Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-04-18
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Of THE PAST WEEK
WHAT MANCHESTER PEOPLE
ARE DOING AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
REVIEW AND FORECAST OF WEEK
Items of Personal and General
Nature Picked Up About
the City.

Miss Laura Durham was visito
in Dubuque on Tuesday.
Mrs. A. d. Brown was visito
in Dubuque last Thursday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Chas
McKeag, on April 18th, a son.
The Thursday Afternoon club will
meet with Mrs. M. B. Richardson
this week.
Mrs. Jennie Brown and daugh
ter, Miss Dorothy, were visitors il
Dubuque,last Thursday. ... .
Mrs. John Wood went to Grinnel
last Thursday to spend few day!
in the home of her parents.
20. c. Clark, who has been spend
ing several months in the city o.
Washington, D. c., returned home
last week.
Charles Rigby of Cedar Rapids
was in Manchester on Friday to at
tend the burial services of the late
j. A. Wheeler.
Mrs. w. J. Suckow was at Tripod
on Tuesday to attend the sessions Of
the Northeastern Iowa Association Of
Congregational churches.
Marriage licenses were issued
during the week to William M. Cakes
and Genevieve Griffin, and Edwin J
Brownell and Dorothy Edith Warner
The Child Conservation League
will hold an important meeting at the
library on Monday afternoon. All the
members are requested to attend the
meeting.
DR.. J. W. Scott of Chicago, spent
last week in Manchester, looking
about among his old friends, all of
whom were right glad to see him
looking so we'll.
A number of Manchester mer-
chants have 4 installed attractive
electric signs in front of their places
Of business, adding greatly to the
appearance Of their store fronts.
The Democrat regrets very much
to learn that Mr.. A. M. Sherwood
has been decidedly under the weather
for some days. We hope tho he
will soon be restored to his usual
good health. ~
Mrs. Paul Miller and baby of Nor
ris, Minnesota, are the guests of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Jones. Mrs.
Miller and baby spent few days last
week with her husbands people, in
Cedar Rapids. ag
The building committee of the
Congregational church has employed
an architect from Cedar Rapids to
draw plans for church building. It
is hoped that the work Of building can
be commenced by June LIST.
The Central Lumber and Coal
company has purchased a Ford car
for their local representative land
yard manager, w. c. Keller. The
machine will prove great conven-
fence to Mr. Keller in his business.
Mr.. and Mrs. A: H. Blake and
granddaughter, Miss Marian, arrived
home last Thursday from Jackson
vile, Florida, where they spent--the
winter months. They stopped off in
Chicago for a few days before COM
ing home.
Mrs. Frank Lawrence will enter
tain the Kensington society Of, the
Congregational church on next We'd
nesday afternoon at her home north of
town. Mrs. Lawrence will be assisted
by her, mother, Mrs Smith, and Mrs.
Luther Sly.
j. Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Hoag, who
Spent the winter months at st. Peters
burg, Florida, returned home last
Friday. They were accompanied
home by Elizabeth Hoag, their niece,
who will spend the summer with
them in Manchester.
-Jenk Evans of Collins Grove
township, placed an order for Ford
car with J. M. Jones & Sons last
week. Will O'Connor of Nashville
and Alvin Carlson of east of Manches-
ter, have also purchased new Fords
of the local dealer. ~
w. D. Mcintosh has a change of
advertisement in this weeks issue
calling attention to the quality of the
monuments he is handling and that
this is the time to place orders fOr
monuments in order to have them
placed in the cemetery before Decor
alton day,
y Herman Salow and his family
leave this week for Los Angeles,
California, where they expect to
make their future home. Their son
Fred has been living in the Califor-
mia city for more than year. Man.
chester friends regret to have them
leave, but wish them success in their
new home. .-
Mr.. E. M. Funk Of Hampton. Iowa,
was in Manchester last Friday, COM
ing here to attend the funeral of the
late J. A. Wheeler. Mr.. Funk was &C
companied to his home by his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ernest G. Wheeler. Mrs.
Wheeler will spend few days in
the home of her parents before re-
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