Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-02-10
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conduct three demonstrations aSday,
on three different farms. s2 Ne Is
The girls at Simpson college, In
dianola, are beginning to take to
basketball much as duck does to
water. Last year was the first time
that the fair sex entertained hopes
for basketball league. This year
the girls have already begun work
and have made plans to hold tourn-
ament beginning March II. t55.s
Senator .Kimballs of Pottawattamie
is sponsor Of a bill which gives cities
authority to exempt fire proof hotels
from taxation. III The council Is en-
powered to investigate and grant this
privilege for not to exceed ten years.
Before it can become effective the
people must ratify the action 1t s.spe-
cial election. .tis+:;s
The Wall lake drainage question
has bobbed up again. and the citizens
Of Wright county are aroused over
the matter. An engineer employed by
the county has made report on the
subject. The next move IL expected
from those interested In preserving
the lake, and lively fight is expect
ed. E3 ;s &. - (. Z" -. = E.. o. ss:a
While Intoxicated Frank smutney,
brother Of Ed Smutney, furniture
dealer at Clarion, committed suicide
by shooting himself. He came home
and made threat to kill the family,
his brother demonstrated and he went
! into the bedroom and fired two shots,
The Waterloo Canning company of
Hamburg hopes to greatly increase its
output the coming season. Efforts
are being made to secure j 900 acres
Of corn or better. 1t is paying $3.50.
per ton, which ought to make sweet
corn raising a profitable crop.
The Baptist; church at Vnton was
badly damaged by fire which was
started from an overheated pipe. The
roof was burned off, che walls badly
damaged and the $2,7Oo pipe organ de-.
stroyed. The church was built and
furnished, at cost Of $4,000.
Delay Is in sight In the case Of
Mrs. Charlotte Van Horne, held to
| the grand Jury at Mason City under
1000 bonds on the charge OF murder
| ing her husband. The state is still
searching for evidence needed to con-
Wet Mrs. Van Horne is in a sanitar-
ium at Des Moines. S5t% . : l* r..
The report OF T.. ~ Shoemaker, re-
ceiver, filed in the district court OF
Marshalltown, shows that the affairs
| OF the A. E. Shorthill company OF that
city and the shorthill Steel and Iron
| Works OF Perry are In Z hopelessly
tangled condition and the indebted
ness is about 100000. 2si ylssess ~ T..
The value OF Iowa horses has been
placed at $3.50, 000, 900 according to-
the government report recsived at
| the federal bull ding in Des Moines.
Other interesting figures contained in
the report are that Iowa has s., 900
mules, 1871, 600 mich cows, 1,249, 900
sheep and 8, 720, 900 swine.ys
w. II. Parks, who lives three miles
north OF Emmetsburg, sold his quar-
I ter section farm at public auction to
w. H. Gaylord for 1857 an acre. Mr..
Gaylord sold his farm mile east OF
Emmetsburg some time ago. to an Il
linois man for $3.50 an acre. Y
About Y 400 couples attended the
charity ball held under the auspices
| of the Knights Templar at Mason
City, More than 1000 tickets were
sold and about 5000 will be turned
over to charitable organizations OF
that city. 9s =
Mrs. William Palmer OF Council
Bluffs returned home from call just
in time to save her husbands life. He
was hanging with rope about his
neck, one end Of which had been
thrown over door. ..., E..
| James Schonts, aged As, conduc-
tor on the dummy train which oper-
ates between Council Bluffs and
Omaha, was killed in the yards. None
Of the trainmen appear to know now
the accident occurred.
The little 4-year-old daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Kruse Of Clinton
was fatally scalded. She fell back
wards into a tub of boiling water
while playing about the house.
Iowa has so far shipped 100 car
loads of food for the Belgians. Five
cars are now in the course Of prepar-
alton.
Elmer Chambers, a Waterman at
the Acme Manufacturing company in
Burlington, shot himself when he
dropped his revolver. The bullet
lodged in his shoulder, the missile
narrowly missing vital spot.
Fire totally destroyed the three.
story plant of the Globe Manufacture
ing plant at Perry entailing loss Of
from s250,00O to 100000. The con-
Germ Is the second largest washing
machine mandatory in the state.
Rev, Ezra C. Moulton, IS years OF
age. has passed away. Rev. Moulton
was one of the best known Congre-
gational pioneer preachers in Iowa.
Albert Crowell is in the hospital in
q critical condition as the result of a
stabbing ARRAY at Keokuk. Emil
Ssrohmaier drove a knife into his
skull, the point of the blade breaking
off and remaining there.
The Farmers Elevator company Of
Blencoe received $4,000 bushels Of
corn in two weeks besides large
quantity of wheat. The company was
compelled to shut down because of a
car shortage.
A contribution of $4,000 has been
made to Mason City by Mrs. Fred
Keller, for the establishment Of .
permanent "city playground"
William Barr, Of Manchester, sold
a tract of land consisting OF 124 acres
and located a mile west of Manches-
ter, to Messrs. C. E. and Ward ]. Wal
ston, of Olin, Ia, for the record price
of $3.50 per acre.
Fred Loeffel Of Logan was found
guilty of passing bogus check on
the First National bank of Dunlap.
The judge sentenced him to Is years
at Anamosa.
The New Hampton Farmers Cream
cry association sold its products the
past year for $66,000, and paid its pa