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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1898
Page
12
A local inventory review urges shoppers to inspect Goble's robes and blankets before purchasing. The shop emphasizes quality and variety to meet seasonal needs.
Des Moines Iowa reports a cool week with daily temperatures 5 to 7 degrees below normal and light frosts in many areas. Rainfall was ample, pastures improved, fall plowing moisture good, fall wheat and rye seeding underway with increased wheat acreage. corn largely mature and being cut. late corn ripening slowed but improving, potatoes needing two to three weeks to ripen.
Ed Graves of Colo a telegraph operator stationed in Ontario traveled to Ames Saturday on his way home. Graves has done notable newspaper work as the Colo correspondent for the Nevada Journal. A clipping notes a windmill incident injuring Rev Huffman and his wife during a farm visit, with their daughter unharmed.
West House notes Barkhurst the photographer excels in posing lighting and finishing and invites a test of his work. The Ames case J H Boyd versus the city of Ames had a motion for a new trial overruled by Judge Weaver last Friday. Miller and Kooser offer a full first class grocery selection.
A July 23 letter from Santiago de Cuba praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as vital during the rush to supply troops. The writer says diarrhea plagued the packers but the medicine kept workers at the front and saved him personally. The note was sent to Chamberlain Medicine Co., Des Moines, Iowa, and sold by all druggists.
Relatives of Ralph Baker mourn his neglect after he served in the regular cavalry and fought in Cuba. Baker took part in El Caney San Juan Hill and Santiago, was wounded on San Juan Hill, and contracted typhoid on the way home. Army relief arrived only after local press intervention.
Black yearling male mare strayed from O. D. Mathers pastures. Finder will be paid for trouble. Leave word at this office or notify Jason BILLines.
James A. Baker advertises available loans on farm lands at six percent interest and extended terms.
Dr W E Harriman has moved his offices to new rooms in the Hamilton Block above Thurston's hardware store 218. Wm and Isaac Wilkinson of Sterling Ill visit their brother Henry Wilkinson near Ontario this week marking his first trip to this country in 23 years Ames has grown beyond his highest expectations and Wilkinsons note the town's changes.
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