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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1910
Page
6
New laboratories in Agricultural Hall advance rapidly toward completion. The Soil Bacteriology lab will serve about a dozen students with advanced equipment. General soil, Farm Crops and Horticultural labs will be the latest and best, aiming for use by Easter vacation.
With the effort of Y M C A secretary Mr Bickam the college fraternities initiate a Bible study plan. Each fraternity will set aside half an hour weekly for open discussions led by a selected faculty member. Leaders are chosen for Sigma Alpha Epsilon Phi Gamma Delta Beta Theta Pi Sigma Nu Kappa Sigma Alpha Tau Omega Zeta Sigma Zeta and Coronades.
Prof. C. V. Gregory of Iowa State College returns from Lawrence Kansas where he attended the first National Conference of Schools of Journalism. Attendees included representatives from Kansas University Missouri University Kansas Agricultural College and Ottawa University with out of town editors Brisbane Allen White Sessions and Southern among others. The keynote urged practical teaching and a stance on yellow journalism as the meeting plans to reconvene at Missouri next year.
W D Elwell of Ames, financial head of the prohibition party, visits Grinnell to announce March conventions led by L E Jacobs. He notes a $7200 fundraising record since May and plans temperance chautauquas next summer starting in towns with eighty county chairmen. The Madrid letters mention Spence hospitality and Mrs Spence elected Grand Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star in Ames.
Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry at Iowa State College, Pew, received an offer from New Hampshire State College to direct its Agricultural Experiment Station with a $1000 annual increase. He chose to remain at Ames after careful consideration, continuing his work at Iowa State.
The Third Annual Cement Show in Chicago February 1826 will feature more than three hundred cement product exhibits spanning bee-hives hog-houses pipe organs boats silos barn floors baby cradles burial vaults and more. Last year the event drew over seventy five thousand attendees from across the United States.
Warning against mercury containing catarrh ointments praises Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. Cure is taken internally and said to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Authentic product sold by druggists priced 75 cents per bottle with testimonials available. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A New York Tribune summary outlines the nebula hypothesis that all matter began as a vast, chaotic gas cloud. It describes how gravity formed rotating nebulae, created stars, and shed rings that became planets and moons, with Earth and Sun as core examples. It notes the theory cannot be proven but is strongly supported by observed nebulae.
Harper's Weekly notes van Tassel Sutphen recounting the Shinnecock Hills Club project along Peconic Bay. Charles Blair MacDonald spearheads design aiming for eighteen holes of top class golf with enhanced nature via a complete hydraulic system and expert consultation. The clubhouse and improved sidewalks for winter skating are planned.
An advertisement claims ZEMO draws out the germ life from the skin and destroys it leaving healthy skin. It asserts ZEMO treats eczema pimples blackheads dandruff and all skin diseases and offers a sample bottle via endorsement by Mr Cagwin the druggist. Sophia mother used Gold Medal Flour.
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