Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-29
CHE Denrorrat.

Capt. j. L. Merry was in the city
Tuesday.
Mic Malven was Greeley visitor
Saturday.
Max Beehler and son, Charles, are
In Omaha this week. p
Miss Nellie Penny was Dubuque
visitor. over Sunday.
= Bob Fishel had business in Elgin,
Ill, Thursday of last week.
Mrs. Enoch Allen was an over Sun
day visitor in Masonyille.
Mrs. q. o. Clemans visited relatives
in Cedar Rapids over Sunday.
John Coffey, of Marion visited
relatives in this city over Sunday.
r. G. Kennedy and Fred Walker
were business visitors at Dyersville
Thursday.
Mrs. Arthur Dubois left Monday
for a, weeks visit with relatives at
Greene, Iowa.
Miss Fannie Oliver, of Omaha, is
the guest Of DR.. and Mrs. III. A. Dit
mer of this city.
Emmert Allison, of Cedar Rapids,
I wasa Manchester business visitor 9
few days last week. 4.
Twenty Thousand trout were ship
ped from the hatchery at this place to
Lansing, Iowa, Monday morning
Mesdsmes II. w. Wagner and G.
w. Mead are making weeks visit
with relatives and friends in Morrison,
Ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. F. Leroy are
spending few days visiting with Mrs.
LeRoy's cousin, A. r. Loomis, of Fort
Dodge.
Nv. E. Graham and w. II. Norris
will attend the Masonic Grand Lodge
to be held in Davenport the last of the
4 week.
The Nebraska Indians are billed to
play game of ball with the local asD
gregation on the home grounds Tues.
day, June IL.
Mrs. J. b. Rutherford returned
from Dubuque Friday. She was &C.
companied home by her daughter. Mrs.
Alva johnson.
Bradley LilIibridge returned home
Friday from Cedar Rapids where he
has completed the course in the Cedar
Rapids business College.
Mics Elva Durham departed last
Saturday for Iowa City to assume her
duties as Superintendent of the Homeo-
pathic hospital at that place.
IF. w. Budron of Dubuque is in the
city organizing Maccabee Lodge
here. Next Thursday fifteen
knights of that order will be in the
city to initiate members.
AT the sixth annual meeting Of the
Iowa State Womsn's Home Missionary
Society held in Cedar Rapids last week
Mrs. H. o. Pratt of this city was elect
ed president of the society for the ensu-
Ing year.
Mrs. +. w, Sears and two children
who have been the guests of her par
ents, DI. and Mrs. w. b. Sherman, for
/ the past six weeks returned Sunday to
their home in Cleveland. Ohio.
Letters addressed to Misses Lucille
Collins, Mary Ann Valycs, Alice E.
Waller, M, Nietert, and John Derr,
Sam'l p. Daniel, o. T.. Stevens and AL
Preston: are advertised as unclaimed at
the post Office.
The ball game between Elkader
and Manchester which was pulled off
at Edgewood last Thursday resulted in
victory for the local team by, score
of8to9. Brown pitched good game
allowing but five hits.
There will be q basket social at the
MCGEE school house Friday evening
May 81 for the benefit of the school IL
brsfy. Ladies please bring baskets
Program will begin at eight o'clock,
Everybody cordially invited.
AT q revival in Coatsburg man
arose and said he was the wickedest
man in Coatsburg, and when he died he
would 60 straight to hell. Immediate.
ly an old deacon started the hymn, "If
you get there before do, look out for
me, Pm coming too" And then the
deacon wondered why everybody laugh
ed.
The grading on the NJ. 81 o. Ry. is
nearly finished. If the weather contin.
ues favorable it will be practically com
pleted by the end of this week. The
ties are being hauled out and placed
along the roadbed where they will bt
used. All materials necessary for the
completion of the road have been pur
chased, and it now looks as though
trains would be running by the LIST Of
July.
Miss Pearl Pierce, one of the teach.
ers at the Cedar Falls State Norma
School, spent Sunday with her parent
in this city. Miss Pierce's work ha
been Unsatisfactory to the Board 0
Trustees, that when she tende red he
resignation to take effect at the end O
this school year, it was not accepted
The Board compromised with Mis-
Pierce, by granting her years leave Q
absence and then elected her tor th
year following.
The Denver Post says the youn
man afflicted with the base ball Graz
talks of ball all through the day, b
dreams of ball at night; his yells in vi
ions of the game fill hearers wit
alright! "Now, swat 'er, Casey! Breal
'er facet Cut loose an bust 'er hid
Now, git therel Pat the ground, yo
chump! Say, wasn't that slide"
wakes at dawn sweat oozing out fro