Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-03
Mr.. Geo. Simon went to Cocoon

John Funk was a Greeley visitor
Monday.
j. A. Thomas spent Saturday
at Edgewood.
j. A.. Thomas was Ryan visi-
tor, Tuesday.
w. R. Blake of Masonville was
in the city, Tuesday.
Miss Marian Davis of Delaware
spent Monday in this city.
Miss Blanche Lawrence spent
Tuesday in Cedar Rapids.
Miss Avis Goodwin of Cedar
Rapids spent Sunday in Manchester.
| Miss Ncva House of Waterloo
spent Sunday with Mrs. w. r. Gill
Miss Jessie Gilchrist of Edge
wood spent Sunday with friends in
Manchester.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. o. True are
visiting Mrs. True's brother in Des
Moines this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ned Griffith arc
the happy parents of baby girl
born Monday morning.
Miss Belle Mcintosh visited her
sister, Mrs. Oscar lIockaday IN
Oneida, Saturday.
Royal lIickox of the state of
Washington is the guest of relatives
and friends in this city.
Mrs. Mary Harris of Earlville
is spending a few days here with
Mrs. Theodore Hatch.
Mrs. Lawyer, formerly Madge
Cunningham, left Monday for
visit with her sisters in Chicago.
The Illinois Central depot is
being remodled to accommodate the
block system which is being put in.
John Logan, son Of Janitor
Logan of the Court house, is again
able to be out after an extended i'll
ness.
Miss Grace Cotter of Grinnell,
has accepted position as strenog-
rapher in Bronson, Carr & Sons
Office.
-Othello will be presented at the
Central opera house next Monday
night, May Sth, by the VIM. Owen
Company.
Attorneys w. L. Fitzgerald of
Marion and M. w. Herrick of Mon
ticello were in attendance OH the
district court here last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Meskimen
returned home Monday afternoon
from Carlsbad, New Mexico, where
they have been spending the winter.
Mr.. r. G.. Hitchcock who has
for several years past made his home
in North Oak. has returned to this
county and will spend the summer
here.
Mrs. Maurice Ham died at her
home near Spring Branch last Sun
day morning April 30,1905. The
funeral was held Tuesday afternoon
at Elkport.
Glen Lattimer, who has been
visiting at home here for the past
two weeks, will leave shortly for the
southwest IN the interest of the
Montana Pacific railway.
The Manchester House, which
has been closed for some time on ac-
count of the poor health of Mrs.
Kerr, reopened for business last
Monday. with John Kerr as "Mein
Host"
Geo. Talbot, wife and sister,
who have been visiting their
nephew, Theodore Hatch, and other
relatives and friends here for the
past two weeks, left for their home
at Winona, Mimi, last Saturday.
Watch where the crowds go
Saturdays and you will observe that
it is to the merchants who adver-
tise. 1t is taken for granted that
any man who has good thing,
wants the people to know it and
there is but one way Of letting them
know and that is by Advertising
Elk.
Rev. Dutton Of Upper Iowa
University at Fayette will lecture at
the M. Il. church Friday, Saturday
and Sunday evenings. Friday even
ing the lecture will be for the bene-
fit Of our high school and an admis-
sion fee Of fifteen cents will be
charged. The subject for Friday
evening will be Motherhood and
on Saturday evening he will take as
his subject "The Business Man and
the Boy"
The young men Sheppard,
Muckler and Hamblin who were in
dicted at the March term of the dis
taict court for larceny of chickens,
| plead guilty last Monday and were
each sentenced by Judge Blair to
pay fine of 500 and costs of pro-
secution. The offence is made a
serious one by tho statute and q
much greater punishment could
have been imposed, but Judge Blair
in determining the punishment took
into consideration their previous
goo Character and that this was
their first oifense.
Henry w Rule, former we'll
known citizen of this city, but for
several years past prominent resi-
dent Of Oklahoma City, suddenly
disappeared from his home about
| April Goth, and his whereabouts
was not learned by his family and
friends, who had instituted a search
for him, for several days until his
, wife received letter from him.
dated at Carlo, III, which, the