Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-06-06
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1900.
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-Dr. Loring r. LOOMS of st. Paul
is a visitor IN the city,
DR.. II. II. Lawrence was Cedar
Rapids visitor yesterday.
Hugo Won Oven is enjoying q visit
from Lis brother III. Won Oven Of Miles
Iowa.
-E. I. Grasslield of the firm Of
Grasslleld Bros. was on the sick list
part of last week.
Mrs. ID. Il. Voris of Marion, Wis.
tied at the home of z. A. Grasslield IN
this city yesterday
Mrs. Henry Kennedy, of Dubuque,
Is visiting in this city, guest of her
daughter, Mrs. e. r. Champion.
"A number of the members of the
Earlville, Rathbone sisters will be
guests Of the local order this evening.
Mrs. j. II. Lawson left Monday
evening for Watertown, South Dakota
for q visit with relatives at that place.
Ben Mathers departed Monday
. evening for Logan, Utah, being called
there by the death of his brother. in
law.
County Superintendent Schwietert
was In Cedar Rapids the first Of the
week on business in connection with
his Office.
Edward Middleton left Saturday
morning for Des Moines where he will
take up q course of study In Highland
Park College.
Miss Frank Minus of. Bowling
Green, Ohio arrived here last night for
visit with her brother w. A. Abbott
They have enjoyed visit together but
once during the past twenty one
years.
Letters addressed to the following
persons are unclaimed at the post office:
Miss Katie Muhan. Miss Marie Halter,
Dock Bushnell, j. w. Anderson,
Alenson Gardner Filler, Foreign, G. w.
Blake.
R. w. Haines of Cedar Rapids,
and Anna Conley were united in
marriage at Elkport, yesterday. Mr..
Haines formerly resided here and the
bride is sister of Mrs. W. Logan of
this city.
DR.. F. p. Weber of Cherokee was
aguest Of his brother Hos Webber
the first Of the week. He was on his
return home from Iowa City where he
attended the dental commencement ex-
ercises of the State University.
The building occupied by the Ex-
celsior laundry suffered considerable
damage as the result of a fire last Sat
urday morning. The fire companies re-
sponded promptly and put out the blaze.
The fire started from defective chin.
ney.
Sheriff Fishel informs us that dur.
ing the past month he has received
word of the theft of fourteen horses
within fifty miles of this place. Some
of our neighbors will now probably
accuse Manchester of spreading the
demonstrating fever.
The.D. a. ID. Latch Co., of this
city has already sold 1900 of its
double acting door latches, and is daily
In receipt of orders for them. This
company has without doubt got the
best double acting door latch on the
market, and the only trouble will be to
make them fast enough to supply the
demand.
a number Of ruffians from out of
town congregated here last Saturday
and during the evening seemed bent on
s'c'ean!ng OUT some of our home talent.
After engaging in several rounds with
the latter, the belligerent visitors made
hasty exits out of town, carrying with
them bruises that will constantly re-
mind them for many days to fight shy
of the Dairy City pugilists.
The firm of Schsrles Il Sebeck,
merchant tailors and gents furnisners,
was dissolved yesterday by mutual con-
sent, Mr.. Sebeck retiring. The bust
ness IF the firm will be continued by
Mr.. Scharles, who returns thanks to the
patrons of the establishment for past
favors and asks q continuance of the
same. Mr.. Scharles will collect and pay
all accounts of the firm. Mr.. Sebeck
will remain as an employee of Mr..
Scharles.
Friends in this city of Louis L.
Beehler have received very handsome an,
nouncement cards of his coming grad.
uatlon from the medical department
of Northwestern University, Chicago.
The graduating exercises will be held
Friday evening, June 14th, at eight
o'clock in the Auditorium, and 1t will
be 9 pleasure to his friends to know
that ina class numbering nearly one
hundred, Mr.. Beehler graduates with
second honors.
The ladies of the Congregational
Society of this city have engaged the
Canadian Jubilee Singers to give an
entertainment at the City Hall in this
city on the evening Of July 4th for the
benefit Of the Congregational church
fund. The troupe is composed of col
ored people-four ladies and six gentle
men AL descendants of slaves, and
are highly commended by the press
wherever they have appeared. Further
particulars later.
Mrs. Matilda M. Fleming, wife Of
james Fleming, died Tuesday after
noon of last week at her home in this
city after an illness lasting two weeks.
She was born in 1916 in Perry county,
Ohio, and at the age Of six years re-
moved with her parents to this state
and settled in Clayton county near
Export where she resided nearly thirty