Local grocery and shoe sales advertised by multiple firms
Butter and eggs taken for goods at the cash grocery store. Adams Bros offer warm lined shoes of all kinds at nearly your own price. Choose ladies shoes for 1.75 at Canier Bros. & Herman. Miller & Kooser run a special sale on prepared mustard. Oats priced 18 to 19 cents and corn 17 to 18 cents. Lockwood elevator requests buckwheat be brought in at once.
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Cash
Adams Bros
Canier Bros. & Herman
Lockwood
County Notes Relay Local News Across Story County
The county awaits assessors as property values generally decline. Meeting highlights include Story Lodge members from Ames Cambridge and Slater. Creamery at Elwell reportedly troubled by internal dispute and funds shortage while milk output and butter sales for 1897 rise. County officials attend Des Moines convention. marriage licenses issued. new county printing planned. Nevada to add a local telephone exchange. farm and court news weave through regional updates.
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Cambridge
Elwell
Roland
Nevada Journal
Story County
Iowa
E. E. Evans
E. J. Evenson
O. C. Langland
Nels Nelson
John Evenson
Weather Year 1897 Report From Ames and Nearby Areas
A weather summary for 1897 includes 99 clear days, 118 fair days, 148 fair days, 94 days with rain or snow, total precipitation of 3.74 inches. Coldest day January 25 at 20 below, hottest September 2 at 100. First killing frost Sept 17. Notes on sleighing, Governor Shaw inauguration attendance, I. N. G. officer instruction in Ames, and sugar beet experiments. Marriage notices and railroad uniform policy updates from Times-Republican are included.
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Maine
California
Neighbors Share Visits and Socials in Nearby Town
Mr and Mrs R Sheehey drove Crocker Saturday and visited their daughter Mrs W E Tanner. Mrs Lillian Gossard Stevens left for home after two months with her parents. L G Rosenfeld made a business trip to Des Moines. An oyster supper was held at Mr Dunns. The Rosenfelds hosted a birthday dinner for Mrs G Rosenfeld. The Congregational Society plans a social at Geo Perse residence Friday. Mrs Hannah McGrath of Ames visited Florine Wolman Saturday and Sunday.
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Chas. Graves
North Side
Alice A
Ira J. Mead
H. P. Williams
Mead
Agricultural Department
I.8.c
Ames
Albert Clark
E. J. Loughran
Des Moines
Colfax
The
Times
Lillian Gossard-Stevens
R. Crane
L. G. Rosenfeld
Mrs. G. Rosenfeld
Congregational Society
Geo. Perse
Hannah McGrath
Florine Wolman
Resolutions for Sister Allce M Miller of Marian Rebekah Lodge
Marian Rebekah Lodge No. 108 memorializes sister Allce M Miller. The resolutions express heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved husband and relatives, request comfort from the divine, and authorize copies to be sent to the husband, entered in lodge records, and published in local papers. Named organizers Katie Rummel, Emma OBrien, Grace Whalen sign the note.
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Marian Rebekah Lodge
Allce M Miller
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Se Davis
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Maxwell
C. A Dunitz
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F. P. Bryant
Story Lodge
U. B. Church
Postal Savings
Nevada
Grove
Rex
Board of Supervisors
County Supervisors
Chas. E. French
Anna Cook
Cole
Journal
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Elizabeth Thompson
Mt. Pleasant
Katie Goble
Story City
Harry Liog
Washee
Halleland
Wisergarten
Henry H. Johnson
Banks
Johnson
J. A. Fitchpatrick
L. O. Larson
Polk County
Larson
Our
Chapel Ridge
Gov. Shaw
Sunpday
Iowa Experiment Station
Curtiss
Northwestern
Nust
Republican
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Spaio
Chan
Mosca
Idaho
Moscow
Mosco
Ame
Juliaetta
Lewiston
Ne Perce
Osterhout
Fannie Osterhout
Miller & Kooser
White House
Bradley & White’s
Parton Ee
L.M. Bosworth
Kelley
Alfred Tanner
T R. Sheehey
Katie Rummel
Emma O'Brien
Grace Whalen
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