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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1909
Page
9
Ames citizens urged to observe Lincoln Day on February 12 1909 as a legal holiday with stores to close. The program proposes a morning ceremony with music and readings at the high school and a value of patriotism emphasized by Mayo Galen Tilden. A drug advertisement follows heavy local content.
A Mississippian letter by William Loopwood promotes Dr Nott s Melon Seed Kidney and Bladder Cure as a long standing South favorite now in national demand. The Hessig Ellis Drug Co backs Loughran and Bauer with a refund guarantee, citing cures for gravel back pain bladder stones and rheumatic uric acid issues.
Nevada school faces training delays as cold weather disrupts track practice and veterans are absent. Wag goner returns, with Knowles and others set to compete. Also reports a Northwestern mail train wreck near Nevada caused by a midwest blizzard, with no loss of life. Auction notices and sale terms accompany the itemized equipment list and livestock.
Mrs. A. B. Maxwell is selected to fill the vacancy created by Prof. Bell’s resignation as director of music at the First Congregational church. Bell left to become secretary of the Iowa Small Grain Growers Association, citing time constraints and desire to excel in both roles. Maxwell is a well known Ames vocalist and has directed city choirs and cantatas, promising the church will maintain high musical standards.
The Chautauqua association announces Pamahiska as the next assembly feature. He is an Indian naturalist presenting a large trained menagerie of cats birds and dogs to amuse Chautauquans. His success spans many years and he will appear with his collection at the event.
Followsbee the humorous lecturer will appear as the next speaker on the young people's lecture course at the Christian church next Monday evening at 8 p m. This will be one of the best lectures Ames is to hear this winter and it will be well worth hearing.
Quitting farming and offering 60 head of livestock on the W. H. Stultz farm four miles northeast of Ames on Tuesday February 9 1909 starting at 10:00 a m. Auction lists 17 horses 8 cattle 84 hogs and farming tools including Deering binder mowing machine gang plows sulky and riding cultivators.
Adolph Schneider and Alfredo Battelli, a German and Italian traveler, stopped in Ames on Sunday night en route from New York on foot as part of a four member expedition commissioned by Rome scientists to walk around the world and collect sociopolitical data for a multilingual book.
L. M. Bosworth promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain tea as a cure for divorcees, claiming it makes a husband stay a faithful lover and a wife his only sweetheart, promising perpetual matrimonial bliss.
The freshman debating team tryout scheduled for the first of the week was postponed due to several circumstances. It will be held next Monday evening to select the team.
At the Central Iowa Poultry Association exhibition in Des Moines Charles A. Taylor received the Musgrove Fence Cup for the highest scoring Bantam pen.
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