Local Life Bits and Weekend Happenings in Des Moines
Small town notes list tailor shops, shoe and corset shops, and new hats. Events include a Red Men benefit on May 11, a gas line stores promotion, and screen doors sale. Local figures Ole Knouts on the mend, Frank Noble starts building, and A C Rankin lectures May 20 at the opera house. Strawberry ice cream festival and chapel social planned, with a new time card for fast mail and Des Moines passenger.
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Christian Church
Freed’s
Times
Chapel Ridge
Fast Mail
Des Moines
Ames Women and Men Shop at Local Stores and Events
Local Ames notices show ads for J P Watsons ladies waists and aprons and summer underwear while Bingham Co promotes hard ware and granulated sugar specials. Community updates include a May dance, Northwestern time card changes, a new library books arrival, and local court and railroad health notes.
Ames Area Social Roundup Includes Many Visitors
Henry Boyd of Story City visited Ames on Tuesday while Jim Reynolds of Gilbert shopped Ames Tuesday evening. The Times notes numerous callers including G D Dunning and Elmeta McGuire at Des Moines, J P Watson boring wells near Prairie City, and Dr Kelso at Omaha. Mrs G D Dunning and family to Des Moines, Clark family from Chicago on wedding trip, and the W S A ladies group from Ames to Boone for a pleasant afternoon.
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Dec” West
Webster City
H. KE. Stuckslager
Belle Plaine
Jim Reynolds
Gilbert Grocer
Ames
J.P Watson
Prairie City
Dr. Johnson
Dayton
Times
Ben Keeney
Des Moines
Kelley
J. W. Connett
G. D. Dunning
Elmeta McGuire
Mr. D
Henry Wallace
H. C
Clark
Chicago
H. P. McLain
Kelso
Dental Associations
Omaha
Louisville
Neb
Frank Richards
Daily Capital
Edward Bradley
Mesdames Davis
Little
Perkins
Kent
Williams
Gilbert
Geddes
McElyea
Hardin
Miss Mann
Boone
Judge Stevens
E. Stringer
Trmes
Stringer
Jewell Junction
the Times
G. D. Loud
Lyman Mitchell
Watertown
New York
Lyme
Rankin temperance lectures to open May 20 at the opera house
All evening meetings start at s oclock with Sunday Young People's gatherings at 7. The Rankin temperance talks begin Sunday May 20 in the opera house, supported by all churches. A U B church social last Saturday raised about twenty dollars with mandolin and guitar by Gerz and Baker of Nevada and Mollie Childs singing Ragged Meg. The Y P C A anniversary drew a fine youth audience. the church, decorated with flowers, featured a Union floral badge. An invitation extends for Sunday 7 pm meetings. A Tooleys La lady with bilious colic recovered in forty minutes after Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Adams Bros advertise goods and prices. Des Moines wheelmen plan to attend the state meet at Oskaloosa July 4 with officers elected: Talbott President, Bigelow Vice President, Loughran Secretary-Treasurer. Rep Men’s benefit at the opera house May 11 features Lu B Cake and Ella June Meade-Cake.
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Rankin
Opera House
U. B
Messrs Gerz and Baker
Nevada
Mollie Childs
U.B
Tooleys
M. C. Tisler
Chamberlain
Westerman & Arnold
Oskaloosa
Des Moines
W. W. Talbott
Bob Bigelow
W. B. Loughran
Munns yard to switch loaded lumber cars at new side track
Local note reports a new side track being installed at Munns lumber yard to switch loaded lumber cars from Northwestern tracks into the yard for unloading. Also mentions tobacco prices and various ads for local goods and events including a Willing Workers meeting and a May 19 W R C entertainment at the opera hall.
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Munn’s
W. R. C. Entertainment
Opera Hall
Homes for Homeless Children Society Seeks Adoption Hosts
The Educational Aid Association known as The Children's Home Society of Iowa seeks approved homes for homeless children. It places children on trial stays of at least three months and reclaims if unsuitable. The society, active five years, has aided 734 children with 719 placed in Iowa. Contact Rev. Geo K Hoover at 1707 Grand Ave Davenport Iowa for information. Homes are especially needed for boys ages 3 to 7 and girls ages 6 to 9.
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The
Educational Aid Association
Children’s Home Society
Iowa
Geo. K. Hoover
Grand Avenue
Davenport
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Dailey, the Tailor
BE. M. Soper
Bigelow & Smith's
J. P. Watson's
E. M. Soper’s
A. J. Foster
W. H. Cole
Britt Nye
Lu B. Cake
Red Men’s Benefit
Ella June Meade
Red Men's Benefit
Lapres
Thurston & Graham's
Ole Knoutson
Frank Noble
Henry Hopson
A. C. Rankin
Major Hendersnorr
Grinnell
Ser Soper
Bingham & Co
Hardware
Bincuam & Co's
Breckelow & Smith
Rappahannock
Anaa H. Person
Henderson
M. E. Reynolds
Tuhere
Northwestern
Rock Island
Dr. Deering
McGibney Opera Company
Teo
Ames Opera House
Jor Er
Jacob Erbf
Mes
Terpthore
Ameschestra
Frank Kleiter
C. van Epps
Eisner & Porter
Sirs
Motor Line
Fis
Hemstreet
Frank Evans
Evans
Library Association
Congregational Parsonage
Carstens
Richmond
Taylor
Henry Wilson
Association
Ashford
Martin
Case
Bigelow 4
Smith
Taylor, Tur LeapiIne Photographer
Henry Boyd
Story City
Chas. Sargent
Wm. Sutton
Dr. Hawley
Frof. Kent
Northwest District of the
Loretta Hamilton
Marshalltown
D.M Grove
Chas. Smith
Mr. Grove
Adams Bros
Ella June Meade-Cake
Cramer Brothers
M Vv. Bushman
Cambridge
J. F. Martin
Rice Low & Smith
Chapel Ridge Society of Willing Workers
J. R. Decker
Thurston & Graham’s
Maxwell & Son
Maxwell and Son
Thurston & Graham
GEO. G. Tilden Estate
Story County
J. P. Watson’s
Chinaware
Chicago Record
West
J. T. Hatfield
Northwestern University
Daily Journal
Madison St
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