Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-03-31
Mr.. Basil Confare spent the last
part Of last week in Marion. Iowa.

Mr.. Basil Confare spent the last
part Of last week in Marion. Iowa.
| William Penn spent last -Satur-
day evening visiting with friends
In Dubuque. r - rE&.&
| Mrs. G. B. Otis Is confined to
her home with severe attack OF
pneumonia. s.f4T
Chester Langridge is critically i'll
at his home in. this city with an at
tack Of pneumonia.
| Mrs. J. F.. Moore Of Waterloo
was a guest Of friends in Manches-.
ter the first of the week.
Mr.. D. Witheral left Monday
morning for Iowa City where he ex-
poets to undergo an operation. r.
The friends of Mrs Sam Gilbert
| will regret to learn that she is crit
ically i'll, at her home in Dundee.
The Mystic Workers will meet
with Mrs. A. B. Carhart on Friday
evening. April End. at 1880 o'clock.
William Jewell advertises cement
blocks in his change Of ADVERTISE
ment this week. Read what he has
to say. g.. ,.
Arthur Funbright and Martha
Blum were united in marriage on
March oath, by Justice George S.
Lister. 49,.
Mrs. George Miinch and daugh-
ter. Gladys, returned home Monday
evening after a several weeks visit.
in Chicago.
Read what J. NJ Jones & Sons
have to say in their change of adver-
ticaroon< fhfc or1ino tho
Ford automobile: t
Miss Myrtle Porter a teacher in
! the grade schools, left Monday morn
ing for an extended visit at her.
home in Strawberry Point.
The girls basket ball team of
the Manchester high school will play
against the girls team from Anamo-
sa in the local gymnasium this even
ing. 5
-Wibben and Walker have an
advertisement on another page of
this issue which will be of especial
interest to the women readers Of
The Democrat. -
The members of the Thursday
Afternoon Club and their husbands
will be ,entertained at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Matthews this
"wednesday evening. t L
Several members Of the local
K. p. Lodge are planning to 60 to
Independence on Wednesday even
ing, April Z, to attend big feature
production, Damon 6 Pythias." =
Miss Etna Barr, who is student
at Stanley Hall at Minneapolis, Min
nesota, is spending weeks vacation
in the city at the home Of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Barr.
Mrs. George Nelson leaves the
latter part Of this week for Council
Bluffs, Iowa, where she will make
her future home. She has purchased
a rooming house at that place and
will conduct the, same herself.
e. A. Cleasby of Portage, Min
nesota, district bird law inspector,
was in the city on Monday and adj
dressed the pupils of grades Of the
city school in the morning and the
members Of the high school IN the
afternoon on the National Bird Law
and the value of birds.
Nazareth Commandery, No. 49,,
K. T., Of this city has been invited. !.
to- participate with Ascalon Comman4S
dery, Of Waterloo, IN the obser, ancet
Of Easter day at y Waterloo, on Eas-4
ter Sunday, April 4. A very inter-
esting program has been planned for
the occasion. W. -. g 3
"A school election will be held at
Dundee on the. 17th day Of April to
decide whether or not the Independ-
ent, School District Of Dundee shall
| issue bonds not to exceed $1,000 for
the purpose of constructing and
equipping a new school house and
procuring site for the same.
Estate Food Inspector S. Bitt-
ner of Cedar Rapids was in the, ci-
fty this morning and called attention
to the matter of negligence by some
Of the merchants in selling gaso-
line in most any kind Of recep-
tacle. The statute provides that
gasoline may be sold only in cans,
kegs, packages, barrels, measures,
or cans painted vermillion red, and
having the word gasoline plainly
stenciled on the receptacle. It is un-
lawful to put or sell or offer for
sale kerosene in a red, or gasoline
can, and punishable by fine Of 500.
The merchant by ignoring this is
counting big damage suit in event
Of some accident, ''.