Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-20
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is evening.
Band conces pGister is home
Miss FloYs
for vacatiaE s.hert of Ryan was
-RevA sday
in this q Of Ryan was in Man
~ la saturday.
CHI Mrs zach is spending few
a s.1s aaterloo with friends.
ksrJ-R. Toogood is enjoying a
: fist from his mother, Mrs. G. I'll.
Toogood.
Jim" Brown, now of Belmond
is in Manchester visiting relatives
and friends.
Miss Alpha Millette is here
from West Virginia spending few
days with friends.
The Misses May Crosier and
Gertrude De Long spent Saturday
at Cedar Rapids.
Miss Julia McGrew of Cedar
Rapids is here visiting her sister
Mrs. T. L. Crosier and other friends.
The stork stopped at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Mitch Thurs
day, leaving them an eleven pound
boy.
MIR. and Mrs. j. w. Morgan
are here from Cedar Rapids, guests
in the home of the formers sister,
Mrs. A. Skinner.
Miss Bertha Seeds is taking
course of professional training as
nurse in the State Homeopathic Hos
pital at Iowa City.
Miss Gertrude Bord, formerly
a resident Of this place, is here for
a visit with her aunt, Mrs. George
Toogood and other friends.
DR. and Mrs. Lindsay and Miss
Florence are ENJOYING the Worlds
Fair sights. DR.. Lindsay is ex-
pected home to-day-Wedn
Ms. j. d. Roney, her mother,
Mrs. Tierney, Misses Mae and Fan
ME Roney, and Master John Tierney
left Saturday for Deadwood, South
Dakota, fol a couple of months stay.
w. j. Cowan expects to leave
for Chicago, his home Saturday
concluding a three weeks visit with
relatives and friends. While here
he was the guest of his sister, Mrs.
Geo. Il. Simmons.
This is the second week OF
Brown, the Furniture Mans July
Clearance sale and he is putting a
large and complete line of carpet
samples, that make exquisite rugs,
at prices that are below cost.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Kramer
are in Milwaukee, where Mr.. Kramer
as resident agent of the North
western Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
is attending the annual meeting of
the solicitors of that company.
j. j. Pentony in addition to the
two burros owned by him for some
time and the thirty five received
Friday, is harboring stray one.
The owner of same may have the
lost pet by calling at the Pentony
home.
-Messers Durham and Vain
right had large basket of luscious
peaches sent them from the fruit
farms Of their Mississippi lands last
week. Such fruit surely speaks
louder than words of the combined
possibilities in the Mississippi
climate and soil.
j. Pcntony received his carload
of burros Friday last and they are
being pastured-thirty of them
in the lot adjoining the Bellnap
home where Mr.. and Mrs. Pentony
live. Those who are judges say,
they are typical burros, the entire
bunch being above the average Of
excellence.
The Delaware County Tele-
phone Companyis this week paper
ling and painting the rooms former.
ly occupied by the Briggs Cigar Co,
Cadjoining their present suite in the
| City Hall block, preparatory to NOV
ing apart of their exchange and the
book keepers desk therein. A new
hardwood floor and handsome com
bination standing desk and rail are
also being added to the comforts o
the new office.
Paving is on in earnest and on,
block Of Main street is well nigh i'm
passable today, while the curbing OF
both Main and Franklin streets il
practically finished. At noon toda,
a well defined strike was on among
the shovellers who agreed that whel
one o'clock was called they woul;
walk out should the demand 70
higher wages be turned down. How
ever, when the boss called Con
o'clock" the shovellers ran for thei
t shovels and the strike failed to ma
: terialize.
3 The death of Mrs. V. Z
y Witheral occurred at her home fou
miles north of Manchester las
Saturday. Mrs. Witheral was fift
Q eight years of age and left survivin
:. her, three sons, one living i
r Oregon, one in Des Moines and on
9 in this city and one daughter,
g Mrs. Stone. The funeral service
81 We're conducted at the home Nor
! day morning by DR.. Fl. o. Pratt {
a the M. Z. church, and intermel
IS was made in the Manchester Gem,
}, tery.