Ames Social Roundup Of Visits And Illnesses
Mrs. Otto Edgerton is quite ill with typhoid fever. Numerous local residents and visitors travel between Ames and nearby towns for holidays and family visits.
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1910
Page
5
Mrs. Otto Edgerton is quite ill with typhoid fever. Numerous local residents and visitors travel between Ames and nearby towns for holidays and family visits.
Ames residents share Christmas and New Year greetings as friends and relatives visit from Gilbert Story City Des Moines Nevada Nevada Crawford Warren Warren Clinton Omaha and others. Local business, social events, medical and legal notices appear amid travel and housing updates.
Yankee pitcher Yank Brown, previously in the Cyclones bullpen in 02 03 and 04, signs with the Boston National pitching staff for the coming summer season.
Ainsworth Nebraska resident Mr. B. J. Irwin aged elderly man visiting his brother in law Mr. J. P. Alderman on South Duff Avenue slipped on the doorstep and fractured his right hip last week.
Union evangelistic services are held this week at the Collins Methodist church by the I. B. C. gospel team. Five men lead the services Mesrs. B H P Stearns J K Campbell J H Harter A J Swift and W A Lee.
The firm of Sorrenson & Sorrenson will dissolve on the first day of January. Mr C Sorrenson will continue the business. Mr Martin Sorrenson will leave early in the year for Palo Alto county near Ruthven where he will take charge of his farm.
Mrs Levi Thomas of Burnett avenue fell downstairs last Tuesday, fracturing her shoulder blade. She has returned home and is doing nicely under care of daughter Mrs Maude Rex.
A state organization for sportsmen will be perfected at Des Moines on January 10 during the state dog and poultry show. Discussions will cover license fund expenditures, Wall Lake drainage, and promoting hunting and fishing interests in Iowa.
Ames boys Merrill Manning and Albert Fowler left Monday evening for Chicago. Fowler will return to Washington D. C. to resume his work, while Manning will attend the Sigma Nu national conclave in Indianapolis this week. They plan August return to Ames to resume work at I. S. C.
In Boone a bond issue of 180,000 to pipe water from the Des Moines river was approved by 1,619 votes for and 24 against. Of the ballots 418 were cast by women with two opposing the proposition, a record of extreme unanimity claimed by Boone.
The first annual exhibition of the Hamilton Story County Poultry Association held at Jewel last week drew 31 breeders and 19 breeds of fowls. Four silver cups were awarded with Ames citizens winning two, including sweepstakes pen to J. K. Glidden and best parti-colored bird to E. L. Doggett, with ribbons going to F. B. Doggett and others.
Local commerce boosts visibility as Ames becomes a favorable location to buy goods with growing storefronts and consumer interest. Economic activity rises amid new shops and crowd support for local vendors.
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