Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-18

Frank Mather went to Winthrop
Tuesday.
The glorious Fourth viii be cele-
brated at Greeley.
Mrs. Fay French is visiting rela
tives at Humboldt.
Archie Waugh is guest of rela-
tives and friends in this city.
The X, of T.. Lodge held tiei! an
nnal memorial services last sunday.
DIR. A. Won Oven, of Miles, Ia, was
guest of friends in this city last Fri
day.
-"When Boys Were Men new
serial, begin in this Issue of the Demo
crat.
Miss Gertrude SWEEP ,s, of Vermil
lion, S. d., Is a gnest of Miss Catherine
Goodell.
Mrs. Counsel and son, of Waterloo
are guests al the home of Mr.. and Mrs
4. r. Hatch.
ID. L.. Miller, who is student at
Lenox College, is at home for his sum
mer vacation.
Mr.. Frank Herman and Mrs.
Philip Herman are guests of relatives
and friends In this city.
Prof. G. H. Atkinson is in attend
ance at the u. /. u. commencement ex-
ercises at Fsyette this week.
M. +. Leroy returned Monday from
Chicago, where he had been transact
ing bueiness for several days.
Prof. Harry Pratt, principal of the
schools at Dysart, Ia, is guest of his
parents, Rev. and Mrs. II. o. Pratt.
-Mrr. Msjorle Carkeek Cunningham,
of Anamosa, was guest of. her aunt,
Mrs. Geo. Reyes, part of last week.
Olive Branch Chapter No 4S r. A.
M. will meet in regular session at their
lodge rooms this Wednesday evening.
Miss Eta Fox went to Mt. Vernon
last Saturday to be present at the com
mencement exercises of Cornell college.
VIM. Hockaday has moved his
household goods from Greeley to his
new residence recently completed on
Franklin street.
Marriage licenses were issued dur
ing the past week by Clerk Georgen to
Lewis j. Maxwell and Pearl Griffin and
j. Jones and Jessie E. Bishop.
Mrs. j. A. Bell, of Marion, Is Q
guest Of her daughter, Mrs. PA. Grass.
field. Mrs. w. G. Carhart and daughter
are also guests at the Grassfield home
j. y. Pentony returned last week
from Minnesota where he took q party
of four land seekers. The parties were
80 favorably impressed that they all
bought slice of Minnesota dirt.
"A resident of Whiting, Iowa. con-
victed of bootlegging in the U. S. dis
trict court, was sentenced by Judge
Shirae, to imprisonment In the peniten-
tiary at FIT. Madison for the term of
2 one year.
Mics Pearl Pierce departed for
Waterloo, last Saturday, where she will
attend the wedding of Miss Maude
Humphrey of that city, and Aaron
Farmer. of Maquoketa. which is to be
solemnized today. The bride was q
teacher Of the State Normal School.
Davenport News: A North Da-
kots farmer who went to Kansas year
or two ago to engage In farming writes
to his friends recently as follows: 81
believe in diversified agriculture. An
exhibit for my crop report for 1901 is as
follows: ! have raised one acre of
baked potatoes, SO bushels of dried
peaches, 25 acres of parched corn, one
acre of roasted peanuts. and If the
weather continues dry, will have two
acres of melon preserves. The balance
of my crop consists of chinch bugs,
grasshoppers and jack rabbits
"A gang of fellows have been can
wasting the county for the past three
weeks taking orders from farmers for
nursery stock, and from reports that
have just reached this office they have
done land office business. The fell
lows were not travelling for their health
by any means, the orders to which our
attention has been called being for
seventy-fve and eighty dollars each,
and payable In distant city. The
orders expressly provide that no one
but the principal has authority to make
any contract different from the printed
order. but the agents made all sorts Of
oral agreements with their victims
anything to get the order signed. We
have no means OF estimating, with any
degree of accuracy, the amount of thu
orders taken in this county by the gang
but are satisfied that $4,000 is low
estimate. Fakirs, as rule, enter theil
field of operations quietly and unan
nonnced, work 1t quickly, and theI
speedily depart for other green pastures
Six months ago this county was prett!
thoroughly worked by representative
of pretended medical institute II
Chicago and notes for 800 and up
wards taken aggregating many thou
sands of dollars, and which the maker
are DOW being called upon to pay b
an alleged innocent holder of same. l
IS soon as any of these pests enter
county and commence operations, tn
attention of the publishers of the news
papers in the county would be prompt
Iy called to them, by their first victim
or those that they attempt to victimiz
many people might be saved from fal
ing into their clutches, but as rul
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