Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-08-14
County Correspondence.

illness of his sister, writes that she
is improving
j Mrs. George Larrabee is growing
worse with but little hopes of her
recovery. Mrs. ]. E. Flaucher is
with her at the Fred Larrabee home.
Bernard Stead arrived here Satur-
day from Hopkinton and is camp
ing at the Backbone with Cecil Ross
and Arthur Davidson.
Mrs. F. w. Sheldon came Satur-
day from a visit at Marshalltown.
Frank arrived Saturday also from
Chicago and he spent Sunday with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Sheldon.
, Miss Mile Kenyon who is work.
ing in a music store at Manchester
! spent Sunday at home. Miss Fern
Baxter of Manchester accompanied
her.
The Livery barn changed hands
again Saturday. Bert Cook sold
the barn to AL Tompkins of Edge
wood, but he has gone to Dakota
and the deal is off for the present
/ Miss Ava Porter of Hopkinton,
has spent the past week visiting
Miss Mabelle Retz. Miss Porter is
secretary to the president of Lenox
| College and assistant in shorthand.
| Shell futile left Sunday for his
annual trip to St. Louis the head
quarters of the Hamilton Brown
shoe company for which he travels.
Misses Ethel Tuttle and Elsie Retz
accompanied him on the trip. They
will stop in Des Moines and Kan
sas City to visit relatives.
Miss Myrta Weinburg came home
last week from Independence where
she has been working in the hospit-
al. She met with an accident burn.
ing one of her hands quite badly
but has improved SO she will return
to work today. Miss Mary Vein
burg who is also at the hospital
spent Sunday here.
i George Hawley and cousin N. e
Hawley left Saturday for Wasco
ILL.,, to spend a week with MIR. and
Mrs. Frank Vanderhoof and from
there they will go to Canada to Wis
, it their old home.
Some over anxious patrons of we
groceries broke into the saloon Sat
urday for some Of the beverage tina
made Milwaukee famous" Onl,
a few bottles were secured. They
broke window to enter.
George Kleinsorg has secured the
position of filing clerk in bank al
Portland, Oregon, securing the pc
sition through George Bracher. III
wired an acceptance and will leave
lin about two weeks to begin work
5 George will leave many friends her,
who will regret his departure but
I. the best wishes for his success will
, accompany him.
II The first stroke on the city vel
: was. begun last Friday morning
with the six inch drill which is un
der the supervisor of VIM Sharff as
chief engineer and Joe Foffel as as
sistant. The big drill fits the sill
inch tubing and hits the earth just
1000 pounds at every stroke. Tn,
gasoline engine sneezes and cough
like man encountering gooe
sized dose Of the grippe, but has
: not yet refused to answer to the
command of its master. By Satur
: day night the drill had penetrated
sixty feetof earth with no obstruction
to prevent its downward course
! Monday morning they struck coars
gravel and it took all day with con
slant work to make four feet through
: this material which is one of tn
hardest substances to drill through
They next struck a vein of fine SAINT
: which resembled the sand of tn
sea shore. Wednesday Afternoon
: they struck rock at eighty feet AM
u the casing was driven down as ia
into it as possible to prevent an
q sand from getting past it and no,
they are ready to penetrate the roc
!: to water.-Leader.