Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-05-26

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IOWA
NEWS

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The contract has been let for the
i erection of a 100000 bank building by
/ the First National Bank of Boone. 1t
will be an eight-story building and
work will commence within q few
D days. The contract calls for the COM
3 pletion Of the bank room by Novem-
y her 18th, and the entire building De-
cember 18th. The specifications call
h for the erection OF an absolutely fire
proof building. It will be built on
4 the site OF the former First National
Bank, which burned down several
months ago. i ii u. s5 Il Ill. IT.
~ Senator D. C. Chase had a case be-
fore the supreme court presenting two
h phases OF some interest. 1t was the
4 appeal case OF Charles Cessna from
y Hamilton county, convicted Of assault
Y to do great bodily injury. The las
I sault" in this case was that of four
ishing a rife before a sheriff's posse
when the latter broke into the Cess
ma home to arrest him after an all
I day spell OF riotous drunkenness. No
I body was injured. The gun wouldn't
j go OF, anyway. ;s} u. !,
4 5skf Three men and two women were
charged formally with enttcing fe-
male under 16 years Of age away
4 from her home at Guthrie Center.
. 3Eyoy. HEo11 Ia hoU ohd,ro{o1
Z 13-year-old Aileene Downs from her
i home there and brought her to Des
Moines by automobile. The accused
are John Archer, Jack Cavan'augh, A.
Tiddleman, Hanzel Mansel and Gladys
4 McLuen. They pleaded not guilty. =
Ralph DoWney, an employe OF. the
American express company at Ames,
Il was seriously injured when he was
crushed between a piano and the door
Il of aNorthwestern express car. Down
3ey, with another man, was loading the
/ piano on the car when 1t tipped with
Il out warning. M. \.
Il 4 Jud ges w. ID. Evans, OF the Iowa su-
preme court will deliver the address
\ at the Memorial Day exercises in
Iowa Falls this year, Plans are being
made by the local committees to OBJ
serve this sacred occasion IN man
ner: betting the day and it's mission.
t{ Qualified electors Of Logan will
Il vote, upon the proposition Of erecting
q city library there. The central
4 thought of the promoters is to give
access to carefully selected refer
ence library to aid in the education
I OF the boys and girls.
J. III. Thompson manager at Oska-
s loosa for the Western Union Tele-
4 graph company, was slugged and rob-
4 bed by two men while returning home
at midnight. The robbers secured
90. b Thompson is in the hospital in a
serious condition. B Fl Y y .z:f I:
Over 5000 people witnessed the May
4 day celebration on the campus OF the
Iowa State Teachers college at Cedar
4 Falls. / 1t was by far the most spec
! tacular ever presented BY. the college.
Il Miss Irene Simpson Of Shenandoah
was the queen Of the May III n.
Mrs. Charles Madsen, 1resid ding near
y Newell, was probably fatally burned
while heating floor preparation OF
Z wax and gasoline, which Exploded, en-
sssveloping her, in II flames. Physicians
q say both arms will have to be ampu-
:tated should Mrs. Madsen recover. (
4 Finding his sister, from whom he
{ was separated when they were chill
h dren, means; q fortune of $4,000 to
IN j ohm Davenport, q laborer employed
on construction work for the Milwau-
4 kee railroad; at Perry and like
amount for the woman. 4. e f
54.iss. John Steines, Of Bellevue, was
bound over to the grand jury on a
charge Of robbery. He rs accused Of
Il stealing $1,040 from the n house OF
/; John Dougherty, six miles west Of
Bellevue, where he had been doing
Il some work. H, { II; an Is5I S,E 81
Il "A new Methodist Episcopal church
N to cost in the neigh borhood Of $780,
900 will be erected at Marengo the
coming summer. The lot has already
4 been purchased while plans for the
( structure have also been accepted. ,f1
VI F. H. Shade, a Boone constable,
& allowed prisoner to escape from his
custody while en- route to the county
/ Jail. While Shade was paying his
carfare, s the fellow slipped out the
4 front end Of the car. n gy57 II.
\ The Washburn Manufacturing COM
pany, manufacturers Of a new type
+ llayrack, a new industry recently SCI
y cured for Newton, are moving into the
& old New-lite plant and will soon be
I in operation. ,s,t !. Is /, Il
Miss Clara Mark, a school teacher
5ok& VIII hod rofrrund homo
4 for the summer, is recovering from
D an attack made by an unknown man,
4 who climbed a ladder into her room,
struck and choked her. a&,,S
IF Fire in the plant Of the Monarch
/ Manufacturing company building
caused damage to the extent Of $780,
900. The office building is total
loss. u, ~. - rl.,5 -'N.5. iii .
While cranking his automobile pre-
paratory to making call, DR.. Fred
B. Sigsworth, of Anamosa, had the
misfortune to have his right arm
broken when the crank slipped. =
Webster county will show a gain Of
about 1000 inhabitants, according to
the town census figures, which are
now complete, save for the town OF
Dayton. In the entire county nut
4 three towns show loss: Clare, Bar
mum and Vincent. Barnum has lost 9,
Glare Is and Vincent 80. y.
Experts from the horticultural ex-
pertinent station of Iowa State col
lege have stated that there was no
damage done to the fruit OF this sec
tion by the cold weather and frosts.
Potatoes, tomatoes, beans and other
garden truck not sheltered were badly
! damaged, according to their report.
Z A meeting is soon to be called by
the Farmers institute of Glidden to