Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-01-12
REVIEW and FORECAST OF THE WEEK
n Items of a Personal and General
Nature Picked Up About the
City.


G. J.. Seeds were visitors in Du.
buque last Saturday.
Mrs: Ella Williams left Monday
for visit with relatives and friends
y at Viroqua, Wisconsin,.
Miss Ruth Towner of Charles
City, was a guest of her sister, Miss
Ethel Towner, over Sunday.
County Recorder, A. E. Dunlap
has been having struggle with the
grip, and is confined to his home.
Sss Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Cloud were
at Waterloo last Thursday evening,
and attended the play-The Birth
Of Nation
Chester Langridge was at Cedar
n Rapids last Wednesday evening and
heard the noted grand opera singer,
Geraldine Farrar.
visitors in Waterloo last Saturday,
and while there attended the produc-
ton, The Birth of Nation.
The Priscilla club meeting has
been postponed until Thursday, Janu-
u airy Goth, when the members will
meet with Mrs. George A. Newman.
Misses Florence Miner, Ethel
Towner, and Myrtle Prayer were at
Waterloo last Saturday evening to
attend the play, The Birth of a Ma
ton.
Our women readers will not ov-
erlook the advertisement of E. M.
I Hughes. The announcement, appear
ing on page eight, is Of special inter-
\ est this week.
The basket ball team Of the Ma
4 tional Guards of this city, were de-
feated in game by the Manchester
Dodgers, on Monday evening, the
] score being 80 to %.
Miss Marguerite Madden return
ed to her work at Hahnemann hospi-
tai in Chicago, last week, after spend.
ing some time with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. p. F. Madden.
w. D. Hoyt has sold his home
on West Union street to F. B. Will
son, Of this city. We understand that
Mr.. Wilson is to take possession Of
the residence about February list.
Mrs. Minnie Van Anda and her
daughter, Miss Eva Van Anda, were
guests Of Mrs. Van Anda's daughter,
AIRS. Charles Kay, and family, at
Farley, several days the first of the
week.
Last Wednesday the Senate re-
ported it's first list Of combinations
for the present session of congress.
The postmaster at Manchester was
one Of the number included in this
list Of early combinations.
M. s*1: Cal Martin WIS at Independence
last Thursday to attend the funeral Of
an aunt, Mrs. Emma Potter, who
u formerly resided in this city. Mrs.
Potter was the mother of Mr. Ed
i ward Raymond, formerly of Manches-
Y ter.
The Misses Pearl Mutschler,
\ Gladys Welterlen and Lydia Haug,
4 and Messrs. Everett Leighton, Clar-
ence Jones and Percy Davis attend
4 ed the play, ''The Birth of a Ma
tion," at Waterloo last Thursday ev-
4 ening.
"A. R. Leroy left this morning
on a business trip to Louisiana, and
from there he will go to Los Angc les,
California, for few weeks vaca-
ton. His mother, Mrs. M. F. Leroy,
and sisters, Misses Dora and Alma
. Leroy, are spending the winter
there.
Mrs. w. H. Norris and Mrs. E. B
X Stiles were at independence last Fri
day to attend the funeral services of
their uncle, Mr.. Seth Peck, who died
at Laurel, Mississippi. Mr.. Peck was
one Of the early day settlers of this
county, at one time residing ON a
farm south of Manchester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Roberts OF
Strawberry Point were in the city last
week, and left last Friday for San
Francisco, to spend the winter
months. They will also visit Los
Angles, San Diego, and other points
Of interest before returning home in
the spring.
Charles Hruby of the government
fish bureau, spent few days in
Manchester last week. Mr.. Hruby 1ef,
on Saturday morning with the fish
car for Washington, D. c., taking a
large consignment Of game fish from
the local hatchery, to be deposited in
the streams between this point and
Washington.
Mrs. A. B. Terril, who left here
early in December, to spend a short
time with her sister in Lincoln, Nebr
and with friends at Denver, Colorado
is now nicely situated in Lane Apart
ments, 1872 East Republican street
Seattle, Washington, where she will
make her hcme among old time
friends and relatives.
Mrs. Benjamin Harms has fully
settled the claim she had against
Charles Kellogg, of Oneida, which
arose out of an automobile accident
which occurred last summer. Mrs
Harms was driving on the road east
int NV