Happenings From Ames and Surroundings This Week
Prof and Mrs Curtiss host dinner. Miss Witter to speak at Oska loosa federation. Miss Rausch attends Lake Placid conference. Dr Storms to speak at Des Moines clubs. Ames loses basketball to Simpson 23 16. not the title. Newens to present A Message From Mars in college chapel. Juncture on drainage contracts and fruit experiments across Iowa. Commencement week program outlined with multiple events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Curtiss
S. A. Beach
Lincoln
Neb
Georgetta Witter
Federation
Oskaloosa
G. K. McCullough
Storm Lake
Storms
Traer
Woman’s Club
Des Moines
Prairie Club
Ames
Simpson
Armory
C. G. Hopkins
Urbana
Agricultural College of Illinois
Agricultural Club
Engineering Hall
Judisch
Y. M. C. A. Fund
Horticultural Department
L. E. Ashbaugh
Colorado Springs
Doble
The
Water Power Development Co
Ashbaugh
Minnesota
Truman
Sherburne
Colorado
Beach
Jones
Rockford
Trigg
Mason City
Knoxville
Mathews
Capt
Williamsburg
Charles City
Runaway Team Frightens Doctor but Ends Harmless
Dr H M Templeton of the city barely escaped injury when a colt caused a runaway after he unhitched the team. The horses bolted four miles toward Ames, were later driven back by Porter boys, and only a broken harness line and a knocked down mail box were reported. The doctor suffered a few scratches but escaped serious harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Templeton
Porter Farm
Harlan Erb
Telephone operator wanted at Mutual office and campus bargains
Local notes list a Mutual office telephone operator job and various campus sales including a gray baseball suit. Personal items report illnesses and family bereavements, breakfast events, church activities, and a piano sale along with local business notes and a rail travel snow report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mutual Office
Bernice Shugart
Margaret Hall
Wandering Workers: Global Journeys of Skilled Mechanics
Washington Post notes that skilled continental European workers such as woodcarvers stone cutters and garment cutters freely roam the world in search of work. A world tour via Chicago San Francisco Australia and Europe can fund a return to New York after saving and sobriety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Australia
Europe
Cairo
Paris
Mediterranean
Washington Post
Numerous Boone Ames Visitors and Locals Highlight Week
Local notes show Grace Adams and May Nordstrom visiting from Boone and Ames relatives, while Willard McCarthy, Claude Smith, and J. Q. Wickham travel for business. Visitors from Des Moines Cedar Rapids Clinton and Westerville share meals and stays, and a royal music concert featuring the Canadian Colored Jubilee Singers is planned for May 10 at the armory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Nordstrom
Boone
Ames
Atwood Smith
H.C. Smith
Cohn
Los Angeles
Joe Cohn
Ben Read
Hot Khamsin Described as Fifty Day Desert Wind
Khamsin is the hot dry wind from the Sahara that blows into Egypt. The name derives from the idea of fifty days of the wind. The hot wind can bring pestilence and severe heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sahara
Egypt
Senior class events and listed graduates at Ames High School
The Ames High School senior class events include a play on Friday May 17 and commencement on Wednesday May 29 with an address by Hon. E A Nye of Des Moines. The class roster lists Ruth King May Anderson Elmer Greenlee Cora Akin John Gardner and others. A separate notice advertises Reids yellow dent seed corn for sale from W P Coon. A quiet wedding occurred at the Methodist parsonage in Nevada uniting Geo A VanScoy and Hilda Estrem with ties to Ames. they will reside on South Walnut street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y. M
Bo We
Cardinal Guild
Alumni Hall
W. F. McDowell
Ames High School
E. A. Nye
Des Moines
Methodist
Nevada
Shaw
Geo. A. VanScoy
Hilda Estrem
Sheldahl
Ames
Jim VanScoy
Geo
Wakefield & Haverly
South Walnut Street
the Times
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Io. C
Mary Rausch
Lake Placido
N. Y
Frances Gardner
Grinnell
I. J
Vern Welch
Agricultural Hall
Ag. Vet
A. M. Newens
Walter Stuhr
W. F. Coover
Bruce Crossley
Lola Placeway
Maria Roberts
Montreal
St. Lawrence River
Gulf
Luzerne
Switzerland
British Isles
New England
Foley
Alvin H. Stimpson
Williamantic
Conn
Cagwin
Fractions
Adventise
M.D
Ben Brenneman
C. V. Nickerson
Kate Fenton
Ill
Tom Fenton
Lizzie M. Allis
Lizzie May Allis
St. J.J. Coon
Hardin County Citizen
Times-Republican
Hamilton
Roy Taylor
Frank N. Fowler
Virgil Smith
Dubuque
Gamble Drug Store
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
L. M. Bosworth
State Board
Adam Bender
Bosworth Drug Store
Harriman Addition
Bosworth
Max Hoover
H. M. Benson
A. L. Potter
Seymour
School House
Mme. Azelda
Arlington Hotel
Odd Fellows’ Hall
H. F. Jones
Ladies’ Aid Society
M. E. Church
E. L. Moffitt
California
William Clark
F. P.clark
Washington
A. V. Gilmore
Glenwood
Minn
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Tilden Bros.& Co
Grace Adams
Willard McCarthy
J.Q. Wickham
Cedar Rapids
Tom Leonard
Collins
Claude Smith
Edith Proper
Ed. Proper
Ira Beckett
E. D. Cramblil
Albert Grove
Webster City
J.J. Grove
E. A. Kegley
Sarah Kegley
Phil Shugart
Earl
Otto Edgerton
Clinton
B. B. Baker
F. J. Resler
Omaha
Westerville
Ohio
Earl McDowell
the State University
Dr. Fairchild
Sheldon
Billy” Frye
Oklahoma
Billy
Charles Flutter
S. L. Akin
Flutters
Battle Creek
Mich
Waterloo
Iowa
Charley
B. P. Holst
North Dakota
Barney
Boone Independent
Rose Starr
Starr
Sheffield
Arthur Bradley
Danville
Wash
Thomas Spellman
Lake Forest
Horton & Steiger- Walt
Spellman
Kintzley House
Central School
Chautauquas
Nes
Janet Moe
Tilden Bros. & CO
Ruth King
May Anderson
Elmer Greenlee
Cora Akin
John Gardner
Cecile Alexander Gertrude Gardner
Chas. Beardshear
Max Hardin
Roy E. Brown
Ernest Hiest
Pearl Banks
Carrie Berger
May Osborn Opal Culp
Winter Paxton Lyle Clapper
Howard Person
Florence Caldwell
Robert Rickets
Mabel Duntz
Floyd Scott
Florence Dunham
Stella St John
Oscar Freed
Harvey Taylor
Vita Freed
Lou Willey
Guy Griffith
Emily Watkins
W. P. Coon
van Scoy Estrenm
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