Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-05

e. II. Kline was in Waterloo
last week on business.
Mrs. G. j. Friend left Monday
for visit with friends in Graham.
Nellie Hatch is the guest OF
friends in Dyersvllle this week.
MIR. and Mrs. Henry Sharp Of
Earlville, were in town Saturday.
Mrs. Will Conway left Sunday
for visit with her mother, Mrs
Dolphin, at Kansas City.
Ralph Durham returned to
Clark, South Dakota, Friday after a
short visit with relatives here.
%. j. Abbott, who has been the
guest of his daughter, Mrs. George
Simon, the past week returned home
Monday.
Mrs. L. H. Brown returned to
her home in Creston, Monday after a
visit at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. T.
f. Carey.
Earl Davis left Monday morn
ing for a several months visit with
relatives in Denver, and other points
in Colorado.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Denton
left Monday afternoon for Muskogee,
|. t., after a visit here with friends
and relatives.
Mrs. B. B. Maydwell of Chica-
go and Miss Kathrine Kottock, Of
Los Angeles, Cal, are being enter
tanned at the home of S. w. Tren-
chard.
The Manchester base ball team
plays at Greeley next Sunday and a
special train will be run over the
NJ. & o. in order to accommodate
those who wishSto attend. 3, .
Mrs. Cornelia Atwater returned
Saturday from Kenosha, Wisconsin,
where she was called by the death
of her slster-in-law, who was 95
years of age, and a daughter of the
Revolu ion.
Nelson Atwater left Monday
for Nashua, Iowa, where he has Sc
cured the position as night assist
ant at the Illinois Central station.
Charles Newcomb will have charge
of the Postal Telegraph work here.
The Manchester Red Caps won
from the Winthrop team last Fri
day by score OF 10 to . and yester-
day played at Edgewood with the
Littleport team, the score resulting
10 to 9 in favor of the Red Caps.
The game yesterday between the
Manchester One-I league and Cedar
Rapids which was held at the fair
grounds in this city was closely con-
tested, the final score being 10 to 9
in favor of the home team.
Elmer X. Purvis of this city has
been granted a patent for the steam
turbine engine ON which he has
been working for several months
past. The claim is made that con-
sidering its power it is the smallest
steam engine ever made. twenty
horse power engine of this make oc.
cupying space of only 10 inches
in length, II inches wide and 20 in
ches high. 1t is designed especially
for marine and electric work
Elmer believes that he has got a
valuable invention, and has already
had several inquiries from capitalists
in relation to it.
The editor of the Cedar Falls
Re cord has evidently got the blues
hear him: "The printer seems TIC
be kind Of interloper and it is the
duty Of everybody to starve the
cuss out if possible. He is giraffe,
from away back. He does not have
to live like other people, pay his
hands, rent and other expenses, anc
support a family--had no business
having a family. Jew him down te
the last dollar and then give the
fool a kick because he is alive. Poke
fun at him because his property ii
mortgaged, and brow-beat him if Ii,
attempts to assert his manhood ant
endeavors to get the same treatmen
that is accorded to every other bust
ness. After this has been done, g
to the poor devil in his humilit,
and ask him to boom the town. Tel
him that the catalog houses ar,
hurting the business of the plac
and ought to have q severe drub
hing. Tell him to whoop it up 70
the churches, schools, lodges AM
the like. Tell him to work up
Fourth Of July celebration, stree
fair, or a horse show, in order t
draw people to the place. Tell hin
the city ought to have a gas plant o
some factories. and ask him to Civ
them a boost. If you have politica
ambitions, by all means get him t
proclaim your good qualities fror
the housetops. If you have don
something real ornery, go to hil
and threaten to maui him if he pull
fishes it. Thus in various and sun
dry ways can the life of the printe
be made one grand, sweet song,