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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1892
Page
2
Weyl plans to feature the department and fill space with items. Many visitors and locals are noted with social visits, weddings, and college events. The campus undergoes extensive renovations including the creamery, depot, and new office space, while enrollment and room demand rise.
The piece condemns traveling grocers for crimes including a Brittany teen elopement scheme and argues they prey on families. It contrasts rail crop reports with Iowa’s looming World Fair presence and details Iowa’s planned state building design and space. It ends with a Garnet Kansas farmer lamenting hard times and the value of crops.
Neighboring towns report William Marshall moving from Gilbert to Chelsea, John Blue and Mrs Stringer visiting, and Parl McFarlan's wedding return. Wm Johnson sinks a coal shaft near Gilbert with water intrusion delaying progress. Marsden couple arrive from Delta after marriage. A reform school scare at Eldora prompts constable call. teacher antics unsettle students. Local notes cover haying, baptisms, and social visits amid Iowa State Fair hype led by secretary John R. Shaffer.
Attention Horsemen. New shoes 25 cents each. Old shoes 125 cents each and all other work accordingly at my blacksmith shop in Gilbert. M. A. Saunders. It
T J Moses places a new cooler to improve market appeal while K P boys move into a new room above the State Bank. They plan a first regular session Monday evening July 18. Hanson Henderson offer the best line of implements in town as Tom promotes farmer business. A rattling up of dry bones is hinted at near the B B shops and a Mud Lake fishing party reports good spearing and sport.
A brief note discusses straw hat bargains at C. M. Soper's. It then cites a Senate fact about western states: among senators west of the Missouri, none were born west of the river except Cockrell of Missouri and Power of Montana born in Iowa, with commentary on carpetbagger origins.
Real estate transfers for the week ending July 9 1892 recorded by Smith Son Real Estate Abstract and Loan office Nevada Iowa. Transfers include Martha Blaney to Jennie Blaney $133 03 on Black s 2d Ames et al and Higley to Betsey Higley 500 on Black 2d Iowa Center. Multiple deeds involve Shirk Smith Chamberlain in Nevada Maxwell Ames and Hague with various lot and block descriptions and prices up to 7500.
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