Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-02


-"House cleaning hints" shor
essay by w. A. Abbott, in advertiser!
columns.
With every two pound package oil
Bakers Monaco coffee, pretty pictur.
is given free.
Voters of Manchester, prove you
loyalty to your home town by voting
for the railroad tax.
Mrs. Harriet E. Rollins and daugh
ter, Lillian, have gone to Dubuque ex
pecting to reside there in the future.
Father Clabby, formerly residen
of this vicinity and well.knownto man.
died here Monday at his home in Otte
Creek.
Not dollar of the railroad tax viii
become due, until the M. u. y. Railwa!
is fully completed from Manchester t
Oneida.
-"si Plunkard" was played to goot
sized audience at the Central Oper,
House Friday evening and gave good
satisfaction.
Mrs. W. A. Hayden, who has beel
visiting her sisters, Mrs. w. H. Hutch
inson and Mrs. j. B. Hoag, in this city
for several weeks past, leaves today TO
her home in Omaha. 2 $500
ID "a /.
Col. M. F. Leroy and L. a.. Douglas
represented the local ledge at the 8lst
anniversary meeting of the South East
ern Odd Fellows Association hsld a
Monticello last Thursday ie..
! a card has come to our desk an
nouncing the M. w. A. picnic which
will be held at Strawberry Point OF
May Gath. The program will be pub
llshed in later edition OF the Demo
crat. ,s.s
The construction of a new line Of
railway to Oneida will give employ
ment to many laboring men, mol alon
this year, but during all of the years tt
come. That Is one reason why labor
ing men are practicallya unit in sup
port of the railroad tax,
Advertised letters for the week end
ing April 80, 1900: Rebecca Still, Ell
ma Widenour, Miss Edith Littlefield
Miss Rosa Sage, Mrs. Louisa Sylvester
John Blake, Chas. Coates, P. Diamond
Charley Stone, U. A. Schneider, A. G
Smith, Peter Thlll, Nolan Washington
The Manchester voters, who mark
an x in the square opposite the word
eyes" on their ballots, will promote
the interests of their home city and
their own interests. Vote for Man.
chester next Monday, and be able to
say that you helped to turn the wheels
of progress.
In his letter, which we publish in
another column, Mr.. q. w. Miller gives
as one reason for the success of the Wa.
verify short line, the fact that "the road
is Waverly enterprise and our people
are of a peculiarly loyal kind" Will
not Manchester's short line be Man
chester enterprise? and are not Man
chester people as loyal to their town as
Waverly people2
This wednesday, evening. at the
home of the BRIDES mother, Mrs. Louisa
Cowell, takes place the marriage of Mist
Katherine Cowell to Edward r. Brown
The bride is one of Manchester's most
excellent young ladies, and enjoys the
friendship of large circle of friends.
The groom holds q position in Gov.
Shaw's private office and is aiworthy
and exemplary young man. Mr.. and
Mrs. Brown will make their home al
Des Moines.
"A team of ponies belonging to VIM
Evans was the cause of considerable ex
element on the street Saturday after
noon. The team, which was hitched IN
an alley, became frightened at some
thing and breaking their fastenings ran
away. Their course lay north on Frank
lin street as far as Hoyt's barn, where
they became entangled in vehicle anc
were thus brought to halt. The horsei
escaped injury, but the buggy and har.
ness were badly demolished.
Monday evenings Dubuque Globe
Journal contained an announcement t.
the effect that railroad from Colesbure
to Dyersville was an assured fact, If tn,
right of-way could be secured by tn,
Colesburg company. The people O
Colesburg deserve railroad, but it Il
an unkind fate which trends its lines to
ward Dyersyille instead of toward tn,
county seat of their county. A direc
railroad connection with Colesbur,
would be warmly welcomed in Man
chester, while the people of Dyersville
we understand, are anything but enthu
siastic over the enterprise.
james q. Carney, the well-known II
linois Central railroad conductor, die,
suddenly Sunday morning at his HON
in Dubuque. He was one Of the oldes
railway conductors on the road, havinl
been in the employ of the Central 70
over thirty-fiye years. At the time b
was compelled to quit the road, he wa
running the passenger between Man
chester and Cedar Rapids and had it nc
been for illness he would have been Civ
en- run on the main line when th
change was made last February. Il
was very popular among his fellow trail
men and held in high esteem by th
road officials. ~ &9is'
The little son of Joseph Lang
hammer, who lives about one and one
half miles east Of this city, was the vic
tim Of q painful accident .Saturda,
afternoon. In company with an olde
brother he was cleaning up the rub
bish about the yard. A bonfire hat
been started and the boys were using
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