Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1920-08-04
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Of THE PAST Week
DEPUTY COUNTY TREASURER HAS
ATTACK OF INFLAMATORY
RHEUMATISM.
COMPARE SUFFERS BROKEN NOSE
Seven Divorces Granted Since Janu-
ary list. One Divorce in Every
Ten Marriages.

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here on business Friday.
Abe Weiner of Greeley was busi-
ness caller in town Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Drew were
Cedar Rapids visitors last Thursday.
Herman Kuhlman, of Greeley, was
a Manchester business caller, last Sat-
urday.
MIR. and Mrs. A. NJ. Scherer were
in Dyersville Monday, making the trip
by auto.
| Miss Hester-Roff was a guest of
her sister at Waterloo several days
last week.
Mr. A. A. Chapman, of Arlington,
was Manchester business visitor, on
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Sloan were
over Sunday guests with Mrs. Sloan's
parents in Waterloo.
Mrs. Frances Gillespie was a visi-
tor at the home Of j. L. White few
| days the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Hussmann
| are the proud parents of son born
Sunday, August 1st.
"A. H. Cleveland was in Volga City
Thursday, running stand at the
Community Picnic.
MIR. and Mrs. w. s. Richard, of
Corydon, Iowa, We're guests at the R.
| E. Meter home, last week.
H ,oIJ III. .oz:
dence now occupied by Charles Wheel
er, on Gay street. to Jacob Snyder.
| Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Carr and Vir-
ginia and Helen Carr left Tuesday
morning for Glacier Park, Montana.
MIR. J. Paisley and daughter Alice
went to Dubuque Monday, to spend
the week with friends and relatives.
Miss Dorothy Hockaday has as her
guest for couple of weeks, Miss
Harriet, Wadsworth, of Grinnell, Ia.
George Link and sister were in
Dyersville last week to attend the
funeral OF their nephew, James Link
of that place.
Miss Grace Cotter returned to her
home in Des Moines, Sunday, af-
ter spending the past two weeks
with her sister, Mrs. E. M. Carr.
w. H. Hutchinson went to Roches-
ter, Minnesota. this morning to visit
his brother, Joseph Hutchinson, who
is undergoing treatment at the Mayo
institution
l n IN L ic1r pnA, f& hnt,
home in Algona last Monday, after
spending some time with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Will Mcintosh, on East
Main street.
The Grand Lodge of the Pythian
Sisters will meet in Cedar Rapids,
this week. The following delegates
from the Manchester lodge will be
present. Blanche Otis, Alice Storey,
Martha Hall and Laura Matthews.
The place now occupied by Chas.
Reading on Union Street, has been
sold to William Cooking, by Mr.. M. l..
| B. Richmond. This is the time for
the farmers to see Mr.. Richmond for
those reasonable city residences Mr..
Richmond says that he has few good
places left
The Ladies Societies of the M. E.
Church will hold their regular all
day meeting in the church parlors,. on
Wednesday, August 18th. The w. F..
M. S. will meet at 10:30 followed by
picnic luncheon at noon. At 1880
the l.. A. S. will meet and at 2:30 the
w. H. M. S.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. J. Burk returned
home from their trip to Chicago, Mil
waukee and other points in the east.
They made the trip in their car and re-
port that the roads in that section are
nearly all paved which added much
to the enjoyment of the trip. They
were accompanied home by Mr.. and
Mrs. J. J. Lee, of Chicago. who will
spend two weeks vacation here.
Ernest A. Kline, deputy county
treasurer, is recovering from a severe
attack Of inflammatory rheumatism
which has kept him at home and in
intense pain for most of the time for
three weeks. The pain and inflamma-
tion are practically gone and he is
much better but is still very weak
and will not be able to get back
into the harness for some time yet.
| Basil Confare suffered a broken
nose at the Base Ball game in the
| North Manchester Ball Park, Sunday
afternoon Confare was struck out and
it seems as though in delivering the
ball to the infield the opposing teams
catcher made a quick throw to the
| third base-man, and not seeing Con-
| fare until it was too late, the ball
! striking him on the right side of the
nose, breaking it. Confare was unable
/! to resume his duties in the Hall d
Turner Bakery Monday, but again re-
! sumed his work on Tuesday.
According to the records of the
| Clerk of Court there have been seven
| divorces granted since January 1st and
seventy five marriage licenses issued.
\ If this ration is not unusual, almost
a tenth of the marriages end in div
orce. Counting five persons to family
and dividing the population of the
county, 1854, into families gives g.
| 700 families and at this rate one in
every three hundred families is brok-
en- up by divorce each year.