Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-08
Jos. Strickland came in IN tbe

Mrs G. G. Barry came up from
Barryville and spent last week Will
many friends in Manchester.
-Dyersville News Letter; Charles
Georgen, of Rockville was a pas
senger to Manchester Memorial Day.
james Toogood spent tho great
er part of last week with his mother
and other relatives at Dyersville,
going down in his oldsmobile.
The Quaker Mill Co. brought
us an advertisement one day too late
for publication in this issue, but it
tells you where to buy your shorts
End shortsls the proper feed for the
city as well as the farm pig.
-Edgewood Journal: Miss Eva
Smith of Manchester spent a few
days last week with relatives here.
. IT Mr.. and Mrs. George Cross. Of
Manchester. were guests of the lat
ter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. O.
sevey, at this place Sunday.
Tom Martin of Earlville, the
the well known Dubuque travelling
man, is in the city and going about
with the aid OF a crutch and a cane.
Tom was very badly injured in the
wreck at Dyersville on the 23rd of
last February, when a fellow travel
ing man, c. M. Corrigan, was killed
All his friends are pleased to see
him and are congratulating him on
his good appearance. Telegraph.
In company with several of the
legal lights of this city, the writer
spent several hours last Thursday in
Petersburg, thriving German vii
lage in Bremen township almost on
the dividing line of that and Colony
township. Petersburg has three
large general stores, a blacksmith
shop, creamery and number of fine
residences. tits in the midst of as
rich, if not the richest farming com.
munity in the county. A catholic
church is now i'll course of const.uc-
ton there, which, when completed
it is estimated will cost $4,000.
OF this sum $4,000 has already
been subscribed, every dollar of
W hich will be promptly paid when
called for. The balance of the fund
required to complete and finish this
elegant edifice we are informed,
will be forthcoming as needed,
and when the church is dedicated it
will be fully paid for and free of
debt.
The mauy friends here of Miss
Kate Mumby were interested last
week to hear of her marriage to Rev.
John G. Dickey on last Wednesday
evening, the ceremony being per-
formed at the home of the brides
father Rev. Robert MUMMY, in In
dependence, by Rev. Tuttle of this
city. Miss Mumby was for a time
employed as stenographer in the
Durham, Norris & Stiles law Office,
and her business ability won for
her the esteem of all with whom she
was thus brought in contact while
her womanliness and beautiful
character made for her many friends
in the social life of Manchester.
Rev. Dickey is the son of Mrs. Bees
sic Dickey Of Hazel Green and has
but recently graduated from a
school of theology. He has accept.
ed the pastorate of the Amery, Wis
consin, Congregational church ana
he and his bride left immeS lately
for that place. They are an estim-
able young couple and that their
lives may be prosperous and happy
is our wish. Among the out of town
guests present at the wedding were
Mrs. w. H. Brownell and Mrs. S. q.
VanAnda of this city.
"A gang OF mountebanks, re-
presenting themselves to be con-
nected with a large New York City
hospital having branch hospital
in Chicago, have been working a.
mong the farmers of Dubuque county
for the past two or three weeks, and
it is estimated that they have OBJ
tanned from their victims notes
ranging from $4,000 to $25O.OO
amounting in the aggregate to sew
eral thousand dollars. The sharpers
represented to their intended dupes
that they were so sure their remed-
les would effect cure, that they
would not ask payment Of any money
until the purchaser became fully
satisfied that the remedies were all
that they were represented to be,
and would simply take a contract to
that effect. This contract, was pre-
pared by one Of the gang while
another one them occupied the vic
TINS mind by extolling to him the
merits Of the remedies. 1t was then
placed on table in a very careful
manner by one of the doctors"
who held the corners down SO that
the farmer would have no trouble
in signing it. Then the doctor
would take the paper, fold it up
very carefully and put it in a small
grip, which he carried for that pur-
pose. The farmer, of course, was
entirely unconscious of the fact that
the paper on which the con-
tract was written was OF particular
kind, nor did he know that while
singing his name to the contract he
was also signing it on note, which
had been very deity placed under
the alleged contract. The sharpers
caught a Tartar" in one of their
victims. About half an hour after the
swindlers had left him he jumped
on a horse with a revolver in his
pocket and hurried after them. He
caught up with them on the out