Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1920-03-17

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/ The bride and groom were attended by
Merritt Haigh. brother Of the bride
and Iva Sheppard, sister Of the groom
l The bride was dressed In white satin
trimmed in silveS lace. After con-
gratulations q dainty three course din
ner was served by Misses Clara Leuch,
Eloise Blanchard. Eva Haigh, and Jen-
ME willard. Their many friends wish
them much happiness in their new
home. They will live on q farm near
Ryan.
Frank Dunlap and family moved
Saturday. into the Floyd Williamson
residence.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. "A. Milroy were IN
Cedar Rapids, Saturday.
Mrs. Dufoe has moved into the little
Macarthur cottage.
Mrs. Humphry was Cedar Rapids
visitor, Saturday.
w. S. Beels has taken to himself a
partner in the newspaper business.
Floyd Peet, who for ninteen years was
publisher Of the Edgewood Journal,
there, will move his family to
but who recently sold his interests
there, and will move his family to
Hopkinton when residence can be OBJ,
tanned. Houses are exceedingly scarce.
at present. We will be glad-to well
come Mr.. Peet and family to our town.
There was large crowd q tthcI
depot to welcome the Lenox Basket
Ball team home after they had de-
feated the State Teachers. team for the
second time. The referee tried hard
to down the Lenox boys, but they did
not stay down. The Hopkinton High
School team also Gid good work at the
county tournament, at Oneida, Thurs
day and Friday coming out second the
last evening. They are the youngest
and smallest team ana this is their
first year, but they have played good
games. About twenty went up from
here Friday evening.
A community dinner Is being plan
ned for Wednesday evening, at the
gymnasium to celebrate the victories
OF the two basket ball teams. The
coaches for the teams and all the boys
except one, on the college team
Cashen. Of Monticello. are Ill home
boys. There have been several com
munity gatherings in the gymnasiuml
which have been greatly enjoyed, 90 |
there will no doubt be = large crowd. |
Mrs. H. Phillip and her sister, Mrs.
Milan Morton. and little son, wsrs
over Sunday visitors In Davenport.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ. Doan and Iittle
son were In Chicago last week, where
they went to assist Mr.. Doan's mother
and sister in packing. preparatory toll
leaving the city. They win come to /
Hopkinton II they can secure rooms /
suited to their convenience.
DR.. J. R. Wood, who has been In
Hopkinton for several months. an
n60nces that he will soon leave Tor
Wadena. community that is without
a physician. Many will regret his
leaving. hut will wish him SUCCESS IN
his new home.
James Baldwin, OF Ames visited for
several days with his grandmother
Mrs, NJ. ]. Bollman
Isaac Littlefield met with great
loss when his large two story imple-
sment building burned down Sunday
morning. About five o'clock smoke
was discovered coming from the north
east corner Of the building where q lot
or binding Irvine had been started tho
day before. As in the case OF the fire
the week before. the nearest hydrant
refused to work, and valuable time
was lost: The entire building, stor-
ed to the brim with new machinery for
spring work, was a total loss. He
had six thousand on the building, but
none on the stock. which means a loss
OF about 10000, which includes four
new and one slightly used automobiles.
Mr. Littlefield says he shall not re-
build. It looks as II 1t might be we'll
to hire man to look after the hy-
drants.