Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-12-25
GI)e T)eulorrat.
" Wednesday, DEC. %, 1901.
TELEPHONE 1874.
Christmas.

N Saturday.
R. r. Robinson was Masonyille
visitor Thursday.
Lee Bronson spent Sunday at the
nome OF his parents in this city.
CLARK B. Day, of Chicago, is spend
Ing the holidays with relatives in this
4 city.
I MIR. and Mrs. M. j. Yoran are The
guest of the latter's parents at Traer,
Iowa.
Jos. Hutchinson made business
trip to Marshalltown the latter part of
last week.
Y Ernest Briggs and Harry Hilton, Of
Dundee, were Manchester business yisl.
tors last Friday.
Mrs. b. III. Reynolds and Mrs. A.
y Baker are spending the winter at
Hammond Louisiana.
Claude Austin, of Austin, Mimi,
IS spending the holidays in this city
with relatives aud friends.
MI. and Mrs. Sherman Harris en-
tertained a number of their friends ut
six O'Clock dinner last Wednesday.
"A. ID, Brown announces that The
special holiday sale will continue at his
furniture store for several days more.
II. 5. Amsden is home from Med.
ford, Wisconsin, to spend the holidays
with friends and relatives in this city.
a. Funk, of Edgewood, hasa mum.
J Der of thoroughbred Durhams for SALE
See notice Durham Cattle for Sale" in
another column.
Mrs. Ed Honon, of Des Moines,
Is visiting friends and relatives in this
city G guest at the home of her mother,
Mrs. Eta A, Coon.
The ladies of the NJ E. church will
hold reception at the church next
Wednesday evening. Everyoneis cord
tally invited to attend.
Every member of The Royal Neigh
bors Camp, is requested to be present
at the next meeting, Jan, 1901. Come!
bring your lunch basket and your
family and have q Royal time.
Alton Durham was pleasantly eur
prised by party of twenty four Of his
friends last Wednesday evening The
guests'brought baskets with them and
q pleasant time was enjoyed by those
present.
Noah was one of the earliest adver-
tisers. He advertised that he would
sail on a certain date. Those who did
MT believe in advertising failed to get
tickets and We're left in the wet during
\ the forty days rain without umbrellas
or bathing suits. AS most of them
could not swim it is thought they took
to the trees and became monkeys. Eek.
VIM Ryan has bought from Geo.
w. Durham the latter's fifty acre tract
on Main street being part of the An
son Sheldon farm. He had some months
before bought the forty acre adjoining
his recent purchase on the west, on
which he has made some nice improve
ments. He has rented his old home
: farm and lives on the one recently &C.
CURED ty him.
The following officers have been
elected to take charge of the Royal
Neighbcr goat for the ensuing year,
Oracle; Mrs. Aiola Dutton, Vice
Oracle; Ola Ednunds, Chancellor;
Mary Briggs, Recorder; alice Scott,
Receiver: Stella Bell, Marshall; Anna
Lippert, Inner Sem; Nettie Confare,
Outer SEN; Carrie Mitch, Manager; +.
i. Forester, Camp Phys; DR.. Lindsay
An exchange says that "e'' is the
most unfortunate letter in the English
alphabet, because it is never in cash
and always in debt and never out of
danger. Our exchange forgets that
the aforesaid letter is never in war but
alwsy in peace. tits the beginning of
existence, the commencement of ease
and the end of trouble. Without it
there would be no meat, no bread, no
life, no gospel, no Jesus, no heaven.
A man in the northern part of the
state is ra,s'2g chickens and obtaining
money under false pretenses lie made
his coop air tight and put curtains at
the windows. At noon he draws the
I curtains making the hen house perfect
ly dark, SO that the bddies go to roost,
and one o'clock he raises the curtains
letting the light in The hens think
another day has dswned and proceed to
lay another egg 1t is darn mean
trick, equal to the man who put green
spectacles on his horse and then fatten-
ed it on rye straw The green spec
tacles made the poor horse think it was
hay.-Ex.
According to the Democrat Man
chester has got more Improvements
than she wants Greeley Home-Press.
There has never appeared in the Demo.
crat word that would warrant the
Home Press in making the above state
ment. Manchester wants all the im-
provements that it can get, and while it
is the finest, neatest, weaIthiest, thrift
est and best city of its size Il the state,
its wide awake citizens are all the
while exerting themselves for its fur
n ther improvement, and will not rest
easy until they add TO what Manchester
already has. many other Industries and
Improvements, some of which were
enumerated in the list of its wants stat
ed in last weeks Democrat. Manches-
ter now has many of the advantages of
the larger cities, minus their dlsadyan-
4 tages, and the seeker after an urban
home should not pass it by.
The Wetmore Tobacco Company
4 has passed into the hands of a trust.
u Col Wetmore played the game very
shrewdly until he forced the trust to