Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-04-02
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regular meeting in their hall on Sat
urday, April 5th. Dinner at noon.
Rev. Geo. La Bounty. pastor OF
the Golden church, filled the pulpit
at the Congregational church last
Sunday in the absence OF Rev. W. J.
Suckow.
Mrs. Jos. Hutchinson returned
home from Birmingham, Alabama, last
week, after spending some time with
her daughter, Miss Elizabeth. who Is
doing very effective work among the
women employees Of one Of the great
steel mills Of that city. y -
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton. Durham OF
Waterloo spent a few days the first
OF the week in Manchester. moving
their household goods to Waterloo.
Mrs. Dunham's mother.-Xrs. c. H.
TAYLOR. accompanied them and will
make her home In Waterloo.
Mrs. A. w. stearns, County Chair
man, and Miss Grace N. Matthews.
Home Demonstration Agent, went to
the Ladies' Aid Society meeting at
Buck Creek on Thursday. Mrs, Stearns
told them Of the very splendid oppor-
tun{ties In Child Welfare work that
are coming to Delaware County. Miss
Matthews opened up some Of the plans
Of Home Demonstration Work and sug-
gested ways of hslping.r A splendid
interest was shown taaargII ga,..
There is a drive now on by the
u S. Child Welfare Bureau for keep
ing children in school and having all
those return who are out now. The
teachers Of this county are kindly ask
ed TO send reports to County Chairman,
Madde Cary Plat. May every teach
er consider this her patriotic duty,
BY May LIST we hope to give report
and names Of teachers. who respond
ed promptly.
The Rainbow" division left Cob
lenz, Germany, today, and will embark
for America at Brest on or about
April 7th. Several Manchester and
Delaware County boys are in this not
ed division. and their return Will be
most cordially welcomed. The place
of the Rainbow" division will be TAX
en- for the present by the 33rd division,
which will encamp for time on the
banks of the Rhine. Several Delaware
county boys also form part OF this
contingent.
MIR. and Mrs. John Tierney, who
have been living at Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, for some time, have return
ed to Manchester and will make their
home here Their son-in-law, Dan
Barnd, and family, have also return
ed to this city from Sioux Falls. Mr..
Barnd has Just recently been dis
charged from the army. He will as
sist his father with bridge contract
ing work this year. Friends Of these
families will be pleased to learn that
they are to make their home in this
city.
DIR. George F. McEwen. of the
Scrip Institution for Biological Re-
search, has risen to prominence among
the scientific men of the west and
on March, 18th he was invited to ad-
dress the members of the Synapsis
Club at their regular meeting at the
Citrus Experiment Station, at River
side, California. Dr. McEwen address
ed the club on Frequency Distribu-
button and the Precision of Averag-
es." DR.. McEwen, late last fall pre-
pared data for bulletin issued by
the Scripps Institution FOR Biological
Research. and deals especially with
oceanic circulation and its bearing up
on attempts to make seasonable weath-l
er forecasts. This is very exhaustive
work and reflects great credit upon
DR.. McEwen as a scientist.