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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1893
Page
2
Sun day visitors from Des Moines, Drake football plans, and faculty travel to the World's Fair fill the IA C roundup. Alumni attend banquets and commencements while students prepare term exams and a fox chase near the campus.
Neighborhood notes from Gilbert Station include visits by Mrs A W Harned to Nevada and Mrs D G Ferguson from Ames, while Rev W L Childrees from Lebanon Tenn will preach at the Presbyterian church. Local business and farming updates mention crops, fruit, and a ground hog find near Pole Cat Forest.
Loans made on first or second mortgages on city or farm property. WaItAKER & KERR at J. L. Stevens Law Office.
The Committee of Arrangements thanks organizations and ladies and gentlemen whose services made the Memorial Day exercises pleasant and successful. A. H. Tuayer, Chairman. Also a notice offering sale of all household goods at home with cash or approved notes terms by W. G. Wheat.
The report by Isaac Young from sunrise to sunset at Ames Southwest details May 1893 weather. It notes 82 degree highs on three days, 32 degree lows, a 54 degree mean, 50 degree monthly range, and a 32 degree daily max swing on the 21st. Precipitation total 3.64 inches across thirteen days with hail on the 4th and 6th, frost on the 2nd, 4th and 5th, and several phenomena including thunder lightning and halos.
Grove Bros displays Enes twelve cents per dozen for buggies and a full line of styles and makes including Hayden coil spring and the Columbus buggy. Zenon and Son urge patronizing home institutions and promote The Arcade lunch option with a moral appeal.
Dox offers to show stock and set prices while a LeRoy show is called fake by attendees. N I Hughes owns the Percheron Chamboudez shown at Ames on Fridays and at Hughes farm Mondays and Tuesdays, Arthur Wills on Wednesdays, and Scott Spark's. Chamboudez is a tall gray seven year old horse. Also promote Kernen furnaces with local references to Prof. Curtiss and Geo W Rogers as guarantors of performance.
Grove Bros advertises a summer assortment of wash goods including Swisses India Linens Shantongs Ginghams and seersuckers inviting customers to call and see the selection.
Notice of dissolution of the Ferguson Rainbolt partnership dated May 30 1893 at Gilbert Station Iowa. The firm Ferguson and Rainbolt ceases operations by mutual consent except for final settlement of business and closure upon settlement. W Rainbolt H C Ferguson sign.
A West Union Oregon minister reports giving White Wine of Tar Syrup to a sick child with croup and praising its quick relief. He recommends the medicine for every family and notes it is sold at Bosworth's drugstore.
A testimonial from Delton Wisconsin touts tar syrup as a cure for throat and lung diseases. The ad mentions land offers in South Dakota with prices five to fifteen dollars per acre and favorable terms, plus free rail fare for buyers of 160 acres or more from S Ward Ames Iowa.
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