Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-02-06
Iowa State
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HfN Late Incidents
~ Gathered from
Over the State

The Primghar school is running SIX
days in the week in order to finish
school before the end of April and re,
lease the students for farm work
earlier.
The business men OF Durant went
out one day recently and opened up
the roads so that the people in that
vicinity would be able to attend the
institute being held that day,
Cornell college OF Mount Vernon
has 113 stars in her service flag. Ac-
cording to incomplete reports there
are three majors. twenty-five lleuten.
ants. two captains and eleven non
commissioned officers in this number.
Police officers of Waterloo recently
tagged regular booze special" en-
route from East Dubuque to Grundy
county. An automobile whose seats
did not appear natural was inveSh-
gated. The officers secured ten gal
Ions OF whiskey.
S H. IT. Shuttle. farmer living
near National. hauled two loads of
clover seed to McGregor and Sold 1t
to Gilchrist & Company. grain and
seed dealers, for $4,000. This Is ST.
900 load 1t is believed that this
establishes record for a single load
of produce grown on an Iowa farn,
H. F. David, fireman on a switch
engine at Calmar. a Milwaukee juno.
ton point, was instantly killed and
Henry Miller of Austin. Mimi, engi-
neer on freight train. suffered seri'
Gus internal injuries when freight
train ran into a switch engine At Cal
mar.
All members of the state board OF
mine examiners with exception OF an
engineer have been reappointed by
tho state executive council. The
members reappointed are: T. l.. Ev.
ans Of Lockman. Edward Gray Of Des
Moines. operators. and David -Ander-
son of Bidwell and John Caldwell of
Centerville. miners.
A cable received at Iowa City re-
Gently states that Prof. Stephen Bush
is the first member Of the university
faculty to reach French soil and will
be connected with the educational de.
partment of the Y. M. C. A. He left
Iowa City Dec %, but was delayed
two weeks on account Of a shortage
OF coal for the ships.
Fraternities at Iowa State College
went on record in favor of abolielhing
full dress affairs for the rest oil the
year at meeting held there recently
They are not only cutting out the
forinals, but have decided to donate
the money saved thereby to some
military organization. Informal dances
are also to 1oe reduced to minimum.
Private A. w. Ono, member of the
school for cooks and bakers at Camp
Dodge, has neen sentenced to two
years at hard labor in the United
States disciplinary barracks for the
theft of an army overcoat valued at
$3.50 The sentence also carries
dishonorable discharge from the ser
vice and forfeiture of all pay and al.
lowances due or to become due.
Iowa is the first state in the west
to 60 ''over the top" in establishing
war emergency farm bureaus in every
one of the counties in the state. In
the ninety-nine counties in Iowa there
are 100 farm bureaus. Pottawatta-
mic county Is the only county in the
state which has two farm bureaus.
Two agricultural agents will be soon
appointed in this county.
Ninety per cent Of the people are
conserving some" declared w. w.
Orrick, representative of State Food
Administrator J. F. Deems. "bnt the
other 10 per cent are boarding enough
to do away with the good the others
do" Forty-eight pounds OF -four and
FIVE pounds of sugar is all any house
hold is should have at one time, he
declares. a.s
Charged with tearing the American
flag from the wall. pulling it to shreds
and stamping upon 1t, when he enter
ed his sweetheart's home and found
her carrying on 'tete a tete" with
a soldier, Harry Mccullough, 81 years
old, an employee Of the ice company
in Des Moines was arrested recently
by government authorities. He was
arraigned before United States Com
missioner Piper and discharged after
a hearing, because there were said
to be extenuating circumstances.
More than 400 men in Iowa have
enrolled as applicants for work in
the bodybuilding yards in the Puget
Sound district as result of the cam
paign to secure workmen by the Pub
lie Service Reserve. The men are
being advised to enroll but stick to
their present jobs until the govern
gets ready to use them on the west
ern coast Herbert J. Metcalf, secre-
tary Of the state defense council, is
also in charge of the public service
reserve work for Iowa He has an
enrolment agent and chairman of the
public reserve work in each county
through whom enrolment is expected
to be made.
The presence of members of the I.
w. w. in Iowa, and report that an
effort might be made to destroy
plants engaged in making war mater
ials, at the Amana colonies, near Ma
rengo, caused a heavy guard to be
placed around the factories in that
city.
Frank H. Dye, Of Cedar Rapids, was
fined $500 and costs in police court
recently for uttering sneering re-
marks about soldier in uniform.
He was arrested by Sergeant T. M.
Scharff who said he overheard the
man speak disparagingly of the uni