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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1904
Page
5
Community notices list advertising rates and free publications, then a rapid stream of Ames area names and trips. Citizens travel to Boone Nevada Des Moines Marshalltown and other towns for visits business and events with rail and road talk interwoven.
About forty W R O members arrived at Mrs Nancy Taylor's Hoggatt Street home with baskets and no warning. They shared a noonday meal, quilted and sewed, praised Mrs Taylor for her service, and presented a dress pattern as a token of appreciation. The group planned to attend the G A R Post meeting later that week for a social hour.
The Ames High football season 1908 showed mixed success with several home games on college fields. Highlights include a 6 5 win over Marshalstown, a 37 0 victory at Waterloo, an 11 0 scrimmage win versus college freshmen, and a 10 0 win over Nevada. The most thrilling game was a scoreless fifty minute battle with North Des Moines, and the finale lost 12 6 to Clarion.
The notes cover updates from the college including lectures in Iowa institutes by Alfred Atkinson and G I Christie on drainage and corn breeding, a debate with Drake University planned for May, and a remark about sophomores finding themselves in the Freshman class. An elevator installation progresses in Engineering Hall, with concrete foundation work in the cellar and electric motive power planned. Also mentioned are personnel changes, stenographers hired, and regional travels by professors and staff.
Farm workers halted motion to inquire about a problem and showed occasional wishes to leave town, reflecting local curiosity and weariness with daily bustle.
If the cause is beyond your control worry is useless. If in your control act promptly. When ill with a cold worry ends with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy used judiciously. There is no danger of pneumonia when it is used. For sale by all druggists.
A mitten lost Monday evening on the Ames and Nevada road is found and the finder is asked to leave it at Tildens store for pickup.
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