Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-07-17
Iowa State
a. | News
# Late Incidents
" Gathered from
Over tho State

The prize of $50 won by the Wa
terloo Greeks In the showing made
Ia the Cedar Falls celebration parade
Will be donated by the mon to tho
Cedar Falls chapter Of tho Red Cross.
So-called conscientious objectors"
ct Camp Dodge are being inveet-
satsd BY q board of inquiry appoint.
I'D June /. 1918, BY the secretary Of
war for that purpose. rhk board VII
recommend certain procedure.
Six hundred delegates assembled
In Cedar Rapids from all parts Of the
United States and CAnada to attend
the convention OF International Bap-
tist Young Peoples union held there
recently.
United States Food Administrator
J. +. Deems announced a ruling re-
Gently to the effect that ice cream
cones cannot be sold in Iowa on
Mondays and Wednesdays, and after
5 p. m. Of any other day. This rul-
ing applies to all dealers.
amburg business men have what
they term a Five O'Clock club. This
week the members have been helping
farmers harvest their big wheat crop
and many farmers are testifying to
the ability of the club men to shock
grain.
The names of two Iowans were in
cluded in the list OF IS overseas army
casualties announced one day recent
ly by the War Department. Private
D. c. Waite of Davenport was re-
ported severely wounded. Private H.
c. Harter of Marshalltown was re-
ported missing in action.
Crying out to heaven to have mer-
cy on their souls, the three Negroes
found guilty OF wantonly assaulting
II year old white girl at the can
Torment May "a, were hanged at
Camp Dodge. The entire Eighty
eighth division and the 5000 Negroes
in camp were witnesses. It was
Iowa's first military hanging.
Dr. Guilford H. Sumner, secretary
Of the state board of health, has Is.
sued an order to the mayor and all
physicians in Dubuque that no chill
dren are to leave that city without
the consent Of the state board Of
health, until the present epidemic Of
infantile paralysis now raging there
has been checked.
Nine Waterloo women face intern.
ment during the war If the govern
ment insists upon imposition OF the
extreme penalty for failure to regis.
ter under the alien enemy regula-
lions. The police have tho names
OF the nine, whom they assert failed
to obey instructions, and the matter
will be turned over to tho United
States marshal
Employees of the Des Moines post
office recently verified their suspicion
Of what the soldiers at Camp Dodge
do on Sunday when they handled
over $1,000 letters from the big army
cantonment. In the Monday morn
ing mail from Camp Dodge the Des
Moines office received 41,OO0 pieces
Of mall. III the afternoon collection
10000 more letters came for the
home folks and swesthearts.
Soldiers are pouring into Camp
Dodge to bring the Eighty-eighth di.
vision up to war strength. Within
less than week 1900 soldiers, well
advanced in training, have been re-
ceived from the One Hundred Sixty.
fourth depot brigade located at
Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kan.
They are now assigned to and a part
They are now assigned to and are a
part of the Eighty-eighth division.
Five thousand fewer new cars
were licensed during the first six
months of this year than the cor
responding period of 1917, according
to the head Of the automobile DEPART
ment of the secretary of state. The
number licensed so far this year ia
39,393. The renewals, on the other
hand, are 10000 more than in 1917,
the registrations for the first six
months Of 1918 being 1880.
The state institutions are doing
their full share in food conservation.
All have rigidly followed the regula-
tions since they were first anonunc-
ed. 1t is reported from the Cicero
kee state hospital that they are saw
Ing thirteen and onehalf barrels of
wheat -four week over former con.
sumption. The hospital at Independ.
ence now uses twenty barrels of -four
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