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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1910
Page
2
The city council, seeking to avert water shortages, voted to drill a twelve inch well on the city lot near the water tank. Archbold of Boone, expert superintendent of Northwestern line wells, will oversee at 12.50 per day until completion, saving costs by using his machinery on site.
Harvey Taylor of this city and Frank Warren of Boone saved a college girl trapped when her shoe wedged in a cattle guard between Ames and Boone. One flagged trains, the other pried the bars apart with a crow bar, freeing her without injury as trains passed.
L. J. Tiernagel the disbarred Story City attorney who embezzled funds was captured in Des Moines and conveyed to Fort Madison Monday to serve a three year sentence. He had previously been tried and sentenced for misappropriation, appealed unsuccessfully, and was later disbarred as the case moved through the courts.
The school board met in adjourned session at the secretary's office on Monday evening with all members present. Bills were audited and allowed, and A. L. Potter's bills were referred to G. E. Farnum with power to act. The discussion covered leveling the school property.
L I Baird identified Earl T Main of Williamsfield Illinois as the man killed in the Gladbrook wreck. Main had served as assistant cashier and later cashier at First State Bank of Williamsfield before Baird moved to Marshalltown. He was described as an exceptional man and had just married two months earlier.
Judge Albrook will preside as nine married couples seek divorces at the March term. The docket lists 245 total cases with 122 old cases, 87 new, 35 probate, and five criminal matters. Reporter J H Williams from this city will sit at the bench.
Old Bill Martin owner of The Watkins Well north of town disappeared taking one horse with him. The second horse grazes in a pasture as the artesian well continues to gush water. Mail wag continues to run full.
Dr. Lewis A. Klein, formerly with Iowa State College veterinary department, elected dean of the University of Pennsylvania veterinary department to succeed Dr. Leonard Pearson, noted as America's greatest veterinarian.
Supt King announced at Monday's school board meeting that he will not seek re election. Since arriving from Centerville in January 1905 he oversaw major upgrades including Welch school at the college, cooking and sewing for high school students at Iowa State College, sanitary drinking fountains, and a half day high school schedule to serve about 160 rural students. The Ames high school program earned top prizes at the state fair for cooking and sewing exhibits. Graduation this year is projected near last year's 56 graduates.
The Ames college baseball schedule lists four games against Iowa this spring with no game against Grinnell. Matches include Morningside in Ames April 21 and Missouri in Columbia April 22, plus Nebraska and Cornell fixtures and multiple Iowa dates in Iowa City, Ames, and Lincoln through May 30.
George Thompson, son of Mr and Mrs Wm Thompson, resigned as operator in the Des Moines Western Union Telegraph offices last week and is now taking a business course at Capital City Commercial College.
Iowa State College teams defeated Drake and Grinnell in debates on the Income Tax proposition. In Ames the Ames team won all three judges, with Burlingame Fuller and Quaife as winners on the negative side. At Grinnell the Ames team of Palmer Lungren and McCall won the affirmative. It marked an overwhelming victory for Ames.
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