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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1895
Page
5
Ames area notices report sales at Tilden Bros and Canier Bros, gossip on auctions and outfits, plus church events and Easter plans. Lydia Watts starts a term of school near Ames, weddings underway for Miss Belle Selby and Frank Allen, and Rev. W. Earned officiates. Community urges alley cleanup and civic duties.
The Des Moines report notes the season opened near the ten year average with normal temperatures and light April rainfall. Soil moisture supports plowing and seeding though some dry grasslands may be plowed for new crops. Oats and spring rye seedings are high, likely reducing corn acreage. meadows show drought effects and livestock forage remains adequate.
Bob Armstrong, recently from the Times to the Des Moines Leader, was slugged and robbed after returning to his room on Sixth Avenue. He fought back guiding a pistol aside before being beaten. watch and $6 in money were taken. The assailants were captured later while burgling a nearby residence.
Phillip Barry a 42 year old widower, staying with relative McCulla near Gilbert Station, shot himself in a well after an ache and a long absence from the house. He fell into two and a half feet of water and drowned. A coroner's jury ruled death by his own action. Barry had no close relatives beyond McCulla who is his cousin. The body was buried at Gilbert Tuesday afternoon.
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