Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-11-15
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Crosier o.

Cedar Rapids last Thursday on legal
business.
Miss Matte Wicks of Coggon
was in the city last Thursday on a
business call.
The North Manchester Womans
club meets this week Friday with
Mrs. John Mertz.
Mr.. w. Hayden of Duluth, Mimi,
visited at the home Of Vernon Bur-
rington last week.
Ladies desiring employment
are referred to W. W. Ford's notice
| in another column.
Mrs. Elias Pinch of this city
visited at the home of Mrs. Joseph
Patrick in Dubuque last week.
Dubuque is having a number of
cases Of diphthcria and Waterloo is
troubled by typhoid fever.
Mrs. Harry Sullivan and
daughter of Waterloo we're in the
city this week visiting with rela
tives.
Miss Nell Sullivan visited with
friends in Dubuque and Freeport
last week, being accompanied as far
as Dubuque by her father.
Mrs. j. w. Brazelton visited
with friends in Ryan last week. Mr..
i. A. Thomas, who has been con-
fined to his home in this place since
an attack of paralysis, is about the
same, but is slowly recovering his
strength.
Hogs are quoted at $4.3O and
$3.50 this morning, and oats are
still holding ut % and % cents.
Corn marks 30 and 80 cents. Farm
hands for the hnsking of corn are
paid at q rate of 3 cents a bushel or
$3.50 per day
"A. Block Of Atlantic was in the
city Thursday. Mr.. Block has filled
many important offices in the order
of Odd Fellows in this state and is q
we'll known man in that order. He
was on his way to Waterloo, and
while in the city was a guest of A..
j. Collinge.
Rev. 7. E. Taylor has been
quite i'll at his home in Independence,
according to the Independence pa
pers. Mrs. G. H. Taylor will make
her home with her son in Independ-
ence this winter and will then prob
ably spend part of the year with her
daughter, Mrs Blanche Durham,
when she has moved into their new
home in the south.
The paved portions of the down
town streets were swept again Mon
day morning. This practice has
been neglected for some time, and
the appearance of the cutters was
very .displeasing. Manchester has
had quite time in getting her
streets paved, and should demand
that they now should be kept MS
clean as possible.
Edward Farwell Of Princeton,
New Jersey, arrived in the city last
week to ill the occupancy of electri-
clan in the Manchester Telephone
company's Offices, which was recently
vacated by AR. Albert Larson. Mr..
Larson expects to take vacation OF
several weeks before entering upon
any definite work, but will undoubt-
eddy settle in Chicago.
Engineer d. r. Young, who has
lbeen surveying for a new ~" at
Oneida OH the Manchester & Oneida
railroad, has finished his work, the
grading is completed and the steel
and ties are on the ground ready to
be laid. Since the line has been in
operation, the train has been obliged
to have its engine back down on the
return trip, and this improvement
will allow more convenient switch.
ling, etc.
Collinge & Durham state thai
the. real estate business is slowly
gaining in the south since the fever
was broken, and that it bids fair tt
outdistance all previous records il
the present state of affairs continues
to exist. Other real estate men ar,
of the opinion that this year ane
next spring will show the larges
! business that has as yet been trans
acted, as receipts of sales in Delaware
county alone show remarkable
increase.
Rev. James E. Wagner deliv
cred, on Sunday evening at the FRS
NJ. e. church, one of the ablest dis
courses which has ever been givel
by him since his pastorate in thi
: city. The subject was on the bibl
character Shamgar. The lesson ar
piled to the courageous aggressive
ness of the young man in every-da
. life over the objects which confron
him, and his victory over them, a
!. did Shamgar, who through faith cor
g quered and saved the Israelite nation
> Mrs 7. E. Fleming is recover
ing from the fall and dislocation {
n her right shoulder, which she SUI
9 tanned one evening last week as 81
! was about to cross the street nes
y the Hetherington & Pinch liver
9 In stepping from the curbing to Il
! paving, and being unfamiliar wit
q the grade and level of the street, 81
n fell and received the injury mel
/ toned. She was able to walk
+. Drs. Dittmer Offices, which is ne
,. by, and there she received medic
u caro-, and was taken to her home
n soon as possible. Her friends wi
II be glad to learn that she is recove
ing as fast as could be expected.
!, !, Ernest Croskey, son of Mr.. al
III Mrs. William +. Croskey, who Ii