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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
5
Notices of entertainments concerts lectures and events with an admission fee or monetary interest are charged per line. Obituary notices church services lodge and club meetings may be published free except public gaps. Display ads rates available on application. Changes due by Wednesday evening weekly.
Saturday and Sunday visits in Iowa locations include Buell Tilden in Iowa City and Miss Kitty Howard in Boone. Memorial and Decoration events set at the Christian Church and Odd Fellows Hall with plans for the May 24 events and Memorial Day activities. Commencement week at Iowa State College lists the schedule from May 31 to June 4 with potential alumni participation and events.
The sale runs through June 1 and has doubled rug department sales. 9 by 12 foot rugs priced from 9 to 35 dollars with a 10 percent discount, plus a few velvet rugs at reduced prices. Also advertised are canvas and patent leather children’s shoes and oxfords with hose included this week or next.
The notice lists a busy schedule from June 5 to June 7 including a grand concert, senior and alumni events, prom preparations, dedication of the New Central Hall, commencement exercises, and a president's reception. It also advertises a furnished 12 room house for rent near the campus and provides a class roll of Ames High School graduates with full names.
We extend our thanks to friends and neighbors who assisted us during the sickness and burial of our loved one R. Parsons and Family. For sale items include a single iron bedstead cot student’s lamp sewing machine coal base burner wood heater and other articles from Mrs M H Cooper.
Funeral services were held in Ontario at 2 30 PM with Rev Williams of Ames delivering the sermon and the Ames Christian Church choir providing music. Nancy Jane Comstock Parsons, born 1845 in Madison County Ohio, moved to Iowa in 1849, married R Parsons in 1866, mother of nine, survived by her father husband and children.
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