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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1910
Page
8
Local notice reminds residents of an event on September 23 on South Side Main Street in Ames Iowa. Officials urge attendance and provide venue details.
Social Unity Club plans a Wednesday program on Burnett avenue with Mrs G A Snooks. Nonpareil Club meets on Duff avenue the twenty first for papers on Romans Saxons and Danes and The March of Events in the Nineteenth Century. Des Moines Pi Phi Sorority hosts a Ames campus picnic with local and alumni members. P E O Society meets Tuesday with Mrs E W Stanton featuring Luther Burbank and Old California Missions readings. Congregational church and YP CG BE sponsor a student reception Saturday at 8:00 PM. Epworth League hosts a college student reception Saturday evening with special music. Frost fails to appear as Dr Chappel predicted.
The Gleaners from Ogden visited Ames with about thirty members, sharing meals with local hosts at Hyland Avenue and West Street. Local clubs named chaperones for sororities, guests from Los Angeles attended, and several society events followed including a Congregational Church meeting, a Monos dance at Adams Hall, and K K Club activities with Miss Jennie Fedson visiting.
In Ames social circles Mrs. Watson honored by her Sunday School class at the Christian church with an ice cream party. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ramey plan a Kansas trip to attend a golden wedding and celebrate their own twenty seventh anniversary. Mrs. Ramey’s mother will also join them, marking her seventy seventh birthday. Mrs. Grace Clark DeGraff headlined a Friday concert with the Ames Ladies Quartet at the Congregational church. The Christian church ladies will host a fried chicken supper September 21 at the Odd Fellows hall. Miss Cora Wilson hosted the "hello" girls for a surprise party for Miss Ella Bartrug. Mrs. Lydia Tilden arrived from abroad to visit Vermont, New York, and London connections, and Mr. and Mrs. James Gilchrist, recently married, have settled in Ames. Gilchrist attended the Queen of Beauty show as Mono Club guest of honor.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church will host a winter lecture course. Four events are planned: a monologist a lecture a second lecture and a musical. A social hour and light refreshments will follow the election.
Cards received by Wheatland residents report the marriage of Belva Hall to Charles Webster Nichols at the Clinton home of Mrs. J. H. Spence. Rev. Elmer Allen Best officiated. Lenore Hall acted as maid of honor. The couple will reside in Des Moines after a four week northern tour. Nichols works in the Travelers Insurance Company.
Romeo and Juliet will be staged next Tuesday at the Armory Opera House in Ames by The Associate Players Company. J W McConnell returns for his twelfth year of appearances portraying Mercutio with his usual mix of comedy and character acting before a local audience.
The Associate Players bring a comedy cast and Shakespeare duo to one night only theater at the Armory Opera House. The troupe, modeled after New York's New Theatre Company, features members from Ben Greet and Robert B. Manteil groups. Romeo and Juliet screens Tuesday, Sept. 20.
I M Bosworth offers one of the finest Bibles in Ames with large print readable without glasses. Only one copy available, promising a meaningful Christmas gift for a parent or grandparent.
Special low rate tickets available on daily and personal tours through September and October. Tours operate in tourist sleeping cars to the coast via the Chicago Union Pacific and North Western line. For details contact S A Hutchison manager Tourist Dept 212 Clark St Chicago Ill or the nearest ticket agent.
At season opening G. E. Burton & Co. announces sale of all stock including clothing and hats at sacrifice prices to attract customers.
Ambitious young men or women can join the Railway and Wireless Telegraph service as the 8 hour law and wireless telegraphy rise. About 10000 telegraphers are in shortage and beginner pay ranges from 70 to 90 dollars monthly. Graduates receive guaranteed positions under Telegraph Officials. Apply to the nearest institute in Cincinnati Philadelphia Memphis Columbia St Paul Enid Portland.
Mr. Al Perkins owner of the building housing J. B. Koozer and Co. plans tearing out the second story partition and converting rooms into a dancing hall to be used for social events.
Frank J. Cheney swears as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. the firm will pay one hundred dollars for each uncured catarrh via Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A. W. Gleason dated December 6, 1886. Cure marketed by Cheney in Toledo Ohio. pills for constipation also advertised.
Mr. Benson disposed of his stock to W. H. Poole a veteran grocer in Ames after deciding to rest from indoor work. Poole now takes over the Benson Grocery stock and business duties.
Brother W. O. Payne selected to handle editorial work for compiling Story County history, a choice regarded as likely to ensure a thorough and well done volume.
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