Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-12-05

CHE democrat,
WEDNESDAY, DEC 8, 1900.
TELEPHONE 1874.
Henry Funke, one of Colony's most
prosperous farmers, was pleasant call.
OF in our city last Saturday.
There is q tip in Judge Seeds letter
on second page that those interested in
the public library should profit by.
The Sunshine club will meet in
festive array this week Friday evening
with Mr.. Will and Miss Georgia
Graham.
Everyone is anticipating real
treat in the hearing of "What Hap
pened to Jones" to be put on at Central
Opera House tonight, Wednesday.
Bradley Lillibridge and Hunt
Armstead, attendants of the Cedar
Rapids Business College, came home
for the Thanksgiving vacation return
ing Monday to school duties.
DIR. @. L. Leigh spent Thursday
with his parents in Dyersville. A we'll
filled basket of jolly good things to eat
accompanied the doctor and we trow
they helped make up sumptuous din
ner.s
There Is very slluring induce
ment to the trade, offered in Austin
Browne I'd. this week. The whole is
good honest reading and in this time of
holiday preparation it will pay everyone
TO look up.his column elsewhere in this
issue.
David Beehler, of the Chicago Art
School. has made the Library board and
the Charley's Aunt Company deeplyhis
debtor BY furnishing beauty poster
heralding the coming event. The same
can be seen in the window of Welcome
Abbott's drug store.
Mr.. and Mrs.rW q. Blake enter
tanned the new duplicate whist organi-
cation last Friday evening, 9 change Of
evening occurring because of the
Thanksgiving ball at Pythisn Castle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Hamblin and Clark
Day were substitutes for members I'M
able to attend.
Emory Newton left Tuesday of
this week FOR Independence, where he
has been appointed to the position of
assistant secretary of the Y M. G. A.
Mr.. Newton is we'll qualified for the
duties and will no doubt make sue
{ cess of the work. He was chosen from
. list of over twelve candidates for the
position.
Married, in Chicago. November
18th, Mr.. E. Coils and Miss Ella Pen
tony. Mr.. Coils was recently en-
ployed here BY the Manchester Electric
Light Company but now is working in
the street-car machine shops in Chicago
and there the newly welded couple will
live. Mrs. Coils has always lived here
and her many friends will wish for her
oil of sunshine and none of shadow.
"A tender hearted woman living in
Waterloo hit upon novel and simple
method of Kidding her house of rats.
Her sensibilities revolving at the idea of
steel-trap, she filled tub half full of
water, and poured half q bushel of oats
upon the surface. This she placed in a
room frequented by the pests. On
making an examination q short time
afterwards, she found twenty.eeyen
victims had been ,dro wned by the de-
vice.-Rockford Register.
The following is q little boys YER
sion of dads breeches: when dad has
worn his trousers out they pass to bro
ther John: then ma turns them round
about and William puts them on.
When Williams legs so long haye
grown, the trousers fail to hide them
then Walter claims 'em for his own and
styles himself inside en-. Next Sans
fst legs they close invest and when
they won't stretch no tighter they're
turned and shortened washed and
pressed and fixed on me-the writer,
Ma worked them into caps and rugs
when l bust out the stitches. At
doomsdsy we shall see (perhaps) the
last of dads old breeches."
The society editor Of the Indepen-
dence BuIletin-.Journal has ingeniously
figured out the following, which We
clip from the last issue Of that paper
To the members of the various card
parties to be organized and reorganized
during the coming season, the follow
ing will prove of. interest: A pack con-
sists of fifty-two carda, the number of
weeks in year. There are four suits.
the number of weeks in a month. On
counting the spots on pack of cards /
find that they total up to the exact
number Of days in year. The twelve
court cards may be said to represent
the twelve months. There are thirteen
tricks in q pack, the number of weeks
IAN asanarter. No wonder that cards
are called an ingenious device of kill
ing time.
"A Missouri poet, whose love for
the Ilisd is equaled only by his praises
for Missouri, wrote the following: "Mis-
souri,, heaven bless her from Nodsway
to Pike, from Stone to Clark and Atch-
ison and all the rest alike. She has
vineyards in the Ozsrks and blue grass
on the Grand, while the winding crock
ed Muddy runs through the richest
land. She has the tall6st women the
world has ever met, and the hest long
green "terbacker" that was ever in the
sweat. On the hills the COWS are graz
Ing that no country can surpass, and
the latest hogs are grunting in the
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