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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1909
Page
5
Mayor Tilden and the Commercial club back a hotel plan in Ames Iowa with $15,000 in subscriptions and a goal to raise 40,000 by forming a stock company. Lots 1 6 in block 11 are optioned for 9000 plus 1750 per remaining lot. Shares priced at 25 each, 1600 needed by March 15 1909 with staged payments.
Dr A B Storms will speak at Independence Iowa Saturday to address the local Farmer's Institute. Eggs sell 40 cents a dozen and are scarce in town. A Dixson laundry worker Mrs Charles Harper mangled her right hand in a starching machine. The Armory hosts As Told in the Hills melodrama Friday February 12 with strong reception and praise.
Dr and Mrs W E Madson announce the birth of a son on Monday February 1 in the local hospital. The new arrival weighs healthy and joins siblings in their household.
The ad advises telling a doctor about bad taste in mouth loss of appetite for breakfast and frequent headaches with a coated tongue. It claims bilious conditions are treated and says Ayer’s Pills by J C Ayer Co Lowell Mass work well in such cases.
A stream of local notes covers library openings, travel plans, illnesses, family visits, and sympathy extended for a baby's loss. Mentions include Lola Placeway in Des Moines, Ethel Pike at the Danforth home, Maisy Schreiner at Mrs Graves, Libbie Dake visiting Knob, A B Storms kin, and Galen Tildens’ California trip with May return.
Readers are warned that only DeWitt’s Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve is safe and effective with the original formula. The notice cautions against inferior imitations and notes the product is especially good for piles, sold by C. A Gamble.
The production will be at the Armory on Friday February 12 featuring up-to-date, original, exciting scenes and presented as a high order literary play.
Professors E W Stanton and H J Lisley departed yesterday in a private car bound for California to study eucalyptus trees and assess their merits amid public debate over the nation's timber resources.
Mrs Dyer hosts the Nonpareil club and Mrs Tins ley discusses Indian corn. Priscilla club dinner Friday at Alumni Hall. Book and Basket club meets next Wednesday with Mrs Dr Rice. Y M and Y W C A to host a state convention. Student Volunteer Union holds I S C convention Feb 5 7 with a mission study institute. Dr Hibbard lecture Feb 15 tickets limited to chapel capacity. Jessie Austin to marry Bois of Oklahoma February 10 at her Webster City home. WWC A Bible study and Bible courses expand. Mrs Stevenson speaks on the Bible and college women. Obscure notes on S A E and Northwestern Glee Club tour with Ward Redelings and others. Valentines events listed for February 12 and M E church division event February 9.
Bishop Morrison confirmed the following class at the Episcopal church Sunday Lyle Clapper A E Hartung Violet Pammel Earl Guade and Artley Hart.
Lecture postponed from February 12 under Methodist Ladies' Aid because of Prof R C Barrett illness. Date to be announced later.
A 280 acre farm one mile from a railroad town in Bourbon County offers a house barn living water 75 acres in winter wheat and rural mail and telephone access. Priced at 40 dollars per acre with sale before March 1. Contact J. R. Stapleton Fulton Kansas.
Dr. B. H. Hibbard will lecture for the Cosmopolitan club on Saturday February 13 in the Association building on the topic What occurred at the Peace Conference.
Women of Taste in Ames are urged to try Dr. Nott's Hair Tonic a remedy praised for hair and scalp health It is described as a germicide cooling and refreshing treatment that may help dandruff and certain baldness conditions and is sold at Loughran & Bauer's drug store and other druggists.
The phrases “Of two evils I have chosen the least” and “The end must justify the means” are attributed to the 17th to 18th century English poet and diplomat Matthew Prior. These lines reflect utilitarian and consequentialist ideas often misattributed to others.
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