Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-11
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WEDNESDAY'JULY II, 1900
Another nice rain yesterday.
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Another nice rain yesterday.
--Grassfield Bros. advertise a special
sale of shoes and slippers
Austin Brown has returned from 9
weeks visit at Beatrice Nebraska.
II. o. Pratt, .Jr., will lead the Y
M. g. A. mems meeting next Sunday
Noble Arnold has q new cement
sidewalk in front of his residence on
Howard street.
-Scharles, the tailor and gents fur.
nisher is still Offering hats at cost. lie
is bound to sell EN-.
-Chas Noble left Monday morning
for business trip to McGregor and
different points in Wisconsin.
Hon. w. H. Norris is at Spirit
Lake this week attending the grand
lalgeof the Knights Templar.
Elias Benson, of Elgin, Fayette
county, was the guest of his brother, A,
Benson, of Forostville part of last
week.
Mrs. A. Loop suffered stroke Of
apoplexy last Thursday evening at her
home in this city. She is improving
rapidly.
y. w. Strain & Sons, of Masenville,
Iowa, have a change of ad in this is-
sue. Persons desiring driving horses
will be interested.
-Chas. Muclsler, of Dell Rapids,
South Dakota, visited friends here the
first of the week. He is now engaged
in the real estate business.
The Manchester Creamery Co. paid
for May milk, over $1,000. The aver.
age test for the month was 81, and The
average price rs cents per hundred
pounds.
MIR. and Mrs. L. A. Douglass are
again ready for business in their re-
Gently remodeled and now very pleas
ant and convenient rooms in the A. b.
Terrill building on Franklin street.
Miss Lena Robinson, who has been
spending a vacation of three weeks at
her home in this city, returned to Chi
cago last Sunday morning She is
studying to be q trained nurse at Gar
field Park Sanltarium.
Rev. A. King, who has been serving
as a guard at the Anamosa penilentary
for the past four or Ave months has,
with number of other guards, been
reaisssd from duty. Guess the Boasd
of Control are cutting down expenses
at that institution.
--Prowse Il Hetherington Of the
Clarence House stables are temporarily
keeping their livery stock in r.. r. Rob-
inson's stable on Main street. They
will at once commence the erection of
stables on their lot across the street
from their late location.
The directors of the Manchester
Light, Heat & Power Co. acted wisely
in selecting r. r, Robinson for secre-
tary and manager of the company. He
is rustler, and is in every way we'll
qualified to perform every duty as
signed him, and will do it.
The Sunday Y. M. @. A. meetings
are growing in interest and the attend
ance is growing larger each week. AT
the meeting last Sunday, led by State
Secretary Magee, there were not enough
seats to accommodate the crowd and
arrangements will be made to provide
seating room for all who attend. Every
one Is invited.
Harvey Mccormick arrived home
last Saturday evening from Des Moines
where he has been student at High
land Park College for the past year.
lie graduated from the department Of
stenography and type writing, receiving
the highest mark in his claes. His
friends here congratulate him on his
well earned honors.
"A farmer recently drifted into q
hardware store and VIII en- asked by the
manager: Don't you want to buy BIZ
cycle to ride around your farm? They
are cheap now. Cangiye you one for s35, .
answered, I'D sooner putS35 into COW"
"But think, said the manager, show
foolish you would look riding around
the farm on cow" ooh L don't know"
said the farmer, mo more foolish, per-
haps, than would look milking BIZ
cyele.'-Ex.
James Keegan died Wednesday of
last week at the home of his father,
John Keegan, on the West Side. He
had suffered with consumption for sew
eral months and his death was caused
by the rayages of that disease. He was
sixteen years old and his demise is
mourned by his friends and relatives.
The funeral services were held OF the
Catholic church on Thursday, Father
OMeara officiating. Interment was
made in the Catholic cemetery in this
city.
The enterprise and good Judgment
of the business men of this city is
state wide. In its issue of last week
the Marion Register says: "Mancbes-
ter is a good newspaper town. Its
meechants are alive to their own ip-
terests and spend more money twice
over every year than some other towns
with double its population, in adver,
Using. They want the trade of the
surrounding country and solicit it.
They want the trade of the people OF
their city and keep constantly calling
their attention to their stocks of goods
and their prices. In this way they
keep enough trade, which would other.
wise go)to Cedar Rapids and Dubuque
at home, to pay, and more than pay all
their advertising costs Them
Joe Swinburne, of the Earlyille