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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1904
Page
5
Local Ames residents itinerary wide including Rev Nye visiting from Nevada and many travelers visiting Boone Carroll Des Moines and Chicago. The record notes numerous family visits business trips and short holidays across Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin with several confirmations of return plans and weekend gatherings.
Government Cheese Inspector Merle Lang and wife visited the county farm home of his cousin D L Lang during an inspection tour. Mrs Chas Smith and daughters of Kansas City visited M K Smiths in town. Charley arrived Saturday night visiting Smith families in Nevada and Ames. Kate Arnold of Los Angeles stayed over Sunday with G A Armstrong east of town. Ralph Hakes joined her Monday for a three week visit to Laurens. Mrs Wallace Gossard and son Arthur and Mrs Frank Brownlee left after several days with J A Campbell. Arthur Jones returned from St Louis for a short visit with his parents before returning to the exposition city. Lytle Goble of Sioux City visited with his brother-in-law H S Goble. Ella Goble of Waterloo joined to visit Geo Goble at Boone.
The Ames Ministerial association approved weekly Sunday night services. On August 21 the venue is Chautauqua grounds with President Storms leading, and on August 28 the gathering will be at the Baptist church with Rev. Shea conducting.
Mark Twain told a Bryn Mawr reception that one young woman did not laugh during his address. He noted she was sensible and offered to press her hand, then added he had not said a single amusing thing. The moment closed with visible irony.
A lawyer demands firsthand knowledge from a witness as the man recounts a convoluted chain of hearsay about a fight. The witness emphasizes his certainty, saying he knows that a series of rumors linked certain people to the incident.
A witty reflection on how a cheerful, agreeable person draws customers and deals. It contrasts optimism with crabbed, contemptible traits, noting people prefer smaller business or better terms with an optimistic host.
A Yonkers Statesman item recalls a clerk on a crowded New York City streetcar carrying a child and a basket. He sought a day’s rest, saying he was overworked, echoing the city’s weary transit mood.
A business man contemplates selling his business to move to the country and buy about a hundred acres to become a farmer for life. His wife questions the affordability of the plan in a brief exchange from the Somerville Journal.
An American visitor recalls hagioscopes or squint windows in medieval English churches. These windows, often small glass-slits in walls near altars, allowed lepers outside to view and hear services.
A reflective Exchange excerpt urges acts of kindness today. It emphasizes giving flowers, warm visits, kisses, smiles, and hopeful words to the living, to ease hearts and prevent future sorrow when death casts its quiet shadow.
Tiny vegetable forms float in sea ooze and secrete silica from water. Their zigzag, boxlike structures grow by subdivision, sometimes multiplying to a million in twenty four hours. They form flinty skeletons that buildup rock and affect rivers and Arctic waters.
The Japanese shopkeepers widely use the abacus or soroban making mental calculation unnecessary. Children and adults manipulate beads to solve math problems, with each lower bead counting one and each upper bead counting five per column. Columns scale by ten, enabling sums and even roots.
James Whitcomb Riley recounts a tale of an idle farmhand who excuses laziness with a line about doing all things in moderation. At dinner he overdoes his share, prompting another Bible verse about doing whatever one finds to do with all one’s might.
In 1896 a high Chinese official who had never fired a shot wrote a memorial blaming defeats on adopting European warfare. The memorial, published with royal approval, notes Chinese recruits practicing with bows and arrows outside Peking walls, observed by Valentine Chirol.
A tiger named Brutus guarded Major Mansell Pleydell’s door and frightened local bill collectors. The beast would lie with its head between its paws when chained, but lift its head to intimidate strangers entering the gate.
A father tells Freddie he must punish him for being the worst boy in class. Freddie replies that the teacher may be right and that he reflects his father. The exchange suggests a strained, humorous family moment.
A short Aphorism from the Atechison Globe notes that a good doctor is a blessing while a poor one is a curse, reflecting community sentiment on medical care.
Bargain balcony sale offers glass water pitchers at 20 cents and various cheap goods. Items include baby shoes sewing notions collars belts ginghams ribbons and silk skeins with prices from 3 to 40 cents.
The Iowa State College Engineering Experiment Station announces an organizational update with President A. B. Storms ex officio, A. Marston directing, Professors G. W. Bissell L. B. Spinney 8. W. Beyer and Assoc Prof W. H. Meeker. Ashbaugh promoted to associate professor civil engineering. W. M. Wilson and I. A. Williams named assistant professors. Bissell’s bulletin on Iowa coal ready for press. MacDonald class of ’04 to prepare three bulletins on good roads Iowa under state highway commission law. Marston to study good roads construction and operation in northeastern states.
Auction notice states 80 acre farm three miles southeast of Ames offered for sale or exchange for town property. Address E. J. Hoagland Gilbert Station Iowa 15-4.
The Story County Fair in Nevada will run August 31 and September 1 with $1,750 in purses for trotting pacing and running events. Nevada citizens donate part of the fund guaranteeing fast entries and a strong race program. Wednesday features a $500 merchants’ pace and a $300 trot, plus a $50 run and repeat. Thursday offers a $500 citizens’ trot and a $300 pace with a $100 run and repeat.
Excursion tickets at one fare for round trips August 18 to 27 with return by August 29 and September 15 for Louisville. routes via Chicago and North Western. Tickets sold August 12 14 15 with extension options. encampment events cited. Apply to C and N W agents.
Excursion tickets to Parahamville Iowa for the Old Soldiers Reunion will be sold at reduced rates on August 16 and 17 with return allowed until August 18 via Northwestern line. Northwestern Ry 14-2.
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