Sethi Short Course Opens With Record Attendance at ISU
Iowa State College hosts the annual short course with record turnout despite the Iowa Corn Growers Association choosing Des Moines this year. The event features the junior corn show with Iowa youth exhibits, the senior corn show, and the Iowa Small Grain Growers Association display. Demonstrations include slaughtering and meat cutting, poultry judging, agricultural engineering lectures, veterinary talks, and domestic science instruction. Around six hundred attendees, including fifty women, visit through the week with exhibits across multiple floors.
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Iowa State College
Iowa Corn Growers Association
Des Moines
Lowa
Miss Field
Page County
Omaha
Hall of Agriculture
Iowa Small Grain Growers’ Association
Iowa
Larson
Margaret Hall
Prof
Crossley
Bell
New Agricultural Hall
H. G. McMillan & Sons
Rock Rapids
Carpenter & Ross
Mansfield
Ohio
Roan Jim
John Gosling
Kansas City
Missouri
Gosling
Citizens favor paving main street in Ames in 1910 plans
Letters from local leaders urge paving from Duff avenue to Grand avenue with creosote blocks and wide sidewalks. Supporters include ex mayor M K Smith banker M A Manning and businessmen of Judisch Bros. and Ames Commercial Club noting broad community demand and minimal owner opposition.
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Main Street
Duff Avenue
Grand Avenue
M. K. Smith
L. C. Tilden
Tilden Bros. & Co
Geo. Judisch
Judisch Bros. Pharmacy
Onondaga Street
W. M. Greeley
First National Bank
High School Buys Piano for $260
A committee appointed by the board including Prof. A. B. Noble Miss Genevieve Westerman and Miss Pike purchased a Fischer piano for 260. The instrument, bought at a bargain after its original owners moved west, is as good as new and will be ready for use this week.
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Prof
A. B. Noble
Genevieve Westerman
Pike
Fischer
West
Sale Postponed On C G McCarthy Farm Near Ames
The sale by Mr. O E Potee scheduled for Tuesday on the C G McCarthy farm two and a half miles south of Ames is now moved to next Saturday January 8th.
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O. E. Potee
C. G. McCarthy
Ames
Birth Announced for Odebolt Couple's Daughter
Word arrives that a daughter was born recently to Dr and Mrs McCullough of Odebolt. Mrs McCullough is remembered as Miss Katharine Stuart formerly of Ames.
Fire protection for 4th Ward discussed at city council
The city council met in regular session at city hall on Monday January 3. Bills audited by the finance committee were approved and warrants ordered for payment including interest on waterworks and electric light bonds. Local residents and events from Artesian Boone Boone area were noted with holidays and a fatal yardmaster incident during a car movement.
Fire protection report backs hydrants and hose extension
The fourth ward committee advocates hydrants at Boone and Ridge Knapp and Hayward and Woodman with four inch set off valves plus 1000 feet of fire hose and four inch sewer extension to Woodman. Other actions include bill payments and a dirt removal notice.
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Committee On Fire Protection
Fourth Ward
Boone and
Ridge
Knapp and
Hayward
Woodman Street
Local Notes and Visits Across Cambridge and Nearby towns
Madge Gossard visited her Cambridge aunt this week. Fred Siverly of Diagonal and his brother C. L. Siverly spent several days here and bought two carloads of corn while visiting. L. G. Rosenfeld plans to ship corn to him this week. Pete Soderstrum lost a horse on Christmas Day while at his sister Mrs Carroll's. N. Williams and daughter Harriet returned from Chicago after the holidays. A Rosenfeld attends a short course at the college. About sixty neighbors surprised the Fred Gerbracht family on Saturday night January 1. Clyde McCarthy of Artesian, S. D. is visiting relatives. Zoe Williams returned home with her father and sister after three months in Chicago.
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Delaphine Gossard
Oka
Boone
Ernest Kingsbury
Horatio
Kelley School
Pearl Clayton
Cole School
Will Johnston
Ralph
Cedar Falls
Young Peoples Society
Fred Siverly
Diagonal
C. L. Siverly
L. G. Rosenfeld
Fred Gerbracht
Clyde McCarthy
Artesian
S. D
Zoe Williams
Chicago
Chicks Hatch at Ames Poultry Show in Armory
The Ames Poultry Breeders Association hosts a week long exhibition in the Armory drawing crowds from Ames and beyond. Visitors admire hundreds of birds, a public school poultry art display, and an electric incubator demo showing hatched chicks under glass. The event runs today and tomorrow and is praised as a major Ames enterprise.
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Ames
Armory
Ames Poultry Breeders’ Association
Poultry Department
Nevada man appeals insanity ruling for 79 year old
Lewis Ginter a Nevada resident with senile dementia underwent a hearing before insane commissioners last week and was found fit for hospital treatment at Clorinda. His attorney gave notice of appeal to the district court and he remains in sheriff custody. The case will be heard at the January term. Ginter is seventy nine.
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Lewis Ginter
Nevada
Insane Commissioners
Clorinda
Ginter
Mr. Ginter
Midwinter Festival At St Cecilia’s Parish Promises Community Support
St Cecilia’s parish plans a midwinter festival in the last week of January to fund church debt reduction and cemetery improvements. The event will feature various amusements and cater to local interest. Rev Warner Johnson, recently joining the I O O F, requests all Noble Grand members and their families attend a 7 PM meeting at the lodge hall on Sunday January 9 before united church services with the United Brethren group.
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St. Cecilia’s
Warner Johnson
United Brethren Church
Business Chance in Dubuque Iowa Laundry or Cleaning Plant
In a city of 45 000 population a laundry business with 25 years in operation or a portable vacuum carpet cleaning plant with exclusive rights and 15 years in business are offered. Both earn well and can be bought for cash or exchanged for farm property. May include building. location unspecified. Apply to H. B G. P O Box 87 Dubuque Iowa.
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H. B G
P. O
Dubuque
Iowa
Fowles Judged by Fowle in Ames Poultry Show Drawings
The Ames poultry show held a drawing contest judged by Rev Walter I Fowle Prof Pierce and Miss Percy Watkins. Open to all Story county students the prizes awarded to Reg Watkins for first and second, Marjorie Stephens for third.
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Ames Poultry Show
Walter I. Fowle
Pierce
Percy Watkins
Story County
Reg Watkins
Marjorie Stephens
Nevada
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Sethi
College
Davidson
M. A. Manning
Ames Savings Bank
Ll. M. Bosworth
Ames Commer
Cial Club
Kelley
Golden Gate
Benson's Cash Grocery
Ames, Iowa
Bert Wise
Roscoe
Artesian, S. D
Foster
Master
Mr. Jeffrey
Mr. Howard
Orpheum
A. H. Munn
O. P. Rich
T. H. MacDonald
Maxwell
Madge Gossard
Cambridge
Pete Soderstrun
Mrs. Carrol
Mr. N. Williams
Harriet
A. Rosenfeld
John Johnston
Midwinter Festival
Charles J. Biewen
Haverly
Kellogg
Mutual
Burley & Stevens
Canier Bros
Herman
Bob” Jeffrey
Northwestern
Wwe
J.e.cagwin
Olympia
Py le
Thor
Erate
Pantorium
E. M. Kooker
Story County Bank
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