Manchester Democrat., 1921-12-07
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1Tdef Dy r6uuctlOn IN prices OF ma.
teriaI and labor.
A. G. Blodgett, aged Burlington
man, was found dead in corn crib
near Oskaloosa recently.
Strikers have asked business men
OF Ottumwa to form committee to
arbitrate the strike with the Morrell
Packing company.
The Iowa City Republican has
been restored to his old name and be-
comes tri-weekly under Grant Full
! mer's management.
Allan Hoover, uncle of Herbert, is
dead at his home in Marshalltown.
He brought up the secretary and his
sister after their parents died.
Forty-three neighbors of George
Rothfus OF Carlisle husked fifty acres
Of his corn, cribbing $500 bushels in
seven hours. He has been sick.
Teddy Haarsma, years old, of
lreton, may die from wounds receiv-
ed when shot while playing "hold up"
with other lads who carried the gun.
Edward Nystrom, farmer, Ogden,
filed scredules in bankruptcy in Unit
ed States District court recently. His
debts amount to $1,5O0; assets, 1859.
Joseph Roth, a farmer of Brooklyn,
filed petition in bankruptcy recent
ly claiming liabilities in the sum of
1920, 0,693. His assets amount to $72,-
S18.
R. J. Shepard, % years old, of Clin.
ton, is under arrest charged with op-
Grating lottery for the benefit" of
the destitute family of an unmarried
railroad man.
Mrs. G. A. Rutherford of Waterloo,
who, six years ago, sent her husband
to the pen for bigamy after they had
been married a week, has just been
granted divorce from him.
W. J. Sheppard, 27 years old Of
Manchester, is suing his 55-year-old
wife for divorce and $4,000 alimony.
We worked for her first husband,
Fred File, and married her after
Files death.
- The court at Charles City has set
aside the conviction Of Marion Evans
Tor adultery because the jury looked
over the auto in which the crime is
said to have been committed.
F. l.. Sharon is buying corn from
farmers, advancing % cents bushel
to them, allowing them. to keep the
corn in their cribs and agreeing to
divide all profits above the % cents
made any time in the next three
years.
William E. Phillips, carpenter of
Mason City was probably fatally in.
jured when a ladder on which he was
working broke and he dropped two
stories to the sidewalk, hitting on his
head. Phillips has q wife and a
young daughter.
Governor N. E. Kendall will ap.
point a board to lead the campaign
against illiteracy, and which will aid
the state teachers association in their
plan to teach every uneducated per.
son in Iowa to read and write. Mrs.
Cora Wilson Stewart of Kentucky,
president of the national illiteracy
commission, will also aid in the drive
In this state.
| A shipment OF twenty head of big
dappled grays went from Humeston
to Lancaster, Mo-, to be se1t by ex. :
press then to Bridgeport, Conn, as
draft horses in Ringing Bros. shows;
one of these weighed 2,150 pounds.
The buyers ranged the country from
Humeston to west of Des Moines to
get these grays, as Ringlings use on.
ly dark dappled grays.
At Henry Williams public sale at
the farm near Humeston recently the
carload Of 2-year-old steers sold at
e99.5O each; Northrup & Bartlett OF
Garden Grove were the buyers. This
was fine bunch of cattle, twenty of
them being whiteface; they were on
full feed of corn and weighed little
more than 1000 pounds, average
There were twenty-five head in the
bunch. Other property also sold we'll
little more than was ex-
pected.
Iowa postmasters named by the
president recently are William w. {
Moore, Ainsworth; William H. Hall,
Allertcn; James F. Temple, Bode; j.,
Hugh w. Dickson, Delta; Emil C. !;
Weisbrod, Fenton; Raymond F. Sar
gent, Fonda; Thomas Phillips, Ded- ;,
nam; Earl NJ. Skinner, Farnham- :
7ille; Viewer K KuenZel, Garnavillo; A
IOhn f. Cagley, Ionia; Martin A. San :,
arstrom, kiron; Elmer L. Langlie,
Marquette; Carl Nielsen, Moore q
lead; Ulysses G. Hunt, Plymouth. i,
) The third death in the family of :,
Wayne Erwin of Cambridge, sen of
President c. w. Erwin Of Commercial h
savings Bank at Britt, within two
weeks occurred when Sarah Helen Err. v
vim succumbed to scarlet fever. Mary &.
ane, another daughter, died on Ar &
nistice day, and Mrs. Erwin died q
Jov. II, both of the same disease. q
)nly the father remains. Mary Jane q
vas a prize winner in the baby con. q
est at the Iowa State Fair three z
ears ago and Sarah Helen won sec. =
nd prize in the baby show last fall z
Charles Jorgenson, 29 years old, =
DIST man for the sand and gravel q
ompany at Clear Lake, lost his life 8
vhen he slipped in the gravel pit and q
en- tons of gravel smothered him. .
Ie was an overseas soldier. He is
urvived by bride of six months. .
In an effort to forestall the laying 81
II OF % per cent of the force, en- q
loyes of the Northwestern railroad