Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-02
james Ma.hers is visiting at Cuba

MIR. and Mrs. G. U. Torrey have
gone south to spend the winter.
Mrs. l.. q. Rumsey, of Dyersyille
is visiting relatives and friends in this
city.
Hogan Bros. Il Richmond shipped
car of sheep to Vinton via. the NJ. & o.
Tuesday.
Mrs. p. S. Kell, of Des Moines, is
guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. d.
II. Young.
Rev. Smith will preach at the st.
Pauls Union church next Sunday after.
moor at $3.50.
DIR. and Mrs. John May, of lnde-
pendence, were Manchester visitors the
first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Nefzger, of
Bremen township, were shopping in
this city Saturday.
IS. S. Lawrence and neice, Miss Ida
Coleman, of Springfield, Illinois, went
to Monticello Tuesday.
MIR. Chas. Falconer, Of Ehler, re.
turned last Friday from visit to his
boyhood home in Scotland.
Mrs. L. G. Hallaron formerly of
this place, but now of Chicago is visit
Ing friends and relatives in this city.
The total receipts of the Delaware
county fair were something over So,
and the expenditures were about the
same amount.
ELIAS Pinch, Strand Elias Pinch, Jr.,
L. A. Metcalf, and j. NJ. Stewart de.
parted Tuesday for Wadena, Mimi, on
land inspecting trip.
Call at the Democrat office and pay
one. years subscription in advance and
get one of the new premiums it is CIV
ing to advance paying subscribers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alva johnson, of
Dubuque, came out from Dubuque
Saturday evening to attend the John
son-C hspel wedding which occurred
yesterday.
The blacktorn cane which F. N.
Beacon proudly carries, was presented
to him by Father O'Meres, who pro-
cured it in Ireland during his recent
visit there.
u. w. Leedy, the Prohibition
Evangelist for this district will give an
address at the st. Pauls church In
North Manchester on Friday evening,
October 4th.
The new residence of II. f. Arnold
on Butler Street which is rapidly near
ing completion, will when finished, be
one of the finest and most complete
dwellings In the city,
The fair association will be ready
to pay all premiums in full, on and
after Thursday October 3rd. AMI
premiums uncalled for within go days
will be considered donated to the
society,
Letters addressed to Miss May
Smith 2, Miss Joanna Fleming. Mrs.
L. A. Brownell, Mrs. Montford Twitty,
j. &. Ash, A. M. Collins, Z. E. Nc
Cloud, 7. Ryan, H.A. Slaughter, Thos.
Nixon, a. Paxton, A. j. Pearson, are
unclaimed at the post Office i'd this city.
The Sunday School and Ladies'
Aid Society OF the NJ. E. church will
run cheap excursion over the M. 81
o. and C.G. w. to Dubuque on Satur-
day, October IL, at the low rate of IS
cents for the round trip, and half fare
for children. The train leaves for Du-
buque at S:45, and returning leaves Du-
buque at 400 pm.
Larry Freeman recently sold his
eighty acre tract in Adams township to
Thomas Henderson, for $40 per acre.
1t is in section 25 and adjoins Mr..
Henderson's farm. In view of the fact
that there we're no buildings on the
land, it sold for very good figure, con
sldering the price other improved farms
have been selling for in this county.
-Prest. Leroy and Cashier Granger
of the First National Bank, have pur-
chased an adding machine, that does
its work with neatness, accuracy and
dispatch, and which will save the work
ing man of the concern much hard
labor. That is the way with bankers,
the only work they really enjoys re-
ceiving interest and exchange and
clipping the coupons off their bonds.
CD. Lemander, banker of Ban
croft, Iowa, has purchased herd of
buffaloes for breeding purposes. He has
secured two males from the Lincoln
Park commissioners, Chicago, and three
females from some place in Kansas, and
with these he will herd black Galloway
cattle. He will. not only raise the pure
buffaloee, but the cross, and the latter
will be not only for meat but for the
furs.
Mr.. Dan Livingston, for more than
sixty years resident of this vicinity,
died at the county horise, last Sunday,
and was buried in lakewood cemetery,
at Monticello, last Monday. Mr.. Living
ston was one of the pioneers of Jones
and Delaware counties. He came here
with the Red River emigrants about
1888, and lived in this vicinity, and also
in the neighborhood of Sand Spring, in
Delaware County, until he took up his
abode in the county house, year or two
ago. He was eighty years of age.-Mon.
ticello Express.
Last Saturday evening Rev. Father
O'Meara's parishioners and friends
gave him reception at st. Xaviers
convent school in honor of his return
from visit with home folks in Ireland.
E. M. Carr, on behalf of the assembled
guests, made short speech of welcome,
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