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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1895
Page
3
A wide range of local social items follows from Ames including visits by Mrs B F Lies of Knox ville and Miss Nellie Needham of Boone. Descriptions of Memorial and Sunday School events, marriages planned and encounters with travelers appear alongside business notes about Duff House sale hopes and a Boone spoon scam report.
Farmers replanting corn. Fr Barnes travels to Missouri on business. New meat market reports thriving sales. Miss Maggie Hamm at home over weekend. Miss Myrtle Gossard in Nevada visiting relatives. Mr Tom Jones of Boone seen on streets. Mrs W Parrot visiting parents near Nevada. Ladies Aid met at Mrs A Wortman's home. Miss Carrie Leonard visited friends in Slater. Ice cream social at J Lytle’s home by C E Society a financial success.
The Boone district association elected officers including President Mrs A Farrow of Boone and First Vice President Mrs Everly of Ames with other posts going to Mrs Dickson Maxwell Mrs Thornley Woodward Mrs Millick Perry recording secretary Mrs Wood Nevada and Miss Frank Grimmer Jefferson The next meeting is set for Glidden in May 1896 The school board met with no definite action on principalship or vacancies and Prof Carstens may seek employment elsewhere with many candidates and recommendations received.
Edward McFall Matt Sage Chas Young Tom Watson and Harry Lewis were brought from Nevada by Sheriff Ashford to Justice Laughran. Six hundred dollar bail set for each as they await grand jury action on a weak case. Lewis' identification incomplete. his case dismissed and he released. County Attorney Thompson oversaw proceedings. defendants had no legal representation.
On June 4 at 1 p m there will be a public sale of cemetery lots in the new addition. Lots priced no lower than appraised value and not sold before sale. Plot consultable via City Clerk F L Thompson at Boardman Bros office. More details to follow by order of City Council Nevada Iowa.
T G and F A Harriman of Hampton after weeks of work on a city and county map met W B Brown of Webster City a Northwestern Publishing partner. no agreement to yield territory to atlas creators and the Harriman operation may shift to Story County. sources describe the Harriman brothers as thorough and well informed business men.
50 000 acres offered with multiple tracts in Story Emmet and Palo Alto counties Iowa including 160 acre parcels at 25 per acre with good houses and barns 640 acres of pasture at 16 per acre and terms cash or time. Contact D G Ferguson Ames Iowa for details. Also Illinois Central Railroad offers a round trip excursion rate to the German Baptists annual meeting in Decatur Illinois May 6 to June 3 with return within thirty days.
All persons are warned that they are strictly forbidden to pasture stake out or graze stock on the vacant lots after Saturday March 18 1895. B A LOCKWOOD F N Fower Manager.
Farmers urged to buy patent springs for windmill pumps via J. W. Snyder Ames Iowa. May 29 30 excursion rates offered by a Line for tickets. agents provide details. Wheels for rent and new buggies and road wagons offered by Servie & Son. Machine oil from Irwin Randall & Co.
Members of Ames Lodge No. 309 1. O. O. F. are urged to meet at the hall at 1 P M on Thursday May 30 to join the G A R in proper Memorial Day observance. Bert Kooser James Adams Secy N G
To whom it may concern the UN designated has been duly appointed administrator of the estate of Edward Benson deceased late of Story County Iowa and all indebted persons must settle at once all with claims against the estate must be presented as required by law or be barred
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