Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-10-23


Miss Maud GiIchrist is spend
ing few days in Anamosa.
/ MIR. and Mrs. w. G. Blake were
Cedar Rapids visitors Thursday.
20. q. Gleason and daughter
! Nellie were Winthrop visitors Fri
day.
Miss Jessie Maley visited last
week with friends in Rockford, Hi
nois.
! John Hetherington spent last
week in Belgrade, Nebraska, on
business.
Miss Marie Storey visited in
Fayette last week with Miss lrma
Snowden..
| The Misses Ida Rowe and Mat
tie Morgan we're Cedar Rapids yisi-
tors Friday.
Mrs. B. M. Amsden is visiting
in Portland. Iowa, with her brother,
Myron Avery.
Mrs. A. A. Mcintosh and
daughter Hazel were Dubuque Wis.
itors last Thursday.
Mrs. F. j. Rollins of Cleveland,
Ohio, is visiting with her mother,
Mrs. Roland Lewis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Priest of
Mitchell, South Dakota, are visiting
friends in this city.
Miss Sue Fleming visited in
Fayette the latter part Of last week
with her sister Bess.
Mrs. Louisa Cowell is enjoying
a visit from her daughter, Mrs. Ed.
Brown Of Greenfield, Iowa.
Mrs. W. d. Skinner Of Dubu-
que was a guest here last week of
Rev. and Mrs. j. E. Wagner.
w. d. Hoyt attended meet
ing of the National Federation of
Implement dealers in Chicago last
week.
Mrs. E. A. Meserve returned
Monday from Waterloo where she
has been spending the past two
weeks.
MIR. and Mrs. A. d. Brown were
in Sioux City last week attending a
meeting of the Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine.
Mrs. Lulu Carter Miner of
Rockford, Illinois, is guest here of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. @.
Carter.
We are requested to announce
that the short course school for
farmers is an assured thing between
February 10th and 24th.
Mrs. G. H, Glissendorf of
White Lake, South Dakota, is a
guest here at the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. II. l.. Bates.
Miss Mabel Miller of Indepen-
dence who has been clerking here
in the dry goods store of Blake &
Son has resigned her position and
returned to her home.
Mrs. Jennie Stacey who has
been visiting with friends here re-
turned Thursday 20 herhome in, In
diana. She was accompanied as
far as Chicago by Mrs. j. b. Eng
strom.
Mrs. Byrdie Mccarthy Clark
and little daughter, Millicent, who
are visiting here with the formers
mother, Mrs. M. @. Mccarthy were
over Sunday visitors in Waterloo
with M. Clark.
Mrs. Jennie Gates Greenfield
and son Carol of Hubbard came
here last week on account of the ill
ness of Mrs. GreenGeld's grand
mother, Mrs. Nancy Ackley, who is
living with her daughter, Mrs. Geo.
Gates.
-Mesdames A. j. Andrews, VIM.
Dudley and II. II Lawrence of this
city, and Mesdames H. G. Lynde
and Il. A. Tobie Of Earlville left
here Tuesday for Burlington, where
they will attend Grand Chapter of
the Eastern Star Order.
Monday afternoon a special
train went through here on the Iii
nois Central Railroad conveying the
directors Of the road on their annual
inspection tour. The annual meet
ing of the board was held in Chi
cago last week and the directors
start from that psint and 90 over
the entire I. @. R. R. system.
Friends here of Bert A. Simp-
son will be interested to learn that
he is now located in St. Paul and
has position as telegraph operator
in the main Offices of the Great
Northern Railway Company. Mr..
Simpson was for number Of years
previous to the recent telegraph OPP
orators strike, an operator in Chi
cago.
The friends of Hal Purkey will
regret to learn of the fatal accident
which befell him last Friday at
Dundee, Ill. He formerly lived with
his parents on the Hetherington
farm north of this city. Mr.. Purkey
!. who was sixteen years old was en-
ployed in machine factory and
: while going up to the third floor on
|. an elevator he attempted to get out
: at the second floor and another boy
), caught him to keep him in the ele.
7 vator and he became fast in such 8
manner that he was crushed to death
He was nephew of @. G. Pride Of
+ this city.
: A new sickness has appeared a
), one of our neighboring towns and i
: is said that there are several bae
cases. 1t is known as morbus sab
= battles. or Sunday sickness. and If Is