Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-09
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guest of relatives in this city last week
Frank Msther, of Winthrop, was
guest of relatives and friends over Sun
day.
Miss Charlottee Davis, of Straw
berry Point, is guest of friends in thi
city.
Misses May Frentress and Lucretil
| Boyer, Of Edgewood, are guests Of Mis-
| NelIie Vance.
Prof. fairy Wolcott has returned
| ffcm his school duties at Milwaukee
for his summer vacation.
| Clarence Torrey, of Chicago, is ex
pscted to arrive tomorrow for viz!
withrelatiyss and friends In this city.
| The matrimonial market in thii
county took big slump this week. Nut
a single application being made for i
permit to wed.
The residence of c. A. Pierce on
Main st. was burglarized Monday night
The burglars received for their troube
only little small change.
Mrs. Alba Snyder, of Peoria, ILL.,.
arrived here Monday evening and viii
be the guest of her mother, Mrs. j Nj
Pearse, for week or ten days.
Quite number of men departed
from this station Monday for Chicago
to take the places of the freight hand
lers who have gone out on strike.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. f. Boyles returned
to their home at Dell Rapids, South Da
kota, last Wednesday after q pleasant
visit at the home of MIR. and Mrs. G..
w. Storey.
BID. Still, wife and baby, of Earl
vile, Iowa, arrived in the city Saturday
afternoon for months visit with. Mrs.
Stills parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II. G. Ham
mond,-Spencer Herald.
The fellows who have recently
committed burglaries here have receiy-
ed but little compensation for the risks
they have taken of being captured and
sent to the penitentiary for term of
years.
The Minneapolis ball team, follow
ing in the wake of those of several
other cities, has adopted the plan of adj
hitting women free to their grounds,
whether accompanied by escorts or not.
Where tried the plan has proved to be q
paying one for the ball organizations.
"A Pueblo, Colorado, dispatch says,
that last Monday, John j. Daily, q
pioneer lawyer, of the northwest, com
mitted suicide at that place. We in
cline to the opinion that he was the
same IL Daily who was engaged in
the practice of law in this city in 1868.
VIM. Woodbridge was bitten by a
rattlesnake in the vicinity of Export,
Saturday. He at once hurried to town
and received the regular allowance of
the old reliable antidote for snake bites
-whiskey. From late accounts MIR.
Woodbridge has experienced no ill eff
'fects from either the snake poison or
the remedy. He received two bites, one
on his hand and the other on the ankle.
Mr.. Wooldridge's father-in-law has SO
far this season killed fifty rattlesnakes
in the neighborhood of Ellsport.
tenburg Press. 4
Mics Susie Cook and Waiter Hitler
we're unitedin marriage last Wednes-
day evening at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E Cook, in COT
lin's Grove Twp, Rev. Csul, of this city,
officiating. The ceremony was per
formed in the presence of large num-
Der of relatives and friends, after which
the guests partook of an excellent wed
ding repast. The bride is one of COT
fms Groves most accomL lished daugh
ters. She was for several years most
efficient teacher in the schools of this
county. Mr.. Hitler is an upright, hon
est young man of sterling worth. The.
many friends of the young COUPLE join
with us in extending hearty congratu.
lations to MIR. and Mrs. Hitler.
This community was ssddened last
Wednesday afternoon by the tragic
death of Ned Bauer, the ten year old
grandson Of Mrs. Egbert Hoag. While
playing in the mill and electric light
power house of the e. w. Hoag Light
and Power Co. in this city, the little
fellows clothing was in some manner
caught on one of the shafts, which was
running at speed of 300 revolutions
per minute, and being unable to extrl-
cate 1t therefrom, he was drawn on to
the machinery and his young life quick
ly taken from him, as his death must
have been almost instantaneous. He
was the only child of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Bauer, both of whom died at
Tamplco, Mexico, in August, 1898, and
since then bis home was with his grand
mother, Mrs. Egbert Hoag, in this city.
Little Ned had a kind and alfectionate
disposition, and was afayorite with all
who knew him. The funeral services
were held Saturday afternoon at the
family residence on Union Street, Rev.
III. w. Tuttle, officiating.
The Crop Bulletin for. week ending
July 18th, 1902, says: The first half Of
the past week was cool and cloudy; the
last half WAS much warmer with drying
winds, and much more favorable for
crops, and field work on well drained
lands. The rainfall was variable, rang.
Ing from less than an inch to over 800
inches, about two thirds of the state re-
ceiying very much above the normal
amount, and extensive areas on the
Cedar river and other streams have
been flooded, causing damage to crops
that cannot at this time be estimated.
In general the crop situation has been
improved in the larger part of the state
/ nv the few 6ays Of dry ueathar and crn