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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1907
Page
4
Ames citizens approach the polls in less than two weeks to vote on granting an interurban the right to occupy city streets. The city council presents a guarded franchise balancing expansion with protections, urging readers to study Article 8 provisions and the state executive council controls before voting.
The legislature refuses to grant a pardon to W. P. Glyndon who was convicted of murder by a Story county court in 1878.
Miss Ruth Barrett is a Des Moines visitor this week. Mrs. Budd and Miss Etta spent Monday in Des Moines. Miss Grace Padmore visits her Marshalltown home. Miss Florence Breneman vacationing in Cedar Falls. Mrs. Sara Kegley ill and not better. Miss Josephine Wallace of Des Moines visited Mrs. H. Westerman. Mrs. Lillie Hecker visits her brother Dr. EB A. Kegley in Cedar Rapids. Laura Conaway guests with Georgene Pearsall in Des Moines. Miss Wright of Beardshear school vacationing with her sister in Indianola. Mrs. Peters and brother head home to Greenfield for Easter. Sarah McElyea to Nevada for brief visit with cousin Harriet Fitchpatrick. Mrs. Judge Lee and Norma spend week in Des Moines with Mrs. H. L. Carroll. Mrs. W. O. Elliott and two sons move to South Dakota to join Mr. Elliott. W. P. Steirgerwalt family to move to Ames April 1 from Carroll to occupy Cramblitt house. Maisy Schreiner leaves Saturday for Easter home. will teach at the Normal during stay. Mrs. Wallace's M BE Sunday school division to sponsor a parsonage supper April 1 with waffles and maple syrup from five o'clock.
The article notes college track and base ball squads intensifying outdoor practice amid warm weather. Track athletes train daily, possibly forgo a training shed, while baseball coach Clyde Williams plans two daily workouts over Easter break to better judge and prepare the team for early season games.
After a lengthy case Fernald won in court upholding the consolidation plan and a 4000 dollar bond issue from a special election held a year earlier. The supreme court affirmed Judge Evans and found the election legal though the current board remains divided on proceeding with consolidation.
A strictly military play titled In The Far East is being prepared for the benefit of Company C and the Ames fire company. Directed by Jack Daniel it features a six act, eighteen member cast with scenes in Manchuria Chwang Port Arthur and the Shake River. The drama centers on a spy plot amid battleships mines and a love element, promising life and spectacle to attract local playgoers.
The Saturday college lecture by Frank Dixon argued socialism has good and bad points. He warned against party growth from eighty thousand to four hundred thousand votes, urging moderation, individualism, and caution to avoid embracing the bad with the good.
Henry Savage's English grand opera company stages Puccini's Madam Butterfly with a 75 voice chorus and a 60-piece orchestra. Des Moines rail lines facilitate out of town attendance, mail order sales highlight prestige casting including Szamosy Easton Behnes Dufre Houston Bloomfield Maclean Parker Sheehan Richards Brownlow Vantvoort Jungman Tyler. Seats range from 1 to 3 dollars with gallery 1 dollar.
Monday’s election in Cole approved a proposal to light streets with acetylene gas at no extra cost beyond current kerosene lighting. Independent candidates appeared for council. Barnett Branchard and E. O. Eastman won seats, with W. H. Morgan elected assessor. Local merchants advertise maple sugar and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy endorsers are quoted.
Olansville advertises a wide range of plants trees shrubs vines and hardy varieties. The note claims 150000 seed packets shipped in the last two months to regular customers nationwide. It promotes lawn grass seed sweet pea pansy verbenas cosmos and garden peas as top offerings.
A notice lists Ames and nearby areas where residents can pay taxes at Story County Bank locations. The readable fragment indicates multiple branches serving taxpayers in the district.
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