Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-06-05
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! were Snlppea 10 MONMOUTH, I'LL, rri
day. E
I Mr.. and Mrs. Sloan were up from
I Monticello Thursday.
Miss Gladys Robb of Mt Vernon Wis
tied Thursday with Mrs. Wilfong.
Mrs. G. w. Gearhart of Springvill,
and Mrs. Sue Fisk Stewart of Edging
ton, ILL.,, were guests Of Mrs. J. D. Nc
Allister Thursday.
Miss Boyer OF Brainard is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Fred Vesey.
Miss Vera Milroy accompanied hel
uncle. Ralph Milroy, to Manchester
Tuesday.
Mrs. Hattie Jenkins left Tuesday fol-
Oelwein. 8:
Mrs. B. A. Smith was a Greeley Wis
or Thursday.
George Good made business trip to
Cedar Rapids Wednesday.
Roy Jeffries arrived home Tuesday
from his medical studies in st. Louis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Billings and chill
dren and grandfather, Mr.! Willis, ar
rived home Thursday morning from a
visit of several weeks in Wyoming.
| Mrs. A. X. Cramer and Miss Grace
Smith left Wednesday morning for
Ohio. Mrs. Cramer will visit for a
couple of weeks and Miss Smith will
remain until fall. Miss Gladys Ora
mer accompanied them as far as Du-
buque.
Misses Margaret and Mary Eleanor
Baldwin left Friday to spend the sum-
mer with their father, F. H. Baldwin,
at Ames. Mrs. Marion Spence accom-
panied them as far as Cedar Rapids.
An official was in town Monday look
ing up the barberry bushes. There
were several condemned on the college
campus, and also around town. AS
these are only ornamental shrubbery
they should not be allowed to grow
to the injury Of the wheat crop. He
tagged the bushes and ordered them
destroyed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcconnell of Carol
and Mrs. Jentsh of Manning spent
Memorial day in town. The ladies are
sisters of Mrs. Charles Spence of
White Oaks, N. NJ. Mr.. Spence for
merly resided near here and was
brought here for burial two years ago.
Miss Emma Olmstead was up from
Monticello Thursday.
Miss Bessie Bort returned home
Friday from Buffalo, Minnesota, where
she has been teaching.
DR.. A. J. Guthrie Of Dubuque visit
ed short time Friday with his father
and sister. ....N
Mrs. Frank Winters and son OF Ce-
dar Rapids visited last week at the
home Of Mrs. Dillon.
Mrs. Lang of Monticello was a Wis
itor in town. Thursday.
Miss Minnie Currier of Chicago Wis
tied several days last week with Miss
Mary Guthrie. .'
Mrs. A. J. King was visitor in
Greeley Thursday, .- q, s.
1 L. J. Stoddard, wife and baby were
over Sunday visitors in Langworthy.
Mrs. Julia Ricketts, and little grand
daughter and Mrs. G. S. Morton went
to Dubuque Friday. Mrs. Morton re-
turned Saturday evening
Ella Aldershoff Of Tiffin Is visiting
lone Stoddard.--s-.-----~r.
4. Mr.. and Mrs. 6. E, Reeve arrived
home FRIDAY from Florida where they
4 have been during the winter. They
visited their sons, Shirley, at Takony,
Pa, and ReY. E. G. Reeve, at Clear
Held, Pa, and also friends In Ohio. ~
7 Frank Brooks and sister, Miss Car
rie, went to Cedar Rapids Thursday
in order that Mr.. Brooks might con-
suit an ear specialist. He was much
relieved to find that his condition was
mot serious.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Hill left Fri
day for California where they expect
to make their home. Mr.. Hill has
position in bank there. Fred Hill,
wife and daughter accompanied them
las far as Cedar Rapids, all going by
automobile. -
Mrs. w. N. Baker left Tuesday morn
ling for visit in northern Iowa and
southern Minnesota, visiting friends
land relatives at Garner, Britt and
|.spencer, and her parents at Rushmore,
MINI.
w. s. Beels and wife were called to
Mora, Mimi, last Sunday by the death
of Mrs. Bunce, a sister OF Mr.. Beels.
Her death followed an operation at
Princeton. They returned home on
Thursday evening.
MRS. Ed. Bacon had serious opera
ton at Mercy hospital, Anamosa, last
Tuesday.
On exhibition in the window OF N.
A. Gearhart's drug store are several
balls and pieces Of shrapnel she'll sent
by Lieut.. Gene Joseph from France.
He says he picked them up in the
trenches and they make the kind of a
,seranade the Boches give them. Mr..
fGearhart had another article OF inter-
est which was 2 very old almanac OF
1926, owned and no doubt highly priz-
ed. by John Hardness, as it was issued
in the days before patent medicine was
known, it is free from the interesting
advertisements which fill most Of the
almanacs of today. The weather prob
abilities down through the months are
much the same as today except the fol-
lowing: 1T may be want of rain in
some places" "Now look out for a