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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1906
Page
3
City officials weigh condemning the dilapidated Nevada hotel across the courthouse to shield pedestrians. Reports cite flying debris and brick danger, with owners delaying veneer repairs due to iron and steel tariff costs. Nearby anecdotes and local updates fill the item.
Alfred Teig was kicked in the head by a horse in Roland and is recovering after stitches. A December corn exhibit tied to the Poultry Show will show carload lots with premiums being arranged by local businessmen. The county plains project includes a ditch across the O O Hegland farm north of Roland. Several Roland residents travel or relocate, including J. Skagen and Hilda Hedberg toward Minneapolis to study, and L. G. Johnson and sister in Denver indefinitely. A sad death marks October 18 as Mrs Anna Thompson dies. a silver wedding for H H Hanson is noted. Multiple Maxwell and surrounding-area notes cover marriages, business moves, farm deals, and meetings led by Rev Smedal and Rev Bowser.
Boone County faces a milk price dispute as milk dealers unions prepare to raise prices on many dairy products and contend with local regulation. The Farmers’ Cooperative Co. is formed to handle livestock, grain and general merchandise. A fatal accident at Woodbine and burglaries in Boone are also noted along with local street improvements and a Boone Electric Company project.
Zearing residents report visits from Cripple Creek and Kansas Oklahoma. Adaline Rhodes Mary Annyie, Wallace Miller returns from Mitchell South Dakota. Herman Turk starts at Smith and Company. D W Thomas dies in Clarinda asylum. J A Deal sells 119 acres to Luke Rollings at 90 per acre with March 1 possession. Hoares buy Clift grain business stake in Sioux Rapids. Gill Gill Gogerty undergoes tumor surgery in Marshalltown. William Albright, veteran, awarded $8 monthly pension from Aug 3 1906.
Mrs Wilbur Hughes of Minnesota visited her sister Mrs W Hopkins in Colo. Milwaukee visitors Mrs J R Pointer and Mrs Archie Pointer stayed with Mrs Mary Belt in Colo before returning to Wisconsin. Mrs E Ginter hosted her aunts and uncle including Mesdames Buffington Zimmmerman and Mr Frank Buffington. Chas Wilson and Jessie Danskin visited Adrian South Dakota. A college opening social was held at Mrs J N Cozzens home. Dr J N Cozzens went to Salem South Dakota on business. John Hempring of Colo closed out sale and plans move to California. Oscar Templeman bought the U G Gilger property south of Colo. The Colo RN A staged Diamonds and Hearts with a large attendance. Colo's lecture course opened with the Euphonia Glee Club and a strong soloist reader performance.
A farmer harvested over 700 bushels from under an acre and sold them at 50 cents a bushel or more, yielding a tidy profit for a single acre of land.
Dr. Be M Larson leaves Story City for Minot North Dakota to begin practice. Estella Bonebrake and Alice visit Story City sister Mrs Sampson Wier and friends. Dale couple returns to Ibsen Minnesota. Glenn Bogie recovers from suspected typhoid. Evan and wife narrowly escape storm. Olson Bros meat market burglary joked about by Story City Herald. H C Oming returns from Minnesota land interests. A H Dale of Chicago attends sister’s wedding in Story City.
Mrs Geo Hulsiter and her baby, with Miss Euleda Whitney, return to South Omaha after visiting her Cambridge parents. Cambridge is abuzz over the new street lights.
J. E. Hale of Collins traded his town residence and 160 acres in Jasper and Hamilton counties for the Frank Hall farm of 340 acres in Willow Creek. Mrs. Henry Scott of Pueblo Colorado visits Collins and Colo. Atwood of DeKalb Texas visits his parents in Collins. Miss Alice Henry returns home to Minnesota after a stay with Collins relatives. Glen Smith of Pine River Minnesota arrives in Collins to visit friends.
The Nevada Watchman warns that Iowa will soon be covered by inter urban lines and towns failing to attract them risk becoming dead. Merchants once feared electric lines would hurt business, but rapid improvements in connected towns have changed minds as communities push to secure routes and roads.
Work on the Short Line extension toward Mason City is sped to finish before the coming season. Forty five Austrian laborers are laid in the track work as construction advances toward the target city.
A fragmented lyric references the R F To and the R. I in rail and sea news. The piece evokes travel, letters from loved ones, and welcome across landscapes from highlands to valleys, echoing a wartime or wartime era transportation mood. The source attributes the piece to the Atlanta Constitution.
Andrew Osheim returned to McCallsburg Saturday after working for his brother Ole in North Dakota. C. B. Thompson of Highmore South Dakota is in town attending business interests. Miss Sophie Banser of Chicago visited her sister Mrs F J Telt in McCallsburg last week. Albert Melson returned to McCallsburg after two months of work.
Esther Peterson of Slater attends Drake University and stays with family. A J Steward visited Slater en route to Idaho. The family plans a winter in Sheldahl. Josie Sheldahl, formerly of Slater, wed in Salt Lake City on October 22 to Mr Beim of Seattle and will live in Utah. Apland and George Nerness left Slater for Omaha to buy cattle. John Ersland returns after fall in North Dakota. Ward the attorney toured Kanes City. Mrs H B Bergen departs Slater for Long Beach California for winter. Mrs Ed Kurtz injured her hand while washing. Knudson features specialty of...
Multiple transfers record Hattie Wardell and A L Jepson wd for 125 dollars with lots in Maxwell, Wellington Jackson and wife with 1600 dollars for lot 3 in Maxwell, John Pry and wife paying 2400 dollars for blocks in Nevada, and several other deeds including J R Boder and J B Boder wd in Maxwell, Sheriff transfers in Nevada, Manning, Carpenter in Ames, and Lars Viland to T T Cowd with a large sum.
The notice directs voters to mark a square in front of each candidate they wish to vote for. It reiterates clear selection guidance for ballot choices.
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