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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1908
Page
5
Ladies hemstitched linen handkerchiefs with drawn borders and lace trim. white plain kerchiefs with colored borders. best quality pure linen items with hemstitching and embroidered corners. Prices noted as twenty cents and related figures.
Readable text describes sheets and pillow cases in bleached material with sizes 81x90 inches and 36x42 inches, plus pillow tubing and sheeting. Mentions special low prices and yard rates though details are garbled. Indicates an advertising sale with reduced quotes for household fabrics.
Readying for a fabric sale, the advertisement lists Cambric Embroideries up to 8c per yard and various widths, plus Corset Covers, Flouncing Embroideries, and muslin skirts. Highlights include ladies plain muslin skirts at 39c, 69c gowns, 3 special skirt styles at 89c and a 16 inch flounce skirt at 1.05, with Indian Head muslin dress skirts in sizes and prices up to 2.00.
A list of fabrics including 32 inch India Linen in fine sheers at 15c quality and 11c with 32 inch width, 32 inch India Linen at 17c for general use, 11c for English Long Cloth 36 and 40 inch with soft finish, and 36 and 40 inch White Curtain Swiss at 1c per yard with stripes polka dots and plaids.
About 50 pieces of lace and insertions in several styles and makes. Widths from 4 inches to 2 inches. Prices up to 10 cents per yard previously, now offered at a sale price. Includes finer qualities up to 12 and a half cents per yard.
Residents and visitors appear in Ames and surrounding towns with reports of visits and travel. Notables include Mrs F J Lynch in Vil lisca and Mrs A S Heggen of Des Moines visiting friends in Ames alongside local leaders like Congressman Hull attending informal receptions.
John Frederick Meiers born June 2 1832 in Prussia died April 27 1908 at his Ames Iowa home after a brief illness. He served in Company F 11th New Jersey Volunteers from Sept 3 1862 to June 6 1865. Survived by his wife and twelve children. Funeral at Catholic church April 29 with interment Nevada Cemetery.
Silk fabrics marketed for waists and children's dresses at 50c value, now 43c. A traveling vendor imports a complete line of baby bonnets and children's hats, fresh and clean, offered at deep discounts from 10c to 1.25 for the lot.
The Central Association of Congregational churches will hold its spring meeting at the local Congregational church on May 5 and 6. The two day program includes devotional services, papers on ministry and temperance, discussions on parish problems, and addresses by ministers and society leaders.
Pasture for six cattle offered two and a half miles northeast of Ames. Inquire at this office. 522 pd.
Pastor H. D. Williams will preach at 11 a m and 8 p m with the morning theme A New Awakening The evening discourse completes the home interests series Perils to Young Women in Ames A special invitation is extended to young women to attend the sermon
Walter J. Fowle is pastor. Sunday School at 9 45. Sermon at 11. Covenant Meeting at 3. Evening service at 8 with second in a series titled Old Time Fools. subject The Fool with his Tongue.
J W Stiverson pastor leads morning and evening sermons by Evangelist Montgomery as revivals continue through the week with a special 3 p m preaching service at Shipley on Sunday.
Revered Paulsrud will deliver a regular sermon at the Lutheran church Sunday evening at 8 p m with Pastor Paulsrud officiating.
Frank E. Corbin and Elizabeth Butler married at the bride’s parents home in West Branch Iowa The groom formerly worked at the Ames Times office and later as a foreman in the Marshalltown Reflector The bride has been an assistant cashier at a West Branch bank and the couple plan to reside in Marshalltown for their new life together.
Rent a safe deposit box at the Ames Savings Bank for $1.00 a year. The notice also mentions Story County Fair entertainment and seed corn pricing with Reid's Yellow Dent at $2.20 per bushel. The Citizens Lumber Co advertises galvanized roofing from 1 ply at $1.40 to 3 ply at $2.16 and 2x12 plank at $22.00 per thousand feet.
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