Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-14
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY AND CITY.
TELEPHONE 1874.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. ID, 1903.
e. H. K,nne is on the sick list.

II. q. kennedy was in Dubuque o
business Saturday. "
Clint Lusk has accepted positio
in the Racket Store.
Hon. and Mrs. F. f. Merriam, Q
Des Moines, are guests at the g.
Bronson home.
#. N. Heacom attended the Jack
sonian Boies Club banquet at Waterlo
Thursday evening
Mr.. and Mrs Joe Foster are a
home from an extended visit with rela
tivesln Pennsylvania.
Mr.. ana Mrs. Byron Bronson, o
Lisbon, N. d., are guests of relative
end friends in this city.
&C. w. ,Iordy, of Oneida, was q bust
ness visitor to this city Wednesday, ant
was welcome caller at this Office.
VIII Amsden, of Garner, Ia, is il
the city, being called here by the seri
GUS illness of his father, Rev. b. M
Amsden,
There will be basket sociabl,
giyenat the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Luke scanlan on Friday evening
Jan. 10Th.
Thomas Donnally of Adams town
ship returned Thursday from Chicago
where he had been to dispose of car
load of cattle.
Letters addressed to Mrs. Delilat
Coon, Messrs. b. l.. Campbell and f. s
Waldron.sre advertised as unclaimed al
the post office.
Mrs. w. H. Hutchinson and Mrs
J.R Hoag left Sunday afternoon fol
Cleveland, OHIO, being called there by
the serious illness of their mother.
VIM. E. Lepley of Grant Falls
Montana, arrived here Monday and will
spend several months visiting his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Lepley OF
this city.
Mr.. Newans who was to have az
peared here some time ago as number
on the lecture course but on account of
missing train, will be at City Hall
Wednesday evening, Jan. %.
Supervisor, Jas LeGassick, and Mr..
Addison Pacey, publisher of the Brim-
field, Ill.) News, were among the well
come callers at this Office Saturday. Mr..
Pacey lisa nephew of Mr.. LeGassick,
and he and Mrs. Pacey have been guests
of Mr.. aad Mrs. LeGassick for several
days, returning home last Monday.
The board of directors of the Della
ware County Agricultural Society met
at the court house last Saturday after
noon and named September 8 to II as
the dates Oh which the fair is to be held
this year. The competition in the
cattle, horse, sheep, swine and speed de
partments are thrown open to the world
The secretary's salary was fixed at one
hundred dollars year and necessary
expenses.
Il. w. Goen is again sole owner of
the Independence Conservative, ha wing
purchased the interest of his partner,
WE. Miller, in the business. Mr..
Goen has been connected with the Con
sentative, as employer, part owner and
sole owner ever since his boyhood, and
has made the paper one of the best
weeklies in the state Lew here is our
GB-. May you live long and continue
to prosper.
"A number of people representing
themselves to be native Armenians,
Chaldeans and Persians have been
in Iowa towns within the past few
weeks soliciting funds for the relief of
their suffering countrymen. A dis
patch from West Union states that
some who claim to be working for a
charitable purpose are frauds and are
simply preying upon the sympathy
of the people. A minister in that
city became skeptical and investigated
the credentials which the foreign solicit
tors carried with them. They proved
to be forgeries and the men fakirs. A
Systematic organization Of these solicit
tors is said to be working through all
of the larger cities and towns of the
middle west.
On Saturday of last week a family
gathering was held at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. w. II. HOLSTER of this
city, the day being the fifty fourth
wedding anniversary of this old aud re-
spected couple. They have lived in
Delaware township since 1856 and have
been identified with the history and
growth of this county since its pioneer
days. Mr.. HOLSTERS health has not
been good for the past few years, yet
he was able to participate in and enjoy
the festivities attending the family re-
union on that day. The many friends
of this worthy couple heartily wish them
q prolongation Of their lives. Among
those present were: Mr.. and Mrs. G. w.
1AittSA' SAA' ouu hio -. "A, Slutc, w LII.
HOLSTER jr., Mr.. and Mrs. A. Fl. Middle
ton, Mrs. E. o. Clemans, Mrs Frank II.
johnson, of Chicago, Geo. Hollister and
son of Waterloo. and j. j. Hollister, of
Waudens.
The district court was in session
last Friday, but owing to the illness of
Mr.. Powers, one of the attorneys for
the defendant, the motion for new
trial in the case of the State of Iowa,
against W. E. Barr of Greeley, which
had been assigned for hearing on that
day, was not argued until Saturday.
The defendant was indicted, and at the
term of court just closed was found
guilty by the jury of cheating by false
pretenses, and thereby obtaining from
Martha Arbuckle of Greeley the sum OF
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