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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1907
Page
5
Three furnished rooms for light housekeeping available until September 1. Use of piano included at 810 Douglas Street. Also a lost or stolen bicycle reported. frame bears gold B B letters. Report sightings to Mr. Roberson.
The notice notes supplies on the ground near Boone Street and the C. N. W. railroad yards and mentions the ordinance publication appears elsewhere in the paper.
Representative G C White, a Drake Law School student, visited Ames on Friday afternoon. He reports Drake University advancing smoothly, enjoys the work, and finds the study demanding yet manageable after adjusting to the law curriculum.
W E Shannon traveled to Council Bluffs on Saturday to serve as a witness in the trial of J A Moyer of Luther against a nursery company. The hearing sought evidence regarding claims of financial or business disputes involving the nursery firm.
Help wanted notice seeks a discreet, diplomatic young lady with business acumen to attend to business at the Ames Candy Kitchen. Immediate employment offered with accommodation.
A Kansas City Times verse cautions that taking medicine with a grin, even if bitter, proves a hard but true habit. The poem argues quitting is disliked and the bitter pill often does more good than harm.
Rev. George Miller of Carlisle Iowa has been selected as the memorial day speaker at Nevada. A committee is at work arranging a complete program of the exercises to take place that day.
Grafton formerly with Story City Herald married on the 29th to Margaret Nygaard of Story City. He now serves as an editor of the West Coast magazine, started last year in Los Angeles and achieving remarkable success.
Vice-President Fairbanks spoke to Ames residents downtown and to college students last Saturday. Some urged a Stanhope visit, but local enthusiasm for baseball led to no attention being given to a Stanhope stop.
The city council met Monday night and after approving the regular bills passed an ordinance allowing the Standard Oil Company to build warehouses for storing goods.
In Council Bluffs Mr Shannon was present on the Moyer farm when a company set out three thousand five hundred cherry trees and five hundred trees. Mr Moyer sues for two thousand dollars worth of replacement stock.
The Ames Times marks its 15th anniversary with praise from the press and compliments from the Intelligencer. The Carroll Herald notes marked improvements and the editors hope Ames papers become the best in any town.
The notice updates several CNW train times on Sunday. No 7 travels west at 7 15 a m and No 8 east at 2 30 a m. No 14 shifts to 8 18 a m east, No 29 to 10 30 west, No 52 to 4 35 north, No 54 to 10 a m north, No 53 to 7 20 south, and No 55 to 9 55 south. Freight trains run south at 2 pm west at 2 25 pm east at 11 30 am and north at 7 35 am.
Prof. Newens presented his reading A Message From Mars in the college chapel on Saturday night. The Y M C A organized the event and will gain a nice sum for its building fund as listeners praised his improving performance after three or four Ames performances.
The Director of a Meridan Conn periodical notes Ames band members as active and energetic. He says the group constantly needs funds to buy new music and replace worn instruments and appeals to citizens to lend financial help.
A Humboldt committee of eight citizens visited Ames last Friday to study the library building. They viewed Ames and willingness to adopt similar Carnegie library plans and conveniences for their own forthcoming project.
Rev W T Smith bought the Noil Avrats house west of the college campus from Harry Jones for 7000 dollars. He plans improvements and holds it as an investment as a desirable Fourth ward club house. Clergy in Ames boosted investments with Mr Shea buying two Northwestern boulevard lots near Beardshear, and Mr Minchin purchasing three Fourth ward lots for future building.
Horticulturists across the state including Iowa State College report a greatly reduced fruit crop due to a cold April. Cherries suffer most with yields around 25 percent of normal. plums and apples also down. Grapes and berries largely spared. further damage possible if frosts continue.
Fruit magnate Frank B. Spence says claims of crop destruction are overstated. He has consulted major southern Iowa growers who expect a bumper Iowa apple harvest and he has placed orders for the pick of the orchards.
A letter from F. W. Devoe & Co. of New York and Chicago to Daniel Bros. Herman in Ames Iowa proposes an exchange of experiences. It touts 152 years of paint making, claims superior, economical paint, and notes Loughran & Bauer as local distributors.
The Ames fire company charity play Uncle Rube is set for May 24 to aid equipment of a modern fire company. The home talent cast is already rehearsing and promises a funny, entertaining night for all attendees.
F M Darner sold his Ames grocery stock to S A Nelson and Company of Boone. The new owners opened Wednesday after invoicing the stock. Darner received a Boone residence and cash. he plans to focus more on real estate while remaining in Ames.
Manager Sheldon announces the Ames city band will hold a free starter concert Thursday night May 16 to showcase spring progress. Regular concerts begin in June with date to be set, offering townwide enjoyment without any collection.
Vera Knight resigns from suton at the laundry and joins the Cottage hotel. Mapleton Press boasts of Iowa coverage as Marshalltown Times Republican remains popular. Dr C D Brown returns from South Dakota where his brother suffered two severe leg fractures in a team accident.
Obituary notices recount the life of Cynthia O Duff of Ames born December 15 1820 who died May 5 at the county farm and long served the Sunday school and Congregational church she helped found. Also memorials for Kelley Stevens of Slater Iowa who died May 2 1907 at age 22. Interment in Ames cemetery.
The funeral for Vera Z. Stevens was conducted by Rev. W. J. Minchin of the Congregational Church of Ames at the house and later at the church. Death resulted from tuberculosis of a little more than one year’s duration. Rev. Minchin delivered a tribute recalling Vera’s life.
J. W. Stiverson pastor leads services at 11 00 with sermon The Pearl of Great Price. Evening preaching at 8 00 on Gathering Up the Fragments. Roy Taylor supervised Sunday school with Junior Endeavor at 2 00 and Senior at 7 00.
Gilbert Congregational Church led by Pastor Co T Halbert will hold regular services next Sunday. Morning sermon titled Gods Infinite Love and evening sermon titled True Greatness. All invited to attend.
Sunday evening services at eight o'clock in Odd Fellows Hall feature the subject Mortals and Immortals.
England France and Germany each consume about eighty percent of domestically produced goods while the United States sells only five percent of its manufactured products abroad.
Grove and Mosher of Laingsburg Michigan stop in Ames to sell cement watering tanks made five inches thick at the top and tapering downward They offer tanks from one to one hundred barrels and claim they resist freezing with no cracking Samples are on display at the Lawton hotel for prospective buyers to inspect.
The young men of the Congregational church will serve a supper in the church dining rooms on the evening of May 17 from 5 to 7 PM. The meal will be served entirely by the men and promises something good.
Everyone is invited to hear the Jubilee Singers at the Armory Friday night. The event promises a lively program and a communal musical gathering for attendees in the area.
Mrs Edward Phillips of Barclay Md recommends Chamberlains Cough Remedy noting her two year old daughter Catherine has used it since two months old and she recovered from a dreadful cold after using the remedy. The product is sold by Loughran Bauer and Joel C Cagwin.
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