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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1897
Page
3
Loughran Machine reports lime supply while corn needs rain. Boone races begin this week. Local announcements cover infant births and a death, dairy convention at Charles City on November 10, and a rain storm that struck Webster City with lightning fatalities nearby. Ayers cabinet photos and farm equipment advertised.
Special sale on prepared mustard at Miller and Kooser's and colored shoes at Caniel Bros. and Herman's. Numerous local notices include marriages, deaths, editor changes, visits, farm reports, and street improvements in Ames and Story City with names such as McCormick twine Lest Loughran's and Kelley Hedge.
A Boone youth Garry Goble aged 18 drowned while four boys swam near the river. Fred Miller survived clinging to a pole. Garry disappeared after slipping from the pole in 10 to 20 feet of water. Garry was born in Ames and reared here, active in church and National Guard.
A local sale offers four bargains across men’s pants straw hats dress goods and shoes. Men’s pants priced 2.25 per pair from a mix of 3.50 4.00 and 5.00 grades. Hats 0.75 each from 1.00 1.25 and 1.50 values. Dress goods half-price 50 percent off. Shoes and oxfords 50 cent discount per pair. Call to view and be among the first to buy.
Drawn to serve at the August term which convenes at Nevada August 30th. KE. J. Walker Nevada Col. Wilson Colo. W. J. Blake Nevada W. Prichard Collins A. F. Mead Maxwell M. L. Lesdahl Huxley T. Hemstock Nevada W. Pugh Gilbert Station W. Smay Nevada P. H. Ream Cambridge John Thompson Cambridge Grant Deal Gilbert Station J.C. Adams Ames Joe Grove Ames Sam Nelson Story City W. H. Fackler Cambridge Ed. Statler Nevada F. J. Fett MocCallsburg Ton Aplanod Slater J. Sexton Ames W. P. Starr Nevada Erasmus Lewis Cambridge A. C. Foster Ames Samuel Osman Collins J. K. Helvig Roland Jim Hutchinson Kelley Thos. Epperson Ames O. D. Oleson Roland Joseph Marwick Story City J. B. Jackson Story City
The item reports Miss Mary Norris daughter of Rev J S Norris dying at Des Moines after typhoid fever. It also notes local market corn prices twenty to nineteen and a half cents, rail cut rate effects, various college and town happenings including lectures by Booker T. Washington and academic staff movements. It mentions motor schedule changes and local sales ads for bicycles and farm equipment.
Mrs J F Martin entertained about 20 young ladies Friday evening in honor of Miss Elma Doolittle of Altona and Miss Florence Cramblit of Ames. The party included a hayrack ride and late refreshments on the lawn. Miss Fannie Curtiss departed for Moody's meetings in New York then to Connecticut and South Carolina before returning to work.
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