Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-10

: carnival days was rushing business
last week. Wednesday fifty ticket
were sold here, Thursday an increase il
recorded, there being seventy-seven
Friday being Roosevelt day at Wate,lot
, and Cedar Rapids both, the Manches,el
delegation was necessarily divided
seventy-seven going to Cedar Rapids
4 and seventy-four to Waterloo. A few
there are who intended to go to Water
loo but through the mistake of getting
!. on the wrong train they had the annoy
r ance of watching their train rush. round
the bend without them.
The many friends in this city OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Will T. Keyes, who went
to Sherman, Texas, year ago, will be
/ pleased to hear that they have recently
moved into a home of their OVID, fact
denoting their prosperity. They also
write that they enjoy the best of health
J and with these two blessings content.
ment is natural sequence. Mr.. and
Mrs. II. F. Whitney expect to leave
some time during November to spend
the winter with their daughter in the
new Keyes cottage.
B. f. Miles, assistant cashier of the
First National Bank, went to Jackson
Vile, lllinoia, last Wednesday for q
visit with friends. We are creditably
informed that Ben went to see his wife
though we want it distinctly understood
we do not say this as, our evidence is
purely hearsay.
Quo Vadis played to fair sized
audience at Central Opera House last
Friday evening. The company were
not able to place any of their special
scenery, but as actors they well sus.
tanned their parts and the play as
whole was enjoyable.
-Anders s. Philip had natural
curiosity in their show window last
week. An ordinary enough looking
stick of wood had mushrooms growing
on it, pure white in color and of such
form as to resemble lilies. They were
really very beautiful.
--Jno. Jetfries, of Forestville, Jno.
Fober jr. and wife and Miss Laura Lind
say, of near Dundee, were among those
who attended the carnival IN the Parlor
City on Wednesday.
The many friends of DIR. and Mrs.
w. B. Sherman are delighted to see
then back home from their two months
sojourn at their summer cottage on
Lake Erie.
Mrs. w. Walker and daughter, who
are guests in Mayor Steadman's pleas
ant home, expect to return to their
Nebraska home the latter part of this
week.
Mrs. Geo. s. Lister departed Mon
day morning for Grinnell, where she
will visit her son, Clarence and daugh-
ter, Florence, who are in Iowa COL
lege.
The Y. z. q. u, of the U. B.
church will give social at the home
Of Miss Myrtle Smith evening, October
18th. Light refreshments ten cents.
B. B. Briggs and wife went to Cedar
Rapids last Wednesday, morning and
remained until Saturday visiting friends
and seeing the carnival elepnuus. I
"A number of the working young
men of Manchester took in the sights
at the Rapids Friday evening, return
ing on the midnight special.
Miss Alice Pemble departed Mon
day for La Porte City in which place
and Waterloo she will visit friends for
the ensuing three weeks.
Vernon Sabin, who came recently
to work on the Delaware County News,
departed last week for his former home
in Austin, Minnesota.
Fathers Farley, Denison, and Roe,
Strawberry Point, visited with Rev.
Father O'Mera on their way home from
Dubuque last week.
e. j. Conger jr. went to Independ-
ence Thursday evening, going from
there to Waterloo Friday with the indie
pendence band,
Miss Sarah Ward is visiting her
brother, John Ward, in Carbondale,
Illinois. She expects to remain q week
or two.
Mrs. VIM. Cattron returned to her
home in Waterloo Saturday after q
pleasant visit with friends in Manches-
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. b. Hoag and Mrs.
Sydney and Miss Eunice Lawrence were
Cedar Rapids carnival visitors last week.
Harry Stewart has neat log cabin
in his window, representative of Towle's
Log Cabin maple syrup which he sells.
Mrs. Nell Priest is visiting her
brother, Jack Priest, in Waterloo. She
expects to be gone about three weeks.
e. w. Fairchild had business at
the branch office of the Manchester
Lumber Company in Ryan Friday.
MIR. and Mrs. o. 9. Clark and
daughter, Miss Edith, were Cedar
Rapids carnival visitors Friday.
-Ashmore Kennedy went to Cedar
Falls Thursday to play with the band
of that city at Waterloo Friday.
Mrs. VIM. Durey and daughter,
Miss linda, returned the last of the week
from short visit in Chicago.
There will be a sociable in Milo
township tonight as announced in
another column.
1 Mrs. H. F. Whitney visited her
daughter, Myrtle, in Cedar Rapids
Thursday last.
Il oondlv numhor of toachoro took