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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1898
Page
2
We have bought and received two cases of Percales offering 7c and 8c on two lots worth 10c and 15c. New fleece-lined Ladies Underwear at 25c per garment. A full line of dress goods from 25c to 50c and black dress goods at 50c to 60c.
The filing claims George Sorenson owns the east half of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27 in township 83 north range 24 west and attacks heirs of Christian Christianson. The suit asks to quiet title against all adverse claims and bar others from asserting rights to the described parcel in Story county Iowa. The court set an August 22 1898 deadline for respond.
Members of the W R C and invited guests picnicked on August 10 at Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stephens five miles northeast of town. Cars arrived around 10 a m, the Stephens hosted with a long table of foods, hammocks, photos, fortunes, ice cream, and merry conversation ending in plans for another gathering.
The Story County Christian Endeavor societies meet August 26 1898 at the Nevada Lutheran church to organize a county union. The schedule lists services discussions at Nevada Ames Gilberto Cambridge Slater and others with multiple addresses and a public report urged from all societies.
Mr John Mathias of Pulaski Kentucky reports he suffered a week with flux. After no relief from a physician he tried Chamberlain's Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and says half a bottle cured him. For sale by druggists.
From my farm four miles east of Ames a steel gray three year old mare with a forehead stripe and one fore foot wire cut is missing. Notify H Banks.
Mrs Opwith of Roland visits her son while M Scotts wheat yields 27 bushels per acre. H Banks boys ride a two wheeler. Reporters may have misread foliage for ears in the latest bulletin. William Taylor threshes north of here and R Robinson east. Both threshing machines do good work. In choosing commissioners for the Spanish affair, Mc Kinley is urged to appoint Ex-President Harrison as chairman.
Des Moines reports cooler than usual weather last week aiding threshing and grain stacking. Corn progress varies by field with early plantings nearing silk while later growth shows ears. frost risk assessments suggest most corn safely mature by late September and first frost unlikely before October, with state output near or above average under normal conditions.
Colonel W F Cody known as Buffalo Bill will return to Omaha with Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Rough Riders of the World August 30 and 31. Exposition commissioners set August 31 as W F Cody Day and a grand parade plus reviews across the grounds are planned drawing vast crowds and rail traffic.
Advertises removal from a room now occupied by Mr Sisson and sells mens furnishings hats caps trunks valises and shoes at 20 to 40 percent discount.
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