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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1911
Page
5
Seventy five colors and designs of New Silks 27 inch dress fabrics praised as unusual fine cloth for the price this season. Amoskeag Chambray 34 inch wide in fifteen staple styles with neat checks and stripes, fast colors, durable for children's school dresses and house dresses. Per yard prices 9e to 12e, 34 inch wide at 10e.
Classified notice describing rates for Ames Intelligencer ads at one cent per word with no charge under ten cents and additional insertions at half price. Instructions to send payment with copy to simplify accounting and collection.
A jumble of sale and rental notices lists items including household goods, a seven room house near Grove's grocery, Clover hay deliveries, White Orpington chickens, and a barbers college program in Nebraska. Trading offers include land in Thunder Butte valley for city property, plus inquiries about piano or work team.
Mrs. Sarah A. Buck born Indiana May 13 1842 died January 20 1911 aged 69 years 7 days married to A 141 Buck on July 1 1866 with 11 children three living Edith Bertha Langsdorff and Frank Buck survive. Funeral at Christian church with Rev J T Houser, interment Ames cemetery. Shirley Armstrong died January 20 1911 in Provo Utah after two appendicitis operations. He studied electrical engineering at Telluride Institute.
Clarence Powell son of Mr and Mrs Elmer Powell died in Kankakee Illinois yesterday morning from typhoid fever. His remains arrived in Ames and funeral services will be held at the Powells Grant township home. Powell had been working in the car shops and his parents were summoned Saturday by his critical illness.
A collage of light anecdotes and cultural musings. Edmond de Goncourt ponders eternal fame and epitaphs in a journal snippet. Then comic vignettes about a lawyer's Latin, dream interpretation from antiquity, a child turning cigars into a lighter, and Lew Dockstader’s race-day misdirection about winning on the clotheshorse.
The Gilbert community gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Bysells on January 11 to honor G. McFarland on his eightieth birthday. The day featured conversation, a bountiful dinner, and remarks on his life. A McFarland school box social raised a little over eleven dollars for an encyclopedia. Rev. Hood of Fairfield preached and stayed with the Robinsons while attending a short course in Ames. Other items note illness in several families, visits, births, relocations, and local movements including depot agent change, new residents, and meetings led by Rev. Alber.
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