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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1903
Page
3
A retailer invites shoppers to visit departments for help selecting gifts. Packages may be marked and left in the care of staff until picked up. The message notes complete assortments before the holiday rush and encourages early selections.
Our clothing department presents new holiday items for men and boys. Fancy suspenders priced around $1.25 to 1.50, sterling buckle suspender holders, assorted handkerchiefs, neckwear, suitcases, shirts, gloves, sweaters, hats, caps, suits and overcoats. We offer this week at less than regular wholesale prices.
A new belt line in black red and blue Dee BR offers .75c and 50c price points. The collection features crushed leather textures and fresh colorways for fashion shoppers seeking affordable accessories.
Store slashes stock in a cloaks and furs sale with new and up-to-date ladies cloaks priced at 7.75 and 10.00 for select lines. Other items range from 10.00 to 15.00, with higher tier cloaks offered at 15.00.
A collage of local items lists mill and store ads, Christmas goods, sermons, theatre and concert notes, moves of residents, social club updates, and upcoming church events. It mentions purchases at Hamiltons and J B Kooser Co, entertainments with elocutionists, a cantata at the Christian church, and changes at a local library and Daughters of Rebekah chapters.
Mrs L M Sisson died Tuesday morning at 7 15 at the home of A J Graves on Kellogg street after a two week pneumonia illness. She was a charter member and treasurer of the W R C for six years and belonged to the Rathbone Temple and Ladies Guild of the Episcopal church. She leaves her husband three children and a sister, with funeral at the Congregational church. An obituary will be given next week.
Mrs C G Lee hosted a six oclock dinner for twenty young women in her home. Miss Anna Cooley announced her engagement to Mr Will Griffith with the wedding set for January six at the bride’s Waterloo home. Guests included Bess Dunham Ora Brant Ethel Carpenter Blanche Youngs and several others.
North Street listing offers Poland China bogs for sale of either sex eligible to register. Contact N. H. Grirrira at 33 3nd Ames IA for details.
Mrs Ethel Cook Mitchem and her four year old daughter Mildred die in a Burlington train wreck four miles from Albia. The engine jumps the track at a river bridge causing cars to split and burn. The child perishes after falling through a floor hole while clinging to a bridge girder. Three others killed and nine injured in the Sunday morning disaster near Albia.
An open house hosted by Mr. and Mrs. John McDaniel south of the college campus drew guests who arrived in pairs. The evening featured bachelor apartment demonstrations, witty stunts at Mrs McDaniel’s, and late refreshments before returning by moonlit routes with chaperones guiding guests home.
Frep Gerbracht of the southwest Ames area received first prize for a paper on Developing and Printing Brontide Paper from the Professional Photograph company of Buffalo New York. The award was a Seraph Lens Combination set.
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