Ames Local Notes Highlight Small Town Life
Ikvine Paxton prepares for veterinary surgery practice in Albia Iowa. Boone crowd loses 13 to 9 to Ames kid ball team. Auction style ad for a Jersey cow and one bedroom set. A parade move and post office building bids announced. Clerks march with Company C in the Fourth of July parade. Various weddings, inheritances, and social events color the town's July notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ikvine Paxton
Albia
Iowa
Gen
Lincoln
Keedick and Jacobs
Company C
Nevada
T. J. Dow
The
Christian Church
Ames
Iowa Christian Convention
F. E. Gunder
H. M. Benson
Mutual
Rathbone Sisters
Knights of Pythias
K. P. Hall
Lizzie Allen
Nell Cole
C. W. Dudgeon
Mendota
Ill
Nevada Journal
West Milford Farmers’ Telephone Company
County Recorder
Frank Smith
Lee Smith
C. F. Ruth
EB. W. Livingston
Albert Lengren
C. F. Davis
F. T. McLain
Underwood
Maid Brown
Gladys Conklin
Boone Mutual
Hilda Orland
Floy Prime
Kittie Baughman
Fourth of July Festival Fails to Impress in Ames
The three day celebration drew a small crowd and mixed results. Cambridge beat Story City 11 to 1 in baseball, Ames won 34 to 0 over Luther, and Cambridge blanked Ames 8 to 0 in the afternoon game. A crowd enjoyed the park events, fireworks, and a band concert despite an overall tepid festival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Story City
Park
J. Percival Huggett
Main Street
Ames
Luther
Story County
Dr. Proctor
Harry Wier
Story City Band
Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Night birds of Paris and a Midwest wedding tale
A Parisian piece outlines ragpickers and a guardian angel in the city’s night economy, detailing the roles of a smoke and tobacco trader, the “market of wet paws,” and tax impact on street labor. The text shifts to Wilson Stewart and Teresa Stewart Wilson’s June wedding in Lincoln township, Ames Iowa, with receptions, attendees, and note of the bride joining the mechanical engineering faculty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ramasseur de Nuit
Ragpickers’ Corporation
Paris
Guild Des Partes Mouillees
Place Maubert
Etienne Dolet
Alexander Stewart
Lincoln Township
Johnson Co
Teresa
W. M. Wilson
Ames
Iowa
Henry Wilson
Columbus Junction
J. D
S. H. Stewart
Bessie Stover
Iowa City
Elva Forman
Lee
Arthur Mosher
Wilson
Johnson County
Union Church Meeting Plans Led by Rev Munhall
The United Brethren Disciples Baptist Methodist and Congregational churches hire Rev Dr Munhall of Pa to lead a three month concerted evangelistic movement with an earnest, orthodox approach. Ashville movement inspired large church gains and continues. A singer or duo will join. details and committees to be announced by the Ministerial Association. Also a yard sale ad for Lot 5734 by Duff St. and a Young People's Union meeting at the Congregational church Friday at eight led by David Ives on The New Commandment Jno 15:5-45.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren, Disciples, Baptist
Methodist
Congregational
la. Munphall
Ee Pa
Ashville
N. C
Manhall
Munhall
Bradley
Climbing Parnassus in Mythology and Sacred Peaks
The article notes Parnassus as a central Greek mountain sacred to the muses with the Delphian sanctuary of Apollo on its slope. Castalia fountain between its twin summits was believed to grant poetic inspiration. The highest peak at 8,068 feet was sacred to Bacchus, with others to Apollo and the muses, inspiring poets to climb Parnassus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parnassus
Greece
Castalia
Bacchus
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Tilden Bros. & CO
Tilden
Tun Ames
Boone
Jersey
Dave Ives
H. W. Brerre
Channing
Texas
Mr. B
Henry Gater
O. K
Mt. Pleasant
Myra Blanche Mee- Cracken
Home
Foreign Missionary Societies
M. E. Church
A. M. Shea
Walter J. Fowle
Baptist Church
Caroline Engberg
Kiron
Jacobs & Lipshie
Algona
Jacobs
I. J. Scott
Stuckslager
Walnut Street
Ira
the Times
Mr. Scott
Don Clements
Marshal Willey
Dr. Christ
James Hook
Hedrick
Ottumwa
Boone County Telephone Co
H. F. Brown
San Diego
California
Times
Cemetery Association
Ada Hedrick
Chicago
Dorcas Society
B. A. Knudson
Campbell & Byers
A. S. Heggen
Grace Coffee
Methodist Hospital
Kips’ Rack
Ray Erb
Willie Morrison
Lou McElyea
Bill Thompson
Jack Poucher
Lou Underwood
Barre
W. H. Way
Yo. Dasn
Clarence Cole
Reelay
Morrisy
Truesdeer
Muncy
Ayler
Laycock
Union Township
Ball Turow, Ladies
Fannie McCoy
Kegley
McElyea
Femmale Race
Florence McCarthy
Florence Coffee
Civic Improvement Society
Miss Badd
Lyman Crane
Kelley
Rev. Fowle
Ames Cemetery
Renry’s Boys of
Armory
Ames Hospital Guild
F. McElyen
B. Read
Boone County Telephone Co’s
ODC Industries OF
Mr. Howey
Downey
Bessie Heath
Améa
Cornell University
L. O. Keedick
Japalac
Loughran
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