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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
7
An ad promotes ManZan as a pile treatment avoiding surgery. The collapsible tube with nozzle is ready for use on soreness and inflammation. Price is 50 cents and a guarantee is claimed. Sold by C. A. Gamble.
Ames readers get a montage of short items: A. R. Cooper visits Des Moines. Clare Wright attends a Nevada chicken show. Kooser calls on Huxley. Frank Curtiss returns from Kansas City. visitors from Highmore and Knoxville. revival work in Linden. ice harvest weather. travel hints. elderly visits in Jewell. Linebaugh attends Chicago electrical convention. Snook visits Carroll and G. A. Snook. Stelle returns from California to take work at I. J. O.. Beckwiths arrive from Chicago. McDonald becomes Fair store grocery supervisor. Prof. Pammel lectures at Farmers Institute. high school one session plan extended. Albert Clark clears lot for club house. Williams brothers return from north. Kepler travels home from Davenport. blues promotions at Armory. McCulloch leaves Hartwick to run Corn Growers finances. Lond Company reopens graveside shop. Judison returns from Guthrie. Eby to Atlantic. Back at Kellogg. Union National Bank re-elects board. Harriman notes Kansas corn similar to Iowa. Evans forms White partnership at Ft. Dodge and eyes millionaire status.
Ames notes describe John Caine urging cosmopolitan ambitions aboard the Eclipse railroad run by the Epworth League. A leap year skating party at Celes rink hosted about twenty five young ladies and their gentlemen friends last Wednesday evening. Ben Livingston visited Ames, former resident for twenty five years, now in Jefferson. Jayne Loud Company handles undertakings and framing with pending orders to be completed.
Lady Celestia, clairvoyant foreseer, will stay in room 20 at Hotel Ames next week offering readings at 50 cents instead of 2 dollars. Three clients reportedly failed to consult her, readings may be free if not satisfactory.
J R Keating, who built a substantial jewelry trade, has sold his business to A J Munson of Alexis Illinois. Keating will stay three weeks to introduce his successor and conclude details, and many friends here regret his departure.
Mr. M A Manning acquired half of a barn on Duff Avenue and the other half was divided for a Lincoln property addition. Manning plans to move the barn halves and construct nice large modern improved houses from the split sections.
Kodol for Dyspepsia and Indigestion is a scientific blend of natural digestants with vegetable acids, containing the same juices found in a healthy stomach. It claims to be the best remedy for dyspepsia indigestion and stomach troubles, and it urges immediate use, noting it is pleasant prompt and thorough, sold by C A Gamble.
The Ft. Dodge Des Moines Interurban lists departures from Duff Avenue station at 7 8 10 am and 4 6 7 pm with connections at Kelley to Ft. Dodge or Des Moines. The 12 o clock car goes to Kelley then Ft. Dodge and Boone. Last southbound arrives at 8 50 pm and leaves Des Moines at 7 pm.
Cars depart Duff avenue station at 20 minutes after and 10 minutes before the hour. College trips run at five minutes after and 35 minutes after the hour starting 6 50 a m. Last Duff avenue car leaves at 10 20 p m and the college car at 10 35 p m.
A new time card for the Chicago and North Western began last Sunday with most trains running earlier than before. The changes affect daily schedules and commuting times across the system.
A long list of society notices shows Miss Niva Nichols in Des Moines visiting friends while Mrs Paxton returns from Mare. Many others travel from Chicago to Des Moines, visit relatives in Polk City, and attend short courses and institutes in Rolfe and Sac City, with numerous family, hospital, and college homes noted.
A vintage advertisement claims Ring’s Little Liver Pills wake up lazy livers clean the system and clear the skin. It urges use for biliousness and sick headache with a price of 25 cents and lists C A Gamble as the seller.
St. John's Episcopal Church announces no morning service due to the convention. Evening service at 7 30 features Rev. Wm Wilkinson of Minnesota delivering the address. Rector Herbert A. Wilson presides.
Pastor H. D. Williams leads Bible school at 9 45 in the morning and a 6 30 evening service with sermons at 11 00 a m and 7 30 p m The themes are Some First Things and Under Sealed Orders and other relived topics.
Christian Science services held at 7 30 each week in Odd Fellows Hall. The reading room at 618 Douglass Avenue is open Wednesdays and Saturdays from 2 30 to 5 00 p m for study and prayer.
Isaac Ellis announces Mrs Belle Hubbel of Minneapolis adjutant in the Volunteers of America will speak at the Friends church Sunday January 19 at 11 am and 7 30 pm. Her appearance highlights VOA outreach and church activity in the community.
J. W. Stiverson, pastor, announces Sunday school at 10 with Mrs. R. N. Dixon superintendent and a 11 o clock sermon. Junior and senior society meet, with services at 2 30 pm 6 30 pm and 7 30 pm with sermons titled Growth in Grace and A fast Driver. Revival services start at Evergreen Tuesday evening.
Methodist Episcopal Church announces services will be held at Cole's skating rink at the usual hours with Pastor Andrew M. Shea leading the congregation.
Ames high school representatives Earl Smith Albert Fowler and Irvin Meltzer with Supt. King and Merrill Manning debated Winterset on disarmament in Winterset Friday. Winterset won 2 votes to 1 from judges EB Nye Harvey Ingham and C W Lyon. The Ames team fought bravely and earned praise for their plucky effort.
A new stage adaptation of The Hidden Hand will premiere at the Armory Opera House in Ames Iowa on Saturday January 18. The production, written by actor Eugene Moore, follows the famous family tale that propelled Robi Bonner to wealth and made Capitola Black Donald and other characters household names.
Miss Francis Bonnelle White daughter of Geo White of Ames to Edward A Bottje of Grand Haven Mich in Des Moines on Jan 9. The couple will reside in Grand Haven where Bottje runs his father's hardware business. They met in Grand Haven three years ago and will start life together after a last Ames send off.
Obituary notes Miss Henrietta Kegley of Ames Iowa and Pullman Washington dies of heart failure at age twenty. She had resigned from St John and planned to teach at Ewartsville at Albion in Palouse area. Funeral held with Grange auspices. interment at Albion cemetery.
Pinesalve carbolized acts as a poultice to draw out inflammation and poison for chapped hands lips cuts and burns. Sold by Cc A Gamble.
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