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

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New Year.
Cool Williams visited in Dyers-
vile part of last week.
Clyde Crosby Of Earlyille visit
ed friends in this city last Tuesday.
prof. w. B. Patty is spending
the holidays with his family in this
city.
Mrs. Paul j. Gilbert is visiting
friends and relatives in Minneapo-
lis, MINI.
Mrs. Fred Hruby of Dubuque
is the guest of friends and relatives
in this city.
Miss Rose Baker is spending
her holiday vacation at her home at
Mechanicsville.
Attorneys, w. II. Norris and E.
b. Stiles attended the live stock show
at Chicago last week.
Mrs. s. V. Hubbell Of Greeley
was a guest at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Coolidge last week.
The Friday Afternoon Club
will discontinue their meetings un-
til the first Friday in January.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Brown of
Stewart Iowa spent Christmas with
relatives and friends fin this city.
90. II. Wilson Of Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania was the guest of his
Uncle, j. p. Wilson in this city last
week.
Frank Williams is here from
De Smet South Dakota for visit
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. III.
v Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Malyin en-
joyed visit the first of the week
from their grandson, James, Crowley
Of Omaha Nebraska.
Miss Edith Ram of Chicago is
visiting relatives and friends in this
city, a guest at the home of her
mother, Mrs. II. L. Ram.
Mrs. o. 2. Huene was a Chicago
visitor the latter part of last and the
first Of this week, being a guest of
her daughters who reside there.
Miss Florence Day Of Manches-
ter, Iowa, is guest at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Day and of Mr..
and Mrs. Merriam on West Broad
way. Miss Day expects to spend the
winterin the city.-Muskogee Ind
Ter. Phoenix.
The many friends of Edward
Middleton, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh Middleton, are congratulatina
him onhis appointment as mail clerk
on the Ft. Dodge Sioux City run.
Mr.. Middleton previous to this APP
pointment has had night run from
Dubuque to Sioux Citp and the new
run is much preferable to the old as
it is a day run.
Up in Sioux county they have
been having a farmers institute
,witha corn exhibition and prizes
and the yield which Some ; d. the
prize acres showed isastonishing.
The man who won first prize
showed yield Of 1877 bushels
per acre; and there were seven who
had q WELD Of 100 or more bush
els Of corn to the acre.
Among the Manchester students
who have returned home to spend
the holiday vacation are: VIM. Sean
Ian of Toledo Iowa; Carl Norris
and Harold Durham, of Beloit, Wis
consin; Gail Bronson Of Mt. St
Josephs College at Dubuque; Miss
es Pearl Middleton, Clara Haeberle
and Myrtle and Edith Wells Of Cor.
nell College at Mt. Vernon; Harry
Seeds and Miss Emma Suckow Of
Iowa State College at Grinnell and
Floyd Arnold Of the Iowa State Uni
versity at Iowa City.
The following teachers in the
Manchester Public Schools are
spending their holiday vacations
out Of town. Miss Ethel Cooper al
her home at Grass Lake, Michigan
Mrs. Cora Pelly at Cedar Rapids
Miss Amy Boggs and Miss Lydis
Keep at Dss Moiaes; Miss Minnie
Young at Waukon; Miss joanna
z Christianson and Miss Hilma Self
strom at Chicago; Miss Margare
Myers and Miss Cora Henderson a
Waterloo and Miss Jennie Robin
at Baxter
The cement users OF Iowa ar
going to hold a convention at Anne
on the 9Th and 9th of next February
It is also understood that the manu-
facturers Of cement and cement us
q ing machinery will make exhibits 9
their goods in the new engineerin
hall of the Iowa State College, dun
ing the convention. Most of tn
cement blocks heretofore manufact
ured arc not compact enough. The
absorb too much moisture. What
needed is q machine at reasonabl
price that will make good powe
pressed cement blocks, at cost nj
much. if any, in excess Of the co
Of the ordinary blocks now bein
made by hand machines.
The Supreme court has ju
fled q decision Of state wide int
est. A Mrs. Wilson brought an a
ton against Wappello county f
damages for the death Of her hu
band, killed in runaway acci6er
caused as she alleged, by defecti
highway. The court decided til
the county is not liable; that u
duty Of keeping the roads in repa
desolves upon the township tsuste'
and further says; There is no ~
Of decisions recognizing such du
on the part of the county or decl,
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