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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1902
Page
4
Local miscel lany promotes cigars wallpaper and shirts at the Novelty Store. Notices include rent for two rooms above a bicycle shop and repairs for a borrowed wire stretcher. Community updates report Wilson Rich sick at home and I O O F officers installed in Nevada lodge. Also promotions for Shall barbers and a Brown County excursion with a 15 dollar fare. Chamberlains tablets advertised as the best physic.
A collage of notices from Ames Iowa covers a Nellie Malbone visit, U B church social with supper and music, a Mexican mining excursion car, local endorsements for medicines and services, a recovered Hungarian fugitive tale, merry go round season chatter, school enrollments and state college attendance hopes, church reopens August 10, a baby death from cholera infantum, and a hammock party social at the Cole home with town gossip and wedding congratulations.
The issue records a Saturday specials listing on Bargain Balcony and notes a Tuesday road tour by officials amid recent road trouble. It reports a blood poisoning case in Joan Cole, a washout near LeGrand on the C N W, and cinder fills for the grade. Community happenings include Winter Paxton’s fourteenth birthday, plans of the Taylor family to return to Ames, a new Catholic church cornerstone in Nevada, bank plate glass, a publishing rule charging five cents per line for notices, prescriptions by Loughran and Bauer, and various church and social events. a Nevada representative remark about the fair premium list ends the column.
Five couples held a moonlight picnic two miles north of Ames Tuesday night. Jessie Cole Lottie Rogers Mina Taylor Cassie Lincoln Bertha Embree Cleaver Bailey Stanford Waters Osborn attended. Mrs. Catharine Stuart plans a new house, staying temporarily at her present home. Marshal Ricketts jailed five tramps found selling shoes to railroad workers. they were released after checks found no loss. The GutBerRT Rebekah Lodge hosts an ice cream social August 2 at the I O O F ball. Methodist church hosts fourth quarterly services with Lord's Supper. union service that evening led by Rev Ferrall. presiding elder Rev W T Smith to preach at Jones' schoolhouse and administer sacrament at 3. Quarter?y conference set for Monday 8:30 am. Dan McCarthy files information against son Willard for habitual drunkenness. Willard committed to Mt. Pleasant asylum for 1.5 years with possible reduction for good behavior. Cream of Wheat flour offered at 95 cents by J B Kooser & Co.
Local notes report Kelley starting construction on a new brick store. Social news mentions Miss Mae Dunn’s weekend trip to the capital and return, and various visits among Ames, Dexter, and north town families. A Congregational church service was canceled due to poor roads, and a sociable event followed with a satisfactory social and financial outcome. An estate notice names H P McLairn as executor of Julia T McLain with payment and claim instructions.
J. B. Koosrr & Co advertises Cream of Wheat at 95 cents per sack and notes no stamps available at this price.
Andrew Scott files a petition in Story County Iowa District Court seeking to quiet title to the west half of the north half of section 20 township 84 range north in Story County. George G Welsh is summoned to defend by noon August term 1902 in Nevada Iowa. default and judgment may be entered. Attorney G A Underwood represents the plaintiff.
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