Ames Times Wordy Social Notes and Local News
A long compilation of social happenings and local notices from Ames Iowa including birthdays, church revival plans, a oyster supper fund raiser for the poor, a shoe house pitch, legislative updates, a railroad parting kiss anecdote, and county printing dispute settled by five newspapers sharing the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Guinn
Gilbert Station
Times
A. W. Walkey
No. 7
Board of Supervisors
Watchman
Representative
Intelligencer
Maxwell Tribune
Story County
Local social notes and town updates fill Ames week
Ed Suer from Boone and several visitors from Nevada Chicago and Des Moines visit Ames amid social calls and entertainments. Officials and attorneys travel to Marshalltown while rail and financial news share pages as sales promotions and a new jailhouse tramp lodging emerges.
Electric light plant proposals heard by Ames council
Ames city council in a special session received written proposals from Fort Wayne represented by Pardee and Porter and from Peoria represented by Frank Kegley for an electric light plant. The old light committee will study both, with a view to a potential franchise vote and a special election if the deals are approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Underwood
Ames
Fort Wayne
Messers Pardee and Porter
Peoria
Frank Kegley
Pardee and Porter
Old Light Committee
Smith
Bosworth
Stanton
Card to the Citizens of Ames and Surrounding Towns
A local notice announces tailoring services by James Dairy in Ames with promise of skilled workmanship. It blends business cards with school reports, real estate offers, debt reminders, and winter travel rates from the Northwestern Line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. O’brien
Geo
M. E
J. H. Allen
Josephus
Pammf Sheldon
Senate
Ames
Duncan
Parley Sheldon
Cleveland
Florida
Texas
Mexico
New Mexico
Lousiana
Mississipi
Georgia
South Carolina
Alabama
South
Chicago & Northwestern Ba Y
Pat Mike Sees Blue Wrapped Bundles Across Town
A verse recounts Pat and Mike noticing parcels wrapped in blue as they walk through the city. Mike explains the sight is an advertising ploy by the town’s cheapest and best store, noted for wrapping bundles in blue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike
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Pace Times
Columbian Cigar Factory
Apams Bro’s
Odd Fellows Hall
Edith Cairns
Des Moines
Iowa
Caniel Bros. & Terman's
Methodist Church
E. Slowson
Zenor & Son
L. L
Lee
the Times
Hester
Bride
Louisville
Kentucky
Andrew Scott
la Suer
Boone
Miller
Nevada
H. C. Smith of
Jewell
the McLain’s
Clarice McCarthy
Bertha Soper
Chicago
Mrs. Watson
Fannie Curtiss
Barbara McFarland
State Center
J. M. Bacon
Bert
Fairfield
Dr. Hawley
M. D
Williams
Marshalltown
Wilson
Clinton County
Jas. Robb
Jim
Tres
Cuas
Glidden
Mercury
Caniel Bros. & Herman's
Daniel Bros. & Herman
Arcadia Lodge A. F. & A
CAL. Giddings
W. J. Zenon
Harriet Watts
Peuble
Cols
Della
Joseph Morris
James Hoyt
Inter Ocean
Ames & College Railway
Story County Bank
Fairchild
Budd
W. M. Greeley
G. H. France
M. K. Smith
B. J. Shelden
Compton
Marshal Hoggatt
Metropolitan
Hotel de Hoggatt
Faylor
Musland
Lafayette Township
Bertha Johnson
John Johnson
Jake Jacobson
Seine
Axle Johnson
Orlin Gilbert
George Dodds
Erriz E. Dunkle
G. W. O'Brien
Blackelow & Smith
J. W. Hamilton
Merrilan Wis
Warner
Cash Harness Store
T. L. Onson
F. N. Fower, Agt
J. A. Whitaker
Rolfe
Imood
Adams Bros
Pat
Agape
Cramer
Winge
S Allen
Ames Steam Laundry
Wing & Allen
Chicago Weekly Time
The
Associated Press
United States
Nains
O.F’. Martin
Chinaware
D. G. Ferguson
Paxton’s Jewelry Store
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