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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1911
Page
3
Listing of a stage production cast including Marsland Cattermole and others followed by city government updates. City Dads convened to finish business, including Francison Land subdivision south of the college, storm sewer bids, and viaduct work. New law abolishes county surveyor post from 1913 with supervisors hiring powers and a two mill tax for rural road work.
Music pupils recital at Ag hall on Saturday June 3 and college baccalaureate address at Ag hall on Sunday June 4. Press report notes local schedules for the Ames community events.
Nine killed and twenty injured in a head on collision of east bound and west bound Burlington trains near McCook Nebraska. Denver and Omaha baseball players riding the Colorado Limited were among the injured. several team officials and players sustained non fatal wounds.
Des Moines May 31 The state will urge a six month trial of reduced express rates before Judge McPherson to allow evaluation of their effect on company finances and operations. Express company counsel pressed for a restraining order pending final disposition, but Iowa opposes. Similar measures have been used in other states.
The reunion of all Iowa regiments that served in the Spanish-American War will be held in Cedar Rapids on Thursday and Friday. A parade is planned featuring about 300 to 400 participants from the regiments.
President Taft plans a broad fall speaking tour as part of possible renomination considerations. He told Senator Smoot he would visit Salt Lake City in September for the old home folks reception, with engagements already listed in his White House calendar extending through Kansas and Utah.
In Grand Junction Colorado on May 30 a party led by Robert E Yons later renamed Ernest Lyons and John Baker with their wives eleven children and four teams were caught in a blizzard on Marshall pass Continental Divide. They endured three days and nights without food or shelter before reaching Grand Junction after starting from Granite Oklahoma two months earlier bound for Utah.
Sidney reports Mrs. Josephine Sheuerman of Des Moines filed a district court petition against the estate of her father, the late Henry R. Grape, seeking about $50,000. In West Liberty, after John Keelen was killed by a Rock Island train, Marshal Wiley and assistants recovered $1,500 in money from his shack, with more funds deposited in Davenport and West Liberty banks.
E. H. Graves invites readers to secure insurance services in the Spring building, located first door west of Adams Furniture Co. with local emphasis on personalized coverage options.
Odd timetable notes half hourly service at specific minutes after and before the hour. Mentions a city station departure at 7:20 a.m. and a last car from campus, but the text is garbled leaving the exact times and conditions unclear.
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