Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-04-24
HOPKINTON.

HOPKINTON.
r. A. Wallace made business trip
to Davenport Thursday.
A. w. Reed went to Sloan last week
to look after carload of stock which
Avelin Wheeless is shipping this way.
Word has been received of the
death of James McCutcheon of ST..
Edwards, Nebraska, who formerly re-
sided here and whose wife was Miss
Matte Smith, also of Hopkinton.
Miss Fern Vaughn of Murdo, s. D.
is visiting her sister, Mrs. H. A. Phil
ipps and Mrs. W. r. Reeve.
Will Kness and family have moved
to Monticello where Mr.. Kness will
be employed on the Luter farm.
c. r. Nelson was called to Sioux
City last week by the death of his
brother-in-law, William Brandt.
Mrs. I. T. Wilson and Mrs. J. d.
MacAllister spent Thursday in Ana
mosa at the hospital with Paul Will
son.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Billings and chill
dren and grandfather Mills left for
Casper, Wyoming. Ray will look for
work and Mr.. Mills will make his
home with q daughter.
B. F. Dewald received card from
France announcing he safe arrival
of his son Ray, few weeks ago.
About $4,000 eggs we're shipped from
here last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. c. Oehler visited
several days last week in Davenport
with Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Macarthur.
A little daughter is reported at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. e. Kelsey at
Council Bluffs. Mrs. Kelsey was for
merly Miss Viola Lux.
Rev. w. H. Ensign and w. s. John
son attended the meeting Of Presby-
terry at independence last week.
Mrs. Fred Wheeless and little son
of Williamsburg, Virginia, are visit
ing Mrs. Emma Wheeless and Mrs
w. P. Lord.
j. C. Brownell has been quite i'll
the past week with heart trouble.
Mrs. P. R. Wheeless and children
left Tuesday morning for their new
home in Canada. Her sister, Mrs. F.
K Barnes, and Miss Elizabeth Camp
bell accompanied her as far as ST.
Paul where they expected to meet
Mrs. J. c. Kirkwood who is also on
her way to Canada.
Charles Cramer of Cedar Rapids Wis
tied Wednesday with his brother, A.
K. Cramer. He is an express messen-
ger out of Cedar Rapids.
A number of the neighbors of Mrs.
w. H. Collar went to her home Mon
day, taking their dinner with them to
help her celebrate her birthday.
Ben Hanken has new Buick auto
mobile.
Miss Hilda Taylor writes from
jamestown, N. D., that her sister, Miss
Mary, who had offered herself as a
foreign missionary, had been appoint
ed by the board to 60 to Hawaii, where
are also three other graduates OF
Lenox college, Mrs. Margaret Melrose,
her son, Rev, Paul Melrose and wife,
who was formerly Miss Esther Agnew.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burr Brownell and
daughters and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Stewart of Stanley, were guests last
week Of Mr.. and Mrs. O. w. Smith.
R. G. Crawford left Tuesday for a
months visit in Sioux City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Stanger visit
ed Monday in Manchester.
Orville Higgs was an over Sunday
visitor with his mother in Anamosa
Miss Marion Spence spent Saturday
in Anamosa.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. LIE Clere and
Mrs. M. J. Bollman went to Manches-
ter to attend the funeral of Mrs. Hen
ry LIE Clere Saturday.
Mrs. o. P. H. Jeffries and Mrs. M. F.
Brooks will attend the Woman's Pres
bytery meeting at Dubuque this week.
DR.. Nicholas knight, who has spent
many years in Germany, gave an adj
dress Sunday evening in the Methodist
church to large audience.
The scout boys with their leader
started out for hike Saturday and
had big snow storm to hike back in.
Charles Root is remodeling the old
meat market and it will be fitted for
a movie playhouse. Partitions will
be taken out, raised seats, new en-
trance and an entire new outfit will
be installed. Mr., Belknap will have
charge Of it and expects to conduct
the show three nights in the week at
the start at and 10 cents. He will
go to Chicago to purchase the outfit.
The jitney has again been put on
and is doing good service. The time
on the Davenport train has been
changed making it possible to go to
Davenport and back the same day
as we'll as to Cedar Rapids.
Care of Flutes.
Flutes sometimes Suffer from INV