Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-10-25
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Abbott are

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loo last Thursday.
H. f. Arnold was in Dubuque
Saturday on business.
DR.. H. NJ. Bradley was Du-
buque visitor last Friday.
Miss Emma Hutchinson was a
4 Dubuque visitor Saturday.
James w. Brazelton was in
Cedar Rapids on business yesterday.
MIR. and Mrs. Ed. Honan left
yesterday for Sibley, Iowa, for a few
days visit.
MIR. and Mrs. Fred Hruby OF
Dubuque visited here the latter part
of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Honan, OF
DEBORAH, visited friends here the
past few days.
-Chas. Campbell, formerly oper-
ator for the Illinois Central mere,
was in the city the first Of the week.
-Alonzo Wells left yesterday
morning for Mt. Vernon, where he
will resume his studies in Cornell
college.
Reserved seats for the Star lee
ture course will lie on sale at Smiths
drug store next Friday morning at
8 o'clock
Seth Brown and family have
moved back into town from Mr.
Browns farm where they spent the
summer.
Mrs. John Mertz and her sister
have returned from their western
! trip. They have been gone several
weeks and visited many points of
interest.
-Robt. Denton, A. Hollister, e. Ii.
Hoyt, B. Hoag and J. B. Hoag left
Saturday morning for Webster.
South Dakota, where they will spend
a week or ten days hunting.
Mrs. Geo. Hunt and children
leave to day for Whittier, Cal. to
spend the winter. 1t is possible
they will remain there permanently
and be joined by Mr.. Hunt later.
Manchester people sincerely regret
the departure of this estimable
family.
The Highland Mobiles will meet
in G. A. r. Hall next .Maonday even
ing, Oct. 80. This is our regular
meeting and some new members are
coming in with us. Supreme Pro
tector, J. L. Rose, will be here, and
wants TO see every member. Re-
member the date, October 30. Sup
per will be served.
Albert Larson, for the past six
years chief electrician of the Della
ware County Telephone Company,
has resigned his position. and leaves
for Chicago in few days to accept
a position in the Office of the Strow-
ger Automatic Telephone Co. Their
friends regret the departure of Mr..
and Mrs. Larson from Manchester.
Mr.. Larson has been a faithful and
accommodating employee of the local
telephone company and has con-
tributed his share toward bringing
the system up to its present state of
efficiency.
Accounting to the orders re-
ceived by the local agencies of the en-
press companies from the general
headquarters in Chicago there must
be Termination Of the shipments of
liquors by express anywhere within
the state of Iowa, except where the
consignor and consignee hold per-
mits showing that they have COM
piled with the provisions of the
mulct law. This does not affect the
shipments of liquors from outside to
points in Iowa. II intra state ship
ments are received for consignees
who cannot produce the GER
tiGcates as above required they
shoul be returned to the shippers
at once with fnll charges and agent
at shipping pint advised Of reason
of such return.
The annual meeting of the
board of directors OF the Dubuque &
Sioux City Railroad company, was
held in the Office of Secretary j. T.
Merry, in the Bank and Insurance
building in Dubuque, last Monday.
The directors in attendance at the
meeting were: President Stuyvesant
Fish, New York; First Vice Presi-
dent John G. yelling, Chicago; Sec
ond Vice President j. L. Harahan,
Chicago; John W. Auchincloss,
New York; Col. W. G. Bows Cedar
Rapids; George q. Litchy and H.
NJ. Reed, Waterloo. Other stock
holders in attendance at the meeting
were G. H. Beach and son, Major
Grinnell and Cornelius Vanderbilt
Of New York. Col. John Jacob
Aston was with the party until Sat-
urday, when he returned to New
York The old officers of the COM
pany were reelected and other bust
ness transacted. The eastern mem
bers of the party left Chicago Satur-
day and made trip to Omaha,
passing through here Sunday morn
ing. 1t is understood that the Off
Gals will pass through here again
next Thursday on tour of inspec-
ton Of the western lines.
Charles More, who stole team
of valuable driving horses, set of
new harness, new carriage and
robes and macintoshes of John Me
two miles west of Jubilee last Friday
!, night, was placed in custody by the
chief of police at Clinton last night
!, on orders from Sheriff j. d. Cald-
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