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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-10
Manchester's Supremacy in the Cream
cry Butter Business.

In Delaware county was built the
first creamery in the United States.
Further proof of this supremacy Of
Delaware county and Manchester in
the creamery business is shown by
the United States Navy in award
ing another contract this year
for the largest amount of
timed butter Of the very
finest quality produced in the Unit
ed States, to the Dairy City
Creamery Company Of Manchester.
Another pleasing feature and one
especially complimentary to this
county is the fact that no bid was
made by any other concern, owing
to the fact that the government re-
quirements are SO exacting as to
quality and skill and experience
necessary for the proper packing OF
timed butter.
And further SO we'll pleased was
the United States Navy with the
butter packed by the Dairy City
Creamery Company last year that
the Navy Department expressed
great satisfaction that the company
was again awarded the contract.
The farmers of Delaware county
are especially fortunate in having
such a thorough and progressive
company to which to send their
cream, and as the price at which the
contract was awarded was high
one the farmers are bound to receive
exceptionally good prices for their
cream.
AS this is the second year thai
this contract has been awarded tc
the Dairy City Creamery Company
it seems an assured fact that the
contract will be awarded to Man
chester each year.
We understand that owing to the
strong endorsement the United
State, Navy has given this Compan,
that they have been given another
order by a large export concern fol-
4 timed butter which will keep the
Dairy City Creamery Company very
busy until late in the season OF
timed butter.
i This insures Manchester Cream
cry butter being used on every ONT
of Uncle Sans war ships all owe
the world and through the expor
order which has been secured every
other port Of the world.
The Dairy City Creamery Com
: pany makes speciality of putting
all their butter out in special pack
ages and such Of their butter as i
not put up in tins is made up int
one pound prints and special carton
; for which they have such an enor
I nous outlet that they are unable t
. supply the demand although the,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-10
RYAN.

Miss Cassie McTavish Of Coggon
was calling on friends here last
week.
Mr.. Cowley, special agent for the
Fidelity Insurance Co. of Des Moines,
is here this week.
Leila Donnelly is expected home
from Iowa City on a short vacation
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sheldon of Man
chester were business visitors here
last week.
Mic Weller, Will Ward and jim
Dolphin attended the X. C's. ban
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-10
Notice of Final Report

In the District Court of Iowa in and for Dol
aware County, April term, A. D.. 1907.
In the Matter of the Estate ~
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-10

aware county, Aprn bern, "A. D.s lWi.
In the Matter Of the Estate -.
William Luehterhand de- Report.
ceased, ~
To Augusta Luchterhand, widow, and Esther
NJ. Luchterhand, only heirs at law of William
Luchterhand deceased, and to all others to
whom 1t may concern:
You are hereby notified that on or before the
29th day of April, 1907. there will be on file in
the office of the Clerk of said District Court the
Snal report of the undersigned as administra-
tor of the Estate of William Luchterhand, late
OF Delaware county, Iowa, deceased. In which
report 1t WILDE shown that said estate is insol-
vent. that alIof the assets Of said estate have
been converted into money, and an order will
be asked directing the undersigned to make dis
stributi0n as provided by law Of the monies In
his hands, remaining after the payment of the
expenses of administering upon said estate. to
the creditors Of said estate who have filed and
proven their claims against same, and asking
that upon said distribution being made, said
estate be adjudged settled and the undersign-
ed and his sureties be discharged and released.
you are further notified that unless you ap-
pear on or before noon Of the second day Of
the April term Of said court to be begun and
holden at Manchester, In said county, on the
Goth day of April, 1907, and make objections
thereto. said order for distribution will be made
said report approved and the undersigned dis.
charged and he and his sureties released
f. L. M. LUCHTERHAND;
Administrator.
BY Bronson. Carr g. Sons.
Att'ys for Administrator. l3W4
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-10
House for Sale.

I offer for sale the one story frame
house on Howard street north of the
Central School building. Possession
will be given at once. Will be sold
at bargain.
l4-wl THos. Given.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-10
Transfers of Real Estate !.

Delbert W. Ryan and wife to Jennie
Doese part sw sw IS oo-5; 90
Geo. r. Hamblin and wife to Fred l..
Hicks half So my 1900 90
Marie Hubbell to Doc Coolidge half
Sc and Sc sw and 80 "a y ne Sw also e4
sw sw 2a-sn5.....: 1900 90
Delbert w Ryan aud wife to Sebastian
6chirmer Jrnw sw 2s-915..... 320) %
l. M Bsrnes and wife to Mary e. Van
Antwerp lot and pit lot Q blk IL Delhi $50 90
Hubert Carr and wife to Dairy City
Creamery Company lots s sub division
of lots l. NJ. and N Of Iowa Land Com
panys SUB division to Manchester. Ia. 800 90
Laura V. Mckay to Henry Brayton II
half ne 2S7e 900. ........ ....... 1850 90
Catherine Robinson to Robert Robinson
NV SO and ne Sw l7S76 ..... 80. ........ 1000 90
lots Sas ss5.s Masoayille 500 90
Jesse Barker and wife to Claude Il.
Tyler lots sIeel7. Manchester. $50. GOO o.
Henry Dry bread and wife etal 10 L. b.
Armstrong part lot 49, b Ock 2. BAKERS
addition Greeley 1850 OF
Margaret A. Hardy to James ii. Gray,
part lots 10 block 8. Carriers third ad-
dillon to Hopkin;on 5000 q
Sarah L. Morisey and husband to j. b.
Robertson part lot 10. BurringtOn's ad-
dtion to 1870 90
Annastatia b. Thayer TO Ernest June
lot IL, Henry Acres addition to Man
4sU VI
Ernest l.. June and wife to w. d. Hoyt
lot7I, Henry Acres addition to Man
CHEST er l75 W
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-11
Jamestown Exhibit

The Commercial club will endeaver to have the Birmingham district rep resented at the Jamestown exposition, notwithstanding the fact that the Ala bama commission, thinking the time too short, abandoned the project of having the state participate in the show The clubs committee on James, town reported at the meeting yester- day that 1t had made satisfactory prog ress in arranging for a creditable ex- hibit from Jefferson county. This was to be a part of the states exhibit, and the question arose, should the work of the committee be discontinued or should the Birmingham district be rep resented in spite of the action of the commission? It was decided to con- tinue the committee and to ask the Sldle IO IODI lu6 Dlll ny app OPi io'ihso Q reasonable share of the S25, ,00O voted by the legislature for the Jamestown exhibit.
 The commission will doubtless act favorably in this matter. So long as the preliminary work In getting to- gether a Birmingham district exhibit has been accomplished 1t would be a lack of enterprise on the part of Ala bama not to accede to the proposition of the Commercial club.
 The Jamestown exposition was form ally opened April 26, but it will not be completed from an exhibitions point of view before July. The districts re- sources can be assembled at Norfolk within the next few weeks, certainly by the 1st of July. The exposition will be in full swing then. Alabama can not afford to be conspicuous by it's ab- sence. A comprehensive display of mineral Alabama's raw material and finished products would reflect high credit on the entire state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-11
Peace in Ohio

The 2. o. D., or what Is left of It. for party lines restrain nobody except office seekers nowadays-has patched up a treaty of peace in Ohio, and the hatchet has been buried. The handles may stand up above ground, so that they can be speedily grasped, but the indications are they will not be, al- though MT. Burton will not become Senator or Nick Dongworth governor under the terms of peace.
 The pipe of peace that is now being smoked in the Dick and the Burton wigwams means that there will be no primary over state delegates-no pri- mary this year at all-but that dele gates to a state convention will be selected In the customry machine way next spring, and that that convention will select Taft delegates to the na- tional convention Taft is to be Ohio's sole choice for President, and Boss Cox and associates Dick and Foraker will stand firmly at his back, thus com hitting them all to Rooseveltianism despite the Canton speech that For aler fired off when he was full of fight and mad clear through.
 Foraker himself is to succeed him self as Senator, and the entire admin istration outfit will see that he does. Governor Harris Is to have term of his own. All these things are to be consummated next year, and in the meanwhile peace is to prevail in the hope that Ohio can furnish the next President, and the state can be kept tied to Dingleysm and slushism. The bargain Is complete and it's chief vic tims are, alas, Congressman Theodore Burton and Nicholas Longworth. MT. Foraker will hereafter attend strictly to Brownsville, and MT. Taft will de- part very soon for the Philippines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-11
April Furnace Report

Although April is short month, yet its pig iron production was 2,191 ,535 tons, a gain of 4826 tons over the out put of March. The Alabama produc- ton was, however, decreased, for our furnaces turned out in April but Ill., 463 tons as against 143,947 tons in March. New York's twenty stacks are now producing more iron than the thirty stacks in this district.
 The pig iron industry continues to be promising and sound. Production is steady, but consumption becomes heavier, and spot iron is bringing in this district fine price. The upward tendency of prices will lead to the ut most possible production, and the May figures may be new record. Penn sylvania made in April 1,000,933 tons. This great output came from 132 stacks, and it is probably the greatest state production in single month that the industry has ever furnished.
 The race between New York and Alabama is close, the difference be- tween the two outputs being less than 1000 tons, and no little interest will be taken in the figures for May. The chances are, however, that the big new stacks in New York state will outdo those in Alabama, some of which are of small capacity and none are equal in that respect to those recently erected in Buffalo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-11
PIayorounds for chIIdren.

''I noticed something yesterday that is great advantage to a city and an un- alloyed pleasure to the children said an observant citizen, "and that was a chill dren's playground at Central park out on the suburban railway line. This play ground was filled with youngsters who were all enjoying themselves hugely with the appliances provided for their amuse- ment and pleasure.
 'B1g swings and seesaws were aboun- dant, and best of all for the smaller chill dren a big pile of clean sand was provided in which they were digging and building miniature cities. Several hundred dollars was spent upon this playground, accord ing to a casual estimate, and 1t was not wasted.
 Tn New York and other great cities, where space is worth a fortune, these playgrounds are necessity and thousands of dollars have been spent in providing these grounds and appliances, and they have well repaid the outlay in health and pleasure for the children While there's plenty of space in Birmingham it is d good idea to encourage the establishment of specially fitted playgrounds where children may find something to play with"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-11
President Nell Speaks

President Neil, Secretary Pepper man and Committeeman Kennedy do not forget to criticise Governor Conner and the legislature for getting in the way of the privileges of free pass. They consider the law that forbids the exchange of passes and space unconsti- tutional. The law in question shortens the right of contract and in that way abridges the freedom of the press. So say the officials of the Alabama Press association when they send out notices of its annual meeting.
 The association Is plucky even in de- feat It does not propose to die be- cause passes are no longer dealt out by the railroads. It proposes to meet in Montgomery in July, and 1t Is req sonable to anticipate that the relations between the rural press and the execu- tive will at that time be in strained condition. Few will consider tramp up Capitol Hill at that time attractive or desirable. An administration un- supported by the press of the state will be novelty, but that seems to be the situation at present.
 The association will have an annual excursion, but it will turn this time away from the railroads to boom the states waterways. The annual outing of the association is to be spent on the Alabama river and along the coast near Mobile. The steamer City of Mobile will supplant the railroads. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-11
Rural Mail on the Road

The Postmaster General of these United States has decided that when he puts in a rural delivery carrier he at once transforms the highway he is 10 traverse every weekday post road in the sense of the federal constitution. Congress has power to establish post roads, and the Postmaster General holds that when a rural carrier is put at work his route Is a post road.
 It follows, therefore, that he has the right of way on that road, and all other wagons must get out of his way-even automobiles and motor ccycles. Noth- ing, not even an elephant, can lawfully contest the right of way with a rural delivery carrier in the course of his duty.
 The Postmaster General has issued an order that gives his thirty-odd thou sand rural delivery carriers the right of way on their respective routes. It is a serious offense to interfere in any manner with the United States mail, even to make a rural carrier turn to the right or to the left. Hereafter the rural carrier will keep straight ahead in the middle of the road.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-11
MORNING IN CHINATOWN.

New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 Chinatown Is in deep mourning and gracious offerings are being made to the main guy, the head joss, in the Doyers street temple. because of the departure of Mon Hing to the great tea garden the other day. Hing was buried yesterday oriental rites held in Chinatown, and never in the history of the picturesque place has there been funeral to equal this of Kings. At l o'clock the Chinese band started playing and the march song was taken up by two other bands. After they had played hymn an Italian band played, Nearer, My God, to Thee" while the hearse moved slowly down Mott street. So dense was the crowd that a squad of policemen had trouble opening up a passage for the procession. All the members of the On Long Tong associa- tion, including it's high officers, were dressed either in Chinese mourning clothes or wore American clothes with white bands around their left arms. They marched behind the hearse. After parad- ing around Chinatown the band played a lively song in front of the On Long Tong headquarters in Mott street. and then the procession started for the Grand Central station where the body was sent on it's long journey across the continent and the Pacific ocean to Hing's native land. More than twenty-five coaches, excluding the ones bearing the Chinese musicians and the carriages with flowers, were neces- sary to carry the mourners to- the station. Before the train started Hing's Chinese friends mumbled prayer in their native tonxue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-11
HAN MACLAREN,"
rom the New York World.

From the New York World.
 Ian Maclaren' is dead in Iowa while the announcement of his laterst novel is still fresh in the American prints. His pen-name was so much more widely known than his real name that news merely of the death of the Rev. John Watson might have passed unnoticed in many quarters, even among attentive readers. And this. it is understood is much as he desired it to be- his work as novelist being thus dssociated from his career as a preacher
 However, there is constant ministering to faith in his lighter works. even as in such serious books as "The Upper Room, '"The Care of Souls" and The Mind of the Master" And there Is charm in everything that has fallen from Dr. Wat sons pen.
 Beside the Bonnie Brig Bush," pub lished in 1894, set a new type not only of Scotch story telling but of tale construc- ton generally It was instantly popular; and the stories which followed "The Days of Aud Lang Syne." Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers and "A Doctor of the Old School" also found a ready public.
 It was upon Dr. Watsons second visit to America that he met his death. Only few weeks ago he spoke from the pull pit which is now Dr. Aked's, in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church. A native of Man ningtree, in Essex, born in 1850, he lacked at his death almost four years of the three-score. His voice and pen instru- ments of simple sincerity. have been stilled all too soon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-11
GRASS.
By John J. Ingalls,.

By John J. Ingalls,.
 Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grassgrown like rural lanes, and are ob- liberated. Forests decay, harvests perish. flowers vanish, but grass is immortal Beleaguered by the sullen hosts of win ter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality, and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by wander ing birds, propagated by the subtle hortl- culture of the clements which are its ministers and servants it softens the rude outline of the world. It's tenacious fibers hold the earth in its place, and prevent its soluble components from washing into the wasting sea. It invades the solitude of deserts climbs the inaccessible slopes and forbidding pinnacles of mountains, modifes climates, and determines the his tory, character and destiny of nations Unobstrusive and patient, it has immortal vigor and aggression Banished from the thoroughfare and the field, it bdes it's time to return, and when viligance is re- faxed, or the dynasty has perished, 1t silently resumes the throne from which 1t has been expelled, but which 1t never abdicates. It bears no blazonry of bloom to charm the senses with fragrance or splendor, but its homely hue is more en- chanting than the lily or the rose. It yields no fruit in earth or air. and yet should its harvest fail for a single year, famine would depopulate the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-11

still the misguided women show no regard for the consequences of their nisapplisd zeal In this age, when 1t is the fashid
 to be concerned in practical reform wor
 1t is of the utmost consequence that th methods should be scientific. One of theV most conspicuous facts of the liquor traf- fic is the large number of workingmen who are to be seen in the morning filling saloons and waiting their turn in line Physicians will attest that these men are not drunkards, nor have they any special taste for liquor; they are simply the vic tims of domestic conditions, the cooking in their meals being so altogether un- palatable that they get liquor breakfast which bouys them up temporarily at least. If this seems an incredible state- ment the reader is referred as authority to Dr. John Huber of the prevention of tuberculosis committee, Charities build ing, New York City. How much more sane it would be for the prohibition women to investigate conditions such as these and remedy them by setting in motion practical ways of overcoming the culin- ary ignorance of tenement house wives. Such steps in reform would com mand the instant sympathy or the community and win its re- spect and support. Instead, these re- formers arouse antagonisms and resis- tance, even among those who are in every way as moral as themselves and who ap- preciate as keenly as do they the calami- ties which follow in the wake of liquor indulgence. In short, the tactics of the prohibition women are examples of meth ods reformers ought not to use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-11
TranscontinentaI Water

The audacity of p. H. Hartman is unapproached and unapproachable. With the Alton deal fresh in the minds of the people and with a revolution against stock juggling and watering impending he goes boldly on and an nounces in one breath an addition of $1o0,Oo0, ,00o to the capitalization of the Union Pacific and of $36,ooo,O ,OOo to that of the Southern Pacific. A generation ago such additions would have been regarded as stupendous. They would have staggered the public. and they did, 1t seems, shake up Wall street not a little.
 These new capital issues constitute a new tax levy on the people of $11,- SO0,000 year, for on Union Pacific stock is distributed each year 10 per cent, and on Southern Pacific stock 5 per cent. The issuance of s136,O00,0O0 stock by the two companies means that they must collect $11, ,S00,000 a year more to the end of railroads if not of time.
 Now, what right has Hartman to put new tax on the people of $11.- S00,000? This is the question. The Union Pacific was built by Uncle Sam. and both railroads are based on grants of public lands. Both spring from pub
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-11
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
 JOHN w. GATES and his son have (o1I retired from Wall street with O what they affectionately term "wads" of imposing proportions, but &C., cording to current rumor the "wads" were a good deal larger a year ago, be- fore the stock shrinkage and the rich mans panic" The senior Gates has found the year trying and both will go to Europe in search of health.
 Five years ago MT. Gates was good enough to give a sketch of his career to a newspaper. Several years ago he was selling barbed wire in Texas for an Illinois manufacturer at $100 a month. Then he and another man with less than $S00O started a small wire mill and made money fast. He and seven others put in s25OO each. and they declared dividends of over 50 per cent a month., The profits in the first year were Sl50,OO0. He bought out six of his partners, and with the other and one new man they started with a capital of $5O,0OO and cleared $1SS ,O0O in the first year. In 1886 he was in a larger barbed wire concern, and went abroad for billets which were not to be had here. When he got back he sold 1000 tons at a profit of $100,000 to Andrew Carnegie without ever seeing the steel
 In 1887 he and his associates increased the capital of the Braddock mill from $1OO.00o to $5OOOO0. and paid a cash divi- dend of $10o,OOO, making 800 per cent. of dividends in 1884, 1885. 1886 and 1887, or 125 per cent annually. In 1888 he went into politics in Missouri because the democrat