Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10
is now the order of the day

-R. r. Robinson returned Monday
from Stockton, Ill.
Grace Sheldon spent part of last
week in Waterloo.
Miss Mary Glissindorf is the guest
of Freeport friends.
Mics Emma Burch, of Ionia, Iowa.
is visiting friends in this city.
Mayor and Mrs. John Dolphin. of
Ryan, were shopping in this city Satur-
day.
-Adrain Guerney, of west Union
visited friends in this city part of last
week.
Miss May Walker, of Chicago, is
visiting relatives and friends in this
city.
Mrs. L. X. Hoag, of Iowa Falls was
q guest of friends in this city part of
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Healey, or Des
Moines, came up Monday to attend the
funeral of 1. A. Strngham.
Mrs. j. M. Morrissey, of Little
Rock, Arkansas, visited friends and
relatives in this city over Sunday.
Mrs. M.Mac Hogan visited sever
al days last week in this city, guest
at the Nix home on ayette street.
The regular semi-annual clearance
sale is now in progress at Burton
Clark's store. Particulars in his adver-
tisement.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra McKray, and Mrs.
l.. Madison, of Strawberry Point, were
guests at the Harley Everett's home
the Fourth.
MIR. and Mrs. A. o. Stranger, of Fal.
mouth, MASSACHUSETTS, are the guests of
Mrs. stanger's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. b.
M. Amsden.
Mrs. Frank Coleman, of westgate,
is visiting friends and relatives in this
city, a guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. q. b. Mills.
The statement of the Delaware
County State Bank In another column
shows that its popularity increases
with age. Its deposits now reach over
$4,000, or to be exact $419, S5S64.
q -J.B. Sawyer, of Yankton, South Da-
kota, is looking after his business mat
tiers here and will remain several weeks.
He intends to visit the Pan-American
exposition before he returns to Yank
;ton.s
The track of the M. & o. is laid
from Oneida into Acres addition, and
If not delayed by failure to secure the
rails contracted for, the engine will
reach the depot grounds here to-mor.
row or next day.
Considerable fear is being express
ed by many people here arising from
the alleged storage of dynamite in the
city. There certainly had ought to be
the same precautions taken by the coun-
Gil in regard to this matter as there lie
in regard to the storage of other ex-
piosives.
Cyrus Stoner has sold his 800 acre
farm in Delhi township to Harris Bros,
of North Fork township, for s53 90 per
acre. Mr.. Stoner bought the farm some
thirty years ago, paying therefor about
SIS. 90 per acre. He will sell his stock,
farming utensils, ETC., at auction some
day next week.
"A meeting of the prohibition club
Of Manchester is called for Friday even
ing, July 18th, at eight o'clock at the
Legion of Honor hall. A good attend
ance at the last meeting and an inter.
esting program rendered. All interest
ed in prohibition are cordially invited
to attend this meeting.
Charles Schultz, formerly OF Rich
land township, but for the past fifteen
years or more resident of Nebraska,
and extensively engaged in farming
near Grand Island, renewed old &C.
old acquaintances in Manchester last
Friday. Mr.. Schultz came here to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. Thomas
Houseman, which took place on Mon
day of last week.
The state convention of Iowa Chris
tian Endeavor Union will be held at
Cherokee, August 1929. More extern
siye preparations are being made this
year than ever before to make this
great gathering worthy of special atten-
ton and state wide attendance. Every
society is entitled to representation. 1t
should be remembered that the dates of
the convention are nearly two months
earlier than last year.
"A number of the young people from
Manchester spent Friday at Bixby Park
and on the way home becoming fright
ened at the gathering storm, they turned
and came here. Those we knew were
Norman Ackley, Allie Thorpe, Harry
Davis, Howard Smith, Asa Cunning
ham, Bradley Lillibridge, Herbert An
derson, Homer Davis, Gertrude Ander-
son, Esma Belknap, Ollie Tucker, Ethel
Young, Madge Pentony, Florence Heth-
erington, Maude Stringham, and Nell
misunderstanding Point Mail Press.
The Crop Bulletin for the week
ending July s, 1901 says: The weather
was exceedingly hot from the 1st to
the 9th, the heated period eliminating
IN q maximum temperature from 100
to l04 degrees at numerous stations on
the 4th inst. The intensity of the heat
was relieved to some extent by local
thunderstorms and wind squalls, from
the LIST to the 4th, and numerous sta.
lions in the southwestern and northern
districts report more than the normal
amount of rainfall. Probably three.
fourths of the state received fair
amount of moisture, but the intense
heat and high winds caused rapid evap.