Ames Social Notes Compile Distant Visits And Moves
Prairie City visitors and Nevada attorney D. J. Vinje made business trips to Ames this week. Numerous relatives from Boone Des Moines Chicago and Omaha visited Ames, with trips to Jewell Junction and Des Moines. The round of social calls included health updates travel plans for a Jamestown Exposition visit and several family milestones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. J. Vinje
Nevada
Ames
Ethel Hoon
Jewell Junction
Arthur Stevens of
Boone
W. W. Childs
Berry
Des Moines
Netzgow
O. H. Watkins
Kenosha
Wis
W. D. Rich
Geo. Loud
Indiana
Jack Watson
Jack
Miss Boda
Clark Conservatory
Enna Conservatory
Capitol City
Boda
Counterfeit Coin and the Subtreasury Misunderstanding
An anecdote recounts a man misreading Uncle Sam and the subtreasury. He shows a counterfeit half dollar to a Washington clerk who destroys it with a mallet, leaving the coin with a battered liberty face marked OC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Washington
New York Times
Jaw Broken in Pistic High School Fracas Over Captaincy
George Miller of Ames High School suffered a broken jaw and other injuries after a Monday afternoon quarrel in the school basement over Irwin Meltzer’s captaincy of the team. The fight ended with Meltzer striking Miller twice. both boys blamed, the incident tied to fraternity rivalries and unclear on any charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Miller
Ames High School
Irwin Meltzer
Miller
Meltzer
George
Meitzer
Willis Ball
Campbell & Graves
Frank Graves
Frank
Willis
Notable Odd Funeral Requests From History
The Washington Gazette notes unusual posthumous wishes from a former Gravesend MP and other individuals. Bevan urged cremation with ash dispersed by burning, an angler asked ashes aboard a bait can to scatter over his beloved stream, Mrs. Ernie-Erie-Drax wanted embalmed remains in a glass coffin with a domed mausoleum, and Lords Newborough was exhumed after a year for reburial on Bardsey Island, famed as a saints burial site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Bevan
M. P
Gravesend
Ernie-Erie-Drax
Minister's Wife Yet Hints Duty While Cleaning Carpet
A comic exchange in London Tit-Bits has a wife urging her minister husband to help lay the drawing room carpet. He reluctantly agrees, while she reminds him of his role as a minister of the gospel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
London
Clothes seller speaks to shared interest with buyer
A merchant emphasizes mutual interest in fashion as both sides pursue clothing sales. The message frames the transaction as cooperative and beneficial for customers seeking wardrobe updates.
Band concert postponed and local notices mingle in Ames
Local items show a band concert delayed to tomorrow in the city park and notes on calves for sale. Other briefs cover awning improvements, library holiday closures, a college picnic failure, rental rooms near the college, a new baby, sewer work, and various local incidents and notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex Gray
Daniel Bros. & Herman
Library Board
City Library
Town and Country Club
Fraternity Threats Draw Fire Over High School Clubs
A student traveling to Peace Pipe by Squaw Creek was insulted and abused by college students in a clash caused by refusing to fight frat members. The writer condemns high school fraternities as a menace and urges the school board to abolish them before fall term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squaw Creek
Band concert and lectures announced for town events
The park concert starts at 7 PM. Billy Sunday will lecture June 10 at the Armory under the Ladies Aid Society of the M. E. church. Also listed are poultry ads for hatching eggs from different sellers and a residential sale notice: F M Tunis bought the A L Potter residence on West Onondaga Street for 3900 and will move in soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Sunday
Ladies Aid Society
M. E. Church
Armory
Ira
Shaw
Station A
Plymouth Rock
Kalsem
Duff St
F. M. Tunis
A. L. Potter
Residence for Sale on Boone Street Near Friends Church
Twelve room house with hot and cold water furnace heat good well and cistern and a 60 by 180 foot lot. Includes small fruit and garden patch. Located on Boone Street two doors east of Friends Church. Address or call L. Mare 8 46 tf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone Street
Friends Church
L. Mare
Baccalaureate Sermon to Be Delivered in Big Campus Tent
President Storms will deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday at 10 30 in a large tent on campus. All churches are invited to participate in the services located at the campus venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
President Storms
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fred Hodson
Prairie City
Mrs. Berry
Will. Stockwell
Douglass St
A. H. Smith
Story City
Cagwin
M. G. Gattrell
Laurens, Iowa
Neck of the Woods
Talbott
Proper
Adams
Augusta Underwood
Rossman
Omaha
May and
Jessie Moorehouse
E. W. Rutherford
Mabel Biddick
Cassie Lincoln
H. G. Ahern
Courtney, N. D
Florence Patrick
H. Edward Wagner
B. W. Hawver
St. Petersburg
Florida
Frank Loucks
Childs
J. C. Iverson
Chicago
Ernest Grove
Mr. Iverson
Mrs. Grove
Sam Carleton
Lake Preston S. D
Jess
McCallsburg
Jim Hanna
Fricke Threshing Machine Co
Jim
Leo Burton
Clinton
Anna Evans
Arthur
Miss Chamberlain
Sigma Nu
J. Galen Tilden
Judge Lee
New York
Boston
M. C. Sayers
Iowa City
University Hospital
Edna Bevington
Martha Washington Seminary
Washington, D. C
Daisy Hunter
William Allan
A. S. Heggen
Dubuque
A. B. Phillips
Clear Lake
C. L. Atherton
Carroll
Eugine Nelson
Belle Plaine
Matilda Trowbridge
Danvers
Ill
S. H. Mitchell
Mitchell
LeRoy Burdick
Denver
Colorado
Burdick
F. D
Dan. Cupps
Ethel
Cody
Wyoming
Gates M. Brown
Brown
Chicago Tribune
Uncle Sam
Lizzin May Allis
Ben Brenneman
Marion
Iowa
J. W. Steigerwalt
Cramer
Douglass Street
Jefferson
College
Tilden Bros. & Co
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Assur
Hart Schaffner
Walter Morris
New Modern
Story
C. C. Morrison
Morrison
Northwestern
Main Street
Minchin
Gilbert
Jefferson Girls
Eva Shugart
Iowa State College
Drake
Fred Gilbert
Russell Kline
Olson
Maxwell
D. A. Nash
K. W. Brown
Orville Bradley Brown
Philadelphia
N. Y
Union Grove
L. O. Keedick
Haberdasher
Cambridge
Chas. Hackenschmidt
St. Paul
Elmore
Minn
Hack
America
Wing
Steve Loughran
Por Sale
Joyce
Sullivan St
Claremont
N. H
Foley
Dagwin
Columbus Dispatch
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