Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-06
September lat 10 ,.ho

Monday, September LIST, is labor
day.
/ Mics Eva McCurn, of Davenport,
is guest OF Miss Ruth Pratt
| -Chas. Burnside and son, of Mich
ell, 5. d. are guests of friends in this
city.
| Mics Jennie Grsssiield, of Marion,
is guest of her brother, Mr.. L. T..
Grassfeld.
The pension of Geo. Rippey, of
Colesburg, has been increased to $40
per month.
Jesse Young expects to leave next
week for an extended visit through
South America.
Henry Welterlin, Harlo Newcomb
and Fred Hamblin are at Platte, S. d.,
where Mr.. Welterlin has the contract
for building house for E. NJ. Ward.
The following marriage licenses
have been issued by Clerk Georgen dur
Ing the past week: ID. w. Leehan and
May Walker, and Edward A. Hodges
and Margaret G. Res.
Put your boy at work If he is not at
school. Anything is better than loaf
ing about town, learning evil habits
and contracting the vices that are afloat
to catch idlers. No honest labor will
hurt your boy, but the evil habits may
Kill his soul and poison his moral ma
ture SO az to make him q detriment to
the community and bow down his grey
haired parents with sorrow. If the
fathers and mothers would learn the
Importance of training the son to be in
dustrious and keep them off the street,
the coming generation would be ines
timably better for tx.
Marriages, births, divorces and
deaths are all matters of appropriate
mention in every well regulated weekly
paper, but such mention is often eb
sent simply because information is not |
given the publisher, but who gets the
blame for their non appearsnceP Show
some interest in the welfare of the local
paper; get to the office such intelligence
as the public generally are interested in,
thus pleasing them as well as accom-
modating the publisher, who works for
the public good. The editor is not ub
iquitous; he must and does depend up
on friends to help him make an inter
esting paper. Western Publisher.
Charlie Whitman had little ex-
perience with burglars Sunday night
which he does not care to repeat. Two
fellows gained entrance to the house
between 10 and II O'Clock, and proceed
ed to the bed room in which Mr.. Whit.
man was sleeping and took his pants
into an adjoining room and searched
them. Charles before retiring had
placed S2l under his pillow and the
robbers not finding the desired booty in
the pants, returned to the bed room and
In reaching under the pillow awoke Mr..
who caught the thief around
the neck. Then ensued battle far
more exciting lat least to Charley than
The Observation-Disclosures contest. The
battle ragged for about ten minutes dur
ing which time Mr.. Whitman held his
hold on Mr.. Burglar while the latter
him with billy and the
other one proceeded to play foot ball
with him. The thieves finally escaped
taking with them the 81 dollars in
money. Neighbors were called but a
thorough search revealed no trace of
The whereabouts of the robbers. The !
authorities have no clue to the per-
oretrators of the crime. An attempt !
was also made to burglarize the store 1
II w. Il. Lock Monday night. The
burglars started to take out pane of I
glass from the back window, but were !
probably frightened away before they |
lad time to perform their mission of
'obbery.