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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
4
Local notes include Compton described as the Ames piano man Harp's stationery at Judisch Bros sales of Jerseys heifer calves and fine residence lots for sale. Reports cover census enumerators wedding events lodge officers and the parish of local churches and businesses.
Mrs FE Loughran visits Des Moines. Mrs G A Underwood heads to Wisconsin. Mr and Mrs M K Smith return aboard No 1. Numerous neighbors travel to Newton, Shannon, Web ster City, Chicago, Warrensburg and England. A mix of district meetings, school events, and family trips fills the week in Story county.
Steve R. O’Brien wed Lizzie Markley with Squire O’Brien officiating. The Times offers congratulations and notes a church service next Sabbath at the M E church with sermons on Christ's Method of Saving and Why not Quarantine the Devil. Also McIntire hosts a photo trip for Canby seekers.
Ground broke last Monday for Ames new passenger depot to span over nine hundred feet from Burnett to Hoggatt. Chas W Gindela Company of Chicago handles the contract under August Larson foremanship. Building will be brick and stone, two stories, with offices on top and waiting rooms bottom, plus a lunch room by Jim Dunn. The project will employ local workers and include landscaped grounds near the Iowa Agricultural College.
An advertisement extols Dr King’s New Life Pills as a safe cure for stomach and digestive ailments. It promotes L. M. Bosworth’s drug store and notes agency rights for Blair’s greenhouse designs in Des Moines. Also mentions piano teaching by Miss Gretta Zenor and music/paint offerings at local stores and depots.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will speak at the Kansas College commencement on Tuesday evening June 12 at 7 30 in the college chapel. The event shifts to Tuesday to accommodate his visit on his way to Kansas College and a long Europe trip follows.
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