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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1910
Page
3
Two years after their rise, Overland cars are common in many areas. About two thousand are on New York streets and twenty five hundred have been bought in Texas. In home towns they outnumber rivals three to one, driven by merit and value.
The advertisement extols Overland cars as simple and reliable with almost no controls required. It cites long distances driven by Miss Blanche Stuart Scott from New York to San Francisco, noting two thousand miles with no trouble and urging readers to consider owning one.
August 31 to September 1 Ames hosts Iowa State Rural Mail Carriers Association event. Story county veterans hold activities at Ames during August. Ames chautauqua runs August 10 to 19 with lectures and performances.
Various Iowa items report planned improvements at the Grand Opera House in Osceola, including an exhaust fan and a full overhauls costing thousands. Other notes cover a Milan Illinois homicide relic, veterans gatherings, legal cases, deaths, marriages, and civic events across the state.
Earl Hoover of Aredale was badly hurt when his carriage broke loose after a bolt by a passing auto on the way to Hamp ton for hospital treatment. He was taken to the hospital in an auto for care while very ill.
George Robbins a 45 year old bachelor shot himself in a room at Mrs. C. R. Gartin home. The fall overturned a lamp starting a small fire, noticed by a passerby and quickly put out.
Rippey announces the sixtieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gonder. The couple, long residents of Rippey and nearby, remain in good health with Mrs. Gonder able to sew without glasses after more than twenty five years in the area.
Mrs. Lawrence James, a 45 year old deaf mute and mother of six, was fatally injured on the Iowa Central tracks near her home when struck by a passenger train. She suffered a fractured skull and broken ankles. The oldest child is 16.
George A. Gregory of Council Bluffs died from injuries after being run over by a concrete mixer while en route to church. He had seen Halley’s comet twice and left a family of eleven children.
Russell Bowers, 17, remains unrecovered a week after disappearing from Barney Davis's farm near Manchester. The river was dragged near the likely swimming spot with no outcome.
Marshalltown reports no new developments in the brutal assault on Miss Edna Deaver south of town. Police continue efforts but have not located the described assailant.
The body of a five month old infant was found floating in a Burlington river wrapped in a calico dress with a surgeon's instrument. Police suspect murder but have no clues at this time.
Dubuque. Walter Smith found guilty of setting fire to the Grand Opera House is sentenced to five years in the reformatory at Anamosa after a motion for a new trial was overruled.
An unknown thief stole a team of horses and a buggy from J. W. Thompson in Iowa City. A posse chased the culprit across the countryside to Davenport and captured him.
Marshalltown reports Barney Halverson and James Pokasta of Quarry are held to the grand jury on charges of stealing young pigs from a farmer and selling them in the city.
Work has begun on a new magnificent Catholic church building at Ryan in this county. When completed it will be one of the finest church edifices in the archdiocese of Dubuque.
Eighteen young divines graduated from Wartburg Lutheran seminary in Dubuque. They come from Iowa Nebraska and Illinois with sixteen destined for the ministry in the Iowa synod.
Calvin M. Hamilton, one of three men injured in a runaway near Fort Dodge, died at a local hospital after being unconscious thirty six hours from a fractured skull.
Mrs. Nancy Harsh, mother of ex Senator J B Harsh, marked her centennial in Creston. She has four children, sixteen grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren.
Griswold Iowa June 22 Henry Welrich a wealthy farmer was duped out of three thousand dollars by two men at his farm. A supposed bank deposit and a flashy game led him to retrieve eight thousand dollars in cash only to find a tin box packed with worthless newspaper bundles after the con artists swapped boxes and fled.
Des Moines will host the 1911 convention of the State Aerie of Eagles after the capital city boosters defeated Ottumwa. L. L. Evans of Council Bluffs becomes new Iowa Eagles president, elected without opposition, with QO. K. Kirkpatrick of Des Moines chosen as trustee.
A self-possessed stranger entered the Duncombe Illinois Central station during the agent’s dinner hour and stole 80 dollars from the cash drawer. The thief remains at large and no arrests have been made.
Edward Hatchet a Winnebago from the reservation wed Miss Mabel Wilcox daughter of a Nebraska resident in a ceremony conducted by the county judge.
Burton Sheppard leaves Corning to join Bishop Hartzell in New York before sailing to South Africa. The pair plan a four year or longer mission. The trip emphasizes church leadership work abroad.
Sioux City lineman Lon Ward aged 25 confessed to following and attacking Miss Ida Teter at her gate in Sioux City, claiming he is the man responsible for the attempted assault.
Rock Island surveys a line near Mason City and may enter the city to gain business from large local factories seeking railroad service. The road hopes to secure a share of Mason City industry.
George Robbins former ly deputy sheriff of Lucas county and highly respected Chariton resident died by suicide by shooting himself.
Peter Boyd, born a slave on Henry Clay's plantation, died in Keokuk at 95. He claimed familiarity with General Andrew Jackson and Presidents Buchanan, Van Buren, and Grant.
Sioux City hosts the annual Idea Gas Manufacturers association convention where Clinton is named as the next meeting site for the group.
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