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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1911
Page
3
Tau 4, Tau 4, THE TILDEN STORE presents a spring 1911 ready to wear line for ladies. The circular highlights access to garments from top designers, emphasizing quality, style, and economy. It invites customers to view dresses waists skirts coats kimonos and muslin underwear and notes a new department and experienced buyer.
The K. K. Club hosts a social evening featuring Miss Winifred Tilden as the guest of honor. Members and friends are invited to attend at the club rooms for an evening of fellowship and light entertainment.
Prof. and Mrs. L. B. Schmidt held a card party last evening honoring Miss Genevra Cessna. Neighbors and friends joined for an evening of games and socializing at the Schmidt residence.
The college division of the M. E. Aid plans a meeting on March 6 with Mrs Black. A missionary group from the Christian church will hold its regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at 2 30 in the church.
The P. E. O. society will meet next Tuesday with Mrs. Aplin for the annual business meeting and the election of delegates to grand chapter.
Prof and Mrs W J Kennedy and Prof and Mrs W M Stevenson will entertain at cards in the evening of March ninth at the Kennedy home in Ames.
Sun Dial Chapter D A R will meet with Mrs A Marston next Saturday at 2 30. Miss Maude Rice will present the paper of the afternoon on the United States band and mint.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Perry and Miss Mable Kingkade entertained at cards last Thursday evening. Guests included Miss May Copeland of Des Moines, Miss Mason and Mr. White of Boone.
Miss Ula McNeil entertained last Thursday evening with Miss Gladys Ackerman as the guest of honor. The evening featured games and dancing with 500 providing the amusement and the hostess serving refreshments.
Miss Jean Sloss entertained the Misses Fain Howe Voss and McClin tock at a dinner party Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Smith. After dinner Miss Sloss took her guests to Margaret hall for a half hour of dancing.
A group of Gracie Morgan’s school friends gathered at her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Jno Miller home on Saturday from 2 to 5 pm. Light refreshments followed before guests departed, wishing her happiness in her new Marshall Minnesota home.
Mrs. Mary Dunning and Mrs. J. E. Cagwin entertained about fifty ladies at a Kensington Saturday afternoon at the Cagwin home. A group of songs by Mrs. A. B. Maxwell accompanied by Mrs. Leland, piano by Miss Grace Thielke, and readings by Miss Mildred Semmons provided pleasant entertainment. Light refreshments were served by the hostesses.
Mrs Charles Hamilton aided by Mrs Anna Graves hosted the 500 club and husbands at the Hamilton home replacing the regular meeting. Eight tables held the game with Mr Charles Purchase as scorekeeper. A two course luncheon was served by the ladies to conclude the evening.
Mrs Henry Wilson and Mrs L C Tilden entertained about sixty ladies last Friday afternoon. The program featured musical numbers with Miss Grace Theilke on piano joined by Mr Simpson on violin and Mrs Tilden on gongs. Assisting hostesses included Mrs Beardshear Mrs H F Brown Mrs Lydia Tilden and Mrs Mabel Clark with Miss Schreiner and Miss Freed helping in the dining room serving light refreshments.
Mr and Mrs H W Squires gave a enjoyable dance for students who room at their house in Adams hall on Friday evening. The hall was decorated with red white and blue streamers honoring George Washington. favors bore ribbons with the name date and dance. Out of town guests included Misses McNeilley Bussard Miller and Jarrett of Marshalltown.
Mr and Mrs Squires entertained all the out of town guests at a house party hosted by Welch and Cook of Boone.
Miss Ruth McDonald entertained the girls embroidery club Tuesday afternoon and in the evening a party of young gentlemen were invited in. The ladies included Doris Pommel, Lois Pommel, Jean Sloss, Constance Beardshear, Hazel Brandt, Leone King, Yallie Weston, Laura Jones, Ruth McDonald and a Chicago guest. Evening guests were Purchase, Gilman, Quint, Dye, Woods, Sullivan, Abrams, Eldridge, Christ and McDonald. Refreshments were served both sessions and a general good time was enjoyed.
Mr. J. B. Cagwin and Mrs. Mary Dunning hosted a Friday party where guests played military whist seven forts defended by four fighters. Fort Erie won, Fort Lee second, with red white and blue decorations and hatchet favors. The event marks Ames first introduction to military whist, likely to rival 500.
Mrs W W Sylvester and Mrs L M Warburton hosted a farewell gathering for Mrs Janes Dodds who will leave Ames. The event featured Washington birthday decor and flags on ice cream, with about equal numbers of 500 club members and guests enjoying socializing and card play.
Mrs. Moler and Miss Rhinehart of Battle Creek, house guests at the Sylvester home, shared the pleasures of the afternoon during a delicious luncheon in their company.
Advertisement touts Holister Rocky Mountain Tea as a spring medicine that clears the blood builds up flesh and makes you strong, offered as Tea or Ta lets for 35 cents by J. Ke Cay win.
Miss Marie Stevens will tell stories from Ann of Green Gables Saturday at 2 o’clock. The library shelves welcome new titles across novels nature study history and essays. Teachers and clubs are urged to review nature study and history lists and programs filed with the library.
Mrs. Kate Hall states after 15 years of housekeeping that Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea keeps her well. She claims it drives away sickness and brings health and happiness to the family, calling it the world's health preserver. J. EB, Cag: win.
A. Pettit acknowledges prompt and satisfactory resolution of a disability claim for time lost due to an accident, with the Woodman Accident Association settling the matter in full.
Mrs. Cora Hunt seeks a divorce from Chester Hunt claiming gross cruelty and unbecoming conduct. She requests $1,000 alimony, an attached property order, with a home valued at $1,800 and a $1,200 mortgage, and notes marriage at Ames on February 23, 1907. She says abuse began early and continues, prompting fear to live together.
Foley's Honey and Tar for the child’s coughs colds croup whooping cough and bronchitis is touted as best and safest with no opiates. Sold by all druggists.
A college Monday convocation featured J. G. Emerson of Burchinal delivering the oration America and Peace in the Orient. His speech advances to the state oratorical contest in Toledo Friday evening with eight top rankings from a preliminary judging of thought and composition. Colleges in the contest include I. S. C. Leander Clark Simpson Coe Iowa Wesleyan Penn Morningside and Parsons.
A conundrum supper and sale of fancy work by Company W. E. M. will be held at the Christian church on Friday evening March 10. The event starts at 5 o'clock and continues indefinitely. Admission is 25 cents. Everyone is welcome.
The timetable lists train arrivals and departures for Ft. D. and Des Moines with connections to Boone Ames and college street cars. Des Moines to Boone times run daily in the evening, and Ames street cars from Duff Avenue serve the college every half hour from 6 50 a m to 1 20 p m with return trips at 1 and 35 past the hour. Corrected December 28th, 1919.
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