Ames Notes A Stream of Des Moines Visitors and Local Notices
Des Moines residents and area locals visit Ames including Miss Hannah Clark, Mr. A. E. Lucas, Miss Nona Phelan, and many others. Reels of travel and social updates show school terms, family visits, church events, and civic items from Ames, Milford township, Boone, Nevada, and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannah Clark
Des Moines
Ames
A. E. Lucas
Nona Phelan
Boone
Jennie Beyer
Chas Whitaker
Polk City
Neva Curley
Prairie City
Jas. Gilbert
Steven Loughran
Dai- Brown
For Sale Notices and Local Updates in Ames Area
A compilation of notices includes sales of furniture and harness, advertising La Creme Flour at Miller and Kooser, and items from Soper's shop. It also reports marriages in Milford and Nevada, a picnic at the I A C, and various local move ins and residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milleer & Kooser’s
Miller & Kooser’s
Stalk of corn towers at nine feet in Iowa field
Mr. H. Gilbert displayed a corn stalk over nine feet tall with tassel forming. Planted May 5, it had under two months to grow, and it makes a strong showing for peerless Iowa.
Bartlett Presses Candidacy For County Attorney
A. L. Bartlett of Nevada campaigns hard for county attorney, earning support for his hustling canvass. Miss Lillie Kegley of Harris-Emery Co Des Moines is home from a summer vacation and heads to Denver to visit sister Lizzie, accompanied by Mrs. Abbie Heggat. Mrs. J. L. Bartlett and daughters return from Waycross Ga after eight months for Miss Rose Bartletts health. City well progress by Briley and Craig reaches 75 feet, aiming for 135 feet to secure water supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. L. Bartlett
Nevada
Bartlett
Lillie Kegley
Harris-Emery Co
Des Moines
Denver
Colorado
Lizzie
Abbie Heggat
Grayson
J. L. Bartlett
Rose
Pearl
Milwaukee Avenue
East
Waycross
Briley & Craig
Tornado Impacts Casey Home as Huffmans Stay with Ball Family
Rev and Mrs Huffman visiting Mrs Ball in South Ames will stay past the 4th. Their Casey home was moved off its foundation in the recent tornado with much damage to dishes and furniture, yet they escaped serious injuries. Berryhill won Hulls and Hull Berryhills precincts in the Des Moines primary. Mr and Mrs W P Fitchpatrick welcomed a ten and a half pound girl born last Saturday. grandparents cheer the promotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. McCartney
South Ames
R. J. Silliman
Rev. Lovejoy
Corning
Iowa
Chas. K. Munns
Mahala Silliman
Nevada
Munns
Providence
R. I
Chicago
W. P. Fitchpatrick
Grandpa
Grandma Fitchpatrick
June marriage licenses and Independence Day speakers noted
Clerk Hamilton issued June marriage licenses to J Jackson Linna B Stone Henry Dennister Clara Hall Howard Clemens Bertha Bunce Fred Stevens Kate Stone Harvey Brown Nellie McAllister William Williams Louise Rutland H P Corkins Beckey Allen Lee Hans Nelson Tillie Oleson Charles Munns Mahala Silliman H Buxton Florence May W F Bales Cora Morgan John Severtson Aslang Dorothea Halverson Clinton Ruffington Nellie King Hon B F Clayton to speak at Maxwell on Independence Day Hon Ole O Roe to speak at Story City on the same day Tornado in Kossuth county caused property damage but no fatalities Public fear from storms noted and cautionary weather tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora A. Morgan
John Severtson
Aslang Dorothea
Halverson
Clinton Ruffington
Nellie A. King
Well Drilling and Farm Services Ad Listing
Well drilling and repair offered promptly by Geo Miller & Son Ames Iowa. Also loan notice offering $2,000 on good farm land at six percent interest. Trade offers, straw hats at Soper's. Irwin Randall Co. sold ize Sokl by.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo
Miller & Son
Ames
Iowa
Louis Ham
J. A. Baker
Irwin Randall
Miss Lone Saylor Heads East for National Meeting
Miss Lone Saylor plans a Des Moines to the east trip this evening and will join her brother and wife from Lincoln to travel Ames for the National Educational Association meeting excursion. W H Jackson of Jackson Moss attends college board meetings while Mrs C F Saylor and children visit. Chamberlains Cough Remedy praised for croup and whooping cough with safe, prompt relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lone Saylor
Des Moines
Fonk
Lincoln
Neb
Ames
Excurson
C. F. Saylor
G. W. Richards
Duquesne, Pa
Bridge Auction Near Ames Over Squaw Creek
On Wednesday July 8 at 2 p m bidders may compete for the old wooden bridge across Squaw Creek south of Ames. Ep Rex announces special bargains in West Windows and a clearance sale of goods regardless of cost by E M Sorer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squaw Creek
Ames
Ep. Rex
E. M. Sorer
Notice for Ames School House addition and repairs bids
Notice is given that bids for an addition and repairs to the School House in Ames Iowa will be received at the secretary's office after June 15 1896 and before 1 pm July 2 1896 at which time the contract will be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Bids may also be submitted for a hot air furnace. The Board may reject any or all bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTICE
Ames
Iowa
Washington
Riy Story Ccuiity
Chas. Whitaker
Board of Directors
City Council Bids On Power Plant and Utilities
The council met with sparse attendance and opened bids for brick stone poles and drilling the city well. Contracts were awarded to Geo Cameron for brick at seven dollars per thousand and Maxwell and Tilden Bros for stone at a perch of one dollar twenty five. Pole work went to H L Munn with two sizes priced at 1 10 and 2 50. The dynamos and arc light system questions remain unresolved. Funeral services were held for C R Beck with a service at the house and church. Ordination of Rev H P Williams was conducted with sermons by Rev J Madison Williams and Dean Matthews. A large audience attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milford Township
Ames
F. J. Douglass
Harris C. Buxton
Red Oak
Florence E. May
Woodstock
Conn
Buxton
Washington
New England
Geo. Cameron
D. Ht. Maxwell
Tilden Bros
H. L. Munn
E. Briley
Raynor
C. RK. Beckwith
Grant Township
Clark
Hicks
Clinton Co
New York
Iowa
Ed Skillon
Chicago
Edgar
H. P. Williams
Christian Church
J. Madison Williams
Dean Matthews
Drake University
Matthews
Newens
Boone
M. E
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MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People’s Bible
Henry O. Shepard Company
Chicago
John H. Vincent
Gladstone
Sayce
Russia
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Intelligencer
Story County
Hudson Bros
Aithinen sNemicntin Pega
John Coull
Elias Clifton
Bluff Park
Mitt Little
Bob Bigelow
Okoboji Lake
Frank Curtiss
Fannie
C. F. Curtiss
Volney Giddings
Carthage
Kittie Freed
W. H. Day
Goar-Scott Company
Joe Wideman
Ilinois
Belle Rutherford
A. J. Rutherford
Boone Republican
C. S. Giddings
Colfax
Mr. Giddings
Miss Blanch Gossard
Methodist Church
W. B. Loughran
Toledo
Omaha
C. G. Lee
Dr. Richmond
A. C. Baker
W. J. Bryan
W. H. Jackson
Jackson & Moss
Mrs. Raynor
Miss Mame
P. J. Raynor
Mrs. J. W. Ramsay
Harlan, Iowa
Mrs. Ramsey
Mr. Ramsey
Florence Parkhill
Lexington
St. Louis
J. H. Cook
Russel
Mr. Cook
Howard Adams
Washington, D. C
Y. P
C. E
Williams
C. E. Society of the Christian Church
Mr. Adams
Ladies and Society
Odd Fellows
Roberson Building
Geo. Roberson
Westermann
Genevieve
Minnesota
Mrs
Albert Lucas
Daughters of
Lucas
K. W. Brown
H. Mitchell
Carry Mitchell
Cresco
Brown
E. E. Faville
Cal Giddings
Ladies’ Auxiliary Cemetery Association
Frank Graves
Story County Bank
Maxwell
Story City
Chicago and Northwestern
John Hornstein
The
Boone Democrat
McKinley
Franklin Township
Hager
Ninth
Walter F. Trotter
Marshalltown
Iowa Agricultural College
Congregational Church
Douglass
A. F. Meservey
Hiram C. Wheeler
Odebolt
Meservey
Gregory
Miller & Kooser
W. R. Scott
Elite
J. J. Ferguson
Kent
Farr
Soper’s
G. W. O'Brien
Louis Henry
South Side
Newman Bros
J. 8. Thompson
Z. Shugart
Jas. Cook
James Cook Jr
A. E. Dean
Arthur Dean
S. W. Mason
Lowa Falls
Tilden
Mrs. Bower
Adams
J. E. Davis
Harry Hoffman
Geo. E. Baker
Wm. Hulett
Morrison
Illinois
Marshall Ricketts
Harry Fleming
Berryhill
Hull
Hull Berryhill
B. F. Clayton
Ole O. Roe
Kossuth
Carrer Bro’s. & Herman
LaCreme Miller & Kooser’s
For Trade
M. K. Smit
Tilden Bros. & Co
FINE
SHOES
Oxfords
City Council
Carroll
College
Martha Coffin
Farrar
Guunsaulus
Hale
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