Hotel Stock Fight Aims To Build Ames Iowa Motel
Local push in Ames Iowa seeks to finance a fifty thousand dollar hotel with sixty rooms plus ground floor stores. A hotel stock company would issue 40000 shares, require 1600 subscribed by March 15 1909, with payments due half by March and half by September. Committees in two wards will solicit subscriptions and assist with purchasing lots 1 2 3 4 5 6 block 11 original town.
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Ames
City of
Iowa
Secretary of State
Two Men Settle Deserion Cases and Family Moves to Missouri
The district court settled two wife desertion cases this week. Frank Devoracek must file a $1,000 bond to support his family by tomorrow night. Robert Hatfield, after a brief hearing, agreed to join his wife and child in Ames, then move to Missouri with his family. Sheldon's Ames real estate boom with a $3,000 purchase of Lot 28 Block 10 near the Frank Morris livery, signaling a three story Main street building and a new bank block plan. Arthur Bauer sold 908 Douglass St to J G Alexander.
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District Court
Frank Devoracek
Robert Hatfield
Hatfield
Missouri
Mann’s
Sheldon
Arthur Bauer
Loughran & Bauer
Douglass St
J. G. Alexander
State St
Blizzard Left Trail of Loss Across Iowa Counties
Reports from Ames and surrounding areas detail storm damage from Thursday night and Friday. Losses include a damaged news stand, shattered storefronts, blown doors at the Ames Laundry, a broken tailors transom, a collapsed windmill, a ruined post office window, and structural harm at the Hotel Letts in Nevada.
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Letts
Nevada
H. T. Hegland
O'Brien Sells Implements, Plans Summer in Seattle
G W O'Brien transfers his implement business to I J Ferguson and will leave around March 1 for Seattle with Mrs O'Brien to tour the Alaska Yukon exposition and coast country using his Overland. They will return to Ames in the fall to resume their life there after a long 25 year period in town.
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G. W. O’brien
I. J. Ferguson
Seattle
Washington
O’brien
Ames
Kennedy for Interstate Kennedys for Livestock Post
Professor J L Kennedy of animal husbandry may head the Sioux City Interstate Fair, one of the midwest’s largest livestock shows. Discussions in Des Moines last week focused on salary terms, with Kennedy reportedly inclined if remuneration meets expectations.
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Ames
Redmen
Boone
No. 11
Iowa
Marshalltown
Nevada
Fraser, Carroll, Denison
Ogden
Des Moines
Interstate Livestock Show
W. J. Kennedy
Middle West
Sioux City
L. L. Kellogg
In Association
J. L. Kennedy
Kennedy
Businessman to Take Leave as Vacation Season Looms
I J Ferguson will manage affairs until fall while the Geo. plans a vacation. He is balancing the books and preparing them for departure, with his wife hoping for a season of travel.
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I. J. Ferguson
The
Geo
Little Oak Shop Sold to Curtis and Shull
The Little Oak Barber Shop on Main Street changed hands last week. Curtis and Shull, formerly campus barbers, now own and will remodel the shop making it modern with new water fittings and furniture. They opened for business at the start of the week.
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Proper
Curtis & Shull
Little Oak
Main Street
Morrill Hall
Ames
Berger Signs With Frisco For 1909 Baseball Season
A card from Joe Berger confirms a contract to play the 1909 season with a Frisco team. Berger has four years of pro ball experience and is regarded as a clever pitcher whose rise has been rapid. Managers expect him to reach the major leagues soon and he will report to camp with the club in March.
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Joe Berger
Joe
Minchin Begins Month Long Leave for West Travel
Reverend W. J. Minchin departed Monday for a month of travel in the western states ending in Idaho. Trustees offered a leave of absence instead of church termination, which he accepted to decide if he can resume his ministry. The church and community hope for his swift restoration to health.
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Minchin
W. J. Minchin
Idaho
Congregational Church
Ames Short Course seed corn fund prompt
Young people seeking seed corn to raise funds for schooling or exhibitors wanting show corn from premium seed at the 1908 Ames Short Course should mail inquiries to E. B. Howard in Ames Iowa Sta. A.
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Ames
E. B. Howard
Iowa
Sta. A
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