Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
IS. K. Meyers was in Cedar

Greeley last week.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles McCor
mick are in Chicago
u. S. Jones was in Des Moinel
last week on business.
r. B. Griffin of Williston, Nortl
Dakota, is in the. city.
M. ]. B. Richmond was in Sain
Joseph, Michigan, last week.
VIM. Smith went to Galena
Illinois, Monday for at veral week,
visit.
Mics Myrtle Irish of Hopkinto,
was visiting Mrs. II. T. Smith las
weeks
Miss Winifred Stevens of indie
pendece as official court reporter, ii
Mrs. Corliss place, last week.
Mrs. w. N. Boynton went t,
Chicago Monday 70 visit at tn,
home of her son, DR.. NV. E. noyn
ton, for several weeks.
Miss Florence Limback Of
Dyersville was guest of Miss Mar,
Link last week, returning to hel
home Friday afternoon.
w. F. Hutchinson left Friday
for his new home at Champaign, Iii.
inois, near which place is the Illinois
state fish hatchery, superintendent
by Mr.. Hutchinson. He states that
both he and Mrs. Hutchinson are
pleased with their present home.
Mrs. Calvin Yoran went to Chi
cago Thursday for visit at the
home of her son, G. j. Yoran, who
lives at $500 Greenwood avenue.
MIR. Yoran will go to Chicago this
week to meet Mrs. Yoran, expect
ing to return the latter part of the
week.
Mrs. R. A.. Denton, Miss Marga.
ret and Master Charles went to
Clear Lake Thursday, where they
will spend the summer, having
rented a cottage on the lake. Mr..
Denton will spend few days with
his family at Clear Lake during the
summer.
Miss Idell Miles and Mrs. G..
j. Seeds attended the May festival
of music at Mt. Vernon last week
given by Thomas orchestra Of Chi
cago under the auspices of Cornell
college. While in Mt. Vernon. Miss
Miles wa, guest of her aunt, Mrs.
Martin Rigby.
"A special Swift refrigerator car
leaves this city every Tuesday and
Friday for Philadelphia, containing
butter and eggs from this city for
the east This car is additional
from the regular dailp shipment of
dairy products from the Dairy City
Creamery company for Baltimore
and Macon, Georgia.
Manager G. A.. Peterson was
experimenting the laying of a cable
of telephone wires to the west side
Of the city last week, the cable ex.
tending to the central Office south
on Franklin street to the bridge,
where it crosses and is carried .un-
derground to First street and from
there is made to branch into the
various circuits.
Dinner will be served Wednes-
day today in the Congregational
church for those attending the Sun
day School convention, which is in
session this week in the church
named. Everyone is invited to at
tend this dinner, as the invitation
is general and not meant to include
only the delegates, but the people
in the community.
Harry Burbridge, who gradual
ed from Leland Stanford, Junior,
university in California last week, ex-
poets to attend summer shool at
Berkeley, where is located the Uni
versity Of California Mr.. Bur
bridge has been teaching a branch
of engineering at San Jose during
the winter, and was member of the
class, with George McEwen, which
were graduated from the western
university few days ago.
1t happened last week that four
gentlemen Of this county were as
sembled together in conversation in
front of Anders & Philips pharm.
acy, and a matter which seemed
singular, in this connection, might be
mentioned. The total ages of these
four men made 300 years. Judge A,
s. Blair, one of the quartette, is II
years of age, James Robinson, Ga,
John Michaels, "a, and r. G. Hitch.
cock, So, totaling an age. at which
men in prehistoric days lived to be-
as some believe. All Of the men
mentioned are in apparently good
health and as interested in living
as they were forty years ago.
Rear Admiral Evans says: I an
even more pleased with the person
mel of the navy at this moment than
/ am with the ships themselves, i
that be possible. The bettermenr
has been amazing in the last five
years in the personnel Of the en-
listed men. Because Of the better
class of men that are being recruited
and because of the better treatment
they are receiving we now have
personnel thut commands my high
est respect. The men of recen
years have been largely recruited
from the middle west, It woulG
not. perhaps, be supposed that lad
from the farms would make goo'
sailors. They do, however.
"A courtesy much appreciate
by the patrons Of the Mancheste
Heat, Light & Power company wa
extended last Thursday by the Gen
Il eral MANAGER. ,Joseph Hnfchinsor