Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-08-12
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hobbs

visited Edgewood friends last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bronson ar
rived home from Okoboji last Fri
day.
Tho six hand eucllre club will
meet this Wednesday with Mrs.
Larry Durham.
"A case Of diphtheria is report
led in the Frank McDonough home
near Sand Spring.
4 Mrs. Elizabeth Toogood of
| Dyersville was a last week guest
with her son James here.
Mrs. WIG Kenyon and her sister,
i. Mrs. Mckee, spent two days of last
week with friends in Cedar Rapids.
Mrs Noyes and grandson, Joe,
of Dubuque are making a visit at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
Morse.
Miss Mable Ruggles was called
home to Chicago Monday by the i'll
mess Of her father. She had intend
ed remaining until the latter part of
the week.
lightning struck the Electric
Lighting plant at Hopkinton
Wednesday morning considerably
damaging the wood work, wires
and machinery. Mr.. Milroy and
son were sleeping in the power
house but were not hurt.
The Hopkinton band has been
secured to play here during the
Delaware county Fair. This band
have always given us very good
music and it is safe to say their
engagement will be filled on this
occasion to the entire satisfaction of
our Fair visitors.
"A party Of twenty ladies enjoy
ed a half day outing at Hoyt springs
last Thursday, these being the out
of-town guests: Mrs. Glen conger,
Hannibal, Mo-, Mrs. Moreland,
Helena, Mont, and the Misses
Henshaw, Des Moines, and Mable
Ruggles, Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs Will Crosier and
little son are spending two weeks
with friends at Ehler. and Delhi
Mr. Crosier will take few days
Of this time to fish at Quasqueton,
having promised the force at this
Office whales of his catching for cur.
this weeks breakfasts.
An exceptionally good program
for Hopkinton's Harvest Home has
been prepared, State Dairy Com
missioner Wright and his assistant,
lP. fl. Keiffer both appear on the
afternoon program and after the
speaking, number of the usual
sports included in such a day will
be in order.
Mrs. Elda Mckinley of st.
Louis, Missouri, is the guest of rela-
tives here in the S. W. Trenchard
home in this city and c. @. Barry home
at Barryyille. Mrs. Mckinley was
formerly Manchester girl and
many will remember her as Elda
Foster. Mrs. Barry and Mrs. Nc
Kinley were Thursday visitors with
Mr.. and Mrs Trenchard.
The Baptist Young People
picnickedsat Thrill, Park Wednes-
day afternoon of last week. The
Park is very clean and beautiful and
is an ideal spot to spend day.
A ball. game in which both boys
and girls INDUCED was the feature
Of the afternoon probably mosten-
ljoyed by the young people unless
we count in the splendid supper as
part of the entertainments.
Dyersville Commercial: VIM.
Kramer brought in a little twig on
which were growing fourteen good
sized Duchess apples. The twig
and apples are lying in the show
window of the Commercial office
and are admired by all passersby.
The twig on which the apples grew
is little less than fourteen inches
long. = /. . Anton Mueller Of Man
chester and daughter of Dubuque
visited with relatives and friends a
few hours last Friday.
Here is one, says the Dyers-
vile Commercial, on a Manchester
man that s-too good to pass up. Of
all the schemes Of taking home
bulge" without losing their stand
|in", the one perpetrated by this
man is entitled to the hop chrome.
When he was ready to start for home
with a large jug, it appears he was
taken with stage fright but was
lequal to the occasion. He took the
jug from the buggy and with his
hands took the grease from the
Iaxles of his rig and smeared tall
over the jug. Out Of sheer charity
those who witnessed the feat believed
him to be a New York student who
came in from the wheat fields for a
I few gallons of lubricating oil fol
the binder.
/ A new plan for fraud is evolved
and put in practice by Grand
Forks man and it is claimed that
thirty-nine people engaged in the
business have cleared up $4,000
by working on the tender feelings
= Of friends and relatives Of dead PEG
|: pie. The Minneapolis Tribune pub
fishes the following account of the
fraud: Names of all persons who
! die are obtained and sent to some
! city or town together with the adj
dress of the deceased. These ad
dresses are taken and express pack
ages containing worthless articles
sent O. o. D. to the dead person,
or, rather, are marked with the nam,