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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
5
Dr. F. J Lynch of Villisca visits this week while many locals host guests from Mt. Vernon Boone Des Moines and Redfield. A string of travels illnesses and farewells mark the week as Ames residents mingle with family relatives and former students amid Chautauqua events and city happenings.
Local misc items include Perry sales on work shirts and shoes at 39 cents and 1.98, fall stock coming, and a convention for Christian churches in Boone and Ames on August 28. Community updates note a farm sale at two hundred acres for $125 an acre, a village ban on confetti creation, Royal Neighbors meeting, and officers elected at a rural letter carriers convention in Des Moines.
The marriage of A. L. Potter and Florence Manning occurred in Manstou Colorado with Potter leaving Ames Tuesday and not returning until about September first. Mrs Potter becomes a permanent Ames resident. Potter is a respected local businessman. The Times offers best wishes. Prof Eckles refuses dairy head job at Iowa State despite higher pay. Party call for Nevada August 29 Republican convention to select delegates for Des Moines September 9 Supreme Court judge nomination. New side band prints and fleeced goods at Perrys. Birth announced for Erminia Margaret Christie October 12 to Prof and Mrs Christie in Lafayette Indiana. Christie formerly at Iowa State College and now at Purdue University.
Local items list meetings of G A R and various societies at halls and homes, plus notes on staff changes and upcoming marriages. Miss Clara Smith becomes treasurer office clerk, Miss Morrow helps at Douglass Ave, Norris and Northway marry in Moville Iowa with plans to reside in Ames.
The Ames Congregational church led by Pastor W J Minchin will hold morning services with special music by Dr Elmer Kaye Smith and Miss Zieka of Cedar Rapids. Musical selections include a tenor solo My Redeemer and My Face and the anthem The Palms, reflecting growing winter interest.
For sale neutral description of a residence at 1112 Kellogg Street featuring eight rooms, two lots, a cellar, cistern, well, and outbuildings. No purchaser details or price provided.
Roy E C Brockman of Spencer South Dakota and Daisy Hunter of Ames were married August 18 at 4 pm in the Congregational parsonage Des Moines with Rev A L Frisbie officiating. Iris Hunter and Laura Smith attended. The couple will visit before settling in Spencer and begin housekeeping.
Gray H W and Katherine Goble were quietly married last Saturday at noon in Denver Colorado. Miss Goble, who left here Friday with Mrs Bebe Johnson Kissick for a two week Colorado visit, was met by Mr Gray and the ceremony was performed by Rev Coyle formerly of Nevada. Both are graduates of I S C and he has worked as a civil engineer in Colorado.
Percy Wygle fell from a roof at the college yesterday morning after his foot slipped on a freshly painted tin surface. He escaped with two broken ribs and several scratches, estimating the descent at 32 feet 10 inches after he checked the fall.
The Strattons express sincere thanks to neighbors and friends for assistance during their son’s last illness and for expressions of sympathy. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Stratton.
The fair management announces a baby show with prizes for the biggest baby under two, the littlest, and the baby with the darkest and kinkiest hair. Families are invited to bring their babies to the show to compete for these prizes.
W. A. Perry arrived back from Chicago Thursday morning, returning to duties after the trip.
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