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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1910
Page
5
Twenty-one months ago these sales began to clear up remnants and broken lines. They have served their purpose and today offer a better collection of quality merchandise than before. Articles are standard quality and desirable, with big savings for everyday needs.
Diverse fabric and sewing items offered with bulk discounts and customer limits. Includes Turkish wash cloths, pearl buttons, cambric embroidery edges, heavy toweling, talcum powder, pillow cases, bleached sheets and sheeting, linen towels, and assorted wash goods in silk blends and various colors.
An advertisement promotes ladies black sateen petticoats with tailored seams and deep flounce in full sizes, plus a well made black near silk skirt, offered as a choice while stocks last.
Odd napkins 69 cents for half dozens of linen napkins 22 inch size mostly all bleached slightly soiled some bargains in this lot. 72 inch heavy all linen table linen four large floral patterns half bleached one washing will make it pure white a great bargain per yard 79 cents.
Advertisement notes 100 allover embroidery waist fronts 22 inches by 24 inches on good cloth with swell new patterns. Priced 25 cents each, described as a very special value.
A local sale offers remnants of fine embroidery fabric at very low prices over three days this month. Shoppers are urged to inspect the collection for desirable lengths that can be used in crafts and projects.
A large assortment of fabrics and linens including ginghams, calicoes, flannelettes, curtain goods and towelings offered at yard prices up to 15 cents. Some bargains listed, with workyard pricing around 73 cents per yard.
About 100 pieces Val and Tor chon Insertions, no edges to match, from 4% to 5% yards on a card, some priced at 1 oc yd and 1 9c per piece.
W O Payne of Nevada visited Ames on Sunday. Rose Rothermal spent Saturday in Belle Plaine to visit a sister. M J Goldberger of Mapleton stayed at the W J Freed home. Kate Agnew Chapman of Des Moines visited with Miss Gladys Ackerman. Paul Kelley called to Omaha Saturday for his mother’s illness. D Rummel of Olin visited M K Smith home last week. Mrs Rider of Cedar Rapids came Tuesday to visit daughter Mrs Clyde Williams. Mrs 8S L Corbin of Des Moines spent yesterday with daughter Lizzie Corbin in Ames. Frank Sackett of Webster City visited this week at brother in law W D Rich on Kellogg avenue. Celia Clemenson, recently in Chicago studying styles, returned to reopen her millinery store. Mr and Mrs Embree returned today to Arapahoe Colorado after two weeks visiting friends. Mrs Z K Graves left Tuesday for Billings Montana to visit brother Lynn Freeland. Mrs A L Potter was called to Chicago Saturday by her father’s death. Mr Potter left Monday night for the funeral. Mr and Mrs H B Crouch of Boone, the Crouches of Nevada, and Mr and Mrs W J Cadd of Boone spent Tuesday at John Leecing home in Ames. Carl Burkhalter, who quit college, will leave Saturday for Clinton Oklahoma to take a job as assistant city engineer. Miss Myrrie McDonald of Wettstein Tailoring Co resumed work at 109 South Duff avenue after returning from Eagle Grove.
A dramatic stage adaptation of Augusta Evans Wilson’s novel St Elmo promises a gripping plot of a charming girl drawn into a wealthy family and a conflicted hero. The play features a duel death and a train wreck, with intense, breathless scenes and a fallible couple in love.
Rev. Houser of the Christian church will preach a Sunday night sermon on the 1910 corn crop. Prompted by a Department of Agricultural Extension request, he will present available information with charts testers and corn to illustrate his points. The talk aims to aid farmers and stress a spiritual truth about life here and beyond.
The Brotherhood of the Ames church of Christ will hold their annual banquet in the church parlors Monday night. Plates will be 35 cents each. All men of the church and their gentleman friends are welcome. Mission speeches and debates will be the order of the evening. Notify Prof. Hughes, secretary, to reserve a plate.
A schedule lists dancing school at Smiths Hall on Thursday evenings from 8 to 9 and an assembly from 9 to 11. Contact 44 21 Ruby Tait for details.
The notice thanks neighbors and young men for help removing goods from a burning house. It updates on Billy Fleming injuring his left wrist while aiding at Kellogg avenue. Various local ads offer real estate farms rooms and livestock for sale with names and addresses in Ames Des Moines and Ferris Illinois.
The Ames Baptist Church lists a 9 45 Bible school a 11 00 sermon Christ in the Home a 3 00 Junior Union a 6 30 B Y P U and a 7 30 sermon Is Protestantism Unhappy with services announced for the day.
The Congregational Church presents a morning theme Jesus the Enthusiast and an evening theme The Aramaic Language as part of Lenten addresses by the pastor. Dr Hibbard will speak at the beach class at 10 00 a m on Social Salvation illustrated by the Juvenile Court.
Sunday school at 10:00 led by Mrs Edna Pruitt Supt Sermon at 11:00 The Mysteries of God Y P C E U at 6 30 Sermon at 7 30 Christ Healing Disease Bible school 10 00 E B Owen Supt Communion and preaching 11 00 All for Jesus Sake Junior Endeavor 3 00 Senior Endeavor 6 30 Evening sermon 7 30 illustrated by chart plant and corn to warn those in agriculture about the 1910 corn crop All are welcome
Miss Scoville joins the Fair dry goods department after leaving Carson, Pirie Scott in Chicago. Mr and Mrs Frank Curtis move from Sweeney property in east Ames to G S Foster property in northwest Ames. Hogs fetch 9.65 per hundred in Chicago. pork prices reach a high not seen since 1870. Mrs Adie Cook of Nevada seeks divorce. Mrs Anna Overland of Story City also seeks divorce in the March term. William Markham of Boone suffers two finger injuries in Northwestern yards with possible amputation. Pete Shugart of Nevada buys a quarter section in Richland township at 140 per acre from M E Boynton. Mrs C E Holmes shows marked health improvement after illness. Clayton Smith leaves Duckworth parlors to join Proper furniture next week.
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