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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1898
Page
3
Local paragraphs recap Ames happenings including Miss Sadie Lanning visiting Des Moines, Lanning's Stuart trip, Lillian Hunter’s Ames arrival from Oklahoma, and Jonny Boone youths visiting. Community events include a Nevada Congregational Sunday school picnic, Royal Arch Masons meeting, Baptist church concert, and preparations for autumn campus activities and plowing contest.
The ad promotes nine suit patterns at 9.50 each with a limited price drop to 7.85 for the first nine buyers. It invites shoppers to view pants suits and overcoats and visit Soper's for the line.
To Patrons and Pupils Ames Public Schools opens the school year on Sept 5 1898 and lists teacher assignments by grade and room locations including Mrs Sowers Miss Haworth Miss Pope and others. Also notes events and local ads and the Fifty second Iowa volunteers return from Chickamauga with letters from Providence Journal and Soper the Furnisher ads.
Miss Vera Kistler travels to Des Moines tomorrow to meet her mother and sister Verna who have been visiting in Taylor county for two months. They will arrive in Ames Saturday evening.
George Benjiman of the Nevada Journal served as a morning caller. A note advertises a one pound can of Victor Coffee described as a dandy. The line ends with MILLER & Koostr.
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