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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1907
Page
8
The Nevada area reports new telephone installs in county courthouse offices starting January. Local incidents include Ed Crocker breaking an ankle, a desertion case in Nevada with trial soon, and Maxell gymnasium support. A list of civic items covers a land transfer deed signed by Andrew Jackson, poultry show successes, and plans for Ames housing growth and a new courthouse in 1907.
On New Year’s evening at the home of Dr and Mrs H M Templeton on Douglass street Miss Ella May Wiltse of this city wed Mr Asa Barnard of Zearing Iowa. Rev Minchin pastor of the Congregational church conducted a small ceremony.
Real estate transfers list multiple deeds in Ames and Zearing including J P Brown to George Barnard and W J Gilmore to Anne R Gilmore. A wedding luncheon follows as relatives and friends celebrate the marriage of a young couple, the bride a niece of Dr Templeton and the groom from Zearing, with plans to live there.
After the marriage of Mr. T. R. Agg and Miss Lois Woodman last Thursday night, friends were startled by a second surprise as members of the Lez kim club joined the couple. Myrtle Spangler accompanied them to the train to Chicago and spent the following days with relatives until Monday.
In a Thursday night surprise ceremony at a Lezkim club gathering Miss Lois Woodman wed Rev A M Shea and Mr T R Age with the wedding march by Mrs Nichols. Both grooms are graduates of the 1905 college class. Mr Age works at Urbana Illinois agricultural college.
The Canon City Record notes the marriage of Mrs Myra B Cox of Ames to E Bailey of Aberdeen South Dakota. They wed at 731 Rudd Avenue in the home of Mr and Mrs J Fr Marr at 9 30 in the morning with Rev J T Thomas presiding. The groom formerly managed lumber yards in Marshalltown Iowa and now works with a large land company in South Dakota planning townsites.
A 1907 Iowa sermon notes western strength in farming and banking, outlining how good crops and rising land values fill western bank vaults with farmers' money. It contrasts past eastern dependence for church and business funding with current western financial independence and growth.
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