Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
Il. Hoyt is home from Lebanon,


our pleasant visitors last week.
Elias Pinch has been very i'll with
the grippe during the past week.
Miss Mamie Strain OF Masonville
spent day in Manchester last week.
DIR. Harry Hoag was the guest of
friends here last week, returning to his
home in Garner Friday.
The Euchre club met with Mrs.
Sherm Harris at the home of Mrs. w.
D. Hogan this week Tuesday after
noon.
Clark Day of Dies Mones was the
guest of relatives here over Sunday on
his way home from few days spent in
Chicago.
The deposits in the First National
Bank, as shown by statement in an.
other column, exceed two hundred
and sixty eight thousand dollars.
Al Stewart, q pioneer merchant of
Manchester but now traveller of the
grip with territory in Minnesota, is Wis
iting many friends in this vicinity, be.
ing the guest Of his mother, Mrs. w.
Ii. Wilmot.
DIR. John A. May returned yester-
day from Old Mexico and reports hav
ing secured control OF very rich gold
mining property for his company. The
doctor says Mexico is a country of great
resources which are as yet practically
ped.-Bulletin JournHl
Winthrop Review:-Mrs. Frei
Payne ST. is visiting her daughter at
Manchester. y = Miss Edith Kitch of
Manchester is in town. 4 * II Mr.. and
Mrs A. A. Morse of Manchester are
guests at the home of their son, Roy.
Several of the young friends of Roy
Morse made an unexpected call at his
home Friday evening to extend con
gratulations and greet the bride. Before
taking their departure they presented
the worthy couple with beautiful par
or lamp.
e. ii. Blanchard, Steward of the
County Poor Farm, was a last week
arrival home from winter spent in
New Mexico, where he hsd gone in the
hope of finding q cure for his throat
trouble MIR. Blanchard secured relief
tor his throat and his reports of the
health of the Manchesse colony in New
Mexico were also ilatteriDg, the only
exception being that James Mccormick
was suffering with severe cold at the
time of MIR. Blanchard's departure for
the north.
The story runs that good man
died lately and of course he went to the
good place. AS he wanted to go sight
seeing the first day, an angel guide
was given him. Before long he noticed
a number of persons each dragging q
ball and chain as they walked allow is
this" he asked his guide "lsn't this
heaven and why are so many bad men
here?" The angel smiled, "Why, those
are not bad men. They are all good
men, hut they are from Iowa, and we
have to chain them or they would go
back FIX.
Il What might have resulted in q
more serious accident happened to Will
Meyers Saturday night. He was stand
ing up on the drsy and had just turned
his horse about opposite the post Office
when some one in backing out of the
close quarters there hit his horse on the
head, frightening it, and in the start
Mr.. Meyers was thrown off the dray
striking the edge of the walk in such g
manner that the muscles and tendont
of his right elbow were terribly tori
and msngled. Fortunately no bones
, were broken and the prompt medica
attention is healing the injured liga
ments nicely.
3 Last Sunday night the home of lin
]. Faust, son of Elias Faust, who live
> about four miles north of town, wa
. totally destroyed by fire. The parent
Q were awakened during the night by thu
' cries of their baby boy, who was wish
q ing drink of water, and to their sur
9 prise found the room full of smoke
Il They had only enough time to remov,
r a part of their most valuable house
hold goods before the fire drove then
from their home. The origin of tn
It blaze is unknown, only thatit started /
n the upper part of the building Th
r loss is bad one to Mr.. Faust, but
Q was very fortunate that the child awoli
, them in time or something horribl
"a might have ulted.-Earlville Pho,
a nix.
IT "A little furry of excitement ler
e enchantment to the tour of the passeI
% gers on the NJ. s. o. one day recent.
y Some small boys Caught on" to tt
back of the coach when the trai
10 stopped at North Manchester and OF
1T held on vigorously after the engine WI
" putting on down to the depot. Brak
TX man Hockaday, seeing the danger
of the youngster who had no foothold al
d. was simply clinging by his hands, ri
ne up on the coach and reaching ov'
ut grasping the miscreant firmly by /
he collar, gently dropped him out fro
a under the danger line of being I,
Ter over by the car 1t was really Gle
he call for the boy and parents should E
ter to it that their children keep away fro
nd the tracks entirely.
ay The Twelfth Iowa Veteran AS
MS citation is to be congratulated on hs
If ing been invited by the Clermont So
MS iers Monument Association to hold
mt reunion and to dedicate statue to G
ID. b. Henderson at Clermont, 10,
ner June 10Th next. This statue is
,ut masterpiece and is presented to CT
me mont by Elk Governor Larrabee v