Ames Local Miscellany Highlights Roster and Rising Fortunes
Mr. Joseph Judge lies seriously ill in Boone county. Dorcas Society meets June 1 at 1 PM with Mrs. J. B. Elliott. Clark & Heistand move Ames to Hubbard. Tales of illness, employment, and community events fill Ames notes including a cyclone path near Clinton county and the Second Regiment departing from Camp McKinley for Tampa.
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Joseph Judge
Boone County
Dorcas Society
J. B. Elliott
Clark & Heistand
Ames
Jewell Junction
Hubbard
Harry Mathew
Hog market and lost items in Iowa town notices
Water Morris marketed six hogs last week that brought him 85 dollars. A watch charm made from a five dollar gold piece is lost with initials C A W and M E J, 1888. Mrs. Jennie McElyea Beyer is in Mercy hospital Des Moines for medical treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Water Morris
M.E. J.” Onother
Jennie McElyea Beyer
Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Ames Personal Notes Highlight Social Visits and Candidacy
Ames is filled with social calls as Florence Sonquist visits her old Ames home while Edith Randall and Frances Cox share time with family. Wardrobes of visitors span Chicago Des Moines Spencer Marshalltown and Dubuque with reporters noting John Ball of Omaha Bee and local editorials. Local candidates Jay Hoot and Geo Hemstock seek recorder posts as Will Watts heads to the south with the fourth regiment and others travel between towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpines
Ringold County
Florence Sonquist
Chicago
Ames
Edith Randall
Lamoille
Frances Cox
I. C. Miller
Des Moines
Gay Starr
Munele
Ind
John Ball
Omaha Bee
G. H. Martin
Spencer
Iowa
Times Folks
B. F. Taylor
Marshalltown
C. E. Taylor
Nelson Taylor
Grace Maxwell
Laura Whalen
J. L. Budd
Allen Budd
Benton County
Jas. Montgomery Ortheast
Jewell
Lillian Hunter
Oklahoma
Roscoe Rice
Chas. Sargent
Boone
Clark
Ada Pope
Illinois
Hawarden
K. Loughran
T. K. Soper
Blanche
Meyers
Radcliffe Signal
Times
Omaha
J. B. Davis
Dwight
Kingston
Ill
Wisconsin
Orchard
Glidden
I. C. Brownlie
A. J. Page
Richland Township
M. Jay
H. C. Hoot
Waverly
F. P. Harris
John Snyder
Kansas
Louisiana
Texas
John
Will Watts
Will
Geo. Hemstock
Grant Township
Geo
W.C Hidy
Nevada
Hidy
Recorder
Story County
Destructive Fire Devastates Miller Farm Buildings
A lamp in the brooder of an incubator caused a blaze that destroyed the Billy Miller farm house north of the city and a new buggy shed holding two buggies and household goods. Rev. W. D. Elwell and family lived there. his wife sustained minor burns fighting the flames. Neighbors saved much furniture before the strong wind fed the fire. Insurance coverage on the house and barn totals 1450 with Hawkeye company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Miller
W. D. Elwell
Mr. Miller
Elwell
Hawkeye Company
I. O. C. C. Defeats Glidden Maroons in Close Game
In a well played Athletic Park contest, Ames I. 8. C. defeated Glidden Maroons 11 to 5. Key plays featured Kyle, Howe, Okey, and Keech as Ames built early leads, Boutzong pitched seven strong innings with seven strikeouts, Waldron of Glidden also pitched well before an injury. The piece also notes the death of Blanche Soper King in Chicago, detailing her Iowa origins and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athletic Park
Glidden Maroons
Kyle
Howe
Ames
Geo. Okey
Keech
Ames Boys
Boutzong
Waldron
I. 8
S. C
Tickets for Omaha Expo on sale via Chicago and North Western
Expo exposition tickets available daily starting June 1 with flexible durations and rate based limits. The organizers claim the exposition will be well worth seeing. For more details contact Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
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North-Western Line
Chicago & North-Western R'y
Weather and Crop Bulletin Des Moines May 23 189
The past week was warmer with much rainfall and little sunshine. Heavy rains in southern and eastern districts saturated soils and slowed field work, especially in Keokuk where precipitation since January 1 reached nine inches. Most of the state did not see excess moisture, but localized heavy showers washed recently planted fields. Corn planting slowed by showers, but germination and stands look good. Wet weather favored grass, wheat, oats, rye and barley. fruit prospects are good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keokuk
Prohibition Convention Calls for Nevada County Meeting
A mass county convention of saloon opponents is to be held in Nevada on June 4 at 2 p m for conference and nomination of delegates to the State Prohibition Convention in Des Moines on June 28, 1898. Pastors Sunday school workers and all opposed to the saloon are urged to attend. W G Wheat, Chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Des Moines
W. G. Wheat
Millet Seed For Sale At 25 Cents A Bushel
J M Arrasmith advertises last year s millet seed for sale at 25 cents per bushel. Sale location not specified.
Auction Sale of City Lots in Duff's Highland Park
Public auction to sell 20 city lots in Duff's Highland Park addition to Ames on Saturday May 28 at 1 o clock. Each lot 60 by 180 feet, sold without reserve. Terms: half cash, balance in two equal payments over two years at 6 percent interest, 2 percent discount for cash on deferred payments. Hemstreet and Campbell advertise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duff
Highland Park
Ames
Hemstreet & Campbell
Sad Letter From California in 1898
A letter from Inglewood California dated May 16 1898 to Geo W Rogers Ames Iowa reports brief trip from Ames May 2 and Naperville June 1 conference. It details the death of Percys three children from spinal meningitis near Dixon Illinois and Los Angeles with family grief and no new cases. The writer expresses sympathy and notes no identifiable cause for the deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Glewoood, Cat
Geo. W. Rogers
Illinois
Ames
Ilinois
Naperville
Dixon
Percy
Chicago
Inglewood
Rosedale
Los Angeles
Onondaga Tribe resolves to mourn Bert Alberts death
The Onondaga Tribe No 52 expresses sympathy for the death of Bert Alberts son of Bro. T. O. Hetland and brother of Bro. Harry Alberts. The resolutions will be recorded and copies sent to the American Redmen and local papers. Com. H. Miller with E. P. Wilkinson and G. Sorenson sign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Alberts
Bro. T. O. Hetland
Bro
Harry Alberts
American Redmen
TILDEN Bros. & Co Shoe Prices Include Ladies and Mens
See our ladies' two dollar tan shoes and men's two dollar tan shoes. A ladies' three dollar tan shoe cloth top is offered for two fifty. Full line of tennis shoes in all sizes available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilden Bros. & Co
Public notices and thanks from local residents
Wil have house to rent on or before June 1 3-2 to W. L. SUTTON. A carp of thanks: We take this method of publicly expressing that which we have many times done privat ly, our hearty thanks to our kind neighbors and friends for their assistance at the late fire. We also wish to com pliment the people for the level-headed manner in which they conducted them selves when it was easy to become ex cited. W. D. ELWELL, Mary ELWELL. The best quality of fresh groceries in the city at Adams Bros
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Elliott’s Furniture Store
Thayer
Clinton County
Delmar
Camp McKinley
Des Moines
Tampa
Florida
Iowa
Lincoln
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
Boone District
M. E
Greene
Carroll
Boone
Story
Austin
Nevada
L. B. Carlisle
Jefferson
Gallup
L. C. Nye
Perry
N. C. Woodhouse
Maxwell
M. E. Church of
Frane Baker
Mary Davis
Maus
W. D. Elwell
Mary Elwell
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Opera House
G. B. Swartz
Winona Grove
Er. H. P. Williams
Kelly
Blanche Greeley
Harriett Fitchpatrick
Northwestern
Wate
Guy Lorton
Daniel Embree
Queal & Co
P. E. Thomas
Englewood
Calif
Fred Draper
M. Read's
Jor Stewart
J. E. Davis
Maine
U.S
Havana Harbor
Thomas
Yellowstone Park
Montana
Prore
Wilson
Washington Post
Secretary of Agriculture
McKinley
Secretary of the Interior
Bliss
Smith
McKenna
Grant
Elkins
Gear
Allison
Motor Depot
Willis Rich
Ss. G. Hamilton
C. M. Sorer
F. N. Fowler
A. A. Bennett
Missionary Conference
Story County Mutual
Farmers Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance Association
City Hall
A. J. Graves
D. M. Hayden
J. H. Queal & Co
I. 8S. C
Blanche Soper
Blanche Soper King
Soper Mill
Soper
William King
Klondike
Rheurmatism
Regan
J. T. Regan CO
Boone, Iowa
Tilden
E. CO
JEN Bros. & CO
Armes
Sition
J. M. Arrasmith
Santiago
Sampson
Adams Bros
Ames, Ia
Haverly & Grove
H. Miller
E. P. Wilkinson
G. Sorenson
W. L. Sutton
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