Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-17
III. Fischer spent last week in

in Ryan last week.
Rev. Melchert of Ryan spent
Sunday here at the home of II
Fischer.
MIR. and Mrs. Lou Gates left
Monday for Michigan where they will
visit friends.
Clifton Keagy left for Chicago
the first Of the week to enter upon
his new duties.
Gold and very dry, has beer
the condition of the weather here
thus far this month.
-Achsa Drew entertained a few
OF her little friends at dinner April
IA, in honor OF her 18th birthday.
N. III. Hyde attended meeting
of Photographers in Cedar Rapids
Wednesday and Thursday of last
week.
MIR. and Mrs. Geo. Harrison re.
turned Sunday from Independence
where they have been visiting their
sons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Acres re-
turned home last week from St.
Petersburg, Florida, where they
spent the winter.
Arthur Bruce of this CITY has
been awarded the contract for the
of a fourteen thousand
dollar court house at What Cheer.
Tho Topek Capital says, wo-
mans idea of a good time is to sit
out under a tree in the woods with
Il piece of fried chicken in one hand
and a hare! boiled egg in the other.
Mrs. w. D. Hoyt and Mrs. f.
d. Richardson left this morning for
Oelwein as delegates from the local
society to the Presbyteral meeting
to be held there. Mr.. G. w. Snyder
represents the church and will at
tend. Also Rev. w. Ii. Ensign.
The friends here of Lloyd Jones
congratulate him upon having Sc
cured a position on the reportorial
staff OF the Sioux City Journal. This
paper is a leading Iowa paper and
the position therefore is an exceed
ingly advantageous one. Lloyd com.
menced his new work last week.
-Messrs. Geo. w. Durham, j. L.
Graham, and j. Fl. Stewart have
been appointed as a committee to
determine the selection of pastor
for the Congregational church in
the place of Rev. Suckow, whose
resignation will go into effect May
LIST.
Ed Grassfeld was here Monday
enroute from his home in western
Kansas to visit his brother, Pete, in
Upton. Mr.. Grassfeld thinks Kan
sas is mighty fine country and he
has reason to for the land he bought
on leaving here few years ago at
Sl5 NJ an acre is now valued at
$4,000.
The Misses Sue and Grace
Hoag left here Sunday for their
home in Aylmer, Ont, Canada
They have been guests here at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Harris
and are cousins of the latter. Miss
Sue has been very i'll and their
brother, DR.. Hoag, of Dubuque ac-
eompanied them short way on
their journey.
Miss Bertha Seeds of Iowa City
who is convalescing from a recent
operation for appendicitis, was here
last Thursday and Friday at the
home of her Uncle, G. j. Seeds.
Her father, Judge E. P. Seeds,
joined her here and the two pro-
ceeded to Beloit for visit at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Won
Oven.
Il. q. Wells is making a spec
ialty OF the Eaco brand of flour. He
has been selling it so long and with
such good results, that he sells it
with the guarantee that if the pur-
chaser does not find it satisfactory
he can return it and receive his
back. Read his advertise.
ment "The Reason Why" and then
try sack of Eaco flour.
Robert johnson of the Ellis
hotel was informed yesterday morn
ing at about 8 o'clock that his
mother, Mrs. John Kerr, was lying
at the point Of death at her home in
Manchester. Arrangements were
Immediately made by Mr.. johnson
for special train over the Illinois
Central and the race to reach Man.
chester before death should claim
his mother was commenced. The
effort was useless as Mrs. Kerr died
at about the time the train left Wa
terloo. -Waterloo Courier.
The postoilice department has
put an end to the mailing of post
cards sprinkled with glittering par
ticles OF mica, and those people who
buy such cards and mail them, lose
the money invested in the card as
we'll as the postage stamps. All
such cards are required to be sent
direct to the dead letter office
Postmaster Pond says that eighty.
six OF these cards were sent to the
dead letter office from Monticello in
one day. That means that abou,
S. was squandered in the purchase
Of cards and postage stamps.-Ex
press.
The Davenport, Monticello anc
Manchester lnterurban Railway
company, says a Davenport dispatch
promises to be the definite result
in the next few weeks, of the larg,
amount Of preliminary work that i.
being done in getting matters il
shape for organization for the build