Ames Booster Club Plans Stock Show and Banquet
The Commercial club met Friday to plan a big stock show banquet with caterer Frank Stultz approved. A horse sale to connect breeders with buyers was endorsed, targeting 300 top horses and potential stable space. The group also discussed inviting the 31st General Assembly to Ames and limiting guests to state officers and spouses, with a coordinating committee named. A pupil rail fare issue on the A C G R R received partial discussion without action.
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Commercial Club
Ames
Frank Stultz
Mittee
S. B. Frey
Ben Edwards
Duétéon
Curtiss
31St General Assembly
F. R. Conaway
Capt. Greely
Sheldon
M. K. Smith
C. G. Lee
J. J. Grove
Frank W. Fowler
Storms
Dakota
Ericson
Representative White
Ames Commercial Club Banquet At Armory Friday Night
The Ames Commercial Club announces its third annual banquet at the Armory on Friday evening February 22. Judge C G Lee will preside as toastmaster with a lineup of speakers including J J Grove Prof Bissell and F B Conaway among others. Banquet at 8 oclock, with 7 re time possible. menu lists olives pickles roast turkey ham tongue Saratoga chips salad ice cream cake fruit and coffee.
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Armory
Judge Lee
Ames Commercial Club
C. G. Lee
J.J. Grove
Dr. Storms
College
Bissell
O. H. Cessna
High Board
Chas. Curtiss
Ames Fine Stock
Farmers Demand Hitch Racks Onondaga Street Removal Sought
Ames farmers meeting as Farmers Telephone association, with 200 members, calls for removal of hitching posts from the main street and the placement of substantial hitching racks elsewhere. The resolution, approved by the Commercial club, requests city council action and notes potential central office plans if old line company switches are not renewed.
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Ames
Onondaga Street
Farmers’ Telephone Company
Farmers’ Telephone Association
Commercial Club of
Commercial Club
The
Telephone Company
Z. K. Graves
W. H. van Duser
W. P. George
Hat thief Glen Maxwell faces further trouble in city
Glen Maxwell, freed under leniency from the C. and N. W. railway company after last fall s hat theft, was again implicated in a street hat theft last week. Marshal Willey relieved him of a hat he had stolen, leaving Maxwell home bareheaded and facing more offenses likely to land him where he won t need a hat.
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Glen Maxwell
C. & N. W. Railway Company
Marshal Willey
Runaway Monday In Taylor Livery Team
A Taylor livery horse team, hitched to a top buggy, escaped Monday noon after trunk was unloaded at the depot. The team trotted through Main Street and nearby blocks, slipped on ice near the schoolyard, then halted with only a broken buggy tongue amid quick help from local boys.
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Taylor
Depot
Clay Bank
Main Street
Douglass
Haggatt
Story
Disturbance by College Students at Saturday Show
About three hundred college students caused a disturbance at the Armory show on Saturday night. Marshals and deputies tried to restore order as seats were taken without checks and loud shouting filled the venue. The incident drew criticism of the student body and warned of possible serious outcomes if behavior continues.
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Armory
Ames
Opera House
Marshal Wisley
Marshall Willey
Cessna
United States
John Paul Jones
Washington
Delaware
Eliza
Lincoln
Language Faculty Expanded as Ames College Hires Two German Instructors
Miss Louise Peters of Maine Iowa and Miss Ingeborg Lommen join the modern language department to teach German and Spanish. Peters has degrees from Colorado and California Universities and German fluency, while Lommen from Minnesota with a BS and MS plus two years studying in Germany. Miss Grace M. Caldwell resigns after arriving from St. Louis last fall, amid reported incompatibility.
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Lommen
Grace Caldwell
Louise Peters
Maine
Ingeborg Lommen
Peters
Colorado
California
Lemmen
Lanesboro
Minn
University of Minnesota
Germany
Heidelburg
Berlin
Miss Caldwell
Grace M. Caldwell
St. Louis
Caldwell
Ames
Webster
Bulletin details on stock foods and seed purity initiatives
This week two bulletins by Prof. Michael cover stock foods and feeding values including milling feeds and packing house refuse analysis. A third by Prof. Pommel analyzes temperate stock foods and their guaranteed contents, with a focus on purity and adulteration. The Pammel bulletin investigates seed adulteration for Clover, Alfalfa, and Timothy, signaling a move toward a pure seed law. Apple storage research by Beach and Eustace tests long keeping Wealthy apples, aiming for winter storage though work is just starting.
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Michael
Agricultural Chemistry Section
Pommel
Botanical Department
Iowa
United States
L. H. Pammel
R. E. Buchanan
Charlotte M. King
Prof
S. A. Beach
H. J. Eustace
U. S
Maine Blows Up in Havana Harbor February 15 1898
The battleship Maine blew up in Havana Harbor, killing two officers and 264 crew. Capt. Charles Sigsbee commanded the vessel. The Ladies' Aid society of the Christian church will meet in the church parlors Thursday afternoon. Mes James Brown and Jeffreys will entertain.
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Maine
Havana Harbor
Chas. Sigsbee
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Christian Church
Mes
James Brown
Jeffreys
Mrs Knowlton Chosen To Replace Kilbourne Abroad
Mrs Ella W Knowlton of Grinnell has been selected to take Mrs Kilbourne's duties during her absence starting around March 1. Kilbourne travels abroad for several months. Knowlton, a cultured woman, is well recommended and attended the short course last winter. She has been visiting at the Asa Turner home near Maxwell.
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Ella W. Knowlton
Grinnell
Mrs. Kilbourne
First Short Forestry Course Planned in United States
Prof. H. P. Baker will lead the first short forestry course in the United States at Fort Collins Colorado starting Monday February 18 for twelve days. About fifteen assistants will join in soils field work timber distribution irrigation lumber and related topics. Baker’s background with national work adds prestige while he also spoke in Des Moines before the southeastern Iowa Retail Lumber Dealers association on timber preservation.
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United States
Fort Collins
Colo
H. P. Baker
Colorado
Prof. Baker
Ames Fifth Place in State Bowling Tournament
The Ames bowling team finished fifth at the state tournament in Cedar Rapids with a total score of 2548. James Rader placed sixth individually with 549, while team pair scores reached 1042 Meiers and Kintzley and 1034 Rader and Palmer. The league votes to send delegates to the National Tournament at St. Louis in March. J F Kintzley to be delegate, Rader alternate. The 1908 state tournament will be in Ames and Kintzley may build new alleys or fix the old room.
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Ames
Cedar Rapids
James Rader
J. Kintzley
Rader
Meiers
Palmer
G. Kintzley
Neblit
St. Louis
J. F. Kintzley
Jas. Rader
Farmers eye northern Iowa apple preservation advance
Progress reports note fruit moved from Marshalls town to Mason City due to limited cold storage. If successful, farmers across northern Iowa could store their own apples rather than rely on imports. Additional bulletins include experiments feeding tubercular bacilli to hogs and dairy work on cream starters.
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Marshallstown
Mason City
Farrmers
Iowa
Prof
Bouska
Animal Husbandry Department
Dairy Department
Ames Dreams of Lakes and Naval Ambitions for Campus
The piece envisions Ames with lakes along Chatauqua Park transforming the town into a historic rival of Heidelburg, imagining moonlit rowboats and winter ice scenes. It muses on draining Wall and Clear lakes to flood the area, creating an Ames fleet and boat culture tied to the college era and local farming shifts.
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Ames
Chatauqua Park
Heidelburg
United States
United States Naval School
Annapolis
Hamilton County
Manning Chosen to Replace Lincoln at Ames Armory
Monday night M A Manning was chosen to succeed Gen J Rush Lincoln as manager of the Ames Armory. Lincoln will turn the business over after two years in charge in good condition and Manning is described as the popular successor.
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M. A. Manning
Gen. J. Rush Lincoln
Ames Armory
General Lincoln
Mr. Manning
Slang Debate Sways Oelwein Traders And Ladies
The Oelwein Register reports slang terms like skidoo and 23 are out of fashion. It advises using NOW 37 in capital letters and reading upside down. Groceries complain the lemon business is hurt by new slang and ladies object to asking for lemons.
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Oelwein Register
Ash Wednesday Umbrella Loan Declined
A brief city vignette shows Frank Graves asking Say Smith to borrow a new umbrella for a few days. Smith apologizes and notes Lent restrictions prevent lending the item.
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Smith
Frank Graves
Bryant Huff hospitalized after appendicitis attack
Student Til Bryant Huff of the Gamma Alpha house was taken to his Webster City home Monday to recover from a Friday illness described as an acute appendicitis attack. His father came down to bring him home.
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Til. Bryant Huff
Gamma Alpha House
Webster City
Has One Good Point The Newella Advertises W J Semmons
In the Abert City Pioneer the only notable feature of the Newella is the prominent advertisement for W J Semmons, highlighting his prominence or relevance in the local scene.
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Abert City
Newella
W. J. Semmons
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