Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1921-02-23
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| per acre.
Foxes are becoming numerous II
Jackson county. Two have been kill
ed in two days hunting. Four hav
been captured in a week.
The annual Iowa conference OF tn
Iowa Evangelical Association will b,
held the second week in April at Du
mont, according to an announcement
Muscatine county only boasts o
Is marriages for the month of Janu
airy. This is the lowest number O
! licenses issued since records nave
been kept.
DR.. E. B. Elliam, Of Muscatine ha:
traded his 279 acre farm valued al
| 100000 to Mr.. and Mrs. e. NJ Henrle
for three store buildings in Musca
tine valued at s22,5OO.
Miss Mabel Griffin, an elevator
operator in the Cedar Rapids Saving
Bank Building, was only shaken uI
recently when an elevator dropped
from the sixth floor to the basement
Funeral services for J. U. Hansen
at Atlantic were held recently due to
Mr.. Hansen having had fear Of be.
ing buried alive and often expressed
the wish that his body be kept six
days before burial. After his death
the body was not buried for nearly a
week.
Albert Harris has sold his 200-acre
farm near Waukon to John H. Pal
mer of that city, who owns land on
each side and which gives him $50
acres in one body. The price was
$39,800, or $170 an acre. This sale
also includes everything on the place
excepting the household goods and
auto.
Fire caused by a defective wire
completely Quilted the general mer-
chandise store of Nuss & like at
Lewis, causing loss estimated at ST.
900 in the stock alone. The interior
of the Citizens bank next door. also
was badly damaged by smoke and
water. A part of the bank wall had
to be torn away to reach the fire.
No trace of Arthur Nieman, Is
years old, married young Avoca far
mer. who mysteriously disappeared
recently from Des Moines has been
obtained by authorities. Young Me
man dropped out Of sight following
visit to the office of Des Moines
manufacturer concerning piece of
machinery of which he Is the invent
or. Relatives fear he has met with
foul play.
Recently a mail sack containing
$4,000 in checks, drafts and Liberty
Bond coupons was stolen from mail
truck on the platform of the North
western depot at Nevada. 1t was not
noticed however until the next day
when various banks at Chicago mott
fed the banks at Nevada remittances
had not been received. The bandits
will not realize more than 5000 on
their haul 1t is thought.
Leonard Tornell Of Halfa, Ia, is
being tried for the raping OF Miss
Marie Pennington. 10 years old, of
Halfa, on the night Of Aug. 20, last.
Miss Pennington took the stand stat
ing she had been keeping company
with Tornell on different occasions.
He accomplished his purpose, employ.
ing brutal tactics, against which the
girl offered resistance was worn out
and exhausted. .. ~
The Supreme court Of Iowa, in re-
versing a decision Of the District
court Of Henry county, upon the ap-
peal Of DR.. w. E. Lessenger from a
judgment Of 1899 against him in IA
vor of C. Katherine CULLEN, Cancelled
the judgment. The evidence showed
that DR.. Lessenger roundly cursed the
telephone service at Mount Pleasant
to the manager and his wife with the
result that Mrs. CULLEN claimed in
her complaint that she was shocked
to the extent OF 5000.
City Manager Carr of Dubuque, Ia,
is being sought by the women's coun-
Gil Of Oskaloosa to address a public
meeting at the trades assembly hall
to explain to the men and women
voters the city manager plan of mu-
nicipal government and tell OF its op-
GRAFTON in Dubuque. The women's
council, composed Of representatives
Of fourteen of the leading women's or
CARNATIONS Of the city are immense
ly interested in the Dubuque form of
municipal management, and prob
ably will foster movement to estab-
lish the plan there.
Matt Daily, IS, was brutality MUIR
dered, and his wife and her attend
ing nurse, Miss Constance Lahey, II,
were probably fatally injured when
G.. D. Larue alias John r. Braywood,
rejected sutton Of Mrs. Edna Daily, a
daughter-in-law Of the dead man, en-
tered their house, Waterloo, recently
and beat them with an iron rod. Bray
wood confessed to the crime shortly
after he had been arrested. His cor
rect name is G. d. Larue and he
claimed that he was clerk employed
in Chicago. Refusal of Mrs. Edna
Daily to have anything further to do
with him was given as his motive for
the crime.
]. Wait Of Shell Rock has sold his
property to A. H. Moeller Of Denver.
The twenty-three acres sold for $500
an acre.
Charged with taking graft from
Marie Maragola, Ankeny, while he
was justice Of the peace, Perry DON
aghey, deputy sheriff on the force Of
Sheriff w. e. Robb, was indicted by
the Polk county Grand Jury. The
woman is said to have been involved |
in a liquor case and paid Donaghey |