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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1909
Page
5
Rev. W. J. Minchin has purchased three lots on Northwestern avenue and Sycamore street and will do some building this spring. He will probably erect three houses this year.
May morning breakfast in Margaret Hall gymnasium as 7 30 call. Ames residents Bert Allen George Burton visit Des Moines. Prof. Oakey discusses drainage work at Hanford. W R Boyd Cedar Rapids Republican visits Ames on business. W O Price Nevada assists county work west of the college. Frank Pierce Homer visits his aunt Mrs J A Lawin. President Storms gives Tennyson talks at daily chapel. Co H Currie I S C 05 in Ames then Webster City business with R L Cox. W P George recovers and plans spring work. Jack Summers rests at Malvern and may miss June graduation.
General Manager J. L. Blake of the Interurban company purchases a very fine touring car the finest and speediest in Boone. Locals congratulate him and express hopes he will visit Ames to see old friends and to see what more can be done for him.
Ames Cement Product Co offers cement block and brick work and special jobbing. Mutual phone 468. Orders may be left with H. L. Munn Lumber Co. P. C. Fluter, Manager.
M. K. Smith placed bird houses in his yard trees and marked the boxes with a sign reading For Wrens Only to indicate intended occupants.
Mrs. Walter Morris suffers from tonsillitis while many visitors pass through Ames. Misses Hopkins, McNeil, Grimsby, Hungerford, Wise and others visit friends in Nevada Jewell and Des Moines. Prof and Mrs MacMurray move into a new house. EB Robbins begins a Breeders' Gazette post in Des Moines. Various trips to Idaho California Iowa City and Davenport noted alongside obituaries and Academy of Science gathering.
Boone county telephone group selects Mr. W. E. Tremper as local manager for the Ames exchange. Tremper previously served as wire chief for the western division of the Cincinnati Suburban Telephone Co. in Cincinnati Ohio.
A motor car passed through Ames on Monday from Chicago to Omaha. The Northwestern Company tests motor cars and may deploy several on its line. The iron car, about the size of an Interurban, runs as a boatlike design and reportedly reached 50 to 60 mph between Chicago and Ames. Officials rode aboard and it may be used on the Nebraska division with plans for two cars between Marshalltown and Des Moines.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness shown during the illness and death of our husband, father and son. Mrs. F. C. Foster and family Lucinda Foster and family.
Strawberry plants offered by Blackmen Bros in Nevada Iowa priced at 50 cents per hundred and 1.25 dollars per three hundred.
D A Nash lists his farm for sale or sale by parts including two 93 acre parcels a 13 acre tract and 25 lots plus a residence at 1006 Boone Street. Auction or private sale details not specified.
Last evening at eight o clock Clark F Stewart and Josephine Whitinger were united in holy matrimony at the home of Mr and Mrs Fay Taylor. Rev W J Johnson of the U B Church solemnized the marriage. Mrs Taylor served a four course supper. The bride wore white and the groom black. Both are well known and many friends wish them success.
The Olympia Chocolates feature the famous Sauer Kraut Candy as a local specialty item. The confection draws attention from visitors and chocolate enthusiasts seeking unique regional sweets.
At Monday night’s school board meeting all city teachers were re elected except Miss Deyoe of Welch school and Miss Bale of Central who did not apply for next year. The board approved adding an extra High School teacher bringing the count to nine as the High School enrolls 825. New hires will be elected later.
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