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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1909
Page
5
A shipment of Elberta peaches is expected this week urging buyers to place orders for canning. Tilden Bros and Co promote the fruit as ready for processing and storage.
A sale of the late Charles Randall's personal property will be held Saturday at Grove Corner at 3 PM. Items include a cultivator drag cook stove heater shovels spades cupboard and other household and farm tools to aid Mrs Randall and her young son in securing a home and basic needs.
A local stage event titled Trial by Jury is announced for the Armory with performances planned for next Tuesday evening.
Limited stock of 50 pairs of ladies kid gloves in various colors and sizes plus some men’s sample pairs. Values up to $1.50, all offered at 89 cents. Saturday only, arrive early. W A Perry.
Birth announced for Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Nash of Chicago a daughter born Sunday September 5 Mrs Nash formerly Miss Harriett Smith of Ames.
The fragment asks whether someone has guaranteed to invite a preacher or two, expressing uncertainty about planned clergy engagement.
Local buyers publish a request for needed goods and services. Shoppers provide descriptions and contact details for items such as appliances furniture and vehicles. Offers from sellers with prices and delivery options are welcomed as responses.
Daily notes list residents and guests traveling to and from Ames. Charley Tallman and family visited Colorado relatives and daughter Carrie plans a month in Ames. Many others, including Miss King Miss Maxwell and Miss Pike, moved between Iowa cities and visits, with work shifts and school resumes noted.
Harold Griffith suffered a broken arm Monday when he fell from a horse.
H. M. Duckworth has bought the residence at 801 State Street from Tom Manhart. He moved his family from their south side home this week and now resides in the new house.
About a hundred people from Boone Des Moines joined Ames Homesteaders for a Friday picnic in Chau Tauqua Park The program was carried out and the day ended with a dance in the Armory in the evening.
The first fall semester convocation for students and faculty met in the new assembly room of Agricultural Hall yesterday at 9 30 in the morning. It was the inaugural gathering in the room with short speeches by President Storms and others.
About $200 in stamps and $108 in cash and books were taken. Entry was through a back window and the safe was blown open after workers tampered with it. The building’s safe door was demolished and upstairs windows shattered. Two women heard noises but did not alert authorities. Detectives are on the case.
The library offers a Story Hour for first four grades, inviting children to attend at two o'clock. Brer Rabbit stories will be read as part of the program.
George Burton began installation of a new two sided sign on a vacant lot near Grand Avenue. One side features a life size painted likeness of the I. B. C. champion football team and the other side advertises the Burton clothing store.
Naval experts await completion of the sixteen inch gun being built by Midvale Steel Works. The weapon will be shipped to Washington navy yard mid September for finishing touches and will be proof fired at Indian Head mid October. It is the first high power gun of this caliber for practical use and will fire a shell weighing 1 600 pounds.
Judge rules the tree must come down despite Dr. Hunt’s effort to save it. City crews may saw it into boards to construct crossings for schoolchildren on Iowa Street and for residents including Prof. Bell, A. H. Persons, and others on Hodge Avenue due to lack of mail delivery crossings.
Ed Kooker proprietor of the Ames Pantorium begins this week installing 1000 dollars worth of new machinery. A Tolheim Naphtha Cleaning System will speed work and improve results. A Half-Man Pressing machine replaces four workers and handles sixty suits daily, boosting the shop’s capacity and efficiency.
The winner from New York to Seattle stopover Ames garage yesterday. The mud covered Ford car is to be exhibited on arrival in New York. Drivers Smith and Scotty, who piloted the vehicle, are returning leisurely from Des Moines toward Marshalltown on the way back to New York.
Ames schools display exhibits from the late fair will be shown at the Public Library Thursday evening September 23 at 7:30. Eighteen prizes won at Des Moines will be on view so Ames residents can view local pupil work. Public is invited to attend Thursday night and see the display. Exhibit opens to school children Saturday afternoon.
One hour weekly sessions offered at the conservatory with a fee of $2.50. The class meets Thursday evening at 7 o clock.
Trial by Jury comic opera at the Armory Tuesday. Dean Stange recovers from illness after good nursing. Rev. Walter I. Fowle travels to Colfax for Central Iowa Baptist Association. J W Lewis of Champaign Ills visits Story county with J W Bateman of Milford township. Ben Read leaves for Grinnell to resume college work as a Grinnell senior finishing next June. Ralph Collett of Ida Grove visits Phi Gamma house after Harvard law graduation last June. location undecided. Harry Brown attends Fred Stout funeral in Des Moines. Stout an ISC ’99 graduate. Four Boone miners found drunk near viaduct, taken to city marshal in ice wagon. Thompson sends them to another mine. Floyd Williams on vacation from post office. trip to Dakota with parents and Nellie Williams. Night Marshal Tom Fultz resigns. replacement planned for night duties due to Boone drunks on trains.
Bishop Berry prompts Hiram Munn toward a ministerial path by offering a rural pulpit vacancy fourteen miles from a post office paying $200 yearly. The talk centers on appealing prospects and the lure of leaving behind Lonesomeville and Despairburg as plans are partially agreed and under consideration.
The Methodist Conference hosts Rev. Dr. A. B. Storms of Des Moines and Rev. Dr. Orange H. Cessna of Rock River Illinois. They may join Ames Methodists as the official board invites affiliation and seeks Bishop Berry to relocate them to Ames Bag and baggage. Local leaders argue Ames needs the clergy and urge release.
E M Spangler travels from Boulder Colorado with his son’s body who died there yesterday. He will arrive tomorrow morning and the funeral is set for Saturday at two o'clock at the Congregational church.
Mrs. James L. Geddes widow of Gen J L Geddes died at her brother W G Achuff in Vinton Iowa aged about 76. Born Elizabeth Achuff in Philadelphia June 21 1833 she married A E McQuaid in 1851 and later William Evans before wedging Gen Geddes in 1876. Survived by brothers James Achuff Edwin Achuff and W G Achuff. She had lived near Ames for 17 years was active in the W R C and made trips through Iowa on railroad excursions newly announced by Chicago Great Western.
Iowa State College hosts a two day excursion with talks by Governor Carroll Senator Cummins and Hon Lafe Young plus interclass football games freshmen vs sophomores and juniors vs seniors Saturday features Ames varsity versus Coe college. Special electric car service to dairy and poultry farms two miles south. Chicago and Northwestern schedules trips to Clinton Bertram Sioux City and more.
Under a recently signed contract in Washington the new wireless station tower will reach 650 feet in height. The structure will be concrete and taper from 50 feet wide at the base to eight feet at the top.
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