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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1906
Page
4
The Iowa State College reports busy activity with lectures, research, and campus developments. Highlights include lecture tickets drawn Tuesday, a Y M C A address by M L Bowman, plans for cement tests and railway taxation bulletins, and a new threshing outfit donated by J I Case.
The Gun club held a targets only shoot at 1 cent per target with twenty or more shooters braving cold winds. Notable scores include Young 108 of 140 and Lang 58. several poor scores marked the day. A second shoot was held at Lee Smith’s farm on January 25 with several participants and a fine dinner. Winners included Talbott 72 and Gene Smith 61 of 9, next event planned at Bloomington.
Obituary reports Mrs Rebecca Dixon aged 77 plus years, mother of Mrs T J Wilcox, with five children and two sisters surviving. Funeral held Thursday at Congregational church Ogden, burial Glenwood cemetery. The page also carries a long Prohibition era remark on alcohol use for industry and a retail shoe ad from Caniel Bros. & Herman.
Orris L. Ward and P W Fincham were married on January 24 at the Ward home near Gilbert with Rev. P W Bishop officiating. About seventy five guests attended a formal supper. A reception followed the next day at the Fincham home. The couple plan to reside on the Barnes farm after March first.
The annual conference of the State Congress of Mothers will be held in Des Moines during the last week of April. All affiliate clubs and home departments of related organizations may attend. For details write to Mrs I L Hillis and Mrs W Edwerde acting corresponding secretaries.
Guy W Sarvis of Drake University will give a 7:30 pm lecture at the Christian Church titled Through Africa's Heart. He has traveled extensively in Africa and will share a thrilling account. Refreshments after the lecture, priced at 25 cents.
The article praises Wagner's Parsifal as a refined production requiring careful attention to costumes set design and period architecture. It emphasizes the need for capable actors with suitable temperaments and notes management aims for a harmonious, critically satisfactory show. Low rail rates to Nashville offered Feb 25 26 27 via Chicago and North Western Railway for the Quadrennial Convention.
The publishers announce a combined subscription for the Intelligencer and Joe Trien's State Ster and Farmer paper at $1.25. The Iowa State Register and Farmer is a farm and home magazine now in book form with family friendly content. Free samples are available in Des Moines on request.
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