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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1912
Page
5
Ames social scene lists clubs and circles meeting on various days including the Nonpareil, Chi Chi, and K K clubs. church ladies groups hold meetings on specific Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays. gatherings cover dances, dinners, lectures, and birthday celebrations with members from Ames and neighboring areas.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Jones observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their High avenue home with neighbors and friends invited for a day of good cheer. Community clubs and societies held meetings and events throughout the week including the Tuesday club, the Womans Foreign Missionary Society, the Priscilla club muse division, the D. L. A. R. chapter, the Mono club dance party, and the Country Cosmopolitan club with varied programs, music, talks, and refreshments.
Unity club plans a Wednesday April 10 session with Mrs. O FE Wilson for officer elections. Full attendance is desired.
Mrs Pitts will entertain the Royal Neighbors at her home 27 Boone street on Thursday April 11. An Royal Neighbors not a member of this camp are cordially invited. Refreshments will be served.
The Fourth Ward outlines fire signals for the public. Regular long siren or whistle means fire, four short blasts indicate repeat, college uses one short, South Side two short blasts, West Side three short blasts. A. L. Hyzer serves as foreman.
Dr C M Proctor plans a three story brick building on his 315 Ash Avenue lot in Ames. The six five room flats will be ready for occupancy later this year and tenants are already assured once construction starts after plans are finished.
Salted peanuts priced at 10 cents a pound are advertised at Perrys store, offering a simple deal for shoppers.
The Princess theater in Ames plays to packed houses all week with The Three Madcaps in an acrobatic act and Peck and Preston delivering strong singing and dancing. Sears and Narvis headline tonight and through the week, with Mary Davis and the Down East Four and a singing quartet also featured alongside films. Holmes and Welles return next week with a new act Just Because, recalling Miss Welles famous Everybody Picks on Me.
Several staff shifts occur as the new term opens. Miss Howard resigns as Lincoln School principal and Miss Kathryn Fenton leaves Central School to become principal. Mrs. Frank Theis will take Miss Fenton’s place at Central School. Grace Holloway obtains leave for an extended Panama visit.
Mert Lanning will teach the spring term in Miss Halloway's place at the Welch school in the fourth ward.
Mrs A A Bennett remains in a critical state after more than a week. She has periods of consciousness but cannot take much nourishment and weakens gradually.
A cheerful note reports Monarch Teas lowering price from $1.00 to 85 cents for half pound tins, aiming to reach hundreds of Ames homes. The ad promises high quality teas from top gardens with varieties including Sun Dried Japan Kolon Young Hyson Gun Powder Indian and Ceylon. Phone 55 J. J. Grove.
Mrs Eliza West visited Goldfield to see her son Eldon. H P Howe died last Saturday and funeral was in Ames with burial at Ames cemetery. Cottage prayer meeting held at W H Van Duzer home. Royal Workers to meet in church Saturday night with boys providing program and refreshments. Earl McGrath from Rippey made a late week visit. Church officers to meet Friday night. all officers urged to attend. Mrs W P Kintzley notified her mother was seriously ill and left on the first train with daughter Mary. T D McGrath of Rippey was a caller earlier in the week. Mr Clingman of Ohio visiting his brother in law Ward Ponteus.
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