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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1905
Page
5
Rates per line per insertion for notices of entertainments and shows. Resolutions of respect and condolence cost 1.00. Lodge or society events or non revenue public gatherings publish once free, extra publications five cents per time. Rates and advertising furnished on tea. All changes due by Wednesday evening each week.
Ames residents report visits to Des Moines and Omaha. local society notes, church events, and school updates. Apprentices sought in millinery. various shoe and repair ads. travel and family visits. real estate transactions near the college campus. weather-friendly harvest notes and upcoming state fair plans.
After a two week Portsmouth conference the plenipotentiaries of Russia and Japan reached terms ending the war. Russia gains ultimate victory with no indemnity and division of Sakhalin while Japan secures dominance in Korea a lease to Port Arthur gains control of the Chinese Eastern Railway and Manchuria evacuation plus fishing rights along the Russian coast.
F A Ferrall has accepted a call from the Bloomfield church and will start there by Oct 1. The Bloomfield church recently built a new fifteen thousand dollar house of worship after H A Northcott led Tabernacle meetings last fall. Ferrall has served Ames about four years and is mourned by his congregation and city denominations.
Julia Sellers born May 12 1829 in North Carolina died August 21 1905 at Colo aged 76 years 2 months and 29 days. She married Basil Butler in 1849 and William Sellers in 1861. Survived by three of six children John W. Nevada Florence Shaw and Jennie Dayton Cole, husband and sister in Illinois. Funeral Monday at 2:30 pm at daughter Mrs. B. F. Shaw’s home conducted by Rev. Boreman. Large turnout and floral tributes.
J B Elliott of Ames died unexpectedly at 2 30 am Monday due to apoplexy. A former undertaker and tireless Chautauqua worker he served as church official and Odd Fellows member. Born April 16 1850 in Ohio he married Anna Rickard in Mechanicsville and leaves son Carl. Funeral Wednesday at the Methodist church with I O O F honors.
At a borra meeting of Methodist church directors in Ames the board recognizes Rev A M Shea for two years of service and asks presiding elder Rev W T Smith to ensure his return for the next conference year.
Sealed bids will be received by the City Council up to o clock p m Monday September 10 for the construction of a tie drain on Woodman street Ames Iowa about 1300 feet long with specials bulk heads and other appurtenances all to be constructed strictly in accordance with plans and specifications on file with A B Maxwell city clerk A B Maxwell City Clerk
A group of Ames residents visits Nevada today related to the Bergstrom Nichols case. R J Campbell of Hollenburg Kansas arrived last night to visit his brother J A Campbell and other relatives.
The regular monthly meeting of the Young People's Union will be held at the U B church Friday evening September 1 at 8 o'clock. All invited. Parley Sheldon arranged with Northwestern to run a special train to Nevada for the Story county fair September 14 leaving Ames at 12 26 p.m. and returning from Nevada at 6 30 p.m.
Excursion tickets on the Chicago and North Western Railway will be sold at reduced rates for Webster City carnival events from August 28 to September 1, with return travel allowed until September 4. Tickets available through railway agents.
F H Tuttle formerly instructor in Flate and Theory at Dand's Institute Warren Ohio offers musical lessons in theory solfeggio rudimento and wind and flute instruments. Call Mutual phone 841.
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