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Ames Notes and Visits Highlight Local Social Calendar
A dense list of visits and travels unfolds across Ames and surrounding towns. Residents such as B Confare, Lizzie Allen, Bessie Hayes, Grace Perkins and many others are noted in Boone Des Moines Story City and more, with trips to Denver Minneapolis and Chicago. Local events include a Fourth of July clothing sale and community gatherings at churches and clubs, plus updates on residents’ health, marriages and the railroad park improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving Elliott
Zook
Minnesota
Grace Perkins
Will A. Logan
Keithsburg
J. J. Kegley
Boone
Vandermast
Murray
John Butler
Don
Ole Oleson
Kelly
Denver
Ames
Rev
L. Nye
Oreston
John Burlingham
A. H. Thayer
Harmon
Harmon & Smith
M. K. Smith
Lou GO
Tilden
Lowell Talman
Fred Cleaver
Jewell Junction
Sadie Kooser
W. D. Kooser
Des Moines
George Foster
Wyoming
C. O. Sargeant
Mt. Vernon
Iowa
Mildred Bauer
South Ames
Lou Allen
Hope Wells
Wells
Webster City
Miss Wells
Drake
Cooley & Jones
Judge Whitaker
Fremont Meyers
Eldora
Marshal Ricketts
Mabel Moffitt
Salt Lake City
Pleasant Grove M. E
W.L. Smith
P. Anpey
Henry Wilkinson
Woman's Home Missionary Society
Prof
Cessna
Cora Wilkinson
O. H. Hagen
Mr. Hagen
John Wesley