Local Miscellany and Agricultural Notes
Adams Bros. Mrs Jas Vanscoy improves after illness. Prof Wilson protocoI death in Chicago. burial at Traer. Mrs Wheeler learns of sister’s death in Belmont IA. Dr E A Kegley to practice Feb 21 at his father’s. Miles White rents farm near Boone. sale on 25 moving to Boone. Ames honors Secretary Wilson. prominent guests. Uncle Geo Sowers greets town after four months. Lincoln birthday sermon planned at Congregational church. Lincolns birthday sermon noted. Ren Read injures abdomen by horse. recovering. Christian Endeavor hosts 10 cent sociable at W W Wilson’s. M H Kistiner recovering from the grip. plans Allenton PA trip. K G Osternovt J H Mowry auction Colfax township Boone county on 23. moving to Idaho. Billy Sowers’s pork business and locomotive bunner noted. Des Moines trip confirms land title for forty acres. Sowers now owner. E C Hoears resigns as Belle Plaine C N W Supt. to enter banking. Weather’s effect on fruit buds examined. prospects for good crop. Good Templars install officers. lodge revival efforts. Juvenile Temple to meet with Senior Lodge Feb 12 for joint program. ANNOUNCEMENT Chicago Medical and Surgical Institute advertises treatments. home or institute care. no local treatment. Mr King stopping at West Hotel. Geo Bell corn hauling sparks local farm talk. Cambridge buyers dinner offer. Four farmers drive sixty loads to Cambridge. largest load 101 bushels by Harry Benington. ownership split among four parties. Bell’s corn to Ames was his own.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. H. Kistiner
Allenton
K. G. Osternovt
J. H. Mowry
Geo. Thomas
Colfax
Boone County
Idaho
Mown
T. C. Miller
Bower & Sorenson
Billy
R. R
Jim Sowers
Milford
Des Moines
Government Land Office
E. C. Hoears
C.& N.ow
Belle Plaine
Hughes
Tere
Jerry Sexton
Horticultural Department
TI. A. C
Templars
W. E. Gossard
C. F
Chicago Medical and Surgical Institute
Lasalle Ave
Lincoln Park
Chicago
Ill
S. G. King
Geo. Bell
Ames
Cambridge
Bell
Warner
Beckley
John Henick
Ned Olinger
Ora Henick
Northwestern
Harry Benington
Mose Seals
Mr. Bell
Local news and political caucuses in Ellsworth 1897
Miss Bertha Thompson returns from Nebraska. Des Moines gar beet meeting addressed by Prott’s Wilson and Curtiss. City caucuses set for Feb 15 to nominate mayors and aldermen. Ellsworth Woman’s Relief Corps marks ten years with programs, auctions, and prizes. Local figures include L. T. McLain, G. Harpy, N. Fowler, Eswarp, J. B. Clark, and F. T. McLain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prott
Wilson
Curtiss
Des Moines
Ames Weekly Notes Highlight Wilson Reception and Local Events
Ames community items cover the Wilson reception at Odd Fellows and Masonic halls with a banquet at the opera house, local deaths and inquest notes, church missions and protracted meetings, school commencement at the opera house, and upcoming dances, sales, and notices from Miller Kooser to Adams brothers.
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Adams Bros
Jas. Vanscoy
Traer
E. A. Kegley
Cedar Rapids
Miles White
Boone
Agriculture Wilson
Geo. Sowers
Congregational Church
Lincoln
Ren Read
Christian Endeavor Society of the
W. W. Wilson
Miss Bertha Thompson
Nebraska
Bernice Soper
Liddie
Gilbert
C. E. Sargent
Mt. Vernon
Teek’ McGuire
Geo. Dunnings
Eagie Grove
I. L. Smith
Nevada
Mayor Smith
Anna Clark
Miss Blanche Clark
Java
Nice
Wm. Clark
Charles City
Cherokee
Fitchpatrick
Rummel
Prof. Culbertson
J. G. Hardin
Galen Tilden
Boston
Washington
Wellesley
Citizens Caucus
L . _T. McLAIn
G. Harpy
N. Fowler
Eswarp
Third Ward
Butler
South Side
F. N. Fower. Com
Second Ward
2Nd Ward
L. G. Hardin
Vcaucus
Lawton House
F. T. McLain
Com
Home Minstrel Company
Opera House
Itpd
Squire O'Brien
Oue
Evergreen U. B
J. B. Clark
Miller
Charles Hamilton
Bacon
Billie (Giddings) Bradley
Drummond
J. M
Kooser
Handsome
Homley
Chas. Kooser
Hop
L. M. Bosworth
Minnesota
Miller & Kooser
The
Ames Volunteer Fire Company
St. Patrick's Day
Nichols
Ogden
M. E
Chapel Ladies Aid Society
Margaret Rockwell
Williams
Flare West
Christian Chapel
Rev
Wigmore
Pine
Ep. Irwin
Irwin Randall
Geo. O’brien
Ben Finchem
Town
Richmond
Cole
Bishop
Hawarden
Johanna Peterson
Anderson
North Side
Sweden
Svingen of
Randall
Douglass
Ladies of the Baptist Church
Burma
Geddes
Jacob E. Hoover
Keya Paha County
Neb
Indiana
Story County
Montgomery County
Ohio
John Hoover
Dixon
William Paskins
Zenorsville
Iowa
Thrall
Wright Co
Tipton Stafford Shire
England
America
Newburg
Moingona
Boone Co
Zenoisville
Evangelical Church
William
Benjamin
Sarah Camron
Jennie Urbino
Bissel
Goldfield
M. E. Church
Odd Fellows
Masonic
Henry Wilson
L. C. Tilden
Turner McLain
Jas. Wilson
Story County Bank
J. H. Queal & Co
United Brethren Church
Perkins
Washington's
Ellsworth Post
No. 30
Post Hall
Reques
M. Helmstreet
St of A. 8S
Lipple
Bosworth’s
Plymouth Rock
J. J. Kegley
White House
Ey F. W. Kruse
Depot
Lmood E. Lake
Ontario
Tur Dorcas Minstrel Company
Atl
AL Star Minstrels
Our
Boece Shoe Sale
Drew, Selby & Co
Tilden Bros. & Co
Cramblil
L.M. Bosworth
D. D. Bales
Judisch Bros
Ioway
A. A. Lance
Slater
Lowa
Burns
Ayers’ Photograph Gallery
Spring & Son
French Coach Horse Stud Book of America
Aslam
Osterhout
P. O
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