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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1904
Page
2
A list of voters including Mary Selby Lena Pitts Grace Tinsley and Mrs Ed Rutherford Mrs W Bateman and Mrs M A Stevens with an entry 236 Rachel Rex.
Numerous campus activities fill the week from sacred music at chapel to banquets and receptions. Attendees include Mrs DeEtte Kelsey Kelley Perry Miss Hattie Pike and Miss Maud Rice Charles City with seniors and alumni gatherings in Chicago Des Moines and Ames. The Iowa State College hosts inaugurations Lester Storms speeches and a six annual Chicago Alumni banquet at the Grand Pacific. Ames and Drake track results and a state tennis win highlight athletics alongside science and agriculture notes.
A note on wooden exchequer tallies used in England before the Bank of England. Tallies were hazel sticks with notches and Roman numerals, split to form countertallies, then gradually replaced by the bank and destroyed by law, with a history linking to the burning of Parliament houses.
The Womans Relief Corps requests flowers to decorate and asks donors to leave them at the hall in the Odd Fellows Temple on Decoration Day morning as early as possible. By order of committee. M Evxecta Gilbert.
Local notes record numerous visitors and short trips involving Ames Story City Boone Des Moines Marshalltown Nevada and Webster City. Highlights include residents and relatives visiting in and near Ames Des Moines and Boone with several on Sunday visits and departures for work, plus a jail escape and fatal train incident near Nevada.
Classified line item notes an order for sand and gravel described as best quality. Customer listed as Bower and Perkins with initials B. B. Hi. 45-tf.
Registered Shorthorn cows and bulls plus 35 Shropshire sheep offered cheaply if sold at once by J E Campbell.
A discussion on how decay fungi respond to temperature and moisture. Cold storage slows decay while warm moist conditions hasten it. The ideal apple shows no fungous blemishes or bruises and, in a dry cool room free from germs, could keep indefinitely until chemical changes ruin it.
Government lands totalling 382000 acres in the Rosebud Indian Reservation in southeastern South Dakota are opened for settlement. The Chicago and Northwestern Line is the direct route to Bonesteel at the reservation border. A pamphlet New Homes in the West with maps and allotment details can be obtained from Northwestern Line agents or mailed for two cents postage to L. F. Berry, Gen. Agent, C. and N. W. Ry, 401 Walnut St., Des Moines, Iowa.
The senior class day program at Ames High School includes music from the High School Orchestra and Chorus, vocal solos, a poet and biographer entry, and a last will and testament reading. The evening graduation exercises feature diploma presentations, music from the orchestra and chorus, and a benediction by Rev C L Wilson.
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