Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-01-03
BRIEF MENTION.
Write it 1906. Sure.

visitor part OF last week.
M. X. Brown is home for visit
with friends and relatives.
Mrs. w. E. Gildner is the guest
Of her parents at Nora Springs.
And still we have fine winter
weather, and excellent sleighing.
The merchants of this city en-
joyed an excellent holiday trade.
A. Hollister and son, Lawrence,
were business visitors at Hopkinton
last Thursday.
Mrs. G. H. Dufoo of Hopkinton
visited relatives and friends in this
city last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Kenyon
spent Sunday with the formers par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Kenyon.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Morley and
little daughter of Ackley are guests
Of relatives and friends in this city.
Miss Nellie Hatch enjoyed a
visit last week from Misses Clara
and Blanche Koopman of Dyersville.
MIR. Hugh Eckert of Minneapc-
lis, Minnesota, visited at the home
Of A. w. Gilchrist the latter Part of
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lysle Elder of
Dubuque were guests Of the formers
narents. Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Elder.
the first OF the week.
DIR. Z G, Dittmer was at Hop
kinton Wednesday evening where
he was one Of the judges at the Ora
torial contest held there.
Enough snow fell last Wednes-
day evening and Thursday to make
fair sleighing to the great Joy of
dealers in sleighing vehicles.
Clarence A. Torrey. assistant
Librarian of the University of Chi
cago is the guest of his parents, MIR.
and Mrs. G. o. Torley in this city.
The 1906 calenders of the Della
ware County Abstract Co. are larger,
though similar in style, to those of
last year. They are beauties and no
mistake.
No more criminal cases will be
tried at the term of the district
court now in session here, all Of
them not disposed Of having been
continued.
The annual installation of
officers and picnic dinner of the
Jones Mill Grange will take place
next Saturday at the residence of
Luther Sly.
n. G.. Dunn & Co. report the
business failures in the United States
for the week ending Dec. 30 1905,
numbered 22l, as against 252 for
the corresponding week in 1904.
1T was during the last week in
December. 1901, that the worst big
card that this section had Witnessed
for the twenty years previous. : No
blizzard here SO far this winter, and
it is to be hoped that we will have
none.
The next Iowa State fair will
be held earlier than heretofore, Au-
gust "a to 81 having been decided
upon, and it is the expressed inten-
ton OF its officers to make the COM
ing fair the greatest exposition i'll
the history Of the sosiety.
"A report from Anamosa is to the
effect that w. S. McWilliams, the
murderer Of his wife and five child
rem in BIC 'anan county, is notice
ably failing health, and it is predict.
ed that he will not live to expiate
his crime on the gallows lie is
seemingly nervous and in the per
durability which characterized his
attitude after the murder was com
mitted has forsaken him. He is
said now to BEGGING into a decline
which may meanhis early removal te
the hospital.
Samuel Hustled, an old time and
we'll known resident of Waterloo
was killed 8 O'Clock Monday morn
ing on the belt line tracks Of the
Illinois Central. He was slightly
deaf and had been to a bakery fol
food stuff, and when returning t,
his home over the Elm street cross
ing was struck by the Clipper
Death was almost instantaneous, til,
blow from the engine killing him
The body was thrown to the side o
the track, but was not badly cut o
bruised. He was brother Of Judg
Hustled Of Dubuque.
-.Who ever saw perfect man?
asked an Atchison revivalist, relate
the Kansas City Journal. There
no such thing. Every man has hi
faults, plenty of them" OF cours
no one had ever seen perfect MAJ
and consequently the statement {
the revivalist was received with S
lence. The revivalist continued
"Who ever saw perfect woman:
At this juncture tall, thin woma
arose. "Do you mean to say, madam
the evangelist asked, that you ha,
seen perfect woman?" "Well
can't jast say that have seen her
the woman replied, "butI ha,
heard powerful lot about herr
husbands first wife"
New York has taken step tn
should be followed by every state
view of the disasters which in rece
years have resulted, especially on i
Fourth of July, from the use of da
gerous toys and weapons by childre
BY an amendment to its Grimm
code, it makes it a misdemeanor
offer, sell, loan, lease, or give a
gun. revolver, pistol, or other firear
or any mir gun, spring gun, or t
pistol. or instrument, or weapon,