Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-03-31
LOCAL news
OF THE Week
WHAT MANCHESTER. PEOPLE
ARE DOING At HOME AND
ABROAD,
REVIEW and FORECAST OF The WEEI
Items of a Personal and General
Nature Picked Up About
the City.

Nature Picked Up About
the City.
! DR.. E. E. Reed Of Hopkinton was
a visitor in the city last Friday.
Superintendent H. T. Ports was
a visitor in independence on last
Friday.
B. W. Jewell of Omaha, Nebras-
ka, is a guest of friends in the city
this week.
Mrs. H. R. Holmes is critically
i'll at her home In this city with
pneumonia.
Miss Myrtle Midkiff was a guest
Of her sister at Edgewood a part
Of last week.
Rev. w. H. Ensign, Of Hop
Anton, was a visitor in Manchester
on last Friday.
Mrs. L. D. Platt was a guest at
the Coykendall home in Strawberry
Point last week.
"A. F. Slack has began the work
of erecting new residence on
West Butler street.
The Friday Afternoon Club will
meet at the home of Mrs. S. A.
Steadman this week.
Il. w. Lampman returned home
Saturday morning from a business
trip in South Dakota.
Misses Ruth and Elsie Pilgrim
were guests at the George Hunt
home in Earlville last week.
The many friends of Mrs. o. A.
Dunham will regret to learn of her
serious illness, at her home in this
city.
Mrs. Theodore Shelley returned
home last Friday evening after =
visit with relatives at kankakee, H.
linois.
| Ray Nelson left Saturday even
ing for Council Bluffs, Iowa, to re-
main with his sister and attend
school.
Glen Hamblin has accepted a
position as night man at the Man
chester Light, Heat G Power Com
pany's plant.
Mrs. George Stamp and little
son returned to Strawberry Point,
last week after visit in Manches-
ter with friends. = 49,. J
The University Of fIowa Glee clut
will give an entertainment at the
high school auditorium in this city
on Thursday evening, April 1: -
Mr.. and. Mrs. E. d. Eide. OF HUI
ron, South Dakota, are guests at
the home of the formers sister, Mrs
Curtis Hockaday, in this city. .,a-'2 s.
THE Misses Elizabeth, and Jose
phine Hutchinson and Arthur Hutch
inson, are at home from Grinnell
college for the Easter vacation.
Miss Jennie McCarren, who is
a teacher In the schools at Mime
apolis, Minnesota, arrived home on
Saturday for, the Easter vacation.
The school house near Greeley,
where Miss Mae Jones of this city
has. been teaching, was destroyed by
fire on Thursday evening of last
week. =,
Easter Supper will be served at
the home of Mrs. Edward Putnam on
the evening of April I'd, for the ben
eft of the North Manchester Lad
ies' Aid society.
Miss Florence Riddeu, principal
Of the Manchester high school, spent
the, spring vacation at Strawberry
Point, at the home of her mother,
Mrs. Jessie Ridell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Hubert re-
turned to their home in Primghar,
Iowa, Monday morning after an ex-
tended visit with friends and rela-
tives in this vicinity.
Irving Long arrived in the city
on Sunday morning from Vermillion,
South Dakota, where he is student
in the state university, and is spend
ing a weeks vacation visiting with
relatives and friends. -
Misses Margaret Stanger, Alice
Glays Sabin, who are students at
Grinnell, arrived in the city Saturday
morning to spend their vacation with
relatives and friends.
The members of the Thursday
Afternoon Club were entertained at
the home of Mrs. Wade Long last
| week. The next meeting of the
club on April Sth will be held at
the home of Mrs. Burdette Young.
F. B. Wilson and M. B. Nieman
Of this city have been chosen as
petit jurors to serve at the April
term of the United States court to
be held at Dubuque. The April
term Of court opens on the 9th Of
that month.
The Northeastern Iowa Associa-
ton of Congregational churches will
hold it's annual meeting at Waverly
on April 19 and 20. The annual con-
vention of the Northeastern district
of the Christian Endeavor society
will be held at Greene, Iowa, on
April 9, 10 and II.
Carl Rabanau, who formerly re-
sided in Manchester and who has
been in. South Dakota and Mime
sofa for some time, has returned to
Monticello, Iowa, where he at one
time held a position with the Central
Lumber Company, and is in the en-
ploy of the Hall Manufacturing Com
pany at that place.
Mrs. Elva Dunham Parsons of
Watertown, South Dakota, and At
torney Ralph A. Durham, of Clarke,
South Dakota, arrived in the city
last week, on account of the Hines
of their mother, Mrs. Abner Dun
ram. we are plSdSeu LO. SIdle tuaL
Mrs. Dunham's condition is greatly
improved at this time.
Miss Blanche Bishop, who is an
instructor in the schools at Postville,
Iowa, is enjoying a weeks vacation
and returned to Manchester on Tues
day evening after visit with friends
at Iowa City and will spend the re-
mainder of the week visiting with
relatives and friends here. She will
return to Postville next Saturday.
"A party was given at the home