Manchester Democrat., 1921-01-12

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trip to Chicago recently.
! Joe Neiman was in Earlville last
Monday attending the funeral of MIR.
1 Hackbarth.
A. j.. Gildner is in Chicago this
week purchasing spring goods for his
clothing store.
Miss Anita Peet has been quite
sick for a few days past, but is re-
covering nicely now.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Tyrrell and
Mrs. E. ]. Tyrrell made business
trip to Dubuque Monday.
| p. H. Caswell of Ames was in
town the first of the week looking
after his business interests here.
The New Idea Embroidery Club
will meet with Mrs. A. c. Phillip on
Thursday afternoon, January goth.
| Miss Kittie Heddleson from near
Strawberry Point was guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Jay Durfey most of the week.
F. ]. Smith Of the Dyersville Com
mercial spent last Friday in Man
chester taking orders for 1922 calen-
ders.
Mrs. J. U. Schelling left last Satur-
day for st. Petersburg, Florida, where
she will spend several months with
| friends.
Leon Hunt, who had been spend
| ing the holiday vacation at his home
in Earlville, spent Sunday with Man
| chester friends, returning to Ames
Monday morning.
Donald Dorman, son of Mrs. Grace
Dorman, and member of this years
graduating class OF the Manchester
High school, has enlisted in the navy
and left for Des Moines last Friday
night.
ALBERT Volt, former publisher
of the Earlville Phoenix, has resigned
his position as linotype operator for
the Dubuque Daily News and accept
ed like position on the Dyersville
Commercial
Walter Davis and wife Of Du-
buque. Bernie Davis and family Of
Delaware and Ross Davis of Spring
Branch. were guests in the home Of
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Davis, Sunday.
Misses Doris Durey and Florence
Hockaday and Messrs. Duke Richard
son and Joe Neiman have returned
to their studies at Ames after spending
the holiday vacation at their respect
i've homes here, II
One of the largest wolves ever
killed in Iowa was shot few days
ago by fifteen year old lad named
Pearl Wagnor, near Columbus juno
tion.s The animal measured six feet
from tip to tip. An animal of that
! size cofatd surely G2 lot of damage
to stock and poultry.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Dun
dee will serve an oyster supper at
Schroeder's Hall in Dundee on Thurs
day night, January goth. Supper from
$50 until all are served The price
has been fixed at IS cents for adults
and Is cents for children under 10.
All are cordially invited.
Two eclipses of the moon will be
be visible in Manchester this year.
The first eclipse. will be total and
will occur April q, %. 1t will be
visible to both North and South
America, the West Indies and New
Zealand A partial eclipse will be visi-
BILE on October is to all but the
western part of North America. There
will also be two eclipses of the sun,
but neither of them will be visible
in the United States. Easter will fall
upon March 9th this year. and the
first Sunday Of Lent will be February
18th.
The second annual convention of
the Iowa Farm Bureau federation was
held in Des Moines last Wednesday
and Thursday, and the Daily Register
published a picture of the officers in
it's issue of the Sth, inst. In the group
we noticed L. S. Fisher, one Of the
prominent farmers and pure bred hog
raisers living near Edgewood Mr..
Fisher has been devoting all Of his
time more than a year past to Farm
Bureau organization work at which
he is at the present engaged. During
this time he has delivered addresses
in many of the counties in Iowa and
most all sections of Wisconsin.
Frank Porter, at one time resi-
dent of Coffins Grove township, but
for several years resident OF the
north part Of the county, has sold his
60 acre farm, southeast of Strawberry
Point, which he bought thirty years
ago for $2250, for $3.50 an acre, and
left last week for an extended trip
through the south. From Florida he
plans to go by steamer to Cuba and
Central America where he will take in
the sights in the Panama Canal re-
gion, returning by way of New York
City. He hopes to make the round
trip in time to be present at Presi-
dent-elect Harding's inauguration in
Washington on the 4th of March. Mr..
Porter's friends in Manchester hope
he has fine trip.
F. w. Hermann, the local editor
of this paper, packed white neck
tie, a pair of pink hose and straw
hat ih his travelling bag and departed
last Friday afternoon on a weeks
| business and pleasure trip to Okla
homa, the point of his destination