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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1897
Page
3
Soper's offers working gloves 25c to 1 and colored shirts 59c. News Stand sells old papers 10c per hundred. Birth announcements for F P Harris baby boy. Des Moines dental meeting with Dr Kelso. Sermon for girls and women May 9. Perry's Uncle Tom's Cabin Company plays in Ames. praise for Mr and Mrs Roberts. Decoration day plans by G A R committee. city council bought hose. baseball games prep for Wups—Wester City and Ames High.
A dense list of social items shows names like George Judisoh Dr Fairchild Herbert Snyder and Mrs J W Weeks visiting Ames from Des Moines Clinton Boone Nevada and Lake City. Several residents relocate or engage in business in Ames including Brownlie joining Finot and Loughran promoting new corn planters.
Iowa College items recount a seniors and freshmen banquet planned for May 7 at the college. A baseball game at the athletic park ends as a comedy of errors with IAC and SUU teams, while Iowa City shows a strong battery and calm weather trends across the state. Weather reports note a warm first half of the week, cool finish, light frost days, and farmers preparing for spring planting with hay prospects favorable. Obituary notices honor Charles J. Lee of Ames and report school events, sermons, and public lectures across Ames, Des Moines, and surrounding communities with civic and religious notices and upcoming conferences.
Story county resident Morgan Keltner born October 1 1811 in Tennessee died May 5 1897 at his home southwest of Ames after years of declining health. He moved from Tennessee to Illinois then to Jefferson County Iowa before settling near Ames. He leaves ten children six other kin. Funeral today at 1 pm at the family school house with burial in Dunkard cemetery Boone County.
The Des Moines Daily News offers farmers a $1 yearly subscription, same as teachers and clerics, citing the paper as Iowa’s largest daily circulation. Also promoting low price wheels from W. G. Whient with a call to see high grade wheels.
J C Barkhurst announces purchase of the Taylor photograph gallery above Palace restaurant and plans possession on the 11th. He promises first class work at reasonable prices citing years of experience.
A teachers meeting is planned in Nevada on May 15 at 1 15 pm. The program lists papers on old subjects and new teachings by Miss Alice Lewis Seward Ersland and others with music, recitations, and discussions led by F P Harris Miss May White Miss Nellie Mc Nichols and Prof Bronson. Maurice Pearl and J Gates sign as president and secretary inviting all interested in education to attend.
A fragmented classifieds page invites readers to seek election as Supervisor with Journ Roland as the referenced candidate in Iowa on May 3, 1807. It also promotes insurance rates for property against tornadoes and high winds, bread from White Rose four, White House coffee, and Miller and Kooser products. The Chicago North Western Railway advertises the North Western Home Seeker paper for Dakota settlement, with a request for reader correspondence and free mail, plus a road horse named Gam Tops available at Geo Henry Maxwell barn for service this season.
I have reopened my photograph business on West Main street and am prepared to deliver high grade work. I recently gained experience in the east and offer a broad range of frames. Call me at 13 Gro. COPESTAK. I am at home now.
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