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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1910
Page
5
The notice explains rates and formats for ads including ten cent insertions and half price options. It notes that ads can be addressed to a number and care of The Intelligencer, with responses for out of town ads forwarded. Phone numbers Mutual 138 and Iowa 46 U are listed.
For a short time a well located eight room house with cellar barn and carriage shed on a 75 foot lot in Ames Iowa is offered at 2500 dollars for quick sale. Terms good. For particulars contact J A Campbell agent Ames IA or J J McCrary Dawson IA.
Story County hosts a sequence of gatherings: Old Soldiers' Reunion in August, World War II Veterans Conference in September, and a July to August program at the International Graduate School. Local groups coordinate schedules for the reunions and convention activities.
The Church of Christ plans Bible school at 10 a.m. led by E. 8. Owen, a preaching and communion service at 11 a.m. with a sermon on The Erasion of the World. An Endeavor meeting at 6:30 p.m. precedes the church service at 7:30 p.m. Claud Layman reports on the Rochester missionary convention. all are welcome.
Warner Johnson minister leads Sunday school at 10:00 with Edna Pruitt as superintendent. Sermon at 11:00 titled The Blessings of Trials. Y P C BE U at 6:30 with 7:30 sermon Places of Prayer and How to Pray. Reception of members at both services. Short course students invited.
St. John's Episcopal Church invites all communicants and strangers to Holy Communion at 4 p.m. Charles J. Schutt, Rector, requests the presence of everyone for this service.
George D. Crissman minister preaches Sunday at 10 45 a m and 7 30 p m Sunday school at 9 45 a m Epworth League at 6 30 p m Strangers in the city are invited to attend.
Local Union No 1948 of the carpenters and joiners met in Ames for nomination and election of 1910 officers. W G Moreland was made president, L E Pratt recording secretary, R R Slem treasurer, W R McCuskey financial secretary, and others installed. Pratt and McCuskey spoke on order improvement. Next meeting set for January.
John A. Sauer of Huron while bound for San Diego misplaced a $100 bill and a large diamond stud. Found later in his overcoat pocket after arrival in Omaha, the items caused a thorough search at the Nebraska Street station with no theft proved. Mrs Sauer jokes about unlucky thirteen as the mystery ends with no loss.
John Smith played the 1909 season with a lump on his vertebrae and endured daily practice and games. Harper’s Weekly notes he was seen as a remarkable lad among hardy football adventurers amid speculation from college trainers and fellow institutions near New York.
A football player named John Smith shows a lump on his neck. Doctors at Johns Hopkins examine him after x rays reveal a fissure in an upper cervical vertebra. He played for months with a cracked neck before treatment and diagnosis. The item notes a piano expected to be sold soon.
A committee appointed by the board and including Prof. A. B. Noble Miss Ethel Grace Pike and Miss Genevieve Westerman has the opportunity to purchase a fine Fischer piano for 260 dollars for the new high school.
A carnival of beauty and merriment greets audiences at the Armory Opera House on Tuesday January 11 as the Black Crook Jr Co shows an enlarged troupe. Notable vaudeville performers include Sam Shaw George Stone Margie Bennett Elsie Spencer the Great Everett and a large chorus of Broadway beauties.
City schedules show assessments for storm sewer construction on Boone Street Des Moines Avenue Lincoln Street East Avenue Center Avenue. Plat lists lots owners and amounts. objections must be filed with Ames City Clerk within twenty days after first publication.
A Chicago Tribune quip has Mr Hewligus lamenting his wife’s lack of appreciation for a $1,000 birthday present and for a life insurance policy. He notes cash and policy are the same to her, as she wonders how long she might wait.
A London Express excerpt presents a Civil War era exchange between a British soldier and an American about the hypothetical assassination of General Washington. The dialogue quips on mercy toward prisoners and a quip about poverty as punishment, with Mrs Slowgood praising a free cookery class.
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