Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-12-19
BRIEF MENTION.


{ Observation-Disclosures llllIl
Misses j. Mildred Smith anG
Rose Sullivan were the guests O.
relatives at Dubuque last Saturday
Z Henry Arnold Shanklin, Presi
dens of Upper Iowa University al
Fayette, visited in the city the frs,
of The week.
Mrs. Harry Sullivan and SOL
returned to their home in Waterloo
Monday, concluding a short visit
with the formers parents.
Mira. D. B. Allen visited at the
hodne of her daughter, Mrs. W. s
Hart, at Cedar Rapids for several
days Of last week.
John j. Beacon of Ryan re.
turned Tome from s. D.. last Tues.
! day whore he purchased farm Of
I: 300 acres which joins the town Of
Roosevelt.
The North Manchester Woman's
Club meets with Mrs. Eva Burke
/ Friday Dec. 2lst, for our annual
election Of. officers. All members
try and be present.
Miss Gertrude Wallace was a
gnest at the Geo. w. Johnston home
s in this city during the past meek
{ She leaves today for Madison, Wis,
I where she will visit with relatives.
Miss Lillian Terrill left Thurs.
day for Tuscon, Arizona, where she
] will spend the winter. The rigors
!. of an Iowa winter make such trip
most. tempting at this time of the
I So gear
Mrs. Charlotte Preussner is now
Ct the home Of her daughter. Mrs.
4 b: Y. Williams, Of this city. She
( has been quite i'll for several weeks,
! and 4 nearly So years of age are
| hindering recovery.
; Messrs. Geo. Williams and Sherm
Z Turner and their families leave to-
] day for Redtield, South Dakota,
3 where they have rented a large
/ tract q land, and where they will
!; make their future home.
The students at the various COL
ssleges gre already returning for their
holiday vacation. The following
arrived during the past week: The
Misses Belle Armistead. Pearl Mid
! dleton, Maude Barr, Edith Wells,
and Clara Haeberle, and Alonzo
Wells.
Z Cd Martin arrived home the
fret d the week for short visit
with his mother. Cal is at present
I member Of the AL G.. Field Min
strel Company, and has been emil
i nently successful in his striking inn
persona tion of VIM. Jennings Bryan.
He will leave on Saturday for Zanes-
. vile, Ohio, where he will join his
I company.
Our Manchester correspondent
last week made mention of Henry
! Box Of Greeley, who lays claim to be-
ing the oldest voter in the county at
!. the age Of SO. Mr. Box is Just q
' = lid beside some Of the beyssdoWp
sstliis Way, There is Uncle A. "a.
Smith, srs, who'voted last month in
his 93d. year. and Uncle Robert
Wilson who thinks at 80 he is quail
fed to cast an intelligent ballot, to
cay nothing of Uncle David Bell,
Uncle A. B. Wheeless and lot of
other fellows past four-score who
have never skipped vote for SO
long that the memory Of man
runneth not to the contrary. The
fact is that there seems to be more
real patriarcls in this healthful
corner than can be found most any
other place.-Hopkinton Leader.
- Col. Fitzroy Sessions, for many
years well known resident of Cedar
Falls and prominent Iowa polite
ian. was brought to the Hospital the
first Of thA.week, having become vio-
lently inhe he at Marshalltown, where
he was a6 inmate of the Soldiers
Home, and after he had attempted to
7 kill another inmate with knife.
Col.Sessiqpsi is now man of 7G years
r ofage. Physically he looks we'll man
for his YEARS. Mentally he is a wreck.
For several years before going to the
Home hefhad been victim OF the
dreaded locomoter ataxia, and while
able to get around better than most
people suffering from this dread di
.sease the trouble was very notice
liable. He was admitted to the home
at Marshalltown August 90, 1905
from Cedar Falls.
1.-The following editorial clipped
from the Cedar Rapids Republican
makes most complimentary mention
of Mr.. Herbert Fleming, son of Rev
and Mrs. T. E. Fleming of this city
The editorial is as follows: Mr.
Herbert Fleming, formerly with th'
Cedar Rapids Evening Times, be
Y fore that paper went into the hand
of the present publishers, has BEEF
honored with al appointment a
editorial Hriter on the Chicago News
{, Mr.. Fleming, after graduating from
Chicago University has been doin,
newspaper work of one kind ant
another and he has made good" a
s they say, in the newspaper world
AS an editorial writer on the New
he willthave an enviable position il
the Chicago field and he will hav
a wide circle of readers. His Ceda
Rapids and Iowa friends send sin
cerest congratulations to him.
The local High School baske
ball team was defeated by the fas
Lenox College team in an exciting
contest played last Friday eyenin
at Hopkinton. The lineup was a
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