Terse town items mix illness births and civic notes
Readable fragments show several local notices: Mrs McGuire moves into a south side residence and a new girl born to Mr and Mrs John McDonald.Ms Piersons of the Salvation Army seen on streets. Mrs P L Sawyer seriously ill with pneumonia. County bridges contract awarded to G A Armstrong. Miss Myrtle Stamp becomes clerk at Tilden Bros store starting February 1. School board debates book suppliers and asks for more time. K P lodge visits Nevada while Ames hosts Milo McCartney’s brood of chickens signals mild January. Tax Warner Comedy Company at the opera house praised as strong winter entertainment.
Ames City Council Jan 10 1896 Proceedings
Regular session notes the approval of prior minutes and audit of bills for December and early January. Items include pumping, drayage, night-watch wages, street work, lumber, hardware, and printing. A municipal electric lights resolution sets a $1000 forfeit bond and deadline extension to May 1 1896 for the Ames plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
J. D. Quick
Fred Hackett
J. R. Patterson
H. L. Munn
J. H. Queal
W. P. Taylor
Thurston & Graham
Intelligencer Prt
Prt
Maxwell & Son
Whalen
E. B. Hillman & Co
Iowa
Iowa Falls
A Select Repertoire of Standard and Up-to-Date Plays
A catalog outlines a curated list of standard and contemporary plays. The collection highlights accessible titles for stage readings and performances, emphasizing current relevance and varied genres.
Notice to customers and sale by Blaine Spence Co
Acknowledges responses to statements dated January 1 1896 and thanks those who settled. Warns those who have not paid to expect similar thanks, and notes a building vacancy with drastic price reductions. Irwin Randall Co promotes a tank heater for stock. Blaine Spence Co. conducts urgent sale before removal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irwin Randall & Co
Blaine Spence Co
From Neighboring Towns Season and Local Notes
The column notes changeable weather, farmers selling hay at low prices, and hog cholera still affecting herds on Chapel Ridge. It lists local illnesses, baptisms by Campbellites and others at the artesian well, church meetings led by Rev. McDowell and Rev. Hollister, and society meetings. It mentions local officials, traders shipping cattle to Chicago, and a range of small town activities and remarks.
Final Extension for Settlements and Mournful Notice
The text announces a final extension of time for settlement by Adams Bros and mourns the loss of Charles Arnold of Des Moines. It expresses Ames friends’ sympathy and reflects on a child’s death with religious verse about heaven, angels, and schooling in a quiet cloister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams Bros
Charles Arnold
Des Moines
Charles
Local town shows brisk markets and community updates
Alarming grain and stock flow to market fills the town with activity. Dr. Holt arrives to practice homeopathic medicine. The Story County Teacher’s Association schedules a meeting in Ames with a full program. Local business leaders, hog markets, and a new singing school indicate a growing civic life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Story County Teacher’s Association
Ames
County Printing Contest Remains Unsettled at Bedtime
By ten o'clock this morning the county printing contest was still unsettled with no winner declared and judges continuing to review entries.
Town to gain two doctors this spring
We will be well supplied with doctors in our little town this spring. There is to be two. A. B. Wright is on the sick list this Bert Rainbolt was 4 Boone visitor last week. Mr. A. A. Stewart was a Boone visitor last week. We see that the Good Templars take the Coon affair pretty hard. They did.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Thayer
Tip” Sawyer
P. L
James A. Gibson
Chicago
James
C. P. McFarland
E. F. Rainbolt
I. O G TF
Intelligencer
Liddle
Fred
L. Oliver
Jones
Mr. Smith
Godard
A. B. Wright
Bert Rainbolt
Boone
A. A. Stewart
Special Textile Bargains at TrupEN Bros. & Co.
Six pieces all wool 50c Henrietta browns and blues to close out at 25c a yard. SPECIAL BARGAINS IN SHAWLS. Ladies flannel shirt waists 2.50 waists for 1.50 3 waists for 2. Stock of cotton blankets cleaned up but woollen blankets remain. 20 percent off blankets until Feb. 1. Strictly all wool blankets for 2.40. TrupEN Bros. & Co.
Resolutions of sympathy for Edwin Read loss
The 1. S. C. CC. extend heartfelt sympathy for Edwin Read who has left us. The resolutions note his cheerful conduct and friendships formed over three years. The resolutions shall be published in the Ames and 1. S. C. Student and spread on class records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Read
1. S. CC
Ames
1.S. C
Pool
Edith Foster
T. J. Mahony
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mars. Gro. Parkhill
North Side
John McDonald
South Side
A. m
Piers
The
Salvation Army
P. L. Sawyer
Franklin Township
Board of Supervisors
G. A. Armstrong
Curtis
Barber
Mrs. L. H. Pammer
Myrtle Stamp
Tilden Bros. & Co’s
Bradley
TIMES
Billy
O. P. Simmons
Stella McCormick
Lake City
Te School Board
Nevada
Milo McCartney
Tax Warner Comedy Company
Perry Iowa
Ames Opera House
Hezekiah Gilbert
West End
Gilbert
Gilbert Station
Douglass
District Court of
Story County
John Connehan
Richland
E. C. Rice
Washington
Maurice Pear
Henry Halle Sherman
H.C. Wakefield Jr
Franklin
Quincy Roberts Lincoln
D. P. Wood
Sherman
Jas. W. Tweet Sr
Howard
Michael Foley Sherman
Grant Smay Grant
Geo. B. la Suer
Chas. H. Rice
Palestine
Jacob Hill
Edgar Johns
Union
J. H. Johnson
Lincoln
W. H. Benson
Ind
Creek
J. D. Thompson
E. L. Harkins
New Albany
Osmond Egland Howard
T. C. Sutherland Grant
James M. Smith
Lafayette
Oliver Durley Milford
Council Proceedings
Walter Scott
Aden
Scott
Opera House
Warner Comedy Company
Ben R. Warner
E. M. Sorer
Chapel Ridge
Mother Earth
Fred Randran
Mr. Macy
Nels Jorgenson
John M. Arrasmith
8. O. Teglander
Artesian Well
Summit
Society of
Hannibal Wakefield
A. B. Kibbie
A.S. Liddle
Nevada Journal
Mr. Stevenson
Hollister
Zenorsville
Bruce Hutchinson
Bill McGill
Christ
Sion
BE. P. Gilbert
C. B. Clark
Ogden
E. H. Graves
Harriman
A. J. Graves
Alice Needham
Tilly Howard
Clifford Oliver
Mt. Vernon
Abragham
Mr. Thomas Stevenson
Holt
McCallsburg
E. B. Stewart
Teachers’ Association
Margaret Watts
I. BR. Allard
Herbert Hardy
J. J. Coull
R. V. Veneman
Myrtie Lanning
Alice Lewis
E. D. Y. Culbertson
State Association
L. T. Weld
Nora E. Nickle
Bessie Hall
S. B. Miller
Metra Harrison
Secy
Trupen Bros. & Co
State of Iowa
Anna ‘Anderson
Ole Knudson
Sine Knudson
Line Knudson
O. G. Ashford
Ember
Will
Tilden Bros. & CO
Uae
Spring & Son
Ayers’ Photograph Gallery
Grove Bros
M. Hemstreet
Ames, Iowa
Winter Bros
Thurston & Graham's
Gaston
Cedar Rapids
HH. Westerman
McLain
Real Estate and Loan Office
Westerman & McLain
P. O
A. K. Banks
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