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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1906
Page
8
Ames daily social life highlights the Priscilla Club meeting at Mrs. Bissell’s home with a Gypsy tea and a busy program led by Mrs. Curtiss. Reports cover hospital guilds, women’s clubs convention plans, and church society events, including receptions, friendly notices, and fundraisers across Ames.
Mr and Mrs Morris celebrated a golden wedding recalling 1854 56 moves from New York to Illinois and Iowa. They lived on one Story county farm 22 years and recall turkeys to market two day trips, early Ames brick buildings, and a Comanche cyclone incident. Mrs Morris notes his republican leanings and horse trading history.
Miss Helen Wettstein of Newton visited her brother Adolph in Ames. Rev H D Herr and daughter Gertrude spent time here. Mr and Mrs Chas Watkins visited Jos and Mrs Watkins at Cole. Dr and Mrs Payne and D J Chandler of Boone were Ames visitors by car. Mrs L H Pammel hosted Episcopal youths Friday night. Nellie Snyder visited with Mrs Storms. Mrs M A McHone had a grip stolen at Des Moines Rock Island depot but recovered it. Mrs I F Adams of Eagle Grove spent part of the week with Rev and Mrs Pruitt. Dr Storms accompanied sister Mrs F S Ward to Omaha. Ward heads to California for her son. Miss Kittie Freed will represent Ames library board at Waterloo meeting Oct 10-12. Maude Granger Bradley and children passed Ames en route to Danville Wash. Mrs M Starr visiting William Clark and others. plans to winter in Manlius IL with son Dr Ernest Granger. J S Young, visiting two nieces, returned to Elk Creek Neb. Dr and Mrs Christ now ride a late-model Haines automobile from Chicago via W W Talbot. Mrs Getrude Paxton, formerly College Class of 04, at her mother’s bedside in Nevada. mother injured, improving. Mr and Mrs A M Loomis of Wyoming IAwn visited Hortons on Kellogg Street Monday.
Mrs. Walter Morris shows an antique coin button dated 1728 with inscription Dominus Audiator. Andrew Hawkinson, a Norwegian hired eight months ago, sold one button for 2.50 and another for 500, keeping eight unsold. Hawkinson was praised for business instincts and studied words with Mr. Morris by the books.
A bank president finds the role increasingly strenuous as police begin to show interest in the institution’s activities. Investigators probe irregularities, with officials saying measures are being stepped up to ensure compliance and security.
Last Sunday morning Yank Collins burst into a game with a revolver and drove about twenty men from town. He took the money and fled to the woods toward Des Moines. Collins had previously served six years in the penitentiary for killing a boy at the mines.
John Niffenegger and his wife, en route to Sharon Center after a family death in Iowa City, were delayed by a falling tree that crushed a small building, killing a child of Newton Yenor instantly. The event was reported by the Maxwell Tribune.
Bert Warner swallowed a pin Tuesday and it lodged in his larynx. He was taken to Des Moines Wednesday for an operation to remove it.
Ex Governor Packard and Dairy Commissioner Wright with Professor Curtiss and others met to discuss adulteration of clover seed and seed stubs. The group included Prof. L. H. Pammer and Louis G. Michael as participants.
The article notes that a draft bill will be prepared on the subject and presented to the upcoming legislature. It emphasizes preparation by a committee or group, signaling legislative action to follow.
Excursion tickets available October 11 to 14 with favorable return limits on account of K P Supreme Lodge. Apply to agents Chicago and North Western Railway.
Notice to creditors and interested persons that on August 2 1906 Benjamin T Zenor was appointed executor of the estate of a deceased resident in the county. Creditors must pay debts and present claims duly authenticated to the court for allowance.
Ill person ested notice states the Story County District Court appointed an administrator with the will annexed for the A G Person estate. Creditors must present claims to the court for authentication by September 23.
Petition filed in the district court of Iowa county seeks to quiet title to east half of the southeast quarter of section 31 township 85 range 24 west of the 5th P.M. on behalf of John A. McFar’s administrator. Unknown claimants including Joseph Hatton James Garrett Luke McGuire and other spouses heirs and unknown parties are notified of the proceedings and potential adverse claims. The court sets a time and place for proceedings at the courthouse and directs service of process.
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