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


this issue an extraordinary display
of holiday goods.
MIR. and Mrs. Geo. Reyes and
daughter Dorothy visited friends
and relatives in Dubuque the first
Of the week.
IT. P. O'Connor and Nathan
Fenchmachster, who reside south Of
town, left yesterday for Willow
River, Minnesota, to look after land
interests.
Mrs. Louis Heitman of White
Sulphur Springs, Montana, is a
guest at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lepley, on
Franklin street.
Mrs. H. @. Irwin of Leeds, N. D.
who has been a guest at the home Of
her sister, Mrs. w. H. Ensign, fol-
several days past, returned to her
home the first of the week.
The many friends hero of Mrs.
Laurie Bronson, of Muskogee, Ind.
Territory, will be pleased to learn
that she expects to spend holiday
week with friends in this city.
There are but eleven more shop
ping days before Xmas, and it is to
the advantage of botl the shopper
and merchant that you do your
Christmas shopping as early as
possible.
Sch the advertisement of Fl. G.
Lovelace, who has opened a black
smith shop in the building on Frank
lin street north of and adjoining
Young & Doty's Agricultural ware
house.
The friends Of r. G. Norton
will regret to learn that he has been
confined to the hospital in Des
Goines during the past week, being
the victim of a severe attack Of
jaundice.
Mr.. A. F. Clark departed yes.
ierday for Baskerville, this state,
where he will visit for several weeks
with relatives, later going to Red
field, South Dakota, where he will
remain during the winter.
Mrs. A. r. LOOMS of Manches.
ter, is q guest of Mrs. +. H. Hoyt
this week. She has many friends
here who are glad to know of her
excellent health at the age of eighty
six years.-Lamont Leader.
AT tie home Of. Chas. Sebuhr
near Manchester, Friday, November
%, occurred the marriage of Chas.
Brakenfeller from Chicago and Miss
Emma Jacobs of Dundee. Rev. E..
Melchert of Ryan performed the
ceremony. The groom has rented a
farm near this city and will move
onto it soon.
e. E. Goddard was in tie city
last week packing his goods that
were stored here, and shipping them
to Abba, this state, where he will
open confectionery and ice cream
parlor. Mr.. Goddard is very san
guine over the prospects in his new
location, and we sincerely hope that
they may inaterialize.
The implement dealers elected
j. j. CASTOR Of Winterset, president,
and W. D. Hoyt of this city, vice
pre- sident, at their convention in
sDes1 Moinss Thursday sHoIner
Pitcher, of Spencer, was placed on
the directory board. J. d. Arm.
knoecht will be elected secretary to
succeed D. NJ. Grove, of Nevada.
Announcement was made that an
agreement had been made with the
harvester trust 80 that canvassers
will not be placed in territory where
the local merchants object.
Strickland W. Gillian, humorist,
the third number on the Lecture
Course, appeared upon the local
platform Saturday evening. His
very appearance provoked laugh;
and during the entire entertainment,
good, hearty laughter dubbed forth
spontaneously from the appreciative
audience. The lecturers imitation
Of the thick-tongued person con-
vulsed the little children present,
who shrieked with merriment as the
imitation continued The lecture
was humorous and pathetic, poetical
and philosophic, with sparkling
wit evidenced throughout which
kept the audience smiling.
The Sears, Roebuck company
has made an announcement that il
will discontinue its grocery business.
The new pure food laws give prom.
Use of making 1t unpleasant for the
vendors Of adulterated and impure
food products. If a concern will
deliberately sell you food which is
unfit to eat what may you expect it to
w IL eoitAHS you oIneI aItlclos! IL
it not better to 60 to the home mer-
chant where you can see what you
buy before you pay for it and to
whom you can return your pur-
chases if you have any reason for SC
doing? The goods sold by the large
mail order houses are neither cheap.
er nor Of better grade but in most
cases inferior to the goods purchas.
ed Of your home merchant.
The Illinois Central Railroad
has settled the claim of E. b. Gould
against it for damages for serious
injury sustained by him by reason
of a collision last February in the
Company's yards in this city, caused
by a freight train running at an il.
legal and dangerous high rate o.
speed in violation of the law and o.
the rules of the company, the train
collided with IN empty coal car
driving it up against the water tanl
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