Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-06-27
TELEPHONE 1874.

Try. Newcomb WAS at Arlington
last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Goodwin are
visiting in Chicago.
Mrs. Sarah Grant is very Ill at her
home on the west side.
The Manchester Lumber Co., has a
Laughing adv. this week.
Hugo Crasser is enjoying weeks
vacation with friends in Chicago.
Rev. H. w. Tuttle went to Dies
Moines the first of the week on bust
ness.
Miss Julia Stone went to Chicago
Sunday morning for visit of week
or more.
Gregg 4 Ward are serving health
full, cool and refreshing summer drinks
/, to their patrons.
e. w. kirkpatrick, of the cold
storage plant, transacted business in
Independence Monday.
Miss Bernice Mccormick returned
home Sunday from Arlington, where
she has been for several weeks.
Miss Gertrude Clemans has re-
turned home from Mt. Vernon, where
she attended Cornell College last term.
Mrs. Il. s. Doolittle, of Sioux City,
is visiting In this city at the home of
her mother inflow, Mrs. M. A. boo
little.
Joseph Bagge, of Petersburg
transacted business at the county seat
Saturday and was welcome caller at
this office.
-Chas. Buck, who has been attend
ing school at Beloit, VISIT past year,
arrived home last Monday morning to
spendthe summer.
Frank johnson, formerly resident
here, now travelling salesman for
Chicago firm, is visiting friends and
relatives in this city.
Rev. H. o. Pratt is in Dubuque
this week attending the 3lst semi-an-
nual conference of the M. E. ministers
of the Dubuque district.
&C. w. Fishel, who is mail clerk on
the Northwestern's fast mail train, is
visiting here at the home of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Fishel.
The Dubuque Lodge of Elks will
hold picnic today "wednesday at
Twin Springs and a number of the
members here expect to attend.
The Y. p. G. U. of the U. B.
church will serve Ice cream and cake on
the church lawn Wednesday evening,
June 81. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all.
Marriage licenses were issued dur
the past week to o. d. Fosburg, of st.
Joseph, Missouri, and Miss Edith L.
Colyer, of Hopkinton and VIM.
Kuehnle and Anna Lutge, of Earl
Vile.
Mrs. w. F. Daniels, OF Jennings,
La, visited here on Monday with her
friend, Mrs. N. S...Craig. She departed
the same day for Cedar Rapids, where
she will spend the summer with
daughter who resides there.
We are requested to announce that
all money and supplies sent to India
for relief purposes will be carried by the
express companies free of charge and
Agent Doolittle is instructed to receipt
for all packages sent from this place.
-Chas. Thorpe and Edw. Burns
went to Chicago last Sunday afternoon
with three cars of fat steers and one
car of hogs. The live stock was raised
on Mr.. Thorpe's farm three miles north
of Masonville, of which Mr.. Burns is
foreman.
Rev. 1. NJ. Gibson, who is spending
the summer on farm near Greeley,
was an agreeable caller at this office one
day last week.. Mr.. Gibson is well
known in many parts of the country,
especially in Nebraska, as a forceful
orator and popular public lecturer.
Vim. Cooking who lives two miles
northwest of this place, has bunch of
sheep that proved very profitable this
year. He has sixteen ewes from which
he raised twenty-eight lambs. The
lambs were recently marketed at three
dollars each and the wool from the
ewes brought $1.25 per fleece. The
average yield per eve this season was
$3.50.
-Ice-cold water is not SO good as
iced water-that is, water cooled by ice
without coming in contact with it. The
less of either the better. 1t is an ex
eellent practice to drink water-an
abundance of it-just before retiring,
also the first thing in the morning. 1t
is q cleanser of the system, and is q
good diuretic. July Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Bishop Telephone Company
began work Monday morning con
structing new metallic circuit tele
phone line between Manchester and
Dubuque. Upon its completion the
company will construct similar line
between here and Waterloo. This is 9
welcome improvement because local
telephone rates are liable to take {
tumble as soon as the new line is II
operation. The present charge be
tween here and Dubuque is &c., which
will probably be reduced to 25c. by the
Bishop company.
The Canadian Jubilee Singers will
appear In Manchester on the evening
of July 4th under the auspices of thu
Ladies Aid Society of the Congrega
tional church. They come highl.
recommended as troupe of artists
and should be greeted by larg'
audience. The st. Louis Globe. Demo
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