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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1909
Page
4
The Intelligencer outlines prize descriptions from store donations and coupons worth 25 votes per dollar spent. Readers are urged to form assistance committees, collect ballots, and boost their favorite contestant by purchasing supplies and clipping ballots from every issue.
Mr J A Warner of Paullina arranged to move to town with his family and closed Friday on the home of Mr J Jacobs at the corner of Iowa and Hodge streets for 6700 dollars. Mrs Jacobs will tour the South in summer and they plan to board rent or build a small house in winter.
A quoted newspaper line urges asking a doctor about the first rule of health and cites Ayer's Pills for constipation. The ad notes the product is made by the J. C. Ayer Co. in Lowell, Massachusetts.
The Ames Civic Improvement Society urges residents to join Clean Up Day on April 30. Improve the city by eradicating weeds and burning rubbish on blocks while avoiding yards streets alleys and vacant lots. Grow vines plant flowers and maintain garbage receptacles to make the square the city’s cleanest and most attractive.
A collection of quotes arguing income tax fairness and justice. Senator A B Cummins credits tax law as the fairest revenue source. Harvey Ingham calls wealth tax just. The note asserts taxation as a just instrument.
Seventy years ago next Saturday the commissioners selected to locate the site of government for the state of Iowa met at Napoleon. After due consideration it was decided that Burlington, which was practically the center of the population at that time, should be the capital of Iowa territory.
The Summer Time Card starts next Sunday evening with an 8:00 schedule across Ames churches and College chapel. Sermons will shorten to about twenty minutes causing exit of congregants at the car hour. only church and chapel services are affected, while theatres dances and athletic events are exempt.
The 1910 College Bomb issue highlights the large Ames influence with thirty two juniors from Ames, many Ames High graduates, and a photo of Andrew T. Hisey. It notes lectures on marriage and divorce by Dr. I. M. Stange and lists many Ames students honored by the Bomb board.
Warren Johnson leads a full day at the United Brethren Church with 10:00 Sunday school on Pauls First Missionary Journey and an 11:00 sermon on Our Young Peoples Work in the Church. Evening service at 6:30 features a special program by the young people including devotional, songs, history, a training mission program, and sermons.
Minister William J Minchin leads morning communion and reception of members with a sermon on The Duty and Privilege of Membership in a Congregational Church. Evening sermon titled Paul on the Impulse of Thinking explores how thinking shapes faith.
Andrew M. Shea, Minister. Sunday school at 9 45 a m. Morning sermon at 11 on The Home its Duties. Epworth League at 7 p m with The Beginning of a Revival by Prof R W Getchel. Evening sermon at 8 on Lifes Changing Problem.
Church of Christ announces Sunday school at 9 45 a m with J E Arnold as superintendent. Preaching at 11 a m on Christ Among the Common Things of Life. Endeavor at 7 p m and services at 8 p m on The Crown of Thorns. All are welcome.
Lutheran Church led by G. O. Paulsrud schedules Sunday evening service at 8:00. Lutheran Aid Society to meet with Mrs. Christ Sorenson on Thursday, May 6.
The parish of St Johns Episcopal Church will hold its annual meeting and social at the home of Mrs C Hamilton Wednesday evening. All are invited to attend.
Walter I. Fowle, pastor, delivers morning sermon The numbers of the Kingdom and evening message Freedom to do Right at the Baptist Church.
Prof Adrian M Newens, former head of the Public Speaking Department, will deliver the chapel address Sunday morning at the college chapel.
Christian Science services will be held in Smiths hall on Sunday at 10 45 A M with the subject Everlasting Punishment. The service plan includes readings and a sermon followed by testimonies. All are welcome to attend.
The ad promotes DeWitt's Little Early Risers as the best known pills, easy to take and gentle in action. C. A. Gamble endorses and sells them.
Mrs Harriett Queal Burnside mother of Charles Queal and Isabelle Keltner of Ames died in Wellbridge New York at age 80 years 6 months and 28 days Her remains were brought to Ames for interment with funeral held at the U B church Rev Warner Johnson officiating She had lived in Ames from 1871 to 1884 and earlier in New York Michigan and Wisconsin The article notes 12 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren plus surviving siblings and two living children
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