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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1896
Page
18
A roundup of local notices and ads from Adams Bros and Thurston Graham stores offering pickles cheese and plumbing services. Event notices include church and Sunday school activities, plant updates, an X ray exhibition, and a lynching scare report, plus cyclone kitten Cy clone in Des Moines.
Notice warns that anyone taking flowers from the Ames cemetery lots will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. President Henry Wilson signs the admonition. Also advertised are cheap North Western Line home seekers excursions on June 9 and 23, 1896 to numerous West and South points with favorable time limits. An employment ad seeks a good girl for general house work with wages at W L Taylor’s residence.
Ames Iowa council meets June 1 1896 approves Ordinance No 111 to issue electric light bonds after first second and third readings. Tilden McLain Thompson Adams Franklin and Bowers vote yes with no nays. rules suspended for rapid passage. publication ordered and session adjourns to end of June.
Ames council in adjourned session approves first to third readings of Ordinance No. 112 relating to water works bonds. Unanimous votes favor each stage. Publication ordered and council adjourns to June 8.
Tot Bigelow is sick this week. S. W. O'Brien of Colfax visited Ames. H. Smith of Jewell spent the day with Turner McLain's family. Geo. Richmond plans a store job in Waverly Ill. Ben Keeney visited from Kossuth county. Del Maxwell returned from Chicago. Editor Myers of the Radcliffe Signal rode trains to Des Moines. Gates Brown just finished medical school in Chicago. The Misses Fellows traveled to Montour for their mother’s illness. M. Rose of Sac County visited the Henry Keltner home. Mrs. Fred Bradley and baby Helen left for Hastings Neb. Capt. L. L. Smith from Nevada visited his son, Mayor Smith. Richmonds of Dallas Center visited Al. Walkey’s family. Cle Wyant, now in Carroll, visited Ames friends. Frank Fowler left for two weeks at Colfax. Miss May and Charley Spring from Des Moines visited parents. Laura Coffelt of Trenton Neb. visited W. W. Spring and friends near Ontario. H. G. Emmel and Mrs. Mullenback of Chicago visited the Pammel home. J. C. Mabry of Centerville and T. B. Lockman of Albia called, old friends of J. H. Cook. Mrs. D. G. Ferguson left for Traer to attend a funeral. Mrs. Ferguson returned with her mother from Bancroft.
Frederick Phinney, Ames solicited funds for an Iowa State Band open air concert. He delivered flyers claiming a 70 piece band would perform, but only 15 players appeared, mostly from Marshalltown. Local sponsors paid 75 dollars, exposing Phinney as a fraud harming Iowa State Band's reputation.
Send your address to H B Bracklen Co Chicago for a free sample box. A trial will prove their merits for constipation and sick headache. Useful for malaria and liver troubles. guaranteed pure vegetable pills that invigorate the system without weakening. Regular size 25 cents per box, sold by L M Bosworth, Druggist.
An insurance offer proclaims low rates amid cyclone season. The ad references SueLpon and SHELDEN and mentions syrup priced at 5 cents per gallon, followed by a name Hamilton.
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