Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-07-16
LOCAL news
OF THE WEEK
WHAT MANCHESTER PEOPLE
ARE DOING At HOME AND
ABROAD.
GEYlEW AND FORECAST OF EyEh1s
items Of Personal and General
Nature Picked UP About
Town.

M. D. Arnold is a business SIT
or in Cedar Rapids today.
Jack Palmer spent Sunday visit
ing with friends in Oelwcin. 4
Mrs. Minnie Copeland was an oV
er Sunday visitor in Cedar Rapids.
Miss Joseph ne Thorpe spent Sur
day In Cedar Rapids visiting friends.
Harry Thorpe has sold his Har
ley Davidson motorcycle to Hoaar
Evans.
Roger Lewis. Ned Seeds AM
Wayne Smith were visitors in Water
loo, Sunday.
Senator E. H. Hoyt left Monda!
evening for Muskogee, Oklahoma, OF
business trip.
Frank CosgroveSof Arizona is yis
iting at the home of his mother. Mrs
X. e. Cosgrove.
The postoffice at Thorpe ha:
been discontinued and the mail Is
being forwarded to Oneida. ~,
John Launspach of Durango was
q guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. John HAT
meyer, west OF this city, over Sunday
Paul Wagner arrived in the
city from Waterloo on Saturday al
ternoon. for a visit with relatives
and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. Jewell re.
turned to their home In Omaha on
Sunday. morning after visit In the
city with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. ". Jewell return
ed to their home in Omaha on Sun
day morning after q visit In The
city with friends.
Miss Stella Mutschler. who is a
stenographer in the A. NJ. Cloud Of
flee, has gone to Yellowstone PARK
on a vacation trip.
Jack Palmer, who has been EN-
ployed as stenographer at the A. NJ.
Cloud offices, left today for Dubuque
where he will remain indefinitely.
Miss Grace Billings OF Waterloo
spent Saturday and Sunday in the
city, visiting, at the home OF her un'
Gle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. y
Arnold. III
a The ladies' of the North Manches-
ter church will serve an ice cream
social on Mrs. Stevensons lawn on
North Franklin street Friday evening
Of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Wirth Of Chica-
60 returned to their home Sunday al:
ternoon after visit at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. A. Durey. Mrs Wirli
and Mrs. Durey, are sisters.
Misses Louise Denton of Wetster
South Dakota, and Margaret Stanger
Grace Wolcott, Mildred McGee and
Dorothy Keyes are spending several
aays camping UP the river.
MIR, and Mrs. B. F. Hedlund and
Rose returned Saturday
morning from Fairmont, Minnesota,
where they spent delightful week
with Mrs. Hedlund's sister and fam
lily.
Mrs. VIM. Mcintosh and daughter
Miss Juliette, Went to Cedar Rapids
Friday to meet Miss Ruth Mcintosh,
who returned home from Los Angeles
California, where she has been attend
ing High school.
Mrs. A. B. Carhart leaves the
first Of next week for Philadelphia,
where she will visit her mother, and
old home. 1t has been nine years
since Mrs. Carhart visited her moth
and relatives in Philadelphia.
The Christian Endeavor society
OF the Presbyterian church will hold
a social on the lawn Of the Manse,
Friday evening, July Is, 1913. Every
body is invited to attend. Refresh
ments Of ice cream and cake Will pc
served. +.
Deputy Auditor and Mrs. Charles
Rizer have been spending many an
xious moments during the past week
at the bedside OF their little daugh.
ter, Letha, who has been seriously
i'll with adnoids.. A speedy recovery
of the little girl Is the sincere wish
es Of many friends Of the family.
Leon Beardslee left Friday even
ing for Chicago for short visit with
friends. From there he goes to But
ternut, Wisconsin, where he joins
his uncle, DR.. Liddy, and a party
from Chicago, who are camping at
that place. Before returning home
he will spend a few days at Penaton
Lake and Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Fl. B. Owens, who has been EN-
ployed as barber at the Miller &
Stephens shop in this city for some
time, has leased a shop at Newton
Iowa, and left for that place this
week. Mr.. Owens has made many
friends in Manchester during thell
residence here, who regret to have
him leave this city, but wish his
success in his new business venture.
Harold Foster Of Williams, 10
wa. a grandson OF Mrs. A. Foster OF
this city, and who was employed by
The Democrat Office during his vaca
ton last summer, has accepted a pos
ton as professor Of history In the
boys preparatory college of Lelane
Stanford college at Palo Alto. Can
fornia. During the summer he ma:
been platform manager for the JET
fries-Wicks Chautauqua of Des
Moines.
The following is taken from tn
Central City News Letter OF las
week: ''Last Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. y
D. Epperson, and Mr.; and Mrs. G. 3
Warner made a trip of 165 miles il
Mr., Epperson's automobile. From
here they went to Manchester, then t
independence where they visited tn
insane asylum, then to Waterloo, the
to, Vinton, where they visited tn
school for the blind. and from ther
went to Cedar Rapids home. The.
passed through eighteen postoffie'
towns.
Harry P. Smith of Newton. Iowa
son of Mr.. and Mrs Truman Smith
who live northwest of this city, ant
who was a guest of relatives her
recently, was elected president o
the South Cenrtal Iowa Superintend
ents' and Principals association
last week. The organization is ne'
one formed at the University of 10
wa, by educators from the publ
schools in the central part of th'
state. The object of the organizatlo
is to meet three or four times
year to discuss most Informally edit
cational questions Of current interes
to superintendents and High schoo
principals.