Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-07-16

Roy Timmons, OF the Manchester
Auto & Supply Company. went. tt
Chicago last Wednesday night to driv,
home Buick car for the company.
i Leslie Slack, son of Mr.. Frank
Slack, returned home the first of the
week, after a long term of service
over seas.
DIR. c. A. Bradley of Beatrice
Nebraska, spent several days in Man
chester, and looking after land in
terests near Delaware. While here
he was a guest Of DR.. and Mrs. H. NJ
Bradley.
| Clarence Copeland of Chicago
was a week end guest of his uncle
and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Good
lille.
Stanley Atkinson, son of Mr.. Cal
Atkinson, and Miss Margaret Shin
mer of Chicago, were married on
June 25th. Mr.. Atkinson has been
chemist for Swift & Company for
some time. His friends extend con-
gratulations and good wishes.
I'm our account Of the stealing and
wrecking of DR.. Weir's car last week,
we stated that an employe of the
Beck Hawkeye Company of Cedar
Rapids stole the car. 1t appears that
the fellow who stole the car was not
regularly employed by the Beck
Hawkeye company.
Dean Dunlap, member of the 18th
aero squadron, arrived home from
France last week. While Mr.. Dunlap
was with the American, Forces in
France his mother passed away last
winter in the hospital at Iowa City.
Dean is an expert engine mechanic,
and gave his country excellent SER
vice in the aviation branch.
We received letter from Mr.. T.
J. Jacobs the other day in which he
tells us that he is spending some time
with relatives in Springfield, Illinois.
He says Springfield is smoky city,
about onefourth of the population is
colored. He was born and reared
near that city, but would not care to
select it as a city to make his home
permanently. .r ....
Hobart Evans, who has been with
the army of occupation in Germany,
arrived home last Friday evening. Ho-
bart saw all the service that he cared
to, and served with the American
army in many of the important en-
gagements. 1t was his job to oper-
ate an army motor cycle between the
front lines and the artillery head
quarters back or the line, and II
some important communication had to
be sent back from the front he was
detailed to drive the motor cycle for
the messenger. His, friends are all
mighty glad to see him back once
more in Gods country.
Z Last Thursday was an unlucky
day for the employees OF two of the
Manchester garages. In the morning
Ben Wheeler of the Manchester Auto
& Supply Comueny's garage was at.
tempting to put up sign and was
standing on a ladder, when. suddenly
the ladder slipped and he was thrown
to the cement Sidewalk, with the res
suit that both bones In the right fore
arm were broken. Carl Haltmeyer,
auto mechanic. at the ]. NJ Jones &
Sons garage, had the middle finger
crushed while working on a Ford
car. The injuries will seriously in
convenience the workmen for some
time to come.
Mrs. w. w. Young. who spent
several weeks with relatives ! and
friends near Staples, Minnesota, re-
turned home last week. Mrs. Young
was within sixty or seventy miles of
the town that was completely wiped
off the map by the terrible tornado
some weeks ago, and in which sixty
persons were killed and S6.000,00O
worth Of property was destroyed. She
tells us that near this town there is
a large lake, around which are lined
the summer homes Of many of the
wealthy people Of that part of the
state Practically every home along
the shore of the lake was wrecked
and carried into the lake, and even
as late as last week workmen were
searching for missing persons who
are believed to have been carried into
the lake with their buildings.
Ben Wheeler is installing a mod
ern steam boiler to furnish steam for
his vulcanizing plant in the Manches-
ter Auto & Supply Company garage,
the new, equipment is being installed
today. Mr. Wheeler met with dis
tressing accident last week when he
fell from a ladder and broke the
bones in his forearm He is at his