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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1907
Page
5
Two story frame house with stone foundation located on Boone Street. Front measures 18 by 14, multiple rooms listed, large south porch and cellar, electric utility, 1 1/2 lots, barn with shop addition. Also includes various real estate listings and requests for inquiries about trades and rentals.
Spring plowing delays linked to North Dakota blizzards. Ames Bowling League begins with games against outside teams, Ames winning by 5 pins at Marshalltown. Notables include A E Hunt of Pres Storms office visiting Humboldt and Chas H Tripp reporting from La Jara Colorado. M Benson heads to western Nebraska ranch with stock improvements.
Misses Jessie Leon Hall Della M Coe and Julia L Spangler form part of a class of sixteen nurses to be fed from the M E training pot at Des Moines. Tuesday night exercises will be held in Grace M church and Rev L Nye formerly of Ames will deliver the address.
A local notice proclaims a fixed price offer on bread, stating no loaf price under seven loaves for a quarter. The advertisement emphasizes uniform pricing for all customers.
Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver, Iowa’s senior senator, spoke to students at the college on a Saturday morning at 11:30. The special chapel service has been called for this event.
During the recess four special Senate members visit the college. Senators Saunders of Council Bluffs and Stirton of Monticello, with Representatives Sister of Conrad Felt of Spencer and Stillman of Jefferson, will be chaperoned by Senator Ericson and Representative White. The legislature adjourns until next Tuesday.
Seven loaves of the best bread in the city are shown as judged at Judge's Bakery. The event highlights quality bread and local bakers in a vivid local scene.
8 se Shugart advertises coal wood and all kinds of feed at Mutual 400 Ia 144 with a brief notice of shop offerings and general goods.
Professor B. H. Hibbard of the political economy department recently returned from Texas where he gathered Carnegie Institute statistics. He noted a dramatic temperature swing from 78 degrees above zero in Texas to below zero in Ames within a week, a change that surprised him.
Mrs. L. M. Dayton, a longtime respected resident of Nevada, died Saturday. The funeral service was conducted Monday.
The restaurant of I M Cole at Roland was completely destroyed by fire Sunday night. Loss estimated at about 3000 dollars with 1700 dollars insured.
Examinations began yesterday in Nevada for teacher certificates. They will close Friday and no more time will be held until one.
Mr. C. A. Wentworth has been in Chicago several days for cataract treatment on one eye. Last reports indicate steady improvement and he will be absent about two weeks.
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson resigns as president of the First National Bank at Traer after ten years in office. He says distant Washington prevents him from properly serving stockholders and depositors in the town.
Mrs Katharine Ringley of Los Angeles owner of 100 acres near Santiago Cuba announces plans to erect a monument marking the trench line and to build a school at the historic San Juan hill battlefield area.
The General Iowa Osteopathic Association held a meeting in Marshalltown on Thursday. Dr. Frances G. Stewart of Ames spoke on the program and Dr. Co M Proctor, the president, gave the address of welcome and presided. The next gathering is likely in Ames.
The Catholic Fair opens next week with chants leading the event as residents anticipate their social standing. Voters may be surprised by final counts revealing fewer popular individuals as twenty three lemons are awarded as consolation prizes.
North Dakota faces a month of travel disruption with all traveling men given a vacation until spring. J. C. Williams of Fargo, staying with his father Rev. H. D. Williams, describes harrowing experiences including a seven day no-train period and spending forty eight hours in a drift while pursuing studies at a college.
Providence reports two roaming deer entering Westminster street and Bank street in New London, causing property loss and frightening merchants. The article notes a prior deer sighting on Elmwood avenue and predicts more winter incidents as wildlife roams closer to urban centers.
The Washington Star depicts a fictional dialogue where a traveler questions the dragon, while Mr. Li La, a noted Chinese philosopher, explains he often sees the Goddess of Liberty on emblems but has never met the lady personally.
A woman at a wayside cottage questions a tramp about his occupation. He admits he used to be a beauty doctor but jokes that he could not practice on someone already so beautiful. She offers him prunes and directs him to a porch chair and smoking jacket.
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