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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
4
Rex Nevada caller. L. E. Carter returns from Chicago. Cladious Miller visits Webster City. Catholic mass time changes. Dr. John Stillwell visits from Omaha. Fr. Ranier brothers from Dubuque visit Ames. M L Runnells of Nevada visits. family moves to Palo Alto. Arthur W. Crane named Ida Grove high principal. Local officials and church events noted. Prof. Storm and Kennedy in town. many residents travel, rent, or relocate.
A special boosters meeting of the Commercial Club is called for Friday evening at the Smith and Davis office. All members should be present.
John Wilcox a mason on the new agricultural building at the college fell from a scaffold Monday. He received medical care and is improving rapidly. He was badly shaken but not seriously hurt. His home is in Illinois.
Every boy and girl in Story county who is eligible should enter the race for a scholarship at the State college. These scholarships are being given away for careful work under specified conditions. Address J. A. Mc Lean, Ames, Iowa, or J. C. Simpson, Des Moines, Iowa.
The Northwestern company has begun boring a new well near the present pumping station on Hoggatt street. The old and city wells reach a depth a little over 400 feet, with depths to 2500 feet for the college well signaling a lengthy task.
A humorous notice advises boarding house patrons on hair loss and the sole remedy a basement shop barber offers. The verse playfully markets a shave and shave shop as a cure, calling the barber a saintly grandfather.
George Nichols and A. Ackerberger were arraigned before Justice Thomp son on Tuesday morning and found guilty of assault and battery and intoxication. Nichols received thirty days in the county jail and Ackerberger ten days. Nichols assaulted his father during a Monday night incident.
An anonymous Intelligencer letter rebuts Mrs Meddler by presenting clarified facts. It states Mrs Underhill was hired as a housekeeper for two and a half years, not one and a half, while Mrs Charles travelled east on a visit, not Tuesday as claimed. It notes Mrs Vincent has not yet divorced and may seek a homekeeping position, while admonishing Mrs Meddler to check facts before gossip.
F J Dvoracek formerly of Ames faced a Nevada justice on a wife desertion charge. Bound over to the grand jury in 800 dollars, he was arrested in Fort Dodge by Sheriff Rickets on a complaint by his wife who has endured hardship for two years. He reportedly deserted his wife about two years ago.
A columnist warns Ames parents about idle boys aged twelve to sixteen who rove near the long motor bridge and risk shocking deeds. A twelve year old college girl faced serious indignities on a Monday journey to Ames but escaped harm when the motor arrived and the culprits fled. The writer urges supervision and discipline to prevent such incidents and avoid notoriety.
Thieves raided the Bennett residence cellar Tuesday night last week, stealing about thirty dollars worth of canned fruit. It is the second theft in the Bennett cellar, the first occurring a year ago, during a period of fruit scarcity.Residents are urged to watch for further burglaries, especially in the college area, as local law protects citizens against burglary and allows self protection.
A juvenile boxing incident occurred on the business street after Sunday school ending in a draw. Both fighters asked for anonymity. The dispute stemmed from a sticker, and involved a son of an Ames man and a son of a college professor, giving the event unusual significance.
A. A. Wettstein relocates to the ground floor space left by the Novelty store and plans to expand into shirt making and ladies' tailoring. He expects a rush when school begins and will enlarge the ladies' department once settled.
Iowa Council No. 24 documents sorrow after the death of brother C C Anderson. The charter will be draped for thirty days. A copy of the resolutions is filed and sent to his wife. Dated July 29, 1907.
The Fifteenth District W C T U Iowa holds a one day meeting Thursday August 8 at the Friends Church Ames. Devotional services list Mrs Agnes Elliot of Ogden and Mrs Ida B Wise of Des Moines with several reports and papers from Boone Ogden Ames Madrid and Boone. An address by the state secretary follows at 8 00 p m with collection and benediction.
Mrs B J Johnston of Linton Mississippi recalls three doctors failing to help her son before using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Within hours the child began to improve and is now healthy. Available from Laughran Bauer and Joel C Cagwin.
Col Louis J Wortham, editor of the Fort Worth Star, spoke at length with Chief Engineer Macey of the Northern Texas Traction Company and a son in law of F C Tilden of Ames to drum up support for a Fort Worth and Mineral Wells interurban. Wortham touts Mineral Wells waters as world class and estimates 120000 visitors yearly. If approved, construction could begin before fall and pass through Ames.
Elizabeth McCoy daughter of James McCoy died of typhoid fever aged 15. Her funeral from St Peter and Paul church near Gilbert was large with over 150 carriages. Rev. Francis C. Renier led services. she leaves a father nine brothers and a sister.
The small pills are advertised as easy to take and non gippy. C A Gamble is listed as the seller. They promise not to cause sickness or griping.
Prime beef veal and lamb offered in fine flavor and tender texture. Fat and lean mixed in ideal proportion with little bone. Prices claimed lower than other dealers for good meats.
Notice of the incorporation of W. W. King Farming Company in Ames Story County Iowa. It outlines capital stock forty thousand dollars, board of 3 to 7 directors, annual meeting December 24, and powers to buy sell hold and rent real estate and raise and trade livestock with limited debt equal to two thirds of capital stock. It specifies stock fully paid non assessor and private stockholders protected from corporate debts.
Moving Time reports George BE Baker receiving cases and other furniture for his new storeroom to be occupied soon. Baker has ample time to complete the move.
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