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£$$ 4 '7 .- v. •e^/ 1Z IA inlMMMHMHMMMHMWI Present for *»ar i'^r a delicious must eat Hl t' $5 1 J\ LI'K'VV 7' 11 'f 1 rw-, W *M Sft, "9 v" Every old or new subscriber to the crat, who pays one years subscription in ad*= vance, is entitled to receive one of the elegant, premiums it gives to its advance paying sub= jscribers, by calling at this office and making, the selection from the large number of premi=' ums to select from. NEW YORK APPLES! Baldwins and Greenings are the kind of apples to buy from now on. We have them. We want you to have them. TABLE POTATOES! &sSeed potatoes: Now is the time to look up your seedstock. We have good ones and lots of them. A. E. PETERSON. To California sensibly Two-thirds of the people who go to California make trip in a tourist sleeping car. It is the sensible way to go—almost as comfortable as a "palace" car, and very much less expensive. Rock Island tourist cars are operated over both the "Scenic" and "Southern" routes—daily via Kansas City and El Paso twice a week via Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City, Ifryou expect to go to' California in the near future, and want to make the trip as inexpensively as possible, you will be interested in the extraordinary low rates which the Rock Island offers, February 15th to April i}0. WAAAAAAAAAAAA 1 The Whole Town rs!# Over the New MINNESOTA. Demo- JNO. GT. FAKMER, D. P. A.,' Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Comb Candy confection. To be in fashion you Honey Comb Candy. Get a free sample of the latest candy craze, only for sale at J. Harry Stewart's. WISCONSIN. THE Clover Belt. The Future DAIRY REGION of the North West Rich soil, pure water, cheap and abundant fuel, lumber at first cost, and great markets. High Class Lands! At Low Prices, and on all terms. Call and see samples of grains and grass- es raised on $8.00 land. Excursions to our lands every Tuesday. Railroad fare refunded to purchasers. PENTONY & HOAGI OFFICE OVER BLAKE & SON'S STORE, Manchester, Iowa, 1 |JACK SPRAT Edith Wyatt Copyright, 1002, by H. S. McCluro Co. N Lnkc View tliero once lived as neighbors two children, a little boy named Milo Cox Atkinson, but called Butter, and a little girl named nml called Pcnri Porter. To this little girl her grandfather, Major roil or, showed an affection so devoted as to be, popularly supposed, almost ruinous, "lie just spoils that child," Mrs. Atkinson would say as she looked (»nt of her window and saw lVnrl fastening up the major's mus taches with hairpins, and she would turn away with a sigh. It was per* haps this devotion, but more probably a native impulse of the heart, that had made Pearl an unusually vain child. She was a pretty little thing, with a floating mist of liair and large brown eyes, always beautifully dressed in lit tle, stiff, while embroidered clothes. She was born with a sense of carriage, and she could not help knowing when ladies said in loud whispers, "Isn't she sweet V" Her reputation as "a proudy .cat" among the children of Lake View had, however, been founded less by lier per sonality than by an incident of her early youth. When she was only four years old, she had b.'en given a little blue silk parasol with an ivory handle. With this at church she had been left in the pew by her aunt when that lady went up to the communion rail. When Mrs. Burden had reached it and turned that those returning might pass her, what was the amusement of the congrega tion and her own astonishment on see ing Tearl tripping lightly up the aisle with her new blue parasol opened and held gracefully above her head. The aunt herself was a very dressy lady, and slio more thoroughly than any other member of the family sym pathized with Pearl in her taste for making calls, for wearing kid gloves and for carrying a small cardcase with a rose folded in it. Tills aunt, Major Tortcr's daughter, was a large woman, with long red cheeks, tilted blue eyes and an over whelming, tightly busked figure. At the top of her small forehead, long face and towering bulk she always wore a glittering little bonnet. She lived in Washington, and she was able to pet and indulge her niece only on occasion al visits. On these visits Mrs. Atkinson used to watch with longing these two opposite and fashionable types walking out to the carriage together. She loved Butter, but she had always dreamed of having just such a child as Pearl. All Butter's tastes were different from Pearl's. lie had no imagination for the world of graceful convention. His companions were other grubby, freckled little boys, most of them dis regardfully dressed iu trousers bagging about two inches below the ltuee. But ter numbered among bis acquaintances a boy who had run away from home, a boy who had a whip tattooed on his arm and a man supposed by Butter'! circle to be a murck ."cr. Butter cut the mail's giass, and when the man gave him 15 cents—the market price is 10— Butter handed him bapk the unneces sary 5 and said, "No blood money for me." The man had laughed in a puz zled way. Of course if he had done anything else it would have given him away. Butter also knew a boy who had a printing press, and in partnership with liim he had conducted successfully an enterprise of printing pink and green highly glazed calling cards for the la dies of the neighborhood. Besides the cash capital tiiey derived from this source, they realized every summer a large income of pins and newspapers from circuses in the barn. Major Porter sometimes attended these circuses with Pearl and sat in a box for ten newspapers, and, though ho was so enchanted with Pearl, he used to watch with a pang of envy Butter's lithe, wiry frame turniug handsprings in the back yard, for, though he had never had golden curls or carried a parasol, he had once tumbled on the grass and chased fire engines in a dusty and linppy oblivion of the customs of the world. Onco a year a circus came to one of the empty lots of Lake View west of the rollers'. It stayed for one day and then pursued its glorious march in honor of more western cities. This day was one long haze of delight for Butter Atkinson. Its ecstasy began In the morning, when he went with his friends over to the lot to see the tent pitched, and it lasted through the con cert at the end of the circus. Mr. Atkinson always took Butter had never thought of not taking him until one miserable day when an un considering rice president elect and his thoughtless wife spent twenty-four hours of being entertained in the neigh borhood when the circus was enter taining. A large afternoon reception was giv en for the Kendrickses at the Porter home. Mrs. Kendricks was an old friend of the major. Mrs. Atkinson assisted in receiving. Butter was in vited by Mrs. Burden to open the door. She believed this to be a piece of kind consideration. Mrs. Atkinson, too, said that Butter would be glad to remember it when he was an old man, and she could not understand why lie looked so morosely at the clean clothes she had with such pleasure put out N N N 011 •jt eliciting from his opponent only a very faint smile. Was Pearl, too, not going to the cir cus? Far from it. For days her grandfa ther had been bringing home handbills and posters for days he had discusscd with Pearl what they both should wear, what time they should start, how many glasses of lemonade they should have, whether they should look at the ani mals before or after the performance, and now ail this was to be on the day He observed Pearl and Major Porter at their after dinner game. of the reception. There were to be only ladies at the reception. There was no reason why Major Porter Bhould re main at home for it, and his enthusi asm for the circus had shown no change, no abatement. In tho presence of his mistaken devo tion Pearl could not endure to confess even to her mother that her heart was torn at the thought of her new fringed sash, the gift of her aunt, and how now she could not wear it at the reception or walk around with the ladies. She had tho dignified delicacy of many hon orable little girls, and she felt that it would be disloyalty to her grandfather to acknowledge that she was no longer Interested In tho circus. Her aunt said she had cried because the heat made her nervous. "She doesn't look to me able to go toting off to that hot circus, father," she said, coming up to the window. "I'm afraid so," said Mr. Porter, fol lowing her. "Do you caro so much about it, darling?" Pearl's eyes filled again at this. "Oh, Snooks '11 be all right for the circus," said Major Porter, with hasty, blind consolation, as Pearl's mother started into the house with her to bathe her eyes. It was his fixed belief that tho circus was the most ecstatic pleas ure of every child and any alternative an outrageous dlsaxpolntment. "Never mind If you are not all right, pet," said Mrs. Burden, with inspired dullness. "Here's Butter. He isn't go ing and doesn't want to go. He wants to see Mrs. Kendricks. And, Butter, Mrs. Kendricks has some little boys of lier own- mieh- nice, polite little hoys. I wish you could know them." Butter looked submissive as Mrs. Burden's benevolent, unperceivlng eyes were impressively fixed upon him. "Why isn't Butter going to the cir cus?" inquired Major Porter. Butter made no reply. "Father too busy, I guess," pursued the major. "That it?" "Butter is going to see Mrs. Ken dricks this afternoon," replied Mrs. Burden. "Ho is going to open the door for the ladies." Major Porter whistled. He looked suspiciously at Butter's red eyelids. "Well, how would it be to have But ter come along with the circus party this afternoon and let Mrs. Kendricks open the door for the ladies herself?" He gavo Butter a nudge under the table at this last abominably weak jest. Butter could not refrain from a smile of hope. "We'll all get ready right away," continued the major. "You can get your hat I can black my shoes. Sam can hitch up the horses. Pearl can have a B. and S. or something, and then we'll go." "Father," murmured Mrs. Burden in Important haste, "Mrs. Atkinson got a new BUlt for him especially for thlB. Don't think"— "Well, Butter, I guess I'll have to go oyer and get your mother to let you open the door at the evening reception. That's the way we'll fix it up with her." Meanwhile Mrs. Porter had by in spiration divined the cause of her daughter's distress. She came back as the major was starting oft. "I think Pearl would better stay with us, father," she said. "I really believe she wishes to assist ir. receiv lug. I am going to let her pass around the crackers." It would seem that Providence has arranged for a variety of tastes In the world, for 011 that afternoon Pearl floated airily and elegantly among groups of gloved ladles, and under the bulging, billowing tent, amid the odors of sawdust and the cries of lemonade men, sat Butter, between Major Porter and Sam, throwing peanut shells be tween the open board benches, his hap py eyes absorbed in the passing gi raffes and ponies. his bed. lie walked out to the woodshed aft er luucli, kicking his heels sullenly and listlessly against each other, and when he came out his eyes were red. The thought of th» white elephant toad been too much for him. His fa ther's suggostion that it had been whitewashed was not alleviating. Is a whitewashed elephant an everyday sight? He had visions of running away, but he knew he should not run away. He would stay, scrawling bin fingers in uncomfortable gloves and opening Por ter's door for dressed up and worth less ladles, perfectly healthy and able to do it for themselves, while amid the sawdust the opening procession was shining and glittering past unseen, nev er to be seen, by his longing eyes. He observed in the opeu window Pearl and Major Porter at their dally after dinner game of "old maid." Major Porter was not a kindcrgart ner, and he was almost invariably "old maid,'" each time, with ringing shouts of glee from his victorious grandchild poised elegantly on the window sill. But today her poise seemed less airy in its light ease. Butter beard shouts, and when she turned and wave her hand to him he saw that her eyes, too, were red. Major Porter was smiting his head with despair and chagrin at being a Major Porter was not looking at the ponies and giraffes, but he was very happy. He was watching Butter. A Trick Sparrow, The famous Chinese conjuring birds are Java sparrows. A sedate old gen tlemau sitting at a street corner in Hongkong put one of his birds through its tricks for the benefit of Commander F, M. Norman. Each birdcage has a sliding door, and just outside this is a pack of little cardcascs, each containing a picture and a small pot holding half a dozen grains of rice. "Cumsliaw (fee) can do. No cum shaw, no can do," remarks the man, shuttling the cards and pointing to the bird, which meantime knowingly eyes the proceedings. I produce a halfpenny. "No can do," observes the man quiet ly. "One plcy penny good pidgin.1 I hand over the necessary coin, which he places with the pack of curds at the cage door. Then he undoes the fasten ing of the door. The bird, eying the penny, then the cards, then the penny again, as if he thought his perform' ances too cheaply valued, descends from bin perch, opens the door with his beak, hops outside, draws a card from 10 pack and passes it to his master, receives in reward one grain of 0 man takes the little picture from W"f V*S W^-» ,. ^v',v'(!R?'^f!'::'^. -m linnds it to me to inspcct. He tlien re turns It to tlio case, nceompnnied by the tiniest flat slip of bamboo, and shuttles the ease up with the rest of the pack. The bird descends, selects a case, and I open it, to find it the identical one containinj.' the bamboo. IIow can this be accounted for? The only possible way of explaining It is, in uiy mind, that the bamboo slip is slight ly scented. Straining the Language. An amusing liberty which a native of Muscle shoals took with a word in our language comes out in a story told in the New York Times. A man bor rowed the native's horse without stop ping to ask permission. In the course of a few days the animal was returned, but tho native did not take a kindly view of the matter and concluded to have legal redress. He announced his intention of having tho offender ar rested. "What will you have him arrested for?" he was asked. "For horse stealing, of course." "IIow can you make horse stealing out of it when he returned the horse?" "Ain't it stealing if he brought 'im back?" "I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see how It can be." "All right, then I'll have '1m arrest ed for usury." "I don't see how you can make usury out of it either." "Why, hang it all, he used 'im, didn't he? Yes, sir, he used 'im three or four days, an' used 'im mighty hard, too, by the looks of "Im." ffm wrftiftit **w A Battle With a bale. Chased by a huge whule, with noth ing but a pair of oars with which to defend himself, is the story told by a fisherman, Pred Campbell of Maina dleu, Cape Breton. Mr. Campbell went out in a small boat. He was not very far from land when he noticed a huge sea monster approaching him. Not wishing to encounter it Mr. Campbell bent himself to the oars and tried to get in shore before the monster reached him. The whale gained on him, and he soon recognized that his efforts to reach the shore ahead of his pursuer were futile. His means of de fense were uot of much account, but he made gcod use of what was at hand. The monster opened his jaws wide and tried to swallow the boat, man and all. Mr. Campbell reached over with an oar and for a few min utes succeeded in keeping the whale away. When it looked as though Campbell was doomed, a small boat hove in sight, and its occupants, no ticing the man's perilous position, hastened to his aid. The whale thgn disappeared. Early Rending. It may seem superfluous to say that one cannot put old heads on young shoulders, yet it is a truth of which many parents require to be reminded Who are very anxious for their boys to "get on" and who deplore with uplift ed eyes their offspring's fondness of "adventure books." That is the tend ency of the average boy. Occasionally the precocity of genius asserts itself in a Goethe, a Shelley or a Byron but, speaking generally, childhood is men tally prone to follow after the new and the wonderful. It is a principle the op eration of which should not be inter fered with as long as a boy's excur sions Into the realm of fiction are kept within reasonable bounds.—Chambers' Journal. The I'tctarc In the Watcli, The following anecdote is related of Jerome Bonaparte: He had been play ing cards until he lost all his ready money, then pledged his rings and final ly laid his watch ou the table. It was a small gold one, the back of which opened with a spring. A lady overlook ing the game admired the -watcli and took it up to examine it On her at tempting to open the back. Jerome im mediately clasped it and said that must not be done. His wife, who stood by, insisted upon knowing what was in it, grew angry, reproached him with hav ing some keepsake of a favorite there and finally, bursting into tears, quit the room. Jerome then opened the watch and showed to all present that it contained a beautiful minlatux*e of his first wife, Betsy Patterson, with the remark, 'You see, I hope, that I could not witli propriety let her see it." It was no :orlous that he remained deeply at tached to his first wife long after their separation. Swelled the Conscience Farid. The legislator took up his hat to leave the statehouse. It was in Connecticut some years ago. Tucked in under the sweatbaud was a roll of greenbacks. The legislator counted the bills. "H'm! Five hundred dollars," he said, and put the money Into his pocket. Later in tho day he encountered a man with a shif ty glance of the eye who asked him, "Did you, ah, that Is, h'm, did yo'uus find anything In your hat?" "Yes, I found something in my hat." "Well, it was a mistake." "It looked like one." "See here, that roll was meant for another hat, see?" "I see." "As it's a mistake, I suppose you are will ing to rectify it?" "Not I," said the legislator. "I'm going to send that money to the conscience fund. Good morning." Malting I'p For Lost Time. Husband (to second wife)—You don't cook like Mary, my first wife, used to do, Alice, ho said, In tones of gentle, exasperating reproof. No, it seems to mo you can't cook like she used to. On another occasion hv remarked: "You are not so snuirt at getting about as Mary was. You don't appear to catch 011 where she left 0(f." About this time a heavy tilling pin came iu contact with his.head. "What do you moan by that, you -—V" he exclaimed, in agony. "I am doing tho work that Mary peg lected," she replied. There was more peace in that fami ly afterward. Black Duckw of India. The black buck of India is a very\ graceful animal, weighing between thirty and fifty pounds. Tho hide of tho male when full grown is of inky blackness on the back, while the belly Is as white as snow, the contract being very striking. Tho horns are black and spiral In shape and lu length average about eighteen inches, although they have been known to reach twenty-six Inches. The animals aro usually found In hords and are difficult to approach on foot, as the bucks toss their heads in the air from time to time in a very graceful mnnner, and some of them are almost sure to detect any attempt at stalking. Roll Butter. "v The young housekeeper who told tho fisliman that she wanted some eels and when ho asked her how much replied, "About two yards and a half," baa a rival. "I wish to get some butter,, please,' to 1110 dea.fefe a "WW- "Roil butter, ma'am?" he asked po litely. "No. We wish to eat it on toast. Wo seldom have rolls."—Chicago News. GlviitK Authority. A worthy parson, 011 being accused of cribbing, owned to it cheerfully, but added naively, "I always acknowledge the fact by raising two fingers at the opening words, and two fingers again at the end of the borrowed matter, to indicate quotation marks." She FnrniNlted RulletiiiN.^ "Their marriage was a surprise, wasn't it?" "Well, his friends were surprised, but I believe her friends were expect ing it."—Brooklyn Life. -Z'h Study is the bane of boyhood, the ailment of youth, the indulgence of manhood and the restorative of old age.—Landor. Mntilnu: It ISnsy. "You never allow yourself to read a book until you have read a review of It? Why is that?" Well, 1 prefer to use only prcdigest ed mental food." Improving Lpnn Nature. "What 011 earth are you doing In here. Tommy asked Ills mother, peer ing into the darkness of the henhouse, whence had been coming for five min utes or more a series of dismal squawlc incs, accompanied by a loud flapping of wings. I am trying," said Tommy, who seemed to be doing something with a otted rope, "to fix this rooster so his aiarm won't go oil before 7 o'clock to morrow morning."—Current Literature. IhiMlncNH. Merchant DH1 you find out what that gentleman wanted? Now Clerk—No. but I found out what lie didn't want. Merchant—What? How dare you— New Clerk—And 1 Sold It to him.— Catholic Standard and Times. The Most Psxfact BLOOD PURIFIER That Can Be Found Is cures al! kinds of b'ood trouble, Live* and Kidney troubls, Gntarrnh and Rheu matism, by acting on the blood, liver and kidneys, by I UftEOC GERMAN Railroads. Manchester & One u'a Ry, TIME TABLE. I I RUST LINIMENT I The Quick Clean Cure for Aches and Fains in general. Druggist' 25c and 50c. COOORICH & JENNINGS, Anoka, Minn. You pay to cents fbr Cigars not so good AS LEWIS'!wv'. SINGLE r.P.LEWIS,MATFFFE PCORIA.I1V The New Steel Cut Coffee Harrington He.ll li a Fine Coffee to begin with. The steel cutting is a great Improve ment as the coffee 1$ not ground in a mill, but steel cut into small granules of uni form size, also removing by our exclusive patent process the chaff which remains in all ground coffee. This chaff is not coffee. Its flavor is bitter, unpleasant-and strongly astringent (from tannin). The removal of the chaff insures a smooth rich flavor of pure coffee. Send for booklet about the steel cut process to the Minneapolis office of Backer (SL CO. Sold In I lb. and 2 lb. untitcrs by ALL LEADING DELAWARE COUNTY Had Go Manchester, lows. ABSTRACTS. REAL ESTATE. LOANS AND OQNVEYANCING. Office In Fi^t National Bank Building. Ordere by mail will receive careful attention. We have complete copies of all\cords of Delaware county. ENNIS BOGGS,\ KAHAJM*, Train No. leaves Manchester at 5 a. m. ar rlvn*tit0nel(taru&:30a.m.Connects with wf-sl bmmU G. U. \Y. No. 5 ii KeluruliiK Iwivea Onoltln at 0:95 a. m, arrive* at Mniicluwtcr at 0 05 a. in. Train No. 4, leaves Manchester at 7 15 a. m. arrives at Oneida ut 7:45 a. in,, con nocts will) oasi bound C. O. W. No. 6. Returning leaves Oneida at 7:ft0 a. in., arrives at Manchester at 8:20 a. m. Tram No. G, leavos Manchester at 8:45 a. in., aN I rives at Oneida at 9:14 a.m. Con-1 nects with tho north bound C. M. & St. P., Nr. 22. No 1*12:18 a No 40112:08 am No 8* 2:18 pm. No S316:22 pm No 6 18:53 ft No98fS:10pm. North Bound Arrive— purifying tho blood, and con* tains medicinoa tlist pass off the im purities. For Sale osi# C*. .*?.:3r/tecrt Ottly By L/\WRENCE 4 CREIVIS, '"/J Manchester, towa. HjUBlf' Sprains and Stiffness are quickest reached by Returning leave# Oneida at 9 'J0, arrives at anohester at 0:60 a.m. Train No. 8, leaves Manchester at 2:10 p. m.. ar rives at Oneida at -2:40 p. m. Con nects with C. G. W., No. 4, east bound, and No. 9, west bouud. Re turning leaves Oneida at 3:00p. ni„ arrives at Manchester at 8:90 p. m. Train No 10, leaves Manchester at 4:G0 p.m., arrives at Oneida at 5:20 p. in. Con nects with south bound O. M.fc St. I •, P., No. 21. Koturning leaves Oneida at 5:45p. m., arrives at Manchester 5 21 p. m. JOHN L.SULLIVAN, 4~ Gen. Traffic Manager. Tn rough tickets for sale at Manchcstor to all points in North America. ILLINOIS CENTRAL R, R. HgfjT'ME TABLE. Main Lino Passenger Trains. WEST BOUND MAIN LINK ..Fast Train.. Chi & St lim Thro Express* ....Cllppor.... Local Bxpress -Way Freight. .Thro Freight* KABT BOUND No2* 8:34 am No44ft8:tt4am No4* 8:10pm No 84+8: 55 a No6t 8*40 pm No 9411:45 a No 60*1:85 CEDAR RAPIDS UUANOB. Bet Cedar Rpds 1 anti Manchester No.806 6:06p.m No 882 8:40a.m No. 853 l:00p.m South Bound —Leave ...t Passenger. ..tPasseneer.. ..•.tFrelght... No.806 9:00 a.m NO-383 0:85 p.|m No,SCO 3:80 p. All above trains carry passengers, jC. •Daily. 'V •Daily flxoeptSunday. The Maple Leaf Route. Time card, Oneida, Iowa. •VM CIGAR 'tt Homrs^ekers' Excursion. iioiiit&i ken rate*- to early all points fill- nt low rates by (JMi'bgo Great t' i' MII Ky. on thv llrsiBM! third '1 iu 6* of t-fceh month, to April, uvftiJuble •u the through tourist siui'ii-g ars. K«»r put(lcnUt8 apjilv to NM »r*at W'Mtiu Agwit, or.I, l\ Kur.tr, 5. 1*. A., Chicago Hi. 2 14w. Special 1UT63 to California and Art "V--/ zona. Vio Chicago Gn W estvrn JJuiitvay. Tiekiia on tuit* dniiy I'row K« b. 15lh lo April l», Avutltihlc iu lourist clipping CHTB. For further pbriicularB apply any great Western Agent or tilmer, G. 1*. AChicago, HI. »13 1 H. G. PU5ROB. Station Agt. Nos 5 & run between Dubuque and Albert Lea Nos. 81 St 82 run between Lylo and Dubuque with connection through to Ft Dodge by train No 81. New train 4 maVes same stops east of here as No, 2 exoent that ea6t of Rockford It stops at East Rockiord, Genoa & Coleman, This train through vestibule train with dining car from Omaha to Rockford. No 2 & 4 only stop at Dyersvllle between Manchester and Du buquo.| No 84-0-1-8 & 81 Run dallv Sunday Include NEW SHORT LINE and St Fan S&'S&f "V Illinois Central between Omaha and Fort Dodge In connection with tho Minneapolis and St. Louis between Fort Dodge and Minneapolis and St. Paul, also to be Inaugurated January 28,1U00 Lv. Omaha Lv. St. Paul I 7.86 p.m. 8.00 p.m. "THE I AT. Minneapolis Lv Minneapolis LIMITED" 7.80 a.m. 8.80 p.m. Ar. St. Paul Ar. Omaha 8.oo a. in. 8.15 a.m. A fast vestibule night train, daily, carrying through Pullman sleeping car and couches, Lv. Omaha 7.00 a. m. Ar. Minneapolis 7.00P. m. Ar. St. Paul 7.ao p.m. THE EXPRESS' Lv. St. Paul 0.00 a. m. Lv Minneapolis 0,80 a. m. Ar. Omaha 9.40 p.m. carrying Fast day train, dally except Sunday, througliparlor car andcoaciies. CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN RV. Purm For Sale. •, A flue Stoolt and Dairy farm of sou acrpi 6 miles south of Manchester, milo from rHiJroad station and creamcry, ComfortuM" house* good horso and cow barn, hog house com cribs and other out buildings, a flue veil of water with wind mill attached, 10 acrcs of &niondid timber Smiles east of farm will be sold vtUfc For terms inquire of AUNEH DUNHAM OR O.A. DUNHAM, 6:io Chicago Special, Daily, Going East 7:47 a Day Express daily -2:4apm Way Frelglitaally ox. Sunday 11:55 am Going West. North and South. Way Freight, dally ex. Sunday 10:20 am Day Express dally 3:00 Paul & Ka St Kansas City Exp, dally 5:31 am I dti For Information and tickets apply to C. A. Rohlnson, Agent, Oneida. B. C. R. & N. R'y. CEDALI RAPIDS TI1IE CAKD. MAIN LINE OOINO KAST AND SOUTH, Arrive Leave 9:80 No. 2* Chicago Passenger. ...9 40 10:40am No. 4Chi.& Burlt'u Pass tl:00am 8:10 a No. Chicago & St.Louls Ex. 8:80 a 1:05 ngt No. 8 Chicago Fast Express. 1:01 ngt No. 18 Burl. &Davnp't. Pass 8:25pm No 2—Pullman sleeper, free chair car and coaches to Chicago. No. 6—Pullman sleepers andthrough'coaches to Chicago and St. Louis. No. 8—Pullman sleeper and free cbalr car to Chicago Dining car will servo breakfast from Joliet to Chicago. Ptfcss STRAIBHT-S^ Ngt.—night. MAIN LINK OOINO NORTH. 7:85 a No. Minneapolis Pass.. 8:05 a 12:05 No. 8 Kockford Passenger... 8:80 12:05 ngt NO. 5 Minneapolis Express..12:90 ngt 6:46 a ra No. 18 Chicago Passenger. 11:50 No. 19 Chicago Passenger. No. l—Free chair car and coaches to Al bert Lea. No. 6—Wide Vestlbuild Pullman Buffet sleepers and coaches to Minneapolis and St. Paul. DEOORAH DIVISION, 9:10 Docorah Passenger 8:90 a 10:50 am West Union Passenger 8:40 4:06 Decorah Freight 0:20 am IOWA FALLS DIVISION, 7:30 ...Iowa ft Minnesota Pass 9:00 a n. :05 a. m..Minnesota ft Dakota Pass..12:30 IOWA OITT, DAVENPORT,BURL. AND CLINTON. 19 05 m. Burl, ft Ia City Pass 8 05 7:45 m....Clin.,Ia City, DvptPass,.....7:l&am 7:85a E. Burl, ft Ia City Pass -9:40 "Trains numbers 5.6,8. is. 19. and Minn & Dakota Pass run dally, ail other trains dally mday." No *2 daily between Cc cept Sunday." liapids and west Liberty. JNO. G. FARMER, W. H. PUTTON, Gen'l Pass ft Tkt Agt. Ticket Agent Oedar Baplds Iowa. FARMING THE SOUTH. IN Tbe Possenper Department of the Illinois On-, tral Railroad Company is issuing monthly circu lars concerning fruit crowing, vegetable itardon -alslng,dairying, etc.. In the states I y. WestTeunesseo, Mississippi and I Louisiana. i£vcry Farmer, or llcmeseeker, who I will forward ills name and address to the under-1 signed, will bo mailed free, Clrculirs Nos. 1, 3.1 3,4,Cauda.and others as they are published I from month to month. J. F. ing. stock raising, dal of Kentuck GROCERS. MEIUIV, LOW-RATE-EXCURSIONS Twice each month, on specific dates, the Illi nois Central will sell at greatly reduced rate I from points on its lino north of Cairo, roundtrlp Iiomeseekersr Excursion tickets South to cer tain points on or reached by its Hues In Ken* tucky, Tonnesseee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. Also to certain points West and, Southwest In Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Particulars of your 1111 nols Centralagonts. I For a free copy of the Homeseekers' Guide) describing the advantages and resources of the South, address J. F. Merry, A. G. A., 1. C. R. K., Dubuque, Iowa. For information regard ing lands in the famous Yazoo Valley of Mie .. p.skcnr Chicago. Through Bleeping Oar from Chicago to Jacksonville, Fla,, via I.O. B.R. IpS Commencing Sunday January 11, ItiOB, a through sleeping car from Chi cago to Jacksonville, Fla will be run on tbe Illinois Central Dixie Flyer, leaving Chicago at 6:30 p. m. daily via Nashville, Chattanooga and Atlanta. .Jl, G.fiEROfi^gent. Manchester, Iowa. ORIGINAL NOTICE. To G. W. MEM.EN, THE UNKNOWN imns.LKa ATEE8. DEV1SKK8 OH CLAIMANTS, OF G. W» MKLLEN KDWAIID C. lAVin,MKS.Kl)WAlRD C. DAVID, THJC UNKNOWN HEIRS, LVGATSES, DKVI8KKS OH CI.AINANT8 OF MUS. EDWARD DAVID THOMAS UICKOX, Mits. THOMAS HlCKOX.mK UNKNOWN HEIRS, LEGATEES, DRVISKKS Oil CLAIMANTS OF MH8 TOOMAS HICKOX EBRNK7.HR IIiTcncocK, MRS. ElJENK/ER HlTCnCOCK, THE UNKNOWN IIR1KB, LEGATEES, DKVIBBKS OR CLAIMANTS OF MltS. UllEKKZER HITCHCOCK 0. LARSON, CHRISTIAN LARSON, N. C. AMSIHCN, NOAH U, AMRDKN, J. S. CHRIBTIK, AVD JONATHAN 8. CHRISTIE, DEFENDANTS: You and each of you aro hereby notified that I thero is now on tile in tbe offlco of the Ctork of tho DIsti let Court of tho State of Iowa, In anil (or Delaware County, a petition of Clara A. Cooloy claiming that she Is tiie owner in fee simple of the following described real eitato situated In Delaware County. Iowa, to-wlt: The soutli one-third of the south lmU of tfco voutb I west quarter of section live the soutb one-third of the south-east quarter of the south-east quar ter of section six and the north-west quarter of section eight, all In township eighty-eight I north, range nvo west of the Gth P. M. That I plaintiff and her grantors havo been in the ad olgajd verse possossion oT said premises for more than forty years past. That the defendant G. W. Mellen and un* known heirs of G. W. Meiien are forever barred and estopped from having or claiming any title to sH of 6ft of seii of sw& sec. 6, T. 88, K. 0, un* der sheriff's deed recorded In Book 8, page 661* Peed Records, Delaware County. Iowa. That Mrs. Kdward C. David ana tbe unknown heirs of Mrs. Edward C, David be forever barred and estopped from having or claiming any title to tho 8^ of stt of s«H or swH see., sec. 6.T.88,. It. 5., Edward C. David, betug a single man when ho conveyed said lands January 22nd, 1806. That Mrs. Tnomas Iliokox, the unknown heirs of Mrs. Thomas Uickox bo forever barred and estoppod from having or claiming any title or interest In tbe e*i of the nwj4» sec. 8, T. 68, B. 5, Thomas Uickox being a single man .when he I conveyed said lands to N. C, Atnsdon, Aug. SO, 1857. 1 That Mrs. Ebonezer Hitchcock and the un* I known heirs of Mrs. Ebenezer Hitchcock be I forever barred and estopped from having or I claiming any title or luterest in and to the wH of tho nwK of sec* 8, T. 86, It. 6. be being a sin* I gie man when he convoyed said lands to Jesse Allen on May 90th, 18G1. That C. Larson, grautee in Deed Book 6, page G03, and Christian Larson, grantor in deed In Book o, page 001, are one and same person. That K.C.Amsden, grantee In deed In Book. IT, p, 497, and Noah C. Amsden, grantor In deed uook l, p. Bt)5. ore one and same person In nan S. Christie, grantee in deed in Book 1, p. 605, and J. S Christio.grantorlndecd Book 12, p. 141, are one and the same person. And praylrg that tho Court "enter a decree quieting tbe title to ail said lands in plaintiff as agalnti each and all the defendants, and that each and all tbe dofenoauts and their unknown heirs and claimants be forever barred and ostoppod from having or clalmiog any title or interest in said i»nds adverse to tbe title of plaintiff, and for such other and further relief as may be fouud equitable. See petition. No judgment for costs askea against any de* fendant And unless you appear thereto and defend on or before noon of tne second day of the May term of said Court, whloh will commence.and be held at Manchester in said county, on Monday, the 4th day of May, A. D.. 1003, default will be rendered against you and Judgment and decree rondorod thereon. Dated this Oth day of Mareb, 1903. YOBAN. ARNOLD & YORAN. Attya. for Plff. The foregoing Original Notice is nereby ap-. roved and ordered published for six weeks in Manchester Democrat as provided by law. A. $. 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