The Spoiler and a Social Divide at Ames
A literary piece decries a woman who wrote about cooking and crafts yet never tried them. The text shifts to campus life notes at Ames, outlining club meetings, social events, anniversaries, and a public letter protesting social exclusivity between college families and town residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
You
Intellingencer
Commercial Club
Ames
Ames Industries
Foreign Missionary Society
Club
City
College
Priscilla
Ames Club
Golden Wedding of H Wakefields Celebrated in Ames
The Wakefields observed their fiftieth anniversary at their Ames home on March 4 1857 with relatives from Ames and Lincoln Nebraska and others. Present were ten children and numerous grandchildren as well as neighbors and friends who praised the couple. Gifts included a gold headed cane for him and a gold headed umbrella a gold lined fruit dish and a gold thimble for her. Local figures shared anecdotes and frontier memories highlighting half a century of marriage and family prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. ©. Wakefield
Ames
Rela
Hannibal Wakefield
Clend Garland
William
John
Charles
Maynard
Lincoln
Neb
Arthur
Ashland
Wis
Emma
Maude
Guy
Floyd
Laura Maynard
Shor
Hanibal Wakefield
Windsor
New York
J. BE. Davis
Marion County
Ohio
Iowa
J. EB. Davis
A. High Hunter
Whoshire
Elizabet
Presen
Mr. Wakefield
Neers
Belle Fontaine
H. Robbins
Washta
A. W. Garberson
C. D. Garberson
R. M. Hunter
Sibley
Vera Colington
Ney Smith
Imogene Benson
Agrapher
Spaulding Manufacuring Company
Grinnell
Mildred Cole
Col Ge and
C. B. Ford
Gs. C
Montana
Iva Brandt
Genea
H. M. Benson
Story Street
A. Potter
Onondaga Street
Community Notes Highlight Local Residents Activities
Several Ames area residents are mentioned with health updates and travel. William Clarke has improved after serious illness. G J Snyder visited Des Moines, Minnie Cedargreen spent Sunday in Boone, and Laura Boyd visited her sister in Ames. Various movers include Dr E B Cramblitt’s Tennessee trip and L M Hart planning to move April first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Clarke
G. J. Snyder
Des Moines
Martha Knudeson
Webster City
Mary Kintzley
Boone
E. B. Cramblitt
Tennessee
Iowa
South
Minnie Cedargreen
C. J. Ruth
Nebraska
Boyd
Public
Bessie Carr
Ames Candy Kucen
Sarah McBiyen
South Dakota
L. M. Hart
Tom Dodds
R. A. Smith
Jows City
Pi Heta Phi
Marion Kilbourne
Laura Boyd
Grand River
Ida
Ames
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the Vampire
Congregationalist
Civic Seminary
Prof. Beyer
K. K. Club
K. K
Winifred Tilden
Clover Club
R. Bradley
A. B. Storms
Newens
Jennie McElyen Beyer
Daisy Brown
Knapp
Miss Henshaw
Methodist Church
Burton
P. E. O. Society
Capt. Greeley
A. B. Noble
Richard C. Barrett
S. W. Beyer
B. C. Potter
M. K. Smith
Osiris
Raby Lyzich
Bendel
Edith Lincoln
Charles Hamilton
Budd
Judisch
Barrett
Omar Khayyam
Liza Lehmann
F. R. Conaway
J. R. Woods
J. R. Bradley
F. R Conaway
A. BE. Hunt
Jennie Christ
Williams
Reed
Campbell
Gibson
Mary Little
Margaret Leland
Dr. Christ
Loretta Williams
Leland
Lucilla Robb
Margaret Hall
Benson
Story
Hoggatt Streets
Pi Phi
Parker
S. C
Jennie Fedson
Leav
Lillian
Laura Storms
Ethel Dessner
Helen Simcoke
Helen Thomas
Florence Storms
Edith Curtiss
Ruth Thompson
Whipple
Fern Thompson
Nevada
Repekahs
A. D. O. Poys
Adams Hall
Clarke Conservatory of Music
Perk
Wyggie
Welch Street
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
F. T. McLain
Woman’s Relief Corps
Clarinda
Glenwood
Story City
Tess
Anna Capps
Cody
Wyoming
Deaeness
Ollie Wilkenson
Husgh
Greenville, Minn
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Robt. Dodds
Web
Mr. An Zs
Turner McLain
A. EB. Ross San
Herirthda
Ida Rose
Desmoines
Delia Woodman
Jameston
Forrest
St. Lor
Holeproof Sox
Semmons’ Dry Goods Store
Sele
Holeproof Hostery Co
Manstaderens
Anise
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