Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-04-12
SOME OF MANcHEsrER's ApvAN-
TAcEs.

TAeEs.
The city of Manchester is known
far and wide as Iowa's Dairy City,
primarily because John Stewart, one
Of its citizens a way back in 1875
won the gold medal for the worlds
best butter at the Worlds Fair, held
that year in the city of Philadelphia.
And the creamery in which that but.
ter was made was located two or
three miles southeast of Manchester,
and was the first creamery of which
there is any record in the United
States. Down to the present time
the Spring Branch Creamery has
continued to make the best Of but
ter and there are two more good
creameries inside the corporation lin
its. the annual product of one of
which exceeds million pounds.
Manchester is the county seat Of
Delaware County, one of the very
best counties in the state. 1t is To-
Gated here in Northeastern Iowa,
where numerous never failing
streams of clear running water beau
tify and benefit tho lands which lie
between. 1t is quite probable that
those who live here in Northeas tern
Iowa, do not properly appreciate the
good water which this locality af-i
fords.
Manchester has modern houses,
we'll kept lawns and berms and pref
ty drives. It's people have good
homes and take care of them. In
years past they have had a fair
share of civic pride, but Just at pres
ent there is new awakening in that
respect and the future is full of
promise.
Manchester has four good public
school buildings and one Catholic Pa
rochial schoc.; has eight churches;
has two electric light plants and 9
third one on the tapis; Manchester
owns her own water works, which,
by the way, is unexcelled anywhere
1t is. claimed that no one ever had
typhoid fever who used Manchester
city water exclusively for drinking
purposes. The U. S. Government 10
Gated its fish hatchery on Spring
Branch, largely on account of the
purity of the water of this vicinity
The government officials, charged
with the duty of selecting site fol
this hatchery, said that the springs
of this vicinity afforded the purest
water, found by them anywhere in the
states of Iowa, Minnesota, Wiscon
sin and illinois.
Manchester has a telephone sys
TEN which connects nearly every
section Of the county; has three
banks; a good Carnegie Public Ii
brary which is one of the oldest pub
| lie libraries in the state; has seven
rural routes; has brick paving on Cts
business streets, and several miles
of sanitary sewers; home fire insur
ance company; three newspapers;
garages; commercial club and in.
Vulnerable fraternal organizations ant
social clubs; a number of good retail
stores, and several small factories
which it is hoped will multiply in
number and increase in output in the
near future. There is no reason why
this should not be so, for few cities
II Iowa have better shipping facilities
than Manchester. Manchester people
with the service rendered ~by the M
& o. Ry., have the best shipping priv
| ileges which three great trunk lines
can afford, the Chicago Great West.
ern. the Chicago, Milwaukee & st
Paul and the Illinois Central. More
than a score Of passenger trains ar
rive or depart from Manchester eact
day. Few county seat towns in Iowa
can make better showing in that
respect than Manchester, and no city
or town in the state can point tc
better farms with better buildings
and better stock than can tie found
in the country adjacent to Manches
ter. All things considered, Delaware
County is ideal for agricultural ant
stock raising purposes. Good soil
good water, good building stone, goot
sand and gravel and liberal sup
ply of timber, all contiguous to eac1
other.
A person in search of a home cit,
or good farm home should COM
here and investigate before purchas
ing elsewhere.
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