Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-03-04
The Lenten season begins today


] Beautiful spring weather we are
= having in glorious Iowa.
The political pot is sizzling
now. 1t win boil tiercely later.
Frank Dobbins spent Sunday
with his father at Winthrop.
i w. S. Beels Of Hopkinton was
in Manchester Friday on business.
Fred Wollert of Earlville' tran
acted business in this city Satur-
day.
w. R. Gill entertoined his faith
re who resides in Independence,
part of last week.
Roy Miller was home over Sun
day from Fayette. where he ia at
tending Upper Iowa University.
| Mrs. A. s. Hart Of Cedar Rap
ids is visiting at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ID. b. Allen.
IT. 7. Oliver, city marshal, is
knowing into the David Barr home
on Wayne street, near the Presby-
terian church.
i Mrs. S e. Hustel of Mobiles
vile. Indiana, form srly Of this city,
lis expectel today "wednesday for
visit at the homo of her daughter
Mrs. R Denton, and hsrl brother,
i G. W. Keagy.
j. b. Higman, who has been
| living near Delaware for number
of years, has been moving his fami
| ly into the residence recently pur-
chased by him of G. o. Harrison on
| Franklin street.
4 j. w. Brazelton of Cedar Rap
lids was in town Friday. Mr.. Braz--
elton formerly resided in this city,
but spends a greater part of his
time in Cuba, where he is interested
in several large tracts of land.
The farmers Saving Bank at
Masonville is making rapid growth
as witnesseth its quarertly statement
published in this issue. tits we
believed the youngest financial in
stitution in the county but already
its deposits amount toover seventy
thousand dollars.
The fire department was called
out early Friday morning to ex-
tinguish small blaze in smoke
house, located on the rear of the lot
occupied by w. d. Works meat
market. The flames practically des-
troyed the interior of the shed, also
the meats and contents.
Claude Addison will remove
his barber shop in tile basement of
the H. c Smith drug store, which
is being remodeled for his conyen
fence. The building new occupied
by Mr.. Addison will be used by
Sallesburg and Lyman, who have
purchased same and where they will
move their lunch counter fixtures in
the near future.
The many friends here of Mr..
and Mrs. John Crusie, will learn
with pleasure, that have again be-
come residents of this city. They
moved their household effects here
last Friday and are now in the oc-
cIpany Of their former home on
Reynolds street, which they occu-
pied at the time, Mr.. Cruises last
term as Sheriff expired, and which
they vacated to return to their large
farm in Oneida township which as
hereto for stated in the Democrat
they sold last fall and gave the pur-
chaser possession of on the LIST
inst.
The forged check game, which
has been very successfully worked
in many places in the past year, was |
played at Independence last week,
as appears by the following from
the Bulletin Journal: "a stranger,
who evidently needed money and
didn'tpropose to injure his health
working for it, made tour of the
city Thursday evening and left|
richer by $50 more than when he
struck the town. He had need of
an ak, which he got at the hardware
store, some castor oil, which was
procured Of the clerk at the May
Parker drug store, and some patent
medicine, which was furnished him
at the Tabor drug store. In each
instance he gave check for SIS, pur-
ported to be signed by James
O'Brien, and gathered in the change.
| He needed, also, ,adollars worth Of
sugar and wet to Joslinville to get
it, but Mr.. Joslin preferred the
money to the check, and refused to
accept the latter. The castor oil
was found in the snow near the
illinois Central depot, the ak. also
recovered, but the whereabouts Of
the stranger and the money are, at
the present time, enveloped in mys-
terry"
The Rev. James Wagner, in an
address given at the evening service
! at the Methodist Episcopal church,
told Of the conditions which prevail
politically and socially in the new
State of Oklahoma, recently admit:
ted to the Union. Mr.. Wagner was
resident of that State four years
ago, and, at that time, the territory
was dominated by Republican rule,
but since then the Democrats have
succeed 10 power and have done
much toward cleaning out intemper-
ance and doing away almost entirly
with the saloon. Mr.. Wagner stat
ed that ina county in which he was
we'll acquainted and which was now
:, Democratic, the central county COM
: mittee had resolved to make prohi-
bition a plank Of the party and to
: do all in their power to influence