Local MISCELLANY and Notices in Ames
Local items report Letts' ham sale at 6c per lb and corn pricing at Tilden Bros. A Rathbone Sisters meeting is planned for Friday at 7 30 PM. New I S C compendiums arrive late week. Adams Bros invites a year opening celebration. C D Allen marketed twenty eight hundred pound pigs last Thursday. K P lodge officers to be installed Monday at Castle hall with refreshments. Dr C M Proctor of S S Still College of Osteopathy will visit Ames each Wednesday and Saturday with treatment claims. Shilohs Cough cures advertised with money back guarantee. Wart and other tonics tout medicinal cures. County officers installed. Charley Soper as county clerk and Jay Page recorder. Burgess editor in chief at the auditor’s office. A Joplin Mo preacher anecdote about a deaf mute listener. National Live Stock Association annual meeting slated in Denver January 14–27 1899 with Dr M Stalker expected to attend and endorse work by Washington Bureau of Animal Industry. Discussion on longevity and health by Dr Pierce with promotion of Golden Medical Discovery to improve digestion and blood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Charley Soper
Jay Page
Recorder’s Office
John Q. Burgess
Times
National Live Stock Association
Denver
United States
de. M. Stalker
Bureau of Animal Industry
Washington
Stalker
National Association
Veterinary Department
Iowa School
Personal notices of Ames residents and visitors
Ames social notes list Mrs. Charlie Sargent visiting Wm. Clark. Ole O. Roe. Jed Porter. Prof. Knapp. Geo. W. O'Brien. Brad Knapp. Grace Schleiter. Helen Watts. Mrs. Skelton. Geo. Koons. M. J. Jones. Ormia Vesper. Chas Garberson. J. Jacobs. Ray McCormick. Froland team. and various travels to Boone, Peoria, Des Moines, Chicago, New York. Also mentions doctors, postmasters, grip, oysters, and local church meetings with conversions. Mystic Encampment No. 114 organized in Ames with officers and supper.
N. W. Picks First Plumb No. 9 Fast Mail
The Northwestern’s new fast mail No. 9 ran Chicago to Omaha in record time, reaching Ames on schedule and beating the rival Q line by eighteen minutes in a seven day government contract race. Engineer Reed guided the 584, Conductor Fenlon aboard, with Supt. Ashton and Chicago paper reps onboard. Two brakemen were left behind when the train departed Ames. The return trip from Chicago was forty minutes late but still competitive, and this morning the train arrived eight minutes early in Ames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berg
Reed
Northwestern
Ames Depot
College Hill
Chicago
Omaha
Ames
Peggy” Reed
Fenlon
Supt. Ashton
Local Ames items include weddings church plans and notices
Ames Chronicle reports Bert Cramblitt and Miss Phoebe Ashton wed in Boone with the couple occupying over the Fair store rooms. Congregational church plans move toward a new building costing at least $6,000 with a 48 by 36 foot auditorium. Various meetings, operations, and social events fill the week including lectures and school notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert. Cramblitt
Phoebe Ashton
Boone
Bert
Ames
Meeting topics at U B Church this week
Thursday at 7 30 The Untold Friday The Diseased Sin its Remedy Saturday The Seeking Savior Sunday What Waits for All services begin at 7 30 and invite friends especially non professors
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. B
Leader Publisher Recovers From Second Grippe Attack
Mexia Texas publisher Jas A Jones credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy with shortening the second bout of la grippe he suffered this year. He notes bed rest of about six hours for the second attack versus ten days the first, and says he could not work after the onset in the first case. For sale by druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. A. Jones
Leader
Mexia
Texas
Chamberlain
Story County Agricultural Society to Meet in Nevada Iowa
Officers and stock-holders are called to a meeting at the clerk's office in the courthouse Nevada Iowa on Saturday January 7 at 1 pm O G Ashford president J F Martin secretary All interested urged to attend Also Gust Lindell opens a horse shoeing shop next to Freeland Livery offering good work guaranteed
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Story County Agricultural Society
Court House
Nevada
Iowa
Freeland Livery
Meteorology of December 1898 at Ames Southeast of Ames
Meteorological observations for December 1898 at sunrise 2 p.m. and sunset near Ames by Isaac Young for the Ames Times. Notable figures include a 42 degree high on December 1 and 18 degrees below zero on December 13 and 31, with a monthly mean of 18 degrees and total precipitation of 0.30 inch over three days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Isaac Young
Ames Times
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Promotion and School Program
Public notice guarantees refunds for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy bottles sold at 25 and 50 cents. Also notes a Manila visitor praising Adams Bros cigars. A school event in Slater on January 14 1899 lists musical, recitation, papers, and discussions directed by Al A Fries and others with ConA McConnell and H G Lamson present.
To CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets from druggists with a money back guarantee if it fails. The Q on each tablet.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tilden Bros. & Co
Rathbone Sisters
I.S. C
Adams Bros
C. D. Allen
Thei
K. P. Lodge
C. M. Proctor
Still College of Osteopathy
Des Moines
R. T. Sissson
Shiloh
Judish Bros
Judishh Bros
Joplin
Dr. Pierce
Mrs
Charlie Sargent
Wm. Clark
Ole O. Roe
Jed Porter
Mrs. Knapp
Peoria, Ill
Geo. W. O’brien
Moline
Ill
Brad Knapp
Belmond
Wright County
Grace Schleiter
Helen Watts
Cleghorn
W. M. Skelton
Marshalltown
Tama
Geo. Koons
John Koons
M. J. Jones
Clinton
Ormia Vesper
Algona
Mabel Moffitt
Chas. Garberson
Alta
Hunter and Kooser
J. Jacobs
New York
Ray McCormick
Belle Plaine
Mr. A. Harlan
Fitzwater
Okoboji
Will Scott
Will Clark
Mrs. O'Neill
Zearing
Cole
C. W. Allen
Story City
County Board of Pension Examiners
Dr. Beardshear
Washington, D. C
The
United States Indian Commission
Ella Hall
Minnie Blake
Thos. Thompson
Bing” Howard
Webster City
Cedar Rapids
Howard
Ben Read
Abigail Heggatt
Maine City
J. J. Grove
James R. McIntire
Christian Church
U. B. Church
Dubuque
Wright
United Brethren Church
Carps
J. A. West
Nelle Taylor
Dallas City
Fort Madison
West
Odd Fellowship
J. T. Temple
Davenport
Wm. Musson
A. J. Kelly
Lodge
Rebeccas
Harday
W. D. Rieh
Howard McLain
Robi. McCarthy
W. F. Fleming
Wm. Hulett
N. W
Mr. Doran
Milwaukee
J. J. Doran
Howell Street
Lake
Dodd
Kright
Dodd's Medicine Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Chas, Gardner and Company
Surr
Culbertson
Story County Teacher's Association
Slater
P. C. Compton
Congregational Church
Lydia C. Tilden
H. P. McLain
Bigelow & Smith
Tar Ladies’ Cemetery Society
Ben. Read
Joel Brown
St. Louis
Adrian
Mich
Missouri
Clarence A. Hunter
Minnie Mathews
North Side
Rev. McIntire
Hunter
Dr. Templeton
L. H. Bingham
C. F. Curtiss
E W. Stanton
L. ©. Tilden
Jas. Hutchison
Ole Hill
Tom Nerness
Albert Arntz
Huxley
Squire O'Brien
Vinje
Underwood
Lee
Grace Whalen
Iowa City
University Hospital
W. E. Harriman
Anna Phelps
Carrie Hatch
Jack Hamilton
Revere House
G. W. Rogers
Rogers Home
G. W
Rogers
Vior
O. G. Ashford
J. F. Martin
Jai
ING
Tildlen Bros
Meteorology
Manila
Musice
al. A
Fries
Esther Peterson
W. E. Goseard
Nettie Mead
L. K. Buzzelle
Herbert Pease
Anna Batman
John
Welch
Maytie Schuetze
A. B. Alderman
E. O. Bronson
Allard
E. D. Y. Culvertson
Cona McConnell
H. G. Lamson
H. Westerman
T. McClain
Real Estate and Loan Office
Westerman & McLain
P. O
Chicago & Northwestern
R’y
Arcept
Chicago Express
Atlantic
Overland Lim
Pacific
Carroll
Dak
Desm
Mailand
Giewrd Puey
Caneacs Sbas
Ames & DM
Passenge
Boone-Carroll
Coast Connection
State OF Iowa
Story County
District Court
Said
John F. Beymer
Said County
A. D
C. Hamilton
Briggs
Laura Brown
Mrs N H Lowery
Chas G Pravia Peel
Ing Dee
Baker
EG Lentz
Wm McKeegan
Rev J S
Lon G. Hardin, P. M
Maple City
Por
Eugene Smiru
Tf Ames
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