Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-06-13
MIR. and Mrs. P. Smith are visiting


at Fonda.
w. S. Logan goes to Storm LAX,
today on business.
Mrs. NJ. g. Houghten is very Ill a
her home in this city.
| IS. a. Steadman was Dubuque
visitor last Thursday.
i w. E. Lawrence has returned from
a business trip to South Dakota.
i p. II. Snyder, of Strawberry Point
was Manchester visitor Monday.
Miss Grace Provost, of Dubuque
was business visitor here last week.
-Chas.. Campbell, of Rockwell City
spent Sunday with friends in this city
Mrs. j. d. Dain and daughter, Miss
Maggie Dain, visited at Independence
yesterday.
Mrs. VIM. @. Cawley is visiting
friends in Chicago and different points
in Indiana.
ID. o. Chant erlain attended 6
shooting tournament at Central CITY
last Friday.
"A patent medicine show is holding
nightly sessions at the foot of Main
street this week.
N. f. Lawrence returned home last
Saturday evening from q business trip
to South Dakota.
j. d. Hensey left yesterday morn
Ing for Davenport where he goes to
purchase cooper supplies.
Charles Noble returned home Sat
urday evening from business trip in
the northwestern part of the state.
Mrs. G. s. Lister, and daughter,
Florence, visited with friends in Cedar
Rapids the latter part of last week.
Mrs. w. H. Goodell and grandson,
Roger Lewis, went to Marble Rock last
Saturday morning for visit with rela-
tives.
Mrs. E. R. Champion enjoyed a
visit last Wednesday from her brother,
Rev. G. H. Kennedy, of Evanston,
Illinois.
Clarence Lister is expected home
today from Grinnell, where he has been
student at Iowa College during the
past year.
&C. Bailey leaves to-day for Daven-
port where he goes to attend the G. A.
II. encampment as delegate from w.
A. Morse post.
j. j. Hoag Is building two large
barns on his farms near Lamont. The
ground dimensions of tho structures
are 60x74 and 6Ox36.
The Excelsior Laundry resumed
operations last Monday having shut
down to repair the damage done by fire
about two weeks ago.
VIC. Lathrop, who is connected
with S. X. Myers in the piano business
here, is enjoying visit from his father,
G. V. Lathrop, of Marion.
Miss Amy Boggs, who is principal
of the West Side Waterloo High
School, arrived home last Saturday to
spend her summer vacation.
Yrs. Bert Bush, of Emmetsburg,
and Mrs. j. d. WEIGH, of Volga City,
are in the city being called here by the
serious illness of their sister, Mrs.
Sadie Wilkins.
Good beans now bring $500 and
1926 per bushel in Manchester. This
fact should encourage the raising of
more of them in this vicinity the COM
ing season.
Ed. Honan, formerly connected
with the Clarence House, but who is
now night clerk at the Pilgrim Hotel
at Marshalltown, is renewing old &C.
quaintances in this city.
Miss Ada Wolfe, who is teacher
In normal school in South Carolina,
arrived home last Saturday evening to
spend the summer with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Wolfe.
Mrs. Addie Davis and Miss Eunice
Lawrence, of Cedar Rapids, attended
the funeral Of their sister, Mrs. Myra
McNeill, held at the Red school house
north of town last Saturday.
-Mesdames q. b. Eaton, A. G. Carter,
Thos. Elder and Rebecca Otis left yes
terday morning for Davenport to at
tend the w. r. G. state convention.
Mrs. Otis is department chaplain.
The friends of Miss Mae Rooney
here have received invitations to the
graduation exercises at Sinsinnawa
Mound of the class of 1900 of which
she is q member. She is to be congrat-
ulated upon the successful completion
of her studies in that institution.
The various societies of Odd
Fellows in this county had planned q
big all day picnic on the fair grounds
liz this city on July 4th, but the an.
nouncement comes to us this week that
the place Of meeting has been changed
to the old camp meeting grounds at
Delhi.
Col. Thrift and Lieutenant Cush-
ing, of Dubuque, were In the city last
Monday enroute to Cedar Rapids,
where they went to take part in the
state military shoot. Each company
in the state is represented by two
marksmen. and they will compete fol
honors for the Dubuque company.
The Manchester Creamery hse
more patrons and is doing more bust
ness now than at any time since its or
ganization. 1t has two hundred patrons
and made 1,457 pounds of butter one
day last week. This is good RECORD
and one of which the owners of oul
home creamery may we'll feel proud.
Harry Wolcott arrived home las
SATURDAY. evening from Arinnell whar,