Local Ames Miscellany Sparks Small City Happenings
Local notes report diverse items from commerce and schooling to accidents and social visits. Mentions purchases at Judison Bros and Bankrupt Store, Miss Lillie Simmons starting fall term, cattle struck by lightning, a Newton visitors party at Munn home, and new Arcade lunch room tenants Elmer Banks and Charley Mussleman. Also covers a moving train collision near Grant siding with no injuries, a steam shovel crew falling ill from buttermilk, veterans lobbying for Holmes pension, a Davis House cook charged with attempted rape, Compton named Ames piano man, lost black fur robe on campus, local moves and sales notices, and a Sunday disturbance leading to an arrest.
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South Side
Marshal Ricketts
Justice O’brien
Lissou Bros
Bigelow
Grundy Center
Wellsburg
Iowa
Times
Ames Social Notes and Local Happenings
Sadie Underwood visits Miss Abbie Cole in Eagle Grove while Miss Jessie Matthews from Des Moines visits Ames relatives. A parade of visitors, travels and trips marks the week with professors, lawyers and merchants in Ames, including travel to Omaha, Colorado Springs, and Terre Haute. Local events feature hotel leasing news, a girls camping incident at Hannum's mill, weather and power interruptions, and a push for mining stock interest.
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Sadie Underwood
Abbie Cole
Eagle Grove
Jessie Matthews
Des Moines
Ames
Sumner Holcomb
Boone
Frank Gibson
Archie Little
West
Joe Cohn
Okoboji
McCarthy
Prof. Spinney
Colorado Springs
Henry Raynor
Margaret
Clifford
J. J. Grove
Webster City
Grove
Albert
K. Livingstone
Ada Livingstone
Perry
Mary Grafton
Cambridge
Spencers. Cole
North American Mining Company
William
MecMillian
M. Gammon
Omaha
Atlantic
Iowa
McMillan
Cass County
Gammon
Clover Club
Hannum’s Mill
Marshe
Special Ames Cemetery Corp Meeting at Read's Hall
A special meeting of the Ames Cemetery Corporation is set for Thursday evening August 16 at 8 o'clock at Read's hall. President F. T. McLarty announces important business and directs inquiries to Hemstreet & Campbell regarding Goop Hard Wood for sale.
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Ames Cemetery Corporation
Read’s Hall
F. T. McLarty
Hemstreet & Campbell
Reunion of Story County soldiers and sailors held at Story City
The 24th annual reunion of Story county soldiers and sailors took place at Story City over Thursday and Friday with a grand time. Officers elected for the next year include A Nelson Col A P King Lieut Col R May Quartermaster A Ersland Major Z A Bunce Chaplain Ed Bunce Surgeon John O Johnson Adjutant Geo Pitsor Fife Major John Doty Drum Major Compton noted as Anes plano man.
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Story County
Story City
Cambridge
A. Nelson
A. P. King
R. May
A. Ersland
Z. A. Bunce
Ed. Bunce
John O. Johnson
Geo. Pitsor
John Doty
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Ht. L. Munn & Son
CompTon
Ames Plano
Harp
Judison Bros
Lillie Simmons
Hutchison School
Hauser
Gro. Kimble
Milford
Pammel
Alexander and
Axtell
Newton
Munn
Elmer Banks
Charley Mussleman
Mabie
the Times
Crirford Johnson
James Johnson
Ontario
Cash
Meyers
Willard McCarthy
William Strum
Cooper
Hindman
Congress
A. J. Holmes
Boone Standard
Davis House
W. H. Greenwood
Cutler Robinson
O. K
Wynn
Greenwood
Arshal Ricketts
Robinson
Judge's
S. G. Hamilton
J. B. Kooser & Co
Rome Simmons
E. ©. Jones
Kooser
Aliie Needham
Tar Times
Prof
Mrs. Resler
C.H. Davis
Osage
Julian
C. W. Alien
Nevada
Elmer Beckwith
Toledo
Floyd O'Brien
Terre Haute
Indiana
Mattie Livingstone
Anaconda
Montana
Dr. Grafton
Eugene Livingstone
F. Samson Scribner
Dept. of Agriculture
Washington
Craig
H. L. Hutt
Ontario Agricultural College
Dept. of Horticulture
Department of Agriculture
Dollie Sexton
No. 4
Colorado
Denver
Chicago
Maxwell & Son
West Hotel
W. H. Nelson
Gilbert Station
Nelson
Gilbert
Maxwells
Maxwell
Tuk Board of Trustees
The
W. H. Donaldson
Lighening
Mothers’ Congress
Mothers’ Library
Douglaas
Giro. T. Williams
Ida County
Paris
Geo. T
England
Scotland
New York
United States
America
Williams
Letts’s
T. J. Miller & Son
Golden Eagle
C. F. Letts
Tilden & Loughran
S. Brent
Hauser’s Hardware
Lincoln
Red Oak
Aurchison
James R. Meloure
Keltner
Jas. Atkinson
M. D. Marshall
Postal Department
Philippines
Guam
Hawaii
Tuitala
Porto Rico
Cuba
Times Republican
E. C. Macy
I. 8 S
Ames’fairst
Kelly
Oskaloosa North
Marshalltown
Macy
Wilden Bros
Hiawser
U. B
UNION
Congregational Church
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