Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-05-13
LOCAL. news
!. OF ! THE II: WEEK. v. ! K.
WHAT MANCHESTER PEOPLE.
ARE DOING At HOME AND
Z. ABROAD.
REVIEW and FORECAST OF THE xEEI
Items Of ! Personal and General
! Mature Picked Up About ss
the City.

/ the City.
Albert Volt OF Earlville was
business visitor in the city on Mo
day. .5s5 i a; 4: ,5
Friday Of this week will mark t
opening of the pole and line fishir
season. Z: v X
i Mrs. w. H. Parker, who hs
been spending the winter in Califo
4 mia, has returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Taber left la.
week for Tipton, Iowa, where Mr.. T;
ber is conducting a grain elevate
business.
Mrs. w. II. Hutchinson an
daughter, Miss Delight, have returne
home after spending the winter /
the south. 81. 5.3.
-Gildner Bros. quote attractive fiji
ures on Munsing underwear in thei
Iadvertis ement this week. Read it O
page 8.
Mr.. and Mr.. H. T. Ports very dc
Ilightfully entertained a company Q
friends at a $3.50 o'clock dinner O
last Thursday evening.
w. L. Drew quotes some yer.
attractive prices on dress goods II
his change of advertisement on an
other page or this issue. :
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles. McCormicl
and Miss Bess Thorpe returned homt
Saturday morning from Cedar Rapids
where they had been the guests O
relatives. s5; ". .s .5 . 3 I.
MS Mark Moore, who has an ex
cellent position in the Ellis hotel al
Waterloo, was an over Sunday visit
- in the city with Rev. and Mrs. J.
F.#SMoore. ss
Theater goers will be interested
in the program for the remainder
der OF the week as announced in the
change OF advertisement Of the Prin.
cess theater. III /;
Ray Wells, returned home on
Friday morning from Des Moines,
where he has been attending High.
land Park college. during the past
several mont his. s:+is5
5: The base ball team of the Man,
chester High school was defeated in
the first game Of the season played
at Central City on Saturday after
noon, by a score OF 2 to 4. !5
Two automobiles collided at the
corner Of Main and franklin streets
on Sunday afternoon. Not much dam
age resulted as both cars were going
at a comparatively slow speed.
i About thirty relatives very Pleas
antly surprised Mr.. Richard Smith at
his home in Richland township on
asst Sunday as: Saturday, May 9, was
his sixtieth birthday anniversary. 4
A grand BAH will be given at the
opera house in Masonville on Friday
evening, May %. Bill's harp orches-
,ra will furnish the music. "A good
line is in store and every one is
cordially invited to attend.
ID. r. Grove & Company have a
change of advertisement this week
which will be Of interest to the
readers of The Democrat They in
iite you to visit their store and in
spect the line Of ready-to-wear gar
nents and other dress goods. Read
what they say in their space on the
1th page. 4.
Mrs. J. r. Moore expects to go to
arinnell next Saturday to visit with
Jasper Moore and his family, for a
few days. Rev. Mr.. Moore expects
to spend a few days the first of
next. week with his son at Grinnell.
On their way home Rev. and Mrs
Moore will stop off at Marshalltown
to attend the state conference OF
Congregational churches and minis
ters. 5,&&,
jay Long of Virgil, South Dakota,
and Elmer Long of Salem, South Da-
kota, arrived in the city on Sunday
for a brief visit with relatives and
friends. They will leave tomorrow
for Primghar, Iowa, accompanied by
their sister, Mrs Hubert, and moth
sr, Mrs. Geo. w. Long. Mrs. Long
has been critically i'll for several
week, will be taken to the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Hubert, at Prim.
CHAR.
Mrs. Michael Cossey of Forest
Vile, who has been visiting at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. o, c.. Clark
in this city for several weeks, met
with a very painful accident at the
Clark home on Sunday morning when
she fell and struck her head on a
. :. fI.
stove inflicing severe wounds. Mrs
Cossey's advanced age and feeble con
dition together with the accident OF
Sunday are causing her many friends
much alarm.
Several members OF the order o1
knights of Columbus from here at
tended a meeting held at Dyersville
ON Sunday. There we're fully five hun
dred members present from Manches
ter, Dubuque, Cascade, Bellevue, Del
vein, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Inde
pendence and other points. The ser
mon was delivered by Archbishop
Keane Of Dubuque. Fifty-eight new
members were admitted to the orde
on Sunday. Among the membership
of the class admitted We're the follow
ing from NJ chester: Harry Kelsey
Frank Barnd. +. d. Assmus and Jos