Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-05-10
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Will Eldredge spent Sunday in
Dubuque.
Leslie Hoyt was in Chicago
last week.
james Broadie spent Sunday in
Iowa City with friends.
H. A. Granger spent several
days last week in Cedar Rapids.
j. p. Foley is here from Gales
burg, Ill.,, for visit with relatives,
Hon. R. w. Tirrell was in Har-
tington, Nebraska, on business last
week.
Mrs. j. ii. Allen is visiting
relatives and friends in Galena, Iii :
nois.
George Clemens is here from
Washington for visit with relati-
yes and friends.
Misses Hannah and Lizzie
Behan of near Ryan were Manches-
ter visitors Wednesday.
Mrs. Harriet Amsden Summons
whose home is in Pennsylvania, is a
guest of her mother, Mrs. b. M.
Amsden.
In publishing the teachers
salaries last week the Democrat had
two mistakes-Cora Pelly's salary
per month should have been $42. so
and Eula Davis $4,000.
M. +. Leroy has received word
from his son Allen stating that his
boat landed in Germany on time.
lie said he had very pleasant jour
ney and didn't get at all sea sick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Enos Hamblin
left Thursday morning for Eureka
Springs, Arkansas, where they ex-
pect to make their home for a time at
least. Mrs. Hamblin has sister
living there, and it is to be near her
that they have concluded to leave
Manchester where they have resided
for SO many years. Many friends
here regret their departure.
Britt Tribune: And now they
are talking about 500 year not be-
ing enough to clothe a woman. Why
when, Mother and l" were first
married $G5 would have bought all
the clothes both of us had for two
years, and we were happier than
two fddlers at wake. What diff
erence did it make whether we had
clothes or not anyway? 1t was
warm enough in summer so we
didn't need clothes, and we had to
work so hard in the winter to keep
from starving that we could keep
warm without clothes. Part of the
time we didn't have enough clothes
between us to wad a gun-that is
good clothes, just what we had left
but we enjoyed life to beat the
band. Only once did we ever get
real hard up. We were expected to
go to a funeral and had only one
shoe, "a pup had eaten the other one
while we were blowing barefoot but
fortunately a fellow near by who
had wooden leg had a pair and he
didn't need but one, SO we traded
the ono for a pair and he wore peg
leg and we both went. You bet
there was time when Mother
clothed herself for less than $65 per
year, and she would again if she had
to and not make great deal of fuss
over it either.
When Andrew Carnegie obser-
Yes how the American people have
warmed up to that Cenesha, Wis,
-who helped a poor boy
carry wash" through the streets
to carriage factory, where he
bought the lad push cart and sent
him on his way rejoicing-it ought
to be hint to him that he might
improve the character of his gratui-
ties. Everybody who read the little
incident Of the wash-basket. voted
the Kenosha millionaire trump.
The same days paper containing it,
told of Carnegie's giving $4,000,
600 as an endowment fund for dis
abled college professors but nobody
thought much about it except to
wonder how it was possible for one
man to honestly accumulate!so much
money. Mr.. Carnegie's gifts for
various laudable purposes now
aggregate $l3O,O00,000. He has
dotted the land with libraries, given
pipe organs right and left, and
helped many schools and colleges,
but for all his gifts he has received
small return in the way of gratitude.
That Wisconsin millionaire, on the
other hand. gave but helping hand
and push-cart to poor boy, and
in an instant won the gratitude Of
Enthusiastically Democrat.