Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-06-05
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Of The PAST week


visitor in Manchester today.
Miss Blanche Robinson is guest
of relatives and friends in Des Moines
several days this week.
The Mystic Workers will meet
Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Chapman on Clara avenue.
Rev. G. X. Hudson left Tuesday
morning to attend the commencement
exercises at Mount Vernon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Maloney and
baby were guests over Sunday of rela-
tives and friends at Anamosa.
Mr. and Mrs G. w. Keagy drove
to Waterloo Decoration Day and spent
the day with relatives and friends.
Martin Rudolph of Canton, South
Dakota, was guest of his sister, Mrs.
j. U. Schilling, several days last
week
Geo. H. Barr left Tuesday night
Tor Hanley, sask., Canada, to look af-
ter his farming interests near that
place.
Donald and Edwin Goen, who have
been attending st. Joseph's College
at Dubuque, are at home for the sum-
mer vacation.
s Mrs. NJ H. Williston returned
Saturday from weeks visit with
her daughter, Mrs. E. T. Afford, and
family at Waterloo.
4, Miss Alma Leroy left early Sum
day morning for Milwaukee, to take
up her work with the Associated
Charities of that city.
I. IN. d. Arnold and F. G. Hall have
each invested in Elgin Six touring
cars. The Elgin Six is a classy car,
with powerful motor.
Miss Doris Finch, who has been
employed in a large millinery store
at Valentine, Nebraska, is at home
for the summer season.
Miss Laois Conant, former
teacher in the Manchester high school,
was the guest Of Miss Florence Rid
dell, last Saturday and Sunday.
III. G. Seeds and A. R. Leroy went
to Des Moines Tuesday night to at
tend a meeting Of the Thrift Stamp
Campaign committee of the state.
-Burrel Work, Bert Pinch Harry
and Bonnie Thorpe left Monday night
for Chicago to enter the navy at the
Great Lakes Naval training station.
a Louis Cooking of Collins Grove
township and Francis Haenig Of near
Manchester have purchased Ford
touring cars from J. M. Jones & Sons.
State Treasurer and Mrs. E. H.
Hoyt and little daughter, of Des
Moines, we're guests several days last
week of relatives and friends in Man
chester.
Baptist Aid and Missionary So
riety Will -held their all day meeting,
with Mrs. Earl Durey Friday, June a..
Ladies requested to bring their mite
boxes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy King, who
spent several days with the latter's
mother, Mrs Anna Glissendorf, re-
turned to their home in Chicago last
Sunday. h IA,
Miss Edith Dorman, daughter of
DR.. and Mrs. Oscar Dorman, is max
ing Satisfactory recovery from an
operation for appendicitis, to which
she submitted last Thursday morning.
The Missionary meeting Of the
CONGREGATIONAL church will be at the
home of Miss Jessie Miller next We'd
nesday afternoon. Mrs. Sarah Bradley
will be the leader.
The Ladies' Aid society Of the
Golden Prairie church will hold an
ice cream. social at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Zimmerman Friday
evening, June IA.
The Misses Abbie Howard, Jessie
Maley, Winifred Maley, Julia Davis,
Gertrude Porteous and Mrs. Min
ME Wilson {. spent Decoration day
with their friend, Mrs. c. L. Parker,
at Waterloo.
Miss Freda Killers of Delaware
submitted to an operation for appen-
.dicitis, in the local hospital last
Thursday. The young lady is rapid
" recovering from the effects of the
ordeal
Mrs. Harry Petit and four chill
dren of Fairfield, Iowa, arrived in the
city and are now living in the Will
Hams residence on Gay street. Mr..
Petit is the linotype operator in the
Manchester Press Office.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. H. Durham are
now nicely settled in the e. H, Hoyt
residence -on East Main street. Mr..
Durham began his work for the Iowa
Farm Mortgage company of this city
June LIST.
Mrs. Myrtle Fish and little son,
who have been in Manchester for
several months, left Monday night for
albuquerque, New Mexico. Mrs. Fish
was called to Manchester because Of
the death Of her sister. Mrs. i. Mat
thews, jr., early In the spring.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Thomas Will
son are expected home from Deming.
New Mexico, Wednesday evening. Mrs.
Wilson is suffering from an attack of
appendicitis and is being accompanied
home by her husband, who has been
granted a furlough Of twenty days. Z,
Miss Nina Carhart, who has been
teaching at Whiting, Indiana, came
home for Decoration Day, and spent
the balance of the week with her