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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1894
Page
3
The item notes that city schools will open for the fall term on Monday September 10. It also mentions local business activity including hat styles at E M Soper and Fopper for sale by the load, and various remarks on community happenings, weather, farming, and local travel.
The community gathers for grave services next Sabbath and W C T U meetings at the Congregational church on Friday August 24 at 3 p.m. Rev Leon A Harvey and Rev F J Douglass will speak at various churches. J W Geiger of Marion lecturing. Prof Noble at grove meeting. millinery sale at Watsons. credit policy and overdue accounts noted by Adams Bros.
Advertises an 80 acre farm in Marathon Benna Vista Co Iow for stock cattle trade. Mentions an arrest roundup last night of six suspects for breaking into a melon wagon with several held in jail.
The Iowa Weather and Crop Bulletin for the week ending August 21 notes a mean temperature about three degrees above normal with excess sunshine. Conditions remain favorable for unharvested crops as two-thirds of the state received copious showers, though the southwest and south central districts saw less rain. Corn conditions improved where vitality was maintained, with ears forming. much of planted acreage will be cut for fodder, and merchantable cribbed corn yields are expected to be about one third of the state average. Pastures are reviving and potatoes flax and millet show gains. Fall plowing has begun well.
Jay Allen bought two vacant lots of G W O'Brien north of Laura Whalen's home and plans to build. A 53 acre farm will be rented for 20 days. Private sale offers include one horse with buggy and harness, one cow, 30 cords of stove wood, five beehives, a two horse wagon, and four tons of hay. J H Keeley August 14, 1894. Eggs offered at 11 cents by Bigelow and Smith.
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