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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
9
The store reports a successful first week of cash only sales with many new customers pleased by lower cash prices. Some patrons arrived unaware of the change but adjusted at the bank and intend to return. The owner invites others to compare prices and join the all cash system.
Walter Michaelson earned his diploma from a local business college on July 26, seven months after starting. A baby girl born July 29 to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shearer died after four days. Mr. A A Logan hosts his twin sister from Des Moines. Peter Orning moved with his family to Story City. W H Totten hosted Rev. Wolfe from Perkins Oklahoma for supper. Roy Templeton welcomed a baby boy July 31. W J Baldwin visits with his three daughters.
Social and family items from Ames Milford and Nevada. travels by Kelley Rowland and Stevens groups. visits by Miss Hamm Miss Johnston and others. births and farming news. new brick livery barn rising near the blacksmith shop. exams and travel plans. funeral services conducted by Rev. Minchin.
Chicago departure for two weeks in Denver as W H Totten and daughter Dorothy visit brother Grover Totten. Iowa residents Olive Hultz, Grace Carson, Pearl MacDaniels, Ethel Canady, and others are noted visiting relatives and traveling in Ames Radcliffe and St Charles areas.
Mrs Maria Petersel and daughter returned to Sac City after a month visit at W J Gilmore home in Milford and Grant. Eva Gilmore will stay with her sister. Scott Moses hosted about forty friends for a nineteenth birthday party. Celia Colquist returned home to Sterling Ill after two weeks with her sister. J A Heintz and children visited the Tom Maroney home south of Ames. Mrs H O Hardy hosted relatives from Lamoille last week.
Caroline Born aged 81 died en route from Denver to Ames on July 27 192? Her life included two marriages and seven decades of church involvement in Ames Milford Township and Pleasant Grove. Eliza Jenkins a Story county pioneer born 1823 died August 2 1969 at Ontario. She and husband James Jenkins settled near Ontario in 1853 and she raised nine children.
John Thompson aged 19? died August 7 at 624 State Street Ames from heart trouble. Born December 24 1888 in Aberdeen Scotland he moved to Ames with his family about nineteen years ago. He worked for Great Northern Railroad in Minneapolis and Spokane and had traveled the West recently. Survivors include his parents Mr. and Mrs. Thompson sister Miss Edith Thompson Des Moines and brother William.
Magnus Jepson of Monona county aged 22 years 5 months 9 days died July 21 after a six week typhoid illness. A funeral procession of about thirty girls and young women in white carried baskets of flowers. he was a Moorhead high school graduate and Iowa State College agriculture graduate with high honors. He fell ill after returning home from Ames following commencement. Onawa Sentinel.
We thank friends and neighbors for love and sympathy during our loved one's illness and passing. William Thompson and Family.
All pupils of the city schools with work for the School Exhibit at Des Moines August 27 to September 3 must deliver it by August 10 to Supt. F. BE. King at 631 Grand Avenue.
The Story County Board of Supervisors met in Nevada on July 22 1909 to hear objections and approve drainage work in Grant Township Drain in Drainage District No 6 and to pay contractor C B Eizy in full. Appointments were set for engineers to survey Howard Township lands and to establish new drainage districts. Adjourned to July 23 1909 with proceedings continuing and tax cancellation granted for 1908 on erroneous assessment.
The hearing on the petition for Grant Township Drainage District No 21 is found properly served. Engineer John Melis to supervise with wages at 5.00 per day and bids to be advertised for drainage construction. Chairman R Johnson and the board adjourned to August 16, 1909.
City of Ames Iowa proposes a storm sewer to serve Center East Lincoln Des Moines Boone and Duff Avenues with 10 inch tiles two feet long 6 manholes 2 lampholes and 2240 feet of pipe. Assessments based on special benefit with certificates paying contractor and one year maintenance retained at 3 percent.
The Ames city council will meet at Ames City Hall on September 6 1909 at 8 00 pm to consider a resolution for passage and address objections. The notice is published as a prov law and cites August 19 and 26 1909. City Clerk A B Axwell and Mayor Galen Tilden sign the notice.
Train timetable entry noting corrected schedule as of May 1909 with instructions that all baggage must be at the station 30 minutes before departure to be checked.
The notice lists mixed times for Ames to Des Moines trips with departures at 6, 10, 12 a.m., 2, 4, 6, 8 p.m. and arrivals after one hour forty five minutes. It mentions connections to Kelly Fort Dodge and Boone with half hour intervals and last Ames car at 12 n p.m. West Gate College service runs at 6 and 5 minutes past the hour with last car at 10 35 p.m.
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