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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1907
Page
8
Ames community notices list moving families and new homes on Northwestern street. Rentals and furnished rooms offered at 519 Northwestern. Used heating stoves and a steel range for sale. Local trades include shoes, dressmaking parlors, and a piano for sale. Public notices include church events, school appointments, and infrastructure work on main street.
W.8 Hoon of Ames won the position of second vice president at the Des Moines state convention of rural mail carriers. Bert Childs of Nevada was re-elected secretary treasurer. Hoon spoke on The Care of the Rural Route Horse.
Mrs. Ollie Wilkinson Hughes died Tuesday at her sister’s home in Primghar. Her body was brought here for interment. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the Congregational church. An obituary appears next week.
Ames residents midweek moves include Mrs Guild of Glidden visiting relatives, Uncle Bill Freed in Ontario, Nancy Butler heading to Des Moines, and L C Tilden off to Chicago for goods. Many locals, including Miss Christman and Miss Taylor, travel for teaching posts and family visits with extensive mentions of relatives and business trips.
Postmaster Haverly and Assistant Rich review new routes and house numbering standards. Street name signs should be up by midweek. Two new carriers and one clerk to start Sept 1, with Ed Ellis becoming regular carrier. Down town and college areas near full coverage once hires finalize.
Vacation ends next Monday as students return to desks and classrooms. The Central building has fresh light paint to brighten rooms and improve work. Teachers are assigned to Hien School with Mazie Shriner Print and Latin, I J Scott Science, Jennie Fedson English, Ida Boyd Mathematics, Katherine Terrill History and Civics, Susan Kerstetter German and Latin, Sadie Moore English and History, Maude Wakefield Mathematics, Ethel Pike Music, Percy Watkins drawing and penmanship, and Alice Robinson principal for 6th and 7th grades. Mrs. Jenkins observes her birthday with guests and gifts in Ontario.
Shock threshing nears completion. R. 8. Dickinson plans wood sawing this week. W. H. Totten traveled to Indian Territory on Monday. Several residents attend the state fair this week. John Fairy of Cambridge Illinois visits friends here. The Gilberts return home from Colorado. Roy Shearer visited Ames Wednesday to arrange college work. Invitations issued for the September 5 1907 wedding of Miss Mary Springman and Mr Martin N Johnson. Mrs. Mayme Mesnard and children visit Ralph Jones. Mrs H Guild and daughter-in-law Mrs Harry Guild visit Gilbert area over Sunday.
The Grove and Mosher firm sold their sample tank to Iowa State College this week. The tank has been on the Lockwood site and is connected to their contract work. Mosher notes they are busy and continue building stone tanks for safe institutions while working on farm jobs. Call for details.
R A Gray J P of Oakville Ind says ten years confined to bed due to kidney disease could not move part of time. After consulting top doctors relief came only when Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended. Cagwin druggist notes the product.
A series of property conveyances shows multiple transfers: E R Silliman to Leslie CO Adams for $1 lots 10 11 12 block 138 Blair ad Cole. Grace G Briggs to J R Bell for $2000 lots 45 and 6 Scotts 2d ad Nevada. E J Penfield to A G Mead for $150 lot 5 block 4 Harriman ad Marie Schwartz to Barbara Andrea Berg Haerem for $1800 lots 4 and 5 block 26 Larson ad Story City. A J Schwartz to Barbara Andrea Berg Haerem for $200 lot block 26 Larson ad Story City. Carl L Little to E E Little for $1100 and a half in lot 6 block 1 Lee and Littles ad Ames. Carl L Little to E E Little for $1400 and a half in lot 8 block 3 Lee and Little. Ozman and W to 8 8S Hanson for $14400 nw 4 27 82 21. Clay Foster to I N Dixon for $3250 e5a ex 20 ft offs end sk nw nw 9 83 24. Mary A Whitman to W H Van Duzer for $1150 lot 5 ne se 6 83 28.
All bills against the Ames Chautauqua association should be filed with J. A. Campbell for payment at once. The management is anxious to close the year's work and publish a financial statement at the earliest possible moment.
All persons with rooms to rent to students must list them with Custodian Ben Edwards Station A. Provide number of rooms heating and lighting details street number and address.
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