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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
1
Attendance at the college reaches 1,987 total with 627 new students enrolled as the fall term begins. Female enrollment rises, including 65 freshmen in Domestic Economy, and 18 denied Margaret hall admission for space. The campus buzzes with activity as faculty introduce new programs and dorm life starts.
On the first day freshman guides steer riders to the dairy station then Central station. Students file through registration with Prof Knapp and Dean Stanton guiding year classifications and entrance needs for specials and seniors.
Weather bulletin for the week ending September 7, 1908 in Des Moines Iowa notes ideal conditions with excess sunshine and little rainfall except southwest. Warm dry days aid corn maturity and frost protection. most early corn ready to cut. stack thrashing plowing advancing. good soil except dry west central and eastern counties. Widespread winter wheat prep and Clover seed harvest underway in southern districts with strong hay yields.
Night operator Robinson reports masked men held up the Chicago and Northwestern depot at 2:30 AM near the money drawer taking about 39 dollars. Investigators pursue suspects as passengers sheltered in waiting rooms and robbers fled through the ladies room.
A man asked the price of sulphur in a store. Hearing ten cents, he claimed mail order houses sell it for nine. The merchant retorted that in hell it would be free with no freight. The sulphur was sold anyway.
The coast warns cranberries are scarce and the Thanksgiving turkey may suffer. Yet last year similar reports proved unreliable, while coal price concerns rise as a more legitimate worry per Oskaloosa Herald.
Short fragment urges paying taxes at Ames Savings Bank. Quoted motto about ridding poverty vice and ennui appears. No other readable details.
Voters decide on a Iowa Railroad franchise granting free right of way on streets and a five percent tax to fund the line from Waterloo through Story City to Boone and Perry. Tax installments begin after the Ames Story City section opens, with first payment due once the road operates by December 1 1910.
The Rosebud Indian Reservation lands in South Dakota totaling about 800 000 acres including all Tripp county land will open for settlement by lottery October 19 in Dallas South Dakota Registration begins October 5 and continues to October 17 Entries may be mailed or sworn in at Dallas Chamberlain Gregory Presho ONeill or Valentine soldiers may register via an agent No line is required on registration and successful drawers may enter one quarter section under homestead laws with payments of 6 per acre before June 1 1909 or 450 per acre after that date
The town of Aleman on the Interurban Railway south of Huxley will attract a new bank named Farmers Savings Bank. Construction contract has been awarded for the bank building.
Fred Nelson, a young man living west of Slater, was badly cut by a sickle while mowing. The horses startled the machine, he was thrown, the guard struck his back, and he received severe wounds. He was taken home, Dr. Rawson stitched the wounds, and he is slowly recovering.
Mrs Arthur Cunningham of Des Moines died after severe burns suffered while preparing dinner. She spilled gasoline on her dress and, striking a match, ignited her clothing. Neighbors helped with quilts but the fire spread rapidly in the wind. Dr Loizeaux could do little as the entire body was burned. She had been married only four months.
A fire alarm sounded Thursday afternoon near the south pumping station in Nevada. Chas Williams and family had just moved in when children caused a gasoline stove fire. Firemen found no blaze on arrival. Mrs Williams smartly used salt to smother the flames.
The National Corn Exposition in Omaha Nebraska plans extensive student grain judging contests for corn oats and wheat. Two expensive trophies in silver are promised one for corn and one for oats with the oat trophy funded by the Western Grain Dealers Association valued near 1000 dollars and the corn trophy about 1600 dollars. The wheat trophy is expected to be provided in time. Iowa State College designs and will be represented in the contest and the Cook trophy previously won by its Farm Crops Department becomes permanent. Dr Hibbard attended the International Peace Congress in London reporting on the armament limitation debate and world leaders observed at a banquet with thirteen nations represented.
George W. Taylor of Gates Kansas and Isaac M. Craig of Ames visited Boone on Thursday and dined with R. Jones. Taylor came to Story county in 1857, went to Kansas in 1871, served in Mr. Jones' Civil War company, and had not met since 1865. Craig helped organize Story county’s early voters and traveled with the Mormons from Nauvoo to Council Bluffs in 1846 before returning to Indiana and then back to Story county.
An attorney’s plain talk reveals clarity, precision, and candor when the goal is fairness over victory. The piece contrasts sharp, careful argument with aggressive rhetoric, highlighting ethical restraint and strong factual grounding.
Attendance in Ames city schools has more than doubled over the last decade. September 1898 total enrollment stood at 419 with a ten year increase of 527. The list details every teacher and home address, led by Supt. F. E. King and principal Maisy Schreiner, including Ethel Pike, Maude Wakefield, Ida Boyd, and many others across multiple streets in Ames.
Father Michael Nichols arrived at his Nevada home Thursday evening from an ocean voyage. He traveled with his aunt and housekeeper Mrs. Burns who accompanied him as far as Ireland but not to England or the European mainland. The Representative reports he enjoyed his travels through England Ireland Scotland and western Europe and returned feeling a bit lighter but in good health. Mrs. Burns has been indisposed since returning to the United States and has not yet fully recovered.
Thieves entered three Slater residences last Thursday night taking cash totaling about fifty dollars. At Jacob Ersland’s home more than thirty dollars vanished after removing a window screen. The Rawson residence was entered but the thief was noticed during escape. Henry Ersland’s home also was broken into as the same night. garments turned inside out were left behind.
A farmer near Madrid sold a Duroc-Jersey hog at the state fair last week for 600 dollars and refused an equal offer for another from the same pen. The item suggests fine hogs can pay.
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