Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-06-26
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Of THE PAST WEEK

business visitor in Manchester last
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd H. Arnold, of
this city, are the parents of daugh-
ter, born Friday, June 22nd, 1918.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Mann Of Ma
quoketa, Iowa, were the guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Yoran Sunday.
Lieutenant Thos. Wilson, who has
been at home for two weeks fur
Tough returned to Camp Cody, DEM
ing, New Mexico, last Friday evening.
. "A. c. Philip went to TT. Dodge
Monday evening to attend the annual
convention Of Iowa druggists. Mr..
Philip is member of the executive
committee.
Mr.: and Mrs. H. w. Sabin and
Mrs. j. B. Rutherford drove to New
Albin, Iowa. where they will visit at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome
Sabin for several days.
Hubert Phenicie, who spent sew
seral days at home recently, has been
transferred to Scotfeld, an aviation
training camp at Bellvi1le, Illinois,
where he is now getting actual flying
experience.
A wheatless demonstration was
held for the Delaware township ladies
at the home of Mrs. Frank Lawrence,
north of the city, on Thursday after
noon There were over twenty la
dies present.
Mrs Frank Caldwell and children
will leave the first Of next week for
several weeks visit with her par
ents at indianapolis, Indiana. Mr..
Caldwell is expected home from the
south the last Of the week. and will
accompany his family to Indianapolis,
for visit also. ;
IF. p Walker, formerly superin- ;
tendent of the public schools of Della ;
ware county, but now secretary OF :
the commercial club of Clinton, was
a visitor in Manchester last Thursday ;
4 Mr.. Walker was on his way to Dubu-
y que to attend a meeting OF CONNER
cial club secretaries.
H C. Smith and his family ex- :
pect to drive to Roundup, Montana,
the latter part of this week, If wealth
er conditions will permit them to
start on the long trip. Mr.. Smith :
will remain in Montana until after
the harvest, to assist his son, Fl. T.
Smith, with the work on their large
ranch.
Robert G.. Barr, son OF Mr.. and :
Mrs Michael Barr, now in training
at the Great Lakes Naval training
station at Chicago, arrived home on :
Sunday afternoon for weeks fur
Tough The young man had been in
the hospital, having been laid up with
blood poisoning in his arm. He is
feeling O.. x. again, and will spend
week among his relatives before get I:
ting into the active training again,
1T is no hardship on Iowa people,
according to the government fuel ex-
perts, that they must this year look to
Iowa mines for their fuel supply. Com
mercial interests Of the state are I'M
animous in the belief that as result
the fuel cost for Iowa as whole will T:
be much smaller than last year and
that greater heat qualities per ton will J:
be the experience of all users of Iowa
coal
The Fuel Administrator in Wash
ington state, following out DR.. Gar
fields advice to coal consumers to do
their ordering early has issued no
tice and warning. He Announces:
t'In case there is a coal shortage next
winter, the consumer who has stor-
age space, or who could have provided
for the storage of his coal and did not,
will not be supplied until all booked
orders have been filled, and then he
will be Obliged to take his chances.
1t is not generally known fact
that at the st. Louis Exposition, all
western bituminous Goals were placed
in competition and in relation to price,
availability and handling properties,
Iowa coal was ahead of any of its COM
petitors Even the University of Illi-
nois in an exhaustive series Of tests,
placed Iowa coal ahead Of all kinds of
Illinois coal with the exception of that
from the southern field, in comparison
of storing qualities.
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Stranger and
daughter, Miss Margaret Stranger. and
Miss Grace Wolcott, expect to leave
next Monday upon trip which will
take them all over the New England
states. They will make the trip in
their car, and one Of the places which
they will visit will be Falmouth, :
Massa chusetts, where they lived for
some years Miss Wolcott will visit :
friends in the east for several weeks. :
The party expects to be gone for two
months at least.
Glen G. Leach, formerly superin-
tendent of the United States Fish
Hatchery at Spring Branch, but now in
the Office of the Department of Com 6
merce at Washington, D. c., has been l
spending several days in Manchester. {
Mr.. Leach has been out on an inspec- t
ton trip Of all of the fish hatcheries \
east of the Rocky mountains. Mrs.
Leach and baby son are spending the |
summer months with her parents in a
Virginia, while Mr. Leach is travel i
ing through the west. s
The State College at Ames has J
been for several years making tests of I
all Goals shipped into Iowa and the Blu q
reau Of Mines at Washington have
issuing from time to time bulletins re- I
lating to the heating qualities of all
bituminous Goals. These reports are {
now available through state sources 7