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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1897
Page
3
Local items report Gibson stores and Adams Bros selling groceries and candy, weather ramblings on a warm November, church and club meetings, rail travel notes, cattle sales, a baptismal service, and a funeral. Diphtheria deaths and a Thanksgiving notice appear among miscellaneous ads and society updates.
At Charles City the Iowa state dairy convention saw 120 creamery butter entries. Gilbert Louthan won the Association gold medal with 97.83 points, while a privately scored entry from I. A. C. topped by 99 points but was disqualified as only one entry per creamery allowed. A letter from Ames notes a church debt canvass success and jubilee meeting plans for November 21, inviting all. Also contains ads and a relief note praising Chamberlain’s remedy for bilious colic with endorsements.
A string of short notices from Ames Iowa lists visits by Rev Blackman Furman Tuttle and Prof Pammell to St Louis and to the biographical and educational circles. Names include Mrs John Hughes Mr Geo Hultz Ed Jones C W Bush and Gene Williams with several family travels to Nebraska New York and Michigan. The column notes staff movements at the Webster City Journal Cedar Rapids Gazette and Iowa State College.
The family thanks the ladies who decorated the church with flowers and the choir for their music at the funeral services for Nathan Little and family.
A Mountaineer notes rapid relief for children's croup after using Cham berlain s Cough Remedy. The remedy, praised by F A Thornton, is available from local druggists in Mountaine Glen Ark.
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