Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
PERSONAL BRIEFS.
(Fro1n Mondays Daily.)

Mr.. Layton, of the Layton Sup
ply Company of Fort Dodge, was in
the city Saturday having come to
make extensive examination of the
cause and effects of the explosion of
the compressed air tank at the Dodge
& Baker marble works Friday.
IT. G. Harris of Crawford, Neb.,
left this morning for his home after
few days visit with his niece, Mrs.
Geraldine Dunlap, on Bank street. He
was en- route west after attending
! the Old Soldiers Encampment in Pc
oria, III.
DIR. R.. G.. Crumpton left satur-
day to spend few days in Iowa City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Winslow
spent Sunday with friends in Rad
cliffe.
Miss Elsie Wickware drove over
land to Eagle Grove yesterday with
a party of friends and Miss Mary
Dundon returned home in the car.
The Misses Charlotte Crosley, Mar
tina and Esther. Greenwood, nellie
Chapman and Mrs. Effie Kantor were
in the party.
Miss Jennie Breitenkamp, the
popular saleslady in the Sheldon
grocery, is taking weeks vacation
and left Saturday night for Iowa
Falls to visit friends.
Guy Rutledge and Ralph Mertz,
who have been representing the
Monarch Sanitary Trough Mfg. Co.,
at number of Illinois fairs, have
returned home after five weeks alb
sence. This company have had men
with exhibits at various state and
county fairs in this state, Nebraska,
Minnesota and Illinois. They report
business as exceptionally good. ILL
nois, which has suffered from many
months of quarantine as a result OF
the foot and mouth disease and the
destruction of , many Of her best
herds, is now beginning to return to
her normal condition. Her dairy
and stock men after replenishing
their herds will make every effort to
secure up to date and sanitary equip
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Steele and
children of Spirit Lake motored
here Saturday for couple of days
visit with Mrs. Steele's brother, w.
w. Taylor and family.
| Albert Traver of Truman,
Mimi, is in the city for few days
visit with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
]. w. Traver.
Miss Nellie Baker, teacher in
the grades, spent the week end with
relatives and friends in harrisburg.
Clarence Gotch of Iowa Falls
Joined his wife and baby in visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. Roe Stuart yes
terday, all returning to their home
today.
| Miss Emma Amundson of Hardy
spent Sunday among friends in this
city. Mr. and Mrs. Amin Weeks and
little daughter of Hardy and the
Misses Lena Amundson of Eagle
Grove and Ruth Amundson of Arm
old motored down last evening and
Miss Amundson accompanied them
home.
Ben Hensel left this forenoon
for Lincoln, Neb., to resume his stud
les at the State University after a
summers vacation at his home.
H. H. Hoyt returned last night
from a short business trip to Plover.
Mrs A. e. Anderson and baby
son of Fort Dodge are making WIS.,
| it with the formers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. I. Thompson.
Mrs T. N. Miller of Rockford,
ILL.,, returned to her home this noon
following a weeks visit with her
brother, George S. Lane and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Short, the Misses
Gertrude Miller and Agnes Johnson
and Messrs. Harry Hicks and Glen
Lawrence, all of Fort Dodge, motor
ed to this city Sunday and spent
some time with James V. Nicolay,
an employee in the Ruegnitz drug
store.
C. w. Drake, brother of A.
w. Drake who has been spending a
couple of days here, returned to his
home in Chicago today.
Mrs. Walter Bolt. who has been
guest of the r. d. Hayden family,
left for her home in Perry this neon.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Stow re-
turned this noon to their home in
Omaha after couple of days spent
with the formers brother, w. w.
Stow and wife.
Mrs. Albert Bean, who has been
visiting the Edward Ackley family