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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1909
Page
1
The Intelligencer launches a county wide voting contest offering 1000 votes per new one year subscription. Nominations span many towns including Story City Ames Maxwell Nevada and Collins with prizes led by a $400 Chapin piano to be awarded after August 10th.
Citizens urged to clear debris on premises and back alleys on Friday April 30 1909 under city council and board of health direction. Civic Improvement Society will supply teams and wagons. failures may incur city charge... The surrounding item also notes a long contest with prizes and votes for a local pageant, with timelines and incentives for early birds and merchants joining.
Special agents led by Swenson tour fourteen rural miles in Ames and Webster City warning routes may be changed if boxes and roads are not fixed in weeks. Postmasters must report obstructed or unsafe boxes. carriers risk suspension if patrons' boxes hinder service. The department urges prompt repairs and coordinated action to safeguard rural mail delivery.
Rev S W Curtis presiding elder of the Des Moines conference returns from the Holy Land and will lecture at the U B church on Tuesday evening May 4. He witnessed early trouble in Turkey and will share informed insights on Far East history and economics.
Last call for breakfast at Margaret Hall Gymnasium at 9 30 Saturday morning May first. The notice invites attendees to join the event in the campus facility.
Memorial services will be held at the M E church on Sunday May 30 1909 at 11 oclock with Rev A M Shea delivering the address Decoration Day on Monday May 31 1909 at 2 oclock with Rev O H L Mason of Boone as speaker Committees from Womens Relief Corps G A R and City Council met at Union National bank Capt W M Greeley elected chairman and Ben Edwards secretary Decorations flowers music finances marshal appointed A M Shea and O H L Mason named as speakers
The report notes week of April 25 with temperatures seven degrees below normal and widespread rain from .25 to over 4 inches. Freezing nights slowed farm work though seedings advance in western and southern areas. Oats acreage down, corn up. grass and clover growth improving, fruit buds dormant but undamaged by frost.
Boone and Story county committees unite with Ames Commercial Club and Iowa State College officials to plan a July Fourth celebration on the Ames campus marking the fiftieth anniversary of the college site. Nevada and Boone leaders recall 1859 events and invite continued county cooperation. John Lawson recalls the cold frosty Fourth of 1859.
Editor John A. Menton of the Boone Democrat married Wednesday noon in Warrensburg Missouri to Ida Virginia Engel formerly a Boone schools teacher. Menton is praised as a fearless Democratic newspaperman and Engel described as educated and a strong prohibitionist. The couple is wished blessings and congratulations.
The notice records the first breakfast call at Margaret Hall Gymnasium scheduled for 6 39. It notes the time and location as part of a campus event, with no further details about attendees or purpose.
Ruth of Maine recently returned from Canada with two bear skins to be used as rugs. One skin has a large hole from a rifle shot, fired with the same caliber as Col. Roosevelt’s Africa rifle. A moose head he shot there will grace his home and be shipped soon. The trophies are valued, and Ruth laments not capturing a bear as a pet while pursuing it.
Government lots in the area are to be cleared with occupants notified. They have thirty days to vacate as Frank Morris rushes a new livery barn at Onondaga and Kellogg, to make way for Mr Sheldon’s block and the new post office.
G H Folkins, a freshman veterinary student, is constructing a large club house on Hyland Avenue. The Colonnades are set to occupy the building next term.
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