Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-13

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a few days visit with friends here.
Albert Shoeppe and Alber
Smith of Strawberry Point transact
ed business in this city last Thurs
day.
/ W. j. Mcmahon, of Manchester
has enrolled as a student in the com.
mercial department of the Waterloo
Business college. Waterloo Times
Tribune.
-Chas. Cawley is at home for a
few days from Sioux Falls where he
has in charge the closing out of a
large stock of goods belonging te
Hogan Bros.
Geo. Keys has leased lot of A,
B. Hetherington on Main Street, just
west Of J. Fl. Aliens clothing store
and has begun the erection of a
blacksmith shop. The work on the
new building is being pushed rapid
ly and it is expected that it will be
ready for occupancy in the near
future.
AT the City Council meeting
held last week Monday evening DIR.
Geo. M. Dorman was elected city
councilman to fill the vacancy caus-
ed by the resignation of A. D. Work.
We believe that the city council
made a wise selection in choosing
their now member and we opine
that he will give entire satisfaction
as the representative Of the third
ward in the city meetings.
The holiday season is close upon
US, when gifts will be in order, and
much sought for. The merchants Of
this city have stocks bought express
ly for the holiday trade, and from
which the most fastiduous and hard
est to please customer, can make sat
isfactory selections. Look over the
advertisements in the Democrat and
YOU will thereby be advised of the
places where your wants can be sup
piled.
MIR. and Mrs. J. B. Hoag enter
famed number of their friends
from here last Sunday at their home
FIVE miles south of Lamont. The
genuine hospitality of the host and
hostess together with an elaborate
dinner made the day most pleasan'
one for their guests. Those present
were Messers and Mesdames, W. Fl
Hutchinson, L. L. Hoyt, Z. II. Hruby
Robt. Denton, H. NJ. Bradley, Hu
bert Carr and Messers Bert Hoag
@. l.. Leigh and E. H. Hoyt.
The Oscar Wellman farm Of
100 acres adjoining Nashville
which has been for sale for several
months under an order of the dis
trict court, made in an action fol
partition between the parties inter
ested in Mr.. Wellman's estate, has
been sold by Mr.. E. II. Stiles, the
commissioner appointed for that pur
pose. The purchaser is John Bieh'
and the price paid was $4,000 PEI,
acre. The farm is good one and
we'll improved and the purchaser
has bought it at a great bargain.
The Belmond Herald makes a
statement in It's last issue that will
undoubtedly set the people of that
town and the tributary country to
thinking. There is a possibility
that the -four mill at that point will
e removed or closed down, unless
local dealers and consumers of Aou1
use more of the product of the loca'
mill. This is as it should be; loca
Interests deserve local support
when the article produced is salts
factory. -Ackley World.
Mrs. Isabel GargLill Beecher's
recitals, at the City Hall Oper,
House last Wednes ay evening, pro-
badly gave better satisfaction thai
anything Of a similar kind ever be.
fore heard in this place. Mrs
Beecher is charming reader and
the people Of Manchester who heard
her are willing, we think, to agree
with Senator Deliver who says, thai
she has charm and fascination
beyond the genius Of either the plat
form or the stage Of today. The
second number OF the Star Lecture
Course was decided success.
1t is so seldom that an editor
acquires competency for his de-
clining years, that when one does i,
is sure to be commented upon. Fo,
the benefit of our brethren, of the
press, we clip the following from
the Decater Qnd. Democrat, show.
ing how one in Ohio accumulated a
snug fortune and the method thereof
San editor Of Ohio" says the Demo-
crat, "who started some seventeen
years ago with S25 is now supposed
to be worth 100000. He accumu-
lated wealth very rapidly owing to
his strict attention to business and
the fact that his father died few
months ago and left him $99,9S7.
The special sale at Burton
Clark's store which closed last Sat
urday evening, was one of the most
successful ever held in this city
The store was crowded every day by
customers anxious to take advantage
Of the liberal cuts in prices that Mr.
Clark gave purchasers at this sale.
Mr.. Clark has been engaged in bust
ness here for many years and has
established a reputation for honesty
integrity, and fair dealing second to
none. He carries large and vel
selected stock, and is content witt
making fair profits, and his patrons
have learned to know that when he
announces a special sale at reduced
prices that, unlike many so-calle(
special sale, he does Just as he ad