Excerpt from The Index, 1908 Mr. Manchester has been honored in various ways. Three years after graduation he received from his alma mater the de gree of am. In 1906 the Illinois Wesleyan University con ferred the degree ll.dj Not long ago some Of the prominent citizens Of Normal conceived the idea Of doing something to improve the town. They put their heads together and organized an improvement association. In January, 1907, 'one year after ward, Mr. Manchester was elected president. The association found that the town was in the depths Of a financial mire and that the first thing to do was to pull it out. Accordingly a new town ticket was put into the field at the spring election, 1907, headed by Mr. Manchester for mayor. The entire ticket was elected and it is a well recognized fact that a large share Of the credit for putting the town O11 a sound financial business basis belongs to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.