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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1907
Page
8
In a brief item from Woman's Home Companion a kindergarten scene shows a teacher asking what comes after a letters sequence. Carleton volunteers and answers quickly as silence breaks into surprise.
Prof Thompson discusses Grieg the Norwegian composer born 1845 in Bergen and educated in Leipsic Copenhagen and recaps his Peer Gynt suites and Asa’s Death. He notes Grieg’s place in the Scandinavian school and reports on pupil recitals and local music events at the conservatory.
The Baptist Young People's Union and Endeavor Society unite to present an Ames lecture and entertainment course at the Christian church. Opens October 29 with harpist Elizabeth de Barrie Gill. subsequent events feature Paul Voelker Den ton Crowl J Lorenzo Zwickey Wilbur Starr and Hon G A Gearhart. Season tickets $1 25 single admissions 25 or 35 cents. Tickets at Grove's grocery with reserved seating Monday 2–6.
Ames audiences will see Quincy Adams Sawyer this Friday at Foster’s Opera House. The production promises natural rural character, with a husking bee scene that has sparked wide discussion, using the same cast and scenery as in New York and Boston runs.
Roland Record questions town residents' obligation to pay mailbox rent while farmers receive mail at no cost. It asks for the rationale behind the General Delivery system and who bears the fee burden in local mail service.
The November Woman’s Home Companion features Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s new novel Though Life Do Us Part and praises Do You Know Your Grocer? by editor commentary on grocery conditions. It highlights Thanksgiving recipes, essays by Dr. Everett Hale, Anna Steele Richardson, and others, plus fiction by Juliet Wilbur Tompkins, C N Williamson, and Herbert D Ward.
A mishap left Miss Dora Anderson bruised but unharmed after a runaway horse and a demolished buggy while her brother Joe escaped safely. The column notes social events, visits, illnesses, travel reports, weddings, and local happenings across Milford and Grant, including scenes of hospitality, illness, and community gatherings with numerous named residents and nearby towns.
The funeral for Mrs. Bertha Solbrack Christian was conducted Tuesday at Bergen's church with Rev. J. N. Sandren officiating. Born July 3 1887, she married Martin Christian December 8 1906, daughter of John and unknown Solbrack near Randall. The community extends sympathy to her husband parents and siblings. Community notices follow with local club meetings and a Story City outing for a lecture by The Man.
The document records multiple land transfers including E J Allen to Lincoln Township for 75 dollars, Richardsons to Ames Saw Bank for Jessie B Thompson at 2500, Kings burys ad to Ames Iown Rail Road Land Co. to J M and EB L Kinsell at 285, Wm H Totten and W E C Robinson to Gilbert for 500, Nancy E Price to Wm C Schultz for 1000, Wm C Schultz and Nancy E Price to Nancy E Price for 1000, A W Van Horton to Harry and J D Murphy for 700, John N Sheffield to Joseph Marwick for 227503 dollars a fraction, Martha Milhouse to C M Milhouse for 11250, Amos B Lande to Albert A Lande for 4090, and Elia E Shope to Clark McLain for 7200.
The text explains that Devoe can offer top quality paint for the same or lower price because it costs less to sell and more to make, with reputation and a 150 year history aiding sales. It notes regional brands claim first class status, but Devoe’s name and efficiency drive value. Loughran & Bauer sell our paint.
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