Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-05-13

OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY AND CIV.
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w EDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1903.
ID. II. Finch was in Cedar Rapids
Saturday.
Miss Emma Dobbins of Montf was
the guest of friends here last week.
w. ID. Hogan spent week in Chi
cago. returning last Friday morning.
--Mrs. Walter Richardson of Earl
Vile was Manchester visitor last
week.
Misses Artazsna Seaman and Lille
Baxter were Delaware visitors last Sat
urday.
Il. r. Stout of Fairbanks was call
ing on friends in Manchester last We'd
nesday.
Man Hoover of Airing.
to was Manchester visitor last We'd
nesday.
Shave Allen and Will Bowers of
Strawberry Point spent a day last week
in this city.
DE. and Mrs. Loses Dorman were
visiting relatives and friends in Man
chester last week.
Henry Tauke of Dyersville had
business Of Importance in Manchester,
Tuesday of last week.
Justice of the Peace Scofield of
Strawberry Point, spent Wednesday in
Manchester on business.
Misses Bertha and Kate Schroeder
visited in Manchester the latter part of
last week. IN ashua Reporter.
w. &. Nelmsn, genial gentleman
of theS province of Earlville, was q
county seat visitor last Wednesday.
John Heying, prominent and
pleasant gentleman from near Luxem.
burg was u Wednesday visitor In Man
chester.
Among the marriage licenses pub
lished from Buchanan county last
week we note the name of Ross Reed
of Manchester, who procured license TO
wed Neva Wolgamot of Fairbanks.
Lightning struck the windmill on
the Theodore Pohlkamp farm in Prairie
township last Tuesday afternoon Nine
or ten Of Mr.. Pohlkamp's hogs were kill
ed also by lightning the same afternoon.
AT Wayerly, on June 9th, the 9Th
annual picnic of the Northeastern Iowa
Nj. W. a. Picnic Association will be
held. Prominent speakers have been
engaged to enliven the occasion with
Orations, and the committee of arrange
ments declare that this will be the big
gest and best event of the kind in the
history of the Woodmen of Iowa.
Mrs. Dan Kenna went o Manches-
ter Tuesday to visit at the home of her
brother, E. NJ. Carr.* y X Mrs. Frank
Sharp visited her sister, Mrs. Royal
Reeder, at Manchester the first of the
week. Willis Wolf is in Man.
chester taking treatment of DIR. Bowker.
He expects to spend month there re-
turning to his home occasionally
Lamont Leader.
@MessA4tc6ecca Hummer i1ibc tift d
at the family home in Earlvllle last
week Monday, May 4th. The funeral
services were held from the house
Wednesday afternoon at 1870, conduct
ed by Rev. r.. w. Soper, and the re-
mains were laid to rest beside her
children who had gone before, in the
Plum Creek Cemetery south of Earl
vile. Mrs. Libe was the mother of
Mrs. Susie Aldous Of this city,
Attorney Oberschmitt, went to
Manchester on legal business. ~ Mr.
and Mrs. Theo. Hatch of Manchester
were in this city last Saturday visiting
their numerous friends. A. NJ.
Long and John Stesngel of Manchester
attended the dance at the opera house
in this city last Tuesday evening. Mr..
Long is an operator of the Simplex at
the Manchester Press office. We &C
knowledge fraternsl call. y
Messrs. Ed. Kelly and John Klassen
and Misses Kate Toomer and Kate
Kelly attended the dance at Manches-
ter last Thursday night. x Y A young
married man in this city on returning
home one night this week and wishing
lunch before retiring ate half boz
of bird seed found on the kitchen table
lie thought it was some sort of break
fast food Dyersville Commercial.
"A large number of the manufac
tuners of harvesting machines have
formed trust known as the Interns
tional Harvester Company of America
lis doubtful if 1t will be long lived fol
the reason that eight large manufac
tuners of those implements refuse tt
become members of the combine. A
meeting of the Tri-Stste Vehicle ant
Implement Dealers Association, recent
ly held at Louisville, Kentucky, tn
Association unanimously declared, tina
the contracts of the trust concern wer
unfair to the dealers and charge anon
other things, that individual conces
sions have been granted which hav
not been allowed the general trade, an
recommended that regular dealers re
fuse to order any goods from the Intel
national until they modify and chang
their contracts SO as to be fair to dealer
and their patrons.
Col. j. F. Merry, assistant genere
passenger agent of the Illinois Centri
railroad. returned home from his west
ern trip this Friday morning. Accom-
panying Mr.. Merry on the trip were M
Hanson of Chicago and number {
other prominent Illinois Central Off
cials. The party Travelled in the fine
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