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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
1
An intensified system of lectures and discussions offers practical instruction and inspiration to busy farmers and their families. State and national participants attend annually, and organizers expect the coming winter to be more practical and popular than before.
The 1909 Ames College short course begins Monday for a twelve day session on agriculture, foods, poultry, soils and engineering. Editors from Stanhope and Story County urged to attend to stay informed on scientific farming and improve local reporting. The program runs daily 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. with lectures, labs, and practical demonstrations at Clio Hall and Agricultural Hall.
Edith Thomas laments the passing year and greets the new one with bells tolling, praising the fresh crown of the year as they bear the year’s quiet load.
Prospects bright for millions to Ames from the Baker estate of Philadelphia now unsettled. Heirs listed include Sarah Baker Orson Baker James Adams and others totaling about 150 heirs. The estate, valued at 300 million, occupies 360 acres once leased to the United States and now held by the government for heirs.
Supt. F. E. King reports Iowa teachers invited to the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle next summer during vacation. Ames teachers and college professors weigh the trip, attracted by education features and the prospect of permanent exposition buildings at the University of Washington site.
The reinforced concrete melan arch bridge on Boone Street over Squaw Creek is completed and accepted by the board of supervisors and city council. It has three 45 foot spans, a 20 foot roadway, a five year guarantee, and a one year bond against flaws. The $6485 project replaces an old bridge costing $600 yearly in repairs and includes pavement under arches and a widened channel for flood flow.
John Emery a Story county pioneer born in 1831 died of heart failure while helping to pound nails on a floor in Ames. He came to the county in 1856 57 and lived near Nevada Wright county Ames Primghar Cherokee and Sanborn. He was the father of nine and survived by his wife Amanda Stull and eight children with funeral at North Lincoln Avenue Ames and burial in Nevada.
The brief notes that this is the 53rd year of the Intelligencer and the 524th Thursday of 1908. It explains that the paper adds an extra week since there are 53 Thursdays this year, unlike a standard 52 week pattern.
Olsan of Olsanville distributes elaborate calendars in Ames featuring a floral automobile trimmed with forget me nots pansies and lilies of the valley. A cheerful girl from Olsonville drives the auto while a foot long stogie with a patent damper and exhaust accompanies each calendar while supplies last.
A poetic reflection by Margaret Scott urges turning to a new year with a clean record. It contrasts a blotched past with a hopeful future and calls for resolve to avoid past faults and seek divine grace for upright living.
Thieves abducted forty turkeys from the Ames Poultry and Produce house over the past week. Entrance was gained to the loft from the dark side while a watchman was on duty. Feathers found in the loft indicate the turkeys were lifted to the hay and straw above and removed unseen. No arrests have been made.
A fringed remark claims Abram can marry on one dollar a week if he agrees to give his wife that amount weekly.
Ames prepares a new 100 by 51 foot stone and brick livery building on Onondaga Street near Burnett, west of the Poultry house. Frank H B Morris aims to begin quickly, moving horses and equipment upstairs, with a basement for stables, as the weather allows.
A speaker dismissively compares a woman’s sense of logic in an argument to the presence of cockroaches in a kitchen. The remark uses a sharp analogy to belittle a female counterpart and reflects gendered hostility.
Reverend E E Sigen Fritz, district superintendent of the Methodist church, told a Boone audience that with a 12 000 population fully 10 000 showed no church interest. He argued five thousand residents would be left without spiritual engagement and urged a revival.
A lighthearted riddle notes a pig in the parlor and a house afire. It jokes that the quicker you extinguish both the better, playing on urgency and humor.
W S Hoon rural carrier on Route 8 credits eight farmers for clearing and leveling ten miles of road before Christmas with King road drags. He says the improved surface is like a race course and cuts his rounds by two hours, praising Iowa farmers for maintaining the best roads in the state.
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