Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-11-25
p. L. Hall advertises a dwelling

house for rent.
w. Friend spent Sunday will
friends at Springville.
-Brc'er Ram of the Press is at
Council Bluffs this week.
g. S. Lister spent Sunday will
his son Clarence at Iowa City.
Mrs. ]. w. May was last week
guest with her son, DIR. John, at
Independence.
-Gildner Bros. have list Of the
Different furs they keep in stock
Read their adv.
II. I. Oliver enjoyed avisit from
his mother Mrs. Elizabeth Oliver Of
Independence last week.
Mrs. Wilkinson of Cleveland,
Ohio. was guest last week of her
nephew, r. A. Denton and family.
Another fine farm is advertised
for rent III this issue. 1t is the
Henry Edmunds farm east of town.
Miss Artazena Seaman closed a
successful term Of school in District
No. 8, Collins Grove township, last
Friday.
Coggon Monitor: Mrs. N. Fuller
of Manchester visited friends in
town last week returning home
Friday night.
''Kalamity" Thorpe gives notice
that he is getting ready for the
holidays. He always gets good
ready for them.
Mrs. Cosgrove and daughters
are moving this week into the house
formerly occupied by Mrs. Nc
Cormick on Howard street.
Matt VanAlstyne went to Chi
cago last Wednesday afternoon with
carload of hogs which were raised
on the VanAlstyne farm in Collins
Grove township.
-Adolph Becker of Richland was
acaller at this office Saturday. A
new rural mail route, he informs
us, will be established from the
Dundee postoifice into his district
December lst.
1t is said Miss OVAL, who re-
sides three and one half miles north
east of Greeley, had a tooth ex-
tracted, over seven weeks ago.
When she got home her jaws be-
came set, and she has been sleeping
ever since. She cannot be awaken
ed only for a few minutes at g time,
by giving her chloroform and re-
laxing her jaws so she can be fed.
1t is a peculiar state Of affairs
Mail-Press.
If any reader of the Democrat,
residing in this county, contem-
plates leaving this, the best place on
the face of the earth, to become a
resident of the Southland, he should
write to Capt. J..F. Merry, Dubuque
Iowa, asking for circular No. il,
recently prepared by him in the
interest of the III Central Ry. Co.
1T contains letters from large
number of men who formerly re-
sided in the north, but who are now,
and for several years past have been
residents of either Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi or Louisiana, giving their
experiences and impressions Of their
resnectiye localities.
Henry Fl. Chase of Brigham,
Utah, has just secured a patent on a
unique and very useful invention
for weighing loads on wagon
which, if it is all that is claimed for
it, will ultimately come into general
use. The device is so arranged that
when the wagon is to be loaded, the
box and and contents may, by ma
nipulation Of lever be raised from
the holsters and placed on the scales.
When the desired load has been
placed in the wagon, the box and
load is again placed on the holsters.
In this manner the scales are saved
the wear and destruction that would
occur when passing over rough
ground, where the wagon box and
load resting on them. The weigh
ing mechanism may be easily and
quickly removed from the wagon
and stored away during those sea
sons when the former does not de
sire to weigh any load and are easily
placed in position. The advantages
+ claimed for it are, that it saves the
necessity Of weighing the wagon, as
is common today and subtractine
the weight Of the wagon from the
last weight, is always perfectly &C
curate, has no complicated parts
and can not be easily broken, il
simple, cheap and durable, may b
attached to any wagon now in us'
and is adapted for use on wagons
for any purpose not being confined
in usefulness to farmers.
Owing to the high price Of fuel
any method designed for saving j
is surely welcome news to all.
Minneapolis man claims to have dis
covered a way to save one third 9
the fuel of those who use anthraclt
and semianthracite coal. To test
entails no expense and but littl
labor. He explains his method a
follows: "My heater is a hot waite
plant. / renew my fire twice a ola.
both night and morning, just as
Twas using nothing but coal, e'
cept that l put on less coal an
give it all the draft possible SO thu
It may be quicker for the ashes.
keep galvanized pan, two fee
square by eight inches deep on ii
floor near the heater, and into tn
pan / put, whatever ashes may t
left from the burning of the fres