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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1898
Page
3
Local notices report Mrs. O F Martin hosting tea and Adams Bros prices for produce. Many short items cover visits, health, travels, millinery moves, a Klondike fortune claim, and small incidents including a burglary and a jail escape attempt. names include Grace Whalen, Daisy Kinson, J R Decker, Geo Elliott, Belle Rutherford Son, and Isabelle Gaston James among others.
A severe storm system drenched the Ames area with about two and a half inches of rain and strong winds that damaged trees windmills and outbuildings southwest of town. A lightning strike set O A Shaws hay barn northeast of town ablaze with seventy five tons of hay lost. The storm also cut corn and pasture crops while the rain proved beneficial to pastures.
Rev W B Costley of Stockbridge Ga reports cholera morbus attack at Ellenwood Ga was relieved at once after taking Chamberlains Colle Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says it saved his life and urges purchase from all druggists.
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