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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1906
Page
4
Advertising rates 5c per line for local notices with one free publication for non revenue church and club announcements. Condolence and appreciation messages set at $1.00. Additional insertions 5c per line. Rates apply to furnished advertisements. Second evening of each week.
A long list of locals and visitors are reported in Boone and nearby towns. Names include Ed. Low, Chas Alm, Miss Ethel Underwood, Roy Fleming, Mr. and Mrs. George Judisch, E. L. Carter, Bernice Shugart, Clendora Bryant, Lenna Watkins, Mrs. Egan, Fred Elwell, Elmer Coffin, Julia Spangler, Jennie Beyer, Will Norman, Jessie Parker, and many others visiting relatives or traveling to Chicago, Des Moines, Florida, Spirit Lake, and Nebraska. Found item jackets, travel notes, and social events are listed alongside upcoming sales and local notices.
J oe Lilac promotes a June sale at the Tilden Store with mens pants priced at 85c on the dollar for various tag prices from $1.09 to $5.00. Washburn Crosby Gold Medal and Ben Hur Flour offered with a June special of $1.10 per sack and extra cash discounts.
An ad offers top prices for old rubber copper brass zinc and old rags with per pound rates. It claims leading prices but includes garbled text and locates the seller across from Mike O’Conner’s and invites business.
Joshua Bonard Grove, aged 76 years, 1 month, 27 days, died at 1011 Clark Street. Born April 2, 1830 in Frederick County Virginia, he moved with his family to Ohio Iowa and Wyoming before settling in Story County. He married Elizabeth Green October 22 1856 and had ten children, nine remaining at his death. Funeral held at United Brethren Church conducted by Rev. A. Pruitt.
Card of Thanks from Mrs J B Grove and family expresses heartfelt gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy during illness and death of husband and father.
A young Iowa representative argued that poultry products exceed cotton and even Britain's gold coinage in value. He claimed American hens generate wealth equal to banking capital in sixty days and surpass U S gold mines and pig iron output in shorter periods.
Mr Bertley Allen Clutter and Miss Bessie Winona Tinsley wed Tuesday evening at the bride’s parents’ Burnett street home. Rev H D Williams officiated at 8 30 in the presence of about thirty friends. Out of town guests included C B Hamilton Des Moines Emma Peterson Sheldon Aubie Lutter Newton Dalma Young H H Swafford Frank Swafford and Dr F S Smith Nevada. Peterson sang and Mrs Hamilton played the wedding march. They will reside in Whatcheer.
Rev. F O Bruner delivers a Memorial address in Rock Island Illinois on May 80 stressing freedom of conscience and equal schooling where rich and poor share classes. He laments political dishonesty, contrasts Americanism with Japanese stalwartism, and warns against commercialism eroding national devotion.
Mrs Sadie Hock Passig visits Mrs Harding while P B Harding visits his son. Miss Mary Rounds calls on Miss Ken Anderson. Ward Hall plans a Europe trip after returning home. Dr Ralph Graham in government service in Arkansas City reports a 200 salary raise. Foreign missionary meeting set for 2 30 at Mrs F H Munn with M E church. Agricultural journalism course added at Iowa State College with John Clay support and a medal prize to be awarded to top student J F Ingels noted.
Word has been received that Mrs. Blanche Hoag married Mr. M. R. Scott of Santa Ana. The couple, who met at college in Shenandoah Iowa, had faced separations by death and renewed their life together in Santa Ana. Pinesalve touted as a poultice by C. A. Gamble seller.
A London Answers illustration imagines a railway to Centauri to show distances. Directors set a penny per hundred miles first class fare. A traveler pays £1 100 000 000 with a national debt. Travel at sixty miles per hour with stoppages would take 48 663 000 years.
In a Henry H. Rogers sketch Ned Haskins the hermit lives in an eight by eight foot hut near Bort Phenix in Fairhaven Massachusetts. Rogers asks what he would do with ten million dollars and the hermit replies he would add two feet to his hut.
A Detroit Free Press quote contrasts a pretty girl’s appeal with wit about a homely girl who can gain the same attention if she has money. The exchange implies social scrutiny of appearances and wealth in dating.
A reflective piece notes sarcasm can be a sharp tool but often harms the user more than the target. It explores how controlling wit requires restraint and awareness to avoid backfiring.
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