Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-11-27

Mercy hospital in Clinton recovering
from pneumonia, twelve Of his neigh:
.bors and relatives gathered at his
farm and husked and crdbbed more
than 500 bushels of corn.
The food administration has an
nounced chat wheat bread may now
be made. Wheat -four can be bought
without substitutes. Unless people
have real fondness for war breads
they need no longer eat them.
The Palo Alto county supervisors
have just appropriated $500 towards
paying the expenses of maintaing a
county agent at Emmetsburg. For
two or three years the burden has
been borne by private subscription.
First Lieut.. Bruce P. Robinson of
Camp Dodge, committed suicide re-
Gently by throwing himself under the
| wheels of a Milwaukee passenger
train at Grimes. Dependency over
failure to get overseas is believed to
have been the cause of the act.
There is an automobile now for
every eight persons in Iowa, accord
ing to the most recent figures in the
office Of the secretary of state The
total number Of licenses Issued this
year was 274,625 of which "a ,430 were
for new cars and 216,195 renewals.
With population OF 2,35S,O66 this
would be a car for every eight per-
sons.
One Of the most urgent legislative
demands this coming winter will be
Tor the revision of the Iowa Code
laws The present condition Of the
Iowa status is not only exasperating
to the legal profession but to al other
people who have occasion to consult
the laws of the state There has not
been a complete revision since 1897.
Ora Williams, state documental edit
or, estimates Is per cent of our Iowa
laws are dead.
Sixty-one grain sacks of nuts and
nut shells weighing $500 pounds were
shipped by the McGregor Red Cross
recently. The chapters quota was
a ton. Nine.tenths Of the shells were
brought in by farmers. Stale butter
nuts, hickory nuts and walnuts Of
other years were brought in by the
bushel and even by the barrel One
farmer contributed barrel of black
walnuts which he said had been In
his barn for eight years.
A Knoxville soldier in the great
war has been promoted to colonelcy
in France. Mrs. j. S. Bellamy has
been informed that her nephew Frank
Burnett, was promoted to that rank
in October, He has risen from cap
tain to colonel in little more. than
a year. Since June, 1917, he has been
in France on General Persling's STAFF,
and was promoted to a majority in
September of that year. and heuten-
ant-colonel in March, 1915
A federal officer, recruiting for
laborers for Camp Grant. H., ran up
against a stone wall at sioux City
when the Woodbury. county com
munity labor board and United
State employment service local
force forbade him to do any re-
cruiting there. The local people
declare there is already a short
age of labor there which should
be filled before the men are dragged
away. to other states. They contend
that II there is need of men at Camp
Grant, Illinois and southern Wiscon-
sin are the places to look for them.
The following Iowans have been re-
ported during the last week as killed
in action or died of wounds or dis
ease: John W. McGranahan, Newhall;
Frank P. Meis, LeMars; Harley Van
dament, Keokuk; Daniel Ray, Des
Moines, Iowa; Thomas Bell, Des
Moines, Iowa; Lee A. Green,
Clarinda; John D. Hume, Wayland;
John l.. Kennedy, Dubuque; Hebry
Angel, Montpelier; Charles j. Con-
nors, Barnum; Theodore H. Loetz,
Sioux City: William j Brandernburg,
Dewitt; Wagner Lloyd Odell, Bed
ford; Harvey L. Goodwin, Newton:
Charles F. Dean, Charlton; Loyal Ed
wards Massey, Fulton; Charles H.
Hanson, Weston; Joseph G.. Blake,
New Vienna: Henry D. Redenbaugh,
Nevada; Harry A. Sheets, Keota;
Edward w. Hartman, Marathon; Don
e. Jeffreys; Winterset; Walter KIeuv.
er, Dixoa; Virgil Knight. Rose HUI;
Lewis G. Murdoch, Gilman; Edward
Nyberg, Long Grove; Frank Kinyon,
Turkey River; David F. Kirk, Bea-
con; John l. Linderman, Given; Mich
olas Reider, Gilbertville; Walter J.
Meyochs, Stanley; Lieut.. Rodney e.
Crowley, Des Moines; Jay Howard
Fee, Beck; Hiram A. Thayer, Cas-
tona; Homer Dale, Linn; Vincent r.
Atkinson, Guthrie Center; Milo E.
Batchelder, Langworthy; Bernard ].
Carr, Lamont; Thomas r. Clynch,
Grinnell; John P. Manhck, Reinbeck,
Joyriding in celebration of peace
proved fatal at Toledo, where Samu-
ell Maher, II years old, of Tama, was
killed and three other young men
were injured, one seriously, when an
automobile skidded and ran into
tree.