Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-02-19
BRIEF MENTION.


Eown Friday.
w. S. Beels Of Hopkinton was
4 town Saturday.
Earl Peterson was in Straw
Jerry Point yesterday.
M. M. Gillehan was in Shop
ard the first Of the week on bust
Jess.
- Mr.. and Mrs. James Rizer visit.
d at the home of Mrs. Rizers par
nts in Lamont Sunday. Z
4 Miss Grace Grifliths was in
1farion over Sunday as a guest at
The home Of her parents.
III. A. Granger, who is conducts
D ng the banking house controlled by
rnos. Cole at Greeley, was at home
SuElay.
miss Emma Paxson leaves ia
morrow, Thursday, for California,
expecting to- remain in that state
perhaps year.
Mrs. Theron Coon went to
Cedar Rapids Monday morning to
make weeks visit with her sisters
who reside there.
IS The young ladies of the Con-
4 kregational church will meet Thurs
= Hay afternoon at 5 30 at the home
Aof Miss Jennie Holmes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lore Afford of
Waterloo were guests at the home of
(he formers sister, Mrs. Hubert
Carr, Sunday and Monday.
Miles Belcher and family leave
thursday For Dolan, South Dakota.
s"ar which town Mr.. Belcher has
ted farm and expects to make
a home there, having sold his inter
est near Manchester.
Attendants at the services of
/ the Methodist Episcopal church
Sunday morning and evening had
me pleasure of listening to the Rev,
R. D. Parsons formerly pastor of
that church. DIR. Parsons is now
located at Mt. Vernon.
-AIiss Florence Hetherington
and Miss Jessie Tyler went to Chi
cago Monday morning, They will
enter Fisk's millinery establishment
in that city, for the purpose of as
certaining the spring creations in
millinery. They expect to remain
about two weeks.
j. G. New Of Joliet, Illinois,
formerly connected with the w. N.
Boynton shop in this city. was here
Friday and Saturday on business
Mr.. New is very pleasantly located
at Joliet and states that his family
ars we'll and enjoy their surround
inEs in the Illinois town.
THE postotfice has been hand
ling twenty thousond pieces of
printed matter which was issued
from the Office of the General I'm
migration Agent of the Illinois Cen
~ Katiroai this week The post
1N on this work amounted to a
tile over two hundred dollars.
$-Word received from Joe Nc
Srmick, formerly editor of the
eekly Herald, who is in Sioux
lity with one Of the leading news
epers of that fcity, states that he
us been appointed City Hall report
"a promotion deserved by Mr..
fCormick. and work which he is
Toying,
"A Snow storm visited this vi
Unity Monday evening and Tuesday.
The past few days have been very
Did, ths thermometer registering
bro but the storm Of yesterday,
Though accompanied by a high
find, did not carry with it the Sc
we're temperature which oftentimes
Sollows winters storm.
-Wm L. Illingworth, superin-
tendent Of the Union Mill Co. of
Waterloo died last Sunday at his
home in that city. Mr.. Illingworth
will be remembered by the early
residents of this city He was con.
nected with the Acres mill here dur
ing the years Of 1856 and 1857. |.
L. Walters expects to attend the
funeral services which will be held
this Wednesday afternoon.
The local markets were supplied
Saturday with fresh radishes, lettuce
caulieower, onions and carrots.
Strawberries have not yet put in an
appearance, but they we're on sale
here about February % year ago.
\ The crop in Mississippi and Louis
lana will undoubtedly be unusually,
2 large this season, as fair weather
Il has been afforded that portion o
/ the South during the winter
months
1t was understood that til,
J Carnage Library committee would
endeavor to present a musical com
/ edy or a play. during the winter
using local talent, but as yet moth
ing has been done in the matte
1 toward determining on what was t
be given. 1t is hoped that tn
& management may agree on, this plal
of benefit for the library, as we'll a
entertainment for the people Of tn
town. ~
Charles B. Williams, so4of MI
and Mrs. F. W. Williams II thi
city and who is Connected wit
Coates & Burchard Co of Chicago
is in New York City at present, e,
pecting to be in Boston next weel
Mr. Williams is an architect an
appraiser Of buildings for his fri
and has, in tho past few years, d.
signed number. Of large manufa'
turing plants in different section
of the country. His work extend
B over the entire portion of the State