Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-08-13
|. LOCAL |. ! !. ! |. NEWS J s
OF The WEEK
4 NHAr; MANCHESTER PEOPLE
ARE DOING AT HOME AND :!
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REVIEW AND FORECAST OF EVENTS
lt4ns Of Personal and General
III Nature Picked p About
ii a. 81 Town. q
Mrs M D. Arnold was a visitor

udge Geo. ". n Durham was q
visitor III Independe nce Monday.
Hiss Ruth Billingsley was a
guest Of friends in Dubuque Saturday.
Mrs. r. Condor and daughter
Dorothy were visitors in New 5'1lslp1
ton Sunday. .53 S
II - NJ r. Milton Stimson left Mon n
day morning for Topeka, Kansas 2 So for
q visit with his sister.
Miss Laura Raugh Of Cedar ap-
ids was guest#of her friend y Miss
Mary Collard, last week.
Ii. and Mrs. Howard Drew are
the parents Of a daughter, born on 'ini
Tuesday, August -, 1913.
q ISIS Alton Muehe Of Ryersville
was guest Of Miss Rose Sullivan,
on Thursday Of last week. ts.5..
Earl Joyce and Miss Grace Nc =;
sCarthy Of Waterloo were guests Of
Jessie Maley last Thurs day. u
VT. and Mrs. Joe Becker, Of If near ear,
SManchester,f are the parents Of q 4 SON %
born Friday, August s. 91s. 3#.s l:
Miss Ina Daugherty Of 1ndep tsnt1i;
sence is "a guets at The 3. ". Wright
home in this city this week. N
King Goodwin left Monday for
sAberd cen, South Dakota to look after
land interests in that section.
Z "A. H. Kerper of New Vienna and ID
i "a. p. Muehe OF Dyers vile We're
Manchester visitors Sunday. 435.
4 3---- The Ladies Aid society Of the NJ
p. church win meet in the church par
lors Friday afternoon Of this week. q
Il Mrs. X. Knisella and son Joe and
daughter Salome of Dubuque visited
at the J. s.. Maley home! last week. 4
!, { and Mrs. Karl Buren, steir
!; Of Chicago are guests Of Mrs. STEMS
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Pierce.
( Mrs. Frank LaWson returned t.
\ her home at Waterloo Monday even
ing, following q visit in the A
Thorpe home.
The Masonville Cemetery socie
Ssty will hold an ice cream social il
4 the I.$ o. q. F. hall on Thursday
evening, August 18th.
-- Miss Clara Florine of Cedar Rap
ids. arrived lin Manchester Thursda!
morning fro a visit with her sisters
and other relatives here.
Mrs. Florence Hethering ton Gray
bill Of Bartellsyille, Oklahoma, is {
guest Of her parents, Aid erman AMI
Mrs. John .Hethering ton.
4. and Mrs. J !. w. Wright en-
joyed visit last week from the for
mer's brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs.
C. Wright, Of Lombard, Illinois.
The Sand Creek Aid society will
hold an ice cream social at the home
1 Of Michael Barr on F'riady evening,
August 18th. Everyone is cordially in
rited. 5,ss5 ":
IT, Miss Mary Link, Jessie and
Winifred Maley, VIM. Lawler Of Gin
,t6n, Iowa, and Walter Maley spent
Sunday in Dyersville at the home of
Mrs. Chris Smith.
4 84s Mrs. C. NJ Hanna and daughters,
Misses Sadie and Lura Hanna, have
been guests Of relatives and friends
{ at Coggon, Anamosa and Center
Junction for several days. K &, w
Il Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Denton OF
/! Mukoger, Oklahoma, arrived in Man
chester Saturday 'or. a visit with Mr..
Denton's brother, R. "a. Denton, and
sister, Mrs E. H. Hoyt, of tbs city.
I Mr.. and Mrs Denton will spend sever
a. weeks amgon their many Manchest
&er friends s5sS IA WI y:3l "A 81 u
Manchester is well represented
q at the $1,000 Day" at Dyersville to-
day. The committee in charge Of the
annual event have made elaborate
plans for the entertainment and
amusement Of one of the largest gath
erings ever had in one of the small
er towns of eastern Iowa.
tn. DIE. E. Newcomb, who was for
many years engaged in the dental
practice in Manchester, was guest
last week of Mr.. and Mrs. E M. New
comb north of Mancheste ter. Since sell
ing out his dental practice here Mr..
Newcomb has been located in the fruit
growing section of Oregon. His many
friends were right glad to see him.
Mrs. R. J. Bixby of Edgewood has
the sympathy of her Manchester
friends in the death Of her father,
the late DR.. Lewis Blanchard, Of
Edgewood. DR.. Blanchard was 80
years Of age, and was one of the
oldest practitioners of Delaware coun-
ty, practicing medicine for period Of
about fifty years. Funeral services
were held at Edgewood Friday, and
were conducted be Rev. G. H True.
Interment was made in the cemetery
at Edgewood. r.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newton Flack OIL
Blue Rapids, Kansas, were in Man
chester on Friday evening for short
visit with old time friends. Mr.. and
Mrs. Flack and the latter's sister,
Miss Miller, of independence, has just
returned from trip to Chicago and
the Great Lakes. They made the
trip in Mr.. Flack's touring car from
Blue Rapids, and were joined at In
dependence by Miss Miller. The
party had with them a tent and
camping utensils and spent little
time In hotels and eating houses en-
route. Upon their return trip through
parts of Wisconsin they encountered
some muddy roads, while during the |
trip from Kansas to Chicago they |
found the roads dry and well travelled !
After a very brief visit here Mr.. and |
Mrs. Flack and Miss Miller went to
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