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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1905
Page
4
A catalog note highlights assorted styles at 5.00 to 10.00 and raincoats at 7.50, 30.00, and 42.50. It promotes Superior Brand waist with claims of style service and satisfaction and lists price ranges from 1.25 to 5.00.
Dick Fisher involved in a prior Eagle Grove incident, attempted to shoot his wife at her father H B King’s home. After a struggle in which a gun was drawn and fired narrowly missing the woman, he was jailed and bound over on an assault with intent to murder charge. Later that day he was found hanging by a suspender strap in his jail cage and cut down.
Calaid was summoned and the incident did not appear serious. The low cage prevented a full swing from the floor, stopping him from carrying out his intentions.
Easter Sunday services will be held at the Ames Congregational Church with morning decorations, special music, and a sermon for the day. Evening gatherings conclude passion week studies and feature fine colored views from great artists, with Good Friday and Easter Sunday programs.
Byron Seymour and Miss May Doran were married Tuesday at the bride’s home west of Ontario. They will reside in this city after renting the Gossard house on Burnett Street.
Sunday visits and campus events headline this Ames briefing. Miss Mary Lesher spent Sunday in Estherville while a botanical seminar program is set for April 27. Miss Mary Turner fills a vacated post, and Miss Charlotte King returns to Des Moines until after Easter. James Atkinson of Des Moines visited with friends on campus. banker J W Adkins and son L W Adkins from Paullina were Sunday guests. Frances McMillan travels from Wisconsin to Billingham Washington after visiting Vina Clark. Wisconsin alumni plan a banquet in Ames next week. L B Shinkle will study in Lincoln and return to complete his course next year. A 3500 edition of a spraying calendar sold out, with 2500 more to be issued next week. Prof. Zintheo leaves the college July 1 for a position in Washington DC.
D Ward King Missouri road expert arrived with Supt Whalen and others in Nevada for a morning and afternoon session. King defended dirt roads with low cost machinery, demoed a drag device, and farmers near Nevada offered $200 for best roadWork within five miles.
Local nursery promotes Easter flower arrangements and cherry trees as the best option in Story county. Offers quotes from 801 Mutual and 174 Bell, delivery to home or friend, and stock highlights including black raspberries at 20c per dozen and 1.50 per hundred while supply lasts.
A single harness a rubber tired buggy used one season and a grade Jersey cow are for sale. Inquire at 1216 Douglass street Martua M Knupson.
Local trader J. L. Niswender lists Rhode Island Red eggs for hatching at 1.00 for 15 and sells choice seed potatoes at 60 cents per bushel.
Crop bulletin reports an unseasonably cold week ending April 17 with mean temperatures 6 to 10 degrees below normal and heavy frosts. Despite light precipitation mostly as snow in the north, farm work advances with seeding and plowing for corn well under way. earlier fruit may be injured in the south while soil moisture remains ample for upcoming vegetation.
Real estate transfers in Ames include M Jay Adams and wife to Perry Bower for 5000 dollars shaping a 4 foot wide lot 21 and 22 in block 11. James Hutchison to Lydia J Gilchrist for 1 dollar on lot 4 block 7. W H Van Duizer and wife to William Smith for 500 dollars on lots 1 and 4 in block 1. A M Perkins and S Cramer with wives to E G Gould for 125 dollars on lot 13 block 16. Perry Bower and wife to M Jay Adams for 1889 dollars on lot 1 block 14 and a 100-dollar interest in east portion of lot 1 block 14. Christian F Jensen and wife to G E Farnum for 5400 dollars for 30 acres on west side of lots 3 6 and 10 in northeast quarter 10 83 24. Also an advertisement for very low excursion rates to San Francisco and Los Angeles via the Northwestern line from May 1 to 13 due to a Cumberland Presbyterian church assembly in Fresno, featuring two fast trains, The Overland Limited and The California Express, with rates and tickets via the Chicago & Northwestern railway.
The farm department of Iowa State College will sell on the streets of Ames on Saturday at 2 o'clock April 22. The catalog lists one second hand hemp manure spreader two Hayes corn planters a windmill one pump one wagon scale and other second hand machinery.
The King Perkins Company presents Old Farmer Hopkins at the opera house tomorrow evening April 21. The troupe is praised as improving and best yet. Low excursion rates to Savannah via the Northwestern line. Tickets on May 12 13 and 14 with favorable return limits for Travelers Protective Association members.
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