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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1895
Page
5
Weir lime notices a mix of local commerce and social items. J P Watson sells knit Jersey skirts while Northwestern Fence Co promotes stock tanks and wood heaters at Thurston Graham's. The listing covers meetings, church notices, rail and street life, property sales, accidents, and upcoming events in Ames and surrounding counties.
Miss Cassie P. Bigelow visits Pelia this week and many locals travel to Des Moines Chicago Charlton and Ames. Residents include J Jacobs of The Fair in Chariton, H L Woodhouse of Waterloo visiting D D Bales, John Allen of Alden visiting his father Robert Allen, and updates on health, stores, and a planned tailor shop opening locally.
The Bigelow and Smith display features a wide line of capes jackets and silks including China silks Sarahs fancies satins and dress silks touted as the most complete line.
Tamry six inch all wool Henriettas offered at 30c per yard. TupEN Bros. & Co. advertise the largest lantern line in town. Call to get a lantern when in need of light. Thurston & Graham’s storefront display promotes stoves and home lighting options.
The Chicago and Northwestern plans double tracking its Belle Plaine to Cedar Rapids line completed before season end. The project will extend double track to Boone within two years, enabling greater service on the pioneer route and expanding capacity with more rolling stock and traffic.
A Saturday afternoon blaze at about two o'clock destroyed a small one story house in the extreme south part of town. The wind from the northwest reduced danger of spread as residents saved most contents and a crowd tried to save the structure. The building, recently constructed, was insured for about two hundred dollars aiding Mr Anderson’s rebuilding efforts.
The Des Moines Conference concluded at Indianola and published the Boone District appointments led by presiding elder E. M. Holmes. The list includes Ames H J Sverly Bagley Bayard Douglass Benton Boone First Church Edder and many others across Carroll Cambridge Coon Rapids Dallas Center Dedham Gilbert Glidden Grand Junction Jamacia Jefferson Kirkham Irwin Madrid Manning Maxwell Minburn Nevada Ogden Perry Pilot Mound Pleasant Hill Rippey Scranton Woodward with week and circuit assignments.
The North Western Line plans a sale of reduced price tickets for a meeting in Des Moines on October 9. Tickets and full information are available from Agents of Chicago and North Western Railway.
Auction of Lot near Milford township corner Sec 20 on Nov 5 1895 directed by J W Bateman. Republican caucus in Ames city hall Oct 12 1895 at 2 pm to nominate township officers. Various local ads note Watsons sailors, Midland Monthly features, and Whitmer's barber services upstairs over Baker's jewelry store with hair cutting 15 cents.
STANDARD patterns reduced in price at J. P. Watson's. House and lot for sale. Terms to salt purchaser. W. L. Surron. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, cures piles or no pay. For sale by L. M. Bosworth.
The people of this portion of town will hear John J. Ingalls of Kansas, the matchless orator, at the college chapel on Saturday evening the 12th.
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