Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-27

Miss Mae Rooney is home from
Forest City, Illinois, for the holi-
days.
Miss Bertha Beck of Webster
City, is guest at the Mrs. s. l..
Crum home.
Harry Stewart sings the merits
of "Faultless" goods. Read his adj
vertisement.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Leunse OF
Cedar Rapids spent Christmas with
relatives at Edgewood.
Lloyd Jones who is attending
school at Cedar Rapids is home for
the holiday vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. jackson. and
children OF Dubuque spent Christ
mas with relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Briggs of
Minneapolis, are guests of relatives
and friends in this city.
Those needing trunks, travelling
bags, etc., will do well TO read the
advertisement of Gildner Bros.
Lee Gilchrist went to Edgewood
Tuesday morning for a few days
visit with friends of that place.
Rev. and Mrs. II. P. Langridge
were guests of relatives and friends
in this city the first of the week.
Mrs. Clara Merrill of Sioux
City is visiting relatives and friends
in this city guest at the s. A.
Steadman home.
The various churches of this
city held Christmas exercises last
Saturday evening. The exercises
were we'll attended.
Mrs. james Kidder and child
rem of Ellwood, Iowa, are guests of
MRS. Kidder's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh Middleton.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Tucker Of
Maziemanie, Wis, were guests of
the formers parents Mr.. and Mrs.
L. E. Tucker, Tuesday.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Sand Creek Church will meet with
Mrs. William Kieser on Thursday
January 4th. Gentlemen are invit-
ed for dinner. Members will please
bring we'll filled baskets.
The following marriage licenses
have been issued by tho County
Clerk during the past week: j. L.
Laffeholz and Louisa NJ. Gardner,
William Deutmeyer and Annie A.
Sherbring and George Chambers
and Margaret Mccullough.
The Beacon Medicine Com
paiy have moved their plant from
the Wells Fargo Express building
to the Langhammer Building on the
corner of Madison and Fayette
streets. The change was made
necessary by the rapidly increasing
business of the company.
During the holiday rush at the
stores last week, some person took
from one of the novelty counters
(throngh mistake probably a. brush
and comb belonging to a toilet set
The party who has these articles
says the proprietor, can have the re-
naming part Of the set bv calling al
the store.
Christmas, the holiday of al
holidays was joyously observed in
Manchester this year, as it always
has been since Manchester wa.
Manchester and always will be
Christmas is holiday that comes
nearer the home than all other holi
days. Tender recollections are call
ed to mind, animosities are for
gotten or erased, and all that is ten
der and true in our lives as people
tries to make day of JOY and re
! joicing for everyone
: There was almost $25,OOO.O'
} worth Of butter shipped from low;
during the past year. The tota
9 shipments aggregated over $4,000
Q 600 and brought an average of abou
: 25 cents pound. The bulk of til
expert butter was sent from the fol
. lowing counties: Polk, 5,S27,S11
! Woodbury., 8,O73,201; Jones, 2,2Se
:, 3l6: Bremen, 2,795,237; Clayton
+ 8, l49, 763; Delaware, 2,474,lO9; Dr.
!, buque, 2,56O,863; Fayette, 1866, 6S!
~ The shipments are about 1871 in e,
q cess of those in 1904. The aboy
~ figures do not represent the pound
s of butter produced in the countie
q named. The largest shipments CON
y from the counties in which are loca
= ed the larger cities, where much
the cream is churned. Delawal
a county is near the head of the Ii
- in the matter of actual number {
10 pounds of butter produced.
h. "A special meeting of the scho
Of board of this Independent Soho
of district was held last Tuesday eve
ID ing for the purpose of settling wi
ct Henry Welterlen. the contractc
y who built the addition to the Ce
IN trail school house. There was four
es to be balance due him of $3,40l
II % and an order was directed to
OF issued to him therefor. During t
he progress of the work number
re changes were made in the origin
r. plans. AS a rule where such is t
ge case, the extra charges for same
as as large contract as this O
Ter amount to considerable, but Il
he case was an exception as the cred
ms given the district by Mr.. Welterl
ill we're largely in excess of the
charged for by him.