Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
Chr Denlofrat.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY AND CRY.
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10, 1902.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10, 1902.
-H. j. Schwietert ts in Chicago.
Floyd Copeland is at home from
Chicago.
Miss Mae Roney spent Sunday ii
Independence.
Mrs. Chas. Peterson is q guest O.
relatives at Omaha.
Clarence Klonus is clerking In thu
drug store at Mssonvllle.
Sheriff Fishel was a Dyersvills
business visitor, Saturday.
Ola Wilson is q guest of relatives
and friends at Cedar Rapids.
Carl Stoffenbeil of Dubuque was 9
Manchester business visitor last Thurs.
day.
Royal Reeder is at Herman, 8. D..
looking after property interests at that
place.
Nina Csrhart arrived home last
Friday evening from her sojourn In
Germany.
Mrs. q. w. Miller is visiting in Chi
csgo with her daughter, Mrs. Frank
Johnston.
Mics Jennie Walker of West
Branch was q guest of friends in this
city last week.
Miss Ora Gates departed Thursday
for Iowa City where she will study for
q trained nurse.
miss Daisy Dinwiddie of Cedar
Falls was guest at the r. G. Kennedy
home last week.
Miss Mary Glissendorf departed
Saturday for Dixson, ILL.,, where she is
guest of friends.
The democratic congressional con-
vention for this district has been called
for September II, at Dubuque.
j. S. Jones attended the funeral of
Prof. VIM. Beardshear, late president
of the Iowa Agricultural College at
Ames last week.
Frank Hadley, of Sioux City visited
friends and relatives in this city last
week, guest of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. G. Hadley.
-Mrs. Geo. Pierce and daughter,
Pearl, are at Colorado Springs, Colo,
where it is hoped that the climate will
benefit the formers health.
Miss Lizzie Miller was called to her
home at Reedsburg, Wisconsin, last
week by telegram announcing the
serious illness of her mother.
-Anson Sheldon departed Wednes-
day for Chicago where he has accepted
q position with the Knickerbocker Ice
Company. His family will follow in q
few days.
Horace Coon and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence, who were the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. II. j. Coon, for several days,
left Friday evening for their home at
Des Moines.
-Pentony & Hosg have fine exhib-
1t of grain in front of A. E. Peterson's
rstore, The grain WAS grown on some
of their western lands which they ad-
vertise In the Democrat for sale.
An ice cream social will be given
next Friday evening August 10, on Mr..
Wallis lawn In North Manchester for the
benefit of tho st. Paul's Union Church.
A good time is expected. All are cor.
daily invited.
"A Beardstown, ILL.,, lad is credited
with saying that his father has q very
remarkable COW. He said that the COW
has particular fondness for apples,
and that on one occasion after she had
gotten into reighbor's ORCHARD and
eaten all the apples she wanted, his
mother MIXED her, churned the milk
and got three quarts of good apple but
ter. On another occasion the COW ate
off the tail of an old rooster that roasted
in the stall with her and the next morn
ing instead of giving milk she gave
gallon and q half of the finest kind Of
cocktail.
The Waterloo Times Tribune II
our authority for this item: "The
new postal laws are such that news
paper proprietors can cause the ar
rest of anyone for fraud who takes tn,
paper and refuses to pay for 1t. Unde
this new law the man who allows BIZ
subscription to run along for some TIM
unpaid and then orders it discontinued
or orders the postmaster to mark 1t re
fused and has card sent notifying tn
publisher lays himself liable to arres
The law Is q good one and should be en-
forced by every publisher who has t
contend with newspaper deadbeats.
Jos. r. Shadwell of Butte, ten year
of age, is in fair way to becom
the brother of his father. Mrs
Martin Griffin, the boys grand
mother, has just peti.ioned the coul
for the adoption of the boy, who, sh
says, has beendeserted by his parent
Should the adoption be made legal, tn
boy will be. in the eyes of the law, th
son of his grandmother, and will there
fore be the brother of his own fathe
who is the son of his grandmother. II
will become his own uncle and tt
brother-in-l law Of his mother and will
his own nephew. If his mother has ar
more children he will be an uncle
them and also his own uncle, and son
day, perhaps, his mother will be an aul
as well as grandmother to his own CHI
dren.-Boulder (Montana) Age.
Z What a howl would go up If Il
newspapers were to criticise the Ind
"a viduat an fraalv as neOnlo Critfcia0 u