Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-12-13
Aaal2y;onal Local.

VaaIlI0n0/ Local.
Mrs. Herbert Harris advertises that
She has choice strain of bronze tur-
Keys for sale.
You will not fail to notice that
Harry Stewart is selling Manchester
and Spring Branch creamery butter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Kenny and
Mesdames Thomas Kenny and Robert
Nicholson were shopping in this city
Thursday.
Ezra Coats lost q back pad and
breeding belonging to single harness,
last Thursday. Finder will please not
ify him, or leave at this office.
The following are the officers elect
ed by the w. r. @. of Delhi, for the
coming year: Jessie Doolittle, pres;
Hattie White, sr. vice; Louise House,
jr. Vice; Laura Fuller: treas; and Carrie
Swinburne, chaplain.
The chair sale at A. D. Browns
Furniture store the past two weeks has
been very satisfactory to all concerned
therein. He announces that he has
received for the holiday trade the larg-
est shipment of medium and fine furni-
ture ever received by him.
Harry Glover, of Spencer, q former
Manchester boy, has been rendered and
has accepted the position of travelling
auditor for the Floete Lumber Co. The
headquarters of the company is at
Spencer with branch yards in large
number of towns in northwestern Iowa
and the Dakotas.
Weather Prophet Hicks predicts
that from the 10Th to 10th of the
month many heavy winter storms may
be expected on sea and land, followed
by billiards. and sweeping cold wave
reaching far south and lasting up to re-.
turn of storm conditions about 23rd to
25th, and that the month will end
In q combined Vulcan and Mercury
period, calling for heavy snow and biz
yards, with great cold wave reaching in
to January, 1900.
In the Mississippi valley this fall
November has been the most perfect
thirty consecutive days of the twelve
months. Homer made such days and
nights divine and poured into them the
lives of gods and goddesses-and no
wonder. "When the mother of dawn,
rosy fingered morning appeared "The
goddess Aurora now assembled wide
Olympus announcing the dawn to Jove
and the other immortals" And in the
ambrosial night divine dreams came to
men. Iowa deserves its Iliad. Who
will write it?-Gate City.
AT the surpr SO party on Mr.. Ed.
Towlerton at the home of Edith Jami-
son in Delhi there were present: Misses
Edith Jamison, Viola Smith, Maude
Swinburne, Gwen Perkins, Dorine
Corbin, Bertha Hoffman, Pearl Delano
Opal Stoner, Gladys White, Minnie
Jamison, Daisy Curry, Louie Relmner;
Messrs Ed Towlerton, Berl Pulon, Ar
thur Reeder, Newton Flack, Irving
Smith, Eldridge, Frank Howard, La
Sale White, Lewis Keith, Jay Reed,
Guy Smith, Clark White. Thesurprise
was real one to Ed and all present had
an ENJOYABLE time.
When we purchased supply OF
print paper for the Democrat four OF
! five months ago, we paid $3.50 per
hundred pounds for it. Last week WE
ordered another supply and had to pay
$3.50 per hundred for the same quality
of paper. The explanation of the sud
. den increase in the price is that the
paper mills formed q trust soon after
we made the first purchase, and are
now bleeding the smaller publishers
Z without mercy. We are informed by g
travelling salesman for paper firm
that the large city papers were give1
the tip that the trust was about to b,
formed and made contracts for thei
paper for a year, 80 that they are not al
present affected by it. They will no
howl until they are hurt, but it is nov
in order for the small fry to yell Justify
and thereby in a small degree reliev,
their feelings, but the trust will contin
ue to bleed them just the same.
In response to the invitations sem
out by DR.. and Mrs. Herbert II. Law
renee and Mr.. and Mrs. Will S. Beels
some eighty congenial spirits gathered
at Pythian Castle on last Friday even
ing and spent the time most merrily Al
whist and carroms. The ladies hac
conceived color scheme of red ant
white, pleasing combination which
they carried out in their personal adorn
ment, in the decoration of the rooms
and it was also used among the refresh
ments. Nine games of whist wer
played with the result that for each O
the four prizes, cut had to be made
Those winning lady's and gentleman'
first, were Mrs. Ed. Wolcott and Mr.. +
K. Gregg respectively, while the award
ing of the consolatory offerings placed
the superior cutting ability of Mis-
Mary Kenyon and Mr.. Geo. Barr to tn,
front. A delicious supper in tire,
courses was served, and the compan,
departed just within the midnight limit
The hosts and hostesses OF this occasion
are to be congratulated upon the sue
cess of this more than ordinarily pleas.
ant evening.
One of the happiest of reception
and dancing parties combined ever
given in this city was attended last
week Tuesday evening by some twt
hundred of the friends of Mr. and Mrs
j. B. Hoag and Miss s. Ethel Seeds
The receiving hours extended from
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