College Notables Gather for Exhibition Program
The Bramhall group and Hedrick guest Orris join Morrison and Whipple at the campus as the cultural department prepares a June 19 exhibition. A program features Alvin Hoyt Sunrise and talks on bi metalism and public opinion, with music interludes and readings by Hoyt Bowen Curcations Ryan and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin W. Hoyt
Bowen
Ella
J. B. Ryan
Laurance
Rulledge
Burton Knicker
Experience Social Raises Funds for Parsonage in Ames
In Ames, women from the MM church held an experience social to earn a dollar each for charity. They baked bread, scrubbed floors, cleaned, and sold goods, raising nearly $70 for the new polist parsonage. The event featured anecdotes and humor as participants shared their earnings and methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
McElyea
MM. B. Church
I. Dell Maxwell
Wilkinson
Gertrude Rutherhe
Etheless
Gil
Vy A. Cramer
Arnold
Hannah
King
Rutherford
Woman's Dollar Earners in Local Society
A pastiche recounts women in a society earning dollars by sewing, selling bread and milk, ironing, and even chopping kindling. It notes moral takes on women’s work and ends with a satirical plea to stay in “own sphere.”
From Neighboring Towns Grant
Rev Clark of Ames preached at Bethany last Sabbath and closed with a mild plug for cabbage potatoes butter and yellow leg chickens at his boarding place. Sabbath school at Bethany well attended under James Wilcox superintendent with Miss Jeckwith secretary and Miss Alas Kingsbury chorister. Several local residents and visitors noted including Elias Reasoner taking his children to Des Moines to visit a mother at the medical institute who is reported gaining and hopes for full recovery. James Robinson ill with bowel troubles. Milo McCarthy’s recent visit noted as an attraction. Yocum reported ill but mending. Willas Gossard of Nebraska visiting Daily family. Mrs. Gossard sister to Mrs. Daily. Albert Hitchcox, Daily’s son-in-law and KA graduate, now a professor of the I A C, expected to visit.
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Clark
Ames
Bethany
Bethany Church
James Wilcox
Jeckwith
Alas Kingsbury
Elias Reasoner
Des Moines
Medical Institute
James Robinson
Milo McCarthy
Willas Gossard
Nebraska
Malory Daily
Gossard
Daily
Albert Hitchcox
K. of @ ed
Atis
Household news and weather from Old Pencil column
Mrs. Lee remarks Habiees already there while Armstrong nears home from Dakota. Master Lee plans relief from head cook duties as George smiles. Rain continues, weeds thrive, corn grows, and the hay harvest promises big yields if weather cooperates.
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Habiees
Warmth and chores mix on Chapel Ridge
Local notes from Chapel Ridge describe weather hints for farming, fly news and community visits. Nora Childs and Ollie Hughes visit Ames. Della Miller and Irene Jenks travel to Bloomington. John R. Decker completes a milk house for dairy cows.
Ontario News Briefs Reflect Farming Life and Local Happenings
Strang leaves for Polk City while Miss Laura Coffelt of Trenton Neb visits Nellie Ross. G P Eastwood plants corn thrice and a cemetery fence is praised. Beedle couple welcomes a 10 pound daughter as Mrs Beedle recovers. Christian church services set for Sunday. protracted meetings postponed. Clay Foster leads S B as W H Beedle is absent.
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Wm. Strang
Polk City
Laura Coffelt
Trenton
Neb
Nellie Ross
H. A. Coles
G. P. Eastwood
G. P
W. H. Beedle
Fat man eyes lean brother amid warm week
The piece notes a 92 degree reading on Monday and 95 on Tuesday with remarks on corn growth. It mentions busy correspondents, local sick list, and visits by Dr. Peacock and Rev. H. E. Warner. It also covers Odd Fellows meeting, a striker incident, new Kelley agent, Des Moines business, and tile works booming yet strained by demand.
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Icy Gossard
Dr. Peacock
Des Moines
Odd Fellows
Kelley
Slater
Meeker
Ramsey Telegraph
F. C. Foster
J. F. Gossard
H. E. Warner
Polk City
Stark
Community notes record visits and moves in region
Rev J L Douglas spent the afternoon and evening with friends. Mrs W B Needham visited with her parents and friends last week. Mr and Mrs Wm McGill spent Friday afternoon at the Allen home in Story City. H C Ferguson sold his business interest to Virgil Rainbolt and moved to Stanhope. O M Lake moved to Nevada. Rev A W Harned spent Sunday in Nevada. A L Dale of Story City called Monday. Wm Allen and family visited the McGill home Sunday. Henry Whitehead was in the berg Monday afternoon.
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J. L. Douglas
W. B. Needham
Wm. McGill
Allen
Story City
H. c. Ferguson
Virgil Rainbolt
Stanhope
M. Lake
Nevada
A. W. Harned
A. L. Dale
Wm. Allen
McGill
Henry Whitehead
Berg
Ames Census Leads Town Toward Second Class City Status
Census enumerator McLain projects Ames to reach 2300 to 2500 residents, not counting college faculty or many west of the river, enabling ward divisions for schools and politics. Local buzz contests student totals but officials say Ames will grow independently, while ads urge debt payment and promote Grove Bros. goods and new fans.
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McLain
Times
Ames
Nevada
Dissolution of Ferguson and Rainbolt Partnership
Notice states that the partnership Ferguson and Rainbolt is dissolved by mutual consent for final settlement of business. W Rainbolt and H C Ferguson sign the notice at Gilbert Station Iowa dated May 30 1803.
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C. Ferguson
W. Rainbolt
Ferguson & Rainbolt
H. C. Ferguson
Gilbert Station
Iowa
Room and board request for two students in Ames
A notice seeks engagement of room and board in Ames for two gentlemen students for the next term. Inquiries should be made at this office.
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Ames
Hamilton & Co announces prices on staples to collect debts
Dried grapes five cents a pound good rice six cents per pound California canned goods five cents per can salt 1.25 per barrel rock salt sixty cents per cwt. The firm appeals for payments to recover funds this month and requests any available contribution, even a dollar, if full payment cannot be made. Gro G Tilden Estate.
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California
Hamilton & Co
Gro. G. Tilden Estate
Recital at College Chapel to Aid YMCA Delegates
A Saturday evening recital at the College Chapel on June 17 1893 features pupils from the music department with Mr Heighton of Des Moines a fine cello pianist and Miss Chambers and Miss Westerman. Proceeds benefit the college YMCA to send delegates to the summer school at Lake Geneva Wisconsin Admission 25 cents Friday evening recital given up.
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College
Department of Music
Heighton
Des Moines
Chambers
Westerman
Lake Geneva
Wis
Odontunder Great Corn Belt Lands Offered in South Dakota
250000 acres of selection in the Great Corn Belt South Dakota offered at 5 to 15 dollars per acre on purchaser terms. 10000 acres priced 5 to 8 dollars per acre with ten year payments, 300 to 400 cash, balance at 6 percent, freedom to pay any time and stop interest. Free rail fare for buyers of 160 acres or more. S Ward Ames Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
S. Ward
Ames
Iowa
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