Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-09

E OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY AND CITY.
TELEPHONE isA.
WEDNESDAY,, APRIL 8. 1902.
ID. II. Young was TT. Atkinson,
Ia, visitor part of last week.
-Mrs. A. b. Holbert was guest at
Dr. Dittm-r's the last of the week
MIR. and Mrs. Z. Frentresa, are the
parents Of twin sons horn April 3rd.
Miss Clara Millet is q guest at Vint
Ilnbbell's, Mt Greeley, for u few weeks.
Homer Vaud.tshrurn and Ben
IIolhert jr., of Greeley, were III town
Thursday ON business.
Miss Len. Smith has leen for sew
eral days the guest of her amt, Mrs.
Lsmb.r,, Mt Monticello.
Mrs. Luke Scanlu, goes tn Toledo,
this wrek to visit her son, and attend
the u. !, ,.lt,itch convention.
NJ. L. Blair, eeut to Fr.eport, H.,
yesterday Oh business for the Thorpe
creamery of Which ne is secretary.
Mrs. has. ZrisInhn, of Delaware,
was the guest al her daughter, Mrs. X !.
Houlahan, at Ryan, the past week.
Mis- Bertha Clark went to Hop
. kintop, saturday, rear where she is to
teach her first term OF school, beginning
the 9TH.
The many friends of Mr.. Frank
s. Anders will be glad to know, that he
has 30 far recovered from his illness as
to be able to leave his bed.
Mrs. Dan Ryan, of Edgewood, was
Manchester shopper Thursday. She
expects to start soon to visit q daughter
In Montana and son in Oklahoma.
DIR. N. S. Craig, of Jennings, La, is
IN the city. The Doctors residence at
Jennings, he informs US, is only tempo
rary as he expects to return ere long
and make this city his home.
Mrs. Catharine l.yness received
word Saturday night of the death of
her half brother, Peter Keenan,, who
died at Waterlo. The funeral was held
Sunday at Independence, Mrs. Lyness,
her son, Arthur and daughter Kate, at
tending. Ryan Reporter.
Letters addressed to Mrs. Agnes
Stewart, Miss Francis Day, Miss Maud
L. Barr, Miss llama Fleming, Will
Downs, G. L. 'Delevan, A. Woods, w.
II. Whitwell, q. IL. Pierce, E. q. Hall
H. H. Annis, Jno. Smith, w. l.. Gill
ham care the Clarence House, are ad-
vertised as unclaimed at the post office.
e. j. Mills, who for several months
5 past has been employed In this Office as
typo, has secured more lucrative
position in printing office at Cedar
Rapids and departed for that city Mon
day morning. His family will remain
here for the present. MIR. Mills is an
honest, industrious and trustworthy
man and our best wishes go with him
to his new field of labor.
The postoflice department has is
sued q bulletin asking that the name of
the state of Iowa should never be alb
breviated in addressing letters, as it has
so often led to mistakes in the distri-
button of mail. 1t is explained that
the abbreviation ia" might be mis-
.ats5ap for Indiana, while the abbrevia-,
tion To-" might be taken for Idaho,.
those authorizations being used in those
states as much as they are In Iowa.
Ton II. Holbert, of Greeley, was
awarded the medal for oratorical ability
at the contest held at st. Paul's church
the 4th Of April. The music was fur.
niahed by the "Y" and the program was
well received by everyone present. The
church was lilled with an appreciative
audience. Remarks were made by DR..
Dittmer and Mr.. Cornell that were en-
-~joyed by all. The judges were Mr.. G..
Adams, Mrs. j. B. Rutherford and Miss
Phebe Lyman.
Last Monday night passenger
train on the G. q. W. going at lightning
speed, struck freight train of the G.
NJ. s. st. p, standing on the crossing at
Oneida, and strange as it may seem yet
true 1t is, that two of the freight cars
were thrown from the track and the
passenger train kept its track and went
on its way, without injuring any person
or even SO much as intimsting to it's
seventy passengers by shock, sound, or
In any manner, that their train had
collided with another one.
Warren Curtis, former resident of
Hazel Green township, and son of
7. L. Curtis, was murdered at Burns,
Washington, on March g. The partic-
ulars as given in letter from his broth
or, v. s. Curtis, to his father are as fol-
lows: 1.-THE trouble arose over q colt
and on that night three men came ia
the barn and made q noise. Warren
thought one of the horses was down 60
he went to the barn where he found
three men and recognized them as
james Caldwell, George Miller and Has
Hase. He said to Caldwell "you have
done me dirty mean trick to come tc
my house at night. Now get off the
place. He went back to the house af-
ter bis gun and his wife prevailed upo1
him not to shoot anyone. and he prom
Used that he wouldn't but just wanted
to scare them. He went out and order
ed them off the place, when one of tn,
men who was hiding shot him with I