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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
6
The notice states rates: one cent per word for insertions, no insertion under ten cents, additional insertions at half price. Payments with copy to avoid collections. Ads may be addressed to a number care of The Intelligencer, with out of town replies forwarded. Mutual 138, Iowa.
A long roster shows space secured and tents engaged for Chautauqua in Ames with many local residents and visitors named by lot number. The list includes Mrs McElyea Mrs Henry J G Wallace J B Kooser C R Quade Prof Nims Nevada Y Beta Turner McClain Belle Charison Story City Geo Hedrick Rev Hollman Slater Dr Proctor Rev Scheyrl and others.
Mrs Ageton and her sons Bert and Roy will settle in Des Moines with Bert at the electrical company and Roy at the iron works. After study and work, they will return to Ames for college. Miss Maud Ageton will study history at Wisconsin university after researching for Dr Hibbard. Rev Andrew Shea and family returned from Clear Lake to Ames seeking rest. Various residents visit and travel between Ames, Des Moines, Omaha, Seattle, Lincoln, and Colorado, with engagements at hospitals, universities, and homes.
Dimity corset cover embroideries offered in 12 patterns with high quality check Dimity. Also listed are Japanese silk fabrics in various colors and other fabrics including 30 inch fine wash batistes in light and dark colors with floral and figure designs. Clearance price per yard.
Andrew M. Shea leads morning services with Sunday School at 9 45 and a sermon by Rev A R Grant at 11 45. Epworth League meets at 7 30 pm on the topic Willing and Unwilling Blindness with leaders. Union Park hosts a 6 30 pm service preached by Rev A R Grant of Dallas Center Iowa.
The Church of Christ announces combination services with Sunday school starting Sunday at 10 30 a m and ending at 12 o clock. Minister John T Houser invites families to attend with children and share in the service. All are welcome.
Last week to buy Chautauqua season tickets at 1.50 or pay 2.00. Grove’s grocery offers home cooking Saturday August 7. A 4 30 p m Chautauqua ball game at Chautauqua park. Three specials or six regular numbers equal a season ticket. Local outings and business moves include Bw Shannon, Herstand, Billenberg, Wysgle’s Spirit Lake trip and Jones ice cream parlor sale to C T Sears of Macon Mo. Cole departs for Fort Dodge to supervise a building due for completion in April. Conaway sails for Pinecliff Colorado to join botanists through September 1. Knight visits Prof Crossley to study Iowa resources. Bell with Black Hawk farmers and Iowa Miller’s club reviews winter wheat prospects. Rich certified as I O O F grand lodge delegate for two years.
Mr Rich, delegate for the 85th district of ten lodges, won by a large majority but nearly lost due to a counting error. He now has his certificate and will attend the grand lodge convening in Davenport in October.
Miss L. Zenorr sells entire stock of millinery and fixtures to Miss Celia Clemenson of Turin Iowa. A fifteen days clearance sale on all millinery runs from July 30 through August 15.
At a city council meeting on Monday July 26 the contract for cement sidewalks was awarded to Miracle Concrete Construction Co with Geo B E Birmingham named superintendent of the project.
A clearance sale is announced at the Temple of Economy Millinery, inviting customers to shop discounted hats and headwear at the store location. The event highlights reduced prices and limited stock on select fashion accessories.
John Wakefield, severely injured three weeks ago by an iron pulley, shows daily improvement and may recover. His brother Sam lost part of his thumb after his hand was caught in a binder cog-wheel. William suffered a hammer strike on his thumb. William notes John’s improving condition reinforces belief that a person cannot be killed before their time.
The Temple of Economy Millinery launches a clearance sale offering deep discounts on hats and accessories. Customers may find reduced prices across a wide selection, with limited stock on popular styles and sizes.
In a humorous note on a seizure case two parties recall the pleasure of anticipating beer on a hot night. The beer has been kept in jail since the seizure and is expected to be spilled in due time.
F. W. Mally, graduate of Iowa State College of Agriculture at Ames and Iowa native, has been named state entomologist of Texas by Judge Kane, secretary of agriculture. Texas faces persistent insect problems due to climate, with freezes not sufficient to curb bugs.
Company C. 551 N. G. left this morning commanded by Capt Herman Knapp for Chariton for a week long encampment. Gen Lincoln has resigned but remains in charge of the encampment and a new colonel election is likely in September. Ham Robinson returned from Salt Lake City where he worked on public improvements and will spend August with his father in Colfax before returning to Ames in September.
A reflective line states that when support is not required, people are quickest to offer aid, implying social obligation and goodwill emerge most strongly in times of quiet independence.
The Nevada Representative notes another seizure of liquid refreshment after noon Wednesday when a small beer barrel was found at the gas plant east of the Northwestern depot. The un tapped barrel reportedly held fine beer and fit inside a full sized barrel with chipped ice packed between. A sense of anticipation is described.
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