Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-23

Glenn Baker of Greeley wa
in town Monday.
M. Van Dusen is very i'll at hi
home on Franklin street
j. A. Wheeler of Waterloo wa
a visitor in the city Monday.
Rev. Warren Baker returned
Monday morning from a short visi
\ in Kansas.
Seth Brown is at Grinncl
where he was called by the death 0
a sister-in-law.
Miss Blanch Lawrence is recen
addition to the clerical force in tn,
w. L. Drew store.
The l. G. pay car was a wei
come caller on some of the Demo
Gratis friends Monday.
Among those who were Fai,
visitors at Monticello last week wer'
Mr.. and Mrs. William Clark.
Mrs. d. f. Grove, who is still ;
visitor-in South Dakota, has beel
very i'll during the past two weeks
Mrs. G. NJ. Hanna attended tn.
Monticello Fair last week, remaining
until Saturday for a visit witt
friends.
The Christian Endeavor society
of the Congregational church are t.
have a social in the church parlors
Friday evening.
The Cornell foot ball team, OF
which Bert Matthews is playing
quarterback, won from Coe Saturday
with a score of 10 ..
-Chas. Aldous, who is opening a
new restaurant and lunch counter in
the Mcintosh building on Main
street, expects to open his doors to
the trade this week.
There is great deal of sick
ness in Manchester and vicinity at
present. Among those confined at
home during the past week with i'll
ness was Mrs. j, G. Hadley.
Eben Chaffee of Armenia, N. d.,
was the guest of his grandmother,
Mrs Ellen Toogood, over Sunday.
He was on his way to Oberlin where
he will attend school the coming
year.
DR.. T. J. Burns, who has been
in charge Of the practice of DIR. Mol
ans at Nichols during that DOCTORS
absence this summer in Europe, is
here, for a visit with parents and
friends.
; Letters addressed to Elsie Best,
Mary A. Sanford, Miss Clara I, Mar
chand, Messrs. L. w, Bachert, w. e.
Downing and Frank Henderson are
advertised as uncalled for at the
post office.
The Ladies Of the Maccabees
have their basket social this We'd
nesday evening. Lunches for two
will be found in each basket, and
each lady is entitled to invite one
guest. At G.. A. R. hall.
The annual meeting of the
Farmers Mutual Fire and Lightning
Insurance Company of Delaware
County, will be held at the City
Hall in this city on Tuesday the 9th
day'of October at 10 o'clock, A. NJ.
r. NJ. Marvin completed the
school district census enumeration
Monday and from him we learn
that in the independent School Dis
trict of Manchester, there are 355
males and 1884 females Of school age.
-Allmembers of the Jones Mill
Grange are requested to be present
at special meeting to be held in
their hall in Manchester, next Satur-
day at 1870 P. NJ. National Lee
turer Ansel Holway Of Maine will
be present.
&C. q. Stevens of Washington ID.
G, who was called to Earlville to at
tend the funeral of his father, was
a Sunday guest in the r. M. Marvin
home here, departing that evening
for his home Mr. Stevens is in the
employ of the government, being
an architect in the Treasury depart
ment.
Miss Julia Donnelly, who has
spent the last two years in St
Joseph's Mercy hospital in Chicago
in training for the profession Of
nurse. is at the home Of her father
Patrick Donnelly, in Adams town
ship for a two weeks vacation. This
lis Miss Donnellys graduating yeal
in the hospital.
The mission to be conducted
next week at st. Mary's church by
the Redemptorist fathers from st
Louis, begins next Sunday. Mass
will be read each morning during
the week and short service andser
mon given each evening. A specia
invitation is extended to non
Catholics to attend the services.
j. B. Adams Of Blair, Nebr.,
Who brought the remains Of Mr.. L
o. Stevens to Earlville for burial
was Monday visitor with his uncle
and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. R. M. Marvin
Philip Stevens, a son Of deceased. il
also here, a guest in the same home
Mr.. Stevens has been teaching fol
the past two years in the Agricul
tural College Of Michigan, but ha
now entered the University Of Chi
cago for a special course, and he vii
return to that city today, Wednesday
"A farmer near Webster had
peculiar experience sometime since
During the winter his wife missed
i fur collar and the most careful scare