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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1910
Page
7
Over half a ton of bulbs from a Holland grocer arrives in Ames Iowa in first grade stock. Hyacinths Tulips Crocus Narcissus and Daffodils priced by the dozen from 20c to 60c with colors available and double or single bulbs. Call early at Olson's Seed and Flower Store Ames Iowa for Christmas shopping and to meet local merchants.
The board urges dormitories including a women’s building at the university to meet moral and physical student needs. It notes Iowa's progress, cites Columbia’s dorms, and aims for gradual male dorms after women’s facilities. It highlights new accounting, property care, and centralized inspections, plus faculty coordination toward uniform entrance standards and reduced duplication.
Iowa City learns Charles Gebhardt an over 80 year old farmer died at sea while traveling from Germany to New York. He left in good health and is believed to have contracted a fatal illness on the ship. He kept the county’s last oxen and was known for thrifty property about 500 dollars. Burial at sea followed a simple rite with a pine coffin and national colors, witnessed by a ship's chaplain.
The Story County Board of Supervisors meets across September 1910 with adjournments and actions on tax refunds road width changes and a County Home building proposition. They approve tax levies, pay extensions, and set special elections for a county home and county fair land purchase with votes by Scott Johnson and Jacobson.
Local grocers report a new Zephyr Flour shipment praised as the finest guaranteed flour in the world. Households urged to buy a 48 pound sack and return half if it does not produce the greatest number of loaves. Full refund offered.
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