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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1898
Page
7
Ames readers learn of Des Moines day at the Omaha exposition, tax trustees meeting, bullhead fishing tales, carpentry and farm life notes, weddings, graduations, and upcoming fair plans. Generous local chatter covers transportation, church events, and faculty appointments around Story County.
Des Moines notes cooler then usual week with light to heavy showers in places. July crop conditions across Iowa are listed by county and show winter wheat 97 percent and corn 102 percent, while last year’s figures were notably lower across most staples.
A large sale offers 500 pair shoes and oxfords at half price, clothing suits trousers and straw hats at half price, cheap men’s pants at 90 cents, 70 Ab, plus lawn fabrics and organdies at 10 cents. Also a testimonial praises Chamberlain’s colic remedy for a baby with colic and cholera infantum, recommended by G M Law of Keokuk Iowa. available from druggists.
L M Bosworth advertises the valuabie agency for Dr. King s New Discovery for consumption. It claims to cure asthma bronchitis hoarseness and all throat chest and lung affections. Trial bottle free of regular size for 50 cents and 1 00 guaranteed to cure or price refunded.
The Chicago and Northwestern advertises a grand excursion to Des Moines next Sunday July 17 to visit Battery A Iowa Artillery in camp before deployment. A special train will pass Ames at 10 40 am and return from Des Moines at 9 00 pm. Fare one dollar.
Winona Blanche Grove died at home in Ames Story County Iowa at 10 30 am July 5 1898. The only child of J J Grove and his wife she was born June 9 1883 and joined the Ames Church of Christ in 1894. She was active in Sunday school the Junior Endeavor Society and excelled in class work despite ill health. Her funeral conducted by Rev T J Dow drew a large crowd as mourners honored a girl of faithfulness gentleness and cheerful devotion to Christ and others.
Lovina and Buck offer custom dressmaking and cut patterns to order. They invite country and town ladies to call and learn the gold medal dress system.
Remaining unclaimed in the Ames post office for the week ending July 9 includes items for Coghlan Miss Gertrude Garvitch Fred Heater Lettie Miller M P Morgan Evan Mollander C Nelson John Nelson C J Posegate Eli Prinse Anne Pederson Laurids Stevens Isaac St Clair Miss Lillian Wertz J E Wyman Miss Susie Lon G Harpry P M. Ames Iron Works is listed among recipients.
The Story County Normal Institute will convene in Nevada on August 1 1898 and continue three weeks. All teachers and prospective teachers in Story County are expected to be present. G W Parvins. A good one for that money for sale by G T Stebbins.
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