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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1897
Page
10
Local notes include sales at M Read's and Soper's, a Bradley White dry goods closeout, garland gifts from Swank & White, Kooser's News Stand cigars, Judish Bros books, and 1898 magazine orders. Weather and sleighing updates, church events, a measles quarantine note, and local business changes.
A compilation of short notices lists Dr. Hunt visiting Michigan and Dr. I C Brownlie in Chicago on business. It records court sessions in Nevada on the 10th of next month and several local residents visiting relatives in Des Moines Omaha Cedar Rapids Sterling and other places for holidays plus travel to Omaha and Belle Plaine.
Last Friday morning a kitchen explosion tore through the Moffitt home in the west end of town. The large stove with a hot water attachment shattered windows, damaged carpets, and left John Lowe injured but alive with two teeth missing. The blast likely resulted from frozen water in the pipes forcing steam back into the reservoir. The incident followed by community notices, including a M. E. church dime sociable and juror lists for 1898, and a note on a local wedding at Nevada.
The Baptist Educational Conference delegates choose Des Moines College as the state's Baptist college by a 93 to 38 vote, with Pella and other sites split. A financial secretary will canvass for a $100,000 endowment shared by Des Moines, Pella, Osage, Sac City and possibly Burlington, aiming for larger national support.
Tur show windows in Ames stores this week captivate passersby with movable displays. Soper features an upright cone frame draped with gaudy neckties that revolve, while Tiideus offers a similar revolving display attracting attention from pedestrians.
The Christmas program tomorrow evening will be unusually interesting as children eagerly prepare their parts and rehearse around the manger scene recalling the King’s childhood. Mrs. B. J. Loughran was listed as sick last week.
A petition circulates in Ames to prevent possible pardoning of Geo Stanley, imprisoned for life in Anamosa for killing William Patterson in 1870. The Story City Herald reports broad local support as signatures pile up among voters.
Bids for medical attendance including surgery and drugs for the poor of Story County are due January 3, 1808. Separate bids requested for districts Nor Lincoln Sherman Warren. No.2 Howard LaFayette. No.3 Franklin Washington Grant. No.4 Milford Nevada New Albany Richland. No.5 Collins Indian Creek. No.6 Union Palestine. Details at Nevada Iowa County Auditor with right to reject all bids.
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