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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1902
Page
4
Community items include a two room address above George Robersons bicycle shop, a school board meeting notes, a found pocket book claim, church sermons featuring Rev C H Seccombe and Rev C L Nye, a fatal tar pneumonia death near Ames, a Story City burglary with bloodhounds, and a marriage Mr E B Tuttle to Miss Alice Blackford. Also various ads for cigars and remedies and a McKinley monument fund drive with Dr Richmond leading.
Two tramps Chas Feyerbern and Rudolph Seifert were shot aboard a Boone to Ames freight train after refusing to abandon the car. Feyerbern 21 from Fondulac Wis was hit in the breastbone. Seifert 29 from Austro Hungary sustained a scalp wound. Train staff and physicians treated them in Ames. Local notes cite land purchases near Artesian Ames, college trustees meeting, flood history, and community events around Marshalltown and Story City.
A long list of visitors and travelers is recorded: Mrs. Joe Cobn visits friends in Boone. Miss Alice Nelson visits Miss Edna Bromley in Marshalltown. Carrie Tallman visits Boone relatives. Dr. J. H. McNeall returns from Bowen Illinois. Mrs. C. D. Reed of Omaha visits her mother Mrs. N. S. McGuire. Numerous other locals travel to Olin Ames Nevada Marshalltown Newton Pella Winnipeg and Rock Springs Idaho for family visits business and vacations. Continuous updates note hospital nurses students and graduates moving between Des Moines Minneapolis and Canadian destinations with several returns home this week.
Miss Cora Hicks enters Davenport hospital for a two year nurse training. Aided by multiple regional visits, weddings, and travels, Ames and surrounding towns note relatives and friends visiting, hospital stays, and upcoming trips to Salt Lake City and Chautauqua New York with various family members and colleagues.
George Dyer of Nevada was yesterday appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court to succeed Judge Kenyon who resigned. Miss Em Chamberlain is reported sick. A regular Fourth of July crowd boarded forenoon trains Tuesday to Boone to attend Ringling Bros. big show.
The No 98 Womans Relief Corps members extend sympathy to a family upon the loss of their mother. The resolution notes a loyal member mourned, praises her patience and forgiving spirit, and hopes for comfort for the bereaved. The charter draped for thirty days and minutes updated. Mas Electa Gilbert Mas Lizzie Sisson Mrs Annie Giddings
Laura Chapter No 115 Amelia expresses sorrow at the death of sister Louisa M Bosworth former matron. It tenderly offers sympathy to family and friends and will record the resolutions and send copies to the family and city papers. Signed by T Lennox KB R Hardin D Ferguson.
The Laura Chapter No. 115 expresses heartfelt sympathy for sister Mrs Walkey on the death of her mother. Resolutions note God doeth things well and a copy will be sent to the sister and minutes of Laura Chapter 115.
A writer reports a family case of summer illness cured by Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The note emphasizes keeping a bottle at home, especially in summer, and mentions sale by all druggists in Lansing Iowa. Poultry wanted.
The district court of Story county Iowa appointed H P McLain as executor of Julia T McLain deceased. Creditors must pay to the executor and present legally authenticated claims to the court for allowance. Dated Ames Iowa September 26 1901.
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