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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1892
Page
2
The department plans a seven week feature with items of interest. Several notable visitors and campus events are listed, including Des Moines visits by Mr. Harvey and Mr. Harriman, and a Sunday sermon by Dr. Beardshear at Ottumwa.
Ames prepares a Memorial Sunday service May 29 at 10:45 a.m. at the M E church with a mute quartet and Rev F J Douglas preaching, center pews reserved for veterans and auxiliaries. Memorial Day on May 30 includes a parade from local posts to the cemetery and Opera Hall program with oration by Rev Campbell Coyle and a piano choir.
A round up from nearby towns notes Mrs. James Hutchinson mourning her mother Mrs. Mills who died Friday. Des Moines trips, road repairs on C N W line, jewelry shop addition by B Wortman, Bert Wire buys trotting horse, and a grand larceny conviction for J C Sheppard. A State Band concert, Baptist service led by Des Moines college pastor Lockwood, and sheriff actions on a drug store burglary are recorded along with town visits and travel between Ames, Slater, Nevada and Mason City.
Local items report Des Moines delegates to a Minneapolis convention, a state band preparation, a partial lunar eclipse, a Cedar Rapids rail accident delay, and resumed Ames building work. Flood damage cost估 500 million dollars. a Nevada drug store burglary failed. weather forecasts lampooned. safe Young at the Capital faced floods and an injury. Real estate transfers for May 14 and 21, 1892 list multiple deeds in Ames, Nevada, Story City, and surrounding areas.
Mrs W J Freed leaves for Nebraska then South Dakota to visit relatives. Will Shango rents the old Methodist parsonage and runs a grocery wagon for W H Foster. C Rasmussen moves to Nevada to resume former home. Freeman Moser in charge of a section. Eugene Briley ships stock to Doud Boone. Chas Wentworth plans a large barn with a new lumber car. Decoration Day exercises likely if weather stays favorable.
A Story County prohibitionist meeting in the city hall elected Dr. J. Bunce of Nevada as chair man and D. M. Hayden as secretary and treasurer. The group named delegates to the state convention in Des Moines on June 1 and to the district convention on May 31. They formed a county central committee with Wm West, E A Wood, KK W Brown among others and urged Capt. K W Brown for national convention support in Cincinnati.
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