Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

WEDN ESDA I, ANIL IL, 1898.
rELspAohss 1874.
Simmons advertits harness at cost
this week.
Mrs. Ramsey, ofDyersyille, spent
Sunday with relatiY IN this city.
John Morley wet to Cedar Rapids
last week to accept position as clerk
in jewelry store.
Mrs. Observation-Disclosures, of Des.
Moines, spent Suday in this city a
guest at the homejf Mrs. w. I'll. Good
ell.
The annual lection of officers OF
the Y. NJ. c. A. witch was to have been
held last Friday, was postponed until
yesterday afternoon.
Letters addressed to Miss Anna NJ.
Johnson, Mrs. creator, Mrs. Jessie
Smith, Chas. TaJor and DIR. M. ID. Cole
are advertised aslnclaimed at the post
office in this city
George MalYn arrived home from
Havana, last Saturday, morning. He
was confined to he hospital by typhoid
fever for a moth prior to his home
coming but has now nearly recovered.
The entertainment last Friday eve
ming at the Ce1ral Opera, by the John
Dillon Comedy Company was highly
pleasing one. The company has we'll
adapted cast Ind their performance
Justly deservespraise.
Mr.. F. Wekmeister, of Earlville,who
suffered such severe loss by fire two
weeks ago, hs replaced his funeral car
with very handsome new one, costing
100000, which he purchased on Thurs
day of last week from w. A. Roe, a
salesman in the employ of the Rock
Falls Mfg c., of Sterling, Ill.
Mrs. Milton F. Hunt died last
Wednesdayat her home at Delaware,
of pneumonia. She was sixty years Of
age and was the widow of the late M.
F. Hunt who died last December. The
funeral services were held at the Bap-
fist church at Delaware last Friday,
Rev. Abbott, of Quasqueton, officiating.
On Iext Monday, April "a, Mrs
Anna b, Robinson as administrative of
the estate of E. F. Robinson, will sell
the personal property belonging to said
estate at public auction, on the farm of
Theo. Streit in Prairie township, about
three miles south east of Masonville.
r. L. Kortright will cry the sale. For
further particulars see "Auction Sale"
notice in another column.
The Racket store is now nicely To-
Gated in the Ford building, recently
vacated by Blake Il Son. Its present
store room is one of the largest and
best in the city, and is excellently loca
ted in the business centre. Workmen
have been engaged for the past two
weeks in improving the interior of the
building and it now, with its large and
well arranged stock, presents very in
viting appearance, and the proprietor
extends an invitation to all to call and
inspect his new quarters.
"A frightful accident befell E. S.
Cowles at his farm east of town Tues
day, whereby he sustained SERIOUS in
jury. He and the hired man, Mr.. Der.
gin, were breaking a colt and had it
hitched to buggy beside an old horse.
Mr.. Cowles had got into the buggy and
was just ready to start on a drive when
both horses made lunge and started
to run. In turning corner at the gate
the buggy was overturned, throwing
Mr.. Cowles forcibly against post, in
flicting bad wound on the side of his
head. 1t was thought for time that
the accident would prove fatal but we
are glad to say that Mr.. Cowles is now
on the road to recovery. The team and
buggy sustained no serious damage, we
Observation-Disclosures Leader.
The city council has been sitting as
board of equalization this week, and
is still hard at the job There is fall
ing off in the valuation of about $780,
900, and the remarkable fact in this con
nection is that it largely comes in the
matter of moneys and credits, and not
in real estate, as was expected. How
some of the people of this town make q
living is one of the mysteries of the day.
There are persons here who live we'll,
smoke good cigars and are like the lily,
for they toll not neither do they spin,
and yet at most they give in for taxa
ton nothing more than residence.
Many of these are known to have thous-
ands of dollars loaned out, and getting
all the advantages of the government,
but paying none of the expenses. A
member of the council informs us that
there will probably be howl when the
list of raises is hung up, but that it will
have to go. There is no doubt but that
the levy must be increased, and will
probably not be less than five per cent
Independence Bulletin.
The tramp problem has grown to
such proportions in Independence, that
the council has resolved to abate thu
nuisance, by requiring the weary viii
lies that hereafter visit the city tt
earn their bread by the sweat o.
their faces. "Why hard working
citizens should be taxed to sup
port a constant procession of laz.
and criminal Migrants is a mystery n,
one has yet been able to explain" say
the Bulletin Journal. "If sentimental
people would quit feeding these vaga
bonds, and they knew that their en-
trance into town would mean their i'm
mediate transference to a rock pile an,
diet of bread and water, the troubl
would soon be abated. But it doe
seem that it is impossible to fix the ide
that to feed tramp is in reality
crime against society instead of