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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1896
Page
7
A collage of shop ads and notices covers Adams Bros stocking pickles cheese and canned goods Elliott’s refrigerators Loughran’s buggies Bargath Store and Thurston Graham’s hardware. Society events charity meetings church sermons and a local candidate announce plans fill the page.
A notice warns that anyone known to take flowers from the Ames cemetery will be prosecuted. Signed Henry Wilson as President. The ad also touts cheap excursions to the west and south by the Chicago and North Western Railway on June 9 and 23, 1896 with agents listed for tickets and information. A separate classifieds line seeks a good girl for general house work offering good wages at W. L. Taylor’s residence.
Ames Iowa council met June 1 1596 with Mayor Smith and six members in session. Ordinance No 111 was read and passed on second reading then on third with unanimous consent. The rules were suspended for rapid passage and publication ordered. Meeting adjourned to June 2.
Tot Bigelow is among the sick this week. 8S. W. O'Brien of Colfax visited Ames early in the week. H. Smith of Jewell stops with Turner McLain's family. Geo. Richmond plans to leave for Waverly Illinois to work. Ben Keeney returns from Kossuth County over Sunday. Del Maxwell comes back from Chicago and Illinois. Editor Myers of the Radcliffe Signal rode between trains to Des Moines. Gates Brown returns from Chicago after medical training. The Misses Fellows travel to Montour for their mother’s illness. M. Rose of Sac County visits the Keltner home southwest of town. Mrs. Fred Bradley and baby depart for Hastings Nebraska for two weeks. Capt. I. L. Smith visits from Nevada at his son Mayor Smith’s home. Mr. and Mrs. Richmond from Dallas Center, a druggist, visit with the Walkey family. Cle Wyant, former Times compositor now in Carroll, visits Ames friends. Frank Fowler leaves for a two week Colfax vacation. May and Charley Spring of Des Moines visit their parents. Laura Coffelt of Trenton Nebraska visits W W Spring and local friends. H. G. Emmel and Mrs. Mullenback of Chicago visit the Pammel home. Hon. J. C. Mabry of Centerville and T. B. Lockman of Albia attend decoration day. Mrs. D. G. Ferguson goes to Traer for her brother’s wife’s funeral. Mrs. F. returns with Mrs. Henrietta Campbell of Bancroft for a visit.
Ames Iowa June 2 1806 adjourned city hall meeting chaired by M K Smith with six councilors present minutes read approved Ordinance No 112 introduced read passed second reading carried unanimous vote rules suspended for second reading voting list shows McLain Tilden Adams Thompson Bowers Franklin No votes Moved and seconded that Ordinance 112 be passed to its third and final reading carried unanimous vote third reading adopted and passed with its publications.
Around the expiration of current coverage Sheldon and Shelden urge homeowners to call for policy options and rates. They promise reliable companies and suggest they can provide better terms.
Frederick Phinney the Iowa State Band manager visited Ames to gather funds for an open air concert. Residents donated 75 dollars but the band was only fifteen pieces and largely comprised nonmembers, disappointing the crowd and exposing Phinney as a growing fake harming Iowa’s state band in Ames.
An advertisement urges sending address to H E Backlen & Co in Chicago for a free sample of Dr King’s New Life Pills. The pills claim to ease constipation and headaches, aid malaria and liver troubles, and are vegetable with no deleterious substances. Regular size 25 cents per box via L M Bosworth.
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