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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1899
Page
11
A local notice proclaims the shop now offers a larger stock of footwear and improved service. Customers are invited to visit, compare prices, and inspect goods, with the assurance of courteous treatment regardless of buying intention.
Local notices describe sales at Adams Bros and Letts, church and lodge events, visits from Des Moines and Boone, a crime scam report, revival closings, medical ads, and community improvements. Key names include Marian Rebekah Lodge, Rathbone temple, Gravert, McLain, and several Ames residents.
The Iowa State Sheep Breeder’s Association held its fourth annual meeting in Ames with about a hundred flock masters from near and far. Sessions covered care of pure bred flocks, dog damage losses, and inspection of imported stock. Officers elected included A. J. Blake ly as president and J. J. Edgerton as secretary treasurer.
Myrtie Gossard begins school in Boone county this week. Many townsmen visited Nevada last week. W P George is well after illness. Carl Lytle returns from Drake University for vacation. Nellie Sheehey will teach in Crocker this spring. Frank and Mrs Foster visited Des Moines Tuesday. Mrs Geo Rosenfeld improves after illness. Will Carew visits sister Mrs J W Lytle in northern Iowa. Lou Gossard starts spring term at the south school. Creamery nearing completion with machinery arriving. Cong church ladies host a social at Mrs Rowland’s tonight. Rev Dickerson preached at the Congregational church. Mrs Weaver of Boone spoke at the Baptist church.
Jas Van Scoy completed a new residence on the south side. Clarence Hunter is putting up a neat cottage for a home in the northwest part of town.
Geo R Wendling will give the second number of the lecture course in the college chapel at 8 p m Tuesday April 18 The subject is The Man of Galilee Judge Wendling The Christian associations praise the course and urge attendance Judish Bros will reserve Ames seats after Friday noon Special motors will run to the college Tuesday evening at 7 20 and 7 45
A reader testimonial from W A Stroud of Popomoke City Maryland endorses Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He claims rapid cure with one or two doses for himself and children and notes availability through druggists.
CANIER Bros. and HERMAN advertise a new line of ladies Oxfords and wand turned shoes for summer wear with a call to inspect. Prices guaranteed right.
Flora Cunningham, born July 26 1869 in Pulaski County Indiana, died Monday at four o'clock at the family home after a prolonged typhoid fever and tuberculosis. She moved to Ames with her family in 1880 from Marion. Survived by six brothers and six sisters. funeral in the M E church with Rev Thomas officiating. Brothers Albert Cunningham Renwick Will Cunningham Waubeek James Cunningham, sister Mrs Rose Knox Marcus Indiana attend.
The Bay View Reading Circle will meet next Monday at 2 o'clock with Miss Jennie McMich ael. The program includes roll call responses from French writers, readings from French Literature and Song of Roland, papers on the Bourbon House of Spain, French invasions into Spain, a Dickens selection, a sketch of President Diaz, and a note on the Baptism of Clovis. Adams Bros. offers the finest candies.
Excursion tickets to Marshalltown via the North Western Line offered at reduced rates from Iowa stations on April 21 and 22 and limited to April 24 inclusive. Tickets available through Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
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