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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1903
Page
3
Local notices report ongoing illnesses and recoveries, social events, sales, and community concerns. Items include engagements, social gatherings, a lost pocketbook, a fire scare at the Nelson House, school suspensions for snowballing, a theater booking, church updates, a special annexation election, and the death of Nora Thomas Ward.
A long list of residents and nearby towns vacationed or visited Des Moines, Boone, and Clinton over the weekend and weekdays. Names include M. K. Smith, L. C. Tilden, Mrs. Lynch, Jim Reynolds, Hannah Clark, Ed Wilson, Asa Vandermast, Moliie Fenton, Matilda Renter, Hal Roll, Mrs. Ed Wilson, Donald Sowers, Day las Richmond, Mrs. Roselle Payne, J. Jacobs, Paul Elliot, and many others visiting relatives or attending events.
Mrs. Emily C. Cooley died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Geo Billott in Boone on Friday February 6 at 2 pm. She was eighty and funeral services were held at the house Sunday at 10 30 am. The remains were brought to Ames on No 4 for burial. Grandma Cooley was well known to pioneer Ames residents.
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