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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1901
Page
3
On January 26 1901 the District Court of Story County Iowa appointed Frances S Piers administratrix of the estate of Clarence V Pitts deceased. All debtors must pay the estate and all creditors should present their claims legally authenticated to the court for allowance dated January 28 1901.
Gilberts Mr Kibbee travels to Chicago with stock. Ed Holmes expands ice supply. Rev Hiscot seeks new field. Jenkins buys another road team. Annis Spring moves to Story County near McFarlan school. Totten family relocates to Conrad place. John Hoglan sells to his sister in Ames. Mrs. Swearingen very ill with poor prognosis. Three emigrant cars arrive this week. Bucannan ships cattle to Chicago. Graves of Ames visits Story County Mutual Insurance. Totten Bros plan a new bank building. Zenor returns spring to run a local grocery. Marsden family mourns death of son in Cambridge Indiana leaving a wife and five children.
Local items report visits by G McMillan and C D Boardman, skating on the creek, joint receptions, and construction for a Dr Cessna residence near the campus. Also covered are lectures, the International Live Stock Association meeting, hospital renovations, a brick and tile convention in Ames, and obituaries for Mrs. Julia McLain with an obituary tribute.
You are notified on file in the Clerk of the District Court Story County Iowa of the Petition of Lolela R. Sweeney seeking a divorce from Wm. Sweeney on desertion support cruelty and other causes. You must appear and defend by noon March term 1901. If not, default and decree will be entered. Plaintiff's attorney J F P Martin.
Advertises loans that can be paid on any interest pay day with adjustable payments and a reduced rate. Notes a commission charge on such loans.
Ames High held its declamatory contest at the opera house to select a representative for the district contest in Eldora on March 24. Thirteen contestants performed with Dwight F. Davis winning the oratorical prize, Earl Templeton second, and Jessie Williams third. If the school’s top pick is not advanced in the oratorical division, the next-best will be submitted. the district winner goes to the state contest in Glenwood on April 19.
The following trial jurors are drawn to report Tuesday March 19 for the March term. Aiken Milford Township Allen Franklin Ballard Howard Bales Warren Beedle Washington Bennetham Indian Creek Couser Lincoln Danielson La Fayette Dodd Franklin Foster Palestine Foote Nevada Gates Nevada Grosselose Union Gay Nevada Halverson Palestine Heggen Union Holle Sherman Johnson Palestine Jenkins Franklin Kooser Washington Liddle La Fayette Maxwell Washington Mercer Nevada Morris Washington Miller Washington Pearson Indian Creek Peterson Nevada Rex Franklin Ainertson Palestine Sampson Milford Shaw Milford Townswick La Fayette Van Horn Richland Wells Nevada.
The Ames Commercial Club will hold its regular meeting at Redmen's ball on Friday evening March 1 to consider a proposed sewer system for Ames. Mr. G. W. Bissell will be present to discuss the plan, and all interested persons are invited.
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