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Newspaper

Ames Times

Location

Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 12, 1893

Page

3

College news and faculty movements at Ames college

Ames college notes include visits by E. C. Oggel and Dr Beardshear, trips by Prof. Wilson and faculty to Des Moines and Kansas, and a plan to modernize the college kitchen and dining rooms. West Ames residents protest a new A. & C. R. orders rule affecting mail and delivery timelines.

E. C. Oggel A. McCall Algona Iowa Albert Carroll Allen Lee Horticultural Department Cambridge Prof. Wilson Topeka Kas Kansas Agricult Society Chicago West Ames Ames

I A C cattle herd study at Chicago packers sale

The I A C experimental farm shipped 18 head of two year olds to Chicago with nine breeds represented. Gains averaged 2.40 daily for ten months rising to three pounds in the last three months. Swift & Co. bought the lot at six dollars per hundred, flagging record prices for the day as Chicago receipts hit 15 000.

Chicago Jersey Chicago Packers Swift & Co

Story County Board Records Open. New Officers Take Oath

Story county board of supervisors meets with John Johnson presiding as members elect R. W. Liddle and J. B. Shaw take oath and Shaw elected chairman. Proceedings note bonds for county officials, road changes, bridge petitions, poor fund appropriations, tax adjustments, and claims examination. Multiple townships listed with constables and clerks. minutes reference adjournments and classifications of property for assessment.

Board of Supervisors Story County John Johnson R. W. Liddle J. B. Shaw C. M. Morse A. P. King H. C. Duen M. P. Webb W. A. Weir LaFayette Two H. F. Ferguson J. P Howard E. W. Gifford Nevada W. O Indian Creek John Q. Moore Geo. McGibbon New Albany E. Loughran Washington O. W. Wilson Grant E. W. Sandys Warren Wesley Airasmith Milford J. W. Smith J. A. McKee Union Sylvester Bates C. P. Beam Lincoln T. W. Smith Carl Oleson A. B. Kibbe Franklin G. W. Hemstock Clerk James H. Reynolds E. M C’k. Union D. P. Ehlenberger K. Sherman M. O. Ferkin Cl’k. Warren L. McKim Milford Township Liddle John Handsaker Sherman Township Shaw Mads Anderson Howard Township Rasmus T. Thompson L. van Dusen A. Bennett Tompkins Washington Township M. Hemstreet Adna Weeks Union Township J. O. Johnson Elizabeth Scott M. M. Mason John Egnes A. J. Graves Iowa Osc

Story County Teachers Association Meeting Jan 14 1893

The Story County Teachers Association holds a hearing on Saturday January 14 with a 1 o’clock program. Topics include arousing interest in advanced reading, primary language, geography illustrations, recitation preparation, and general discussion. Officers and members listed.

Story County Teachers Association Ira L. Bowman O. J. Holcomb Anna Hieleman Addie King Geo. W. Phillips R. H. Fairfield H. V. Hunt J. P. Reed May M. Boynroy

Recommendation for Chamberlains Cough Remedy in Bloomfield

Mr C F Davis editor of the Bloomfield Iowa Farmer recommends Chamberlains Cough Remedy for colds and croup. He has used it in his family for two years and calls it the best for its purpose. 50 cent bottles for sale by Werner man Arnold. 2-15

James Wilson Allen Springs Ill Chamberlain Westerman & Arnold C. F. Davis Bloomfield Iowa Westerman &Arnold

Neighboring Towns Report Movements And Local Happenings

N Gaston plans to move belongings to Dan McCarthy's farm near Ontario with the family to follow soon. Mrs Sorrenson shows improvement after a period of illness. An oyster supper was held at Mr Cramblers last week. The stormy day kept some indoors. Friends from Story City visited Miss Jennie Raff over the weekend. A distemper outbreak affects many horses and colts in the area.

Ames Agricultural College Nevada Skunk River Boone County College N. Gaston Dan McCarthy Ontario

Fire destroys John Oswald home and contents

John Oswald's house and belongings were burned last week with Mrs. Oswald alone and ill inside escaping death narrowly. Another notice reports Mrs. Henry Davis in poor heart health hoping for a quick recovery. John R. Decker faces risk of lung fever and Timely remedies may avert it. Jim Montgomery found a gold watch and a lady's watch under a pillow and jokes about burglars visiting him.

John Oswald Clem Doolittle West LaFayette Jim Montgomery Jim

Teachers’ Association Holds Ames Meeting

The Story County Teachers Association met Saturday at the Ames school house with about thirty five teachers present. Discussions covered blackboard use in reading, cultivating taste for literature in third and fourth readers, modulation in speech, assigning lessons, and conducting recitations. The group adjourned to reconvene January 14.

Story County Teachers’ Association Ames R. H. Fairfield Miss Stone Gossard

Local gratitude notes and dairy journal diatribe attack

A heartfelt thanks from Mary and Thomas Rickman is printed alongside a sharp broadside against the Northwest Iowa Dairy Journal. The dairy critique questions the college creamery’s gilt edge butter claim and urges dairymen to blacklist the journal as unworthy.

Northwest Iowa Dairy Journal Northwest Iowa New Hampton Leighton Iowa New York City Daily Journal

Editor change at Ida County Pioneer as Jamieson takes over

Will S. Jamieson of Columbus Junction purchases the Ida County Pioneer plant and business and replaces Joan Watts as editor, signaling a full newsroom and ownership transfer.

Joan Watts Ida County Will S. Jamieson Columbus Junction

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