Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-09


OF relatives and friends in this city.
Matt Clemans of Dyersville was
Manchester business visitor Monday.
Miss Mildred Smith was guest Of
friends at Strawberry Point, last week
"A. b. Wheeless came up from Hop
klnton yesterday to visit his son Rubcn
Monday night, burglars entered the
residence of Ralph Cougar and secured
Sill in cash.
L. NJ. Carr, j. T. Fowler and 2. T
Hatch went to Council Bluffs via the
NJ. 4 o. last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Cook and chill
| dren are guests of the formers sister,
Mrs. Il. w. Chambers.
Emery Newton, of Des Moines,
was an over Sunday guest of relatives
and friends in this city.
Allan Graham has returned home
from Drake University at Des Moines
to spend his summer vacation
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. May, and chill
dren, of Independence, are guests of
relatives and friends in this city.
The Ladies of the st. Mary's church
Will give an ice cream social on the
church lawn next Friday evening.
Harry Kenyon, Of Chicago, was an
over Sunday visitor in the city, a guest
of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. G..
Kenyon.
The l.. o. I. NJ. Excursion which
was planned to be run to independence
next Thursday has been indefinitely
postponed.
Mr. and Mrs. Aten, of Lake City,
Iowa, who have been guests of the lat
ter's sister, Mrs. AL. Evans, departed
for their home Monday.
Glen Dixson returned Thursday
evening from Duluth and Minneapolis,
where he has been a guest of relatives
and friends thepast month.
Mrs. Anson Colvin, of Winnebago
Minnesota, who has been guest of
relatives and friends in this city de-
parted for her home Monday.
E. Bowker, osteopathic physician,
has decided to locate in Manchester and
will open an office in the rooms over
Denton & Wards drug store.
Rev. Clarence Miller, of Dubuque,
is guest of relatives and friends in
this city, guest at the home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. p. Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lafe Matthews are
spending the week at Spirit Lake. Mr..
Matthews is IN attendance at a meeting
of the Masonic lodge now in session
there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Waugh de.
parted Tuesday for their home in Chi
cago after weeks visit with the form.
er's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. David
Waugh.
Ii any of our farmer readers wish
to stock up with sheep, the notice of H.
e. Emerson in another column offering
several hundred sheep for sale will in
terest them.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Hart, who have
been guests of the latter's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. d. b. Allen, for the past two
weeks returned to their home In Chica-
go, Monday.
DR. and Mrs. G. Z. Bradley left yes.
terday morning to visit the Dr's. vine
yard in North Carolina, after which
they will visit with relatives and other
friends in York State.
Letters addressed to Miss Jean K.
Case, Miss Johanna Ortburg (foreign),
Peter Flack, Friedrich Hiram, Emory
Foster and w. D. Tower, are advertised
as unclaimed at this post office.
r. R. Robinson, G. w. Hunt and
l.. j. Lillibridge will depart tomorrow
for two months trip to California,
Washington and Oregon. They will
visit the Yellowstone Park on the trip,
"Wednesday night burglars entered
the house of Geo. Bell in North Man
chester and purloined about sixty dol
lars in cash and gold watch. 1t is
thought to be the work of local talent.
On the second page will be found
interesting letters recently received by
w. q. Cawley from his son Charles, re.
lating to the latter's trip from Port
Townsend, Washington, to Nome,
Alaska.
On July 4th, Elsie Hicks, daughter
of Fred Hicks of Milo township, while
spending the day at a neighbours, was
bitten in the face by dog, which had
become excited in play. The wounds
required several stitches to close them.
Reuben Wheeless, the watermelon
king, while dragging piece of ground
preparatory to planting buck-wheat,
last Thursday, was thrown under the
drag and sustained severe injuries. At
this writing Mr.. Wheeless is said to be
getting along nicely.
-Chauncy Sager brought to this
office Mondays bunch of oats taken
by him from the oat field of Geo. and
VIM. Barr, about one mile west of this
city. The stalks were 51s feet long,
with large we'll filled heads, and Mr..
Sager says that the field, as whole,
gives promise of an extraordinary large
yield.
"A rural mail carrier living at Wells.
burg, Iowa, has "gone wrong" and is
now in the jail at Marion where he will
remain until September to await the &C.
tion of the federal grand jury. He is
charged with the embezzlemento of sever
al small sums Entrusted to him by pa.
irons, amounting in the aggregate to
about 500. To all the rural mail car