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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1900
Page
9
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Coulter welcomed a boy Saturday noon. The high school football team organized with Lew Cole as captain. The National Aid Association hosted L. K. Lewis in Ames and plans a statewide drive. A fatal sewer cave incident claimed two workers near the depot. Descriptions of lectures, social events, and visits fill Ames society pages.
Report covers O F Williams former consul to the Philippines addressing Story County voters at the Ames opera house. Includes notes on local events: box social, sermons, missing shawl, job ad, new house plans, Folks Day at Methodist church, and a republican meeting in Cole with Senator Crossley remarks and glee club.
The paper lists 25 cents a pound for sweet potatoes at The Leader along with various local notices. It reports a diphtheria case in the Cushat family and notes upcoming sermons, a lost blanket, a planned oyster supper, a birth, a wedding invitation, a child’s scalp injury, and Miss Bessie V. Larned becoming a regular deputy in the county clerk and recorder’s office.
Tomorrow's football matchup between S U S and Ames has been canceled due to sickness in the S U S squad. No reschedule date announced.
Miss Mary Ross McCarthy daughter of Mr and Mrs Dan’t McCarthy wed Mr Frank Linebaugh of Chicago in a ceremony performed by Dr W H Wynn. The bride, the family's beloved last daughter, is praised for scholarship and personal grace. The groom, a 1897 ISU mechanical engineering graduate, advances with Bell Telephone Co in Chicago. The couple will reside in Chicago. Also an ad column notes Poland China pig sale and local merchants offer goods.
Carl Lytle Kelley visited from Des Moines while Deeley family from Texas visits Ames. Mr and Mrs Saville from Savannah Illinois visit Geo Person and Bert Wire. Mrs Mary Dart from New York returns to Ames after stay with L G Rosenfeld. Rev McDougall invites all to organize a reading circle at the parsonage. Ladies Aid prepares fall supper at Woodman hall on Oct 23 from 6 to 9 PM. Rev G L McDougall moves his family to the parsonage and preaches at Garden Prairie Kelley and Slater.
John Oliver reports severe illness with yellow skin and weakness. After three doctors gave up, he used Electric Bitters and improved after a three week course, declaring them life saving. Sold for 50 cents at L. M. Bosworth's drug store.
The Leader showcases semi porcelain and white granite lines from E. B. Sowers & Co. J. Miller & Son offer fruit jars and groceries from J. Kooser & Co. Til den & Loughran sell Taiget articles and perfumes. The Leader features fleece lined underwear and heating stove blocks from Maxwell. Graphite Elastic Paint from Tilden & Loughran promises weatherproofing and longevity.
In district court of the county an instrument purporting to be the last will of Emma O Sherman, deceased, is on file. A hearing for probate is set for Tuesday October 23, 1900, at Nevada. Interested parties may appear and show cause why the instrument should not be accepted as the decedent's will. Dated September 25, 1900. C. M. Soper Clerk District Court.
On the 54th day of September 1900 the district court of Story county Iowa appointed H C Davis administrator of the estate of Sarah A Davis deceased. Creditors and debtors must present or pay claims and debts to the court for allowance. Dated September 29 1900.
The Semi-Weekly Times-Republican at Marshalltown promotes itself as an eight page telegraphic news paper for farmers. It offers biweekly issues totaling 104 papers a year for one dollar and boasts extensive Iowa telegraph coverage with many local and general news sources.
A sale item note reports two dozen photos mounted and ready, priced at sixty cents, offered at McIntire's. The brief item emphasizes the finish and display readiness.
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