Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1920-08-04
Iowa State
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- Late Incidents
VIZ Gathered From
Over the State.


Iowa City is providing rooms for
$500 students at the Univ ersity OF
Iowa the coming school year.
One of the bandits who broke into
the Grand River Bank was captured.
All the loot has been recovered.
Victor Powers, young farmer, was
drowned near Marble Rock when his
automobile turned turtle off bridge.
H. w. Johnson, farm hand, near
Jefferson, has disappeared, leaving be-
hind new automobile and lot OF
clothes.
Mrs. Fred A. Patterson Of Sioux
City, just returned from prohibition
tour in England, will tell of her ex.
periences.
The Armstrong Manufacturing com
pany of Waterloo has just made a
large shipment of quarry blasting ma
chinery to Japan.
Attorney John Holland of Des
Moines is credited with settling the
strike at the Iowa Biscuit Company
plant at Burlington.
The Citizens Gas Co. at Waterloo
was granted an increase from 1925
to- S1.45 in gas rates and so cents a
month rent for meters.
Mrs. C. E. Miller of Waterloo
thought a bottle containing carbolic
acid contained mouth wash. Phys1.
clans have treated her burns.
Grounds for the monument to be
erected in honor Of the A. E. F. at
Humboldt have been purchased in the
heart of the business section.
A combat between sankes was wit.
messed on country road near Wash.
ington. They fought for nearly 80
minutes, then boys killed them.
Mrs. Cora Boyle. 80, attempted sui.
cile at Maquoketa with q 20 caliber
revolver. She was taken to the
Becker Hospital with wound in her
chest.
2 Crop conditions in northwestern
Iowa, northern Nebraska and South
Dakota have not changed in the past
week. Corn is good but wheat Is ct.
fected some what by rust.
Victor Vandeal, aged 40, prominent
Clinton county farmer, was ground
to death in binder when team ran
away on his farm near Wheatland.
His wife and two children survive.
The period of enlistment for the
naval summer school being held at
the Great Lakes naval station has
closed and fifty-seven Iowa boys are
enjoying the privileges of the course.
and business affairs. ~ sg-,
A search is being made for H. W.
Johnson, who disappeared from
farm near Churdan a few days ago,
His Overland car was found near the
river south of Jefferson, minus one
tire
The expense of operating Black
Hewk county increased IS per cent
in 1919 over 1918. The total cost Of
operating every department in 1919
was s440,629. As. The cost in 1918
was $27S.S53.69.
The fine brick residence at Bridge
and Fifth streets at Hampton has
been sold to Walter T. Robinson by
c. F. Roemer, former member of the
City Council and prominent in social
Accused by friend OF having stol-
en- all her clothing, Agnes Flynn Of
Oelwein was cornered in house and
the clothing taken from her. She
left the house minus shoes, stockings
and other clothing. ~@!F ~
The following ticket was placed In
nomination by the Democrats Of Iowa
in convention assembled. The party
pledges itself to many reforms Of
state government If elected. Clyde l..
Herring Of Des Moines, for Governor,
Chas. E. Cameron Of Alta for Lieut..
Governor, Ruth Sumner of Abel for
Sec'y Of State, John E. Rude, Of Mar
shalltown for Auditor, c. E. Walters
of Toledo for Attorney General, J. o.
Boyd of Keokuk for Railway Com
Claude R. Porter of Center.
vile LOT U. 3. senator.
The potential enrolment Of the
house of correction at Eldora or the
state reformatory at Anamosa was de-
creased by one in the drowning o.
Howard Monroe, IA years old OF
Charles City. 1t was this youth who
had attempted on two occasions to
kill his parents, once by putting rat
biscuit in a batch of bread dough and
again by putting the heads Of poison
Gus matches in the coffee pot. An
other time, on complaint OF his par.
ents, the police slipped up behind
him on a street and dispossessed him
OF revolver which he had threatened |
to use against his parents. Always
he charged that they were abusing
him.
Eva Vanleuvan, Is years old, and |
not bad to look upon, is weeping gent.
ly in the county Jail awaiting hearing |
on charge of the theft of expensive !
feminine lingerie from the home of
Mrs. Carrie Lockwood of Council |
Bluffs.
While under anaesthetic, admins
tered by Myers & Myers, dentists at |
Albert Lea, Mimi, Mrs. Hans Got. |
land of Lake Mills died in the den
lists chair. Four children, the oldest !
10 years old. and the youngest about
a year old are left motherless by the
death.