Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-11-02

DG raul.
Mrs. Chas. Aldous spent las
week with friends at Hopkinton.
MIR. and Mrs. Leslie Hoyt spen
Wednesday with Lamont friends.
Bert MCGOWAN of Brushton
New York, is guest in the Ware
home.
e. Fl. Hoyt and Edw. Hruby
were Lamont business visitors Wed.
nesday.
MIR. and Mrs. Welcome Abbott
and sons are home from their east.
ern visit.
Our Hopkinton readers will be
interested in III. L. Mains change OF
adv. this week.
Miss Bessie Edmunds is home
from an extended visit in Chicago
and Springfield, Illinois.
The Manchester Basket Ball
team against Epworth at Central
Opera house, November l1th.
Atwood Weber is here flom
Dell Rapids, South Dakota, for a
visit with relatives and friends.
Doctors II. A. and e. G. Dit
timer enjoyed a visit from their sis
ter, Miss Lily Dittmer of Colesburg,
last week.
Election next Tuesday and, as
usual the week of election, the
Democrat will be issued one day
late in order to publish the returns.
The Cedar Rapids store has
bargains in dress goods, silks, I'M
derweah, blankets, oil cloths, rugs,
furs and cloaks advertised in it's
space this week.
Married. Monday evening at
the j. NJ. Pearse home on the west
side, Esquire Pearse officiating, AL
len R. Trower of Lamont and Miss
Mertie Romig of Edgewood.
Mrs. Anna Ward had a houseful
of children home for Sunday visit,
James Ward and family and Mr., and
Mrs. John Ward, all Of Carbonate,
ILL.,, being here on that day.
DR.. and Mrs. Webber returned
Monday evening for their home in
Cherokee, thus concluding a very
pleasant three or four days visit
with relatives and friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Whitman
Of Collins Grove township have the
sincere sympathy of a community of
friends in the loss of their six weeks
old babe. The funeral services were
held to-day-Tuesday.
Rev. Father Hartigan, who has
been pastor of the Marion Catholic
church for the past eight years,
has been given the Strawberry Point
parish, thus succeeding the late
lamented Reverend Father Rowe.
At the Sixty-third annual con-
,yention of the Iowa Baptist Associa-
6ln held at Marshalltown last week,
Rev. Caul of this place received the
distinguished honor of being cleo
ted president Of that august body.
Buchanan county farms are not
among the things that are on the
bargain counter. Offers of $3.50
an acre for farm of 272 acres, and
$lO5 an acre for another of 200
acres, both lying near Independence,
were refused last week. Bulletin
journal.
The indications are that there
will be more scratched tickets than
usual at the coming election. Those
voting a scratched ticket should let
the circle at the top of the ticket
alone, and make an X in the square
/ before the name Of each candidate
they wish to vote for.
The Eastern Star Home has
been located at Boone, that city
having made an exceptionally good
proposition for its location there
and the city itself being considered
more central than Parkersburg,
Manchester or Mason City, the
other three competing points.
An Exchange relates that an
English sailor was watching a
Chinaman who was placing dish
of rice by grave. When do you
expect your friend to come out and
eat that?" the sailor asked. Same
tim your frien' come out to smellee
flowers you fellow put" retorted Ii.
-Dyersville Commercial: John
Peters of Earlville was visiting
friends here last Wednesday and
talked politics with them. Mr.. Peters
is all right and will vote the demo-
cratic ticket straight. IS 9 Peter
Even Of Manchester spent a few
hours visiting his old time friend
in Dyersville Tuesday.
Coggon- Monitor: s. 7. Burt
Of Manchester, deputy Grand Presi-
dent Of Iowa Legion Of Honor, is in
town. Mr.. Burt is going to organize
a lodge here, and will have the
Cedar Rapids degree staff of six
teen ladies here to put on the work
sometime in the near future. This
order recently organized new
lodge at Manchester with 81 mem
bers.
In the fourth and last butter
scoring contest at the Worlds Fair
last week, New York man carried
off the honors, scoring 96a; Iowa
with score Of 9644, won by Fl. D.
Went Of Magnolia, taking second.
The high scoring of New York was
surprise to the dairymen who had
expected either Iowa or Minnesota
to lead as they. have previously done
in the three preceding contests.
Lamont Leader; The death of
Al T. I ~