Ames In Brief Perry's supplies and visitors noted
Local Ames items report Perry's selling school pencils and waste paper baskets while advertising items. Des Moines visits include Ross Anderson, J. J. Green, Rev. Houser, Prof. Wells, Dr. Willey, and others. Numerous Ames residents travel to Des Moines for fairs, family visits, and work, with mentions of Harley motorcycles, Fords, and state fair events.
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Perry
Rob Bateman
Yale
Gus Leecing
Rocky Ford
Colo
W. J. Kennedy
Des Moines
Ralph Morris
Sioux Rapids
W. E. Harriman
Gilbert Davidson
A. W. Benson
Bernice Soper
Nevada
Ames
Perry's
Scott Lyall
Iowa Falls
Dan Zumwalt
Cedar Rapids
J. A. Tanner
Tanner
Merrill Manning
Washington, D. C
Lew Willey
C. H. Cessna
J. C. Pfeffer
Clay Stafford
Blairsbur
Don Sowers
Colorad
Will
Jack Hasterly
H. Truesdell
Sheldon
Herbert Bryant
J. C. Copestake
Tuesay
Rel
Conductor Injured In Yard Accident At Carroll
Conductor James Phillips slipped on the Carroll station platform Monday and fell beneath a slowly moving train losing his left arm and suffering a severe head wound. He was taken to a hospital in Council Bluffs. Lacy seeks a hero story for a railroader magazine after a man saved property by extinguishing a small blaze from a dropped match. George Stewart, a night yard operator, visited Boone on business. Ed Rutherford returned to work at the American Express office after a weeks’ vacation. Trainmaster Siverson and Division Superintendent Wallhizer from Belle Plaine reviewed trains headed to the state fair on the branch line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Phillips
Carroll
Phillips
Council Bluffs
Lacy
Railroad Man’s Magazine
Boone
Ed Rutherford
American Express
Brewster
Siverson
Wallhizer
Belle Plaine
Miss Orland Resigns From Iowa Telephone Company Post
Miss Hilda Orland resigns after long service as assistant to the manager at the Iowa Telephone Company. September first will see Miss Mary Kintzley, formerly Danforth ice cream factory bookkeeper, take the post. Miss Orland moves to Loughran Machine Company, a role once held by Miss Margaret Longshore.
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Miss Orland
Hilda Orland
Lowa Telephone Company
Mary Kintzley
Danforth
Loughran Machine Company
Margaret Longshore
Fires of spontaneous origin scorch coal houses and a baker burned
Spontaneous combustion touched two coal houses in Ames over the weekend. Friday at Lockwood Grain Company shed coal burned for hours. water proved useless in that wind. Sunday morning J A Campbell’s coal house suffered the same, but no harm occurred. Separately Charles Kempler of Ontario, long employed by Richardson Bakery at Boone, was severely burned when flour dust ignited after he opened a furnace door.
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Ames
Lockwood Grain Company
Lhe
J A. Campbell
Neith
Charles Kempler
Ontario
Richardson
Boone
Kempler
Stultz Cafe
Beef cattle men convene in Des Moines at Savery
A large meeting of beef cattle men was called by Dean C. F. Curtiss and Prof. W. J. Kennedy to convene at the Savery in Des Moines last evening. The gathering aimed to plan use of seven thousand five hundred dollars appropriated by the last legislature to boost the cattle industry in Iowa. It will fund programs to improve care and feeding for beef cattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savery
Dean C. F. Curtiss
W. J. Kennedy
Des Moines
Towa
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F. R. and
M. C. Conaway
Messrs. Ed
John Zumwalt
A. van Sto
Sidney Pope
William
Merriman
Dessaé
Ottumwa
Teachers’ Institute
Gates
Manchester
Truman Manning
George Dixon
St. Paul
Robert Gray
Montreal
Canada
Albert Wiese
Denison
C. J. Brown
Fred Holmes
Ed Rooker
Ed. Marxer
Charles Gray
Chicago
Lyle Corlett
Schenectady
New York
Scotland
Vere Westfall
Des Moines Bridge and Iron Company
Bradford House
West Street
Raymond Johnson
Greenfield
Henry Hampe
Rock Rapids
H. A. Werner
Au Claire
Wis
H. EB. Bennish
F. W. Beckman
Valenti Dolceni
Guadeloupe
California
Major and Son
Paxton
George Long
Webster City
Harlan Ramey
Claude Fleetwood
George Osmunson
Iowa City
Guy Bassett
van Peterson
Leroy Croft
Slater
Arch Crawford
1. S.C
Boston School of Technique
Clayton Schoonover
Park
Schoonover
Bentley & Olmstead
Messrs
Jas
Zumwalt
Delavan
Ilinois
Bill Allen
George Allen
Mackinaw
Illinois
George Zumwalt
Independence
Missouri
James Zumwalt
Delaware
AW Ndubon
Joe Skelton
Sioux 1Rapids
Clark Home
Main Street
Clark
Ray Twil
Art Ball
Shoop
City
T. H. McDonald
Danbury
Iowa Road Commission
Otto Hokason
Northwestern University
A. F. Allen
Blairstown
Speers
Kellogg Avenue
Will Thal
Alleman
Ramey
Hul
Iowa State College
J. Frederick Wright
Frambley Hall
Camberly
Surrey
England
Kenneth MacGregor
Brandon
Manitoba
J. D. Me
Ross
South America
Marshall Butcher
Missouri Valley
N. W
Steve Loughran
Robert Given
Keokuk
Barney the Strong
Kellogg and
Main
Frank Bateman
R. R. Yards
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