Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-08-14

Brig. Gen Hanson y. Ely tormeris
Of Iowa City, has been decorated WIFI
the French croix de guerre
Corporal John E. Smith, of Lyons
Is q prisoner at Darmstadt, Germany
according 60 word received by rela
tives.
Over 1000 young men were arrested
In Davenport recently in Stacker
roundup, all who did not have dra1t
registration cards being held.
Nurses in the hospital at Atlantic
are taking military drill under the di
rection of Edward Mullins, student OF
the shattuck Military Academy.
Lieut.. Col. Clark Elliott was killed
In France by a German machine gun
bullet while inspecting his front line
troops, According to word received in
West Liberty.
An interesting feature of the state
fair will be an air fighting demon
stration by Brig. Gen. Charles F. Lee.
commanding the British aviation mis-
sion to this country, assisted by Capts.
J. j. Hammone, J. F. Morris, W. A.
Hannay and G. D. Hunter.
One of the Sac county men in the
Sac county draft contingent to Camp
Gordon recently bore the plain name
Of Bill James, yet he claimed to pc
master of seven languages. He halls
from Monster, Macedonia, and speaks
Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Turkish.
Russian, Rumanian and English.
An excursion rate of fare and one
halt for the round trip has been grant
cd by the railroads to state fair visit
ors this year, according to word re-
ceived by A. R. Corey, secretary Of
the state fair board. Full details as
to this special rate will be announc-
ed later.
Another call has been sent out In
Sioux City for women to take mems
places at work. This time the Chica'
70, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
company is asking for women engine
wipers at its new shops at Riverside,
a suburb of Sioux City. Ten women
are asked for in this first call.
It is announced that Fort Des
Moines is to be enlarged to accomo-
date 1000 patients in the big hospi-
tai which the government is establish
ing there. Government construction
authorities have been looking over
the institution with view to making
recommendation for changes to the
department at Washington.
Max and Margery, children of Mr..
and Mrs. C. J. Miller, of Clarion, have
spent their spare time this summer
selling vegetables and SO far have
earned $50. OF this amount one-half
was given to their mother and the
other half was used to purchase war
savings stamps. Both children are BE-
tween the ages of 10 and II years.
No one will question the right OF
Mrs. J. D. Nelson, membe of the Iowa
Soldiers home, at MarshalltoWn,, from
Des Moines, to fly service flag in the
window of her apartments in the old
peoples building. Mrs. Nelson's serv-
Ice flag is not indicative of nephews
or second cousins in the service, but
of four of her five sons. Tho fifth
has tried to enlist, but was rejected.
Former Senator Edgar E. Mack, 6S
years old, was killed in an automobile
accident in Addison, Pa, recently, &C.
cording to word received by his son,
Guy e. Mack, county attorney. Mr..
Mack has been prominent in politics
Tor years He was member OF the
Republican state central committee in
1890 and served two terms as stals
senator from that district. "'"''
]. F. Deems, state food admins
traitor, will not Issue sugar cards to
prevent hoarders getting an unjust
share of sugar. The plan is too ex.
pensive, he declared. After an in
vestigation he discovered that the
cost of printing the cards, alone,
would be $4,000 per month, and adding
the envelopes, postage, etc., the total
cost to the state would approximate
$4,000 a month.
Attention is being given the rural
education department of Iowa State
Teachers college in Cedar Falls by
educators in all parts of the United
States. A representative Of the state
OF Maine recently visited the college
on an inspection tour while men
from the Country Gentleman and the
Webb Publishing company, the latter
- a., f1,ov
ial for special articles.
: Housewives will be given an OPP
portunity to learn much about food
conservation at the state fair this
year, the demonstrations in the
Women and Children's Building by
the Iowa State College, home eco
nomic department, being devoted
largely to those economies called for
by the food administration. There
will BE- two demonstrations daily,
one at 10 a. m. and the other at 2 p.
m
A number of Iowans have been CIV
en- commissions in the reserve corps
and national army in the past few
days. Included in the list are num-
Der OF young men who have complet-
ed courses in the army flying schools
& the south and have been commits
stoned second lieutenants in the aero
nautic branches Of the service. Among
these new officers are: Clarence
Chamberlain, Denison; Stanley H.
Doyle, Manly; Jerome S. Gehen, Fla
warden; Lloyd J. Mcdowell, Waiver
Iy; Andrew J. Nelson, 1ndianola:
Howard L. Roach, Plainfeld; Wendell