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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1897
Page
3
A pile of short items from Ames area news notes includes weather, auctions, and local tidbits. Mentions Read's Meat Market, Miss Elineta McGuire's Jessie Forsyth Temple role, Tulsa conventions, property updates, accidents, and community events with names like J. J. Queal & Co and Dr. Chamberlin.
McKinley era Agriculture Secretary Prof. Wilson arrives in Ames for a friendly visit with local residents, tours the college, and discusses lifting foreign markets for American farm products. He plans a western and southern tour to study agricultural conditions and beet sugar potential, traveling as a plain citizen to learn facts firsthand.
Weather in Iowa last week favored crops with mean temperatures above normal and helpful showers. Moisture remains ample for crops. corn progress is strong with early plantings safe by mid September and late plantings maturing by October 1. Threshing yields are fair to good for wheat oats and barley. potatoes and pastures benefited from rain. list of crop conditions shows varying unharvested percentages across crops.
A tall man identified as J C O Connell and his wife registered at the West Hotel in Des Moines Tuesday. The pair were awakened and accused of not being married after the sheriff from Boone and Marshall counties arrived with the lady’s brother. O Connell was jailed, the woman permitted to stay in her room, then accompanied him to the jail. The case is expected to go to a preliminary trial this afternoon.
The Ladies' Cemetery Association asks Ames residents to ride the Ames & College Railway on Friday August 20 to aid cemetery care and beautification. Passengers handle their own baggage and are not to count change.
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