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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1897
Page
5
The minutes document a three day county board session in June 1897 with members Seneeen Shaw Rex and others. They examine and adjust tax assessments, authorize deductions and add ons, allocate poor fund support, and refer highway and drainage petitions to Johnson Rex or both. Adjourning and resuming dates are listed with actions on claims, farm examinations, and official approvals.
The board authorized survey instruments for examination and an appropriation of 150 dollars for Nels Anfinson et al. aid in draining highways. It named O. B. Alderman and John Beatty to destroy ballots from 1896 and ordered warrants for bills and per diems. John Johnson reported on finances and adjourned with minutes read and approved.
Notice to breeders for Warrant 11233 a registered trotting horse foaled May 27 1889 will season 1807 at the race track barns east of Ames handled by C C ae Co Breeding lines list Mambrino Russell Whitney and others with many descendants Dam Mary A Whitney Dam of First Love Bon Mot and Love Sires include Hambletonian 10 and Iron Duke Ten dollars to insure live colt All accidents at owner's risk apply to E E Waite owner C Loving Co Ames Iowa
A card notes shoppers can get good bread from White Rose flour and a car arrives at Adams Bros. plus a sale at Soper's offering colored bosom shirts closing at 59 cents.
An advertisement offers a salve claimed to heal cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands and more with a money back guarantee. It is sold by L. M. Bosworth.
A terse classified note advertises sale or trade of a house and items in the northwest town area. The listing references Lennox as a contact or locator.
The Chicago Great Western Railway runs daily departures from Des Moines at 7:00 a.m. to Peru and Afton Junction at 1:00 p.m. from Marshalltown, with 5:40 a.m. and 10:43 a.m. Sunday exceptions and 11:08 p.m. and 11:03 p.m. daily trains. Other routes include St Joseph Leavenworth Kansas City Waterloo Cedar Falls to St Paul Minneapolis and the Northwest to Dubuque Chicago and the East.
Listings show multiple east west and southbound trains with departure and arrival times. It includes names like Overland Limited Atlantic Express and Chicago Express, plus freight and mixed services. Some routes indicate limited service on Sundays with several trains suspended.
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