Ames Local Miscellany Highlights Holiday Stores and Snow
The Ames area reports a heavy snow fall of ten inches and a busy holiday scene with Invites to a social ball at the opera house and Des Moines orchestra. Local merchants advertise New Buckwheat Adams Bros toys and dolls, and Christmas beef. Bert Bacon and Ron Bigelow chased rabbits while Tur Sweeney rebuilt after fire. A sales note on newspapers and Monroe Doctrine toast the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apams Bros
Elliott’s. Bie
Opera House
Des Moines
Ron. Bigelow
Bert Bacon
Tur Sweeney
Lockwood
Santurday
Ames
Nevada
Tas
Dean & Dali
Tux Times
Jean
Tax Hoyt Comedy Company
Ames Opera House
Bert McLain
Boone
American Express Co
Bert
Nelson Taylor's
Bloomington
Father Taylor
Webster City
Geo. T. Williams
Ed. Miller
Gilbert & Miller
Tux Blaine-Spence Company
J.P. Watson
Frank B. Spence
Pax Times
Ames Friends and Holiday Travel Notables
Local paragraphs list Ames residents visiting relatives and friends for Christmas and holidays. Names include Blanche Bradley in Des Moines, Frank Schleiter visiting friends, W P Fitchpatrick of Nevada, Frank Worthman of Algona, Miss Pope and Miss Myrtle Stamp from various Iowa towns, Dr B Powell of Albia, and professors and engineers visiting from Chicago, Independence, and Manchester. Also notes about travels to Minneapolis, Freeport, Lincoln, and Washington University, with mentions of farm institutes and dairy meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.P. Fitchpatrick
Nevada
Ames
Frank Worthman
Algona
Miss Pope
Scranton
Gates Brown
Medical
Chicago
al. Walkey
Fred
Freeport
Farmers’ Institute
Hamison
Minnesota
Tracy
Minn
Merre
S. D
M. H. Kistler
Fred Munn
C. Potter
Washington University
St. Loui
A.C
John M. Cotton
Omaha World-Herald
John Kegley
Mr. Cotten
Settle All Accounts In 30 Days, Bigelow & Smith Notice
A demand to all debtors to settle accounts within 30 days to cover heavy upcoming bills. Elliott advertised with a new holiday goods store. In District No 4 Washington township a school reports 45 enrolled students, 18 days taught, average 25, with several pupils listed as perfect in attendance. Advertising Electric Bitters for elderly users as a medicinal tonic. Alec ule Bitters praised as appetite aid, sold by L. M. Bosworth at 50 cents per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bigelow & Smith
Nerour
Dist
Washington Township
Carrie Hurst
Bila Sayles
Ploud Skelton
Harry Sheehey
Arthur
Eugene Hubbart
Harry
George Keltner
Eugene Cofelt
Gartaupx Monsts
L. M. Bosworth’s
Elliott Furniture Building Rises Fast Under Duntz Contract
Seventy five days after breaking ground the Elliott furniture building is completed from top to bottom. A Duntz, known as a hustler, held the contract for the entire project. The two story brick structure measures twenty five by ninety feet with a basement the full size. The work is praised as solid and well finished with a basement to top floor elevator. PD is noted for neat, rapid craftsmanship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliott Furniture
A. Duntz
Duntz
Death and memories amid Ames Story County notices
The fragment notes the death of Mrs. Catherine Shockley Reynard, born in Henry County Indiana in 1825. It details her long residence in Story County and Ames, church affiliations, family losses, and a brief funeral reference. The rest advertises medicines, fur buyers, flour, and assorted local notices with names and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Reynard
Henry Co
Ind
Willams, Shockley Get
Story County
Ames
M. E
A. B
William Shockley
Hicks
St. John
Local Hardware Promises Bargains at Caniel Bros and Herman's
An important notice invites city residents to shop at Caniel Bros. and Herman's for cheap cash deals on all kinds of goods. It mentions rootable store room items and lists several names tied to the promotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevens É Rudd
J. B. Billett
Amos, Jows
Caniel Bro’s
Herman's
Local notices and public notices stir debate on debts and electric plant
Advertisements urge prompt debt settlement and order car bondale coal deliveries. Chamberlain's Pain Balm advertised for sore throat and pains. A note questions Ames electric franchise failures and argues for spring election discussion on city light plants citing Arena evidence of city plants earning surpluses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Borror
Ames
7Ze Arena
Story County Bank
Also Mentioned on This Page
Elliott's
J. E. Davis
Ben Read
New York
Adams Bros
Helen
Papa
Blanche Bradley
Frank Schleiter
Myrtle Stamp
Strawberry Point
Iowa
Raynors
B. Powell
Albia
Towa
3. H. Cook
Pammel
Independence
Rosete Douglass
Grinnell
Allende Sehgg
Mr. Tennant
Iowa City
Engineer T. C. Miller
Goone
John A. Miller
Chas. Sargent
Mount Vernon
Olf
Martin
Warren McGuire
Minneapolis
S. L. Weed
J. H. Warburton
Jewell Junction
Marshalltown Times
F. Martin
Marabanltown
Taylor
Bill
Elliott
Hig New Store
DR. Cramblit
King OF
Pain
L. M. Bosworth
Judisch Bros
D. D. Bales
E. H. Graves
Gilbert
Eliott
O. F. Martel
Catherine Shockley
Redondo Beach
Cal
A. V. Trudell
James Orchard
Chamberlain
J. M. Hatcher
Tame and
Gaston
Watertown
Avams Bros
Stech Bergama
J. EB. Davis
Rotiec
Hnens
The
Yair
M. Sormr
Tourston & Graham
B. A. Lockwood
F. N. Fow.Eer
Electne
Youv
Irwin,randall& CO
Story Countty
E. M. Super
P. S
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