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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1894
Page
3
Thurston Graham promises not to be undersold on salt and sugar at Adams Bros while low prices on hats frames and sweaters fill Perry Ayers Tilden and Soper stores. McKinley visit teased with Ames local organizers and speakers likely present with Gov Jackson Blythe and others.
Miss Eva Cramer entertained friends Saturday. Aylesworth of Boone visited Ames. Several residents planned trips and dinners. Church events, lectures, and a variety of social gatherings filled the week, with notes on travel, performances at the opera house, and local incidents.
Readable items recount senior students leaving early, weddings in Newton, a Grinnell football game visit, and Ames civic matters. Includes remarks on Professor Amos’s ophthalmos lecture, a Republican club, a Gear speech, and a new Summit post office in Lafayette township.
Ed Amherst Ott of Drake School of Oratory will stage a prize elocution contest soon. Contestants trained free. winner earns a 27 scholarship noted by Boone county democrats for clerk of courts. Frank Graves, graduate of I. A. and well known inimes. Mrs Alma D. Whitaker authored a notable article on conversation in the October Midland. Marshalltown Iowa Women's Club president known locally. her husband is brother to the Whitaker brothers of this place.
If you are not satisfied with the frames you get, we will do our best to please you in price and quality. We make any size frames to order with mats. Keep warm by buying sour under wear of E. M. Soper. A great reduction in prices on boys and children’s clothing at Tilden’s.
A District Court session adjourned with a compromise in the Batterson and Leonard versus The London Globe and eastern interests insurance dispute. In a separate accident, Otto Marthen, a Swede with Northwestern steel, died after a freight train derailed him on the side track near Ames. He suffered severe injuries and died before medical aid could save him. Funeral services are set for today at two o'clock with Northwestern arranging burial.
Three cash prizes offered for top ears in Story county with awards of 4.50 for best three ears from C W Dudgeon jeweler, 1.50 for second and 1.00 for third. Judges to be named later. Contest decided November 1. BlackLow SMrrn.
The Republican township caucus will meet at Town Hall in Ames at 3:00 PM to nominate two Justices of the Peace two Constables one Clerk one Township Assessor and one Trustee and to conduct other lawful business. A shoe sale for men and children is advertised. Dr Templeton is building a pew barn and Mrs Tripp is listed as sick.
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