Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
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WEDNESDAY,, MAY. 90, 1900.
TELEPHONE NO. ,s4.


WEDNESDAY,. MAY. %, 1900.
TsLEPHoNEN isA.
II. T.. Ram went to Chicago Mon
day night on business.
Attorney w. II. Norris was at
Cedar Rapids, Monday.
A. w. Savage, of Ehler, was call
ing on friends here Saturday.
Miss Mary Satterlee is the guest of
friends in Waterloo this week.
Mrs. Geo. lIollenbeck returned
Monday from visit at Greeley.
j. M. Blteman, of Delaware, was
inthe city Thursday on business.
Miss Blanche Sherman visited rela.
tives at Greeley the first Of tho week.
Mrs. Will Wolcott returned last
week from visit of several weeks in
Chicago.
Frank Warren, of Dyersvillc, has
accepted position as night clerk at
the Clarence hotel.
Miss Idell Miles aud NIable Cum
bingham are convalescing from the
sore throat epid smic.
w. s. Jones went to Waterloo yes
terday to attend convention of the
uadertakers of the state.
Mrs. N. S. Craig and daughter,
Clara, returned yesterday from sew
eral days visit at Mt. Vernon.
u. w. Turley, of Masonville, Iowa,
is sick of appendicitis at the Central
House in this city Spencer Herald.
Harry Huene, q member Of the
clerical force at the Daylight Store is
unable to be at his work on account of
illness.
"A. Aollister and L. Matthews left
. Sunday evening for Covington, Tenn,
in the interest of the Hstchie River
Lumber and Stock Co.
Anyone desiring to purchase 100
feet of garden hose will be interested
In the local in another column, entitled
Garden Hose For Sale"
The Jones Mill Grange will meet
j. w. Taber, three miles north of this
city, at 10 o'clock q. M, the first Satur.
day In June. Picnic dinner.
DIR. ]. d. Miller was in the city
Thursday. The Doctor and his wife
were winter residents of Hammond.
La, and have just returned north.
Prof. Q. II. Bronson returned Friday
morning to his home in Chicago after
visit of over two weeks with relatives
and friends in Manchester and vicinity.
Miss Ella Pentony departed Mon
day evening tor independence, where
she has obtained position in the corps
of nurses at the Hospital for the In
sane.
The Junior Glass OF. the High
School, went to Blxby Park near Edge
wood, yesterday and spent the day
shaking off the worries of Geometry
and German.
The Womans' Relief Corps are re.
quested to meet at the home of Mrs
Rehecca Otis, Sunday, May q, at 10
am, to attend Memorial services at
the Baptist church.
Letters addressed to Miss Edith
Sheppard, Frank Coats jerome f. Law,
A. q. Lamb, j. H. Mccarthy, Is. John.
son, foreign) are advertised as unclaim.
ed at the postoffice.
The members of w. A. Morse Post
and all ex soldiers are requested to
meet at g. A. r. hall Monday, May 81,
at 10 q. M, sharp, to attend Memorial |
services at the Baptist church. Bring
Memorial badges.
"A party of twelve picniced at Messy
Glen, Monday. Hammocks, pillows,
lunch baskets, and all the necessaries of |
9 rattling good time were exported
with the crowd, and no doubt q jolly
day was spent by the young ladies and
gentlemen who were under the chsper-
onage of Mrs. P. E. Triem. Those in
the party were the Misses Elizabeth
Cheney, Jennie Holmes, Alice Russell,
Irene Stiles, Blanch Terril, and the
Messrs. Homer Davis, Will Friend,
Clyde Heath, E. w. Hosg, A. w.
Stearns and Paul Triem.
The ladies of the Tourist Club en-.
tertained their husbands and q few
other friends outside the charmed cir.
Gle, at six o'clock tea, Tuesday evening,
at the home of Superintendent and
Mrs. W. T. Wood, the afternoon having
been taken up by the election of next
seasons officers and by other business
attendant upon the final meeting of the
year. After delicious supper the
guests were entertained in the usual
charming Tourist manner, and that the
club is q success as hostess is evidenc
ed by the thorough enjoyment of all
present at this evening.
The revenue circus tax of 800
which was collected from the Jones
County Fair Association last fall upon
the grounds that the association was
presenting circus performance in its
list of special attractions, has been re-
funded less the am cunt Of the custom
airy fair tax, which Is about 81. The
fair officers paid the circus tax under
protest. District Collector Patterson
held that 1t had been justly collected,
and the fair promoters appealed the
matter to the Washington authorities.
During his recent visit to Washington,
Major s. s. Farwell laid the facts be-
fore Congressman Cousins. The latter
interested himself in the case with the
result that it was given consideration
by the proper officials. Collector Pat
terson's decision was reversed and the