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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1898
Page
8
The Story County Fair featured livestock and farm produce with the racing program drawing superior entries and crowds. Gate receipts topped previous fairs, and management received congratulations. The page also notes obituaries and local notices, with farm ads and a list of attendees and merchants.
Public sale announced for a large lot of old bridge timber fourteen miles south of Ames. The sale is set for Monday August 22 at 10 a.m. Bowis Rex city supervisor reports receipt of another car of Seal of Minnesota flour from Maier and Kooser. Orders for mill feed may be left at Adams Bros store. Sixes Bros.
The piece proclaims August 31 as W F Cody Day at the Great Trans Mississipp i Exposition in Omaha. It details Cody as a senator colonel scout and exhibitor with Wild West, noting his influence in Europe and America and anticipation of a grand parade and reviews at the fairgrounds.
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