Manchester Democrat., 1920-12-22
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
OF The week
YOUNG PEOPLE RETURN HOME
FROM SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
FOR HOLIDAYS.
W. A. MOREHoUsE IS INJURED
C. C. Pride Celebrates HIS Eighty
Second Birthday last Sunday. Mem
hers Of Post Surprise Him.

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er OF the Democrat.
Miss Kathryn Beatty returned
from Ames on Wednesday evening
for the holiday vacation.
-Miss Gail Amsden q student at
Cedar Falls, is spending the holidays
with her mother and sister.
Charles E. Lynde. manager for
Farming spent Monday in
among his friends.
X. P. lodge will have second de-
gree work next Monday night. All
members are urged to be present.
Miss Jennie McCarren. who is a
teacher in the schools at Minneapolis,
arrived home last week for the holi-
days.
Miss Josie Davis OF Salem, Oregon,
arrived in Manchester on Monday
evening, and will make her home
with Mrs. J. P. Ball.
Miss Agnes Bradley. student In
Ward Belmont, Nashville, Tennessee,
Is expected home this week for the
holiday vacation.
Miss Cecil Cotter, teacher in the
East High School in Des Moines, is
spending her holiday vacation with her
sister. Mrs. E. M. Carr.
Miss Mary Collard, a teacher in
the High School at Omaha, Nebraska,
is spending the vacation with her
Mrs, s. Collard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Barr went
last Thursday to Stockton, Illinois, to
attend the funeral OF Mrs. Charles
Paxson, formerly Of Manchester
The Epworth League Of the Metho-
dist church had Christmas Tree
Party on Monday evening in the church
parlors. A fine time is reported.
The w. c. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Ollie Hazelrigg on Friday after
noon. December 30th. Mrs. Fl. G.. Haze
berle will be the leader Of the meet
ing.
Miss Elizabeth Baumgartner, stud
ent at Drake University, at Des Moines
is spending the holidays at the home OF
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Baum
gartner.
Misses Dorothy Hockaday and
Beatrice Pentony. and Messrs. Duane
Heath and Tom Norris, students at
Iowa City, are all spending the holi-
days at home.
Miss Irene Marshall Of Eldorado.
Kansas, arrived here the first Of the
week and is spending the holidays with
her sister, Mrs. Myrtle Smith and Mrs.
H. C. Hermann.
Word from Mrs. H. A. Granger
states that she is now nicely located
at COL Sth, Street North, in st. Peters
burg, Florida, where she will spend
the winter months.
Miss Sadie Griffin. who has been
in Kansas City during the past year,
arrived home last week, and is spend
ing her vacation in her home and with
her sisters, Misses Lizzie and Mary
Griffith.
Hubert Carr and daughter Helen,
went to Chicago Monday afternoon,
where they will meet Miss Virginia
Carr, who is a student in Smith Col
lege, and who will spend the holidays
with her parents at home.
The Sunday School Of the Thorpe
church will give their Christmas pro-
gram on Friday evening, December
Gath, at 7:3o P. NJ. An offering will
be taken for the benefit Of the Orphans
Relief Society OF the Near East.
Miss Margaret Stanger, who is pre-
pairing herself for professional nurs-
ing, in children's hospital in Bos-
ton, arrived in Manchester last Fri
day and will spend the holidays
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. O.
Stanger.
County Clerk O. r. Dunham is
sued marriage licenses to the follow
ing persons during the past week:
Forrest j. Meader and Myrtle r.
Frank Combs and Alma
Hook; Leonard G. Steva and Mildred
F. Hamblin.
Miss Virginia Amsden has been
a very sick young lady, suffering from
a very severe attack of tonsilitis and
during the last few days rheumatic
have developed. Her
many friends hope that she will soon
be on the road to recovery.
Miss Josephine Hutchinson. teach
er in the Grinnell College and the
Misses Isabel Pentony and Elsie Nc
Keag and Messrs. Robert Atwater and
Raymond Hare, all students in that
excellent school, are spending the holi-
day vacation in their respective homes.
&C. C. Pride, one of the few re-
Civil War veterans of Man
chester, was happily surprised last
Sunday afternoon by the members of
he local post. the occasion being in
honor of his S2nd birthday. The COM
,any which gathered at the l.. ID. Pride
nome included the members of the
post and his two sons. He was pre-
,ented with pair of leather slippers,
Hon. r. W. Thrill making the pre-
ientation The Democrat congratu-S ;
ates Mr.. Pride on having reached his
'2nd birthday in full Strength, and we
nope that he may live to celebrate
many more birthdays.