Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1921-07-27
HOPKINTON

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q Erastus Smith attended the funera
4 of Colonel j. HI. Peters at Manchester
last Thursday.
H. r. Stoddard, wife and daughter
left Thursday morning for an auto
1 trip and to visit month with rela-
tiyes at Randolph, Nebraska.
DaC. Oehler left Monday to attend
4 a convention and school of instruction
lof undertakers held in Minneapolis.
i Dale Wheeless and Dorothy Pierce
invited about twenty-five of their
schoolmates to birthday party held
! Thursday at the home of their aunt,
Mrs. f. M. Doan. They all greatly en-
/ joyed the occasion.
4 Jesse Boots and family have moved
in with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Boots.
H. E Parr and family have gone on a
ten days vacation.
A little son has arrived at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Wilson who
lives on the Wilson farm west of town.
e. J. Assay and wife Of Levingh were
guests Sunday Of Mr.. and Mrs. Assay
of Hotel Philip.
Mrs. DR.. Hands and two children Of
Davenport were guests Of Mrs. w. r..
Reeve last week.
The Scout Band are to play at Delhi
August 3rd. and at Coggon August 10
for the Masonic picnic.
/ Mrs. Maude Thompson Moore Of La
Fayette, Indiana, is visiting friends in
town and country.
Leonard Jaeger of Dubuque visited
| at the home of his cousin, Mrs. Lang.
| The moving picture treatre which
had been in charge OF Harry Brokaw
was closed until Saturday evening
when it was again opened. Verne
Wheeless is now in charge.
Rae Melrose. former student and
graduate of Lenox College, visited his
old friend, DR.. Roy Jeffries, last week.
Haying and harvesting are about
over and threshing has commenced in
the community round about
Miss Helen Macintosh arrived home
Saturday evening from Iowa City
Mrs. William Butcher of Monticello
was Sunday guest of her sister, Mrs.
A. w. Mcdonald.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Main of Coggon,
Miss Helen Randall of Idaho, Miss
Diasy LeMasters of Virginia and Miss
Nellie Cummings were Sunday visitors
in town. Miss Cummings was sue
cessful teacher in the primary depart
ment OF our public schools and now
has a position at Dwight, Illinois.
The Christian Endeavorers will have
social Friday evening at the home
of John ,Tibbits.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dunlap were down
from near Masonville Sunday.
Those from here who attended the
funeral of Mrs. Hartman at Anamosa
last week were her sisters Misses
Lizzie, Matte and Minnie Tnderson,
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McGlade and
daughter, William and Mary McGlade,
Mrs. ]. N. McNeill and f. H. Dunlap,
all cousins Of Mrs. Hartman, also an
aunt, Mrs. A. G. Reed.
H. C. Boder of Omaha spent last
week at the home of his sister, Mrs.
u. B. Schuster.
Chautauqua commences next Mon
day, August /. A fine program is
promised; the one for the junior de-
partment is said to be unusually in
teresting. We have always had fine
entertainments and large crowd and
the same is hoped for and expected
this year. Always dependent however
on the weather. The farmers hurry
up work is nearly over for the pres
ent.
The Anderson sisters received word
Monday of the sudden death of their
sister, Mrs. Anna Hartman, at Garden
City, Kansas. Her home was in Hol-
comb few miles from Garden City |
and she was attentindg chautauqua
when she was taken ill. She was TAX
en- at once to hospital but did not
survive. Her body was brought to
Anamosa and the funeral service was
conducted by Rev. Evans of the Con-
gregational church assisted by Rev.
cambridge of Forest Chapel. Mrs.
Hartman was a daughter of Mr.. and /
Mrs. Alexander Anderson who came
from Ohio to Hopkinton soon after the
organization of the Covenanter church
here, Of which they were members,
Her husband, F. II. Hartman, and two
children preceded her in death. The
surviving children are Mrs. Mabel Call
houn of Dodge City, Kansas, and Earl
Hartman of Holcomb, Kansas. There
are also three sisters, Misses Lizzie,
Matte and Minnie Anderson of Hop
kinton and one brother, James Ander-
son, of Orange City, California.
Meetings were held Wednesday by
the creamery and shipping associa-
tion to elect managers to take the
place of Dr. H. c. Johnson who passed
away last week Harold Johnson was /