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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1895
Page
4
College notes report Beardshear events as a department speaks at week evening Calendar. Freshmen drill continues while campus athletics fundraises for train services. Des Moines trips, personal visits, and faculty leave are noted along with European tours and campus improvements.
The Ladies' Hall at Iowa Agricultural College advances toward completion by late June. The design by Clinton C. Nourse of Des Moines features a large dining hall, music balcony, society rooms, a dormitory, oak finish, and a sanitary cremation system.
Roy Hale, driver for the Ames Laundry wagon, was held up by two highwaymen near the college grade as dusk fell. They dragged him from the wagon, slugged him, and escaped with his bill book. Hale recovered, returned to work the next morning, with no clear leads on the assailants.
A Prairie City News item from March 16, 1895 discusses whether a city council can proceed with improvements without a public vote. It defends the council’s moral and legal right to act without elections unless debt or new taxes are involved. The column references electric light franchise votes and critiques overbearing debt fears, urging prudent governance. It also reports the Chicago wedding of R. J. Hodson and Maggie Gifford, noting Hodson’s journalism work in Salem and Ames and the bride’s musical talents. The couple plans residence in Ames after March 30.
The U B church reported unusually large congregations last Sunday with morning and evening themes The Lord Manifest in the Flesh and Christ the best friend Rev Hicks welcomed eighty new members in four months Mr Arnold joined him at Enterprise church for two musical selections Rev Byron Clark and family visited the parsonage two days this week Mrs Clark traveled north to Hamilton county Doctors have given Rev Hicks father a terminal prognosis and he will visit next week
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