McParlan Golden Wedding Celebrated at Ames Fifty Years
John Alexander McFarland and Jane Neilson Hannay marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their Ames home with family and neighbors. The couple, married in 1852 in Mariaville, New York, lived in Wisconsin and Iowa, endured Civil War hardships, and raised eight children in a prairie homestead near Marshalltown before settling northwest of Ames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Alexander McFarland
Jane Neilson Hannay
A. G. Wyley
Mariaville
Schenectady County
N. Y
Mr. McFarlan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Marshalltown
Geo. Stebbins
Ames
Ames and Iowa State College Notes and Plans
Local notices detail visits and events at Iowa State College in Ames including Dr Beyer’s Des Moines trip, March legislature postponement to March 5, first issue of The Student next Saturday, and upcoming speeches by Dr Beardshear and Prof Curtiss. New horticultural lab preparation continues as classes resume, with campus updates on vaccinations, sewerage talks, and a large stock and grain study feature in Livestock World.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette Myers
District Court of
State of
Iowa
Story County
Willard Myers
Nevada
Jno
H. Williams
Public Farm Auction Near Gilbert on February 27
Closing out sale of a farm with 11 head horses and 12 hogs plus cattle, hogs, chickens, farm implements and household goods. Items include bays and blacks, yearlings and calves, two mares in foal, 500 bushels corn, 450 bushels oats, hay, potatoes, seed corn, wagons, binder, plows, harness, hay racks, and free lunch at noon. Auction 10 o'clock sharp at the farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert
Chester
Public Sale of Farm Stock and Implements by W A Stroutz
The undersigned will auction from his farm five miles northeast of Ames on Tuesday February 25 at 1 00 PM. The sale includes six horses two mares two colts a yearling and a suckling, thirty two cattle including ten cows four heifers two yearlings and calves, ten hogs six sows three barrows and a Chester White boar, farm implements and equipment such as a Champion binder six foot McCormick mower Deere self-dump rake corn planter and checkrower, riding and walking cultivator drag harrow seed corn and chickens plus wagons and harness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Chester
McCormick
W. A. Stroutz
Homeseekers Excursions Tickets On Sale January February
Tickets to nearly all points in the United States offered by the Chicago Great Western Railway. Valid on the first and third Tuesdays of January and February at one fare plus $2.00 round trip. Return valid within 21 days. Inquiries to Chicago Great Western agents or J P Elmer G P A Chicago IL.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Chicago Great Western Railway
Chicago Great Western
J. P. Elmer
Chicago
For Sale Pure Bred Sbrt Horn Cattle and Coffee Offer
For sale pure bred horn cattle of either sex with right prices. Mutual phone 822. A J Graves & Son offers cattle. Also try 25afocha and Java coffee from J B Kooser & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mutual Phone
A. J. Graves & Son
J. B. Kooser & Co
Notice to Teachers Before Friday and Saturday Meetings
Teachers who have not arranged entertainment for the central meeting should report to the entertainment committee in the Methodist church league room three-quarters of an hour before the meet begins on Friday night. All teachers must coordinate with directors to attend the Friday evening session. F. E. Hansen horses for sale include bay road geldings. Geo. Copestake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chewer
Ames Commercial Club
Belog
Galen Tilden
Ames
F. E. Hansen
Riddle Making Epoch in Anglo Latin Verse
The Cornhill Magazine notes a revival of riddle making during intellectual awakenings in the late seventh century with Aldhelm of Sherborne as the first Anglo Latin poet and author of many Latin hexameter riddles. It also mentions Symphosius as an earlier, unknown-date collection used by Aldhelm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldhelm
Sherborne
Symphosius
Cornhill Magazine
Dumas Father and Son Echo Mutual Praise
A tale contrasts the two Dumas as the son returns praise for his father’s imagined admiration. The father’s formal note reads as to a stranger while the son replies with wit, noting the father’s reputation as a devoted admirer of his own fiction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dumas
Dumases
Dumas Fils
The Highest Balloon Altitude Reached
Dr Bersen and Dr Soring of the Berlin Meteorological Institute set a new record in a balloon ascent. They rose to 30 000 feet and 33 790 feet with brief loss of consciousness. One remained unconscious, the other also fainted after venting then fell to 16 000 feet after an hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bersen
Soring
Berlin Meteorological Institute
Marriage In Arabia and Her First Claim on Husbands
In Arabia the first cousin of a man’s wife holds an option on him and a marriage outside the family requires renouncement and release. The next in line is the deceased brother’s widow. Polygamy in Arabia and Turkey often creates several potential claimants on the bridegroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arabia
Turkey
Also Mentioned on This Page
Asa Vandermast
Church Directory
John Chandler
Young Peoples
P.m
Weanesaay
F. D. Fperrall, Pastor
Sun Sunday
Junior Endeavor
Christian Endeavor King
Welcom
First Congregational Church
Cor. Kellogg and
Sts. Chas
H. Skecombe
Bible
Bath
Methodist Episcopal Church
Charles Lyman Nye
Epworth League
Dwas Whies Ce
United Brethren Cavach
O. L. Wilsonn
Jessie Myers
Lafayette Tapers
District Court of the
Story
Erm, A. D
State of Iowa
County of
H. A. Cook
Ainst Iliam Theiste
Kelly
Sto County
William Theiste
H. R. Boyd
Methodist Church
L. M. Bosworth
Dr. Beyer
Des Moines
Prof. Atkinson
Farmers’ Institute
Spencer
Dr. Beardshear
Central District
Lawa
C. H. Seecombe
Blanche Renne
Bernice Halley
Prof. Resler
C. F. Curtiss
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Breeders’ Association
Iowa State College
Mary Sabin
Spirit Lake
L. K. Page
Ida Grove
U. S
Louis Klein
Veterinary
Department of Agriculture
Fort Worth
Texas
L. H. Salinger
The
Carroll Herald
Salinger
Hungerford
Parry
Harriman
Hr. R. Porter
Clay, Robinson & Co
Live Stock Reporter
Messrs. E. Andrews
Harry Beasley
Merritt Greme, Jr
Harry Denmead
Thomas Fuller
T R
the Livestock World
Kilbourne
Beaught
E. C. Potter
Marshall Field
Odd Fellows
Pres. C. G. Lee
Thompson
Parley Sheldon
G. I. Miller
Dan McCarthy
M. K. Smith
Main Street
New York Post
Homeseekers
Span of Bay Road
Geo. Copestake
Havine
Perry Simmons
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