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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
2
The notice recalls a prior plan to shorten the Riverside farm picnic season at W. P. Coon’s North Ames property. Visitors enjoy ball, swim, gooseberry picking, and boat rides by the river as two boys ask to borrow a boat and Coon jokes about the farm being for others’ use.
The Time ran a small local appeal for three copies of a back issue. J. W. Tinsley delivered one, followed by Van Chamberlain, Mrs. Goble, Mrs. Thayer and about a dozen others, giving the paper enough copies and then some. It pays to advertise in the Times.
At about 10 p m Monday night Charley Queal attempted to strike a match on the lamp box in the Morris bus. The head flew off igniting kerosene soaked box and the front end caught fire. Charley jumped to a barn to fetch water with Os McCoy, extinguishing flames with minimal damage.
A college professor tries Rat Snap to exterminate mice in Agricultural Hall. He reports rapid success with one fat mouse found dead and a line of larger mice and a rat killed next day. The rogue rodents reportedly even damaged the office and greenhouse before the remedy worked.
Mrs. F C Glidden seeks divorce from her husband Mr Glidden on grounds of cruelty and action unbecoming a husband. The petition filed with the district court requests temporary alimony and permanent alimony and notes repeated abuse including throwing her from the house and threats to shoot her. The couple married December 17 1905 and lived together until May this year. The case to be heard at the September term.
The Ames post office will see a salary boost for seven employees under Iowa budget changes. F Williams will rise from 600 to 890 dollars, Lizzie Corbin, Harry Howard, Clyde Kintzley, and Harvey Doggat from 800 to 900 dollars, and Racine Goble and Ben Keltner from 900 to 1000 dollars.
Elsie Hopkins of Emmetsburg and a male companion eloped through Ames over ten days then returned only to be captured by Marshal Wilkinson as she exited a hotel buggy. Her aunt Mrs McCracken traced her to Lawton house and arranged a reunion before Elsie boarded a Boone train.
An Ames wife scene is debunked as a fabrication after a quarrel with her husband led to a fainting spell. The family physician says there was no poison and warns neighbors against prying into domestic matters. The writer suggests less meddling could reduce divorce cases in district court.
The Sanitary Ofg Co announces an antiseptic mouthpiece for telephones. The device is hygienic and germ proof, advertised as preventing contamination from ordinary mouthpieces. Write to 56 Fifth Ave Chicago for information.
City pastors resume Sunday evening park gatherings as part of a summer series. The schedule lists July 5 H. D. Williams as leader through Aug 30 with leaders including J W Stiverson A M Shea W I Fowle and a Chautauqua Sunday on Aug 16.
The program committee secures University of Chicago scholar Dr Theodore G Soares to lead opening week Bible work. He will present Interpretative Recitals of Old Testament Literature in a first for the city. In the final week D D James Hoffman Batten directs a series on The Revelation of God.
A burglar accessed the A. L. Potter home through a downstairs window left open for heat. About $50 in valuables were taken including a new Eastman Kodak, gold eyeglasses, silverware, and postage stamps. No tracks or solid clues remained after heavy rain, and Pauline Potter laments the loss of the Christmas Kodak.
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