Ames College Notes and Local Events Highlight Baseball Season
A mix of campus life and community notices covers lectures by J F Hardin and Rev Gist, college musicales with Miss Chambers and Miss Westermann, the Ames marriage of Seth Kingsbury and Rosa Hemstreet, and advancing baseball as the I A C team prepares for Cornell College and S U I games. Also reported are student deaths, faculty travels, and local social updates across Ames Iowa.
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Connor Bros
Battery
Benjamin
Brownlie
Cammack
Connor Wim
Cooper
Blackburn
Duroe
Connor J i
Beyer
Endrix
I. C. Brownlie
Nine
W. E. Harriman
Mt. Vernon
Cornell College
John Connor
U. 1
Iowa City
Ames
U. S
Lutheran College
Decorah
Cornell
I. C
U. of Ill
Iowa
Seth Kingsbury
Rodman
Rosa Hemstreet
H. J. Everly
Benjamin Kingsbury
Bro
Hemstreet
Palo Alto County
Kingsbury
School Grounds Vandalism Prompt Action by Officials
Prof Carstens notes that individuals have been driving over the school grounds and cutting sod in a shameful way. The action disrupts efforts to beautify and improve the grounds and must be stopped at once.
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Carstens
Young Farmer and Ground Squirrel Chase Near Ames
A young farmer near Ames plowing with a three horse team and riding plow spied a ground squirrel and left the team to pursue it. The horses bolted and chased across the field leaving dirt in a skyward plume before the team was recaptured. The hunter remains at large as a temptation to others.
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Ames
Kelley
Felix
Lizzie Lawson
Margaret Young
Evergreen Church
M. Templeton
J. K. Hester
Keltner
Benjamin Kingsbury
S. N. Kingsbury
Bride
Abdallah Chief
Abdallah
Messenger Wleber
James H. Wright
Oregon Til
Geo. A. Underwood
Iowa
Kensett
Kleber
Geo. Wilkes
Iron Duke
Alexander
American Clay
Long Island
GEO. A
World's Fair issue of Youth's Companion described
The magazine offers a full description of the Columbian Exposition with daily viewing guidance. Subscriptions at $1.75 for a year include a free copy while stock lasts. 700000 copies printed but may sell out. Single issues cost ten cents from Boston Mass. or any newsdealer.
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Boston Marss
Frank Foster Brings Royal Vanilarp Colt Home
From neighboring towns Frank Foster has returned from Illinois with a Royal Vanilarp colt, a Kentucky bred trotter from Van Fossen, noted as a very promising young horse. Several road culverts need highway supervisor attention.
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Frank Foster
Illinois
van Fossen
New Time Card Adds Regular Passenger Train at Ames
The new C and Northwestern time card takes effect Sunday at noon with changes in departures. A regular passenger train leaves east at 11 20 a m connecting with north south and west trains, and west at 6 17 p m with Des Moines connections. Conductors Walling and Sullivan lead the new run Moran replaces Sullivan on the branch. The service improves Ames travel and boosts the town’s appeal to business travelers.
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Des Moines
Walling
Carroll
Sullivan
Moran
Ames
Trongs
Sioux City
Northwestern
Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance growth and notices
The Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Association has seen rapid growth with 570 policies in March and 800 in April totaling about 1.59 million dollars in coverage. It carries 20 million in risks, with losses paid in 1892 exceeding 10,000 and nearly 1,000 so far this year, and a seven thousand dollar balance on hand. Directors are listed including E Furnas and J M Wells, with secretary J B Herriman. Also notices include Odontunder at Co E Hunt dental parlors, a Bicycle Club meeting at St P Hall, and Gen Lincoln drill for members.
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Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Association
Mutual Insurance Association
Story County Mutual
E. Furnas
Nevada
J. M. Wells
D. M. Hayden
Ames
W. IL. Golley
Zearing
J. A. McFarland
Gilbert Station
I. C. Tantett
Cole
C. W. Mills
J. H. Farland
Cambridge
A. J. Graves
Tornado Association
J. B. Herriman
Clapp Block
Des Moines
Iowa
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Ames Opera House
Chas. Arnold
Mer
Lady Macbeth
Madame Janauschek
Edmund Collier
Scotland
Frank V. Hawley
I. A. C. Department
Hank” Wilkinson
J. F. Hardin
W. W. Gist
Congregational Church
Osage
Stevens
Charley Miles
C. M. Soper
E. S. King
Fifteen Mile
Bert Heyward
Davenport
Bert
E. E. Faville
W. D. Mason
Toledo
Miss Chambers
Grinnell
Hurlburt
College Chapel
Rev
H. A. Dayton
Waukon
B. D. Helming
C. W. Graham
Graham
College Hospital
Beardshear
Chambers
Westermann
Miss Scott
Gifford
Starr
Ruth Duncan
Ontario
Sylvester Scott
Grandma Beedle
Zenorsville
Mrs. Chas. Wentworth
Maine
Arthur Freed
F. W. Foster
Ellis
Christian Church
Boone
O. D. Freed
H. P. Wilkinson
John Clayton
Baughman
Father St. Clare
W. H. Johnson
Harrison
Hicks
H. Gilbert
T. L. Olson
Mrs. O. M. Lake
A. A. Stewart
R. M. Hunter
Wall Lake
J. M. Bacon
Boeid Bad Serenaders
Jennie C. Beverly
Odontunder
Ohio
Adams Bros
Zenor & Son
A. Storey
Onondaga Street
F. N. Fowler
Brrenam & Co
J. L. Ellwood
Tornado Insurance
Co. E. Hunt
St. P. Hall
Gen. Lincoln
Sisson
Stringer & Olson
Mac
Cilbert Station
Ila
Loughran Machine Co
Rock Island
Motor Depot
Maxwell & Son's
Fowler & Co
Mambrino
Amazonia
Ikensett
Hambletonian
G. S
Sunol
Palo Alto
Jay Eye
Nancy Hanks
Lady Weeee
Kitty Ceeeeee
Ida Cook
Ben Higdon
Walter
KENT
Jupiter
Emma
Lady Hughes
Peekes
Harry Gilbert
M. R
Lexington
Grace
Arthur
Rysdyk
Washington
Magdalane Clingstone
Beatrice
Victor
Gertrude
Geo. M. Rysdyk
Clingstone
C. M. Clay Jr
Granville
Maggie Briggs
Elia Clay
Ben Gifford
Hagar
Tron Duke
Monroe
Ben Williams
Abbess
Belfour
Blackhawk
Prince
Jake Oakey
Gipsy
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