Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-15
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY AND COUNT,
WEDNESDAY, MAR Is, 1899.


Bert Hoag was in Cedar Rapids on
business last Wednesday.
VIM. Barr was in Sioux City the
first of the week on business.
j. 2. Foley, of Cedar Rapids, spent
Sunday with relatives in the city.
MIR. and Mrs. w. II. Hutchinson re-
turned from Chicago Saturday evening.
Miss Blanche Taylor and Bernice
Mccormick have returned from Keo-
kuk.
MIR. and Mrs. VIM. Rollins, of Ma
rion, spent Sunday with relatives in
this city.
Rev. T. L. Taylor, of Independence,
spent part of last week with his parents
in this city.
Mrs. Charles II. Day, of Dubuque,
was in town Friday to attend the funer-
al of Mrs. E. =. Seeds.
Mrs Edward Grassfeld, who has
been suffer, 6 from severe attack of
bronchitis, is f." UGH improved.
Hogan Bros s.. .pped three hundred
and sixty head of two year old cattle to
New Castle, Wyoming, last week.
Our lady readers, or at least a large
majority of them, will read Clark "
Lawrence's spring announcement.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. L. Taylor, of
Evanston, ILL.,, visited with the formers
parents in this city part of last week.
Miss Crosby has returned from Chi
cago where she purchased stock of
seasonable millinery for Henry Good
hile.
Mrs. Il. NJ. Johnson, of Storm Lake
arrived here last Friday evening and is
guest of her parents Mr.. and Mrs. D..
b. Allen.
w. w. Worden, of Des Moines,
spent Sunday in this city at the home
DR.. p. E. Triem. He is a brother IN
law of Mrs. Triem.
Fred Ford went to Colesburg last
Friday to look after the branch store
there of the Racket Store. He will be
gone about week.
Miss Florence Day is in Chicago
informing herself in the latest styles
and purchasing line of millinery goods
for d. F. Rlddell & Co.
Miss Addie Flack and Miss Crosby
returned from Chicago last Saturday
where they have been looking up the
styles in spring millinery.
Ed Hruby, A. c. Philip and DIR.
G. L. Leigh spent Sunday at Earlville,
the guests of Albert Staehle who re-
turned home from Cuba last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. ID. Hadley, of
Sioux City were among those from
abroad who attended the funeral of
Mrs. E. p. Seeds here last Thursday.
w. II. Hutchinson's pointer,
Brighton Joe, took two second prizes at
the bench show in Chicago last week.
His bloodhound, III. II. H., was award
ed third prize.
Miss Winnie Brownell who has
been visiting friends and relatives in
this city for the past two months re
turned to her home in Bradford last
Monday morning.
Roy Morse leaves next Sunday
morning for Chicago where he will
take course of instruction in the Chi
cago Secretaral and Physical Training
School. He expects to spend the sum
mer at Lake Geneva.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. Pogue had the mis-
fortune to lose their infant daughter
who died at their home near Masonville,
last Sunday. The funeral was held
Monday and the remains were inferred
in the Masonville cemetery.
The article, "Ridean Hall etc" on
second page is continuation by Mrs.
Wilson of what she saw on her trip to
the "Thousand Islands," and like her
contributions to the Democrat that have
preceded it, is very entertaining and in
structive.
Charlie Stewart who stole thirty
dollars from the Y. M. c. A two weeks
ago was sentenced last Friday afternoon
by Judge Platt to fourteen months con-
tinement in the state penitentiary. Sher-
itf Fishel took him to Anamosa Mon
day morning.
The latest swindle reported is that
of fellow going the rounds with sup
ply of Lima beans saturated with oil
of cinnamon which he offers to sell at
10 cents dozen, at the same time rep
resenting that his brother shipped him a
quantity of the beans from Manila and
that they are sure protection against
moths.
IS. b. Balcom, who has been resi-
dent of this city for the past fourteen
years, has decided to remove to indie,
pendence, and he and his family expect
to leave for that place sometime this
week. Mr.. Balloon is an experienced
bridge builder and is now and has been
for the past year, in the employ of the
Board of Supervisors of Buchanan Co,
building bridges there under the super
vision of the Board
The letter from our army in the
the Philippines was written by Mr.
McCarren member of the first Wash.
ington regiment, to his sister, Miss Jen.
ME McCarren, of this city, and by whose
permission we are enabled to publish it
Since the letter was written our boys
have had number of engagements with
the Filipino insurgents, in some OF
which the First Washington has taken
part, and Jimmie has had his wished
for chance of seeing what would hap.
pen in such case.
1t was the deliberate judgment OF