Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-06-13
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wEDNEsDAY'JUNE 10, 1900.
TELEPHONE 1874.

Miss Nellie Flint, of Des Moines,
is visiting friends
Mrs. Hubert Carr visited relatives
In Waterloo last week.
WIN. Mead spent Sunday with
friends in Cedar Rapids.
Fred Ellis transacted business in
Waterloo last Thursday.
DIR. j. j. Lindsay is treating his
house to new coat of paint.
Hon. j. w. Miles transacted bust
nesA in Clinton part of last week.
Frank Tierney, of Belle PLANE,
spent Sunday with friends in this city.
~. E. Davis arrived home Saturday
evening from business trip to South
Dakota.
Mrs. A. r. LOOMS, of Fl. Dodge,
is q guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. F. Leroy.
Stanley Clark, who is located at
Ashton, s. d., visited at this, his former
home, last week.
-Robt. Graham, of Greeley, was In
town yesterday guest of his brothers,
VIM. and John Graham.
Ed Davis went to south Dakota
last week on business In connection
with his land interests there.
prE,1Do,, II n D,ott oolfN v~,or nj
tended the commencement exercises of
Epworth Seminary last week.
Miss Ruth Pratt left last Thursday
for visit with friends In Mt. Vernon
and at her former home in Davenport.
Miss Arabella Mcintosh will ar
rive home this week from Des Moines,
where she spent the past year attend
ing school.
There will be special meeting of
Manchester lodge No. 1855 A. F. and A.
M. next Friday evening for work on
the NJ. M. degree.
Miss Maud Forester, of Salins,
kansas, was in this city last Saturday,
being called here by the death of her
sister, Miss Alice Forester.
Mrs. w. L. Drew and daughter de-
parted last week for North Danvllle,
Vermont, where they will spend the
summer visiting friends and relatives.
Mrs. Hattie Boyer, of Cedar Rap.
ids, expects to remove to this place the
last of this week and will reside here
in the future. She ia the mother of F.
L. and II. E. Forester, of this place.
Mrs. Pryor and Miss Minnie R.
Tarbax, Of Ireton, Iowa, visited
friends and relatives here last week.
They were guests at the home of the
former's aister-in- law, Mrs. Jennie
Jones.
Ina remote part of this county
people sometimes die from peculiar
diseases, if the reports of two deaths
recently made to Clerk Paul are accur-
ate. In one case the disease given was
"Parlys' and in the other "Hard
Tesus."
Mrs. Geo. Barnard, of Chicago, is
visiting friends in this vicinity guest
of Mrs. 7. W. Summersides, of this
city, and Mrs. T. NJ. Eldridge, of Milo
Township. Mrs. Barnard's husband is
connected with the well known Barn
ard commission firm of Chicago.
"A. NJ. Sherwood came up from
Quasqueton to spend Sunday at home.
He and several other Manchester
gentlemen are enjoying an outing along
the banks of the Wapsie and he reports
that their fishing luck is good. They
have had ideal weather for camping
and are enjoying 1t.
The Chicago papers now arrive
here in the afternoon from the south
on the Cedar Rapids freight. They
have been coming on the morning
passenger from Delaware and by way
of Marion, but the Illinois Central's
change of twenty minutes in the time
of its morning passenger makes con-
nection at Delaware impossible.
IS. L., Cary, of Jennings, La, arrived
here Monday morning bringing with
him his usual supply of fruit and
truck from his adopted state. This
time he brought pears, figs, plums,
ripe muskmellon raised by D. NJ. Clute,
tomatoes, one of which measures
eighteen inches in circumference, all of
which may be seen by calling at his
office. Friend Cary is sane on all sub.
jects except one. He Is suffering under
the hallucination that Louisiana is q
better state to live in, all things con-
sidered, than Iowa.
County Superintendent Schwietert
ANNOUNCES that the teachers and in
structors of the coming normal insti-
tute, which will convene July 9th at
the High School building in this city,
are, d. X. Bond, Rockwell City, d.
dsctics; Geo. Il. Belts, Mt. Vernon,
physiology and physics; Katherine
Shlmmin, primary methods; Miss
Minee Alma Cady, Des Moines, reading,
literature and physical culture: B. j..
Still, Earlville, physics and geography;
H. .. Pratt, Dysart, Ia, history and
economics; II. r. Wright, Des Moines,
arithmetic, algebra and grammer;
Annette HARDWOOD Cedar Rapids, music.
Miss Alice Forester died last
Thursday at st. Lukes hospital, Cedar
Rapids, after an illness lasting over
two months. The immediate cause of
her death was attributed to a rupture
of blood vessel of the brain. She
had been sufferer from stomach
trouble for some time. The deceased
was twenty years old and is survived by
"a mother, sister and three brothers
two of whom, F. L. and ii. E. Forces
for are roaidenta Of thia citv The re.