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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1892
Page
4
Local Ames items note new office being built for the Clipper at Collins and a broader call to support home merchants. Read of weddings, baseball results, decorations day aftermath, and forthcoming W C T U convention with speakers from Des Moines and Washington D C. Weather notes yes but crops outlook mixed with corn planting near completion.
Decoration Day events in Ames featured a G A R parade to the cemetery with flower girls and a town hall program including music and an oration. A Memorial Sunday service at the M E Church drew a large crowd despite threatening weather.
Numerous brief items from Ames Iowa describe visitors and residents in Des Moines Clinton Webster City Fort Dodge and surrounding towns. Notes include weddings illnesses job moves theater and business happenings plus a call for a creamery butter tub factory and a story on Decoration Day concerns at the college parade. Local improvements and social events fill the column with many named individuals and places.
广Sale lists 100 men’s suits cut to $12 with regular $17 price and other low prices. Girls and children clothing offered at rock bottom prices. Sugar, tobacco, kerosene, and dried fruits stocked. Groner G Tilden advertises these bargains and location.
Republicans of Washington township meet at Ames City Hall on Saturday June 11 1892 at 3 30 pm to elect a township committee and nine delegates for the county convention at Nevada on Saturday June 18. Order of committee.
An 1892 Ames notice section lists pop corn orders and prices at B. A. Lockwood’s elevator with cash required, plus notices from J. H. Queal & Co. offering building materials, lime, cement, and Cedar shingles. Insurance agents Graphnes & Fower promote Home Insurance Co. of New York and partners for cyclone and tornado coverage.
Baker the Jeweler offers a genuine Dueber filled case and a full jeweled adjusted movement for 16.50 dollars. The ad presents a single-item sale with price and seller name.
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