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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1894
Page
3
A bustling Ames column reports Labor Day events at campus, fall fashion at E M Soper and Talbotts, riding plows at Thurston and Graham, school openings, and Matched notes on residents. Social calls, travel, weather, and local business updates fill the page with promotions and community notices.
Special notice urges timely settlement of notes and accounts past due. The notice emphasizes that the receiver is entitled to payment and uses a closing line about short settlements making long friends.
An 80 acre farm is offered for trade for stock cattle by Bigelow and Smith. A pass to the State Fair is claimed by Civil War comrades from 1861 to 1865. Fences for sale by the load or acre. A wagon accident at Gilmore place injures Mrs Deckar, Mrs Carlton, and Sam Carlton with Grandma Decker in serious condition. neighbors aided them and they express thanks.
Next Sunday ushers the return of regular services as Tyre and Ames churches resume preaching. The Gilbert church reports a 460 dollar remodel including a new 18 by 22 foot lecture room in Georgia pine, repainted interior and exterior, with subscriptions and gifts covering the cost. A M E Sunday School picnic at Worrell's Grove provided a festive afternoon with stories and light humor.
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