Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-12-26
TELEPHONE 1874.


WEDNESDA DEC. 26. 1900
TELEPHONE 1874.
Jack Tucker is home for Christmas.
Alvin johnson and wife were Due
buque visitors last week Saturday.
-Mert Brown came home last week
and will spend the holidays with his
family.
Miss Minnie Young, of Ryan, was
in the city Tuesday shopping and visit
ing with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Blanchard, Of
Edgewood, shopped in Manchester last
week Wednesday.
Art Ludley, Lamont's popular har-
ness maker, was in the city last week,
the guest of relatives and friends.
''Kalamity" Thorpe makes q sug
gestion to gift buyers who may have
overlooked some one of their friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Tucker were
both confined to their rooms last week
BY illness. They are conyalescing at
this writing.
John, Henry, and Ethel Loban de.
parted Saturday for Silver Creek to
spend their holidays with their grand
mother in that place. s5 m 81
Mr.. and Mrs. Hart, Of Freeport,
Illinois. will eat their Christmas dinner.
with Mrs. Harris parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
D. B. Allen, in this city.
What more suitable New Years
gift could you make your married son
or daughter than q subscription to the
Democrat for the first year in the new
century.
The children Of our city are very
msrry for no school bell rings to urge
them to q round of duty and then Santa
will be here tonight and tomorrow will
be Christmas day.
David Beehler surprised his parents
and friends on last Friday evening by
stepping in upon them, when they had
supposed he would remain in Chicago
through the holidays.
Uncle Dick Stewart and wife are
entertaining Lumsn Wakeman, of Ster-
ling, Illinois, this week. Mr.. Wakeman
has been visiting in Kingston, this state,
and is enroute home.
john Strain, who is an attendant at
Owatonns, Minnesota, College, was
Saturday morning arrival in this city
from where he departed for the home of
his parents near Masonville.
-Mre. T. w. Kinzie, of Belvidere,
Illinois, is in the city, aguest in the Ar
drew Abbott home. Mrs. Kinzie and
Mrs. Abbott are sisters. She expects to
remain for some three weeks or more.
Mrs. Emma Dixson, of Marshalltown,
who has been visiting in the home of
Mrs. j. w. Martin for sometime past,
and Miss Lydia Ray, who is making
her home in the same place, spent Sat-
nrday last In Cedar Rapids
Mrs. r. j. Roche requests us to ex-
tend her sincere thanks to the members
of the Modern Woodmen Lodge and
the many friends who rendered her aid
and assistance during the illness, and
after the death of her husband.
Remember that Manchester will
meet Independence on the indoor grid
iron at Central Opera House on New
Years afternoon. Both teams have
beaten Waterloo and it is presumed that
the game will be more than ordinarily
interesting.
The statement of the Delaware Coun.
ty State Bank in this, issue is the best,
we believe, ever made by this old, time
tried and always reliable institution.
Its deposits verge close onto $3.50, 600,
and its total assets are nearly half a
million dollars.
Ben Mathers, who has been manag-
or Of Allen s. Storey clothing store in
Lamont, visited two days the first of the
week with his parents here. Henry
Prowse, an employe of the home firm
here, took Mr.. Mather's place in Lamont
during the latter's vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Grassfeld de-
parted Monday evening for Marion
where they will spend Christmas day
with Mrs. Grsssfield's mother. Peter
expects to return Wednesday evening
or Thursday and Mrs. Grasslield will
continue her visit to the end of the week.
The Burton Comedy Company list
ed to appear at Central Opera House this
week was compelled to cancel its date
here on account of an agreement had
with Marion opera house to appear in
that city, which agreement they had
supposed was not to be met This was
disappointment to not few of the
pleasure seekers In Manchester. |
Last Wednesday afternoon while
Mr.. and Mrs. F. &C. Hall who reside
about three miles northwest of this
city, were in Manchester shopping
their farm home was totally destroyed
by fire. Nearly the whole of their
household effects also went up in
flames. Mr.. and Mrs. Hall reached
home at little after four on that after
noon, the first they knew of the con
flagration being thor sight of the
blackened and desolate looking chin
ney stacks. The origin of the fire is a
mystery at this writing, no one being
In the house at the time of its starting
and no kitchen fires having been kept
upduring the family's absence. Mrs.
WillsRaus, neighbor, twas the first to-
discover the burning house and with
what assistance she could summon, she
got some of the furniture out, but was
unable to save but little. The loss is
fully $4,000 with an insurance Of $l1OO.
Judge William Toman, who was