Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-19
CLARK b. Day is visiting relatives

--Clark d. Day is visiting relatives
here.
r. w. Chambers this week quotes
prices on honest foot wear for men and
boys.
M. X. Brown is reported seriously
ill at Richmond, Indiana. His wife is
with him.
MIR. and Mrs. w. S. Beals of the
Hopkinton Leader were over Sunday
guests of friends here.
John Tierney, Of Deadwood, South
Dakota, is visiting with relatives and
acquaintance in this city.
Mrs. p. j. Roche will leave for
Council Bluffs this week to spend the
summer with her sister there.
The marriage of Miss Ethel Seeds
and Hugo Won Oven will be solemnized
at the congregational church this even
ing.
The Manchester Band have under
consideration the advisability of giving
an open air concert one evening each
week during the summer.
C. B. Beverage at one time clerk Of
the courts of this county is now resi-
dent ofAuburn, Nebraska, and is clerk
of the district court of Nemaha county.
"A flock Of "The Doves" of this city
went to Strawberry Point Saturday
where they were entertained by
Mrs. Byron Bronson in honor of Miss
Ethel Seeds.
Mrs. q. H. Day, of Des Moines Wis
tied relatives here from Saturday until
Monday, when she left for Chicago
where she will be the guest of the
family of her brother Henry several
days.
The Misses Della Miller, Faye Ford,
Kate Ford. Fannie Haeberle, Sue Wood
and Ruth Graham, and Clarence Yoran,
Bert Matthews and Earl Toogood, are
home from school to spend the summer
vacation.
"A. Funk, of Edgewood, returned
Saturday from South Dakota where he
spent the past six weeks, improving his
farm located near Armour. He says
crops In Douglass and the other coun.
ties that he was in look very promising.
"A. N. Smith and H. W. Lawrence
left yesterday for Hot Springs, S. OAK,
where they go to obtain treatment for
rheumatism with which both are aflliot-
ed. Mr.. Smith took treatment there
about year ago and was greatly bene-
fitted thereby.
Letters addressed to Miss Carrie
Smith, Mrs. Nell Stewart Geo. Bevan,
j. G. Bartholomew, G. Conger, A. W.
Cords, Mike McDouald, A. b. Kinney,
Clinton Williams and Fred II. Will
liams jr. are advertised as uncalled for
at the post office in this city.
The members of the M. E. church
and Sunday School will hold a picnic in
Collins Grove next Friday afternoon.
They start from here at o'clock in the
morning and conveyances will be sup
piled for those who have no way to go.
Every one is invited to attend.
John Grant, of -Faribault, Mimi,
has the contract for laying the steel and
ballasting the NJ. & O. Ry. He has
contracted to have the main line COM
pleted by July End, and, being one of
the most responsible contractors in the
country, he will undoubtedly have the
line In running order on the 4th.
Manager Fox, of the Postal Tele-
graphs Des Moines Office, was in Man
chester last Saturday on business con-
nected with the establishment of an
office for his company in this city. It
is more than probable that the Postal
Telegraph Co. will operate line in con-
nection with the M. & o. Ry., and that
will give Manchester competition in the
telegraph business.
The ladies societies of the Congre-
gational church will hold cooking
school in the church basement June 25
to 20 inclusive. The first day lessons
will be given, on soups and vegetables;
the second, meat and salads; third, des-
sert, cake and breakfast dishes; the
lessons for the fourth day have not yet
been decided upon. Fifty cents will be
charged for one lesson, 8 lessons 81,
and four lessons $1.25.
Board sidewalks are very expensive,
and no one who cares to economic will
invest in them. While the first cost of
cement walks is more than those made
of boards or planks, the permanent
walks are far the cheapest in the long
run. The large number of cement
walks laid and now being laid in this
city shows that property owners here
realize that permanent sidewalk is q
paying because saving) Investment.
Mrs. A. E. Anderson, of Oelwein,
will give her lecture "My Trip to Paris
at the Golden Congregational Church
Friday evening June 2sth. Mrs. An.
derson who is well known in this county
will be remembered as an interest.
ing writer and easy speaker and her
lecture is highly spoken of. Come and
enjoy rare treat. There will also be
q few selections of music, Exercises