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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1907
Page
4
The She Intelligencer edited by F. R. and M. C. Conaway appears every Thursday morning in Ames Story county Iowa with a subscription price of $1.00 per year in advance.
The article extols the family physician as the greatest comfort for suffering humanity and a steadfast guardian of households. It notes the doctor's cheer, patience, home visits, and role as healer beyond medicine, including ties to Christian Science and public regard. It also touches on a New World rise of women doctors and a wandering reminiscence about melons and Marquette.
L O Williams of Lancaster County Nebraska urges Wallace's Farmer readers to revive watermelon farming. He calls for school involvement and community clubs to protect crops, noting past thefts and a fatal shooting in a test patch to guard melons and ensure research stock.
The piece argues Ames high school enrollment is high partly due to nearby Iowa State College and compares other towns Charles City Fairfield Oskaloosa Grinnell Cedar Falls Iowa City with their populations and high school sizes. Ames population in 1905 was 3291 and its high school enrollment 280.
The year ending June 30 1907 saw federal receipts surpass outlays by 87 million dollars the largest surplus since 1902 when it was 92 million. Expenditures rise with population while receipts outpace predictions. Secretary Shaw eyed 58 million surplus last December, but fell 29 million short.
The Mail and Times endorses former Speaker George W. Clarke of Dallas County for governor. Clarke meets the standard with qualities independence standing and popularity. If nominated it would be a Republican choice not Clarke’s bid and any ambition would remain secret.
The Hampton Chronicle urges more coverage of the Lieutenant Governor race before primaries. It proposes ex Senator Joseph A Fitch Patrick of Story County as a capable starter with legislative experience and knowledge of public business.
Rumors in Des Moines name Nat Coffin Cash Dowell and Judge Prouty as rivals to Captain Hull for the next congressional nomination. Howard Clark is urged not to be dismissed without support from his friends as he is seen as the right size for a congressman.
The Dolliver Tillman exchange is dismissed as staged by the Chautauqua trust. Dolliver says he did not insult Tillman and Tillman calls Dolliver a brother. No mob violence occurred and Tillman did not lose an eye. Will Des Moines Black voters back Dolliver after Tillman’s praise arrives.
A. A. Chaney of Des Moines, known as the original cranberry man, has been chosen manager of the cranberry trust with a salary of $1,000 per month. He previously cornered and controlled the market and will move to New York to supervise the business.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat labels a Democrat as adversarial to all Republican plans, noting that such stance typically leads to poor results in national elections and high prosperity for the opponent.
Advertises Kodol as a vegetable acid digestant that digests food to aid digestion. Claims prompt relief from indigestion heartburn and stomach trouble. Sold by C. ss Gamble.
A parklot crowd heard Rev. J. W. Stiverson of the U. B. church discuss the biblical figure Jonah. He argued Jonah’s faults may be misunderstood and urged truthfulness in dealings with trusts and individuals, closing with Rev. A. M. Shea’s 6:30 sermon.
Herbert A. Wilson rector leads morning prayer and sermon at 11 00. Subject Religious Constancy. Sunday School conducted before the service.
Christian Science services are held Sunday evening at 7 30 in Odd Fellows Hall with the subject Trath guiding the lesson.
Frances Renier is the pastor. Services are held next Sunday morning at nine o'clock.
Pastor J. W. Stiverson leads Sunday School at 10 and preaching at 11 in the morning service. Christian Endeavor follows the park service.
Cherryvale Indiana postmaster F M Hamilton runs general merchandise and patent medicines. He praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as standard and indispensable. Available for sale by Loughran Bauer and Joel C Cagwin.
A large crowd at the Ames Gun Club watched Adams and Jeffreys tie on twenty three of twenty five birds in the county cup event formerly held by Cap Kooser. Adams prevailed in a ten bird shoot to decide the tie.
The U S Senate renamed the late conflict the Civil War in a pension bill for veterans. Debate centered on whether secession was a rebellion, with supporters preferring Civil War and opponents citing War Between the States. The measure grants monthly pensions to veterans aged sixty two and older, with higher amounts for older ages and inclusion of Mexican War veterans.
The article recalls Lew Wallace's autobiography describing a tented Paradise at Shiloh. Confederates captured the tent and inscribed Lost beneath its name while Beauregard kept camp furniture intact for a renewed dawn. Union forces later recovered the field.
South Omaha on July 17 reports the first time since 1902 that livestock price reached seven dollars per hundred for corn fed cattle. Western cattle ranges begin arriving, bringing top prices for that class as market activity resumes after the pattie and pleasure tent retakings.
Columbia City Indiana July 17 Colonel Isaiah B McDonald longtime public figure dies after prolonged illness He served with distinction in the civil war and held many offices of honor.
In New York near East Thirty Second Street two laborers August Weber and Victoria Grippe were crushed when a large boulder fell from the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel wall under Second Avenue. The rock fall triggered a panic as workers fled toward the tunnel mouth thinking it was caving in.
Thousands suffer daily from kidney and bladder ailments that could be dangerous if ignored. The article urges prompt medical evaluation and mentions DeWitt's Kid- as a potential remedy reference.
Claims ney and Bladder Pills as the best remedy for backache weak kidneys and bladder inflammation. Promises prompt relief from a week’s treatment for 25 cents.
In Story County District Court a petition and amendments filed by plaintiff against Geo H Gallup Earnest Eavens N E Kenard and Mrs N E Kenard J H Augustine and Mrs J H Augustine RB F Erb and Mrs B F Erb and Frank Beeson and Mrs Frank Beeson seeks judgment of 1500 plus interest and 10 10 taxes plus 8 con tinuation of abstract title on Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter Section 27 Township in Story County Iowa. Defendants are notified to plead by noon on August 2 next or a default will be entered and a decree rendered.
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