrant
\ was formerly drawn for the amount
and paid to an employe Of the com
pany and the courts decided that the
county was still held for the amount
OF the company's claim.
AS a result of the heavy floods near
Brooks Gotlieb Kernen lost thirteen
Y cattle by drowning and seven from
4 the same drove are missing. His
\ loss is about 1900. At Shannon City
Il Charles GUSHING was loading cattle
and hogs for the market and during a
4 delay caused by the rains, his cattle
y escaped onto the track and were run
into by a fast train, killing ten out
right and injuring others, causing a
i loss Of over 1920.
The body Of Cecil Goldthorpe, the
2. year old baby who mysteriously dis
appeared from his home five miles
west Of Mason City, was found by
i Sheriff Marsh and Deputy Sheriff
Z Knapp The body was floating on a
creek one mile east Of the house and
was caught in a barbed wire fence.
81, The board Of supervisors have let
Il the contract to Captain Head for
crawling two miles of the Lincoln
~ highway between Jefferson and Grand
Junction. The best bid was rs cents
Il per yard and the bids ranged to So
4 cents. 1t: will cost 5000 per mile for
four inches of gravel.
Z "A happy reunion occurred at Wau-
kon when Ole Samuelson Of frank
vile and Mrs. Erickson Of North Da-
kota met each other for the first time
n In ffty-four years. They are brother
and sister and this is their first meet
y ing since leaving Norway. E@
hi A nine car load train of silk from
the orient via the Pacific ocean to
+ San Francisco and Santa Fe to Chiea-
60 passed through Fl. Madison. The
special had passenger train schedule,
} and stopped at Shopton three minutes
for an engine change.
5 S$ The Addleman elevator stands In
the center of the business district in
West Liberty. It's office at the front
of the building; yet while the propri.
etor and his employees were at the
rear, thieves walked in, rihed the safe
/. for. S25 in cash. < ..55..gs (, 80,
An investigation Of the affairs Of
4 Maurice ]. 5Healey, railroad promoter
who died at Muscatine, would indi-
cate that the veteran builder OF rail-
roads died pennilcss. Efforts made
to ascertain the existence of savings
have proved futile. Y f." a.
.. Only 60 per cent Of the wheat
around Shenandoah is in shock and
because OF sprouting and Smelling OF
overripe grain less than that amount
will be saved. No crops have been
threshed as the threshing crews are
unable to start. ~ Il.
III Davenport has brt seven jitney
buses as the result Of a decision by
Judge F. D. Let's in: the district court
dissolving the temporary Injunction
/. the jitney operators i had secured
against the city's enforcing the new
traffic ordinance. If
Myrtle Keeney, eight years old, of
Mason City, has died Of burns she re-
ceiyed in starting fire with kerosene.
,JNstta year ago the father attempted
to start fire in the same manner and
two of his children were burned. n.
Considerable damage resulted when
q bolt of lightning struck the home
/ OF Former State Senator VIM. Eaton
Of Sidney. Mr.. and Mrs. Eaton, stun
ned by the shock, were rescued by
neighbors. -
"A report Of the Winneshiek county
E5board of supervisors shows that ten
bridges went out during the heavy
storm which recently passed through
that county. It is estimated that &c.
1925 will be required to replace them.
f5;FS: Glen Handkerchief of Sheldon was
seriously injured when am automobile
which he was driving turned turtle
near Hospers. Gerrit Hospers, anoth-
er occupant Of the car, was uninjur-
ed. 49,
4 Herbert Manbeck and Jesse Cox en-
ployed on bridge gang, got in a fight
at Remsen, and Manbeck is said to
have slashed Cox with knife, severe
!. ly cutting his arm. Manbeck is now
in Jail.
Mrs. Paul Jahnke, daughter OF Her
man Botten Of New Hampton, lost her
life when the Eastland went down.
She was married one month ago. Her
husband was lost with her.
The new grain elevator of the Bid
olson Coal and Grain company Of Leon
which has been built just south of the
Burlington passenger station is now
practically completed.
A contract was let by Goeppinger
Brothers of Boone for the erection Of
a new three story business block. The
cost will be $4,000.
Suits have been filed in the district
court at Fort Madison asking in the
aggregate $500 as salaries and COM
mission claimed to be due and unpaid
for sale of stock in new tire indus
try at Keokuk. The plaintiffs are R.
W. Dayton and C. E. Edison. They
affirm that they were hired at $40 per
week and commission Of, 20 per cent.
Mrs. Matte Hanson, aged 33, died
at her home in Council Bluffs from
accidentally swallowing carbolic acid.
She had been sick and it is said that
hotties of medicine had been placed
near the acid bottle. A husband and
two children survive.
The workmen and the contractor
who were moving the Christian
church in New Sharel back from it's
old foundations preparatory to remod-
cling it were very fortunate when
they had a moments warning and got
out of the way just as the steeple
toppled over and smashed the church
, into a mass of ruins.
1t recently became known that sew
eral Sioux City saloonkeepers will
keep their places of business open
after Jan. 1, 1916, despite the repeal
of the mulct law. These saloons will
onon n try ont test caco tO