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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1909
Page
5
Clara Thompson Searle leads First Altos with Laura Storms Velda Wilson Molly Searle Harriett Pommel Ruth Barrett. Second Altos list Emily Cunningham Mayme Wood Carol Conger Bessie Sidenstucker Ethel Cessna.
Community notices include a Girls Glee Club concert rescheduled to Thursday April 15 at the college chapel with director Prof. and Mrs. Thompson. Frank Travers to lecture on The Liberator at the Christian church the same evening. Perry's advertises souvenir china and Easter linen specials. Frank Theis takes a position at Judish Pharmacy in Rockwell City Iowa.
Des Moines visitors and Ames residents appear in a sequence of social notes. Dr E B Bush Nelle Williams Cecilia Welch and other locals are listed with travels to Des Moines Ottumwa Perry Hastings Nebraska and Manila. Mayor Tilden travels to California. Miss Westerman hosts visitors. multiple families and guests share weekend activities and health and travel plans.
Trespassers, hunters or those molesting on the property will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Parents are responsible for children under age. Signed by Chas. J. Biewen.
Miss Ruby Tait will conduct an assembly tomorrow evening in Smith's hall at the usual time.
The Ames Produce Co offers 16 cents per dozen eggs and 10 cents per pound for poultry. They buy eggs and chickens for cash and provide ready cash at their Ames location and in the Taylor Livery Barn. Lou Barnard travels to Anamosa due to his grandmother’s death. Tom Leonard leaves Bell Telephone after a year. Des Moines Creamery agents operate via Ames Produce Co located at 50-11 50-11.
Mrs Mary Little, long frail, has been prostrated by illness this week and is in critical condition. She is not conscious at all times and her status this morning remains about the same as the last two days.
Illness among performers forces postponement of the Thompson recital for the Methodist ladies Friday evening. Date will be announced later. Perry's features fancy china. Also notices for Easter services at United Brethren Church, Clara Graham Wilson hired as pianist at Scenic, sale of grass sod, horse pasture request, stray steers offer reward, and local dressmaking service.
William J. Minchin presides over an Easter program for children, school music, and an Easter offering for home missions. A Good Friday talk on Its Spiritual Significance is set for 4:00 PM open to all.
The Church of Christ and St John’s Episcopal announce Easter services with sermons, songs, and communion reminders. Methodists present Easter program, Epworth League 6:30 p. m. and Easter sermon by President Albert Boynton Storms. All are welcome.
Danworth and Walden bring their Irish singing sketch Teddy's Farewell to the Scenic theater for Friday and Saturday night shows. The act has drawn strong crowds in nearby towns and promises lively entertainment.
Classified notices show items for sale such as house cleaning services and carpet or wallpaper cleaning. Also listings seeking a trustworthy person to manage a mail order business in New York with $18 weekly pay, and multiple house and furniture sales with locations in Ames and Des Moines Iowa.
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