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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1897
Page
3
The Ames page notes Ayers cabinet photos sold at $1.50 a dozen and a Boone trip on the 18th. It mentions a Story County Regiment reunion in Cambridge August 12–13, a curfew ordinance in Boone and Maxwell, and various social events including a wedding on West Main Street and a juvenile party at Read's ball.
I Waite went to Algona on business and many locals and visitors are listed visiting relatives, returning from trips, or staying in Ames. Notes include state figures, shop plans, eclipse sightseers, rail changes, new millinery openings, and municipal improvements around the Perkins building.
College department visits Renwick and reports progress on a new pump house, bells tower work to start soon. Farm and dairy figures visit. Ames events include sermons on streets and a sociable at Evergreen church. Dairymen from Kansas tour campus, with remarks on state agriculture funding and differences from Iowa fairs.
The union gospel meetings started in Ames on Sunday under church auspices. Rev. Thompson leads the evangelist efforts and Mr. Gamble directs singing with a fifty to sixty voice local choir. The tabernacle on the north side school grounds is well lit and crowded, with farmers using hitching posts for parking as stores plan to close at 7 30 nightly.
For sale two bicycles from Baker the Jeweler. A ladies’ Cleveland bicycle with bell cyclometer and brake in good condition priced at 125 dollars. A Gent’s Eagle bicycle priced at 80 dollars. Take either wheel for 50 dollars cash if purchased immediately.
Our store will be closed each evening except Saturday at 7 30 during the Gospel Meetings. Grove Bros hay forks and the hay tool line offered as cheap as Thurston and Graham. Mrs. Mike McNichols dies at home in Milford township on Sunday at Boon. Special prices on colored shoes at Canier Bros and Hermans. Accounts due 60 days from date of purchase. settle if due. A farm of eighty acres offered for exchange for Ames house and lots. inquire Geo E Baker.
All who intend to attend the National Encampment at Buffalo are asked to report to Adjutant Lippe on Hem street at his office before August 1. Lippe urges prompt registration and notes deadlines for participation.
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