Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-11-09

Mrs. W. Fl. Hutchinson spent
Tuesday in Dubuque.
Guy Crosier spent Sunday with
friends in Cedar Rapids.
Oliver Leib of Earlville was in
Manchester Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Joseph Hutchinson will
entertain a company Of friends next
Monday evening.
Miss Grace Ford is visiting
relatives in northern Minnesota
where she went last week Tuesday.
"A number of the girls" will
spend Friday with Mrs. Sherm Har-
ris at her pleasant home in Prairie.
Clyde and Claud Tyler have
gone on hunting trip to Platt,
South Dakota where they expect to
remain month.
Mrs J. F. Merry very pleasant
ly entertained the members of the
Outlook Club at six o'clock dinner
last Friday evening.
Mark Goodrich, Lloyd Hank
ness and Harry Wiley Of Indepen-
dence attended the Rally at this
place Saturday evening.
j. V. Murray of Sand Springs
was a Wednesday visitor in Man
chester having brought in the re-
turns from his precinct.
The Cedar Rapids store adv.
this week has good many sugges-
lions that the Democrats woman
readers will be pleased with.
-Mesdames Mary Z. Hoag and
Mary Bradford left Thursday morn
ing at one o'clock via the M. & o.
and Great Western for Biloxi, Miss
issippi, where they will winter.
j. r. Toogood left Monday for
st Petersburg, Florida, expecting to
remain few days in Chicago where
today Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Acers
join him for the southland trip and
winters stay.
The Maccabee ladies' bazaar and
dance last Friday afternoon and
evening was pronounced success
alike by the entertainers and the
entertained. Financially the purse
of the society was enriched about
$50.
Pastor A. w. Caul informs us
that mis- statment occurred in our
issue last week when he stated that
he was elected president Of the Iowa
Baptist State Convention. Judge
Parker Of Clinton is the president
of that body. Rev. Caul was elected
president Of the Pastoral Conference
of the state.
The play "Thelma" had fair
attendance at the Central Opera
house Friday evening. The Com
pany was above the average in abili-
ty and the play itself was full of
interest. The musical speciality in
troduced between the first and Sec
ond acts by the VanCool5s was thor
oughly enjoyed, being the best of it's
kind ever heard here.
The Haskell Indian Band at the
Central last Wednesday afternoon
drew a large crowd and gave very
pleasing and creditable program.
The Lecture Association took in
more than S43 at the door, which
is considerable when one remembers
that the tickets for the lectur
course are sold before the course is
contracted for, and this sum is
sales over and above tickets already
taken.
Manager Conger of the Central
Opera house has secured Chas. Ell
lis in your Neighbours Wife, for
an appearance here Friday evening.
Mr.. Ellis will be remembered by
virtue of his playing in a Modern
Woodmen benefit performance in
this city some years ago, at which
time he made a very pleasing i'm
preston. Your Neighbours Wife"
is laughter provoking farce, pure
and simple, and is designed to en-
terrain you we'll.
w. Fl. Lampman is putting up
a handsome building, 66x22, two
stories high, on west Main street
and by the lst of December he plans
on being installed therein with a
neat and up-to-date laundry outfit.
The heating and lighting will be
done by the Manchester Light, Heat
and Power Co., the Company's plant
joining Mr.. Lampman's building
and makingthis a convenient luxury.
The upper story is to be finished as
living rooms and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lampman will thus be very pleas
antly as well as conveniently lacated.
DIR. Edward Burton Mcdowell,
lecturer, traveller and correspond
ent, is the next number on tho lee
ture course. He will appear at the
City Hall Tuesday evening, Novem-
Der Is, his subject having been an
nounced as Samoa" DR.. Mellow
ell will also lecture in the afternoon,
at 4:30, on Through the Arizona
Canon and Yosemite to the Glaciers
of Alaska, the general public not
being admitted to this matinee which
is solely for the pupils of the public
schools. StereopticoH views will
add to the fascination of the lectures
and DR.. Mcdowell will have large
audiences both in the afternoon and
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Simons and
son. Arlo, and Mrs. Simon's brother
George Abbott, Of the Globe hotel
were called to St. Anthony Saturday
evening by the sudden death o.
Mrs. Simons' and Mr.. Abbott's