Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-18
AL Myers is at home from Water

the State University at Iowa City.
Fred Oelson, of Waterloo, was q
Manchester visitor last Thursday.
Mrs. r. II. Paul, of Des Moines,
was guest of friends here last week.
Mrs. G. w. Sanborn is visiting at
her old home in Watervilie, Vermont.
BE sure and arrange your matters
so as to attend the Delaware county
fair.
james Mather was an Independ-
ence business visitor Wednesday of last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. F Hamlin have re-
turned from their visit at Gunnison,
Colorado.
"A. r. Sullivan, of Iowa Falls, Wis
tied relatives and friends IN the city
last week.
Mrs. Eugene Andrews was the guest
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Hogan,
last week.
Elder Bros. have bought out the
livery business of Michael Msroney at
Masonville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Clemans are
taking in the sights of the Pan-Ameri-
can exposition.
Il. J.Doo!ittle, of Sioux City,was the
guest of his brother, Allison Doolittle,
one day last week.
Miss Kate Ford returned to Mt.
Vernon Saturday to resume her studies
In Cornell College.
Mrs. .Romansa Reynolds, of Ft
Dodge is visiting friends and relatives
in Richland township.
Miss Bess Williston departed last
Friday for Oberlin, Ohio, to resume her
studies in Oberlin College.
Mrs. Elizabeth Trumbull, of Spo-
kane, Washington, was a guest last
week of Mrs. Chas. Thorpe.
The many friends of Mr.. o. Well
man will regret to learn Of his serious
illness at his home in Masonville.
Bert Simpson returned Monday
from Usage, where he went to attend
the fair held at that place last week.
The Misses Grace and Faye Ford en-
tertained few of their friends at a
chatting dish party last Friday evening.
-Cbristy Smith, of Adams, spent
paat of Monday at the county seat. He
was on his way to Oelwein via. the M.
g. o.
M. F. Reardon and John Foley, of
Carbondale, Illinois, have for several
days past been the guests Of relatives
here.
Maurice Msroney has disposed of
business interests in Masonville and
gone to Cherokee with the view of 10
eating there.
Theron Coon completed the com
mercial course at Bayless Business Col
llege, Dubuque, last week and received
his diploma.
Secretary Bishop will be at the
court house che Saturday and Monday
before the opening of the county fair,
to receive entries.
"A chicken pie supper will be given
at the Methodist church on Friday
evening Sept. Goth. Everybody invited
Will begin serving at $50.
Mrs. II. A. Won Oven and her sister
Miss Bertha Seeds, went to Iowa City
Monday, the former to visit friends fol
q few days, the latter to become stu
dent in the State University.
Frank Belknap has gone to Ann Ar
Dor, to enter the University of Michi
gan, for four years law course. HI
was accompanied by his mother, whit
inteEds to rent dwelling and remove
her family there to reside temporarily
| "A. M. Sherwood has made severs
Improvements in the store and oflic,
building recently purchased by him o
Capt. Merry, which will make it mucl
more convenient and pleasant for tn
occupants, Noble Arnold, and Co
Jewell.
4 "A new fakir is abroad in the rura
regions. He drives through the countr
and sells soap worth So q box, whic
sum includes the price of forty yards Q
carpet, selected from samples which b
: has in his wagon. He takes the 81
: leaves the box of soap, promises to d.
: liver the carpet of the selected sampl
within a week and drives away. Tt
3 soap is worth probably SO cents.
stays with the purchaser. The carp'
is worth SIS. 1t stays with the faki
and has never been delivered to sing
victim. Farm families should be Q
= their guard against the new fakir, ar
Il against all other fakirs.-Ex.
An associated press dispatch frol
st. Joseph, Mo-, yesterday states Il
o following: Twenty years ago the
mysteriously disappeared from b
home in Manchester, Iowa, Micha
d Stone, prominent railway conductt
Q who was then past 60 years of age. +
n had family of grown children 81
4 they spent large sums of money
], searching for him. He was given ,
If for dead many years ago. The body
Michael Stone lies on marble slab
!. undertaking rooms here. He died
1, = the poor farm yesterday, where he b
= been an inmate for two years. He "
II identified by an accident. Hopkint
: Leader.
v by the death of Mrs. J. s. Hu
b. last Wednesday, this county loses o
III of its first settlers. She was born
to Wayne county, Indiana, October
IS, 1918. When seventeen years of q
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