Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-08-01

Ryan will hold big base ball
tournament Aug 10th.
j. H. Crowley of Omaha is Wis
ting here with relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank D. Joseph
are the parents Of a baby girl born
July "a. 1906.
Mics Maud Bailey of Fayette is
guest at the home of Rev. and
Mrs T. E. Fleming.
j. w. Lewis and son, Roger,
and Leon Beardslee spent Monday
in Cedar Rapids.
tt p, Grey and Earle Kelsey
left Tuesday for Chicago where they
will be in the employ of Swift & Co.
Geo. Banta of iowa City is
spending a few days here with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M. S. Banta.
Mrs. Lewis Atwater entertained
a number of her friends at her home
on Franklin Street last Friday after
noon.
Miss Ella McClintick of Tnde
pendence was the guest of Mrs. w.
A. Gill and Miss Mabel Webber over
Sunday.
Mrs. Alba Schneider who has
been visiting here with relatives and
friends returned to Minneapolis
Friday.
Mrs. Allison Doolittle of Ell Paso,
Texas, is visiting here at the home
of her parents Mr.. and Mrs. J. F.
Mel ormick.
The Misses Mamie and Florance
Lippert of Oelwein are guests at the
home of their grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Ehler.
The Misses Lucy and Pauline
Appleby of Strawberry Point are
visiting here with their cousin, Miss
Florence Wilson.
Herbert Harris and Irwin Nc
Gee went to Chicago yesterday after
noon with two car loads of fat cattle
of their own raising.
MIR. and Mrs. Bert Laity f
Ludden, S. D., are visiting here at
the home of the latters parents Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Magill..
Mrs. Cal Atkinson and children
Verna and Harvey went to Stuart
last week for a visit at the home Of
Mrs. Atkinson's sister, Mrs. Ed
Brown.
Misses Annette Works and Mar
garet Jones visited in Hopkinton
over Sunday with Miss Elsie Jones,
who is attending summer school at
Lenox.
Last Sunday Rev. WI. Suckow
preached in Cedar Rapids and Rev.
H. w. Tuttle of Grinnell occupied
the pulpit in his place. Rev. Tuttle
was accompanied here by his family.
&C. W. Fryhofer, the govern
ment inspector who has been inspect
ing the butter packed at Morse &
Andrews for the navy, left Monday
for his home in Bloomer, Wisconsin.
On Sunday, August 9TH Lewis
G. Atwater will give an organ re-
cital at the Methodist Episcocal
church. He will be assisted by the
church choir and the service program
which will begin at 4 o'clock p. m
! Mr.. Atwater is organist of st. Pauls
Lutheran church at Washington, D
q.
"A pair of grafters are operating
in that vicinity says Clinton paper
with the smoothest graft Of the year
One enters business house, makes
a small purchase, and offers SIC
bill in payment, gets his change and
departs. Then his confederate en-.
tiers, makes purchase and hands
the clerk 81 bill. When his
change comes he insists that the bill
was $40, and says that the thing
can be settled easily. The $40 bill
was all the money he had, he says
Ia short time before he had occasion
to remember a telephone number
and jotted it on the bill. "See if 9t
Ii" is not marked on the bill il
your cash drawer, he says. IF you
find such a bill it is NINE" O
lcourse that inscription had beer
marked on the $40 bill by the frs
visitor, and the proprietor no longe
!, hesitates before such CONCLUSIVE
proof, but hands over the bill ant
calls down the unfortunate clerk
! who believes his sight has servet
: him trick.
L. S. Cass, vice president of tn
Chicago Great Western railroad, il
company with several interested
parties, visited the Backbone las
!, Saturday and looked over the sur
! rounding country with a view of con
structing a railroad to that place.
| the Board Of Control decides to lc
i cate the State Sanitarium for thu
Treatment of Tuberculosis at til
: Backbone it will be advisable t
r have railroad connections with a
, least ole Of the nearby railroads.
has been suggested that the Grea
Western build line from Dunde
!. north to the Backbone. Strawberr
!, Point parties have taken up tn
matter with much enterprise an
, energy and say that if this is don
: they will endeavor to build lin
; south from the Point to connect wit
! the other at the Backbone. We a,
!. informed that the sentiment of Cas-
!, township, Clayton county, througI
which the line would run is favol
able to voting a tax to aid the pr
9 ject and that petition is now b
o ing circulated among the voters
n that township to obtain favorab
expression from them. Notwitl
standing the amusing but harlnle
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